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It was during the depths of the Great Depression when Mr. William Fabian, then an employee of an area newspaper, decided to launch the new Des Plaines Journal. Fabian owned and operated the Journal until 1947 when Richard and Mary Jane Wessell bought the newspaper.
During the next seven decades the Journal grew to its present day newspaper operation with separate editions in Des Plaines, Mt. Prospect, Rosemont, Prospect Hts., Niles, Elk Grove Village, Arlington Hts., Glenview, Wheeling, Palatine, Buffalo Grove, Rolling Meadows and other nearby communities that ring the “world’s busiest airport” O’Hare.
The word “Topics” was added to the Journal’s masthead in 1979 when the five Topics newspapers covering Arlington Heights, Palatine, Rolling Meadows, Buffalo Grove and Wheeling were purchased by the Wessell family.
In 1997, we launched our website journal-topics.com.
Since its founding, the Journal & Topics has won scores of awards for editorial and advertising excellence including first places in Illinois Press Association contests and the Peter Lisagor Award for outstanding Editorial Writing and News.
The Journal & Topics’ primary function is to bring its readers the best in community newspaper reporting, editorial writing, commentary and photography. We publish news about the local communities we serve, not about happenings in Europe or Washington, D.C., for instance. We will, however, publish news about people in the nation’s capital if it has a LOCAL angle.
If you have any further questions, address them to Todd Wessell, 847-299-5511.