Daily Southtown

Its popular slogan is "People Up North Just Don't Get It" (a pun). It is published by the Sun-Times Media Group.


History
Founded on September 11, 1906, the Southtown celebrated its 100th year as a paper in 2006.

Originally called the Englewood Economist, it was retitled the Southtown Economist in 1924 and began publishing twice weekly. The newspaper relocated from Chicago's Englewood community to the west end of the city in Garfield Ridge in 1968.In 1986, the Economist was purchased by Pulitzer Publishing; they renamed the paper the Daily Southtown in 1993, but sold the paper to the American Publishing Company the next year. The paper relocated to suburban Tinley Park in 1997.
On November 18, 2007, the twice-weekly neighborhood newspaper, The Star (Tinley Park) was merged into the Daily Southtown to create the SouthtownStar, which is circulated daily with a special Neighborhood Star pull-out section on Thursdays and Sundays.

The paper maintains bureaus in Chicago city hall and the city's federal courts building.
Awards
In 2006, the Southtown was named Newspaper of the Year among the nation's large circulation suburban dailies by Suburban Newspapers of America and the American Press Institute. The judges said: "This is a terrific newspaper -- its spot-news coverage is both broad and deep, and its feature stories are as good as those of the country's best newspapers.The newspaper puts a lot of effort into providing value to readers -- and it shows."
The paper also won the Illinois Associated Press Award for General Excellence in 2006, the national Fred M. In 2002, he won the Studs Terkel Award for journalistic excellence for writing from a grassroots perspective, and he's been the recipient of several prestigious Peter Lisagor Awards for commentary.
Of his most recent Lisagor win in 2006, the judges wrote: "His writing is absolutely clean.

No personal vanity, and eyes open to the world and the ordinary people who are so extraordinary in it."
Many noteworthy reporters have passed through the Southtown. Cathleen Falsani, author of The God Factor and now the religion reporter for the Sun-Times, got her start in newspapers as the religion beat writer for the Southtown.