The Daily Herald took home 12 first-place awards en route to winning the James S. Copley traveling trophy from the Northern Illinois News Association s annual journalism contest.
Over the past 150 years, countless places have opened and closed in the suburbs, including stores, restaurants, entertainment venues and businesses. Once again, we pay tribute to these gone-but-not-forgotten surburban icons.
The former five-story Daily Herald office center in Arlington Heights sold to a developer three years ago and vacant since then is being converted into a medical office building.
Throughout its well-known history, Paddock Publications and the Daily Herald Media Group has been known for growth. From a newspaper delivered by horse and buggy to a well-respected Cook County weekly newspaper to the third largest daily newspaper in the state, that growth has continued, and the people who work here have had the privilege to grow with it.
Having grown up a child of the Daily Herald and for two-thirds of his life as an employee of it, Vice President and Executive Editor Jim Baumann barely knows anything else. But he is also confident that he has not missed out.