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Lerner Newspapers was a chain of weekly newspapers. Founded by
Leo Lerner Leo A. Lerner (1907–1965) was an American newspaper editor and publisher, who founded Lerner Newspapers in Chicago, Illinois, at one time the largest chain of weekly newspapers in the world. He was a staunch advocate of community journalism, fo ...
, the chain was a force in community journalism in Chicago from 1926 to 2005, and called itself "the world's largest newspaper group". In its heyday, Lerner published 54 weekly and semi-weekly editions on the North and Northwest sides of Chicago and in suburban
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of some 300,000. Editions included the '' Booster,
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, Life,
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, News-Star, Skyline,
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, Times'' and '' Voice.''Internet archive
Chicago Public Library holdings


Overview

The Lerner papers focused on community news and local issues, including a widely read police blotter, but also featured localized sections devoted to arts and entertainment, food, lifestyles and high-school and neighborhood sports, like " hyper-local" versions of daily newspapers. At one time, the chain had its own printing plant at its headquarters in the Rogers Park, Chicago, neighborhood and a network of satellite offices across the city and its suburbs. Journalists who got their start at Lerner include the late
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, the '' Crain's Chicago Business'' columnist
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and Robert Feder, the sportscaster
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, the novelist
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, the syndicated columnist Robert C. Koehler and Ted Allen, host of Food Network's ''
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History


Beginnings

Leo Lerner (1907–1965) founded his namesake chain in 1926 with the ''Lincoln-Belmont Booster,'' turning it from a shopper to a real newspaper. From 1924-28, Lerner worked in editorial positions on the ''Morton Grove News,'' the ''North Side Sunday Citizen'' and the ''Lincoln Belmont Booster.'' He then became a partner of A. O. Caplan in the management of the 16 Myers Newspapers, with a combined circulation of 219,000.Leo A. Lerner
papers at Syracuse University
During World War II, Lerner inspired his staff to concentrate on local news with such statements as, "A fistfight on Clark Street is more important to our readers than a war in Europe." By 1958, Lerner was president of a growing group of newspapers, including the Myers Publishing Co., the Lincoln Belmont Publishing Co., the Times Home Newspapers (J. L. Johnson Publishing Co.) and the Neighbor Press of Chicago. Lerner's son
Louis A. Lerner Louis Abraham Lerner (June 12, 1935 – November 14, 1984) was an American businessman, publisher, political activist and ambassador. He received a B.A. in 1960 from Roosevelt University. In 1956–57, he studied Scandinavian affairs in Denmark ...
served as assistant to the publisher of Lerner Home Newspapers and an account executive for Times Home Newspapers from 1959 to 1962. He became executive vice president of Lerner Home Newspapers in 1962 and publisher in 1969.


Decline and fall

The 49-year-old Louis Lerner died of cancer in 1984. The following year, the Lerner family sold the chain to Pulitzer Publishing, publishers of the St. Louis '' Post-Dispatch.'' When it bought the chain of 52 weeklies for $9.1 million, Pulitzer hoped to win readers and advertising dollars from the ''Chicago Tribune'' and ''Chicago Sun-Times'' in the same way that the Suburban Journal weeklies were weakening the ''Post-Dispatch.'' Pulitzer planned to increase Lerner's combined circulation of about 300,000 to compete in the Chicago newspaper market, but the recession of the early 1990s eroded the chain's advertising base, over half of which was help-wanted classified ads, and the chain was unsuccessful in winning automotive and real estate ads away from the dailies. The sole weekly group in Pulitzer's stable, Lerner was left to founder. Pulitzer closed and merged many of its editions, until only 15 were left. Circulation had plummeted from 300,000 in 1985 to 100,000 by 1992. In 1992, Pulitzer was on the brink of shutting down the Lerner papers but, at the last minute, with final editions set in type, sold the chain's assets to Sunstates Corp. for a reported $4 million.Funding Universe
/ref> Sunstates, an investment firm led by Clyde Engle, was in the business of buying moribund companies for tricky financial operations. Under Sunstates, which owned a mixed bag of companies such as an insurance firm, a chocolate factory, a furniture factory and an apple orchard, but had never before run newspapers, the Lerner chain continued to erode while Sunstates managers constrained journalists to keep 9-to-5 hours. In 2000, in a surreptitious arrangement that came to be known as the "Lerner Exchange," Sunstates sold the chain to a company fronted by Canadian press baron
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, who resold it to Hollinger International. This and other illegal maneuvers by Black and sidekick David Radler, ''Sun-Times'' publisher, ultimately led to their conviction on fraud charges when they were found to have looted millions from the company. Amid Hollinger reorganization (ultimately to the Sun-Times Media Group) in the wake of the scandal, the company merged Lerner Newspapers into its longtime suburban rival, Pioneer Press, in 2005. Pioneer management quickly dropped the now-embarrassing Lerner name and killed all Lerner's suburban editions. Pioneer continued to print a handful of city of Chicago newspapers with the old nameplates — the ''Booster, News-Star, Skyline'' and ''Times'' — converting them from
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, until January 2008, when the company announced it was pulling out of urban publishing entirely. At the last moment, the ''Booster, News-Star'' and ''Skyline'' titles were sold to the '' Wednesday Journal,'' another Chicago-area weekly group. In March 2009, the ''Wednesday Journal'' announced that it was dropping the ''News-Star'' and the ''Booster,'' along with the Bucktown/ Wicker Park edition of the ''Chicago Journal'' (into which a ''Booster'' edition had been merged)."Chicago Journal keeping 2 weekly newspapers, selling 2, closing 1"
, ''Chicago Journal,'' March 5, 2009
Although reduced to operating from his home, Ron Roenigk, the publisher of Inside Publications, said he would be buying the two former Lerner nameplates, largely to get their legal advertising. The Skyline, Inside Booster and News Star are still published weekly on Chicago's North Side by Inside Publications.


