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Library from Washington Square on a c. 1910 postcard. The Newberry was established in 1887 as the result of a bequest by Walter Loomis Newberry, an early Chicago resident and business leader involved in banking, shipping, real estate, and other commercial ventures. Newberry died at sea in 1868, while on a trip to France.
Circulation figures for Chicago newspapers appearing in Editor & Publisher in 1919. The American's circulation of 330,216 placed it third in the city, behind the Chicago Tribune (424,026) and Chicago Daily News (386,498), and ahead of the Chicago Herald-Examiner (289,094). Distribution of the Herald Examiner after 1918 was controlled by gangsters.
The Daily News was founded by Melville E. Stone, Percy Meggy, and William Dougherty in 1875 and began publishing on December 23. Byron Andrews, fresh out of Hobart College, was one of the first reporters. The paper aimed for a mass readership in contrast to its primary competitor, the Chicago Tribune, which appealed to the city's elites.
Chicago Herald-Examiner, 1918–39 (became Herald-American) Chicago Journal, 1844–1929 (absorbed by Chicago Daily News) Chicago Mail, 1885–1894. Chicago Morning News, 1881 (became Chicago Record) Chicago Morning Herald, 1893–1901 (became Record-Herald) Chicago Post, 1890–1929 (absorbed by Daily News) Chicago Record, 1881–1901.
Newspaper publisher; founder of Lerner Newspapers: Born in Chicago Mike MacDonald: 1960: Photographer and author [99] Tom Mandel: Sep 12, 1942: Poet Born in Chicago Merrill C. Meigs: Nov 25, 1883: Jan 26, 1968: Newspaper publisher A. R. Morlan: Jan 3, 1958: Jan 6, 2016: Author Born in Chicago Susan Murphy-Milano: Oct 28, 2012
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
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