A number of new locally focused publications in the Chicago area are coming to the market, in hopes of engaging more readers by providing news tailored to their immediate needs and relevant to issues they face in their daily lives.

In addition, McGraw-Hill announced this Wednesday that BusinessWeek will launch a local version, BusinessWeek Chicago, in November. This publication will be distributed to over 60,000 Chicago-based BusinessWeek subscribers, along with the original national edition.

Last week, the Chicago Tribune announced it had launched two weeklies spawned by its hyper-local citizen journalism venture, triblocal.com. The new papers' coverage will include photos, stories and other contents on the triblocal.com Web site, as well as content from the editorial team, according to MediaPost.