Major Newspapers in Midwest

Des Moines Register
The Des Moines Register, based in Des Moines, is a great source for the latest news, classifieds, jobs, real estate, photos, videos and blogs

Cedar Rapids Gazette
The Gazette is a daily newspaper published in the American city of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
The newspaper is distributed throughout northeast and east central Iowa, including the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City metropolitan areas.

The Aurora Beacon News
The Aurora Beacon serves the Fox River Valley communities of Aurora, North Aurora, Batavia, Geneva, St. Charles, Montgomery, and Oswego.

The News-Gazette
A fine local paper offering lots of local news and classifieds. It serves east and central Illinois. Their online edition has a lot of coverage too.

Chicago SunTimes
This Chicago based newspaper has good local content including blogs, online ads, e-paper and more. What's more, you can even complain online if their delivery is not unsatifactory or if you want to change your address. It's online edition is equally good.

Chicago Tribune
With a circulation of more than 2 million, the Chicago Tribune in the the largest pubication in the Midwest. Need we say more?

Daily Herald
Daily Herald is suburban Chicago's largest daily newspaper having a local perspective with lots of local content. But that's not all, so check it out.

Southown Star
This Chicago Sun Time publication is a good source of local news and information for the greater Chicago area.

Elgin Courier
Not to be confused with Elgin Courier in Texas.
The Elgin Courier News is in the Chicago, IL has been serving the Fax Valley since 1874.

Joliet Herald News
Joliet Herald News is published six days a week - Monday through Friday and on Sunday - with a good coverage of local news, sports, business, jobs and community events.

Kankakee Journal
The daily journal Kankakee provides good coverage of local news, sports, national events, politics, general events, jobs and great community events.

Naperville Sun
This is another publication owned by the Sun Times Media Group. It is published six days a week, Sunday through Friday. You can find Naperville Sun on Facebook here

Northwest Herald
Northwest Herald is a division of Shaw Media . It serves the communities of McHenry County in Chicago's far northwest suburbs.

The Pantagraph
This is a daily broadsheet newspaper that serves Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, along with 60 communities and eight counties in the Central Illinois area. It has a great online edition too.
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Peoria Journal
The Journal Star is the major daily newspaper for Peoria, Illinois and surrounding area. It has extensive coverage of local news, sports, politics, entertainment, business, jobs and clasiffieds.

PioneerLocal
Another publication of Sun-Times Media with good coverage of local news, sports, entertainment, business and clasiffieds.

Waukegan News
A Sun-Times Media publication which covers areas in and around Waukegan, IL

The Southern Star
Another publication of Sun-Times Media. As the name implies, it offers extensive coverage of the southern Chiago area and much more.

Bloomington Herald
This daily publication serves Bloomington, Indiana and surrounding areas. The Herald won the Blue Ribbon Daily award in 1975, 1984 and 2007, naming it the best daily newspaper in the state of Indiana in those years. Plenty of local news, advertisement, classifieds, entertainment, sports and business news.

Evansville Courier & Press
The Evansville Courier & Press is a local daily newspaper in Evansville, Indiana. It caters for readers in 30 counties in Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky.

Indianapolis Star
The Indianapolis Star is a daily newspaper which began publishing on June 6, 1903. It won the Pulitzer Prize twice for investigative reporting. In 1975, The Star was honored for its 1974 series on corruption within the Indianapolis Police Department. It was cited again in 1991 for its 1990 series on medical malpractice. The Indianapolis Star also has the largest and most advanced printing presses in the nation.

The Journal Gazette
The is the morning newspaper in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It publishes seven days a week, and with several outlying bureaus, contends for circulation and advertising in a 15-county area.

Kansas City Star
This is Kansas' biggest newsaper, the source for the latest breaking local news, sports, weather, business, jobs, entertanment and more.

The Wichita Eagle
The Wichita Eagle is a daily newspaper published in Wichita, Kansas. It is owned by The McClatchy Company, which publishes 31 other newspapers, including The Kansas City Star. It is the largest newspaper in Wichita, Kansas and the surrounding area.

Ann Arbor News
This is a mostly online news with prnt publications on Thursdays and Sundays.

Detroit Free Press
This is Detroit, Michigan's largest daily newspaper. It is sometimes informally referred to as the "Freep" as reflected in the paper's web address. It primarily serves Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Livingston, Washtenaw, and Monroe counties.

The Grand Rapids Press
The Grand Rapids Press is the largest of Michigan's eight Booth newspapers, all owned by Advance Newspapers. It is published every weekday evening; Saturday, Sunday and holiday mornings. Click here (http://www.mlive.com/) to read their onlie edition.

