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Chicago Tribune 🇺🇸
🏢 Tribune Publishing, Tribune Media 📅 since 1847 📍 Chicago
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
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🍞plain 🍞plain news 😇sunnier than others ✏️4.7 rewrites per 100 📡7% wire copy 📰 1587 headlines in 30 days · 43 on its front page now

🧬 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.

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🗺️ Its place on the outlet map, by which stories it covers: across, business and world news to the political fight; up, stories critical of Trump; down, crime and immigration.

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

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On its front page now

  1. 🗳 Illinois midterm elections
  2. Chicago bride's social media search for her mother's dress reunites family with lost wedding heirloom
  3. 'Chicago, do better': Vendors, food activists demand reforms to city's restrictive street vending laws
  4. Investigation underway after FBI-involved shooting in Dixmoor
  5. Clocks fall back this weekend, reigniting debate over daylight saving time: 'You never fully catch up'
  6. Kicker Justin Tucker, who hasn't played since 2025 after misconduct allegations, reportedly signs with Chiefs
  7. Chicagoland high school football rankings: Get Mike McGraw's Top 25 for the 1st round of the playoffs
  8. 1 dead in double shooting overnight in Loop
  9. Brazil's Flávio Bolsonaro and family will get US visas after election loss, State Department says 📰 Flavio Bolsonaro arrives in Miami after fleeing Brazil
  10. Whole Foods is coming to Logan Square in a new format
  11. Truck stolen by escaped Tennessee inmate is found abandoned in southern Illinois, authorities say
  12. Struggling burger chain Wendy's gets a buyout offer from activist investor Nelson Peltz 📰 Activist investor offers $1.4 billion to buy Wendy's
  13. A long-suppressed 1961 documentary about Chicago is unearthed
  14. Farmers criticize timing of Trump and Pritzker diesel relief orders issued a month before election
  15. Milwaukee Brewers bullpen finally cracks after Aaron Ashby breaks postseason scoreless relief mark
  16. Illinois' 7th Congressional District: Progressive La Shawn Ford poised to succeed Danny Davis
  17. Susan Saint James, Emmy-winning actor of 'McMillan & Wife' and 'Kate & Allie,' dies at 80 📰 Emmy-winning actor Susan Saint James dies at 80
  18. Fritz Kaegi defends record as Cook County assessor, calls for more reform in last budget hearing
  19. Will a massive reset work after exodus of transfers? What to know about Northwestern basketball this season.
  20. Leonard Miller arrived in Chicago as a trade-deadline throw-in. Could he be part of the Bulls' future core?
  21. 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
  22. Louise Lincoln, longtime director of recently shuttered DePaul Art Museum, dies at 79
  23. DePaul University College of Law renamed amid alumnus' $30 million gift
  24. What does an elected school board mean for Chicago? More politics, experts say.
  25. Documents support claim ICE has detained a mentally ill US citizen since January, AP investigation shows
  26. Chicago Media Report: John Kass winding down website -- and Horace Grant launches cable TV sports talk show
  27. Editorial: Stonepeak parking cash must be an additional pension contribution
  28. Editorial: Kennedy Expressway mess demands approval for the O'Hare Flyer
  29. US Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi: Anti-Indian hate came to my family's temple in Aurora
  30. Mattanjah de Vries: The US is likely to lose its edge in scientific research because of political priorities
  31. Oak Park Dia de los Muertos Festival returns a year after being canceled by immigration enforcement fears
  32. Cleveland-Cliffs delays Burns Harbor blast furnace reline for third time
  33. Hammond council urged to protect residents targeted by ICE
  34. Voters to weigh in on bond referendum questions in Yorkville, Oswego, St. Charles school districts on Nov. 3
  35. Parents discovered a $17M math error in Evanston District 65 budget. It still plans to close two schools.
  36. Elmwood Park's John Mills Elementary lauded for closing achievement gaps
  37. Lincoln Elementary School in River Forest awarded its second Blue Ribbon
  38. 18-year-old fatally shot in Chicago Ridge
  39. Southland crime: Video gaming thefts in Oak Lawn, New Lenox and Steger, and more
  40. Race for 65th District seat in Illinois House features Rivard, Ugaste
  41. Gary opens new $173,000 South Gleason Park Golf Range
  42. Calling it 'the tingle I get in my body,' Andrew's Kodi Campbell turns up heat in regional win over Sandburg
  43. Kenneth Montano, who 'toe-poked it in,' scores winner as East Aurora edges Oswego East in sectional semifinals

Headlines it rewrote

Chicago Blackhawks snap a 3-game skid with a scrappy 2-1 win over the Los Angeles Kings
Chicago Blackhawks snap 3-game skid with a scrappy 2-1 win to end homestand 3-4-0: ‘We deserved to win’
World Series: Tampa Bay Rays stun Milwaukee Brewers with a 12th inning rally and force Game 5 with 4-3 win
World Series: Tampa Bay Rays stun Milwaukee Brewers with rally in 12th inning to force a Game 5
World Series: Milwaukee Brewers fans flock to the Trop, eager to possibly celebrate the franchise’s first title
World Series: Milwaukee Brewers fans flock to the Trop, eager to possibly celebrate the franchise’s 1st title
Man dead following shooting by FBI agent, sources say
Man dead following shooting by FBI agent, agency confirms
Six Flags rollercoasters getting seat belts in wake of fatal accident: ‘Trust is earned through actions’
Six Flags roller coasters getting seat belts in wake of fatal accident: ‘Trust is earned through actions’
Will County reviewing more than 200 surveys as part of Homer Glen E. coli investigation of Bengtson’s Pumpkin Farm
Will County reviewing more than 200 surveys as part of E. coli investigation of Bengtson’s Pumpkin Farm
Clark, Penman compete for spot in Illinois Senate in District 33
Michele Clark and Danielle Penman compete for spot in Illinois Senate in District 33
NFC North roundup: Vikings defense clamps down on the Colts for a 16-10 victory to stay undefeated
NFC North roundup: Vikings stay undefeated — and the Lions beat the Packers on a last-second field goal
Freshman QB Michael Clayton II helps Illinois upset Oregon 21-10 in his ‘unreal’ 1st career start
Freshman QB Michael Clayton II throws 2 TD passes to help Illinois upset Oregon 21-10 in 1st career start
Freshman QB Michael Clayton II helps Illinois upset Oregon 21-10 in his 1st career start
Freshman QB Michael Clayton II helps Illinois upset Oregon 21-10 in his ‘unreal’ 1st career start
Chicago man acquitted of killing trans woman to conceal his relationship
Chicago man acquitted of murder in slaying of trans woman in 2018
Chicago Bears could be without TE Cole Kmet for extended period of time — potentially the rest of the season
Chicago Bears TE Cole Kmet will miss the rest of season with a knee injury: ‘It stinks. I hate it for him.’