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((Infobox newspaper
| name               = Pekin Daily Times
| image              = 
| caption            = 
| type               = [[Daily newspaper]]
| format             = 
| foundation         = ((start date|1881|01|03))<ref name=loc>((cite web|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83007704/ |title=About Pekin Daily Times|work=Chronicling America |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |access-date=June 6, 2012))</ref>
| ceased publication = 
| owners             = [[Gannett]]
| publisher          = David Adams
| editor             = Jeanette Brickner
| circulation        = 
| headquarters       = 306 Court Street,<br/> [[Pekin, Illinois|Pekin]], [[Illinois]] 61554,<br/> [[United States]]
| ISSN               = 0745-7863
| oclc               = 47953946
| website            = [http://www.pekintimes.com/ pekintimes.com]
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The '''''Pekin Daily Times''''' is an American [[daily newspaper]] published in [[Pekin, Illinois]]. It is owned by [[Gannett]].

== History ==

=== Forerunners ===
Several other newspapers started in the Pekin area before the Daily Times, including the ''Tazewell Reporter'' (1839), the ''Pekin Weekly Visitor'' (1845), the ''Tazewell Whig'' (1848), ''Pekin Commercial Advertiser'' (1848), and the ''IIlinois Reveille'' (1850).<ref name=":1" /> In the mid-1880s, the ''Pekin Bulletin'' and the ''Legal Tender'' (a [[Greenback Party|greenback newspaper]]) were founded.<ref name=":1" /> The ''Tazewell Mirror'', which became the ''Tazewell County Republican'' in 1860, then The ''Pekin Post'', and eventually The ''Pekin Post-Tribune'' before ceasing publication.<ref name=":1" /> The ''Pekin Daily Bulletin'', the only other daily newspaper in Pekin, ran for nine months from January 3 to October 5, 1876.<ref name=":7">((Cite web |last=Olar |first=Jared |date=2020-01-17 |title=News of days gone by: the 1st Pekin Daily Times |url=https://fromthehistoryroom.wordpress.com/2020/01/17/news-of-days-gone-by-the-1st-pekin-daily-times/ |access-date=2023-11-10 |website=From the History Room |language=en))</ref>

In 1852, a short-lived German language newspaper ''Per Wachteram Illinois'' was published.<ref name=":1" /> Circa 1875, John Hoffman started a German weekly called the ''Pekin Freie Press''.<ref name=":1" /> This publication was sold to Albert Weiss, then to Jacob Schmidt in 1914.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":5" /> During [[World War I]], this newspaper was changed to English language and renamed it ''Free Press''; it was published until 1934.<ref name=":1" />

The ''Pekin Plaindealer'' was established in 1856, succeeded by the ''Tazewell Register'', which changed its name to the ''Pekin Times'' circa 1880.<ref name=":1" /><ref>((Cite journal |last=Soady |first=Fred W. |date=1964 |title="In These Waste Places'': Pekin, Illinois, 1824-1849 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40190022 |journal=Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society |volume=57 |issue=2 |pages=156–171 |issn=0019-2287))</ref>

=== Pekin Daily Times ===
The ''Daily Times'' was founded by Joseph B. Irwin and W. T. Dowdall as a daily on January 1, 1881.<ref name=":1">((Cite book |last=Pekin Association of Commerce. Centenary Committee |url=http://archive.org/details/pekincentenary1800peki |title=The Pekin centenary 1849-1949 : a souvenir book commemorating 100 years of community progress in the City of Pekin, Illinois |last2=Harris |first2=Thomas H. |publisher=The Association |others=University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |year=1949 |location=Pekin, Illinois |pages=138 |language=en))</ref><ref name=":7" /> It was a four-page broadsheet with five columns of text per page.<ref name=":7" /> A related [[weekly newspaper]], ''The Pekin Weekly Times'', had begun in 1873.

In 1906, the Daily Times was headquartered in a building adjacent to the Zerwekh Building on Fourth Street and Elizabeth Street.<ref name=":2">((Cite web |last= |first= |date=2012-08-25 |title=Changing Times: a look back at the Times building |url=https://www.pekintimes.com/story/entertainment/local/2012/08/25/changing-times-look-back-at/49444342007/ |access-date=2023-11-05 |website=Pekin Daily Times |language=en-US))</ref><ref name=":3">((Cite web |last=Harris |first=Ken |date=2013-10-02 |title=Time to say goodbye: Demolition of old Pekin Times Building imminent |url=https://www.pekintimes.com/story/news/local/2013/10/02/time-to-say-goodbye-demolition/42778895007/ |access-date=2023-11-05 |website=Pekin Daily Times |language=en-US))</ref> The Daily Times purchased its last Pekin-based rival, the Tribune, around the same time.<ref name=":2" /> The building housed a vaudeville theater, and then a dance hall.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":4">((Cite web |last=Woods |first=Sharon |date=2013-10-08 |title=Wrecking crew begins work on old Pekin Daily Times Building |url=https://www.pekintimes.com/story/news/disaster/2013/10/08/wrecking-crew-begins-work-on/42721170007/ |access-date=2023-11-05 |website=Pekin Daily Times |language=en-US))</ref>

