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Wrapports company history timeline

2009

The Reader, an award-winning alternative weekly newspaper, had been owned by Creative Loafing of Atlanta, which went bankrupt in 2009.

2011

Wrapports reached an agreement to purchase the Sun-Times company in December 2011, debt-free, for a reported $20 million.

The company was launched in late 2011 by Michael W. Ferro Jr., chairman and CEO of the private equity firm Merrick Ventures, and Timothy P. Knight, who was former publisher of Newsday on Long Island, New York, during the time when it was owned by the Tribune Company.

2012

In December 2012, it was announced that Wrapports will be closing all of its suburban offices and moving remaining employees downtown.

Wrapports expanded in 2012, buying the Chicago Reader and its associated properties.

2014

In October 2014, Wrapports sold its suburban Chicago newspapers to the Chicago Tribune Media Group.

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