The Vakarai ( Lithuanian for ''the West'') is an internationally distributed

Lithuanian-American Lithuanian Americans refers to American citizens and residents who are Lithuanian and were born in Lithuania, or are of Lithuanian descent. New Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has the largest percentage of Lithuanian Americans (20.8%) in the United ...

newspaper A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, spor ...

. The ''Vakarai'' is published in

Chicago (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = List of sovereign states, Count ...

with its headquarters in suburban

Downers Grove Downers Grove is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. It was founded in 1832 by Pierce Downer, whose surname serves as the eponym for the village. It is a south-west suburb of Chicago. The village is located between I-88 and I ...

. It is the largest Lithuanian-American newspaper and is read not only in the United States, but in Canada and Europe as well. Currently it contains 56 pages and has 4 weekly supplements ("Business", "Leisure", "TranSport", and "Healthy Family"). It is owned by a private company News LT LLC since March 2007. Before it was published for two years as the Verslas.us (Lithuanian for ''Business.us'') by another Lithuanian company, which went out of business since News LT LLC took control of the paper. In January 2008, News LT LLC founded an online

daily Daily or The Daily may refer to: Journalism * Daily newspaper, newspaper issued on five to seven day of most weeks * ''The Daily'' (podcast), a podcast by ''The New York Times'' * ''The Daily'' (News Corporation), a defunct US-based iPad new ...

Vakarai.us, which serves as an independent news and entertainment source for broad Lithuanian reading audience all over the world. According to

Alexa Alexa may refer to: Technology *Amazon Alexa, a virtual assistant developed by Amazon * Alexa Internet, a defunct website ranking and traffic analysis service * Arri Alexa, a digital motion picture camera People * Alexa (name), a given name a ...

, the web information company, as of 02/2008, ''Vakarai.us'' is the most visited Lithuanian language

media Media may refer to: Communication * Media (communication), tools used to deliver information or data ** Advertising media, various media, content, buying and placement for advertising ** Broadcast media, communications delivered over mass e ...

website in the

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country Continental United States, primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., ...

External links

''Vakarai.us''
Lithuanian Online Daily Vakarai.us
''Facebook.com''
Lithuanian Online Daily Vakarai.us on Facebook {{Authority control Newspapers published in Chicago Lithuanian-language newspapers published in the United States Lithuanian-American culture in Chicago Non-English-language newspapers published in Illinois