Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, Illinois)

{{Short description|American daily newspaper (founded 1871)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Daily Herald | image = Daily Herald (Chicagoland) front page.jpg | image_size = 225px | caption = March 2, 2012 front page | type = Daily newspaper | format = Broadsheet | founded = 1871 | ceased_publication = | price = | owners = Paddock Publications (Daily Herald Media Group) | publisher = Douglas K. Ray | editor = Lisa Miner | circulation = 94,208 Daily 100,658 Sunday | headquarters = 95 W. Algonquin Road Arlington Heights, Illinois 60005 United States | ISSN = | oclc = 18030507 | website = [http://dailyherald.com/ dailyherald.com] | logo = File:Daily Herald (Chicagoland) logo.jpg }}

The '''''Daily Herald''''' is a daily newspaper based in Arlington Heights, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. 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 employee stock ownership plan.<ref name="dailyherald.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20181206/after-120-years-paddock-family-sells-stake-in-daily-herald-to-employees|title = After 120 years, Paddock family sells stake in Daily Herald to employees|date = 6 December 2018|access-date=May 21, 2026|website=Daily Herald|last=Placek|first=Christopher}}</ref>

==Areas of circulation== The ''Daily Herald'' serves Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, and McHenry counties and has a coverage area of about {{convert|1300|sqmi|km2}}. It is the third-largest newspaper in Illinois (behind the ''Chicago Tribune'' and ''Chicago Sun-Times'').<ref name="about">{{cite web |title=About Daily Herald |url=http://www.dailyherald.com/article/99999999/services/100929980/ |access-date=May 20, 2013}}</ref>

==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. 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.<ref name=Encyc>{{Cite web|url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/357.html|title=Daily Herald|website=www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org|access-date=2017-02-16}}</ref>

In 1898, Hosea Paddock bought the ''Palatine Enterprise''. Over the years, the Paddocks bought newspapers in Mount Prospect, Bensenville, Roselle and Wheeling.<ref name="dailyherald.com"/> 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 Chicago and North Western's commuter rail line in the northwest suburbs (now the Union Pacific Northwest Line) turned it into a suburban area. It became a tri-weekly in 1967.<ref name=Encyc/>

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; Field Communications, publisher of the ''Chicago Sun-Times'', had introduced its "Day" 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.<ref>Hepp, Rick (April 16, 2002). [https://www.chicagotribune.com/2002/04/16/stuart-r-paddock-jr-86/ "Stuart R. Paddock Jr., 86"]. ''Chicago Tribune''.</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Daily Herald Media Kit |url=http://www.dailyherald.com/info/mediakit/Index.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120730230456/https://prev.dailyherald.com/info/mediakit/index.htm |archive-date=30 July 2012 |url-status=dead |work=Daily Herald |location=Arlington Heights, Illinois |access-date=12 November 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Lemon |first=John |date=5 September 2009 |title=Sorrow Brings New Meaning to Big Picture, Local Focus |url=http://prev.dailyherald.com/story/?id=319263 |department=Opinion |work=Daily Herald |location=Arlington Heights, Illinois |access-date=12 November 2019}}</ref>

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.<ref name="dailyherald.com"/> In 2026, the paper was acquired by Tribune Publishing, owner of the ''Chicago Tribune''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 21, 2026 |title=Paddock enters purchase agreement with Chicago Tribune |url=https://www.dailyherald.com/20260521/business/paddock-enters-purchase-agreement-with-chicago-tribune/ |access-date=2026-05-22 |website=Daily Herald}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Channick |first=Robert |date=May 21, 2026 |title=Chicago Tribune strikes 11th-hour deal to buy Daily Herald, outbidding suburban suitor |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/21/chicago-tribune-daily-herald-deal/ |access-date=2026-05-22 |website=Chicago Tribune |language=en-US}}</ref> The sale price was $24 million.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pletz |first=John |date=May 26, 2026 |title=Now we know how much Tribune owner Alden Global is offering for the Daily Herald |url=https://www.chicagobusiness.com/media-marketing/ccb-tribune-daily-herald-alden-price-20260526/ |access-date=2026-05-26 |website=Crain's Chicago Business |language=en}}</ref>

== See also == * {{Portal-inline|Chicago}} * {{Portal-inline|Illinois}} * {{Portal-inline|Journalism}}

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==Bibliography== * {{cite web |title=June 2013 Top Media Outlets: Newspapers, Blogs, Consumer Magazines, Broadcast, Websites & Social Networks |url=https://www.burrellesluce.com/sites/default/files/Top_Media_June_2013_FNL%281%29.pdf |publisher=BurrellesLuce |date=June 2013 |access-date=2014-03-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150104161511/http://www.burrellesluce.com/sites/default/files/Top_Media_June_2013_FNL%281%29.pdf |archive-date=2015-01-04 |url-status=dead }} * {{cite web |title=Daily Herald: About Us |url=http://www.dailyherald.com/info/aboutus.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001017143028/http://www.dailyherald.com/info/aboutus.asp |url-status=dead |archive-date=2000-10-17 |work=Daily Herald |location=Arlington Heights, Illinois |access-date=2007-03-02}}

==External links== * [http://www.dailyherald.com ''Daily Herald'' website]

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