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
July 13, 1931 (Monday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
July 11, 1931 (Saturday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
July 10, 1931 (Friday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
July 09, 1931 (Thursday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
July 08, 1931 (Wednesday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
July 07, 1931 (Tuesday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
July 06, 1931 (Monday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
July 03, 1931 (Friday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
July 02, 1931 (Thursday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
July 01, 1931 (Wednesday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
June 30, 1931 (Tuesday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
June 29, 1931 (Monday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
June 27, 1931 (Saturday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
June 26, 1931 (Friday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
June 25, 1931 (Thursday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
June 24, 1931 (Wednesday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
June 23, 1931 (Tuesday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
June 22, 1931 (Monday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
June 20, 1931 (Saturday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
June 19, 1931 (Friday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
June 18, 1931 (Thursday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
June 17, 1931 (Wednesday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
June 16, 1931 (Tuesday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
June 15, 1931 (Monday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal
June 13, 1931 (Saturday) Kankakee Republican-News, Kankakee Daily Journal