Hi, it's Curiosity Reporter,

Adriana Cardona McGee Gad.

I recently spoke to Catherine Jackson-Jones,

who moved to Chicago from Scotland about two years ago.

She and her husband wanted to learn more about their new city

and its neighborhoods.

They looked for local newspapers to get the latest information.

I noticed these newspaper boxes.

So there's the big ones that say newspapers

across the top and they have many different boxes

and then the smaller ones that are all different colors.

She says she's never seen news boxes where she lived before.

So we thought, great, this is a place we can find a local newspaper that will tell us

local issues, events that are happening, and yeah, we can just get to know what it's like

to live here.

But to her surprise, the first newspaper boxes she encountered were empty.

They thought, okay, maybe they all got taken already.

Or maybe we're opening their wrong boxes.

They kept looking around and never found a single paper in any of these news racks.

Catherine reached out to Curit City to see if we could

help her get some answers to one very specific question. Why are they still there? If they're not

being used, yeah, it's sad that they're not being used, especially if they could be a good source

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