Investigators say he tried to use state funds to persuade the Tribune Company to fire Chicago Tribune editorial board members critical of him.

BBC: US prosecutors indict Blagojevich

The Tribune Company also owns the Chicago Tribune, Newsday and eight other dailies, 26 television stations and the Chicago Cubs.

NPR: Tribune's Plan to Cut Paper's Staff Sparks Revolt

The Tribune Company owns the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, and eight other daily newspapers, as well as the Chicago Cubs and more than 20 television stations.

NPR: Tribune Co. Turmoil Highlights Industry Problems

The company owns the Chicago Tribune, the Cubs and Wrigley Field.

CNN: Illinois governor back at work after corruption arrest

Federal investigators also allege the two were trying to have Chicago Tribune editorial board members fired by leveraging state assistance to the parent company of the newspaper, the Tribune Company, in its sale of Wrigley Field.

CNN: Impeachment of Illinois governor pushed

This comes after the news yesterday that the debt-laden newspaper company and owner of LA Times and Chicago Tribune had hired investment bank Lazard and the law firm Sidley Austin to try and help in this process.

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Since then he has worked to remake the Chicago-based company, introducing sometimes unconventional ideas, from centralizing the production of foreign and national news across Tribune's newspapers to launching an anchorless newscast at a station in Houston.

WSJ: Tribune Co.'s Board Weighs Future of Randy Michaels