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America's News America's News Magazines
  • Log in using your 14-digit barcode.
  • Click America's News Magazines to access more than 40 national magazines.
  • NewsBank’s Special Reports are news articles, images, videos, maps and other useful content grouped under today's most important topics and themes. Click here for a helpful video about Special Reports
   

Chicago Community Collection
  • Log in using your 14-digit barcode.
  • Search dozens of local Chicago Metro news sources including text and image editions.
   
Chicago Sun-Times Collection
  • Log in using your 14-digit barcode.
  • Search current and archived issues with full-color newspaper pages, full-text articles and content only published online.
  • Text edition from 1986-present; image edition from 2018-present.
   

Chicago Tribune

  • Log in using your 14-digit barcode and password. Your password is the same one you use for the library catalog and Libby app.
  • Choose to log in for 72 hours by providing an email address or log in for 24 hours with no email address required.
  • Access current issues in either web or image format.
  • Click here for the Tribune's Online (Web-based) Edition
    • You have 10 "gift articles" per session to send articles without a paywall. Click the gift box icon at the bottom of an article to copy the shareable link.
    • Click "Suburbs" for access to the Tribune's suburban newspapers, including the Naperville Sun and Aurora Beacon News.
    • Click the menu marked "All Sections" to click through to the E-Edition (Image Edition) of the Tribune's suburban newspapers.

  • Click here for the Tribune's Digital (Image) Edition
    • This is the image edition of the physical paper.
    • Click the “Archive” button that looks like a file box to see the current and previous month’s image editions.
    • Click the four squares icon on the top right and you can see all Tribune editions for the day, including City, Evening Edition, West, and more.
   
Daily Herald Daily Herald Collection
  • Log in using your 14-digit barcode.
  • Full text articles, 1995-present
  • Access the archives, including obituaries, for free with your Winfield Library card.
  • Access to the DuPage County image edition is now included.
   
   
The New York Times The New York Times Web-Based Edition
  • Get the same experience as a New York Times online subscriber with your Winfield Library card.
  • To access The New York Times from home:
    1. Click here to access the New York Times.
    2. You'll be taken to a site with a unique code. Click "Redeem." (Write down this code if you would prefer to use the NYT app instead of a web browser. You can log in there with this code for 24 hours.)
    3. Next, create a NYT account.
    4. You will be notified that your access will last 24 hours. You can log in again after that 24 hour period using this same procedure.
  • To access The New York Times using a library computer or our wi-fi:
    1. Register or log in at nytimes.com/register.
    2. Enjoy unlimited access on any library computer or a device connected to our wi-fi.

Image Edition

  • To access the image edition, laid out the same as the print edition, you may log in to PressReader. Instructions are below.
   
   
PressReader

PressReader

*As of late April 2024, PressReader and The Chicago Tribune are in a contract dispute that affects availability of the Tribune. We hope access will be restored, but unfortunately, there is no estimated date for restoration of the Tribune onto PressReader. (5/23/2024)

  • Unlimited digital access to more than 2,000 newspapers and 3,000 magazines in 60 languages with your Winfield Library card.
  • PressReader includes USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, and more.
  • Click here to login to PressReader now. When clicking the Sign In button, be sure to choose "Library or Group," then log in using your 14-digit library barcode. Your PIN is the same password you use for the library catalog.
  • PressReader will log you in for a 30 day window, at which time, you will need to log in again. Be sure to choose "Library or Group" each time you log in.
   

The Winfield Glimpses

Our local community newspaper. Issues available online from Spring 2020-present.