Chicago Democrat
The first utilization of the inventions of Cadmus and Faust in the city of Chicago was by John Calhoun, who issued the first issue of the weekly Chicago Democrat, from a building at the corner of Clark and South Water streets, on the 26th day of November, 1833. Mr. Calhoun was in charge of the paper for three years when he disposed of the property to John Wentworth, who later became mayor and afterwards a member of Congress.
In 1840 Wentworth issued the Democrat as a daily, it being the first undertaking in that line with which the city favored. With the inauguration of Lincoln and imminent danger of civil war, Wentworth looked on the time as propitious to cast aside his burden of responsibility as the publisher of a daily paper, which he had been running for more than twenty years, and in 1861 the pioneer daily was tyrned over to the Tribune and it ceased to exist.
