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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of West Lawn.

Our newspaper information for West Lawn 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 West Lawn. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding West Lawn. Our list contains 63 papers that were published within 8 miles [12.9 km]<1> of West Lawn.

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 West Lawn.  

Newspapers Neighboring West Lawn ...

The following newspapers were published within 8 miles [12.9 km] of West Lawn.

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

  • Published In Cicero  ...
  • Published In Washington Heights  ...
    • The Home Journal (from 1875)
      • The first year of publication was in 1875, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Home Journal
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN94054693
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 30057347
  • Published In Berwyn  ...
  • Published In Grand Crossing  ...
    • Grand Crossing Review (from 1889)
    • The Chicago Artisan (from 1872)
  • Published In Riverside  ...
  • Published In Worth  ...
  • Published In Blue Island  ...
  • Published In Brookfield  ...
  • Published In Austin  ...
  • Published In Kensington  ...
    • Suburban Enterprise (from 1882)
    • The 34th Ward Review (from 1889)
  • Published In Oak Park  ...
    • We know of 46 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Oak Park. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Oak Park
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 8 miles [12.9 km]<1> of West Lawn. This extended list includes all the papers from Oak Park. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for West Lawn
  • Published In Palos Heights  ...
    • Reporter (from 1992)
      • Years of publication:  1992 to current
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Reporter
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN2002060724
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 48984827
    • The Palos Regional (from 1941)
    • The Regional News (from 1982)
    • The Reporter (from 1992)
    • The Reporter (from 1993)
    • Worth-Ridge Reporter (from 1992)
  • Published In Robbins  ...

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 from Point A (ie- West Lawn) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in West Lawn. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.7728, Longitude: -87.7223       In this case, the coordinates for West Lawn have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).