Chicago, hello! (Or good-bye)

2muchcoffeeman · Mar 18, 2025

All manner of bad news at the Sun-Times, a bastion of bad news.

I Should Coco · Mar 19, 2025

I wonder how the paper has kept the doors open. The Sun-Times was the classic tabloid paper to read as you took the train to your job in The Loop ..: until everyone began staring at their cell phones on the commuter train.

More than 30 years ago, when I lived with my grandparents in a near-west suburb, my grandpa would send me down to the 7-Eleven to buy him a scratch off lottery ticket and the Sun-Times.

Why not the Chicago Tribune?

“That’s the businessman’s newspaper,” he would say.

justgladtobehere · Mar 19, 2025

So much for public radio-newspaper partnerships.

Mr._Graybeard · Mar 19, 2025

Potash and I were at Mizzou at the same time. Not sure if we crossed paths but I remember the byline.

When I was a boy my mom's bff had a boyfriend who worked in the Sun-Times composing room. The ladies would do each other's hair while we kids watched pro wrestling, and then we'd go pick Len up from work. He would give us a Sunday Sun-Times, which was a treat because the Trib was the paper we'd usually see.