Shaw Media Group is announcing that the Plano Record and Sandwich Record newspapers are being discontinued.
Beginning next Thursday, news from Sandwich and Plano will be merged into the Kendall County Record.
An announcement from the newspaper’s Thursday edition says the change will help streamline Kendall County print operations as reader habits and the newspaper industry change.
Industry estimates suggest that the United States has lost about 75 percent of its local journalists since 2002 as news jobs have evaporated.
Research by Northwestern University estimates that about 3,200 papers have stopped operating nationwide since 2005. In Illinois, from 2024 to 2025, 18 weekly newspapers stopped operating, leaving 257 weeklies and 41 daily newspapers.