Ideal For
- Honoring a life recently lost
Price
Starting at $285.00
What You Get
- Small: Up to 2.25" deep (approximately 11 lines of body text) for $285.00
- Medium: Up to 2.9" deep (approximately 17 lines of body text) for $485.00
- Large: Up to 3.5" deep (approximately 22 lines of body text) for $605.00
- Variable: 23+ lines will have rate card pricing
- A printed notice in the Death Notice section of the Chicago Tribune that references a Maiden Name and refers reads to see the notice under the person’s married last name.
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Deadlines
Deadline: 5PM the day prior to publication (Sunday Edition in stores on Saturday has a 5PM Friday deadline)
Additional Info
- Information you may wish to include in a Death Notice:
- Photo (optional)
- Full name of person (including “nickname”)
- Age of person at death
- Date and residence at death
- Date and place of birth
- Parent’s, spouse’s, children’s and grandchildren’s names
- Previous residences
- Work history, military history, education
- Clubs, hobbies or interests, accomplishments, volunteer activities
- Survivors or those who predeceased the person including immediate family, relatives, close friends
- Funeral or memorial service information (dates, times, locations, cemetery/place of burial location and contact information)
- Information on where memorial contributions or donations may be made (list full address and phone number if possible)
- Use only standard abbreviations (examples: UCLA, USC, BA)
- All listings in the Chicago Tribune are in English
- Do not write in all caps
- Listings subject to editing for style and grammar
- Photo Tips
- Photo will publish in black and white in print, but if you upload a color photo, the color photo will run online.
- To maximize the size of the photo in print, use the cropping tool on the Photo Upload page so it's portrait style. Click Update print preview to review results.
- Select a photo that was shot in natural light without a flash. These are usually the most clear and flattering.
- Remember that these photos are relatively small, so be sure the photo is of the individual’s face and with minimal shadows.
- The better quality the original image is, the better it will look when printed.
- Photos from websites are usually too small to print well, even if they look fine on the screen. Images need to be high resolution to avoid looking fuzzy in print.
- A photo should be no less than 150 dpi at the size it will print. The ideal is 220dpi. Most digital cameras (not cell phones) set to a medium resolution, will produce acceptable images.
- The photo should be Portrait, which means it is taller than wide.
- If you are a funeral home that needs to set up an account, please call (800) 974-7520.
Size
2 col
Reach
- Full Run Distribution
Chicago Tribune Full Run
- Daily Readership - 1.3 million daily readers
- Sunday Readership - 2.2 million Sunday readers
- Average Daily Circulation – 453,568
- Sunday Circulation – 807,189
- Reaches an engaged audience who trusts the newspaper for valuable news, information and relevancy in the Chicagoland marketplace
- 6.4% annual daily readership growth
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Legacy.com
Legacy.com is leader in the online memorial and obituary market, Legacy.com is visited by more than 10 million users each month. It partners with 124 of the 150 largest newspapers in the U.S. and features obituaries and Guest Books to provide ways for readers to express condolences and share remembrances of loved ones for more than two-thirds of people who die in the United States.