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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 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.
Nicholas Jarrot (1764–1820) was a fur trader, lawyer, county judge, businessman, and developer who owned 25,000 acres (100 km²) of land at the peak of his success.He tried to lead and manage the transition of his community, originally citizens of the French colony of Louisiana, by the mid-18th century under rule by Great Britain, as it was transformed in the late 18th and early 19th ...
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.
The Field Newspaper Syndicate was a syndication service based in Chicago that operated independently from 1941 to 1984, for a good time under the name the Chicago Sun-Times Syndicate. The service was founded by Marshall Field III and was part of Field Enterprises .
Frank "Frankie" LaPorte (October 7, 1901 – October 30, 1972) was an Italian–American racketeer in the Chicago Outfit. [1] He was the Chicago Heights caporegime during the early 20th century. His closest associates in bootlegging included Ross Prio, Louis Campagna and onetime Outfit boss, Al Capone. [2]
Cahokia Heights, Illinois: 1737 Residence/Courthouse Oldest building in Illinois. French Canadian Court House [1] Fort de Chartres Powder Magazine Randolph County, Illinois: c. 1750 Military Oldest stone building in Illinois; French military fortification Church of the Holy Family (Cahokia Heights, Illinois) Cahokia Heights, Illinois: 1786-1799 ...
South Chicago Heights, Illinois – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 2000 [9] Pop 2010 [6] Pop 2020 [7 ...