The ''Chicago Evening Post'' was a daily

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published in

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, Illinois, from March 1, 1886, until October 29, 1932, when it was absorbed by the ''

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''. The newspaper was founded as a penny paper during the technological paradigm shift created by linotype; it failed when the Great Depression struck. The ''Evening Post'' identified itself as a reform newspaper, and attempted to cover

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stories of Chicago's political corruption.

Finley Peter Dunne Finley Peter Dunne (born Peter Dunne; July 10, 1867 – April 24, 1936) was an American humorist, journalist and writer from Chicago. In 1898 Dunne published ''Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War'', a collection of his nationally syndicated Mr. Doole ...

introduced his character Mr. Dooley in the paper in 1893.

Samuel Travers Clover Samuel Travers Clover (August 13, 1859 – May 28, 1934), commonly known as Sam. T. Clover, was an author, editor and publisher in Chicago and Los Angeles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Jane Apostol,Los Angeles Saturday Night and Sa ...

managed the paper from 1894 to 1900. Social journalist W.J. Cash worked at the paper for a year in 1926-1927. Managing editor Michael W. Straus worked with two significant women, Margaret C. Anderson and Ione Quinby Griggs. Anderson, the ''Evening Post's'' book critic beginning in 1913, later became a noted magazine editor and publisher. Griggs worked the ''Evening Post's'' police beat from the early 1920s until the paper was sold in 1932, winning acclaim for her ability to mesh female experience and identity with crime news. The

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preserves a complete

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file of the ''Evening Post's'' 46-year press run.

References

{{Authority control Defunct newspapers published in Chicago Publications established in 1886 Publications disestablished in 1932 1886 establishments in Illinois