NEWSPAPER

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/

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Conrad Black	Business	25-Aug-1944		Rapacious newspaper mogul
John D. Cruickshank	Business	c. 1953		Publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert	Critic	18-Jun-1942		Corpulent film critic
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	1956	Founder of the Chicago Sun-Times
Mort Kondracke	Columnist	28-Apr-1939		Tolerated by Fox, McLaughlin
Irv Kupcinet	Columnist	31-Jul-1912	10-Nov-2003	Kup's Column
Robert Novak	Columnist	26-Feb-1931		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

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