Schurz

Ownership changed the next day — from family-owned Schurz Communications Inc. to GateHouse, which later also took over Gannett.

Other former Schurz newspapers in the area fared worse, becoming “ghost newspapers” with no local staff members.

We tested the family vs. private equity difference by visiting with Todd Schurz, who was president and CEO of Schurz Communications when the family group sold their newspapers.

He began writing songs while in Carl Schurz High School and became seriously interested in songwriting as a career after hearing a recording of Burton Lane and E.Y.

Four teenagers were wounded in an Aug. 24 drive-by shooting outside an ice cream shop near Carl Schurz High School on the city’s Northwest Side.