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The newspaper was founded in 1831 as the Sangamo Journal by William Bailhache and Edward Baker, and describes itself as "the oldest newspaper in Illinois". As such, it and its editor, Edward L. Baker, supported the political career of the Springfield-based Abraham Lincoln in the years before the American Civil War; in fact, it was in the Journal ' s office that Lincoln and his friends waited ...
Daily newspapers. The Beacon-News – Aurora. Belleville News-Democrat – Belleville. Belvidere Daily Republican – Belvidere. The Benton Evening News – Benton. The Breeze-Courier – Taylorville. The Carmi Times – Carmi. Centralia Morning Sentinel – Centralia. The Chicago Defender – Chicago.
Illinois Times is a weekly free newspaper (distributed every Thursday) based in Springfield, Illinois, United States. [1] Founded in 1975, the newspaper was acquired in 1977 by Fletcher Farrar Sr., a Mount Vernon businessman who employed his son, Fletcher, Jr. (Bud), as editor. The senior Farrar died in 1995; his son sold the paper two years later.
August 14, 2024 at 9:49 AM. Calls for an independent investigation into the Illinois sheriff's office that employed the deputy who fatally shot Sonya Massey flooded a local county board meeting on ...
August 14, 2024 at 7:12 PM. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to sign a proclamation Friday to designate a national monument at the Springfield, Illinois, site of the 1908 race ...
The list is divided by region, and the newspapers attested in each region are placed in alphabetic order by city. Illinois' first African American newspaper was the Cairo Weekly Gazette, established in 1862. [1] The first in Chicago was The Chicago Conservator, established in 1878. An estimated 190 Black newspapers had been founded in Illinois ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The former Illinois deputy who fatally shot Sonya Massey last month will remain jailed, a judge ruled Friday, rejecting his request to be released to accommodate his medical ...
Springfield is the capital city of the U.S. state of Illinois and the seat of Sangamon County. The city's population was 114,394 at the 2020 census, which makes it the state's seventh-most populous city, [10] the second-most populous outside of the Chicago metropolitan area (after Rockford), and the most populous in Central Illinois.