As part of an effort to expand into local news reporting, Arianna Huffington has announced that the famed Huffington Post will be opening up newsrooms in cities across the U.S. The first city on the list? Chicago, naturally:

Huffington said the Chicago site would aggregate news, sports, crime, arts and business news from different local sources as well as contributions from bloggers in what will be the first of a series of projects in "dozens of US cities". The Chicago site will initially be curated by just one editor.

"We are aspiring to be a newspaper in that we want to covering all news, not just the political blogging the way we began," said Huffington, speaking at Guardian News & Media's internal Future of Journalism conference.

The Second City is an obvious choice for this new, hyperlocal HuffPo newsroom (they already have offices in New York, L.A., and D.C.). But you can't help but wonder if the decision to move here was sped up by the recent ascension of a certain local politician.