As Shaw Media celebrates its 175th anniversary, we looked back at four front pages from April 18, including this from 2006 when former Illinois Governor George Ryan was found guilty on racketeering and fraud charges

As Shaw Media celebrates its 175th anniversary, we looked back at four front pages from April 17. These archives serve as a time capsule, capturing everything from the Prohibition era and the closing days of World War II to the dawn of the 1970s and recent local recovery efforts

As Shaw Media celebrates its 175th anniversary, we looked back at four front pages from April 16. These archives serve as a time capsule, capturing everything from the sinking of the Titanic to the personal stories of local soldiers serving overseas

As Shaw Media celebrates its 175th anniversary, we looked back at four front pages from April 15. These archives serve as a time capsule, capturing everything from the tension of the Space Race and the outbreak of global conflict to the grit of local elections

As Shaw Media celebrates its 175th anniversary, we looked back at four front pages from April 14

As Shaw Media celebrates its 175th anniversary we looked back at four front pages from April 13. These archives serve as a time capsule, capturing everything from the polio vaccine’s arrival to the local and national mourning following the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt

As Shaw Media celebrates its 175th anniversary, we looked back at four front pages from April 12, including one from 1922, when a "Youthful Moonshiner" was fined $1,000 in the Sauk Valley area

As Shaw Media commemorates its 175th anniversary, we looked back at four front pages from April 11, including this from 2015, as relief efforts began after the Fairdale tornado

As Shaw Media celebrates its 175th anniversary, we looked back at four front pages from April 10, including one from Morris in 1912 that declared a recent election: “The Most Corrupt Nominating Primary in Years.”