In the spring of 1967, Michael O'Connor created a special section for the Northern Star that he knew exceeded press capacity. "There were five or six of us who hand-inserted those, all 18,000," the Kankakee native said. "I was the only one who had experience...

Kathy Orr McDonald was the kind of journalist with ink in her veins. And a real dame. As managing editor and editor at the Northern Star in 1982-83, KO, as she was known to Star-types, was a familiar presence: cigarette dangling from the corner of her...

John Kringas shoots for one of the world's greatest newspapers, the Chicago Tribune. During college alone, he published images in the Tribune, the New York Times, The Associated Press, the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, the Grand Rapids Press, the Rockford...

Jerry Smith's life in publishing has touched nearly every corner - newspapers, yearbooks, public relations, radio and, of course, printing - without ever straying from his adopted hometown. Now he's in the business of giving back - as executive director...

The student press at what is now NIU was born the same year as the school itself, 1899. A 28-year-old student and schoolteacher named Alice Crosby became the first editor of the Northern Illinois. Alice was born April 27, 1871, in Henry County, Ill.,...