In May 2019, the Small family and the Daily Journal provided copyright clearance for the Kankakee Public Library to digitize the microfilm archive of the Daily Journal for the purpose of making it available via the internet to the general public free of charge. The Kankakee Public Library used gift funds and grant support from the Community Foundation in order to digitize the Daily Journal microfilm. Olivet Nazarene University and Benner Library host the archive in their Institutional Repository, Digital Commons @ Olivet.
Copyright clearance covers July 1854 through one year before the current date. However, only the years 1854-2014 have been digitized from microfilm. As time permits, these files are manually combined into issues and added to this website. For questions please contact us.
- 1920 - 1933 (Apr 17)
- 1934 - 1976 (Aug)
- 1977 (Jan-Apr, Jul, Oct-Dec)
- 1978 - 1979 (missing Apr & May)
- 1980 - 1985 (Jan & Mar)
- 1986 (Jan) - 1987
- 1988 (Aug)
- 1990 - 1993 (May)
- 2012 (Jul)
- 2013 (Mar 1)
- 2014
- 2015 - 2016
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Thank you to the Small Family and the Daily Journal for sharing your treasure with our community.
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- The microfilm collection of Kankakee Daily Journal is housed at The Kankakee Public Library. Microfilm search requests can be made via email to Carol Zoladz at czoladz@lions-online.org. For best results, please provide a month and year date range to be searched.
Submissions from 1931
October 09, 1931 (Friday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
October 08, 1931 (Thursday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
October 07, 1931 (Wednesday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
October 06, 1931 (Tuesday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
October 05, 1931 (Monday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
October 03, 1931 (Saturday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
October 02, 1931 (Friday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
October 01, 1931 (Thursday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
September 30, 1931 (Wednesday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
September 29, 1931 (Tuesday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
September 28, 1931 (Monday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
September 26, 1931 (Saturday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
September 25, 1931 (Friday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
September 24, 1931 (Thursday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
September 23, 1931 (Wednesday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
September 22, 1931 (Tuesday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
September 21, 1931 (Monday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
September 19,1931 (Saturday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
September 18,1931 (Friday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
September 17,1931 (Thursday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
September 16,1931 (Wednesday) Kankakee Repblican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
September 15, 1931 (Tuesday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
September 14, 1931 (Monday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
September 12,1931 (Saturday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
September 11, 1931 (Friday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal