# Is Straight Dope Chicago dead? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 17, 2011, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-straight-dope-chicago-dead/585765 "2011-06-17T00:42:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-straight-dope-chicago-dead/585765/1 "2011-06-17T00:42:05Z")
The current column on the [SD Chicago home page](http://chicago.straightdope.com/sdc20110414.php)starts with [QUOTE=Cecil Adams] To the Teeming Millions: Sorry about the long delay since my last posting. To make it easier to get these columns out on a regular basis, and also frankly to give me more chance to explore subjects I find interesting, I’m changing the Straight Dope Chicago format starting this week. [/QUOTE] Unfortunately, the column is dated April 14, 2011 and has stayed there, unchanged, for the last two months. So is the idea of a strictly Chicago division of Straight Dope World Enterprises dead? ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-straight-dope-chicago-dead/585765/2 "2011-06-17T12:36:02Z")
No, not dead. But changing, as here: [http://chicago.straightdope.com/sdc20110414.php](http://chicago.straightdope.com/sdc20110414.php) > [@](#): > > To the Teeming Millions: > > Sorry about the long delay since my last posting. To make it easier to get these columns out on a regular basis, and also frankly to give me more chance to explore subjects I find interesting, I’m changing the Straight Dope Chicago format starting this week. Although I’ll still answer questions sometimes, other times I’ll launch straight in as I’m doing now. I’m also not going to shoot for any particular length, not that I’ve tried real hard on that score up till this point. In other words, SDC will become a lot more bloglike, although it’ll still focus on life in the big city. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-straight-dope-chicago-dead/585765/3 "2011-06-17T14:41:29Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > No, not dead. But changing, as here: Comedy fucking gold! ---
**Author:** ![MikeS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MikeS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeS)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-straight-dope-chicago-dead/585765/4 "2011-06-17T15:02:03Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > No, not dead. But changing, as here: > > [http://chicago.straightdope.com/sdc20110414.php](http://chicago.straightdope.com/sdc20110414.php) > [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Comedy fucking gold! That quote does look vaguely familiar. That said, I suppose that Cecil did say that the column would “become a lot more bloglike”, and there are oodles of blogs out there that don’t update for months at a time. So. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Know\_Nothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f04885/32.png) [@I\_Know\_Nothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Know_Nothing)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-straight-dope-chicago-dead/585765/5 "2011-06-17T15:57:50Z")
It would help if there was a link from the Straight Dope homepage. If there is one I couldn’t find it. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-straight-dope-chicago-dead/585765/6 "2011-06-17T16:53:24Z")
Can anyone else see the articles from before 2010? I click on them and I just get a blank white page. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-straight-dope-chicago-dead/585765/7 "2011-06-17T21:39:27Z")
Are there plans for Straight Dope blogs for other cities too? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-straight-dope-chicago-dead/585765/8 "2011-06-18T00:51:44Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Are there plans for Straight Dope blogs for other cities too? Let’s go back to what Ed Zotti said back when the SDC site debuted: > [@](#): > > _The Chicago Reader is part of the Creative Loafing chain of alternative newspapers. Will you be launching local Straight Dope columns in Washington, Atlanta, and so on?_ > > If Straight Dope Chicago flies, and the publishers of CL’s other papers are interested, we might. What a local Straight Dope presence in another city would look like, and in particular whether it would feature a local Straight column, remain to be seen. We note, however, that Cecil comes from a large family, many of whose members are currently out of work, and if we can get these mopes out of the basement and into gainful employment, well, we might as well kill two birds with one stone. Right now, I’m more concerned with the Chicago section staying afloat than with what might happen someday. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-straight-dope-chicago-dead/585765/9 "2011-06-18T06:35:25Z")
I’m better at supplying questions than answers, but I’d be happy to roll up my sleeves and help to make SD-Chicago a winning idea, if I can help out. ---
**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:** [June 18, 2011, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-straight-dope-chicago-dead/585765/10 "2011-06-18T14:39:14Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Are there plans for Straight Dope blogs for other cities too? There were plans, even still relatively recently, but I cannot speak as to the current status of any of them.