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The backstory behind the unions that bought a Chicago Sun-Times stake

  • Written by Brian Dolber, Assistant Professor of Communication, California State University San Marcos
imageBack in the 1930s, people like this pear peddler in New York City's Lower East Side often got their news from labor-led media.AP Photo

An investment group led by former Chicago alderman and businessman Edwin Eisendrath and the Chicago Federation of Labor recently pulled off an unusual feat when it acquired the Chicago Sun-Times.

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