Run On The Press Runs In Chicago

Fitz: Here's how frenzied is the demand for Chicago newspapers  announcing  Barack Obama's presidential victory:  Chicago  Sun-Times  spokesperson Tammy Chase tells me that  people are driving to the  paper's production  facility on  Ashland Avenue to buy copies from the  guard.

On a normal day, the Sun-Times, which is more reliant on single-copy sales than the rival Chicago Tribune, prints 200,000 copies for retail sale. The paper nearly doubled that run Tuesday night, and ran an additional two press runs during the day Wednesday,  and was planning to make another 50,000-copy run in the evening to replenish racks and retail shelves in the city.

The Trib was equally busy, as E&P reports on its Web site. The Tribune printed an additional 200,000 copies of its main product -- known internally , appropriately for this political season, as the "Blue Paper" -- and an  unspecified number of extra copies of the free-distribution RedEye, which could not be found anywhere around my Chicago neighborhood.