CHICAGOTRIBUNE.COM REDESIGN
June 13: 2011:
Introducing the new chicagotribune.com: your home page for the breaking news, sports, weather, business, entertainment and views that matter to people living in the Chicago area.
With the city's largest newsroom behind it, chicagotribune.com is the place where original reporting, social media and multimedia come together to provide you with the relevant, timely coverage essential to Chicagoans.
MORE BREAKING NEWS
The new chicagotribune.com has been redesigned to focus on breaking stories of interest to Chicagoland users. Our successful breaking news, sports and business sites will be merged with chicagotribune.com. We also have started a new breaking entertainment section to bring you the latest on Chicago theater, music, celebrities and more.
USEFUL TOOLS
What to do? What to buy? Should I bring an umbrella? These are some of the questions we help readers answer on chicagotribune.com with our weather coverage, events, daily deals and listings.
PARTNER TO PRINT EDITION
As the online home of the Chicago Tribune, the site complements the print edition. To make it easier for readers to locate the more in-depth coverage available from the newspaper, we have assembled the stories in easily identifiable bands on many pages of the site.
PERSONALIZED CONTENT
Choose a suburb and find real-time relevant news and happenings in your town to help you make informed decisions and organize your life.
CLEANER DESIGN
Our online readers want information fast. A cleaner layout with new fonts, fewer colors and a faster load time allows readers to focus on the news of the day. With breaking news moved to the top of the site, it is quicker and easier to check throughout the day for the latest developments.
FROM OUR PARTNERS
The chicagotribune.com home page features the top posts from ChicagoNow, the Tribune's blog network. You will also find stories and multimedia from WGN TV, WGN Radio, RedEye, Metromix and Chicago Magazine.
CHICAGOTRIBUNE.COM SPECIAL PROJECTS
When a stranger tries to abduct a child, it can have a devastating impact on the victim. Yet in Cook County, few such cases result in arrests or convictions.
Memories of the Vietnam War are dimming, but veterans and Vietnamese nationals who were exposed to Agent Orange and other dioxin-laced defoliants are still experiencing devastating health effects, and birth defects have brought the impact into a second generation. Yet the U.S. government has yet to make full amends, either in the U.S. or overseas.