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Chicago Inter Ocean
The ''Chicago Inter Ocean'', also known as the ''Chicago Inter-Ocean'', is the name used for most of its history by a newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, from 1865 until 1914. Its editors included Charles A. Dana and Byron Andrews. History Founding The paper can be traced to 1865 with the founding of the ''Chicago Republican'', a newspaper supporting the Republican party. Jacob Bunn, a prominent Illinois financier and industrialist, was the principal founder, and at one time the sole owner, of the Chicago Republican Company; he cooperated with several other Illinois financiers to establish the ''Republican''. After both success and the chaos of the 1871 Chicago Fire, the paper was relaunched in 1872 as the Chicago-based ''Inter Ocean'', intended to appeal to upscale readers. William Penn Nixon became president and editor-in-chief of the ''Inter Ocean'' in 1876 and remained until his death in 1912. Growth With the building of transcontinental railroads, it was possi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago
Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of United States cities by population, third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. As the county seat, seat of Cook County, Illinois, Cook County, the List of the most populous counties in the United States, second-most populous county in the U.S., Chicago is the center of the Chicago metropolitan area, often colloquially called "Chicagoland" and home to 9.6 million residents. Located on the shore of Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a Chicago Portage, portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, Mississippi River watershed. It grew rapidly in the mid-19th century. In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defunct Newspapers Published In Chicago
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Alice Hobbins Porter
Alice Hobbins Porter (, Hobbins; pen name, Cress; 9 February 1854 – 1926) was a British-born American journalist, correspondent, editor, and syndicalist. She was a correspondent, contributor, editor, or staff member for a number of different publications including: the ''Milwaukee Journal Sentinel'', ''Cincinnati Enquirer'', ''Chicago Times'', ''Wisconsin State Journal'', ''Chicago Inter Ocean'', '' New York Daily Graphic'', ''New York Sun'', ''New York Herald'', ''New York World'', ''Harper's Magazine'', '' Spirit of the Times'', ''The Philadelphia Press'', '' National Tribune'', and the ''New York Press''. Early life Alice Russell Hobbins was born in Staffordshire, England on 9 February 1854. She was a daughter of Joseph Hobbins, M. D., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, and of Sarah Badger Jackson, a native of Newton, Massachusetts. Hobbins' mothers family had included several prominent people in the history of the United States including Gen. Michael Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eunice Gibbs Allyn
Eunice Gibbs Allyn (, Gibbs; pen names, (multiple); 1847 – June 30, 1916) was an American correspondent, author, songwriter, illustrator, and painter. She intended to become a teacher, but her mother dissuaded her so she remained at home, entering into society, and writing in a quiet way for the local papers while using various pen names in order to avoid displeasing one of her brothers, who did not wish to have a "bluestocking" in the family. Allyn served as the Washington correspondent for the ''Chicago Inter Ocean'', as well as a writer for the ''St. Louis Globe-Democrat'' and the ''New York World''. She won distinction as an artist and lecturer. For eight years, she served as president of the Dubuque branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). Early life and education Eunice Eloisae Gibbs was born in 1847, in Brecksville, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. Her father, Dr. Sidney Smith Gibbs, hailed from Schoharie County, New York, and her mother, Eunice Lucind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Carbys Zimmerman
William Carbys Zimmerman (1856–1932) was an American architect. He was the Illinois State Architect from 1905 to 1915, designing many state-funded buildings, especially at the University of Illinois. He was a partner of Flanders & Zimmerman. Biography Zimmerman was born in 1856 in Thiensville, Wisconsin, and attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Upon graduation in 1880s he moved to Chicago, Illinois. He was admitted as a junior partner in John J. Flanders' architectural firm in 1886. There, Zimmerman gained a reputation as an able designer of residences in popular revival styles. He became a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and opened an independent practice in Steinway Hall in 1898. Zimmerman at first continued to design houses, largely in the Chicago neighborhoods of Rogers Park, Kenwood, and Edgewater. Zimmerman was appointed Illinois State Architect in 1905, a role he held for ten years. This presented Zimmerman with the opportunity to design m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adler & Sullivan
