''The Star'' of Star Newspapers was a twice weekly regional

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serving the southern Chicago suburbs. The newspaper covered news in

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, Park Forest,

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, University Park,

Orland Park Orland Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, with a small portion in Will County. The village is a suburb of Chicago. Per the 2020 census, Orland Park had a population of 58,703. Located 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Chicago ...

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Richton Park Richton Park is a village and a southern suburb of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 12,775 at the 2020 census. The community was named after a Richton in Vermont, the native home of a first settler. Geography Ri ...

, Frankfort, Mokena, 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

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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

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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

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. Then in 2014, the SouthtownStar was purchased by the

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External links

The Neighborhood Star website

Profile at Mondotimes
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