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News in Chicago: A brief history How Chicago has made journalism history — and isn’t done yet
Chicago has always been a great news town. Its innovative journalism brought us the first live radio broadcast of a trial in U.S. history. It brought us the first televised presidential debate. It brought us a newspaper’s clarion call for Black Americans to migrate north from the Jim Crow South. It helped put Abraham Lincoln in the White House and helped push Richard Nixon out of it. Chicago journalism is still making a difference today,...