As Newspapers Close Across Chicago Suburbs, One Local Nonprofit Newsroom Steps In

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Since March, the Tow Center has tracked newsroom cutbacks carried out during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. At least 66 outlets have permanently closed their doors, and another 42 have been impacted by mergers and consolidations. Most of the newsrooms affected were local outlets independently operated or owned by small news chains. Many were more than a century old, and had been passed down within families over generations.

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