My, my, the Sun-Times has a high opinion of itself today:

Forgive us for sounding self-congratulatory, but we have a suspicion as to one reason Chicago and Illinois are reputed to be among the most corrupt cities and states in the nation — a vigorously competitive press in this town likes to dig up the bodies.
Other cities and states are plenty corrupt, no doubt, although we perversely like to flatter ourselves that we stand apart. But few other towns enjoy such an aggressive get-the-story-first culture of newspaper reporting. Nobody in those supposed bastions of integrity seems to do much digging.
We raise this point today because it’s no secret the newspaper business in Chicago is facing challenging times, but also because two front-page Sun-Times stories in the last three days — two old-fashioned newspaper scoops — serve as a reminder of what Chicago gains daily from being a hotly competitive, for-profit, two-newspaper town, in print and online.
No army of bloggers, no TV or radio station, no nonprofit journalism collective, no foundation-supported task force of political and government reporters will ever do the job so well.