The Hyde Park Herald is a weekly newspaper

Newspaper

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 that serves the Hyde Park

Hyde Park, Chicago

Hyde Park, located on the South Side of the City of Chicago, in Cook County, Illinois, United States and seven miles south of the Chicago Loop, is a Chicago neighborhood and one of 77 Chicago community areas. It is home to the University of Chicago, the Hyde Park Art Center, the Museum of Science...

 neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.

Early history

The newspaper was founded in 1882, and claims on its masthead

Masthead (publishing)

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 to be "Chicago's Oldest Community Newspaper." For the Herald's first seven years, it was a suburb

Suburb

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an 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.

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.

Key people

The longtime owner and publisher of the Hyde Park Herald remains (as of 2010) Bruce Sagan, who is father of Paul Sagan, the CEO of Akamai Technologies

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While working toward his masters' degree in 1947-1951, future Washington Post columnist David Broder wrote for the Herald. Lee Botts

Lee Botts

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, a prominent Great Lakes environmentalist and a senior official in the administration of President Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter

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, was editor of the Herald in the early 1960s. Democratic political consultant David Axelrod

David Axelrod (political consultant)

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wrote for the paper while a student at the University of Chicago in the 1970s.