Welcome To
Uniquely Northern Illinois!
In your hands, you hold the inaugural edition of Uniquely Northern Illinois, a partner with Uniquely USA.
These sixteen pages (moving to twenty-four in the 2nd edition) represent the beginning of a powerful and
growing product geared to showcase the Northern Illinois region each quarter. It highlights various and intriguing
communities, many of the captivating events and the areas storied culture and history.
For the readers of Uniquely Northern Illinois, this product is full of information not only from businesses in
the region, but by many of the great Chambers, Main Streets and other outstanding community organizations.
We encourage you to not just view this piece, but take time to visit and get to know the area many are proud to
call home.
For our advertisers, Uniquely Northern Illinois isn’t like most marketing products sitting on shelves waiting
to be picked-up by those already in the region. Our copies are proactively delivered to the doorsteps of households
paying to have print products delivered to their homes. They are delivered to the demographic that has
spendable money, and they travel. This approach allows your business to peak their interest while they are in
the decision-making process of choosing where to go, not after they have made their travel decisions like most
publications and marketing plans they will be exposed too.
We understand consumer habits are changing. You don’t want your information just in print, only digitally or
exclusively online; you want to be reached in a way that is soft and comfortable, fitting your personal lifestyle
without intrusion. Uniquely Northern Illinois reaches over 200,000 readers with each edition.
We would like to thanks Kathy Casstevens and Steve Stout for their outstanding photography used throughout
this edition. We would also like to thank Scot Wrighton and Rich Brooks for assistance in some of the written
features in this product.
We want to thank our 200,000+ readers as well as our many advertisers for being a part of this inaugural edition
of Uniquely Northern Illinois and Uniquely USA.
John A. Newby
Founder
Uniquely USA – Northern Illinois Edition