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Victor Fremont Lawson to Jane Addams, September 26, 1903

Social Settlement Aims, March 22, 1901 (excerpt)

Jane Addams to Graham Taylor, September 19, 1902

Albert G. Beaunisne to Jane Addams, October 6, 1903

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, August 15, 1904

Announcement of the Eighteenth Annual Competition for the Victor F. Lawson Medals, March 26, 1906

Anonymous to "Chicago Record-Herald"- Editor

Graham Taylor to Jane Addams, February 15, 1913

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, January 19, 1915

Jenkin Lloyd Jones to Jane Addams, April 5, 1915

Graham Taylor to Jane Addams, August 9, 1915

Edith Franklin Wyatt to Jane Addams, May 19, 1916

Brief Summary of the Work of the Chicago Urban League, August 1, 1917

Jane Addams to Paul Underwood Kellogg, August 28, 1919

Anna Mary Lloyd to Paul Underwood Kellogg, June 15, 1922

Harold R. Peat: The Inexcusable Lie of the Centuries, 1923

Charles Henry Dennis to Jane Addams October 24, 1923

Graham Taylor to Jane Addams, July 12, 1924

Alexander Hume Ford to Jane Addams, November 17, 1924

Jane Addams to Madeleine Zabriskie Doty, February 20, 1925

Lawson, Victor Fremont (1850-1925)

Strong, Walter Ansel (1883-1931)

Wile, Frederic William (1873-1941)

Speech to Christian Church Minister, June 6, 1904 (excerpt)

Address to the Sinai Reformed Church, December 8, 1910 (excerpt)

Review of Russian-American Relations, ca. June 1920 (excerpt)

Germans O.K.: Jane Addams, December 3, 1921

Statement on Presidency of the National Conference of Social Work, June 27, 1922

Chicago's 7 Wonders Chosen by Citizens, August 17, 1923

The League of Neighbors, December 4, 1924

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Founding Date

1875

Ending Date

1978

Biographical Text

The Chicago Daily News was created on Christmas of 1875 by Melville E. Stone. The paper was so promising, it was bought by Victor Fremont Larson in 1876, while still retaining Stone as editor. The paper cost one-cent.

After experimenting with raido and television stations in the 1920s and 30s, the Chicago Daily News was bought by Field Interprises. Already having owned the Sun-Times, Field Enterprises moved the Chicago Daily News into the Sun Times' building on N. Wabash Ave.

In the late 1970s, the paper's circulation began a steady dwindle from over 600,000 in 1959 to just over 300,000 in the late 70s. The paper was shut down in 1978, but widely remembered for its talented writers and 15 Pulitzer prizes.