Chicago Daily Times


The Chicago Daily Times was a daily newspaper in Chicago from 1929 to 1948, and the city's first tabloid newspaper. It is best known as one of two newspapers which merged to form Chicago Sun-Times in 1948.

History

The paper was founded as the Daily Illustrated Times in 1929 by Samuel Emory Thomason, who had just sold the name and circulation of his Chicago Daily Journal to the Chicago Daily News, but retained the paper's building and resources for his new venture. The paper was edited by Richard J. Finnegan, who had been with the Journal, and based on the tabloid model of New York Daily News.
After 1935 the paper was formally known as the Daily Times.
Thomason died in 1944, and Marshall Field III purchased the paper in 1947. Field already owned the Chicago Sun, and converted that paper into a tabloid so the papers could share the same press and Sunday edition. In January 1948, the papers merged to become the Chicago Sun-Times.
A different paper named Chicago Daily Times was being published in 1858.