Editions


''Booster''

Leo Lerner launched his empire with the 1926 purchase of the ''Lincoln-Belmont Booster.'' In 2005, Pioneer Press sold ''The Booster'' to the '' Wednesday Journal,'' which resold it in 2008 to Inside Publications. Inside Publications merged the Booster with its primary publication (''Inside''). The new publication retained the Booster's numbering and some of its syndicated columns while incorporating some of Inside's traditional features. ''The Booster'' covered various North Side neighborhoods, including Avondale, Irving Park, Lake View, Lincoln-Belmont,
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, Logan-Armitage, North Center,
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and Sheridan Center. The ''Wednesday Journal''-published editions covered Lake View, North Center and Roscoe Village. Longtime Chicago columnist (Chicago Daily News, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune) Mike Royko had his start at the ''Lincoln-Belmont Booster''.St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture
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''Citizen''

Founded as the ''Ravenswood Citizen,'' and dating back until at least 1905, the ''Citizen'' was acquired by Lerner in the late 1920s and folded into other editions in 1930.


''Life''

The ''Life'' newspapers ran from the 1920s through 2005, beginning with a Rogers Park edition, and later expanding into covering Chicago's northern suburbs, including, at various times, Buffalo Grove, Deerfield, Des Plaines, Evanston, Ft. Sheridan, Glenview, Highland Park, Highwood, Lake County, Lake Forest,
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,
Morton Grove Morton Grove is a village in Cook County, Illinois. Per the 2020 census, the population was 25,297. The village is named after former United States Vice President Levi Parsons Morton, who helped finance the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railr ...
, Niles, Niles Township, Northbrook, Skokie and Wheeling. Pulitzer shut down most of the ''Life'' editions in the 1980s. When Pioneer Press folded the papers in 2005, editions covered Lincolnwood, Morton Grove, Niles and Skokie.


''News-Star''

Beginning as separate ''News'' and ''Star'' editions, later combined, the ''News-Star'' (also called the ''News and Star Budget'') covered the Far North Side. In 2005, Pioneer Press sold the nameplate to the ''Wednesday Journal,'' which resold it in 2008 to Inside Publications. Communities covered by the various versions included Albany Park, Edgewater, Lake View, Lincoln Square, North Park, North Town, Ravenswood, Rogers Park,
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. The ''Wednesday Journal''-published editions covered Edgewater, Ravenswood, Rogers Park and Uptown.
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, now an author and journalist in New York City, was for many years editor of the ''Uptown and Edgewater News''.


''Skyline''

Launched by Lerner in the 1960s, the ''Skyline'' covered the Gold Coast, Lincoln Park, the
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and the Near North Side, with an emphasis on society gossip. The ''Skyline'' was the only Lerner paper not to cover school sports. In 2005, Pioneer Press sold the nameplate to the ''Wednesday Journal,'' which continues to publish it, covering the Gold Coast, Lincoln Park,
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. ''Queer Eye's'' Allen was a ''Skyline'' reporter. Wednesday's Journal sold the Skyline to Inside Publications in 2013 where it is still being published weekly.


''Times''

Acquired in the 1950s, and also called the ''New Times'' and the ''Times Home Newspapers,'' the ''Times'' editions covered the Northwest Side and near-west suburbs, including the city neighborhoods Albany Park,
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, Schiller Park and Leyden and
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townships. At the time Pioneer Press took over and folded the papers in 2005, the ''Times'' covered Edison Park, Jefferson Park, Norwood Park and Portage Park in the city and the suburban communities of Elmwood Park, Harwood Heights, Norridge and River Grove.


''Voice''

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. Pulitzer shut the original ''Voice'' down in 1990. In the mid-1990s, Sunstates reused the ''Voice'' name for a small, short-lived group of north suburban tabloids, launched as shoppers, and then expanded into regular editions covering community news and features, with longtime Chicago journalist
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as managing editor. The tabloids covered Glenview, Northbrook and Park Ridge.


Journalists

Prominent journalists who worked for Lerner Newspapers include: * Ted Allen *David Anderson * Ann Barzel *Richard Battin *
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* Jack Bess *Larry Blasko, later a reporter and executive with the Associated Press * Bill Brashler *
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* George Castle *Corey Schiff *
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* Leonard Dubkin * Ava Ehrlich * Robert Feder * Ruth Duskin Feldman *Roger Flaherty, later a rewriteman, reporter and assistant metro editor at Chicago Sun-Times * Ann Gerber * Michael C. Glab * Terry Gorman * Richard Greb *
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* Robert C. Koehler *
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See also

*
Illinois Newspaper Project The Illinois Newspaper Project (INP) began as part of the United States Newspaper Program (USNP), a cooperative effort between the states and the federal government designed to catalog and preserve on microfilm the nation's historic newspaper heri ...
* Newspapers of the Chicago metropolitan area


References

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