Remember the fanfare surrounding ESPNChicago's launch a few months back? Well, there's more ruckus now with as the New York Times reports that in June, ESPNChicago became the number one local sports website according to internet tracker comScore with 590,000 unique visitors in the month over the second-place Tribune who had 455,000 unique visitors to its sports section. All of this has ESPN looking at expanding its city-centric collection of sites to include New York, Los Angeles, and Dallas. more ›

Proving internet sites can be friends, the folks at the Huffington Post's Chicago site have paired up with ESPN's Chicago site to share content. In fact, if you cruise over to ChuffPo now, you'll see a box in the sidebar featuring links to ESPNChicago's content. [via Beachwood Reporter] more ›

Wow, ESPN really likes us. Following the lead of The Huffington Post, who started up the now-(in)famous ChuffPo, ESPN is launching a Chicago-centric site appropriately called ESPNChicago. Great! More ways to hear about the Cubs' curse and the Bears inability to find a decent quarterback. The site - the first city-specific site from ESPN - will launch in April and, for the time being, the address redirects to the ESPN 1000 AM site, more ›