ChicagoNow

ChicagoNow is a blogging site managed by Tribune Publishing, owner of the print "Chicago Tribune" newspaper. It features 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.
Notable ChicagoNow contributors include the staff of the "Chicago Reporter", and Shimer College president Susan Henking.
History.
ChicagoNow was launched in August 2009. Its launch coincided with the Tribune company's bankruptcy. 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 utilized Movable Type as its blogging platform when it first launched but switched to WordPress in 2011.
The website of the "Tribune" daily "RedEye", which later moved to its own domain, was initially hosted on ChicagoNow.
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."
In September 2010, "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." ChicagoNow removed the posts in question, stating that while they don't edit posts, they reserve the right to remove them.