Naperville Sun Index
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The Naperville Sun Index database contains more than 35,000 citations to major articles appearing in the Naperville Sun from 1935 through much of 2006, with the majority covering the period of 1975 – 2006. Indexed items include front section news, Genevieve Towsley’s Sky-Lines columns, and comprehensive obituary citations (started in 1997), with those of a few prominent citizens before 1997. The full text of articles cited can be found in the Library’s microfilm collection.
Naperville Sun articles can also be found online:
Type the keyword(s) in the box below, then press Enter or click the Submit button.
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Type the keywords you want to find. For example:
  • master plan
  • holiday
  • Nicarico
  • dui
Search Tips
Adjacency Multiple words are searched together as one phrase.
Example : world health organization
Wildcards Words may be right-hand truncated using an asterisk. '*' for 1-5 characters, '**' for open-ended truncation, '?' to replace a single character anywhere within a word.
Examples : environment* polic*, comput**, wom?n
Boolean Operators Use "and" or "or" to specify multiple words in any field, any order. Use "and not" to exclude words.
Example : stocks and bonds
Example : (alaska or canada) and (adventure and not vacation)
Proximity Operators Use "near" to specify words close to each other, in any order.
Example : california near university
Field limits A field limit causes the system to search only the specified field for the specified word(s).
Grouping Keyword search results are usually grouped by relevance to bring the most likely titles to the top of the list. Each group represents a similar level of relevance and results are sorted within the group by date or title. To get an ungrouped result set, use boolean operators to form a complex query.