• Chris Ware Self-Portrait

I don't know if the auditorium at Parker can hold that kind of turnout, but tomorrow the two will return for a CHF panel discussion moderated by the Reader's Michael Miner.

Here is the same article as it appeared in the Los Angeles Times, a Tribune Company paper where the Tower is despised. This version of the story drips with contempt.

"The least the three transit agencies [the CTA, Metra, and Pace] wanted last week was a lifting of the free rides for senior citizens, a move that would have saved them up to $37 million." — Chicago Tribune, November 1.

• Jim Warren

“He’s all the things you look for,” says Gilbert. “He has integrity, courage, enterprise, intelligence.” He says the appointment sends a message, both within the Reader and to the city, that “this newspaper continues to be very serious about its journalism and its content.”

UPDATE: Michael Miner's first post on the subject.

Here's Gilbert's statement:

A spokesman for Chicago Public Radio says Feder is the first of several "expert bloggers" that Vocalo will soon be announcing. A three-year-old multimedia experiment that CPR created but bends over backward to remain publicly distant from, so that neither Vocalo nor WBEZ contaminates the image of the other, Vocalo consists of a radio station and a Web site conceived to attract an audience that's far younger and more blue-collar than WBEZ's. The Web site has been a major disappointment and upgrading it is a CPR priority.

Says Feder, "I look forward to redefining my old broadcast beat, while expanding the scope of my reporting to include print, the Internet and whatever else comes along. Best of all, every reader will be welcome to offer instant feedback and participate in what I hope will be a lively, ongoing dialogue about media issues."

Here's his entire statement.

At the close of the conference, confusion ensues — and some will say hilarity reigns — when a genuine chamber spokesman barrels in to denounce the fraud.

Here's a link to a video assortment, including the Fox Business Network's credulous coverage of the chamber's new position coming to a screeching halt.

Here's the Sun-Times report of this agreement.

The new package has already been approved by the guild unit at the Lake County News-Sun, which rejected Tyree's original demands by a vote of 12 to 4.

With the guild's blessing, however reluctantly given, Tyree's investment group, the only bidder in a bankruptcy court auction, is expected to be announced Thursday as the new owner of the STMG.