Is Kane County Chronicle a local newspaper in another state?”
Kane County Chronicle is a daily newspaper serving Kane County, Illinois. The Kane County Chronicle serves central Kane County, located in the Fox Valley region of Illinois, about 40 miles west of Chicago. Samuel W. Durant founded the Valley Chronicle in 1881. In its first issue, Vol. 1, No. 1, on May 27, 1881, Durant listed the paper’s goals: “It will stand aloof from personalities, petty neighborhood difficulties, and unauthorized gossip. It will not wage war on its contemporaries, in the interest of any class, political, religious, sectional or otherwise. Its course will be directed with eye single to the dignified position which journalism should occupy, and in the general interests of the valley and surrounding region.” In 1990, the Chronicle’s four semi-weekly papers, St. Charles, Geneva, Batavia, and Elburn, combined into one edition with the name changed to the Kane County Chronicle. Up until 1991, the paper had been published twice a week on Wednesday and Friday. In 1991, it b
