ChicagoNow is a blogging site managed by a subsidiary of the Chicago Tribune

Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is...

. Launched in August 2009, the site features numerous blogs of mainly local interest on a variety of topics.

The website of the Tribune daily RedEye

RedEye

The RedEye is a daily publication put out by the Chicago Tribune geared toward 18 to 34-year-olds. RedEye was created due in part to the loss of readership among young people of the Chicago Tribune and other major newspapers...

 is notably hosted on ChicagoNow. However, when accessing the site, most ChicagoNow branding is removed from the page.

ChicagoNow used Movable Type

Movable Type

Movable Type is a weblog publishing system developed by the company Six Apart. It was publicly announced on September 3, 2001; version 1.0 was publicly released on October 8, 2001. On 12 December 2007, Movable Type was relicensed as free software under the GNU General Public License...

 as their blogging platform when they first launched but later switched to WordPress

WordPress

WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL. It is often customized into a content management system . It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 14.7% of Alexa Internet's "top 1...

.

External links

• ChicagoNow website