 The office kept a speaker system tuned live 24 hours to the coded Chicago police radio dispatcher frequency, announcing addresses to which City News Bureau reporters were sent.As Chicago went down to only two daily newspapers, the City News Bureau slowly faded and was reduced to a minor operation.It was still widely used by both papers, the "Chicago Tribune" and "Chicago Sun-Times", until the "Sun-Times" decided to pull out of the joint ownership agreement it had inherited from the City News Bureau's original owners, for which the "Sun-Times" was a successor paper.