Illinois Staats-Zeitung

Illinois Staats-Zeitung
The massive Illinois Staats-Zeitung building constructed after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871
TypeDaily German-language newspaper
Owner(s)A. C. Hesing
PublisherS.S. Spielman (until 1921)
Editor-in-chiefHermann Kriege (1848–1850)
George Schneider (1851–1861)
Lorenz Brentano (1861–1867)
Hermann Raster (1867–1891)
Wilhelm Rapp (1891–1907)
Arthur Lorenz (1907–1921)
Managing editorWashington Hesing (1880–1893)
Joseph Brucker (1894–1901)
FoundedApril 1848
Political alignmentRepublican Party (until 1873)
People's Party (1873–1875)
Independent (after 1876)
LanguageGerman
Ceased publication1921
HeadquartersChicago
Circulation97,000 (1892)[1]

Illinois Staats-Zeitung (Illinois State Newspaper) was one of the most well-known German-language newspapers of the United States; it was published in Chicago from 1848 until 1922. Along with the Westliche Post and Anzeiger des Westens, both of St. Louis, it was one of the three most successful German-language newspapers in the United States Midwest,[2] and described as "the leading Republican paper of the Northwest", alongside the Chicago Tribune.[3] By 1876, the paper was printing 14,000 copies an hour and was second only to the Tribune in citywide circulation.[4][5]

  1. ^ Chicago and Its Resources Twenty Years After, 1871-1891: A Commercial History Showing the Progress and Growth of Two Decades from the Great Fire to the Present Time. Chicago Times Company. 1892. p. 21.
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  3. ^ Littlewood, Thomas B. Soldiers Back Home: the American Legion in Illinois, 1919–1939. Southern Illinois University Press, 2004.
  4. ^ Fairmount Park, Philadelphia: Centennial Newspaper Exhibition, 1876. New York: George P. Rowell & Co., 1876; pg. 244.
  5. ^ Stevenson, Louise (2015). Lincoln in the Atlantic World. Cambridge University Press. p. 109. ISBN 978-1107109643.