The Illinois Digital Newspaper Project has joined the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities in celebrating a major milestone for Chronicling America, a free, searchable database of historic U.S. newspapers; more than 10 million pages have been posted to chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. The University Library has contributed over 300,000 pages, including historic Illinois newspapers such as The Chicago Eagle, The Ottawa Free Trader, and The Broad Ax.