First owned locally, then employee-owned, it became Copley-owned in 1996. In 1944, the Journal and Transcript and their rival Star combined presses as Peoria Newspapers Inc. with the Star as a morning paper and the Journal-Transcript as an afternoon paper. Once the agreement was reached, both the morning and afternoon papers immediately changed.

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