Finally, a news site for people who find boston.com too challenging

The Sun-Times, which is sort of Chicago's equivalent of the Herald (only with fewer professionally taken photos), is scheduled to launch news aggregator sites in 70 cities across the country tomorrow, including Boston. The Sun-Times extols:

The effort is designed to offer content in a manner similar to websites such as Deadspin and Buzzfeed, which aggregate news stories while offering additional commentary.

For a site that's supposed to launch tomorrow, the Boston edition is just a tad barren: The lead story right now is about the Celtics starting roster and has nothing about something else people might be talking about in Boston.

The rest of the Boston-specific content consists of listicles lists that might seem more appropriate on a Boston version of spoof site like Clickhole: "Ranking 11 Boston Nicknames (including "City of Notion" - um, what?) and 7 seals straight chilling at the Boston Aquarium.

The Nieman Journalism Lab reports the Sun-Times network is looking for a local media partner to do actual news stories:

The idea here is a fairly simple one. Launch all the sites, and then use local media player partners - a mobile provider, a TV or radio station, a chain of weeklies, a monthly magazine - to grow awareness and traffic in markets. No partners will be announced until at least November. The partner profile: A company that knows it should be in the digital game, but isn’t yet in, and doesn’t want to invest in the work of getting in itself.

Also hopefully one that knows the name of the local aquarium.

But who might partner with them? There are only two local media entities around here that aren't online - the Boston Courant and the Bulletin chain, and both have made very conscious decisions not to go online.