was a syndicate initially created by Marshall Field to sell features from his Chicago Sun newspaper.
When Field started the Sun he found that Chicago was pretty much all sewed up with exclusive contracts on the better features.
It has been said that the flagship feature, Steve Canyon, was responsible for keeping the Sun afloat for many years.
Parade was sold the following year (to New York Herald Tribune publisher John Hay Whitney).
[7] The two men sold their most valuable asset, the Sun-Times (as well as the Field Newspaper Syndicate), to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation in 1983 for US $90 million.