The newspaper relocated from Chicago's Englewood community to the west end of the city in Garfield Ridge in 1968.
Like its larger counterparts, the newspaper also entered into the broadcasting business in 1925 with a license to operate radio station WBCN.
When Insull's fortune began to disappear, he sold the licenses of both radio stations to National Broadcasting Company in 1931.
In 2010 photo editor Larry Ruehl and staff photographer Matt Marton received the Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for feature photography.
He was the only full-time beat writer to cover the Michael Jordan era in Chicago from start to finish.
Kevin Carmody, environment reporter, won a 1999 George Polk Award, one of the nation's most prestigious prizes in journalism, for his stories on the official cover-up of the illness and death of employees exposed to toxic metals decades ago in A-bomb factories.
His series "Deadly Silence" revealed how hundreds of scientists, tradesmen and secretaries at a Manhattan Project lab at the University of Chicago were carelessly exposed to the toxic metal beryllium, then for 45 years intentionally kept in the dark about the potentially deadly health consequences.
Former education reporter Linda Lutton helped bring down a corrupt school superintendent, which resulted in a prison sentence.
In 2004, Lutton won the Studs Terkel award as well, for her writings on housing, education, crime and public safety, culture and politics.