Illinois Staats-Zeitung ('Illinois State Newspaper') was a German-language newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The newspaper was founded in 1848 as a weekly, and became a daily in 1851. The newspaper had as its main ambition to maintain the use of the German language. Politically, the newspaper was Republican. In the 1850s, the paper was taken over by Forty-Eighters and became a major daily newspaper of the Chicago German community.

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  • Illinois Staats-Zeitung ('Illinois State Newspaper') was a German-language newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The newspaper was founded in 1848 as a weekly, and became a daily in 1851. The newspaper had as its main ambition to maintain the use of the German language. Politically, the newspaper was Republican. In the 1850s, the paper was taken over by Forty-Eighters and became a major daily newspaper of the Chicago German community. In 1851, Georg Schneider became the editor of the paper. Schneider played a major role in building the Republican Party in Illinois, a work in which the Illinois Staats-Zeitung played an important function. Illinois Staats-Zeitung opposed slavery, and Schneider successfully used the newspaper as a platform to campaign against the Kansas-Nebraska Act. On February 22, 1856 Schneider attended, on behalf of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, a meeting in Decatur of anti-Nebraska newspapers in Illinois. In total 26 newspapers were represented at the meeting, assembled by the Morgan Journal editor Paul Selby. During the Civil War years the paper fully dominated German-language press in the city, as Democratic German-language newspapers were short-lived at the time. At this point, Illinois Staats-Zeitung was the second-largest daily newspaper in the Chicago. Between 1891 and 1899, the paper had a separate evening edition, Abendblatt ('Evening Paper'). In 1921, the paper was sold for 25,000 dollars. The paper was resurrected as Deutsch-Amerikanische Bürger-Zeitung. A short time before, the Chicagoer Freie Presse had merged with the paper.
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  • Illinois Staats-Zeitung ('Illinois State Newspaper') was a German-language newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The newspaper was founded in 1848 as a weekly, and became a daily in 1851. The newspaper had as its main ambition to maintain the use of the German language. Politically, the newspaper was Republican. In the 1850s, the paper was taken over by Forty-Eighters and became a major daily newspaper of the Chicago German community.
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  • Illinois Staats-Zeitung
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