Chicago Sun-Times
The modern paper grew out of the February 1, 1948 merger of the Chicago Sun, founded on December 4, 1941 by Marshall Field III, and the Chicago Daily Times. Before Murdoch, the newspaper was for a time owned by Field Enterprises, controlled by the Marshall Field family, who also owned WFLD channel 32 since it’s inception in 1966. During the Field period, the newspaper had a populist, progressive character that leaned Democratic but was independent of the city’s Democratic establishment. Although the graphic style was “urban tabloid”, the paper was well-regarded for journalistic quality and did not rely on sensational front-page stories.
