Wire Service Closes After 108-Year Run

After more than a century of chronicling politics, murder and mayhem in Chicago, the City News Bureau is closing its doors forever. The City News, a gritty training ground for cub reporters for 108 years, had a skeleton crew at work Sunday in its downtown office, monitoring phones, the morgue, police and fire scanners. The bureau’s joint owners, the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times, announced in October that it was no longer financially viable to keep the service open. Since then, a coalition of news operations has stepped in to create a replacement wire service called the New City News Bureau.