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What a list! I haven't seen that in 35 years. We used to keep it around so that whenever there was a reference to any one of these papers, we could add "a predecessor newspaper to CHICAGO'S AMERICAN" to the description. My personal best was so tagging a reference to the Chicago Inter Ocean.

I worked at the American as a reporter and overnight rewrite man for several years and I'll have some interesting local color (a specialty of the American) to add to this. Thanks to Shsilver for putting this in place. Ortolan88 13:34 Aug 12, 2002 (PDT)

I was 6 or 7 years when we lived on W. Dakin St., SW of W. Irving Park & N. Western Av. On summer afternoons, Mom gave me 7 cents(!!) & sent me to the tavern at the corner (there's a CVS there now) to buy "the American." The barflies always commented. Can you imagine parents sending their kid to a saloon to buy the paper today? BubbleDine ( talk) 20:39, 25 December 2020 (UTC) reply

Yep, that was me on that telephone, working rewrite, claiming to be a cop, bullying my way into flophouses, demanding records I had no right to, hanging with cops and judges, wearing my trench coat and my derby hat, that hardbitten newspaper guy, Ortolan88 04:09 Nov 2, 2002 (UTC)

That should be "TV news brought an end to *most* afternoon papers.." - there are some left - particularly in the UK

I worked at Chicago's American/Chicago Today from 1963 until its end on Friday, September 13, 1974. I worked the night shift as a rewrite man and a reporter for Harry Romanoff for two years before becoming the paper's Federal Building reporter, covering the trials of Jimmy Hoffa, former Governors William Stratton (acquitted)and Otto Kerner (convicted) on income tax charges, and the trial of 8 anti Vietnam war protestors charged with conspiring to incite riots during the 1968 Democratic Presidential convention in Chicago. Sy Adelman

Well, Hello, Sy! Tom Parmenter (Ortolan88)

"The American was the product of the merger or acquisition of 14 predecessor newspapers and inherited the tradition and the files of all of them." At the last buy-out, what happened to the archives? -- Aboudaqn ( talk) 21:48, 25 August 2016 (UTC) reply