Don Hayner

Don Hayner

Recognized Achievement: 
Editor-in-Chief of Major Daily Newspaper
Bio: 

Don Hayner - Don Hayner is editor in chief of the Chicago Sun-Times. At the Sun-Times Hayner worked as a general assignment reporter, a personal finance writer, a neighborhood beat reporter and a Sunday features writer. He later became the city editor, metro editor and then managing editor. For five years he co-hosted —with Tom McNamee--a Saturday morning talk radio show for WLS (890AM) in the 1990s. He also co-authored three books with Tom McNamee: Streetwise Chicago, A History of Chicago Street Names; The Metro Chicago Almanac; and the Stadium: 1929-1994, The Official Commemorative History of the Chicago Stadium. Hayner is a graduate of Ripon College and John Marshall Law School.

CPS Schools Attended: 
Kellogg Elementary School