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Article: John E. Stanton, ex-Daily News managing editor
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 22, 1987
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John E. Stanton, 78, former managing editor of the late Chicago
Daily News and founder of several suburban dailies, died Thursday
night in Holy Family Hospital, Des Plaines, after a stroke.
Mr. Stanton, who lived in Arlington Heights, joined the Daily
News staff in 1945 and progressively served as copy editor, copy desk
chief and night news editor. He became feature editor in 1959 and
managing editor in 1961.
In 1965, he was selected by Field Enterprises to establish a
chain of local daily newspapers in the northwest suburbs. He founded
the Arlington Day, the Prospect Day and the Des Plaines Day within
the next two years. The papers won many awards but were sold to
Paddock ...