Hemlandet was a Swedish-American newspaper

Newspaper

A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...

, begun in 1855 in Galesburg, Illinois

Galesburg, Illinois

Galesburg is a city in Knox County, Illinois, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 32,195. It is the county seat of Knox County....

. It was the first Swedish-language newspaper in America.

Founded by Tuve Hasselquist

Tuve Hasselquist

Tuve Nils Hasselquist was a Swedish American Lutheran minister and church leader.-Biography:Hasselquist was born in Hasselröd, Osby Municipality in Skåne County, Sweden....

, the newspaper moved to Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

 in 1859 along with his Swedish Lutheran Publication Society

Swedish Lutheran Publication Society

The Swedish Lutheran Publication Society was a publishing organization, founded by Tuve Hasselquist in Galesburg, Illinois then reorganized and moved to Chicago in 1859. It was severely damaged in the Chicago fire of 1871, but the Society and its successors were responsible for publishing most of...

. Its original content was primarily religious, but when P.A. Sundelius became its editor in the late 1860s, it turned to less denominational and more political and general issues. When Sundelius left for another newspaper, Svenska-Amerikanaren, in 1869, Johan Enander became editor.