Illustrated Chicago News, Farnum & Church, Publishers
Life Span: 1868-1868
Location: 42 Sherman Street, south of Van Buren
Architect: NA
- John C. W. Bailey’s Chicago City Directory for 1867
Farnum E. J.. printer Times, h North sv, cor Kankakee
Church Leroy, (Church & Goodman,) h 602 Wabash av.
Chicago Tribune, March 27, 1868
Illustrated Chicago News.
The proprietors of the Illustrated Chicago News have issued a circular setting forth the claims of their new enterprise upon the public. The initial number of the paper will appear on or about the ninth of April,and will be published thereafter weekly. Mr. Thomas Nast, the well-known caricaturist, will furnish sketches each week, and other artists have been secured for regular work. In the first number the publication of a serial story, entitled ” The Fenways” by J.T. Trowbridge, will be commenced. The remainder of the paper will be filled with correspondence, musical and dramatic gossip, chit-chat, town-talk by the Saunterer, and choice matter selected from foreign literature. Mr. Edwin M. Bacon, of the Boston Advertiser, will be the editor. There is certainly a wide field in the West for a first-class illustrated paper, and, if the News is conducted as it should be, we see no reason why it should not succeed. Let it be high-toned, in a literary and artistic point of view, and, above all, let it avoid sensation and flash, and it will meet with a very hearty support. Chicago is ripe for an ilustrated paper which will truthfully represent the West.
The Nation, April 3, 1868
The First Number of new Illustrated Chicago News will be for sale in this city on Thursday April 23. A Capital number cartoons by Thomas Nast. A Serial entitled “The Fenways” by J. T. Trowbridge and several other excellent features. Farnum & Church, Publishers, 42 Sherman Street, Chicago, Ill. Trade supplied by the American News Agents for the Publishers.
Chicago Tribune, April 12, 1868
THE ILLUSTRATED CHICAGO NEWS.
The initial number of the Illustrated Chicago News will be published in this city on Wednesday or Thursday of next week, the 23d or 24th, and will thereafter be issued every Friday. The proprietors found it impossible to issue their paper on the ninth instant, as was announced by the circular issued during the last week of March; their machinery from the East did not arive on time, a portion of it was seriously damaged by a railway accident. Every exertion is now being made to get things in working order, and there seems to be no reason why the News should not make its appearance at the time now specified.
The first number has been prepared with care, and will be a capital sheet, but not superior in any respect, to those that will follow. The proprietors mean what they say, when then promise to “spare no pains or expense” to make their paper a publication worthy of this growing and important city, and Western country, and worthy the generous support of the people.
They regret, exceedingly, their inability to get The News before the public earlier than next week, but they can only regret. The trials and tribulations they have already met with by the non-arrival of their machinery and fixings, and the deplorable condition of a portion upon arrival, are discouraging and vexatious indeed; but they will not hinder the publication of a first-class paper from the start, nor make the start later than next week.—Farnum & Church, Proprietors.
“Illustrated Chicago News” Office, April 12, 1868.
Chicago Tribune, May 9, 1868
Illustrated Chicago News.
The artistic success of (Thomas) Nast’s designs in the Illustrated Chicago news is very great, although those of the last number are vary badly printed. It would be a pleasure to be able to say that the editorial conduct of the News is also successful, at least in some measure, but this cannot do. The second and third pages of the News do the contain as weak and purposeless writing as could well have been provided If it had been the intention to make this department a failure. Editor Saunterer and correspondents seem to labor under the deduction that Chicago and the Northwest have the very smallest amount of intellect, and will take only the weakest “slops.” The error is, perhaps, explained by the fact that these gentlemen are not yet acquainted with the West. If Mr. Nast’s pictures secure to the News an extensive circulation, as we trust they will, it will be matter for regret if Chicago is not creditably represented in its editorial columns.
Chicago Evening Post, June 11, 1868
Illustrated Chicago News.
The Chicago Illustrated News, a new and very creditable enterprise, has, after a few weeks of existence, ceased to appear, the proprietors having expended over $100,000 upon it, and seeing no prospect of pecuniary success. It is unfortunate that this city could not give a hearty support to a home production so deserving.
- Last issue of The Illustrated Chicago News, June 13, 1868.
Thomas Nast Illustrations published in The Illustrated Chicago News.
- After Andrew Johnson (King Andy) was acquitted, Nast depicted Senator Ben Wade offering the President his crown back with appropriate Shakespearean dialogue. (Henry IV, Part Two, IV).
- 1868 Presidential candidates at the National Republican Convention in Chicago. This engraving was was entitled “The Glass Slipper.”
- Farnum & Church
Illustrated Chicago News Office
42 Sherman
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map
1869
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