Turns out my block club in Chicago has a very active Facebook group, so very local news gets integrated into my feed already.
My other source of "extremely local news" is a blog called Uptown Update [1]. If these sites had a way to attract and fund local bloggers, they would have more staying power.
Comcast brought it back -- not under NBC anymore, but under Comcast proper. The big question is why? What is their monetization strategy? As a Chicago resident and past EveryBlock user, I'm very curious about this. My first guess is that Comcast appreciates being able to correlate an email address with a neighborhood, for marketing opportunities.
Typing this from a mac right now.
Well... ok. I was even going to advertise it a little, but I guess I'm not cool enough.