Adler & Sullivan was an architectural firm founded by Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan in Chicago. Among its projects was the multi-purpose Auditorium Building in Chicago and the Wainwright Building skyscraper in St Louis. In 1883 Louis Sullivan was added to Adler's architectural firm, creating the Adler & Sullivan partnership. According to Architect Ward Miller: Adler, with his engineering prowess and facility with acoustics became seen as the business genius of the partnership, while Sullivan, known for his great design talent, is recounted as the artist. Selected commissions * Ann Halsted House, Chicago, Illinois, 1883 * Halsted Row Houses, Chicago, Illinois, 1884 * Leon Mannheimer House, Chicago, Illinois, 1884 * Joseph Deimel House, Chicago, Illinois, 1886 * Auditorium Building, Chicago, Illinois 1889 * Pueblo Opera House, Pueblo, Colorado, 1890 * Carrie Eliza Getty Tomb, Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, 1890 * Wainwright Building, St. Louis, Missouri, 1891 * Charn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago American
The ''Chicago American'' was an American newspaper published in Chicago under various names from 1900 until its dissolution in 1975. Its afternoon publication was known as the ''Chicago American'', while its evening publication was known as the ''Chicago Evening American''. History The paper's first edition came out on July 4, 1900, as '' Hearst's Chicago American''. It became the ''Morning American'' in 1902 with the appearance of an afternoon edition. The morning and Sunday papers were renamed as the ''Examiner'' in 1904. James Keeley bought the '' Chicago Record-Herald'' and '' Chicago Inter-Ocean'' in 1914, merging them into a single newspaper known as the ''Herald''. William Randolph Hearst purchased the paper from Keeley in 1918. 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''. They were then recruited by Moses Annenberg, who offered more money to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst (; April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American newspaper publisher and politician who developed the nation's largest newspaper chain and media company, Hearst Communications. His extravagant methods of yellow journalism in violation of Journalism ethics and standards, ethics and standards influenced the nation's popular media by emphasizing sensationalism and human-interest story, human-interest stories. Hearst entered the publishing business in 1887 with Mitchell Trubitt after being given control of ''The San Francisco Examiner'' by his wealthy father, Senator George Hearst. After moving to New York City, Hearst acquired the ''New York Journal'' and fought a bitter circulation war with Joseph Pulitzer's ''New York World''. Hearst sold papers by printing giant headlines over lurid stories featuring crime, corruption, sex, and innuendos. Hearst acquired more newspapers and created a chain that numbered nearly 30 papers in major American cities at i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewiston Morning Tribune
''The Lewiston Morning Tribune'' is an independently owned newspaper in the northwestern United States, located in Lewiston, Idaho. Founded in 1892, it serves eight counties in north-central Idaho and south eastern Washington, the southern portion of the Inland Empire. As of 2017, the ''Lewiston Tribune'' has a circulation of 25,000 papers in north-central Idaho and southeastern Washington. It was the first newspaper in Idaho to publish an electronic edition, which was offered in September 1995. Founding and ownership Eugene L. Alford and Albert H. Alford founded the ''Lewiston Morning Tribune'' in 1892. It started as a four-page weekly newspaper in 1892 and it went to twice-weekly in 1895. Later it became a morning daily newspaper in 1898. Eugene worked as the publisher and business manager while Albert assumed the position of editor. After Albert H. Alford died in 1928, his nephew Albert L. Alford (1907–1968) returned to Lewiston from Washington and Lee University in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Record Herald
The ''Chicago Record-Herald'' was a newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois from 1901 until 1914. It was the successor to the '' Chicago Morning Herald,'' the '' Chicago Times Herald'' and the ''Chicago Record''. H. H. Kohlsaat, owner of the ''Times-Herald'', bought the ''Chicago Record'' from Chicago Daily News publisher Victor F. Lawson in 1901 and merged it with the ''Times-Herald'' to form the ''Record-Herald''. Frank B. Noyes became part-owner of the new newspaper at the time and served as publisher, with Kohlsaat as editor. Kohlsaat retired from the paper in 1902, but re-purchased it from Noyes in 1910 to serve as editor and publisher. In May 1914, the circulation of the ''Chicago Record-Herald'' was reported to be 149,776 daily and 209,105 on Sunday.(5 May 1914)May Get Record-Herald ''The New York Times'' It was then acquired by James Keeley, then general manager of the ''Chicago Tribune'', who also bought the '' Chicago Inter Ocean'' out of receivership at the same ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Tribune
The ''Chicago Tribune'' is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1847, it was formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper", a slogan from which its once integrated WGN (AM), WGN radio and WGN-TV, WGN television received their call letters. It is the most-read daily newspaper in the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region, and the List of newspapers in the United States, sixth-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States. In the 1850s, under Joseph Medill, the ''Chicago Tribune'' became closely associated with the Illinois politician Abraham Lincoln, and the then new Republican Party (United States), Republican Party's progressive wing. In the 20th century, under Medill's grandson 'Colonel' Robert R. McCormick, its reputation was that of a crusading newspaper with an outlook that promoted Conservatism in the United States, American conservatism and opposed the New Deal. Its reporting and commenta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
