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The Journal Star is the major daily newspaper for Peoria, Illinois , and surrounding area. First owned locally, then employee-owned, it became a Copley Press entity in Nason and first published on December 17, Barnes, and first publisher on December 3, Powell on November 7, Pindell bought the Journal in , sold the Herald-Transcript in , and, after that newspaper had become the Transcript , bought it back in and merged it with the Journal , creating the Peoria Journal-Transcript , with the Transcript in the morning and the Journal in the afternoon. Once the agreement was reached, both the morning and afternoon papers immediately changed their names to the Journal Star. To hold the merged newspaper, the current newspaper headquarters were built near War Memorial Drive U. Route and the McClugage Bridge ; the first edition from the new presses was on November 14, During a newspaper strike in , members of the Newspaper Guild printed a temporary paper, The Peoria Citizen.
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