Pricey readers,
I’m delighted to let you already know that our vendor, Chicago Tribune Firm, has efficiently repaired its printing presses in Schaumburg. The Solar-Instances has returned to printing at our standard plant for greater than per week with no points, which has been an enormous aid following an unprecedented interval of disruption.
It began July 16, when the newspaper was printed and delivered a day late. That day marked the primary time anybody might keep in mind the Solar-Instances lacking a paper in our 76-year historical past. (The Tribune, the Day by day Herald, The Wall Road Journal, The New York Instances and different papers additionally print on the identical plant and have been additionally affected by the outage.) The disruption didn’t finish there.
Whereas our standard presses have been down, we have been in a position to print the paper by counting on extra printing capability at different crops. We needed to scramble every single day to stop that from taking place once more, slotting in each time one other printing plant across the area had extra printing capability and will accommodate us.
However that meant we had all kinds of deadlines to go to press. In some instances we had only a couple hours to satisfy deadlines that have been a lot sooner than regular. We additionally had way more restrictions on the variety of pages that might be printed in coloration and the entire variety of pages in every day’s paper – and no skill to do extra editions with information updates from later within the night.
It wasn’t till July 24 that we acquired the information we’d been eagerly awaiting — that we have been again to our common deadlines and have been printing in Schaumburg.
The scenario highlighted the vulnerability of newspapers in Chicago. Nevertheless it additionally showcased our resilience, with everybody within the newsroom discovering methods to get papers to readers whereas the printing presses have been being repaired.
I so respect our employees for understanding, rolling with the punches and doing all the pieces attainable to get the paper out every single day. And I’m very grateful to our readers and advertisers for sticking with us throughout this difficult time. Thanks for studying!
Warmly,
Jennifer Kho
Govt editor
