Every food-media website deserves notice on its way out the door, so this is mine for Serious Eats Chicago, which technically still exists but has largely been absorbed back into its New York mothership. That this was happening was obvious several weeks ago (when its Chicago focus was radically reduced and, more significantly, shifted to items of tourist rather than local interest), but is de facto confirmed by the departure of editor Nick Kindelsperger and the site's general reorganization as a more recipe-driven site following the arrival of a pack of consultants. (Disclosures en masse: I wrote for the site, I'm a friend of Kindelsperger's, I succeeded him as editor of likewise-deceased Grub Street Chicago, and so on.)
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