I genuinely love these guys are trying to bring back what made the Onion great and doing it in Chicago. For a while, they were absolutely the best at what we all do - I often reacted to their pieces with the best kind of bitter envy -- and I hope I will hate them soon again.
When I was in grad school, we had the 4-section Reader, New City, and the Onion all free and easy to find, but communal conversation was mostly about the Onion.