This article refers to the Lithuanian-American newspaper; for the town in eastern Sri Lanka see Vakarai (Sri Lanka)

Vakarai (Sri Lanka)

Vakarai or Vaharai is a town in the Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka, it is located about 65 km Northwest of Batticaloa....

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The Vakarai (Lithuanian

Lithuanian language

Lithuanian is the official state language of Lithuania and is recognized as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are about 2.96 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 170,000 abroad. Lithuanian is a Baltic language, closely related to Latvian, although they...

 for the West) is an internationally distributed Lithuanian-American

Lithuanian-American

Lithuanian Americans are citizens of the United States who are of Lithuanian ancestry. According to the United States Census, there are 712,165 Americans of full or partial Lithuanian descent....

 newspaper

Newspaper

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. The Vakarai is published in Chicago

Chicago

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 with its headquarters in suburban Downers Grove. It is the largest Lithuanian-American newspaper and is read not only in the United States, but in Canada and Europe as well. Currently it contains 56 pages and has 4 weekly supplements ("Business", "Leisure", "TranSport", and "Healthy Family").

It is owned by a private company News LT LLC since March 2007. Before it was published for two years as the Verslas.us (Lithuanian for Business.us) by another Lithuanian company, which went out of business since News LT LLC took control of the paper.

In January 2008, News LT LLC founded an online daily Vakarai.us, which serves as an independent news and entertainment source for broad Lithuanian reading audience all over the world.

According to Alexa

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, the web information company, as of 02/2008, Vakarai.us is the most visited Lithuanian language media

News media

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 website in the United States

United States

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External links

• Vakarai.us Lithuanian Online Daily Vakarai.us
• Facebook.com Lithuanian Online Daily Vakarai.us on Facebook