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/

Location:
Chicago, IL

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known 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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