Chicago Media

The Chicago Reader, reported earlier this year to be on the auction block, was officially purchased Wednesday by Wrapports LLC, the parent company of ...

(Crain's) -- Wrapports LLC, the parent of the Chicago Sun-Times, is poised to purchase the Chicago Reader as soon as next week for about $3 million, a...

Although Playboy magazine officially uprooted its Chicago offices to head west for Los Angeles last month, the magazine has left behind several relics...

WGN-TV Channel 9 news anchor Mark Suppelsa plans to take a month off work to enter an alcohol recovery program, the news station announced on its webs...

The Chicago Tribune's hyper-local online and print division, TribLocal, announced big changes stemming from a Tribune Co. investment in Chicago-based ...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Monday that journalists covering the NATO summit in Chicago next month would not have to worry about being handcuffed for doin...

Last week, The Atlantic Wire reported that The Onion's move back to the Midwest is not going as smoothly as the company's higher-ups had hoped. In ...

A group of Chicago journalists attempting to cover the fatal shooting of a 6-year-old girl over the weekend were cursed at and handcuffed by Chicago p...

(Crain's) -- The owner of the Chicago Reader has put the alternative weekly on the sales block, hiring a Dallas firm to help shop the paper, according...

A massive boa constrictor took a liking to a Chicago morning show host Thursday -- and crawled inside her shirt while the show was taping. During ...

The Chicago News Cooperative, a non-profit public-interest journalism organization launched in the fall of 2009, will reportedly cease operation Feb. ...

Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich will report to prison in exactly one month -- and has apparently decided to head west. Sources told the C...

Chicago's newest journalistic and literary enterprise combines a Jazz Age title and a nonprofit business model with a bold and ambitious 21st century ...

A Chicago museum will play host Wednesday to a public memorial honoring legendary "Soul Train" creator and host Don Cornelius. As Time Out Chicago ...

The Chicago Tribune on Tuesday published an editorial stating that, despite the Sun-Times' Monday announcement that they would cease making candidate ...

The Chicago Sun-Times announced late Sunday that, for the first time since it launched 71 years ago, it will not be making endorsements in the upcomin...

CHICAGO -- A new investment group led by a Chicago entrepreneur and a former Newsday media executive has agreed to buy Sun-Times Media Holdings, the c...

The Chicago Sun-Times, the city's second biggest newspaper whose recent financial woes led to a bankruptcy declaration in 2009 and the recent erection...

One of Chicago's two main daily newspapers will be introducing a "metered" paywall later this week. The Chicago Sun-Times announced late Tuesday th...

Their coverage of the Arab Spring brought Qatar-based Al Jazeera into the homes of those in the west who followed the uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia and ...

Garry Trudeau's "Doonesbury" comic has been pulled from the Chicago Tribune this week because, according to the newspaper's editorial staff, its conte...

With its move to begin charging its online readers a monthly fee to visit its site, the suburban Daily Herald Wednesday became the first Chicago area ...

While its name has already been emblazoned on a sign outside the entrance of Harpo Studios, it turns out that "Oprah Winfrey Way" still faces one more...

When it comes to the next mayor of Chicago and NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5, it looks like the honeymoon may be over before it ever started. Mary Ann A...

On a warm April weekend in 2008, 40 people were shot--seven fatally--in Chicago. The story made national news, if only for a day or two. But two repor...