I was under the impression that Chicago is the home of two major daily newspapers. But in the Tribune’s case, the appellation is becoming increasingly fraudulent.
On April 2, the day after recent local elections, I went out early to pick up the Tribune for the complete results of our aldermanic elections. I scoured the election pages, locating only the mayoral race results–in Evanston, uncontested, and therefore not really big news. Finally, with puzzled amazement, I noticed the neatly outlined box at the bottom of the page informing Wednesday’s readers that aldermanic results would be printed on Thursday.
This was a local election! The Tribune’s election desk did not have to wait until the polls closed in California, or until the last millionth vote in a presidential election was counted. Our local ward race was conceded at 8:15 p.m.–long before the last ball game was played on the West Coast. Somehow the Tribune managed to print most of those scores in the morning edition.
