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For 45 years, [8] J. Thomas McNamara wrote a weekly sports column in the Decatur Tribune titled "Irish Stew", covering Central Illinois high school sports. In 2015 he received the Illinois High School Association distinguished media service award. McNamara was a member of the Illinois Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame, Macon County Sports ...
This is a list of Illinois companies which includes notable companies that are headquartered in Illinois, or were previously headquartered in Illinois. In general, this list does not include companies headquartered in one of the municipalities of the Chicago metropolitan area .
Decatur Daily Review (1919−1980) – Decatur [5] The Decatur Herald (Herald-Despatch Co., pub.; 1899−1980) – Decatur [6] Morning Herald-Dispatch (Herald-Despatch Co., pub.; 1890−1899) – Decatur [7] The Decatur Daily Despatch (W. F. Calhoun, pub.; 1889−189?) – Decatur [8] The Decatur Morning Herald (Hostetler & Ela, pub.; 1880− ...
Chicago Heights lies on the high land of the Tinley Moraine, with the higher and older Valparaiso Moraine lying just to the south of the city.. According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Chicago Heights has a total area of 10.30 square miles (26.68 km 2), of which 10.28 square miles (26.63 km 2) (or 99.87%) is land and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km 2) (or 0.13%) is water.
Shaw Family Holdings, Inc., doing business as Shaw Media, is a newspaper publisher based in Crystal Lake, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and wholly owned by the Mabel S. Shaw Family Trust. Its portfolio includes about 80 newspapers and news websites in Illinois and Iowa. [ 1 ]
The Star of Star Newspapers was a twice weekly regional newspaper serving the southern Chicago suburbs. The newspaper covered news in Chicago Heights, Park Forest, Crete, University Park, Orland Park, Tinley Park, Oak Forest, Matteson, Richton Park, Frankfort, Mokena, and New Lenox, among a handful of other southern suburbs.
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.
The Rev. Alfred F. Wuensch founded the Decatur Review as a weekly newspaper in April 1872. [7] C.N. Walls founded the Daily Herald in 1878. In 1931, the morning Herald , by this time owned by the Lindsay family, and the evening, daily, Decatur Daily Review , owned by the Schaub family, merged their operations.