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Former media baron Conrad Black's lawyer is asking a judge to speed up the creditor protection proceedings for his now defunct newspaper company Hollinger Inc.

Michael Ferro Jr., chairman of Sun-Times Media owner Wrapports LLC, unveiled new Sun-Times products that will feature fresh, colorful coverage ranging from society, fashion and gossip to business and sports, and he announced a new multi-million-dollar Sun-Times Foundation to help charitable causes.

The owners of the Chicago Sun-Times said May 23 that they have acquired the Chicago Reader, bringing an enduring part of the alternative press under the same corporate umbrella as daily and weekly papers -- including the Lake Forester -- that span the Chicago region.

Wrapports LLC, the collection of high-flying investors who own the Sun-Times and Sun-Times Media, have added the Reader to their stable, buying this 41-year-old weekly - which the Wrapports news release chooses to call 'iconic' - for slightly under $3 million.

This is a May 21, 2012 handout from CBC. Former media baron Conrad Black has given his first interview since being released from a Florida jail.

Former media mogul Conrad Black and his wife Barbara Amiel smile as he arrives at his home in Toronto, May 4, 2012.

The Metra station in Franklin Park was quiet on Monday, May 21, due to the NATO summit in downtown Chicago.

A company run by longtime Dallas newspaper executive Jeremy Halbreich is acquiring the Texas print and online publishing assets of California-based Freedom Communications Inc.

Police outside a Bridgeport neighborhood apartment building that was raided by officers on suspicion that the occupants were making Molotov cocktails.

AIM Media Texas, LLC announced today that it has reached agreement to acquire the Texas print and online newspaper publishing assets from Freedom Communications, Inc.

A Cook County commissioner has proposed a plan that would reserve a 5-acre portion of the former Oak Forest Hospital as a county cemetery.

CHICAGO - For the sixth time in the past week, rock-throwers have damaged cars on a Chicago area expressway.

The litigation trustee of Hollinger Inc., once a key company in Conrad Black's former media empire, has reached a settlement with one of its former directors - businessman Ralph Barford.

Now that he is out of jail and back home in Toronto, Conrad Black plans to keep a low public profile and concentrate on selling an updated version of his latest book.

Naperville Police Community Affairs officer Sgt. Gregg Bell show a small anount of heroin Thursday at the Naperville Police Station.

The Reader probably will be sold soon to the owners of the Sun-Times for about $3 million, according to a story published Wednesday afternoon by Crain's Chicago Business .

Wrapports LLC, parent to Sun-Times Media LLC, has invested in High School Cube, a Chicago-based company that broadcasts high school sports, concerts, graduations and other events.

Conrad Black's criminal case ended with a conviction for obstruction of justice and another conviction for mail fraud.

Hoping to avoid being caught breaking the law, abusers and sellers of prescription painkillers and other habit-forming pharmaceuticals often apply alternative labels to their drugs of choice.