The Chicagowide Leader In Sports

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Jul 21, 2009 3:40PM

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.

UPDATE: Our pal, Windy Citizen's Brad Flora, takes umbrage with ESPN's bragging and breaks them down, Dr. Jack style.