In the early 1920s, the Daily Times was owned by [[Ku Klux Klan]] Grand Titan Oscar Walter "O.W." Friedrich, the owner of the Capitol Theater, and his business partners and fellow klansmen Silas Strickfadden and E.A. Messner.<ref name=":2" /><ref>((Cite journal |last=Wyman |first=Mark |last2=Muirhead |first2=John W. |date=2017 |title=Jim Crow Comes to Central Illinois: Racial Segregation in Twentieth-Century Bloomington-Normal |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jillistathistsoc.110.2.0154 |journal=Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society |volume=110 |issue=2 |pages=154–182 |doi=10.5406/jillistathistsoc.110.2.0154 |issn=1522-1067))</ref><ref name=":5">((Cite journal |last=Hallberg |first=Carl V. |date=1984 |title="For God, Country, and Home" The Ku Klux Klan in Pekin, 1923-1925 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40191608 |journal=Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society |volume=77 |issue=2 |pages=82–93 |issn=0019-2287))</ref><ref>((Cite web |last=Kramer |first=Mike |date=2022-01-27 |title=Once known as a 'sundown town' and KKK stronghold, Pekin tries to move past racist history |url=https://www.pekintimes.com/story/news/history/2022/01/27/what-is-a-sundown-town-pekin-il-racism-ku-klux-klan/9033587002/ |access-date=2023-11-10 |website=Pekin Daily Times |language=en-US))</ref> The newsroom on the second floor was reportedly used to recruit socials to the KKK.<ref name=":2" /> The Klan owned the paper from September 1923 to June 1925.<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6">((Cite news |date=1923-09-21 |title=Illinois Klan Buys Daily Newspaper |pages=3 |work=The Minnesota Fiery Cross))</ref> According to a Minnesota publication, it was the first daily newspaper to be purchased by any Klan in the country, and the Pekin Klavern was one of the most active in the Midwest, inducting 500 participants on August 15, 1923.<ref name=":6" /> During this period, the paper published Klan activities, editorials, and a column named "Klan Komments."<ref name=":5" />

F.F. McNaughton purchased the Times in 1927.<ref name=":2" /><ref>((Cite news |date=1927-01-25 |title=Pekin Daily Times Sold to Indiana Man |pages=4 |work=The Times))</ref> McNaughton bought the Zerwekh Building when the Zerwekh brothers closed their bakery business.<ref name=":2" /> He installed a rotary printer in the basement.<ref name=":2" /> In the summer of 1971, an offset printing press was installed in the building that had been acquired circa 1906.<ref name=":2" />

After McNaughton's death in 1981, the Times was sold to California-based Howard Publications.<ref name=":2" /> In 2000, the paper was sold to Liberty Group, later becoming [[GateHouse Media|GateHouse Media Inc]].<ref name=":2" /> GateHouse was acquired by [[Gannett]] in August 2019.<ref>((Cite web |last=Darcy |first=Oliver |date=2019-08-05 |title=USA Today owner Gannett merges with GateHouse Media to form massive newspaper company ((!)) CNN Business |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/05/media/gannett-gatehouse-merger/index.html |access-date=2023-11-05 |website=CNN |language=en))</ref>

In September 2007, the offset printer produced its last run and printing operations moved to the GateHouse press in the [[Journal Star (Peoria)|Peoria Journal Star]] building.<ref name=":2" /> The offset printer was sold for parts in 2012.

In August 2012, the newspaper's operations moved to a building on Court Street, which had previously housed Rick’s TV & Appliances.<ref name=":2" /> Demolition of the old Times building began in October 2013.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" />

In 2015, ''Pekin Daily Times'' merged with TimesNewspapers.<ref name=":0">((Cite web |last= |first= |date=2015-07-06 |title=Pekin Daily Times and weekly TimesNewspapers combine news operations |url=https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/local/2015/07/06/pekin-daily-times-weekly-timesnewspapers/33999751007/ |access-date=2023-11-04 |website=Peoria Journal Star |language=en-US))</ref> The merged team is located in the Pekin headquarters.<ref name=":0" />

== References ==
((Reflist))

== External links ==
* ((Official website))

((Gannett))

[[Category:Gannett publications]]
[[Category:Newspapers published in Illinois]]
[[Category:Pekin, Illinois]]
[[Category:Tazewell County, Illinois]]
[[Category:Newspapers established in 1881]]
[[Category:1881 establishments in Illinois]]

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