Heritage Newspapers
Heritage Newspapers covers local news including local sports, video and multimedia coverage, and classified advertising. It serves southeastern Michigan from Dearborn to Ohio and from Grosse Ile to Chelsea with the highest market penetration of any newspaper, in this area.

Jackson Citizen Patriot
Jackson Citizen Patriot is a daily newspaper published in Jackson, Michigan. You can find them on Facebook, here.

Kalamazoo Gazette
The Kalamazoo Gazette is a daily newspaper in Kalamazoo,MI. It publishes a morning edition available on newsstands and an updated afternoon edition for home delivery Monday through Friday. Saturday and Sunday editions are published and delivered in the morning.

Muskegon Chronicle
The Muskegon Chronicle is a daily newspaper in Muskegon, Michigan owned by Booth newspapers. It is an afternoon paper Monday through Friday, and a morning paper on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.

Oakland Daily Press
This is a daily newspaper published in Oakland County, Michigan, with a wide coverage of local news and events, sport, entertanment, business and classifieds.

The Bay City Times
The Bay City Times is a newspaper in Bay City, Michigan. It is published Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays, with a Tuesday edition jointly-published with The Saginaw News.

St. Louis Post Dispatch
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is the major city-wide newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri. It covers sports, news, business, entertainment, jobs, autos and real estate listings, local events and more.

Springfield News-Leader
The Springfield News-Leader is the predominant newspaper for the city of Springfield, Missouri and covers the Ozarks. The News-Leader has a morning circulation of 60,889 and a Sunday circulation of 88,970.

Canton Repository
The Repository is a daily newspaper serving the greater Canton, Ohio, area.

Cincinnati Enquirer
This is a daily morning newspaper, the highest-circulation print publication in Greater Cincinnati (Ohio) and Northern Kentucky.

Columbus Dispatch
The Columbus Dispatch is a daily newspaper based in Columbus, Ohio that serves the central portion of the state.

Dayton Daily News
The Dayton Daily News, a daily newspaper published in Dayton, Ohio. Named the best large-newspaper website in Ohio in 2010.

Toledo Blade
A daily newspaper serving Toledo, Ohio. According to a 2008 BurrellsLuce circulation report, The Blade has the 83rd largest daily newspaper circulation in the United States.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is a daily morning broadsheet printed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. It is the primary newspaper in Milwaukee, the largest newspaper in Wisconsin and is distributed widely throughout the state.

Wisconsin State Journal
The Wisconsin State Journal is a daily newspaper published in Madison, Wisconsin by Lee Enterprises. The newspaper, the second largest in Wisconsin, is primarily distributed in a 19 county region in south-central Wisconsin.

The Omaha World-Herald
The Omaha World-Herald is the primary daily newspaper of Nebraska, as well as portions of southwest Iowa.It is also the largest employee-owned newspaper in the United States

The Lincoln Star Journal
The Lincoln Star Journal is major daily newspaper published in Lincoln, Nebraska. This is the most widely read newspaper in Lincoln with its primary circulation area in 17 southeast Nebraska counties.

The Bismarck Tribune
The Bismarck Tribune is a daily newspaper printed in Bismarck, North Dakota. It is the primary daily newspaper for south-central and southwest North Dakota.

Grand Forks Herald
The Grand Forks Herald is a daily broadsheet newspaper with the second largest circulation in the state of North Dakota.

Argus Leader
The Argus Leader is the daily newspaper of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It is South Dakota's largest newspaper by circulation.

Rapid City Journal
Daily newspaper of Rapid City, South Dakota.

Star Tribune
Star Tribune offers breaking news, multimedia, reviews & opinion on Minneapolis, St. Paul, the Twin Cities metro area and Minnesota.

St. Paul Pioneer Press
The St. Paul Pioneer Press is a newspaper based in St. Paul, Minnesota, primarily serving the Twin Cities metropolitan area. Circulation is heaviest in the eastern metro region, including Ramsey, Dakota, and Washington counties, along with western Wisconsin, eastern Minnesota and Anoka County, Minnesota.

St. Cloud Times
The St. Cloud Times is the main newspaper in St. Cloud, the largest population center in the state's central region.

Mankato Free Press
The Free Press news staff covers six counties -- Blue Earth, Nicollet, Le Sueur, Brown, Waseca and Watonwan. The major cities of Mankato, North Mankato, Waseca, St. Peter and Le Sueur are also primary coverage areas. It also has wide coverage of local sports and Minnesota State University in Mankato.