The "Chicago Sun-Times" claims to be the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the city. That claim is based on the 1844 founding of the "Chicago Daily Journal", which was also the first newspaper to publish the rumor, now believed false, that a cow owned by Catherine O'Leary was responsible for the Chicago fire. The "Evening Journal", whose West Side building at 17–19 S. Canal was undamaged, gave the "Chicago Tribune" a temporary home until it could rebuild. Though the assets of the "Journal" were sold to the "Chicago Daily News" in 1929, its last owner Samuel Emory Thomason also immediately launched the tabloid "Chicago Daily Illustrated Times".