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The paper started out life as the Independent and, later, the Lake County Independent based in Libertyville in 1892. By 1921 the paper was known as the Waukegan Daily News and in 1930 it purchased the Waukegan Daily Sun (founded 1897) and merged the two papers to become the Waukegan News-Sun, a name it would operate under until 1971.
Staunton grew with the introduction of the railroad and a coal mine in the 1860s. New immigrants from Ireland, Germany and Italy moved to Staunton, and the community soon became one of the largest cities in southern Illinois. The Staunton Star-Times started publication in 1878. In 1891, Staunton applied for city status and elected its first ...
Its portfolio includes about 80 newspapers and news websites in Illinois and Iowa. [1] Originally based in Dixon, Illinois; it has acquired a swath of properties in the Chicago suburbs and moved its headquarters there. Founded in 1851, Shaw Media is the third oldest, continuously owned and operated family newspaper company in the United States. [2]
With a history dating back to 1830, the Jacksonville Journal-Courier is the "oldest continuously published newspaper in Illinois". [3]In addition to Jacksonville and South Jacksonville, the Jacksonville Journal-Courier circulates in Cass, Greene, Macoupin, Morgan, Brown, Pike and Scott counties, in western Central Illinois.
Patrick Hite, Staunton News Leader May 6, 2024 at 6:56 AM Sandra Cararo, owner of Staunton's The Book Dragon Shop, first came up with the idea of Queen City Word Fest, a book festival and literary ...
In the 1960s, the Opie family combined The Staunton News-Leader with The Evening Leader, and Staunton was left with only one daily newspaper, The Daily News Leader. "Daily" was dropped from the name in 2002. The Opies sold the paper in 1979 to Multimedia Inc., which was purchased by Gannett Co. in 1995. The newspaper launched its online edition ...
With the launch of TV3 in 1998, McCudden was one of the original reporters on the broadcaster's news programme, TV3 News, before later moving to the UK to work at the BBC. [4] Based at various times in both Birmingham and London, she was a producer and reporter for BBC News , but after five years with the Corporation she returned to TV3 News in ...
Bunker Hill Publications, headquartered in Hillsboro, Illinois, publishes four weekly subscription papers and a free circulation paper. The subscription papers are the Bunker Hill Gazette-News , The Southwestern Journal , the Madison County Chronicle , and the Mount Olive Herald .