With the building of transcontinental railroads, it was possible to deliver periodical newspapers by mail throughout the central and western U.S. The Inter Ocean developed a family of semi-weekly, weekly and Sunday editions that were intended to become a definitive source of news for businesspeople throughout the American West, and in fact fulfilled that role for several decades.
The Inter Ocean—The Question and the Answer
JUDGE, Jan. 19, 1891—What will Chicago do with its White Elephant?
TYPICAL CHICAGO, Aug. 27, 1893—This is what I have done with it
The growth of linotype newspapers printed on inexpensive newsprint in the 1890s led to another upheaval in the newspaper industry. Many non-Chicago subscribers to the Inter Ocean no longer needed the weekly paper and dropped their subscriptions.
The weakened paper fell in 1895 into the hands of Charles Yerkes, the notorious Chicago streetcar boss, who returned the newspaper to the partisan, subordinate role it had fulfilled in its youth. George Wheeler Hinman bought a controlling interest in the paper in 1906 and sold it to H. H. Kohlsaat in 1912.
The Inter-Ocean Building was converted into the Hotel Grant (Grant Hotel) sometime around 1895, when the Inter-Ocean newspaper fell on hard times. It was considered a second-class Chicago hotel. The building was razed in 1941. Its replacement sat there until 1981 when a new skyscraper was built on the site — Three First National Plaza.
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Starting the Machinery of the World’s Fair in Front of the Admissions Building |
Illinois Building at the World’s Fair |
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Main Entrance to the Austrian Exhibit in the Manufactures Building |
In the Creche of the Children’s Building
9 Jul 1893 |
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He Rukes the Roost |
Relics in the Government Building |
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Fish Exhibits Illinois Building
26 Jul 1893 |
The Michigan State Building
2 Aug 1893 |
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The Missouri State Building
23 Aug 1893 |
The Main State Building
6 Sep 1893 |
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The Ohio State Building
27 Sep1893 |
The Exposition out of Debt
9 Oct 1893 |
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The South Entrance to the Electricity Building
11 Oct 1893 |
Evening on the Lagoon
29 Oct1893 |
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The Inter Ocean Building
1900
INTER-OCEAN building, at 57 W. Monroe street, built in 1900 on the former site of the Columbia Theater, is four stories high, with one basement, on spread foundations. W. Carbys Zimmerman was the architect.
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