GET/chicagotribune/articleapiKey2 credits/request
Returns public Chicago Tribune article metadata and body paragraphs from a canonical article URL. For subscriber-only articles the response carries the free lead-in with paywalled set to true.
Required: url.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 9 fields returned with a value. In the sample: published_at: 2026-09-24; section: “Politics”; url: chicagotribune.com; title: 78 characters; authors: 1 entry; description: 187 characters; updated_at: 2026-09-24; image_url: chicagotribune.com.
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GET/chicagotribune/authorapiKey2 credits/request
Returns one Chicago Tribune author's public profile: name, job title when listed, bio, public email and X/Twitter handle, and their recent articles.
Optional: slug, url.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 10 items. Filled in every item: title, url, summary, published_at. In the sample: published_at: 2026-09-02 to 2026-10-11; url: chicagotribune.com; title: median 99 characters; summary: median 180 characters.
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GET/chicagotribune/headlinesapiKey1 credit/request
Returns headlines from one Chicago Tribune section page. `section` is required and takes one of 60 slugs, such as `local-news`, `crime-public-safety`, `chicago-bears`, `restaurants-food-drink` or `naperville-sun`. Each story has a title, article URL, publication time, byline, excerpt and image where the card shows them. Most sections give about 10 stories.
Required: section (60 allowed values, including news, local-news, crime-public-safety, politics, elections, immigration, investigations, education, environment, health, history, marijuana, national, news-obituaries, science, weather, world, business, real-estate, transportation, technology, aurora-beacon-news, daily-southtown, elgin-courier-news, lake-county-news-sun, naperville-sun, post-tribune, opinion, columnists, commentary, editorials, letters-to-the-editor, sports, college-sports, mlb, chicago-cubs, chicago-white-sox, nfl, chicago-bears, nba).
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 10 items. Filled in every item: title, url, image_url. Not in every item: summary (8), published_at (7), author (7). In the sample: published_at: 2026-10-11 to 2026-10-13; url: chicagotribune.com; title: median 65 characters; summary: median 101 characters; image_url: chicagotribune.com.
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GET/chicagotribune/newsapiKey1 credit/request
Returns the current Chicago Tribune top stories from its homepage, with no input needed. Each has a title and canonical article URL, plus publication time, byline, excerpt and lead image where the story card shows them.
Takes no parameters.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 80 items. Filled in every item: title, url. Not in every item: summary (16), image_url (31), published_at (7). In the sample: published_at: 2026-10-13; url: chicagotribune.com; title: median 81 characters; summary: median 96 characters; image_url: chicagotribune.com.
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GET/chicagotribune/sectionsapiKey1 credit/request
Lists the 60 Chicago Tribune sections accepted by `chicagotribune-headlines`, spanning news, suburban papers, opinion, sports teams and arts, such as `crime-public-safety`, `daily-southtown`, `chicago-cubs` and `theater`. Each has a `slug`, display `name` and page `url`. Tag pages and hubs that repeat the homepage are not included.
Takes no parameters.
Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 60 items. Filled in every item: slug, name, url. In the sample: name: “News” and 59 other values; url: chicagotribune.com.
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Chicago Tribune API endpoints