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The Chicago Sun-Times has claimed to be the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the city. That claim is based on the 1844 founding of the Chicago Daily Journal, [4] which was also the first newspaper to publish the rumor, now believed false, that a cow owned by Catherine O'Leary was responsible for the Chicago fire of 1871. [5]
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 (became Record-Herald) Chicago Whip, 1919–1939; Chicago's American, 1958–1969 (became Today) Chicago Inter Ocean, 1872–1914 (became Record-Herald) Chicago Post & Mail, 1875 ...
In 2014, the SouthtownStar was purchased by the Chicago Tribune Media Group along with the other Wrapports Chicago suburban papers. [4] The name was changed back to the Daily Southtown . The paper maintains bureaus in Chicago city hall and the city's federal courts building.
The police officers and firefighter were responding to reports of a truck fire in Arlington Heights, about 25 miles northwest of downtown Chicago, around 4 p.m. Friday and assessing the scene ...
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March 29 – Stephen Court historic building fire in Kolkata, India, killed at least 42. [77] September 10 – 2010 San Bruno explosion in San Bruno, California, six-alarm fire from a gas main killed eight and destroyed dozens of homes. November 15 – 2010 Shanghai fire, China, [78] high-rise apartment building fire killed at least 53.
The paper's real growth began in 1968, when Stuart Paddock Jr. took over the paper. A year later, the paper began publishing five days a week. This move came almost out of necessity; Field Communications, publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times, had introduced its "Daily" papers for the northern suburbs in 1966. A brutal one-year circulation war ...
When it bought the chain of 52 weeklies for $9.1 million, Pulitzer hoped to win readers and advertising dollars from the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times in the same way that the Suburban Journal weeklies were weakening the Post-Dispatch.