I was thinking the same thing. This actually makes the paper seem provincial. I mean, you expect it of little hometown papers.
The 'little hometown paper' is TMS, Tribune Media Syndicate that owns waaaay more than the Trib - there's tv stations, LA Times, WGN, the Chicago Cubs, the Hartford Courant and much more.
Do ya see now why it's a bigger picture and more going on than hometown paper mentioning hometown boy doing well, esp when it wasn't all Rahm, all the time, not by a long shot. It's about big big biz and corporatism which is what killed the Dems the last time around and is killing the Reeps now.