# Question about each category's URL

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**Created:** [May 15, 2024, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-each-categorys-url/1001607 "2024-05-15T23:20:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-each-categorys-url/1001607/26 "2024-05-17T23:23:14Z")

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During my search for that thread announcing the end of that forum, I did see a post somewhere that intimated that this was the plan: Creative Loafing (SDMB’s TPTB at the time) was going to expand the franchise to other city-specific forums.

I think this is illustrative:

> [@Is Straight Dope Chicago dead?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-straight-dope-chicago-dead/585765/8):
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> Let’s go back to what Ed Zotti said back when the SDC site debuted: Right now, I’m more concerned with the Chicago section staying afloat than with what might happen someday.

(The infobox doesn’t contain the payoff: in between the sentences is a quote from Ed Zotti.)

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