Hyde Park Herald

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Hyde Park Herald

Hyde Park Herald logo
Type Weekly newspaper
Format Tabloid

Owner Herald Newspapers, Inc.
Publisher Bruce Sagan
Editor interim
Founded 1882
Price US$0.50
Headquarters 1435 East Hyde Park Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60615
Flag of the United States United States

Website: hpherald.com

The Hyde Park Herald is a weekly newspaper that serves the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.

[edit] Early history

The newspaper was founded in 1882, and claims on its masthead to be "Chicago's Oldest Community Newspaper." For the Herald's first seven years, it was a suburban newspaper covering affairs in an independent unit of local government; after Hyde Park was annexed by Chicago in 1889, the Herald evolved into its current status as an urban neighborhood newspaper.

[edit] Coverage and publications

The Herald's four regular reporters cover local politics, education, real estate and crime issues.

Herald Newspapers, Inc., the corporate owner of the Herald, also publishes the Lakefront Outlook, which covers the neighborhoods north of Hyde Park up to 22nd Street.

[edit] Key people

As of 2007, the owner and publisher of the Hyde Park Herald is Bruce Sagan, father of Paul Sagan, the CEO of Akamai Technologies. Democratic political consultant David Axelrod wrote for the paper while a student at the University of Chicago in the 1970s.