What about the mainstream media?
Our purpose was not to examine the largest online news publications in the Chicago area. In fact, we biased our investigation toward small and innovative online news sites. Had we included local print and broadcast home pages, these would likely have occupied many of the top 25 to top 30 slots in our rankings. For reference, here are 15 of those sites with their Alexa traffic rank, where available:
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URL |
Alexa rank |
|
Chicago Tribune |
www.chicagotribune.com |
1,087 |
|
Chicago Sun-Times |
www.suntimes.com |
2,410 |
|
Chicago Breaking News Center |
www.chicagobreakingnews.com/blog/ |
13,835 |
|
Daily Herald |
www.dailyherald.com |
17,722 |
|
WBBM-TV |
www.cbs2chicago.com |
26,956 |
|
WMAQ-TV |
www.nbcchicago.com/news |
29,191 |
|
SouthtownStar |
www.southtownstar.com |
54,457 |
|
WBBM-AM |
www.wbbm780.com |
65,014 |
|
WFLD-TV |
www.myfoxchicago.com |
78,777 |
|
WGN-AM |
www.wgnradio.com |
138,279 |
|
WLS-AM |
www.wlsam.com |
142,905 |
|
WTTW-TV/ |
www.wttw.com/main.taf?p=1,4 |
233,630 |
|
WLS-TV |
abclocal.go.com/wls/index |
NA (subdomain of go.com) |
|
WGN-TV |
www.wgntv.com |
NA (subdomain of tribune.com) |
|
CLTV |
www.cltv.com |
NA (subdomain of tribune.com)
|
More online news publications
In the course of gathering online news publications, we came across and were impressed by the following but did not get to
survey them for one reason or another:
A Chicago Blog, www.achicagoblog.com
AREA Chicago, www.areachicago.org
Avondale and Logan Square Crime Blotter,
avondalelogansquarecrime.blogspot.com
Broken Heart of Rogers Park, morsehellhole.blogspot.com
Capitol Fax, thecapitolfaxblog.com
Centerstage, www.centerstagechicago.com
Chi-Town Living, www.chitownliving.com
Chicago Boyz, chicagoboyz.net
Chicago Daily Observer, www.cdobs.com
Chicago Gallery News, www.chicagogallerynews.com
Chicago Gangs, chicagogangs.org
Chicago Independent Media Center, chicago.indymedia.org
Chicago Jewish News, chicagojewishnews.com
Chicago Moms Blog,
www.svmomblog.typepad.com/chicago_moms
Chicago Reader Clout City, blogs.chicagoreader.com/politics
Chicago Tribune Clout Street,
newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/clout_st
Chicago Tribune: Exploring Race,
newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/race
Chicago’s Best Blogs, chicagosbestblogs.com
City of Destiny, cityofdestiny.blogspot.com
CityNews Chicago, www.newschicago.org
Daily Herald Animal Farm, blogs.dailyherald.com/blog/16
Eric Zorn: Change of Subject,
blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn
Flying Debris, flyingdebris.blogspot.com
Green Bean Chicago, www.greenbeanchicago.com
Heartland Journal, www.heartlandcafe.com/hj_index.htm
HispanicPro, www.hispanicpro.com
Huffington Post Chicago, www.huffingtonpost.com/chicago
IlliniPundit (Champaign), www.illinipundit.com
Illinoize, capitalfax.blogspot.com
Invisible Institute, invisibleinstitute.com
Local Tourist, www.thelocaltourist.com
Lumpen Times, lumpentimes.blogspot.com
Marshfield Tattler, marshfieldtattler.blogspot.com
Medill Reports, news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago
Michael Miner: News Bites, blogs.chicagoreader.com/news-bites
Nitty Gritty News, nittygrittynewschicago.com
North Lawndale Community News, www.nlcn.org/web/cms
Pitchfork, www.pitchfork.com
Prairie State Blue, www.prairiestateblue.com
Proximity Magazine, www.proximitymagazine.com
PURE Parents, www.pureparents.org/?blog/category/3
Radio Islam, www.radioislam.com
Radio Tiki, www.radiotiki.com
Second City Cop, secondcitycop.blogspot.com
The Dome, thedome.sj-r.com
The Expired Meter, theexpiredmeter.com
Time Out Chicago, chicago.timeout.com
Today’s Chicago Woman, www.tcwmag.com
Trib Local, triblocal.com
YourStreet, www.yourstreet.com/news/chicago-il
