The ''Chicago Evening Post'' was a daily

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published in

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, Illinois, from March 1, 1886, until October 29, 1932, when it was absorbed by the ''

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''. The newspaper was founded as a

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during the technological paradigm shift created by linotype; it failed when the

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struck. The ''Evening Post'' identified itself as a reform newspaper, and attempted to cover

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stories of Chicago's political corruption.

Finley Peter Dunne Finley Peter Dunne (born Peter Dunne; July 10, 1867 – April 24, 1936) was an American humorist, journalist and writer from Chicago. In 1898 Dunne published ''Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War'', a collection of his nationally syndicated Mr. Dooley ...

introduced his character

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in the paper in 1893.

Samuel Travers Clover Samuel Travers Clover (August 13, 1859 – May 28, 1934), commonly known as Sam. T. Clover, was an author, editor and publisher in Chicago and Los Angeles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Jane Apostol,Los Angeles Saturday Night and Sa ...

managed the paper from 1894 to 1900. Social journalist

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worked at the paper for a year in 1926-1927. Managing editor

Michael W. Straus Michael Wolf Straus (1897–1970) was the Commissioner of the United States Bureau of Reclamation from 1945 until 1953. Biography Straus was born in Chicago in 1897. He pursued a career as a newspaperman, serving as managing editor of the ''Chicag ...

worked with two significant women,

Margaret C. Anderson Margaret Caroline Anderson (November 24, 1886 – October 19, 1973) was the American founder, editor and publisher of the art and literary magazine ''The Little Review'', which published a collection of modern American, English and Irish writers b ...

and

Ione Quinby Griggs Ione Marie Quinby Griggs (1891-1991) was a crime journalist for the ''Chicago Evening Post'' and subsequently wrote an iconic advice column for the '' Milwaukee Journal Green Sheet'' for over fifty years.

. Anderson, the ''Evening Post's'' book critic beginning in 1913, later became a noted magazine editor and publisher. Griggs worked the ''Evening Post's'' police beat from the early 1920s until the paper was sold in 1932, winning acclaim for her ability to mesh female experience and identity with crime news. The

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preserves a complete

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file of the ''Evening Post's'' 46-year press run.

References

{{Authority control Defunct newspapers published in Chicago Publications established in 1886 Publications disestablished in 1932 1886 establishments in Illinois