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Sun-Times Media To Close 12 Weeklies

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Jan 8, 2009 9:24 pm US/Central

Sun-Times Media To Close 12 Weeklies

CHICAGO (AP) ― Sun-Times Media Group Inc. plans to close 12 weekly newspapers in suburban Chicago and has asked its union employees to take a cut in compensation as part of cost-cutting measures brought on by declining advertising revenue.

A union official told Crain's Chicago Business that the parent company of the Chicago-Sun Times also wants to lay off as many as 15 employees in suburban newsrooms.

The weeklies to be closed are part of the Pioneer Press group, which the company bought in 1989.

The 12 publications are: Algonquin Countryside, Arlington Heights Post, Cary-Grove Countryside, Des Plaines Times, Elk Grove Times, Hoffman Estates Review, Mount Prospect Times, Niles Herald Spectator, Palatine Countryside, Proviso Herald, Rolling Meadows Review and Wheeling Countryside.

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