Is Straight Dope Chicago dead?

[Kent_Clark]

@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.