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Walter A. Strong, who was Lawson's business manager, spent the rest of the year raising the capital he needed to buy the Daily News. 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 ...
Chicago Post (1890–1929, absorbed by Daily News) Chicago Record (1881–1901) Chicago Record Herald (1901–1914) Chicago Republican (1865–1872, became Chicago Inter Ocean) Chicago Sun (1941–1948, merged with Chicago Daily Times to form Chicago Sun-Times) Chicago Times (1861–1895, became Times-Herald) Chicago Times-Herald (1895–1901 ...
Naród Polski – Chicago; Naujienos (socialist newspaper) (Lithuanian Daily News) – Chicago; Nedelni Hlasatel (formerly Denni Hlasatel) – Berwyn; Sonntagpost und Milwaukee deutsche Zeitung – Chicago; Svenska Amerikanaren Tribunen – Chicago; Ukrainske Slovo Newspaper (Hoffman Estates) - Est 2002 – Ukrainian
Chicago's Polonia sustained diverse political cultures in the early twentieth century, each with its own newspaper. In 1920 the community had a choice of five daily papers – from the Socialist Dziennik Ludowy (People's Daily; 1907–1925) to the Polish Roman Catholic Union's Dziennik Zjednoczenia (Union Daily; 1921–1939). The decision to ...
The American's circulation of 330,216 placed it third in the city, behind the Chicago Tribune (424,026) and Chicago Daily News (386,498), and ahead of the Chicago Herald-Examiner (289,094). Distribution of the Herald Examiner after 1918 was controlled by gangsters. Dion O'Banion, Vincent Drucci, Hymie Weiss and Bugs Moran first sold the Tribune.
Robert Joseph Casey (1890-1962) was a decorated combat veteran and distinguished Chicago-based newspaper correspondent and columnist.. Casey was born March 14, 1890, in Beresford, South Dakota, and attended St. Mary's College in St. Marys, Kansas from 1907 to 1911.
This led to an electoral bloodbath for Republicans in the 1890 midterm elections, when the party lost 78 House seats and the Democrats won a 236-vote majority. Even McKinley, who earlier had been ...
The Chicago circulation wars were a period of competition between William Randolph Hearst's Chicago Evening American and both Robert R. McCormick's Chicago Tribune and Victor Lawson's Chicago Daily News in the early 1900s that devolved into violence and resulted in more than 20 deaths. [1]