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Manitowoc’s newspaper roots trace to 1850 and the ‘Weekly Herald’
The printed word has been a part of our local history since 1850. As Dr. Louis Falge describes in his “History of Manitowoc County,” “… of an active temperament, with natural ability ...
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Decades before Irish were Chicago political royalty, they lived in a ramshackle slum called Kilgubbin
In the 1850s and 1860s, Kilgubbin was often mentioned in the pages of the Tribune and other Chicago newspapers. The name became symbolic of slums where poor Irish immigrants lived in ramshackle ...