[1] The newspaper was founded as a penny paper during the technological paradigm shift created by linotype; it failed when the Great Depression struck.
The Evening Post identified itself as a reform newspaper, and attempted to cover muckraking stories of Chicago's political corruption.
Managing editor Michael W. Straus worked with two significant women, Margaret C. Anderson and Ione Quinby Griggs.
Griggs worked the Evening Post's police beat from the early 1920s until the paper was sold in 1932, winning acclaim for her ability to mesh female experience and identity with crime news.
[2] The Chicago Public Library preserves a complete microfilm file of the Evening Post's 46-year press run.