 ChicagoNow logo | |
Type of site | Blogging site |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Dissolved | August 18, 2022; 2 years ago (2022-08-18) |
| Owner | Tribune Publishing |
| URL | www |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | August 2009; 15 years ago (2009-08) |
ChicagoNow[1] was ablogging site managed byTribune Publishing, owner of the printChicago Tribune newspaper. It featured a network of blogs of international, national, and local interest on a variety of topics ranging from crime to public schools to politics and diplomacy.[2]
Notable ChicagoNow contributors included the staff of theChicago Reporter,[3] andShimer College presidentSusan Henking.[4]
On August 18, 2022, the site was shut down with no announcement.[5]
ChicagoNow was launched in August 2009.[6][7] Its launch coincided with the Tribune company's bankruptcy.[8] As a newspaper-run blogging community, with the initial tagline "a blog by and for locals", it represented what one observer called "a new value proposition for newspapers".[8]
ChicagoNow usedMovable Type as its blogging platform when it first launched, then switched toWordPress in 2011.[9]
The website of theTribune dailyRedEye was initially hosted on ChicagoNow but later moved to its own domain.[10]
After the acquisition of the Tribune by Alden Global Capital, ChicagoNow was shut down without warning on August 18, 2022.[5]
In April 2010, the World Editors Forum described ChicagoNow as a "hyperlocal blog network" that has "a personal quality that many larger newspapers lack."[11]
In September 2010,Time Out Chicago criticized ChicagoNow for hosting an unidentified police officer in what they called "a hate-filled, racist rant by blogger Joe the Cop entitled 'The ghetto shooting template' for three days and counting now."[12] ChicagoNow removed the posts in question, stating that while they don't edit posts, they reserve the right to remove them.[13]
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