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SouthtownStar Office to Close as Sun-Times Targets 'Inefficiencies'
Editing staff would leave Tinley Park for downtown Chicago under a new plan to restructure news operations and consolidate suburban newsrooms.
The SouthtownStar newspaper office in Tinley Park will be closed under a new plan to "eliminate inefficiencies" in Sun-Times Media. The company has become "too small" to continue doing business as it has been, according to Jim Kirk, its editor-in-chief, who wants to move the newspaper's editors to the Chicago Sun-Times newsroom downtown and consolidate all editing and production there. Just last year, the SouthtownStar moved to a small leased office in a business park along 183rd Street after selling its large building at the corner of 159th Street and Harlem Avenue to Menards, which intends to expand into the space. The company, as it downsized, sold all of its suburban newspaper buildings in Joliet, Aurora, Elgin, Glenview and …
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Pat F
1:54 pm on Sunday, December 23, 2012
I worked for a trucking company that was involved with the Southtown for over 50 years..As the newspaper industry changed the Southtown simply fell apart.. At one time it was one of the "Powerhouses" in the industry and now all it does is run advertising and legal notices with possibly 20% connected to any kind of useful news! When my renewal comes up, it won't happen again.. They have destroyed … more ›