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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Old Kent.

Our newspaper information for Old Kent is based on data taken from the Chronicling America website. For more information, please see our description of the Chronicling America website.

We don't know of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Old Kent. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Old Kent. Our list contains 88 papers that were published within 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> of Old Kent.

To keep this list from growing too long, not all of the papers have been listed. We have another list where all the papers have been listed in alphabetical order. The complete list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Old Kent.  

Newspapers Neighboring Old Kent ...

The following newspapers were published within 9 miles [14.5 km] of Old Kent.

The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Old Kent.

  • Published In Joliet  ...
    • We know of 67 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Joliet. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Joliet
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> of Old Kent. This extended list includes all the papers from Joliet. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Old Kent
  • Published In Lockport  ...
  • Published In Minooka [Grundy County] ...
  • Published In Romeoville  ...

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Old Kent) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Old Kent. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.5242, Longitude: -88.1553       In this case, the coordinates for Old Kent have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).