Northwest Herald

Northwest Herald

The July 27, 2005 front page of the Northwest Herald
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	Shaw Newspapers
Publisher	John Rung
Editor	Chris Krug
Founded	1856
Headquarters	7717 S. Route 31 Crystal Lake, IL 60014 United States
Circulation	32,934 Daily 34,961 Sunday
Official website	nwherald.com

The Northwest Herald is a daily newspaper published in Crystal Lake, Illinois. The paper has a circulation of nearly 33,000 with a coverage area of McHenry County and northern Kane County in the Northwest Suburbs of Chicago.

The Herald is a part of Shaw Suburban Media and is owned by Shaw Newspapers. Shaw Suburban Media includes the Kane County Chronicle, DeKalb Daily Chronicle, Lake County Journals, Weekly Journals, The Business Journal, Great Lakes Bulletin, El Conquistador, and McHenryCountySports.com.

History

In 1983, Shaw Newspapers doubled its newspaper holdings by acquiring the Cardunal Free Press and, by extension, every paper produced in McHenry County. In 1986, the company shuttered all of the small weeklies and dailies, some with more than 150 years of service in their communities, to create a new daily newspaper to serve all of McHenry County.

The Northwest Herald headquarters and new printing press also were built in 1986 in Crystal lake, allowing the Northwest Herald to publish in color almost from the start.

In 1989, the Northwest Herald added a Sunday edition and became McHenry County's first hometown, seven-day newspaper. It had a daily circulation of 29,688 and its new Sunday edition had 29,337 subscribers.

The paper was redesigned for the first time in 1992, with stock quotes added to the Business section and more space and sources for wire stories in the Front section. A Friday entertainment section in tabloid form named Sidetracks was added, as was a Saturday Neighbors section devoted entirely to readers' submissions.

Beginning in 1992, four different Northwest Herald front pages were printed each weekday. The practice, called zoning, ensured that readers would have the most local news product available to them on the front page of their paper. Zoning of the newspaper eventually would be expanded to seven editions in 2002, but was discontinued in February 2004.

After five years as a seven-day paper, the Northwest Herald won its first award for excellence from the Illinois Press Association in 1994.

References

External links

• Northwest Herald website
• Northwest Herald Classified

• Shaw Suburban Media website
• Shaw Newspapers website
• McHenry County Magazine
• Lake County Journal website
• McHenryCountySports.com
• The Business Journal
• ChicagoBaseball365.com
• ChicagoFootball365.com