Overview
The Lerner papers focused on community news and local issues, including a widely read police blotter, but also featured localized sections devoted to arts and entertainment, food, lifestyles and high-school and neighborhood sports, like "hyper-local" versions of daily newspapers.
At one time, the chain had its own printing plant at its headquarters in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood and a network of satellite offices across the city and suburbs.
Journalists who got their start at Lerner include the late Mike Royko, Crain's Chicago Business columnist Greg Hinz, Chicago Sun-Times columnists Bill Zwecker and Robert Feder, sportscaster Bruce Wolf, novelist Bill Brashler, syndicated columnist Robert C. Koehler and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy personality Ted Allen.
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