Naperville Sun, Beacon News Office to Close as Sun-Times Targets 'Inefficiencies'
Editing staff would leave Aurora for downtown Chicago under a new plan to restructure news operations and consolidate suburban newsrooms.
The Naperville Sun and Beacon News newspaper office in Aurora will be closed under a new plan to "eliminate inefficiencies" in Sun-Times Media. Get news in your inbox. Sign up for the Patch newsletter. Like Lisle Patch on Facebook. The company has become "too small" to continue to operate as it is now, according to Jim Kirk, its editor-in-chief, who is proposing to move the newspaper's editors to the Chicago Sun-Times newsroom downtown and consolidate all editing and production there. The company, as it downsized, sold all of its suburban newspaper buildings in Joliet, Aurora, Elgin, Glenview and Naperville and moved staff into leased office space. The Naperville Sun and Beacon News office is currently located at 495 N. Commons Drive, …
Leigh
4:31 pm on Saturday, December 22, 2012
I worked for the Sun for many years starting when Harold and Eva White owned the paper. They were both great people to work for but Harold sold the paper after Eva passed and followed her not long after. Things changed when Copley Press bought the Sun. For me it ceased to be a community paper and lost the neighborhood feel that it had. Maybe some other 'formers' would like to get together to … more ›