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The holdings of the Bond County Genealogical Society are housed on the lower level of the library. The collection also includes every issue of the Greenville Advocate, the local newspaper, from the 1858 to present, on microfilm. The Greenville Public Library is a member of the Illinois Heartland Library System and offers many services.
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
Austin Weekly News – Oak Park; Berwyn Suburban Life – Berwyn and Cicero; Bridgeport News – Chicago; The Chicago Crusader – Chicago; The Chicago Jewish Home – Chicago; Chicago Jewish News – Skokie
Pages in category "Greenville, Illinois" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Greenville is a city in Bond County, Illinois, United States, 51 miles (82 km) east of St. Louis.The population as of the 2020 census was 7,083, up from 7,000 at the 2010 census. [3]
It was named for Shadrach Bond, who was then the delegate from the Illinois Territory to the United States Congress, and who thereupon became the first governor of Illinois, serving from 1818 to 1822. [3] The county's primary city, Greenville, had a post office from 1819 and was incorporated as a town in 1855 and as a city in 1872. [3]
The Dispatch–Argus is a daily morning newspaper in Davenport, Iowa, and circulated primarily throughout the Illinois side of the Quad Cities — Moline, East Moline, Rock Island and Rock Island County, but also for sale in retail establishments on the Iowa side of the Quad Cities — Davenport and Bettendorf.
The newspaper was founded in 1831 as the Sangamo Journal by William Bailhache and Edward Baker, and describes itself as "the oldest newspaper in Illinois". As such, it and its editor, Edward L. Baker, supported the political career of the Springfield-based Abraham Lincoln in the years before the American Civil War; in fact, it was in the Journal ' s office that Lincoln and his friends waited ...