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History. The paper's first edition came out on July 4, 1900, as Hearst 's Chicago American. It became the Morning American in 1902 with the appearance of an afternoon edition. The morning and Sunday papers were renamed as the Examiner in 1904. James Keeley bought the Chicago Record-Herald and Chicago Inter-Ocean in 1914, merging them into a ...
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.
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.
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.
List for general purposes. Project. Description. Ancestry.com. For-profit genealogy company. Databases include Find a Grave, RootsWeb, a free genealogy community, and Newspapers.com. Archives.gov. US National Archives and Records Administration. Free online repository with a section dedicated to genealogical research [1]
2005. Country of origin. United States. Headquarters location. Chicago. Publication types. Weekly newspapers, community journalism. Lerner Newspapers was a chain of weekly newspapers. Founded by Leo Lerner, the chain was a force in community journalism in Chicago from 1926 to 2005, and called itself "the world's largest newspaper group".
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.
The Times-Herald effectively disappeared in 1901 when it merged with the Chicago Record to become the Chicago Record-Herald. The Times was founded in 1854 [ 1 ] by James W. Sheahan, Daniel Cameron, and Isaac Cook [ 2 ] with the support of Democrat and attorney Stephen A. Douglas , and was identified as a pro-slavery newspaper. [ 3 ]