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When it was established in 1940, The Crusader occupied a single page and was operated out of an apartment in the Ida B. Wells Homes on Chicago's South Side. [3] In this early period, it served as the official organ of the Negro Labor Relations League, [2] an organization established in 1937 to challenge the racial discrimination in employment in Chicago.
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Chicago: Crusader: 1937 [17]? [17] Weekly [17] Distinct from the Chicago Crusader that was established 1940 as the New Crusader. Chicago: New Crusader / The Chicago Crusader: 1940 [20] current: Weekly: Published by Balm Leavell until 1968 and subsequently by Dorothy Leavell. [21] Official site; Chicago: Daily Times? [17]? [17] Daily: Chicago ...
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In 1974, Lavender Woman reported that the Crusader had a large free circulation. [10] The paper operated a gay switchboard, 929-HELP, from Bergeron's basement. [10] In June 1976, Philadelphia Gay News reported that the Crusader would fold after issue 27, except for an annual wrap-up edition. [11]
The Crusader was created in 1931 by Lorado Taft. [2] In Chicago's historic Graceland Cemetery, it is a monument intended to memorialize Victor F. Lawson (1850–1925), the publisher of the Chicago Daily News. [2] The Chicago Daily News was founded by Melville E. Stone, Percy Meggy and William Dougherty in 1875. [3]
Two major daily newspapers are published in Chicago, the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times.The former has the larger circulation. There are also a number of regional and special-interest newspapers such as the Daily Herald (Arlington Heights), SouthtownStar, the Chicago Defender, RedEye, Third Coast Press, Hypertext Magazine and the Chicago Reader.
Mary Ann Childers is an American media consultant and former newscaster. From 1980 to 1994, she worked as an anchor at WLS-TV in Chicago, [1] where she became the first woman to anchor a top-rated 10pm newscast in Chicago. [2]