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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 ...
Dziennik Związkowy (Polish Daily News) – Chicago (Polish) El Conquistador – Geneva (Spanish and English) Hlas Národa (The Voice of the Nation) – Chicago; Naród Polski – Chicago; Naujienos (socialist newspaper) (Lithuanian Daily News) – Chicago; Nedelni Hlasatel (formerly Denni Hlasatel) – Berwyn; Sonntagpost und Milwaukee ...
The 1890 United States census was taken beginning June 2, 1890. The census determined the resident population of the United States to be 62,979,766, an increase of 25.5 percent over the 50,189,209 persons enumerated during the 1880 census. The data reported that the distribution of the population had resulted in the disappearance of the ...
Competition was especially fierce between the Chicago Times (Democratic), the Chicago Tribune (Republican), and the Daily News (independent), with the latter becoming the city's most popular paper by the 1880s. [50] The city's boasting lobbyists and politicians earned Chicago the nickname "Windy City" in the New York press. The city adopted the ...
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.
The Tariff Act of 1890 was known as the McKinley Tariff because McKinley was chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee when it was enacted. An openly protectionist measure, it raised duties ...
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.