Vilnis (Chicago newspaper)

Vilnis ('Wave') was a Lithuanian language communist newspaper published from Chicago, the United States 1920–1989.National Republic, Vol. 46–47. 1958. p. 29Zinkus, Jonas, and Tadas Adomonis. Lithuania: An Encyclopedic Survey. Vilnius: Encyclopedia Publishers, 1986. p. 307Lituanus, Vol. 22. Lithuanian Student Association, Secretariate for External Relations, 1976. p. The first issue was published on April 8, 1920, following the split of the Socialist Party of America.Wolkovich-Valkavičius, William. Lithuanian Religious Life in America: A Compendium of 150 Roman Catholic Parishes and Institutions, Vol. III 1991. p. 16 The founder of Vilnis, Vincas Andrulis, became its editor.Griškevičius, Petras. In the Union of Soviet Nations. Vilnius: Mintis, 1982. p. 181

Vilnis was a daily newspaper but became a weekly in its later years.Vaughn, Stephen. Encyclopedia of American Journalism. New York: Routledge, 2008. p. 115 Vilnis was issued by the Workers Publishing Association. By the mid-1920s, Vilnis had a circulation of around 11,500.American labor press directory, Vol. 20. Rand School of Social Science. Dept. of Labor Research, 1925. p. 22

When the New York-based publication Daily Worker ceased publication in 1958, Vilnis became the most widely circulated communist daily in the country. It had a circulation of around 32,000. As of 1968 Vilnis was a semi-weekly, with a circulation of 5,000.Foster, William Z. History of the Communist Party of the United States. New York: Greenwood Press, 1968. p. 262 By the mid-1970s, the circulation of Vilnis (published thrice weekly) had dropped to 2,500. The association that published Vilnis later became the Workers Education Society.

Vilnis (Chicago newspaper)

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