The ''Daily Herald'' is a daily

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based in

Arlington Heights, Illinois Arlington Heights is a municipality in Cook County with a small portion in Lake County in the U.S. state of Illinois. A suburb of Chicago, it lies about northwest of the city's downtown. Per the 2020 Census, the population was 77,676. Per the ...

, a suburb of

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. The newspaper is distributed in the northern, northwestern and western suburbs of Chicago. It is the namesake of the Daily Herald Media Group, and through it is the leading subsidiary of Paddock Publications. The paper started in 1871 and was independently owned and run by four generations of the Paddock family. In 2018, the Paddock family sold its stake in the paper to its employees through an

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The ''Daily Herald'' serves

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, DuPage, Kane,

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, and McHenry counties and has a coverage area of about . It is the third-largest newspaper in Illinois (behind the ''

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'' and ''

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'').

History

The ''Daily Herald'' was founded in 1872 as the ''Cook County Herald''. It was initially tailored to the business needs of the then-rural northwestern portion of

Cook County Cook County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Illinois and the second-most-populous county in the United States, after Los Angeles County, California. More than 40% of all residents of Illinois live within Cook County. As of 20 ...

. Hosea C. Paddock, a former teacher, bought the newspaper in 1889 for $175. His sons, Stuart and Charles, took over the paper in 1920 and renamed it the ''Arlington Heights Herald'' in 1926. For its first century, it was a weekly publication. In 1898, Hosea Paddock bought the ''Palatine Enterprise''. Over the years, the Paddocks bought newspapers in Mount Prospect, Bensenville, Roselle and Wheeling. The ''Daily Herald'' counts 1898 as its founding date. The paper grew along with northwestern Cook County after World War II, as four-lane highways and the expansion of the

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's commuter rail line in the northwest suburbs (now the

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) turned it into a suburban area. It became a tri-weekly in 1967. The paper's real growth began in 1968, when Stuart Paddock Jr. took over the paper. A year later, the paper began publishing five days a week. This move came almost out of necessity;

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, publisher of the ''

'', had introduced its "Daily" papers for the northern suburbs in 1966. A brutal one-year circulation war ensued, ending in 1970 when Field pulled out of the area. That year, the paper dropped Arlington Heights from its masthead after merging with its sister publications and expanding into Lake County. It began publishing on Saturdays in 1975. It became the ''Daily Herald'' in 1977 and began publishing on Sundays in 1978. During the second half of the 1980s, it expanded into DuPage, Kane and McHenry counties. Its growth has continued to this day. Stuart Paddock Jr. died in 2002. Today, the ''Daily Herald''s motto is, "Big Picture, Local Focus" because it covers both international and national news as well as news local to its circulation area. The ''Daily Herald'' was made partially employee-owned in 1972, but the Paddock family transferred their interest to the paper's employee stock ownership plan in 2018 as part of their effort to ensure the paper remains locally owned.

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