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The Chicago Daily News published its last edition on Saturday, March 4, 1978. [1] As reported in The Wall Street Journal, later in 1978, Lloyd H Weston, president, editor and publisher of Addison Leader Newspapers, Inc., a group of weekly tabloids in the west and northwest suburbs—obtained rights to the Chicago Daily News trademark.
General Fibre Company, also known as the General Moulding Company, was an American manufacturer of a wide variety of fiber and plastic molded products. The company was known for its popular Ariduk brand of duck and goose decoys. [ 1 ]
Chicago Herald-American, 1939–1958 (became Chicago's American) 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 ...
Originally specializing in the automated display of news headlines, it evolved into Chicago's third full-fledged independent station, carrying movies, local sports, and other specialty programming. This continued until 1980, when WSNS became the Chicago-area station for ON TV , an over-the-air subscription television (STV) service owned by Oak ...
A duck decoy (or decoy duck) is a man-made object resembling a duck. Duck decoys are typically used in waterfowl hunting to attract real ducks, but they are also used as collectible art pieces. [1] Duck decoys were historically carved from wood, often Atlantic white cedar wood on the east coast of the United States, [2] or cork.
Herman’s World of Sporting Goods was a sporting goods retailer in the United States. [1] Founded in 1916 by Herman and Eddie Steinlauf as a music store in Nassau Street, Lower Manhattan, the company expanded into sporting goods and grew to multiple locations in the New York metropolitan area, including East 42nd Street, East 34th Street, and Paramus, New Jersey.
Sportsvision (SV [1] [2]) was a subscription sports television service founded by Chicago White Sox owners Jerry Reinsdorf and Eddie Einhorn and media mogul Fred Eychaner. [3] The service broadcast live sporting events, and for much of its time of operation was the broadcast network for the Chicago White Sox , Chicago Bulls , Chicago Blackhawks ...
Riddell Sports Group, commonly known as Riddell, is an American company specializing in sports equipment for Gridiron football. Founded in 1929 by John Tate Riddell, it was headquartered in Rosemont, Illinois , [ 1 ] but in 2017, the company relocated to a new facility in Des Plaines, Illinois .