City: Chicago

County: Cook

State: Illinois

A Whig paper that circulated as a weekly from June 8, 1835 to April 9, 1839. On April 9, 1839, the paper changed its name to the Daily American, circulating as a daily from that date until October 18, 1842.

Franklin William Scott, Newspapers and Periodicals of Illinois, 1814-1879 , vol. 6 of Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1910), 53.