Aurora Beacon-News

The Aurora Beacon is first published in 1846. In 1905 Col. Ira C. Copley bought the Aurora Beacon, merging it with the Aurora News and three other newspapers into the Daily Beacon-News, which first appeared on January 2, 1912. What later became Copley Press sold its Fox Valley Press Inc. division to Hollinger International in 2000, including the Beacon News in Aurora, Courier News in Elgin, the Herald-News in Joliet and the News Sun in Waukegan. Hollinger also bought Fox Valley Press' Sun Publications in Naperville, a group of 13 weekly papers.Those newspapers are now owned by Sun-Times Media Holdings, LLC.

Belleville News-Democrat

The Belleville News-Democratic is a daily newspaper in Belleville, Illinois. The Belleville News-Democratic has been published for the last 150 years. It is currently owned by The McClatchy Company, owned by Jay Tebbe, and edited by Jeffry Couch. It was founded back in 1858 as the Weekly Democrat. It was merged with the Belleville News to become the Belleville News-Democrat. The Belleville News-Democrat has been features on the television programs 60 Minutes, Dateline and Nightline, as an example of investigative reporting. In 2003, an article in Editor & Publisher called the News-Democrat on of “ten newspapers that do it right.” The Belleville News-Democratic is a frequent winner in state and regional journalism awards and is the only newspaper in Illinois or Missouri to grow a net paid circulation for ten years in a row. The daily circulation is 53,967 and the Sunday circulation is 64,282. Headquarters are located at 120 South Illinois Street Belleville, Illinois 62220-2130.

Chicago Sun-Times

The Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois. It is the flagship paper of Wrapports LLC and its Sun-Times Media Group subsidiary. The Chicago Sun-Times is the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the city. It began in 1844 as the Chicago Evening Journal. The modern paper grew out of the 1948 merger of the Chicago Sun, founded in 1941 by Marshall Field III, and the Chicago Daily Times. The newspaper was owned by Field Enterprises, controlled by the Marshall Field family, which would acquire the afternoon Chicago Daily News in 1959 and launch WFLD television in 1966.

Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. The Chicago Times is the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is currently the eighth largest newspaper in the United States by circulation. The paper circulates 425,370 daily and 781,128 on Sunday. The Chicago Tribune believes in the traditional principles of limited government; maximum individual responsibility; minimum restriction of personal liberty, opportunity and enterprise. It believes in free markets, free will and freedom of expression. The Chicago Tribune is owned by Tribune Company, published by Tony W. Hunter, and edited by Gerould W. Kern. Headquarters are at the Tribune Tower located at 435 North Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60611

Daily Herald - Chicagoland

The Daily Herald is a daily newspaper printed in Arlington Heights, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. The newspaper is distributed in the northern, northwestern and western suburbs of Chicago. The paper started in 1871 and is independently owned and run by the Paddock family. The paper's longtime slogan has been "To fear God, tell the truth and make money."

Elgin Courier News

The Elgin Courier-News is published six days a week, Sunday through Friday. It is owned by the Sun-Times Media Group, formerly Hollinger, a group that includes the Chicago Sun-Times, the Aurora Beacon News, the Joliet Herald News, the Elgin Courier News and the Lake County News Sun, formerly Waukegan News Sun. Hollinger purchased many suburban daily and weekly papers from The Copley Press in 2000.

Evanston Review

The Evanston Review is part of Pioneer Press that publishes fifty local newspapers in the metro Chicago area. Headquartered in Glenview and a division of the Sun-Times Media Group, these community newspapers are a main source of local news for their respective communities. Having all the community newspapers under one publishing arm creates the opportunity for writers to jump from community to community. Any editorials or political endorsements that appear in any of the Pioneer Press papers are written as the view of the Sun-Times News Group of 100 papers in Metropolitan Chicago rather than the opinion of the individual community. Each separate newspaper covers the community news, community links, as well as local crime and school news. They also cover local community sports. These local community newspapers are the perfect way to stay up-to-date with everything happening in your community.

Glenview Announcements

The Glenview annoucments is part of Pioneer Press that publishes fifty local newspapers in the metro Chicago area. Headquartered in Glenview and a division of the Sun-Times Media Group, these community newspapers are a main source of local news for their respective communities. Having all the community newspapers under one publishing arm creates the opportunity for writers to jump from community to community. Any editorials or political endorsements that appear in any of the Pioneer Press papers are written as the view of the Sun-Times News Group of 100 papers in Metropolitan Chicago rather than the opinion of the individual community. Each separate newspaper covers the community news, community links, as well as local crime and school news. They also cover local community sports. These local community newspapers are the perfect way to stay up-to-date with everything happening in your community.

Joliet Herald News

The Herald-Newsis a daily newspaper headquartered in Joliet, Illinois. It serves the Joliet, Will County and Grundy County area, and is owned by the Sun-Times Media Group. The paper was founded in 1904 as "Joliet Herald." In 1913 its founder, Ira Clifton Copley, purchased the "Joliet News" a paper which was founded in 1877. In 1915 the two papers were merged producing the "Herald-News." In August 1966,Copley Press sold the publication to the Sun-Times Media Group. The Herald-News is printed early at one of its parent-company's facilities in Chicago, driven to Northwest Indiana and distributed based on delivery region.

