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The Decatur Herald (Herald-Despatch Co., pub.; 1899−1980) – Decatur [6] Morning Herald-Dispatch (Herald-Despatch Co., pub.; 1890−1899) – Decatur [7] The Decatur Daily Despatch (W. F. Calhoun, pub.; 1889−189?) – Decatur [8] The Decatur Morning Herald (Hostetler & Ela, pub.; 1880−1890) – Decatur [9] The Herald-News – Joliet
The Rev. Alfred F. Wuensch founded the Decatur Review as a weekly newspaper in April 1872. [7] C.N. Walls founded the Daily Herald in 1878. In 1931, the morning Herald, by this time owned by the Lindsay family, and the evening, daily, Decatur Daily Review, owned by the Schaub family, merged their operations.
In 2015 he received the Illinois High School Association distinguished media service award. McNamara was a member of the Illinois Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame, Macon County Sports Historian and an author of five books on local sports. He is credited with being the drive behind the establishment of the Decatur School District's Sports Hall of ...
The Library of Congress has records for over 8,000 newspapers in Illinois. "Search for Illinois newspapers". Library of Congress. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers at the Library of Congress; eCirc at the Audit Bureau of Circulations, provides circuluation figures based on latest FAS-FAX Report
The digitized newspapers that are currently available and OCR'd represent a fraction of the 150 million pages of historical documents that Heritage Microfilm maintains in its microform archive. According to NewspaperARCHIVE.com, it is microfilming 2.5 million pages of newspapers each month and has 180,000 reels of microfilm. [4] [5]
In 2010, the company changed its name from Shaw Newspapers to Shaw Media. [18] By 2013, the company owned 35 Illinois newspapers and a handful of publications in Iowa. Around that time a group of minority owners with a 35% ownership stake sued the family members who owned the remaining 65% stake over alleged mismanagement of the company. [11]
The Mt. Vernon Daily News was founded in 1891, and the two papers merged in 1920 to create the Register-News, which published six days a week until cost-saving measures were employed in 2017 that reduced the newspaper to printing just three days a week: Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Former owner Thomson sold the paper to Hollinger in 1996. [2]
To date, INP staff has inventoried and cataloged 21,000+ U.S. newspaper titles, added 26,000+ holdings records to the newspaper union list in OCLC, and microfilmed almost 2,250,000 pages, becoming an important resource for scholars, genealogists, and ancestry enthusiasts.