The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1847, it was formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper", a slogan from which its once-integrated WGN radio and WGN television received their call letters. — Wikipedia
🧬 Its fingerprint
🏷️ Outside the partisan webs
Everyone outside the two partisan webs, from the wires to cable news: a big, mixed group that runs more of the stories everyone runs. Not a mark of quality or lean; its look-alikes say more.
📡 Wire: 96th percentile. Its stories and headline words are closer to the AP's and Reuters' than 96% of the 75 outlets we fingerprint.
🌶️ Heat: 8th percentile. Its headlines are worded more heatedly (loaded words, combat verbs, anger) than 8% of them.
👯 Behaves most like Los Angeles Times, Tampa Bay Times and USA Today.
From what it did on its front page in the last 28 days (162 of our stories, 1811 headlines), not from its ratings.
The feelings in its headlines
On its front page now
- 🗳 Illinois midterm elections
- Chicago bride's social media search for her mother's dress reunites family with lost wedding heirloom
- 'Chicago, do better': Vendors, food activists demand reforms to city's restrictive street vending laws
- Investigation underway after FBI-involved shooting in Dixmoor
- Clocks fall back this weekend, reigniting debate over daylight saving time: 'You never fully catch up'
- Kicker Justin Tucker, who hasn't played since 2025 after misconduct allegations, reportedly signs with Chiefs
- Chicagoland high school football rankings: Get Mike McGraw's Top 25 for the 1st round of the playoffs
- 1 dead in double shooting overnight in Loop
- Brazil's Flávio Bolsonaro and family will get US visas after election loss, State Department says 📰 Flavio Bolsonaro arrives in Miami after fleeing Brazil
- Whole Foods is coming to Logan Square in a new format
- Truck stolen by escaped Tennessee inmate is found abandoned in southern Illinois, authorities say
- Struggling burger chain Wendy's gets a buyout offer from activist investor Nelson Peltz 📰 Activist investor offers $1.4 billion to buy Wendy's
- A long-suppressed 1961 documentary about Chicago is unearthed
- Farmers criticize timing of Trump and Pritzker diesel relief orders issued a month before election
- Milwaukee Brewers bullpen finally cracks after Aaron Ashby breaks postseason scoreless relief mark
- Illinois' 7th Congressional District: Progressive La Shawn Ford poised to succeed Danny Davis
- Susan Saint James, Emmy-winning actor of 'McMillan & Wife' and 'Kate & Allie,' dies at 80 📰 Emmy-winning actor Susan Saint James dies at 80
- Fritz Kaegi defends record as Cook County assessor, calls for more reform in last budget hearing
- Will a massive reset work after exodus of transfers? What to know about Northwestern basketball this season.
- Leonard Miller arrived in Chicago as a trade-deadline throw-in. Could he be part of the Bulls' future core?
- US cruise ship suspends global voyage in Asia due to fuel costs, stranding 200 passengers 📰 U.S. cruise ship suspends global voyage in Asia due to fuel costs, stranding 200 passengers
- Louise Lincoln, longtime director of recently shuttered DePaul Art Museum, dies at 79
- DePaul University College of Law renamed amid alumnus' $30 million gift
- What does an elected school board mean for Chicago? More politics, experts say.
- Documents support claim ICE has detained a mentally ill US citizen since January, AP investigation shows
- Chicago Media Report: John Kass winding down website -- and Horace Grant launches cable TV sports talk show
- Editorial: Stonepeak parking cash must be an additional pension contribution
- Editorial: Kennedy Expressway mess demands approval for the O'Hare Flyer
- US Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi: Anti-Indian hate came to my family's temple in Aurora
- Mattanjah de Vries: The US is likely to lose its edge in scientific research because of political priorities
- Oak Park Dia de los Muertos Festival returns a year after being canceled by immigration enforcement fears
- Cleveland-Cliffs delays Burns Harbor blast furnace reline for third time
- Hammond council urged to protect residents targeted by ICE
- Voters to weigh in on bond referendum questions in Yorkville, Oswego, St. Charles school districts on Nov. 3
- Parents discovered a $17M math error in Evanston District 65 budget. It still plans to close two schools.
- Elmwood Park's John Mills Elementary lauded for closing achievement gaps
- Lincoln Elementary School in River Forest awarded its second Blue Ribbon
- 18-year-old fatally shot in Chicago Ridge
- Southland crime: Video gaming thefts in Oak Lawn, New Lenox and Steger, and more
- Race for 65th District seat in Illinois House features Rivard, Ugaste
- Gary opens new $173,000 South Gleason Park Golf Range
- Calling it 'the tingle I get in my body,' Andrew's Kodi Campbell turns up heat in regional win over Sandburg
- Kenneth Montano, who 'toe-poked it in,' scores winner as East Aurora edges Oswego East in sectional semifinals