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The Chicago Sun-Times

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Daily tabloid. Originally founded as the Chicago Evening Journal in 1844, which became the Chicago Daily Times in 1929. In 1948 the Times was bought by Marshall Field III and folded into his own Chicago Sun (founded 1941), creating the present Chicago Sun-Times. The Field family auctioned it off in 1984 to Rupert Murdoch, who abandoned the paper to local investors in distraction two years later. Canadian mogul Conrad Black gained control via his American parietal Hollinger International in 1994; in the wake of Black's mid-00s deposal that company has restyled itself Sun-Times Media Group.

The Chicago Sun-Times operates in concert with 8 local daily papers and some 80 weeklies that cover the city.

Official Website:
http://www.suntimes.com/

Location:
Chicago, IL

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Conrad Black
Business
25-Aug-1944   Rapacious newspaper mogul
John D. Cruickshank
Business
c. 1953   Chicago Sun-Times publisher, 2003-08
Roger Ebert
Critic
18-Jun-1942   Siskel and Ebert
Marshall Field IV
Business
15-Jun-1916 18-Sep-1965 Owner of the Chicago Sun-Times, 1956-65
Marshall Field III
Business
28-Sep-1893 8-Nov-1956 Founder of the Chicago Sun-Times
James F. Hoge, Jr.
Editor
25-Dec-1935   Editor of Foreign Affairs
Mort Kondracke
Columnist
28-Apr-1939   Tolerated by Fox, McLaughlin
Irv Kupcinet
Columnist
31-Jul-1912 10-Nov-2003 Kup's Column
Bill Mauldin
Cartoonist
29-Oct-1921 22-Jan-2003 WWII cartoonist, Willie and Joe
Robert Novak
Columnist
26-Feb-1931 18-Aug-2009 Conservative ideologue, outed Valerie Plame
Richard Roeper
Columnist
17-Oct-1959   Siskel's replacement
Carl Rowan
Columnist
11-Aug-1925 23-Sep-2000 Chicago Sun-Times columnist
Mike Royko
Columnist
19-Sep-1932 29-Apr-1997 Syndicated Chicago columnist
John Scalzi
Novelist
10-May-1969   Old Man's War
Jeffrey Zaslow
Author
6-Oct-1958 10-Feb-2012 Replaced Ann Landers


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