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The article reports that as Tribune Co. goes private under Sam Zell's stewardship, the best hope for a turnaround at the publishing giant may rest with a trio of Chicago, Illinois-based companies that are capturing much of the revenue being siphoned away from Tribune's newspapers. The three companies, Classified Ventures LLC, CareerBuilder LLC and ShopLocal LLC, are expanding at double-digit clips by selling advertising on the Internet at prices competitive with those for print advertisements.