Hyde Park Herald
 Hyde Park Herald logo | |
| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Berliner |
| Owner(s) | Herald Newspapers, Inc. |
| Publisher | Randall Weissman |
| Founded | 1882 |
| Headquarters |
1525 East 53rd Street, Suite 920, Chicago, IL 60615 |
| Website | hpherald.com |
The Hyde Park Herald is a weekly newspaper that serves the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.
Overview
The newspaper was founded in 1882. 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.
The Herald covers local business, retail, politics, the University of Chicago, sports, Kâ12 education and local Chicago Public Schools, parks (including the Barack Obama Presidential Center), crime, obituaries and fire. Stringers provide photography and arts coverage.
Its offices are in the Hyde Park Bank Building.
Key people
The longtime owner of the Hyde Park Herald remains Bruce Sagan. He is father of Paul Sagan, the former CEO of Akamai Technologies. In July 2018, Sagan named Randall Weissman the new publisher.
While working toward his master's degree in 1947â51, future Washington Post columnist David Broder wrote for the Herald. Lee Botts, a prominent Great Lakes environmentalist and a senior official in the administration of President Jimmy Carter, was editor of the Herald in the early 1960s. Democratic political consultant David Axelrod wrote for the paper while a student at the University of Chicago in the 1970s. Beauty Turner, a housing activist, was one of the paper's columnists.