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Exact Phrase Search |
All Words Search |
Refining Your Search |
Search Archives
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Exact Phrase search
Queries for all the characters just as they were submitted in the search form.
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"George Washington" will query only for stories with the string 'George Washington' in them.
Stories that contain just 'George' or 'Washington' will NOT be returned by the search.
"George Washington NOT Thomas Jefferson" will query for all stories with the string 'George Washington'
that do NOT contain the 'Thomas Jefferson'.
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All Words search
Queries for the presence of each of the words in a story, but not in any particular order.
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"George Washington" will return all the stories that have 'George' and 'Washington', although
the string "George Washington" may never appear in the story.
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Refining your search
Use the "Month", "Year", "Section" drop down options to focus your keyword search.
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Quality over Quantity! Searches that return thousands of results will not be nearly as useful as a search that returns
less than one hundred results. Include as many search words and phrases as possible to "trim off"
unwanted stories. This will speed up your research as well as your searches.
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"Kankakee" will return well over 50,000 stories. It would take weeks to sift through all of those results for the
desired story or stories.
"Kankakee City Council" will greatly reduce the quantity of results, but the quality will be much higher
than the search for "Ottawa".
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Words that contain less than four letters are NOT currently recognized by the search.
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"JFK" will return 0 results in the Exact Phrase and the All Words searches.
Exact Phrase search for "John F. Kennedy" will return all the stories that contain the string 'John F. Kennedy', as expected..
Yet, the All Words search for "JF Kennedy" will only return results for "Kennedy" because "JF" is less
than four letters long.
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