# ChicagoNow > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/ChicagoNow > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/ChicagoNow.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChicagoNow > Source revision: 1344272363 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Blogging website}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2024}} {{Infobox website | name = ChicagoNow | logo = 64px|ChicagoNow logo | logocaption = ChicagoNow logo | screenshot = | collapsible = | collapsetext = | caption = | url = {{URL|www.chicagonow.com}} | commercial = Yes | type = [Blogging site](/source/Blog) | registration = Optional | language = [English](/source/English_language) | num_users = | content_license = | owner = [Tribune Publishing](/source/Tribune_Publishing) | author = | launch_date = {{Start date and age|2009|08|df=no}} | dissolved = {{Start date and age|2022|08|18}} | revenue = | current_status = | footnotes = }} '''ChicagoNow'''{{Cite web|url=http://www.chicagonow.com/|title=ChicagoNow|website=www.chicagonow.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-04|archive-date=August 20, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120820212950/http://www.chicagonow.com/|url-status=dead}} was a [blogging site](/source/Blog) managed by [Tribune Publishing](/source/Tribune_Publishing), owner of the print ''[Chicago Tribune](/source/Chicago_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.{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2010/04/24/the-tribune-company-finds-success-in-homegrown-hyperlocal-news-site-chicagonow/ |title=The Tribune Company Finds An Audience For Homegrown Hyperlocal News Site ChicagoNow |last=Rao |first=Leena |work=TechCrunch |date=April 24, 2010 |access-date=February 25, 2012}} Notable ChicagoNow contributors included the staff of the ''[Chicago Reporter](/source/Chicago_Reporter)'',{{Cite web|url=http://www.chicagonow.com/chicago-muckrakers/about/|title=About | Chicago Muckrakers|work=ChicagoNow|access-date=2013-05-23}} and [Shimer College](/source/Shimer_College) president [Susan Henking](/source/Susan_Henking).{{Cite web|url=http://www.chicagonow.com/chicago-campus/about/|access-date=2013-05-23|title=About Shimer Prez|work=ChicagoNow|archive-date=May 7, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130507090844/http://www.chicagonow.com/chicago-campus/about/|url-status=dead}} On August 18, 2022, the site was shut down with no announcement.{{Cite web |last=Kaufmann |first=Justine |date=August 25, 2022 |title=ChicagoNow is now Chicago history after Tribune shuts down blog network |url=https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2022/08/25/chicagonow-now-chicago-history |access-date=April 3, 2024 |website=[Axios](/source/Axios_(website))}} == History == ChicagoNow was launched in August 2009.{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagonow.com/about-chicagonow/ |title=About ChicagoNow |work=ChicagoNow |access-date=August 31, 2011}}[http://www.tribunemediagroup.com/portfolio/chicago-now/ Tribune Media Group, "Reach and Engage Chicago's Blogging Community"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120127170024/http://www.tribunemediagroup.com/portfolio/chicago-now/ |date=January 27, 2012 }} Its launch coincided with the Tribune company's bankruptcy.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qx_mZacoIcUC&pg=PA73|pages=73–74|title=Can Journalism be Saved?: Rediscovering America's Appetite for News|author=Rachel Davis Mersey|isbn=978-0313392085|year=2010}} 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". ChicagoNow used [Movable Type](/source/Movable_Type) as its blogging platform when it first launched, then switched to [WordPress](/source/WordPress) in 2011.{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagonow.com/chicagonow-staff-blog/2011/06/whats-new-at-chicagonow-2-0/ |title=Welcome to ChicagoNow 2.0 |work=ChicagoNow |date=June 29, 2011 |access-date=August 31, 2011}} The website of the ''Tribune'' daily ''[RedEye](/source/RedEye)'' was initially hosted on ChicagoNow but later moved to its own domain.{{Cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091218185032/http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/redeye/|archive-date=2009-12-18|url=http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/redeye/|title=RedEye | ChicagoNow}} After the acquisition of the Tribune by Alden Global Capital, ChicagoNow was shut down without warning on August 18, 2022. == Reception == In April 2010, the World Editors Forum described ChicagoNow as a "hyperlocal blog network" that has "a personal quality that many larger newspapers lack."{{cite web |url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/web_20/2010/04/chicagonow_offers_hope_for_hyperlocal_ne.php |title=ChicagoNow offers hope for hyperlocal news sites |last=Jaffe |first=Alexandra |date=April 26, 2010 |work=World Editors Forum |access-date=February 25, 2012}} In September 2010, ''[Time Out Chicago](/source/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."{{cite web |last=Sennett |first=Frank |date=September 23, 2010 |title=''Trib''{{'}}s ChicagoNow hosts cop's racist rant three days and counting |url=http://timeoutchicago.com/things-to-do/out-about-blog/120177/tribs-chicagonow-hosts-cops-racist-rant-three-days-and-counting |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100926155446/http://www3.timeoutny.com/chicago/blog/out-and-about/2010/09/tribs-chicagonow-hosts-cops-racist-rant-three-days-and-counting |archive-date=September 26, 2010 |access-date=February 25, 2012 |work=[Time Out Chicago](/source/Time_Out_Chicago)}} ChicagoNow removed the posts in question, stating that while they don't edit posts, they reserve the right to remove them.{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagonow.com/chicagonow-staff-blog/2010/09/why-we-removed-2-arresting-tales-posts/ |title=Why we removed 2 Arresting Tales posts |work=ChicagoNow Staff Blog |date=September 23, 2010 |access-date=February 25, 2012}} == References == {{reflist}} ==External links== * {{official}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20111119190433/http://multimedia.tribune.com/CN/ChicagoNow.html Tribune Media Group's ChicagoNow 2009 introduction] {{Tribune Publishing}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Chicagonow}} Category:American blogs Category:Defunct American websites Category:Tribune Publishing Category:Internet properties established in 2009 Category:Internet properties disestablished in 2022 Category:2009 establishments in Illinois Category:Blog networks {{blog-stub}} {{Chicago-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [ChicagoNow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChicagoNow) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChicagoNow?action=history)). 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