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On the information front, publisher NewsBank, Inc. is providing the Chicago Tribune's digitized news archive (dating back to 1849) to educators. Complementing the existing full text articles from 1985 to the present, the new archival information includes full text and images of all front pages from 1849 to the present, obituaries from 1849-1997, and fully searchable text from 15 million news clippings from the early 1920s through 1984. Visit www.newsbank.com for detailed information.

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