Pioneer Press press publishes 50 local newspapers in Chicagoland. It is a division of scandal-ridden Hollinger International. Pioneer Press' headquarters is in Glenview. There are several other satellite offices: Waukegan (where, ironically, there is no community paper published by Pioneer), Oak Park, Hinsdale, Arlington Heights, and Park Ridge. Chicagoland. ... Hollinger International is the holding company of a Chicago based newspaper group. ...

The community newspapers are the main source of local news in affluent communities like Winnetka, Highland Park and Lake Forest, where there is virtually no competition. Because of this, it is often viewed as a "cash cow" for embattled Hollinger, which has operated a number of money-losing operations in the Chicago area. Winnetka is the name of some places in the United States of America: Winnetka, Los Angeles, California Winnetka, Illinois This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Highland Park is the name of several places in the United States of America: Highland Park, Florida Highland Park, Illinois Highland Park, Michigan Highland Park, New Jersey Highland Park, Pennsylvania Highland Park, Texas Highland Park, Los Angeles, California Highland Park, New York, New York, a neighborhood in Brooklyn Highland Park... Lake Forest is the name of some places in the United States: This should not be confused with places named Forest Lake. ...

Unrest among staffers has marred Pioneer Press' reputation. In March 2002, a sportswriter covering Highland Park High School basketball learned his beat would switch to covering the villages of Lake Bluff and Lake Forest, effective immediately. It meant he would not be afforded the chance to cover the high school's first-ever trip to Illinois' boys basketball quarterfinals in Peoria.

Angry with that and stung by several other ethically-questionable actions by the newspaper, the sportswriter wrote an angry letter to then-Executive Editor Paul Sassone. The letter was distributed and the letter-writer was terminated.[1]

In August 2003, the company made headlines after longtime arts and entertainment editor Virginia Gerst ran a negative review of a restaurant that had previously advertised in the papers. Although the place had ceased to advertise before the time of the review, Gerst was reportedly reprimanded and told the papers were "not in the business of bashing business." She was given a puffed-up new review of the same restaurant to run, this time written by Kyle Leonard, a former restaurant reviewer and managing editor who had since moved to the newspaper's marketing department.

Gerst refused to run the review and resigned, earning several ethics awards as a result.[2]

In 2005, Hollinger merged the 80-year-old Lerner Newspapers chain into Pioneer Press, Pioneer's first real inroads into the city of Chicago. Despite announcements by Publisher Larry Green that Pioneer intended to "grow" the Lerner Papers, over the course of the next six months, Pioneer dumped the venerable Lerner name, shut down most of its editions and laid off most of its employees. Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ...

Pioneer, which also publishes North Shore magazine, began taking over the Daily Southtown's Elite magazine in 2006. North Shore refers to more than one geographic area: North Shore, New Zealand, a city in the Auckland conurbation, New Zealand North Shore (Sydney), a suburban region of Sydney, Australia North Shore (Victoria), a suburb of Geelong, Australia North Shore (Lake Superior), the area of Minnesota, USA and Ontario, Canada... The Daily Southtown is a Chicago, Illinois newspaper that targets itself to the South Side neighborhoods of the city and a wide region of the south suburbs; its slogan is People Up North just dont get it (a pun). ...

Officers

Larry Green, publisher

John Ambrosia, editor-in-chief

External links

• Official website