Friday, July 25, 2008 East Central Illinois
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This new year marks an important milestone in the history of your
community newspaper. It was 1852 - 150 years ago - that a local paper
called the Urbana Union first came off the press. Through ownership
changes and mergers, the Urbana Union became the Union and Gazette, then
the Daily Gazette and finally, in 1919, The News-Gazette... ...Thank you, Central Illinois, for allowing us to share in your life these long years. We'll both keep changing as the years go by. Unchanged, we pray, will be the bond that holds us together. |
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| On This Date - July 25 In 1903, a race riot raged in Danville in which two people were killed including a black man who was brutally murdered and lynched. Twenty-two others were injured and dozens were arrested on various charges in what was one of the ugliest days in East Central Illinois history. Sheriff Hard Whitlock was credited by many, including editorial pages around the country, with keeping the incident from becoming any worse. He stopped an angry mob of thousands of people from lynching two other black men held in the jail. While Whitlock was praised, Danville Mayor John Beard was ridiculed for doing nothing to stop the mob. The Danville lynching was one of three in Illinois that year, and 99 in the country. |
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150 YEAR HOMEPAGE | ON THIS DATE | MRS. CHINIGO'S MESSAGE | 150 GOOD SPORTS
SYMPOSIUM COVERAGE | TIMELINE | 150 PEOPLE | FRONT PAGES | MAKING LIFE BETTER