{"id":15923,"date":"2017-11-06T17:15:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T23:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=15923"},"modified":"2017-11-06T17:34:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T23:34:27","slug":"elgin-courier-news-cut-three-days-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2017\/11\/06\/elgin-courier-news-cut-three-days-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Elgin Courier-News cut to three days a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15924\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2017\/11\/06\/elgin-courier-news-cut-three-days-week\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15924\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-15924\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Tribune-Tower-1024x663.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Tribune-Tower-1024x663.jpg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Tribune-Tower-300x194.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Tribune-Tower-768x498.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Tribune-Tower-500x324.jpg 500w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Tribune-Tower-150x97.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Tribune-Tower-1200x778.jpg 1200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Tribune-Tower-400x259.jpg 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Tribune-Tower-800x518.jpg 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Tribune-Tower-200x130.jpg 200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Tribune-Tower.jpg 1460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> Tribune Tower<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The parent company of the Chicago Tribune is shrinking its newspaper in Elgin from daily publication to three times a week.<\/p>\n<p>As of this week, the print edition of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/suburbs\/elgin-courier-news\/\">Elgin Courier-News<\/a> will be published on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays only, a spokeswoman for tronc confirmed Monday. Online publication will continue daily.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15925\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2017\/11\/06\/elgin-courier-news-cut-three-days-week\/courier-news-logo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15925\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15925\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15925\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Courier-News-logo-300x49.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"49\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Courier-News-logo-300x49.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Courier-News-logo-500x81.jpg 500w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Courier-News-logo-150x24.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Courier-News-logo-400x65.jpg 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Courier-News-logo-200x32.jpg 200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Courier-News-logo.jpg 667w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15925\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elgin Courier-News<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Home delivery subscribers will have their subscriptions extended by one month at no additional charge, the spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n<p>The cutback followed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2017\/10\/12\/layoffs-hit-chicago-tribune-newsroom\/\">layoffs <\/a>of newsroom employees at the Tribune and its suburban publications in October.<\/p>\n<p>Billed as \u201cthe voice of the northern Fox Valley since 1874,\u201d the Courier-News had been owned by Copley Newspapers until it was sold to the Sun-Times News Group in 2000. It was acquired by Tribune Publishing, forerunner of tronc, in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Tronc also owns the suburban dailies Aurora Beacon-News, Daily Southtown, Naperville Sun, Lake County News-Sun and Northwest Indiana Post-Tribune. No change is expected immediately in the frequency of their publications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The parent company of the Chicago Tribune is shrinking its newspaper in Elgin from daily publication to three times a week. As of this week, the print edition of the Elgin Courier-News will be published on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays only, a spokeswoman for tronc confirmed Monday. Online publication will continue daily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15923"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15928,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15923\/revisions\/15928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}