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The Rock Island Argus and Daily Union (J. W. Potter Co., pub.; 1920−1923) – Rock Island [15] Rockford Register Star – Rockford Shelbyville Daily Union – Shelbyville
The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus, published in East Moline, is a daily newspaper based on the Illinois side. While the Times has a primary focus on the Iowa side, and a majority of the coverage in the Argus and Dispatch is on the Illinois side, both newspapers cover the entire Quad Cities.
The Dispatch–Argus is a daily morning newspaper in Davenport, Iowa, and circulated primarily throughout the Illinois side of the Quad Cities — Moline, East Moline, Rock Island and Rock Island County, but also for sale in retail establishments on the Iowa side of the Quad Cities — Davenport and Bettendorf.
Cornelia Grumman, a 2003 Pulitzer Prize winning editorial writer at the Chicago Tribune for her death penalty editorials, was a reporter at the Southtown. Cathleen Falsani, author of The God Factor and now the religion reporter for the Sun-Times, got her start in newspapers as the religion beat writer for the Southtown.
In August 2012, the newspaper's operations moved to a building on Court Street, which had previously housed Rick’s TV & Appliances. [6] Demolition of the old Times building began in October 2013. [7] [8] In 2015, Pekin Daily Times merged with TimesNewspapers. [14] The merged team is located in the Pekin headquarters. [14]
The paper stopped publication in 1914. [3] Hinman bought back the paper at a receiver's sale in May 1914 (which came about because Kolhsaat had failed to pay the balance owed on a note used to purchase the paper) and immediately sold it to James Keeley, then general manager of the Chicago Tribune, who also bought the Chicago Record Herald at the same time. [4]
Illinois Times is a weekly free newspaper (distributed every Thursday) based in Springfield, Illinois, United States. [1] Founded in 1975, the newspaper was acquired in 1977 by Fletcher Farrar Sr., a Mount Vernon businessman who employed his son, Fletcher, Jr. (Bud), as editor. The senior Farrar died in 1995; his son sold the paper two years later.
Founded as the Lincoln Daily Courier in 1889, [1] the newspaper through the years absorbed several other dailies based in Lincoln, such as the Daily Star (founded c. 1911 as The Lincoln Morning Star [2]) and The Daily News-Herald, which itself dated back to The Daily News (October 20, 1890 () [3]} and The Lincoln Weekly Herald (c. 1855 [4]).