Kenosha News
The Kenosha News Building in 2015.
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | United Communications Corporation |
| Publisher | Kenneth L. Dowdell |
| Founded | October 22, 1894, as Kenosha Evening News |
| Headquarters | 5800 Seventh Avenue, Kenosha, Wisconsin 53140 United States |
| Website | kenoshanews.com |
The Kenosha News is a daily newspaper published in Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States. With a circulation of 22,000 daily and 26,000 Sunday, the morning paper serves southeastern Wisconsin and northeastern Illinois. It is the original and flagship property of United Communications Corporation.
The News also prints KNentertain and a weekly 22,000-circulation newspaper, the Zion-Benton News & Bargaineer for Lake County, Ill.
The Kenosha Evening News was first published on the afternoon of October 22, 1894. During its first two years of publication, the newspaper had a circulation of fewer than 400 copies. The number of copies sold daily increased to 1,100 at the turn of the 20th century, and to more than 3,000 by 1915. After World War I, daily circulation tripled, to nearly 10,000 in 1925. By 1947, the figure topped 18,000. Today's Kenosha News circulation averages around 25,000 copies.
The Kenosha Evening News had been the dream of Frank Haydon Hall, whose ambition was to establish a daily newspaper for the growing community where he had settled a few years before. In those days, it was common for a newspaper to openly support one of the political parties, and the Evening News was no exception. It would be, Hall declared, "dedicated to the principles" of the then-dominant Republican Party.
In August 1891, Hall, who was also a partner in a large Chicago printing firm, purchased Kenosha's half-century-old Telegraph-Courier from Levi Cass. The venerable weekly, which continued as a sister publication to the Evening News, became the springboard for Hall's new daily.
The early Evening News was a simple six-column, four-page broadsheet, printed on a cylinder press and folded by hand. Its first subscriber, reportedly, was Johnson A. Jackson, secretary-treasurer of a local factory that manufactured baby furniture. Its second was Eugene R. Head, who, two years later, would own the Evening News.
In the earliest days, national and world news was reprinted, mostly from Chicago and Milwaukee papers, with the inevitable delays. In 1898, during the Spanish–American War, the News tentatively experimented with a more timely approach. It received a brief daily telegraphed summary of war news from the American Press Association.
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