The Chicagoist Podcast Series soldiers into mid-November with another media-centric conversation. Whether it seems like it or not, Chicago is awash with local sources of news, information, and entertainment, and while teeth continue to gnash over whether the Zells and Tyrees of this market will save us from media blackouts, some people are jamming their shoulders to the grindstone and pushing forward however the hell they can. more ›

• With property tax bills set to arrive in mailboxes over the next several days, it looks like they're going up by double-digits, even higher than previously expected.
• John Ambrose, a deputy U.S. Marshal accused of leaking information to mob members involved in the Family Secrets investigation, has been sentenced to four years in prison. When he was convicted in April, it was reportedly the first breach of the Witness Protection program.
• Former Chicago Bear Tank Johnson testified today in the murder trial of Michael Selvie, charged with shooting and killing Johnson's boyhood friend Willie Posey at the Ice Bar in December 2006.

When Chi-Town Daily News announced last week they were shifting models from non-profit to profit, that left a lot of questions out in the open. What did it mean? Who was laid off? What's in store for the CTDN in the future? The CTDN's Ed-in-Chief, Geoff Dougherty took to his site for a little Q&A in which he answered some, but not all, of the questions floating around out there. more ›