CHICAGO (Reuters) - A judge on Friday told former media tycoon Conrad Black to remain in the continental United States while he waits for an appeals court to decide whether to throw out his 2007 fraud conviction.

Black was freed earlier this week on $2 million bond from a Florida prison where he had served two years of a 6-1/2-year sentence for swindling newspaper holding company Hollinger International Inc.

Judge Amy St. Eve, who oversaw Black's original trial, told the 65-year-old Black that she would consider his request to go to Toronto, Canada, to attend to his ailing wife, Barbara Amiel Black.

Black responded with curt answers during a brief 20-minute hearing.

(Reporting by James B. Kelleher; Editing by Andrew Stern and Will Dunham)

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