# Announcing Straight Dope Chicago **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 4, 2008, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcing-straight-dope-chicago/475606 "2008-12-04T01:31:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcing-straight-dope-chicago/475606/41 "2008-12-04T21:26:10Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > Wait – Straight Dope Chicago has a “Politics” forum. So, why can’t the big board have one too? Well, if you should happen to post outside political commentary on the Chicago Politics board, it’s not like it would be out of the ordinary compared to their historical political breadth of participation 😉 ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcing-straight-dope-chicago/475606/42 "2008-12-04T22:14:14Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Several years before the Straight Dope Columbia one, I’m sure. Do you realize we don’t even have a Costco? Tell me about it. I get sick of buying gas in Blythewood on the way home every time I visit my mom. 🙂 Actually, last time, the cheapest I saw was at Two Notch and Fontaine. Hard to get in and out of though. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcing-straight-dope-chicago/475606/43 "2008-12-04T22:35:01Z")
Cool. If this goes well, maybe locations can pop up for other urban areas. I hereby volunteer to be a founder of SD Boston. (A man can dream!) ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcing-straight-dope-chicago/475606/44 "2008-12-04T23:53:19Z")
> [@Ed\_Zotti](#): > > (1) Because Chicago is where Cecil and I live. My belief that you are Cecil has increased upon reading this. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcing-straight-dope-chicago/475606/45 "2008-12-05T00:33:57Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I like it, if only because I can use it to poke fun at Bears fans. > > And, hey, aren’t you people too cold to type, anyway? Not yet. Hell, we’re still in positive numbers here. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcing-straight-dope-chicago/475606/46 "2008-12-05T14:02:32Z")
I post (although less than formerly) on another board that long ago fractured into regional and local forums. It became less of a community, with interests diluted amongst ever-expanding and increasingly specialized forums. Too bad that’s started to happen here. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcing-straight-dope-chicago/475606/47 "2008-12-05T14:30:06Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > Wait – Straight Dope Chicago has a “Politics” forum. So, why can’t the big board have one too? Because we asked for it. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcing-straight-dope-chicago/475606/48 "2008-12-05T14:36:32Z")
Quick market question. Before the creation of the SDCMB, how many Chicago-related threads had there been? per week/month/year? About other locations (I seem to notice a lot of DC threads, but that might be confirmation bias)? Did you ever consider doing just a Chicago forum and wait until interests emerged before splitting it into 6 sub-forums? (How much can you talk about Chicago sports without including the national scene?) I mean, I know the sub-forums are not an additional burden on the servers if nobody is posting on them, but they do dilute the attention of readers. I barely check IMHO or GD as it is, there is next to zero chance I will check 5 more forums. Will threads be moved between Main and SDC? ---
**Author:** ![Ed\_Zotti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@Ed\_Zotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ed_Zotti)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcing-straight-dope-chicago/475606/49 "2008-12-05T15:11:03Z")
> [@Sapo](#): > > Did you ever consider doing just a Chicago forum and wait until interests emerged before splitting it into 6 sub-forums? (How much can you talk about Chicago sports without including the national scene?) Straight Dope Chicago will have its own home page and its own SDC column, and will be promoted in the printed paper. We expect it to drawn in new users. We’re not just trying to move the old ones around. > [@](#): > > Will threads be moved between Main and SDC? I’ve told the staff to go easy on this. We figure Chicago-specific threads will naturally gravitate to SDC in time. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcing-straight-dope-chicago/475606/50 "2008-12-05T17:17:35Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > Wait – Straight Dope Chicago has a “Politics” forum. So, why can’t the big board have one too? I asked the boss: [QUOTE=Da Mayor] Whadya? I mean, I mean come on? What kind of ques…question is dat? I mean, hey - our guy just got elected President, our ex-Guberner is in pen, cleaning toilets, in where’s dat…Indiana? This is a political hot bed - there’s this guy paying off that guy, another guy probably paying himself off - I dunno how, but I bet! We got a governor so dumb now, he seems to forget he grew up hare and married an alderman’s daughter and treats his city like a second thought - I mean he’s a great guy and all, I’m jus sayin’, uh uh, that maybe he’s a little slow on the draw right? Politics here is fun, it’s exciting, come on, you ought know that, I mean you’re a smart guy, aren’t you? I dunno, that’s what people tell me, but maybe I heard wrong Oh, and don’t forget, Chicago in 2016 [/quote] ---
**Author:** ![Mumio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@Mumio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mumio)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcing-straight-dope-chicago/475606/51 "2008-12-05T22:17:01Z")
Good luck with the new venture–and thanks for letting us know about it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcing-straight-dope-chicago/475606/52 "2008-12-05T23:28:56Z")
I welcome the addition to the SDMB. I have often had Chicago-specific questions for GQ that I figured were too parochial to post, so I didn’t. But being a longtime reader of The Master (even had a question included in one of his early books), I use the forum to learn, and this sounds like an excellent opportunity to do more. Color me eagerly awaiting the new digs. xo, C. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcing-straight-dope-chicago/475606/53 "2008-12-06T04:11:15Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > Wait – Straight Dope Chicago has a “Politics” forum. So, why can’t the big board have one too? Because Great Debates would become a vast wasteland full of spirits and people futilely screaming into the shadows that they don’t exist? Seriously, GD is about 70% politics, 30% witnessing or misc. as it is. ---
**Author:** ![Bike\_Rider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Bike\_Rider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bike_Rider)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcing-straight-dope-chicago/475606/54 "2008-12-06T14:44:55Z")
As a former Chicagoan who really misses the city, I’ve loved reading the first few threads in there and think it’s wonderful. Good luck with it! ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcing-straight-dope-chicago/475606/55 "2008-12-06T17:58:34Z")
I think this is a fun and interesting idea, and I eagerly await the eventual arrival of Straight Dope: Trenton, NJ. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcing-straight-dope-chicago/475606/56 "2008-12-10T09:16:13Z")
> [@Ed\_Zotti](#): > > (1) Because Chicago is where Cecil and I live. Until I get a response in this thread from Cecil Himself I’m not going to believe you two are separate people. Well.. That wouldn’t prove much. But it’d make me oh so happy. ---
**Author:** ![Ed\_Zotti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@Ed\_Zotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ed_Zotti)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcing-straight-dope-chicago/475606/57 "2008-12-11T01:12:49Z")
The Straight Dope Chicago home page is now online, as is Cecil’s first SDC column. See: [http://chicago.straightdope.com/index.html](http://chicago.straightdope.com/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcing-straight-dope-chicago/475606/58 "2008-12-11T02:00:37Z")
> [@Ed\_Zotti](#): > > The Straight Dope Chicago home page is now online, as is Cecil’s first SDC column. See: > > [http://chicago.straightdope.com/index.html](http://chicago.straightdope.com/index.html) Looks good, Ed! ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcing-straight-dope-chicago/475606/59 "2008-12-11T03:48:17Z")
> [@Una\_Persson](#): > > Looks good, Ed! Dammit, now I want a piece of that pizza! The site looks mighty nice for its first day too. ---
**Author:** ![ntcrawler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@ntcrawler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ntcrawler)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcing-straight-dope-chicago/475606/60 "2008-12-11T05:06:02Z")
And how far out will the borders of Straight Dope Chicago go? chicago city proper or Chicagoland? Will it extend south of I-80 or West of I-290? what are the limits? I live in Elmwood Park. Chicago is 2 blocks literally away. Am I close enough? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcing-straight-dope-chicago/475606.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/announcing-straight-dope-chicago/475606.md?page=4)