Online Newspapers

Read today's Herald & Review newspaper (full color image edition) and search archived issues from the past. *Available remotely using your 14-digit library barcode #.

Read today's State Journal Register newspaper (full color image edition) and search archived issues from the past. *Available remotely using your 14-digit library barcode #.


Browse more than 8,000 news publications from 200 plus countries around the world (full color image editions and/or full-text documents). *Available remotely using your 14-digit library barcode #.


Educational Resources

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The Illinois State Library has provided a package of over 50 different EBSCOhost databases to Illinois libraries. The new databases include materials for primary, secondary, college level, and adult learners.

Educate Station currently has a full curriculum for grades Pre-K through Fifth Grade, presented in a recommended learning sequence of printable packets.

Subjects include:

  • English Language Arts

  • Math

  • Science

  • Social Studies

  • Social-Emotional Learning

To access Educate Station at FPL or from home, please use the following login information:

Username: ForsythPL
Password: educate

This resource offers a comprehensive online curriculum for children ages 2 to 8+, including reading and language, arts, math, beginning science, social studies, art and music. Must be accessed at the Forsyth Library.

Financial Investing, Family History & More

An all-inclusive investment research database, featuring data and analysis on international and domestic stocks, mutual funds, and exchange traded funds. *Available remotely using your 14-digit library barcode #.

If accessing from within the library, click here: https://research.morningstar.com/ic/ip-sign-in

Explore the amazing history of you. Answers await everyone—whether professional or hobbyist, expert or novice, genealogist or historian—inside the more than 7,000 available databases. Here, you can unlock the story of you with sources like censuses, vital records, immigration records, family histories, military records, court and legal documents, directories, photos, maps and more.

To access Ancestry for Libraries, you must use a library computer or be on your own device that is connected to our library wifi.

https://ancestrylibrary.proquest.com

This resource provides instant access to free and discounted tickets to use at museums, science centers, sporting events, zoos, park districts, theatres, and other fun cultural venues.