page_title: Illinois Staats-Zeitung
section_title: Establishment
hierarchical_section_title: Illinois Staats-Zeitung / Publication history / Establishment
caption_attribution_description: English: Black and white portrait photograph of journalist and banker George Schneider.
context_page_description: Illinois Staats-Zeitung was one of the most well-known German-language newspapers of the United States; it was published in Chicago from 1848 until 1922. Along with the Westliche Post and Anzeiger des Westens, both of St. Louis, it was one of the three most successful German-language newspapers in the United States Midwest, and described as "the leading Republican paper of the Northwest", alongside the Chicago Tribune. By 1876, the paper was printing 14,000 copies an hour and was second only to the Tribune in citywide circulation.
context_section_description: The Illinois Staats-Zeitung was founded in April 1848 as a weekly, and became a daily in 1851.
  Politically, the newspaper was Republican. Hermann Kriege was the first editor-in-chief. In the 1850s, the paper was taken over by Forty-Eighters and became a major daily newspaper of the Chicago German-born community. In 1851, Georg Schneider joined the staff of the paper and became editor. Among his associates were George Hillgärtner and Daniel Hertel. Schneider played a major role in building the Republican Party in Illinois, a work in which the Illinois Staats-Zeitung played an important function.
  The Illinois Staats-Zeitung opposed slavery, and Schneider successfully used the newspaper as a platform to campaign against the Kansas–Nebraska Act. On February 22, 1856 Schneider attended, on behalf of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, a meeting in Decatur of anti-Nebraska newspapers in Illinois. In total, 26 newspapers were represented at the meeting, assembled by the Morgan Journal editor Paul Selby.
caption: George Schneider, editor from 1851 to 1861
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