diff --git a/recipes/chicago_tribune.recipe b/recipes/chicago_tribune.recipe
index 684993e251..b49aee4b5a 100644
--- a/recipes/chicago_tribune.recipe
+++ b/recipes/chicago_tribune.recipe
@@ -3,13 +3,12 @@ __license__ = 'GPL 3'
 __copyright__ = '2009, Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>'
 __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
 
-import urllib, re
 from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
 
 class ChicagoTribune(BasicNewsRecipe):
 
     title       = 'Chicago Tribune'
-    __author__  = 'Kovid Goyal and Sujata Raman, a.peter'
+    __author__  = 'Kovid Goyal, Sujata Raman and a.peter'
     description = 'Politics, local and business news from Chicago'
     language    = 'en'
     version     = 2
@@ -23,11 +22,16 @@ class ChicagoTribune(BasicNewsRecipe):
                       dict(name='div', attrs={'id':["pagebody","story","maincontentcontainer"]}),
                            ]
     remove_tags_after = [{'class':['photo_article',]}]
+    remove_empty_feeds = True
 
     match_regexps = [r'page=[0-9]+']
 
-    remove_tags = [{'id':["moduleArticleTools","content-bottom","rail","articleRelates module","toolSet","relatedrailcontent","div-wrapper","beta","atp-comments","footer",'gallery-subcontent','subFooter']},
-                   {'class':["clearfix","relatedTitle","articleRelates module","asset-footer","tools","comments","featurePromo","featurePromo fp-topjobs brownBackground","clearfix fullSpan brownBackground","curvedContent",'nextgen-share-tools','outbrainTools', 'google-ad-story-bottom']},
+    remove_tags = [
+        {'id':["moduleArticleTools","content-bottom","rail","articleRelates module","toolSet",
+            "relatedrailcontent","div-wrapper","beta","atp-comments","footer",'gallery-subcontent','subFooter']},
+        {'class':["clearfix","relatedTitle","articleRelates module",
+                  "asset-footer","tools","comments","featurePromo","featurePromo fp-topjobs brownBackground", 'ndn_embed',
+                  "clearfix fullSpan brownBackground","curvedContent",'nextgen-share-tools','outbrainTools', 'google-ad-story-bottom']},
                    dict(name='font',attrs={'id':["cr-other-headlines"]})]
     extra_css = '''
                     h1{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight:bold;font-size:large;}
@@ -51,7 +55,7 @@ class ChicagoTribune(BasicNewsRecipe):
              ('Most E-mailed stories', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune/email/'),
              ('Opinion', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune/opinion/'),
              ('Off Topic', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune/offtopic/'),
-             #('Politics', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune/politics/'),
+             ('Politics', 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/chicagotribune/cloutstreet/'),
              #('Special Reports', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune/special/'),
              #('Religion News', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune/religion/'),
              ('Business news', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune/business/'),
@@ -76,19 +80,15 @@ class ChicagoTribune(BasicNewsRecipe):
              ('Julie\'s Health Club', 'http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/chicagotribune_julieshealthclub/'),
              ]
 
-
     def get_article_url(self, article):
-        ans = None
-        try:
-            s = article.summary
-            ans = urllib.unquote(
-                re.search(r'href=".+?bookmark.cfm.+?link=(.+?)"', s).group(1))
-        except:
-            pass
-        if ans is None:
-            ans = article.get('feedburner_origlink', article.get('guid', article.get('link')))
-        if ans is not None:
-            return ans.replace('?track=rss', '')
+        url = BasicNewsRecipe.get_article_url(self, article)
+        url = url.split('/')[-2]
+        encoding = {'0B': '.', '0C': '/', '0A': '0', '0F': '=', '0G': '&',
+                '0D': '?', '0E': '-', '0N': '.com', '0L': 'http://', '0S':
+                    'www.', '0I': '_', '0H': ','}
+        for k, v in encoding.iteritems():
+            url = url.replace(k, v)
+        return url.partition('?')[0]
 
     def skip_ad_pages(self, soup):
         text = soup.find(text='click here to continue to article')