Chicago's two downtown newspapers seemed to choose sides.
The Chicago Tribune is one of the two downtown newspapers covering the team daily, leading to some interesting contrasts in coverage, and rarely more so than June 25, when Green reported on the progress of his talks with Wrigleyville representatives.
In 24 hours, Mr. Koyen, 34, will fly to New York to become the new editor of The New York Press, the combative downtown weekly newspaper, and Mr. Zaitchik, 28, will join him two weeks later as his deputy.
After leaving U.C.L.A., Gold was living on Pico Boulevard, above a kosher butcher in an Iranian Jewish enclave, and working at a legal newspaper downtown.
A dark moment in the town's history came in June 2004, when a local businessman involved in a zoning dispute plowed a bulldozer into cars and structures downtown, including the newspaper office and the town hall.
The downtown campus student newspaper, the Advocate, comes out weekly during the school year.
In the words of San Francisco's displaced newspapers, "Downtown everything is ruin.
An assortment of foes — the major local newspapers, "downtown" business interests, even union groups — offer few prospects of future support or employment, and Mr. Daly said, "They have cut me off at the knees in terms of higher office".
He vividly remembers his father, who pushed a cart laden with vegetables and fruit from the old Washington Market to downtown restaurants, wrapping newspapers under his long underwear before he went off to work on a cold winter day.
