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Country Herald
U.S. local community
Country Herald is a small, independently owned online news outlet based in Bourbonnais, Illinois, serving the Kankakee, Iroquois, and Will County areas. It focuses on local news, sports, community events, and regional Illinois stories, billing itself as 'Local News, Independent Pulse.' National political coverage — including of the Trump administration — is limited, and the outlet explicitly avoids partisan advertising, making a clear ideological classification difficult.
Owned byPrivately and independently owned; operated out of Bourbonnais, Illinois. Specific owner names are not publicly disclosed, though the outlet's primary contact is identified as 'Shane' (shane@countryherald.com).
LeaningU.S. local community
On the administrationmostly neutral
7average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun