''The Star'' of Star Newspapers was a twice weekly regional newspaper serving the southern Chicago suburbs. The newspaper covered news in

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, Park Forest, Crete, University Park,

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, Matteson,

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, Frankfort,

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, and

New Lenox New Lenox is a village in central Will County, Illinois, United States. It is a southwestern suburb of Chicago and an eastern suburb of Joliet. The village population was 27,214 as of 2020. New Lenox has schools like Lincoln-Way West High School ...

, among a handful of other southern suburbs. On November 18, 2007, The Star was merged into The Daily Southtown to become the SouthtownStar. The paper is delivered daily to subscribers, with a special Neighborhood Star pull-out section included in the Thursday and Sunday editions. Generally, its circulation area extends from the Illinois- Indiana state line on the east to New Lenox on the west. Its coverage area goes as far north as Worth Township and as far south as Beecher. The SouthtownStar is owned by the Sun-Times Media Group. Then in 2014, the SouthtownStar was purchased by the Chicago Tribune.

External links

The Neighborhood Star website

Profile at Mondotimes
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