Expensive readers,
Now we have been unable to print the newspaper as ordinary this week resulting from sudden points with the printing presses at our vendor, Chicago Tribune Firm, which additionally prints the Tribune, the Each day Herald, The Wall Road Journal, The New York Occasions and different papers.
We’re deeply upset that this disruption has continued into the weekend. Since Tuesday, we’ve needed to print at a number of amenities throughout the area, every with completely different limitations affecting the variety of pages it could possibly print, which pages might be in shade vs. black and white, our deadlines and extra.
Because of an earlier-than-usual press time, we have been unable to incorporate information from Friday night in Saturday’s paper. That signifies that no tales from the primary day of the Pitchfork Music Competition or the Cubs sport made it in, although we’re joyful to supply the competition image on this web page. You additionally is not going to discover the same old TV listings within the papers this weekend, because of the world tech outage.
I’m sorry to say that, this week, there shall be no “3-star” or bulldog Sunday version, which is what we name our early version of the Sunday paper that often is obtainable on Saturday. As well as, our common Sunday version shall be smaller than ordinary.
For those who often purchase the bulldog version, I hope you’ll take into account getting the Saturday paper and the common Sunday paper as a substitute.
The digital model of the Solar-Occasions, our e-paper, shall be accessible at no cost all weekend at suntimes.com. We plan to maintain the paywall down in order that it’s freely accessible to everybody on Sunday.
All of those adjustments this weekend are a results of critical points with the presses that began Monday night time. Tuesday’s papers and a few of Wednesday’s papers have been delivered late or by no means. The newspapers have been restricted to fewer pages than ordinary due to the print capability accessible. We needed to transfer our Style part from its ordinary Wednesday spot to Thursday. And we couldn’t embrace information from Wednesday night, together with key speeches on the Republican Nationwide Conference and night sporting occasions, in Thursday’s paper however needed to maintain these tales for Friday’s paper as a substitute.
We’re sorry for any points this disruption has prompted you. We don’t know once we’ll be capable to begin printing at our ordinary location once more, however I plan to maintain you up to date with these editor’s notes. We’re grateful to your understanding and endurance as we work arduous to search out methods to get you the newspaper.
Thanks for studying and supporting the Solar-Occasions!
Warmly,
Jennifer Kho
Govt editor
