Media in Chicago


The Chicago metropolitan area commands the third-largest media market in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles and the largest inland market. All of the major U.S. television networks have subsidiaries in Chicago. WGN-TV, which is owned by the Tribune Media Company, is carried as "WGN America" on cable and satellite nationwide. Sun-Times Media Group is also headquartered in Chicago, which, along with Tribune Publishing, are some the largest owners of daily newspapers in the country.

History

Journalists, novelists, architects, engineers, business tycoons, scientists, poets, sports teams, criminals, and millions of laborers shaped Chicago's national and international reputation. Images and representations are important means by which the city is known and negotiated. During the years of rapid urbanization between 1890 and 1930, numerous daily newspapers presented the most important and pervasive versions of the city.
Among the significant innovations of Chicago's newspapers in these years that shaped the idea of the city was the emergence of the local color columnist. Groeninger examines the role of columnists in Chicago newspapers in creating a "city of the mind." After a review of the literature on images of cities, the relationship of newspapers to modern city life in the thought of Robert Park, and the world of Chicago's newspapers at the turn of the 20th century, detailed studies of a number of the most important columnists of the era follow. George Ade's column of the 1890s in the Daily News, "Stories of the Streets and of the Town," presented a view of Chicago from the perspective of migrants from the small towns of the Midwest. In the same decade Finley Peter Dunne's column in the Evening Post, featuring the fictional Irish barkeeper, Mr. Dooley, offered readers a literary version of the Irish working-class neighborhood of Bridgeport. Ring Lardner's Tribune sports column of the teens, "In the Wake of the News," satirized not only Chicagoans obsession with sports, but also the middle-class culture of opera, musical theater, and the newspaper itself. Several columns in the black newspaper, The Whip, offered images of Bronzeville in the 1920s that both reflected and helped shape the experience of African-Americans on the South Side of Chicago. Ben Hecht's "1001 Afternoons in Chicago" column in the Daily News expressed a new, anti-Victorian sensibility in the post-war era, but his most enduring contributions to the image of Chicago were on the stage and in the new medium of film. The columnists who wrote about everyday life in the city were the most distinctive and powerful newspaper voices in shaping the idea of Chicago and the civic personality of the city itself.

Newspapers

Two major daily newspapers are published in Chicago, the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times. The former has the larger circulation. There are also a number of regional and special-interest newspapers such as the Daily Herald, SouthtownStar, the Chicago Defender, RedEye, Third Coast Press, Hypertext Magazine and the Chicago Reader.

Daily

  • Chicago Sun-Times
  • ''Chicago Tribune''

    Weekly

  • Chicago Crusader
  • Chicago Defender
  • Chicago News
  • Chicago Reader
  • N'Digo
  • Newcity
  • ''1440''

    Community

  • Austin Voice
  • Austin Weekly News
  • Back-of-Yards Journal
  • Beverly News
  • Beverly Review
  • Bridgeport News
  • Brighton Park Life
  • Bulgaria SEGA Newspaper
  • Chicago Citizen Newspapers
  • Chicago News Russian - Новости Чикаго
  • Chicago Free Press
  • The Chicago Independent Bulletin
  • Chicago Journal
  • The Chicago Maroon
  • Chicago Shimpo
  • Chicago Standard
  • Clear Ridge Reporter
  • Dziennik Związkowy
  • Edgebrook Times
  • Edison Review
  • Exito
  • Extra
  • The Gate
  • The Gazette
  • Greek Star
  • Hyde Park Herald
  • Inside-Booster
  • Korean News
  • Korean Times
  • La Raza
  • La Voz de Chicago
  • Lawndale News
  • Logan Square Times
  • Lumpen
  • McKinley Park Life
  • Mt. Greenwood Express
  • Nadig Press-Journal
  • Near North News
  • New Metro News
  • News-Star
  • North Lawndale Community News
  • North Loop News
  • Northwest Leader-Post
  • Norwood Review
  • River North News
  • Sauganash Sounds
  • Scottsdale Independent
  • Shoreland News
  • Skyline
  • Super Express USA
  • Third Coast Press
  • Tri-City Journal
  • Ukrainske Slovo
  • Westside Journal
  • ''World Journal''

    Business, legal, entertainment and other local periodicals

  • Bar Fly
  • Chicago magazine
  • Chicago Computer Guide
  • Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
  • Chicago Educator
  • Chicago Innerview
  • Chicago Journal of International Law
  • Chicago Life
  • Chicago Parent
  • The Chicago Reporter
  • Chicagoland Golf
  • Crain's Chicago Business
  • Jettison Quarterly
  • PerformInk
  • South Shore Parent
  • Third Coast Review
  • Time Out Chicago
  • ''Windy City Times''

    Defunct newspapers

  • Chicago Conservator
  • Chicago Daily News
  • Chicago Free Press
  • Chicago Inter Ocean
  • Chicago's American
  • Denní Hlasatel
  • Gay Chicago
  • Gay Chicago News
  • RedEye
  • Red Streak
  • Southeast Chicago Observer
  • ''UR Chicago''

    Broadcast radio

The Chicago metropolitan area is currently the third-largest radio market in the United States as ranked by Nielsen Media Research. The following list includes full-power stations licensed to Chicago proper, in addition to area suburbs.
Currently, radio stations that primarily serve the Chicago metropolitan area include:

AM stations

Asterisk indicates a non-commercial broadcast.
The Chicago metropolitan area is currently defined by Nielsen Media Research as the third-largest television market in the United States, with all of the major U.S. television networks having affiliates serving the region.
Currently, television stations that primarily serve the Chicago metropolitan area include:

Broadcast

Asterisk indicates channel is a network owned-and-operated station.

Cable

Government cable channels for Chicago are also carried on channels 23, 25, and 49.
Although EVINE Live does have over-the-air affiliates, it is not available via broadcast television in Chicago; however, is available on Comcast on channels 89 and 164 and RCN channel 193 in the Chicago market.