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Salem is a city in and the county seat of Marion County, Illinois, United States. [5] The population was 7,282 at the 2020 census. [4] History.
Rockford Register Star – Rockford; Shelbyville Daily Union – Shelbyville; The Sidell Reporter – Sidell; The Southern Illinoisan – Carbondale; Star Courier – Kewanee; The State Journal-Register – Springfield; The Telegraph – Alton; The Telegraph – Dixon; The Times – Ottawa
The Southern Illinoisan was created in 1947 when Lindsay-Schaub Newspapers of Decatur, Illinois, purchased three area newspapers—the Daily Free Press of Carbondale, the Murphysboro Daily Independent and the Herrin Daily Journal—and merged them into a single publication.
Illinois Times: 1941 [3] 1971 [3] Weekly [3] Not to be confused with the Illinois Times of Springfield, an alternative weekly established in 1975. Champaign: Plain Truth: 1967 [3] 1969 [3] Weekly [3] "[T]he first black power publication in Champaign-Urbana" [75] Danville: The Black Vanguard: for Unity in the Black Community [76] 1968 [76]? [76 ...
The Star was founded in August 1903 [6] and was bought by the owners of the Tribune in 1931. (The Terre Haute Post, founded in 1906, was acquired by the Star in 1929.) [7] [8] [9] A 230-day strike shut down both the Tribune and Star in 1964-65. [10] The Tribune and Star were sold to Ingersoll Publications in late 1982.
At the last moment, the Booster, News-Star and Skyline titles were sold to the Wednesday Journal, another Chicago-area weekly group. [17] [18] In March 2009, the Wednesday Journal announced that it was dropping the News-Star and the Booster, along with the Bucktown/Wicker Park edition of the Chicago Journal (into which a Booster edition had ...
At the time of the 1967 sale, Brush-Moore owned 12 daily papers, including six in Ohio (the Canton Repository, East Liverpool Review, Salem News, Steubenville Herald, Marion Star, and Portsmouth Times) three in California (Times-Standard, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, and Oxnard Press-Courier), and one in Maryland (Salisbury Daily Times ...
In 2005, Hollinger merged the 80-year-old Lerner Newspapers chain into Pioneer Press, Pioneer's first real inroads into the city of Chicago. Despite announcements by Publisher Larry Green that Pioneer intended to "grow" the Lerner Papers, over the course of the next six months, Pioneer dumped the venerable Lerner name, shut down most of its editions and laid off most of its employees.