Kane County Chronicle

Kane County Chronicle is a daily newspaper serving Kane County, Illinois. The Chronicle distributes to central Kane County, located in the Fox Valley region of Illinois, about 40 miles west of Chicago. Samuel W. Durant established the Valley Chronicle in 1881. In 1989, B.F. Shaw Printing Company acquired the Chronicle. They were the fourth oldest continuously owned and operated family newspaper company in the nation. In 1990, the Chronicle's four semi-weekly papers, St. Charles, Geneva, Batavia, and Elburn, merged into one edition with the name changed to the Kane County Chronicle. Up until 1991, the paper had been published twice a week on Wednesday and Friday. In 1991, it began printing five days a week, Tuesday through Saturday. With a strong focus on local news, the paper circulates 12,564 daily and 12,000 on Sundays. The publisher if J. Tom Shaw and the editor is Kathy Gresey. Headquarters are located in St. Charles, Illinois.

Lake County News-Sun

Lake County News-Sun is published six days a week, Sunday through Friday. It is owned by the Sun-Times Media Group, formerly Hollinger, a group that includes the Chicago Sun-Times, the Aurora Beacon News, the Joliet Herald News, the Elgin Courier News and the Lake County News Sun, formerly Waukegan News Sun. Hollinger purchased many suburban daily and weekly papers from The Copley Press in 2000.

Lake Forester

The Lake Forester is part of Pioneer Press that publishes fifty local newspapers in the metro Chicago area. Headquartered in Glenview and a division of the Sun-Times Media Group, these community newspapers are a main source of local news for their respective communities. Having all the community newspapers under one publishing arm creates the opportunity for writers to jump from community to community. Any editorials or political endorsements that appear in any of the Pioneer Press papers are written as the view of the Sun-Times News Group of 100 papers in Metropolitan Chicago rather than the opinion of the individual community. Each separate newspaper covers the community news, community links, as well as local crime and school news. They also cover local community sports. These local community newspapers are the perfect way to stay up-to-date with everything happening in your community.

McHenry County Northwest Herald

The Northwest Herald is a daily newspaper published in Crystal Lake, Illinois. The paper has a circulation of nearly 40,000 with a coverage area of McHenry County and northern Kane County in the Northwest Suburbs of Chicago. The Herald is a part of Shaw Suburban Media's NorthWest News Group and is owned by Shaw Newspapers. Shaw Suburban Media includes the Kane County Chronicle, DeKalb Daily Chronicle, Lake County Journals, Weekly Journals, The Business Journal, Great Lakes Bulletin, El Conquistador, and McHenryCountySports.com.

Naperville Sun

The Naperville Sun is a newspaper based in Naperville, Illinois. It is published six days a week, Sunday to Friday. It is owned by the Sun-Times Media Group, formerly Hollinger, a group that includes the Chicago Sun-Times, the Aurora Beacon News, the Joliet Herald News, the Elgin Courier News and the Lake County News Sun, formerly Waukegan News Sun. Hollinger purchased many suburban daily and weekly papers from The Copley Press in 2000. The Naperville Sun has a circulation of over 20,000 households while reaching 50,000 Naperville adults. Its competitors include The Daily Herald and the Chicago Tribune. The Sun's sports section won honors from the Associated Press Sports Editors in daily, Sunday and special section competitions in its first three years as a daily paper.

Northbrook Star

The Northbrook Star is part of Pioneer Press that publishes fifty local newspapers in the metro Chicago area. Headquartered in Glenview and a division of the Sun-Times Media Group, these community newspapers are a main source of local news for their respective communities. Having all the community newspapers under one publishing arm creates the opportunity for writers to jump from community to community. Any editorials or political endorsements that appear in any of the Pioneer Press papers are written as the view of the Sun-Times News Group of 100 papers in Metropolitan Chicago rather than the opinion of the individual community. Each separate newspaper covers the community news, community links, as well as local crime and school news. They also cover local community sports. These local community newspapers are the perfect way to stay up-to-date with everything happening in your community.

Oak Park Leaves

The Oak Park Leaves is part of Pioneer Press that publishes fifty local newspapers in the metro Chicago area. Headquartered in Glenview and a division of the Sun-Times Media Group, these community newspapers are a main source of local news for their respective communities. Having all the community newspapers under one publishing arm creates the opportunity for writers to jump from community to community. Any editorials or political endorsements that appear in any of the Pioneer Press papers are written as the view of the Sun-Times News Group of 100 papers in Metropolitan Chicago rather than the opinion of the individual community. Each separate newspaper covers the community news, community links, as well as local crime and school news. They also cover local community sports. These local community newspapers are the perfect way to stay up-to-date with everything happening in your community.

