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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.
The Chicago Daily News Corporation, of which Strong was the major stockholder, bought the newspaper for $13.7 million (equivalent to $238 million in 2023) [5] —the highest price paid for a newspaper up to that time. [6] Strong was the president and publisher of the Chicago Daily News Corporation from December 1925 until his death in May 1931.
Chicago Inter Ocean. Chicago Israelite. Chicago Jewish Star. Chicago Livestock World. Chicago Packer. Chicago Record-Herald. Chicago Seed (newspaper) Chicago Star. Chicago Times.
Richard Benjamin Speck (December 6, 1941 – December 5, 1991) was an American mass murderer who killed eight student nurses in their South Deering, Chicago, residence via stabbing, strangling, slashing their throats, or a combination of the three on the night of July 13–14, 1966. One victim was also raped prior to her murder.
Henry Joseph Darger Jr. (/ ˈdɑːrɡər / DAR-ghər; April 12, 1892 – April 13, 1973) was an American writer, novelist and artist who worked as a hospital custodian in Chicago, Illinois. [1] He has become famous for his posthumously recovered 15,145-page manuscript for a fantasy novel titled The Story of the Vivian Girls, [a] along with ...
Students. Known for. Murder victims. The murder of the Grimes sisters is an unsolved double murder that occurred in Chicago, Illinois, on December 28, 1956, in which two sisters named Barbara and Patricia Grimes—aged 15 and 12 [n 2] respectively—disappeared while traveling from a Brighton Park movie theater to their home in McKinley Park.
The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.Founded in 1847, and formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" [2] [3] (the slogan from which its integrated WGN radio and television received their call letters), it remains the most-read daily newspaper in the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region.
The cause of death for the 57-year-old woman whose body was found in a baggage area at Chicago's O’Hare International Airport last week has reportedly been revealed. Virginia Christine Vinton ...