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The Daily Herald was founded in 1872 as the Cook County Herald. It was initially tailored to the business needs of the then-rural northwestern portion of Cook County. Hosea C. Paddock, a former teacher, bought the newspaper in 1889 for $175. His sons, Stuart and Charles, took over the paper in 1920 and renamed it the Arlington Heights Herald in ...
The paper started out life as the Independent and, later, the Lake County Independent based in Libertyville in 1892. By 1921 the paper was known as the Waukegan Daily News and in 1930 it purchased the Waukegan Daily Sun (founded 1897) and merged the two papers to become the Waukegan News-Sun, a name it would operate under until 1971.
Shaw Media is a newspaper publisher based in Crystal Lake, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Its portfolio includes about 80 newspapers and news websites in Illinois and Iowa. [1] Originally based in Dixon, Illinois; it has acquired a swath of properties in the Chicago suburbs and moved its headquarters there.
On March 12, 1989, the Northwest Herald added a Sunday edition and became McHenry County's first hometown, seven-day newspaper. It had a daily circulation of 29,688 and its new Sunday edition had 29,337 subscribers, which dropped to 21,440 in 2017.
Lake and McHenry County Scanner, launched in 2012 by Sam Borcia, [34] is the county's biggest digital newspaper which covers Lake County as well as nearby McHenry County. [35] The publication's work has been quoted in top news outlets such as Fox News [36] and Yahoo! News. [37] The county is also covered by the Chicago Sun-Times and The Daily ...
In 2005, Hollinger merged the 80-year-old Lerner Newspapers chain into Pioneer Press, Pioneer's first real inroads into the city of Chicago. Despite announcements by Publisher Larry Green that Pioneer intended to "grow" the Lerner Papers, over the course of the next six months, Pioneer dumped the venerable Lerner name, shut down most of its editions and laid off most of its employees.
Chicago Times-Herald, 1895–1901 (became Record-Herald) Chicago Whip, 1919–1939; Chicago's American, 1958–1969 (became Today) Chicago Inter Ocean, 1872–1914 (became Record-Herald) Chicago Post & Mail, 1875–1878 (absorbed by Chicago Daily News) Today, 1969–1974; City News Bureau of Chicago, local cooperative wire service