The Chicago Daily Times was a daily newspaper in Chicago from 1929 to 1948, and the city's first tabloid newspaper. It was founded out of a reorganization of assets of the Chicago Daily Journal by the Journal ' s last owner, Samuel Emory Thomason. It is best known as one of two newspapers which merged to form Chicago Sun-Times in 1948. For much of its existence, the paper also operated the small Chicago Times Syndicate, which distributed comic strips and columns.
19-613: The paper was founded as the Daily Illustrated Times in 1929 by Samuel Emory Thomason, who had just sold the name and circulation of his Chicago Daily Journal to the Chicago Daily News , but retained the paper's building and resources for his new venture. The paper was edited by Richard J. Finnegan , who had been with the Journal , and based on the tabloid model of New York Daily News . After 1935
38-486: A diplomatic post in London in 1861, brother John L. Wilson managed the paper alone until Charles returned in 1864. Charles L. Wilson died in 1878, and Andrew Shuman ( Lieutenant Governor of Illinois from 1877-1881) then became editor in chief. Shuman was associated with the paper for 33 years, starting as an assistant editor in 1856, and retiring as editor in 1888. George Martin and Slason Thompson succeeded as editors in
57-577: A lengthy European acquisition tour, Scripps aided prominently in founding the Detroit Museum of Art (later, the Detroit Institute of Arts ), in 1889 presenting it with a collection of old masters such as Cima da Conegliano 's Madonna and Child , costing $ 75,000 (in 1889 dollars), among the first major accessions of early paintings for any American museum. A catalogue of the collection was published in 1889 and has been digitized by
76-628: The Detroit Tribune , and he later became part owner and manager of the Detroit Daily Advertiser . When the Advertiser' s premises burned in 1873, Scripps took his $ 20,000 insurance money and with it started his own newspaper. Scripps decided to tap the growing literate class of working men and women by launching a newspaper, The Evening News (later, The Detroit News ). Running with an idea new for its time, he filled
95-541: The Express , the Journal was first published, three years prior to the start of the Chicago Tribune . Richard L. Wilson acquired the paper from its founding group after the 1844 election . He served as editor, with a break when President Taylor appointed him postmaster of Chicago in 1849. When Wilson died in 1856, his brother Charles L. Wilson became sole owner. When Lincoln appointed this Wilson to
114-618: The Journal in 1929, announced on August 2, which printed its last issue on August 21, 1929. But Thomason retained the Journal building and resources, and quickly launched the tabloid Daily Illustrated Times (with Finnegan continuing as managing editor). That paper (simply known as the Daily Times after 1935) was merged into the Chicago Sun in 1948 to become the Chicago Sun-Times . By way of that descent,
133-737: The Scripps Institute of Oceanography located in La Jolla, California and was the founder of Scripps College , located in Claremont. Scripps's eldest daughter, Ellen Warren Scripps (1863–1948), married George Gough Booth , who subsequently became the publisher of the Evening News Association and independently founded Booth Newspapers, now MLive Media Group . It was acquired by S.I. Newhouse 's Advance Publications in 1976. Together, George and "Nellie" also founded
152-555: The Sun-Times lays a claim to the 1844 lineage of the Journal . Subsequent Chicago publications have also used the Chicago Journal name, though without any direct relationship to the prior paper. A weekly community paper went by the name from 1977 to 1984. And another weekly Chicago Journal lasted in a print edition from 2000 to 2012. James E. Scripps James Edmund Scripps (March 19, 1835 – May 28, 1906)
171-488: The 1948 merger with the Chicago Sun ; strips distributed by the syndicate included George Lichty 's Grin and Bear It and Russell Stamm's Invisible Scarlet O'Neil . The syndicate also distributed a weekly column written by Carl Sandburg during World War II . The General Manager of the syndicate was Russ Stewart, who ended up staying on as general manager of the Field Enterprises Syndicate ,
190-621: The Research Library & Archives of the Detroit Institute of Arts. In 1900, Scripps wrote a letter for the Detroit Century Box time capsule . Scripps's sister and one-time partner Ellen Browning Scripps was instrumental in helping establish their younger brother E. W. Scripps in the newspaper industry, resulting in the E.W. Scripps Company media conglomerate. She later became the founding donor of
209-492: The late 1880s and into the mid-1890s. James E. Scripps and his son-in-law George Gough Booth acquired the paper in 1895. George's brother Ralph also later acquired an interest, and became editor and publisher in 1900. John C. Eastman, who had run Hearst 's Chicago operations, bought the paper from the Booths in 1904. From 1904-06, the paper claimed it increased its daily circulation from 34,800 to 85,000. He left
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#1732797262937228-531: The motion to nominate Lincoln as the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate for Illinois in 1858. And Wilson (with others) helped Lincoln draft his challenge to Stephen A. Douglas to conduct the Lincoln–Douglas debates . In later years, after a 1904 sale, it became a Democratic paper. The Journal was the first newspaper to publish the story (now believed false) that a cow owned by Catherine O'Leary
247-407: The official titles of the paper over its lifetime as: Chicago Daily Journal (1844-1853); Daily Chicago Journal (1853-1855); Chicago Daily Journal (1855-1861); Chicago Evening Journal (1861-1896); Chicago Journal (1896-1904); Chicago Daily Journal (1904-1929). In April 1844, a group of men bought the two-year-old Chicago Express . A few days later, publishing out of the former office of
266-474: The paper to five of his employees upon his death in 1925, when it had a claimed circulation of about 125,000. Samuel Emory Thomason, a prior general manager of the Tribune , along with John Stewart Bryan of The Richmond News Leader , bought the paper in 1928 for $ 2,000,000. Richard J. Finnegan became managing editor of the paper in 1916. The Chicago Daily News purchased the name and circulation of
285-439: The paper was formally known as the Daily Times . Thomason died in 1944, and Marshall Field III purchased the paper in 1947. Field already owned the Chicago Sun (founded in 1941), and converted that paper into a tabloid so the papers could share the same press and Sunday edition. In January 1948, the papers merged to become the Chicago Sun-Times . The company operated the small Chicago Times Syndicate from c. 1935 until
304-522: The paper with inexpensive advertising and instructed his reporters to write "like people talk". His competitors called the News "a cheap rag" and labeled his reporters "pirates", but Detroiters loved it. Scripps later had an interest in E. W. Scripps Company with his younger half-brother, E. W. Scripps and they controlled newspapers located in Cleveland , St. Louis , Cincinnati and Chicago . After
323-504: The successor to both the Sun and the Times 's syndication services. Chicago Daily Journal The Chicago Daily Journal ( Chicago Evening Journal from 1861–1896) was a Chicago newspaper that published from 1844 to 1929. Originally a Whig paper, by the late 1850s it firmly became a Republican paper, and a strong supporter of Abraham Lincoln . Editor Charles L. Wilson made
342-464: Was an American newspaper publisher and philanthropist . Scripps was born in 1835 in London to James Mogg Scripps and Ellen Mary (Saunders) Scripps. His father was a bookbinder who came to America in 1844 with six motherless children. Scripps grew up on a Rushville, Illinois , farm. Scripps was employed at the Chicago Tribune in 1857 but moved to Detroit in 1859. By 1862 he had become manager of
361-544: Was responsible for the Chicago fire in 1871. In 1875, reporter Newton S. Grimwood died as the sole passenger in a balloon flight with noted balloonist Washington Harrison Donaldson . When screenwriter Ben Hecht was a young reporter for the paper in the 1910s, he dug a trench in Lincoln Park for a photograph to support a hoax story that the city had suffered a great earthquake. The Library of Congress identifies
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