Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Polk.
Our newspaper information for Polk 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 Polk. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Polk. Our list contains 106 papers that were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<1> of Polk.
Newspapers Neighboring Polk ...
The following newspapers were published within 19 miles [30.6 km] of Polk.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Polk.
- Published In Crete ...
- Crete Enterprise (from 1875)
- The Crete Record (from 192?)
- Published In Peotone ...
- Peotone Commercial Advertiser (from 19??)
- Peotone Eagle (from 1876)
- Peotone Vedette (from 1894)
- Published In Momence [Kankakee County] ...
- Momence Progress-Reporter (from 1941)
- The Evening Reporter (from 1895)
- The Momence Press-Reporter
- The Momence Press (from 18??)
- The Momence Progress (from 18??)
- The Momence Reporter (from 1871)
- Published In Monee ...
- Monee Market (from 1886)
- The first year of publication was in 1886, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Monee Market
- Holdings for: LCCN SN95066055
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 32038994
- The Monee Review (from 19??)
- Published In Park Forest [Cook County] ...
- Park Forest Reporter (from 1949)
- The Star (from 19??)
- Published In Chicago Heights [Cook County] ...
- Chicago Standard News (from 19??)
- South Suburban Standard (from 19??)
- Suburban Standard (from 2000)
- The Chicago Heights Signal (from 18??)
- The Chicago Heights Star (from 19??)
- The Star (from 19??)
- The Star (from 1983)
- Years of publication: 1983 to current
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Star
- Holdings for: LCCN SN85000232
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 11586883
- Published In Manteno [Kankakee County] ...
- Manteno Market (from 1886)
- The first year of publication was in 1886, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Manteno Market
- Holdings for: LCCN SN95066054
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 32038957
- The Manteno News
- The first year of publication is unknown, with the last issue in current
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Manteno News
- Holdings for: LCCN SN91055286
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 24163220
- Published In Crown Point [Lake County] ...
- Crown Point Cosmos (from 1877)
- Crown Point Star (from 1998)
- Lake County Herald (from 1876)
- Lake County Herald (from 1857)
- Lake County Jeffersonian (from 18??)
- The Crown Point Herald (from 1872)
- The Crown Point Register (from 1857)
- The Lake County Star (from 1880)
- Published In Lansing [Cook County] ...
- Calumet City Edition Of The Journal (from 1967)
- Calumet City Journal (from 195?)
- Calumet City Sun-Journal (from 1969)
- Calumet City Sun (from 1972)
- Lansing Economist Pointer (from 19??)
- Sun Journal (from 1976)
- The Calumet Day (from 1969)
- The Calumet Day (from 19??)
- The Calumet Day (from 1983)
- The Calumet Day (from 1983)
- The Calumet Day (from 1984)
- The Calumet Day (from 1984)
- The Daily Calumet And Pointer (from 1987)
- The Daily Calumet And Pointer (from 1987)
- The Daily Calumet (from 1984)
- The Daily Calumet (from 1989)
- The Daily Calumet (from 1984)
- The Daily Calumet (from 1989)
- The Lansing Journal (from 1931)
- The Sun (from 1970)
- Years of publication: 1970 to 197?
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Sun
- Holdings for: LCCN SN94054459
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 30758371
- Published In Griffith [Lake County] ...
- Southeast Calumet News (from 1930)
- The Calumet Weekly News (from 1932)
- The Calumet Weekly (from 1944)
- Published In Munster [Lake County] ...
- The Calumet Times (from 19??)
- The Hammond Times (from 1990)
- The Illinois Times (from 19??)
- The Times (Munster, Ind) (from 1997)
- Published In Kankakee [Kankakee County] ...
- Inter-State Fair News (from ????)
- Kankakee County Democrat (from 18??)
- Kankakee Daily Journal (from 1945)
- Kankakee Daily Republican (from 1903)
- Kankakee Daily Times (from 18??)
- Kankakee Herald (from 1872)
- Kankakee Republican-News (from 1931)
- Kankakee Semi-Weekly Times (from 1900)
- Kankakee Weekly Republican (from 19??)
- Semi-Weekly Democrat (from 1895)
- Semi-Weekly Democrat
- Semi-Weekly Kankakee County Democrat (from 1895)
- The City News And Ward Report (from 19??)
- The Daily Gazette And Democrat (from 1919)
- The Daily Journal (from 1973)
- The Evening Democrat
- The Evening Democrat (from 1892)
- The Evening Democrat
- The Kankakee Daily Gazette (from 1897)
- The Kankakee Daily News (from 1920)
- The Kankakee Gazette
- The Kankakee Republican (from 1903)
- The Kankakee Star (from 1934)
- The Kankakee Times (from 1868)
- The Progressive Era (from 19??)
- Continue List (4 more) ...
- Published In Highland [Lake County] ...
- Calumet Press (from 1998)
- The Calumet Press (from 1989)
- The Calumet Press (from 1991)
- The Calumet Press (from 1991)
- The Calumet Press (from 1989)
- The Calumet Press (from 1959)
- Published In Merrillville [Lake County] ...
- The Merrillville Herald (from 1983)
- Published In South Holland [Cook County] ...
- Calumet City Burnham Economist (from 1976)
- Dolton-Riverdale Economist Pointer (from 1981)
- Homewood Flossmoor Economist (from 1976)
- Homewood Flossmoor Olympia Fields Economist Pointer (from 19??)
- Lansing Economist (from 1976)
- Riverdale Pointer Economist (from 197?)
- Robbins Journal (from 19??)
- South Holland Pointer Economist (from 197?)
- Published In Hammond [Lake County] ...
- Compass (from 1974)
- Years of publication: 1974 to 1976
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Compass
- Holdings for: LCCN SN86058239
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 13084238
- Indiana Staats-Herold (from 1931)
- The Hammond Daily Tribune (from 1883)
- The Hammond Times (from 1933)
- The Lake County News (from 1890)
- The Lake County Times (from 1906)
- The Times (from 1967)
Off-the-Road Links ...
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The official website for Will County: www.willcountyillinois.com/
The official website for State of Illinois: https://illinois.gov
Footnotes ...
<1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Polk) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Polk. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.3117, Longitude: -87.6084 In this case, the coordinates for Polk have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |