Ancestry is a genealogy database that allows patrons to research their family history.

Explore news coverage from more than 270 daily and weekly Chicagoland-area sources, including major titles such as the Chicago Sun-Times and the Daily Herald, plus a wealth of community and regional news sources.

The Chicago Tribune offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue (April 23, 1849).

Access digitized materials from Wilmette Public Library's local history collection including photographs, newspapers, and indexes.

Full-text content including articles and obituaries from the New York Times archive, covering 1851-2017. 

NewspaperARCHIVE.com is a historical newspaper database that contains tens of millions of newspaper pages from 1607 to present.

Newspapers.com provides access to historical newspapers from locations across the U.S. and worldwide.

Search full-text articles on local news, issues, events, people and more from the Wilmette Life.