Tribune Could Buy SouthtownStar and Other Sun-Times Papers

Tribune Publishing will buy the SouthtownStar and all of Sun-Times Media’s remaining suburban newspapers, sources tell Robert Feder. The parent company of the Chicago Tribune would acquire the Sun-Times Media suburban titles on a “very aggressive timeline,” according to Feder, who reports that Sun-Times Media staffers are working to make internal system changes by early November to accommodate the transfer.

In addition to the SouthtownStar, formed in 2007 from the merger of the Daily Southtown and Star Newspapers and formerly headquartered in Tinley Park, the sale includes the Naperville Sun, the Aurora Beacon-News, the Elgin Courier-News, the Lake County Sun, the Post-Tribune in Northwest Indiana and the weekly Pioneer Press titles in the west and north suburbs.

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