Chicago Eagle (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,594 issues from 1889 to 1922, published in Chicago, Illinois, digitised for Chronicling America.
Founded by Henry F. Donovan in 1889, the Chicago Eagle was issued weekly for sixty years. Donovan was the publisher and editor until his death in 1929 and was succeeded by his son, John M. Donovan.
Born in 1858 in Whitby, Ontario, Canada, Donovan moved with his family to Chicago in 1862. He began his career in journalism at the Chicago Evening Journal, and he later became political editor of the Chicago Times. He was a charter member of the Chicago Press Club. Along with publishing his newspaper, Donovan held a number of elected and appointed political offices: Deputy County Clerk (Cook County); President of the Cook County Board of Education; Superintendent of the Chicago Post Office; Inspector General of the Illinois National Guard; Gas Inspector for the City of Chicago; and member of the Democratic Party Central Committee for Cook County.
The Chicago Eagle has been incorrectly identified as an African American newspaper in numerous bibliographies, and one issue was included in the microfilm collection commissioned by the American Council of Learned Societies in the late 1940s, “Negro Newspapers on Microfilm,” filmed at the Library of Congress. In fact, the Chicago Eagle was a Democratic Party organ devoted to municipal politics (although Donovan, who was Irish American, billed his paper as “independent in all things, neutral in none”). With its narrow focus on party politics, the Chicago Eagle was in reality so remote from the black press that it did not even report on…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress