Urbana area newspapers from 1822 - 2024 are available online through this site.
Search by name, keyword, etc. or browse through the paper from a particular day on the Digital Archives of the Champaign County Library.
When you are looking through the results, you will have a list of Newspaper Titles, a short blurb, the date of the newspaper and the page number. Click on the Title of the Newspaper to see an actual scan of the newspaper.