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The Daily News was founded in 1875 and began publishing early the next year. It was the first one-cent newspaper published in Chicago. It strove for mass readership. The purpose was to establish a paper the price of which should be the lowest unit of…

From its beginnings in 1847, the newspaper pledged to be a good citizen and an active participant in the life of Chicago. The Tribune was also a standard-bearer for innovative journalism. During the paper's formative years, the Tribune was a leading…

Chicago newspaper popular in the latter half of the nineteenth-century founded in 1854. The paper was originally published in the fifth story of the McCormick Block, on the corner of Randolph and Dearborn streets. The circulation was but little over…

Frontpage of the Chicago Daily Tribune from November 28, 1934 detailing the death of famous Chicago gangster Baby Face Nelson

Harry Truman hold up Chicago Daily Tribune with a headline erroneously declaring Thomas Dewey the winner.

Two articles clipped from the Chicago Defender and saved in a scrapbook: "This Girl Band is Much Too Much with Swing and Jitter" and "Sweethearts."