
During the second half of the 1980s, it expanded into DuPage, Kane and McHenry counties. It became the Daily Herald in 1977 and began publishing on Sundays in 1978. It began publishing on Saturdays in 1975. That year, the paper dropped Arlington Heights from its masthead after merging with its sister publications and expanding into Lake County. A brutal one-year circulation war ensued, ending in 1970 when Field pulled out of the area. This move came almost out of necessity Field Communications, publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times, had introduced its "Daily" papers for the northern suburbs in 1966. A year later, the paper began publishing five days a week. The paper's real growth began in 1968, when Stuart Paddock Jr. The paper grew along with northwestern Cook County after World War II, as four-lane highways and the expansion of the Chicago & North Western's commuter rail line in the northwest suburbs (now the Union Pacific/Northwest Line) turned it into a suburban area. The Daily Herald counts 1898 as its founding date. Over the years, the Paddocks bought newspapers in Mount Prospect, Bensenville, Roselle and Wheeling. In 1898, Hosea Paddock bought the Palatine Enterprise. For its first century, it was a weekly publication. His sons, Stuart and Charles, took over the paper in 1920 and renamed it the Arlington Heights Herald in 1926. Paddock, a former teacher, bought the newspaper in 1889 for $175. It was initially tailored to the business needs of the then-rural northwestern portion of Cook County. The Daily Herald was founded in 1872 as the Cook County Herald. It is the third-largest newspaper in Illinois (behind the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times). The Daily Herald serves Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, and McHenry counties and has a coverage area of about 1,300 square miles (3,400 km 2). In 2018, the Paddock family sold its stake in the paper to its employees through an employee stock ownership plan. The paper started in 1871 and was independently owned and run by four generations of the Paddock family. It is the namesake of the Daily Herald Media Group, and through it is the leading subsidiary of Paddock Publications. The newspaper is distributed in the northern, northwestern and western suburbs of Chicago. The Daily Herald is a daily newspaper based in Arlington Heights, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Proposed legislation that would give the Bears a long-term property tax break faces an uphill battle in Springfield this fall.Paddock Publications (Daily Herald Media Group) This is a big, complicated project, and there are many details to work out, and we are working them out."Īpproval of the board's priorities comes about two weeks after trustees hired lobbyists who could influence the cut of revenue the village gets from a proposed stadium redevelopment. "We're in regular communication with the school districts and a lot of other stakeholders to resolve the outstanding issues so we can continue a path forward, and that has not changed. "We continue to work almost daily and communicate regularly with the Chicago Bears," Village Manager Randy Recklaus said after the meeting Tuesday night. That's delayed progress on parking, traffic and economic impact studies as part of the village's review and approval process for the proposed $5 billion megadevelopment. The Bears, who finalized the deal in February, are now in a protracted battle over their property tax payments to three Arlington Heights-area school districts. The language is slightly more verbose than a similar bullet point board members approved two years ago, when the still-operating racetrack was for sale but the NFL franchise hadn't yet inked a $197.2 million purchase of the 326-acre site. Formally, village officials commit to "work with the Chicago Bears Football Club, our residents and business, and all other local, regional and statewide partners to develop a responsible, mutually beneficial, and one-of-a-kind redevelopment plan for the former Arlington Racetrack site that benefits our community's interests and is worthy of the property's legacy."
