Aggrego Is The Bed The Chicago Sun Times And Chicago Tribune Are Now In Together

       Wrapports, the investment group that owns the Sun-Times, created Aggrego four years ago to produce content for its suburban papers. Those papers were sold and Aggrego shifted to producing content for the Sun-Times Network of local news sites.

     In her coverage of the Aggrego deal, Crains‘s Lynne Marek appropriately raises an eyebrow. “So much for bolstering the separation of Tribune Publishing and rival Chicago Sun-Times parent Wrapports,” Marek’s story begins, noting that Michael Ferro, who owns most of Wrapports (and fathered Aggrego), now controls Tribune Publishing, though he says he gave all his Sun-Times stock to a charitable trust. For what it’s worth, the deal was in the works before Ferro crossed the street.