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On May 16, one day before the IPO, Facebook announced that it would sell 25% more shares than originally planned due to high demand. [298] The IPO raised $16 billion, making it the third largest in U.S. history (just ahead of AT&T Wireless and behind only General Motors and Visa Inc.).
In particular, this list considers a newspaper to be a weekly newspaper if the newspaper is published once, twice, or thrice a week. A weekly newspaper is usually a smaller publication than a larger, daily newspaper (such as one that covers a metropolitan area).
Chicago Daily Telegraph, 1878–1881 (became Chicago Morning Herald) Chicago Daily Times, 1929–1948 (merged with Chicago Sun to form Chicago Sun-Times) Chicago Democrat, 1833–1861; Chicago Democratic Press, 1852–1857; Chicago Evening Mail, 1870–1875 (became Post & Mail) Chicago Evening Post, 1865–1875 (became Post & Mail)
The Chicago Sun-Times has claimed to be the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the city. That claim is based on the 1844 founding of the Chicago Daily Journal, [4] which was also the first newspaper to publish the rumor, now believed false, that a cow owned by Catherine O'Leary was responsible for the Chicago fire of 1871. [5]
A year later, the paper began publishing five days a week. This move came almost out of necessity; Field Communications, publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times, had introduced its "Daily" papers for the northern suburbs in 1966. A brutal one-year circulation war ensued, ending in 1970 when Field pulled out of the area.
Cyrus Freidheim resigns as CEO after New York–based hedge fund Davidson Kempner forces the ousting of all but one member of the board of directors. Jeremy Halbreich becomes the new chairman and interim chief executive. March 2009. Sun-Times Media Group filled for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. December 2011. Wrapports, L.L.C. acquired the Sun-Times ...
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During the Chicago Newspaper strike of 1912, when several of the city's major newspapers were crippled after locking out pressmen, circulation of the Day Book rose, though it fell once the strike ended. [1] The Day Book published its last edition on July 6, 1917. It had turned a profit only one month since its founding, in January 1917. [1]