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Subject: Re: Trib agrees to vacate printing plant
Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 16:13:43 -0700
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On 5/20/24 1:48 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

> Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
> 
>> In the continuing humilitation of a once fine but now decrepit
>> newspaper, Trib has agreed to vacate Freedom Center on the near
>> northwest side of the city by a year from July. The modern printing
>> plant was built in 1981, moving all production out of Tribune Tower.
>> This allowed them to build studios for WGN radio and a tv studio that
>> was used for a short while.
> 
>> Tribune Tower is irrelevant to the newspaper; it's being turned into
>> housing.
> 
>> I don't see how that's enough time to site and build a new plant, so my
>> guess is they're going to the vacant printing plant in Milwaukee which
>> Alden Capital already owns.
> 
>> Bally's was supposed to build and equip a replacement printing plant but
>> they made a cash settlement instead.
> 
>> The newspaper was stripped of all its land and other assets years ago.
> 
>> https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-tribune-ballys-freedom-center-move-20230505-nf4sbgbsi5d3jccewdnx4wc4sa-story.html
> 
> The final editions have been printed at Freedom Center as of Sunday, May
> 19, 2024. These were Sunday editions of Trib itself, Chicago Sun-Times,
> and the midwest edition of the New York Times.
> 
> The papers printed today Monday May 20, 2024, were printed at the former
> plant of the Daily Herald in Arlington Heights. The plant was massive
> overkill for the Daily Herald and the debt put them into bankruptcy (the
> are now a nonprofit) but it's a small fraction of the size of Freedom
> Center. But that's all the capacity anybody needs.
> 
> Trib's editorial offices, to the extent that anyone must come to the
> office rather than working from home, have been at Freedom Center. They
> cannot stay as the entire building will be demolished as soon as the
> printing presses are disassembled and removed.
> 
> https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/19/chicago-tribune-freedom-center-final-run/

Along with the rest of the city of Chicago?!...