One-Paper Town?

Chicago is coming dangerously close to becoming a one-paper town. Chicago financier Jim Tyree has made a $25 million offer, but union members say concessions needed to seal the deal are too much.

If things don't change soon, Chicago will become a one-paper town. And that's shame. Lots of good thinking people left the Chicago Sun-Times when Murdoch took over, and they never came back even though that was years ago.

But still the Sun-Times, small, scrappy finds its way to stories that nobody else seems to find. Case in point the recent pension stories or a lovely piece that Dave Roeder did just today on re-development plans in Englewood.

Neither paper is what it used to be, but we still need them both.