NY Times spotlights Chicago real estate and radio

Nobody covers the waterfront quite the way the New York Times does. Yesterday’s edition had a story about Millennium Park’s impact on the East Loop, no detail of which would surprise anybody who’s been watching here in town. But with all the international attention that’s been paid to the park as a cultural and recreational amenity [if there is a travel story about Chicago in any publication, and there is one picture in the story, it is much more likely going to be of the Bandshell or the Bean than of the Picasso, which it certainly would have been three years ago], the rest of the world is mostly unaware of its role in transforming that part of the city. A story like this serves to reinforce Chicago’s poster-child status for the Post-Industrial modern American city.

It’s what the New York Times does best — not exactly spotting trends as they’re on the low edge of the ascendance, but recognizing them — actually, anointing them — as having become part of the national consciousness.

On a similar note, yesterday’s paper also had a piece about the usually hilarious and always entertaining Chicago Public Radio show Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, reporting that it has the fastest-expanding audience among NPR’s programs [Take that, Ira Glass.] Have the local papers recognized this? Surely you jest.

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