As a long standing professional student, over the last 25 years or more, I have seen a rather disturbing circumstance develop. For example, it use to be, If I needed information about an article in the Chicago Tribune, I could simply go to the Tribune's headquarters, ask for the access to "morgue", and pull up information on papers, dating back to when electric cars ran in the streets of Chicago. However, nowadays, "morgue" access no longer exists. If you want back copies of information relating to that paper and almost any other paper in Illinois, you have to have money to pay an electronic search engine service provider, and even then, they may feign, a lack of ability to deliver.

Land of the free, is it???