At Chicago Sun-Times, New Owners Vow Return to Paper’s Working-Class Roots<br />The idea is particularly resonant in Chicago, one of the last two-newspaper cities in the country, and the place<br />that gave America Studs Terkel and Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle.”<br />“The North Star, for us, is great journalism that genuinely reflects the lives<br />and interests of the working people of Chicago,” Mr. Eisendrath, 59, said in an interview last week in his downtown office, a room with few trinkets or wall hangings but a sweeping view of the Chicago River.<br />We think we’re going to serve the city really well.”<br />Along with Mr. Eisendrath, the new ownership of The Sun-Times includes several private investors<br />and the Chicago Federation of Labor, an umbrella organization whose president is Mr. Ramirez.<br />When Mr. Eisendrath’s group emerged victorious, many in the country’s third-biggest city — at<br />least those who pay attention to the ownership of The Sun-Times — felt a sense of relief.<br />The Sun-Times also has a burdensome $25 million-a-year contract with Tronc to print<br />and distribute the paper, which the new ownership group has said it will honor.<br />Less than two weeks ago, their fledgling idea came to fruition, when a group led by<br />Mr. Eisendrath overcame a rival bid by Tronc, the publisher of The Chicago Tribune.
