Sun-Times Media closing 11 weekly Illinois newspapers

Sun-Times Media Holdings is shutting down 11 Sun weekly newspapers, eliminating most of the free publications in its chain, CEO Jeremy Halbreich said. The papers being terminated are in Geneva, Bolingbrook, Homer Glen, Lisle, Glen Ellyn, Plainfield, Wheaton, Downers Grove, Batavia, Fox Valley and the southwest suburban Lincoln-Way area. The company publishes the Chicago Sun-Times and owns a chain of 39 weekly Pioneer Press suburban papers.