Peoria Journal Star

The Journal Star is the major daily newspaper for Peoria, Illinois and surrounding area. First owned locally, then employee-owned, it became Copley-owned in 1996. In 1944, the Journal and Transcript and their rival Star combined presses as Peoria Newspapers Inc. with the Star as a morning paper and the Journal-Transcript as an afternoon paper. Once the agreement was reached, both the morning and afternoon papers immediately changed their names to the Journal Star.  In 2007, the paper was sold to New York-based GateHouse Media and published by Ken Mauser. The Journal Star is the highest circulation downstate Illinois newspaper and the fourth highest circulation Illinois newspaper. As of September 2006, the Journal Star was the 136th largest newspaper in the United States. It has a daily circulation of 63,024, a Saturday circulation 64,078, and a 72,607 on Sundays. Headquarters are located at 1 News Plaza Peoria, Illinois 61643.

The Doings-Clarendon Hills

The Doings-Clarendon Hills is part of Pioneer Press that publishes fifty local newspapers in the metro Chicago area. Headquartered in Glenview and a division of the Sun-Times Media Group, these community newspapers are a main source of local news for their respective communities. Having all the community newspapers under one publishing arm creates the opportunity for writers to jump from community to community. Any editorials or political endorsements that appear in any of the Pioneer Press papers are written as ?the view of the Sun-Times News Group of 100 papers in Metropolitan Chicago? rather than the opinion of the individual community. Each separate newspaper covers the community news, community links, as well as local crime and school news. They also cover local community sports. These local community newspapers are the perfect way to stay up-to-date with everything happening in your community.

The Doings-Hinsdale

The Doings- Hinsdale is part of Pioneer Press that publishes fifty local newspapers in the metro Chicago area. Headquartered in Glenview and a division of the Sun-Times Media Group, these community newspapers are a main source of local news for their respective communities. Having all the community newspapers under one publishing arm creates the opportunity for writers to jump from community to community. Any editorials or political endorsements that appear in any of the Pioneer Press papers are written as ?the view of the Sun-Times News Group of 100 papers in Metropolitan Chicago? rather than the opinion of the individual community. Each separate newspaper covers the community news, community links, as well as local crime and school news. They also cover local community sports. These local community newspapers are the perfect way to stay up-to-date with everything happening in your community.

The Doings-La Grange

The Doings- La Grange is part of Pioneer Press that publishes fifty local newspapers in the metro Chicago area. Headquartered in Glenview and a division of the Sun-Times Media Group, these community newspapers are a main source of local news for their respective communities. Having all the community newspapers under one publishing arm creates the opportunity for writers to jump from community to community. Any editorials or political endorsements that appear in any of the Pioneer Press papers are written as ?the view of the Sun-Times News Group of 100 papers in Metropolitan Chicago? rather than the opinion of the individual community. Each separate newspaper covers the community news, community links, as well as local crime and school news. They also cover local community sports. These local community newspapers are the perfect way to stay up-to-date with everything happening in your community.

The Doings-Oak Brook

The Doings- Oak Brook is part of Pioneer Press that publishes fifty local newspapers in the metro Chicago area. Headquartered in Glenview and a division of the Sun-Times Media Group, these community newspapers are a main source of local news for their respective communities. Having all the community newspapers under one publishing arm creates the opportunity for writers to jump from community to community. Any editorials or political endorsements that appear in any of the Pioneer Press papers are written as ?the view of the Sun-Times News Group of 100 papers in Metropolitan Chicago? rather than the opinion of the individual community. Each separate newspaper covers the community news, community links, as well as local crime and school news. They also cover local community sports. These local community newspapers are the perfect way to stay up-to-date with everything happening in your community.

The Doings-Western Springs

The Doings- Western Springs is part of Pioneer Press that publishes fifty local newspapers in the metro Chicago area. Headquartered in Glenview and a division of the Sun-Times Media Group, these community newspapers are a main source of local news for their respective communities. Having all the community newspapers under one publishing arm creates the opportunity for writers to jump from community to community. Any editorials or political endorsements that appear in any of the Pioneer Press papers are written as ?the view of the Sun-Times News Group of 100 papers in Metropolitan Chicago? rather than the opinion of the individual community. Each separate newspaper covers the community news, community links, as well as local crime and school news. They also cover local community sports. These local community newspapers are the perfect way to stay up-to-date with everything happening in your community.

Tinley Park Southtown Star

The Star of Star Newspapers is a twice weekly regional newspaper serving the southern Chicago suburbs. The newspaper covers news in Chicago Heights, Crete, University Park, Orland Park, Tinley Park, Oak Forest, Matteson, Richton Park, Frankfort, Mokena, and New Lenox, among a handful of other southern suburbs. On November 18, 2007, The Star was merged into The Daily Southtown to become the SouthtownStar. The paper is delivered daily to subscribers, with a special Neighborhood Star pull-out section included in the Thursday and Sunday editions. Generally, its circulation area extends from the Illinois-Indiana state line on the east to New Lenox on the west. Its coverage area goes as far north as Worth Township and as far south as Beecher. The SouthtownStar is owned by the Sun-Times Media Group.