There’s no shortage of text lamenting the death of print. But I’ve not come to bury Caesar, but to get him to get rid of his unused metal boxes. This is a typical set of newspaper boxes in downtown Chicago (at the corner of State Street and Wacker Drive), taken last week. 15 newspaper delivery mechanisms all lined up. Most of the boxes have stickers and graffiti, and many have those familiar orange “remove this box or else” stickers.
So let’s take a look at these, one by one.
ALIVE: Red Eye
DEAD: Chicago Sports Weekly. A logo for a Web site, never heard of it before.
ALIVE: The Onion, one of the finest news sources in the world. A going concern.
DEAD: Chicago Free Press (404 Web site)
DEAD: The simple word “Free” (currently a garbage container)
DEAD: Metro Commuter (never saw it before; see no current evidence of its existence)
ALIVE: Windy City Times is around, but the box has seen better days
ALIVE: “Jobs”. Certainly in demand, and a working Web site, that’s a rough box, too
ALIVE: Chicago Social. Inane as ever, but contains a periodical with a 2012 date. Also: they know how to maintain a luxurious nespaper box
ALIVE: Today’s Chicago Woman
ALIVE: New City
ALIVE: The Reader
ALIVE: Lawndale News
ALIVE: Family Time
DEAD: Tails (though it seems alive IRL)
DEAD: “Free” (though certainly in demand)
ALIVE: (I think)
