Chicago Trib real estate columnist Ori is leaving paper

Ryan Ori

Chicago Tribune commercial real estate columnist Ryan Ori is leaving the paper.

His last day is Friday.

“I’ve loved my time at the paper, so it’s been a difficult decision to leave,” he wrote on Twitter. “I look forward to a bit of extra time with my family and some travel before the next challenge.”

Before joining the Tribune in 2017, he covered real estate at Crain’s Chicago Business, focusing on commercial real estate property sales, developments, leases and industry trends.

Previously, the East Peoria native and Bradley University graduate was a reporter at the Peoria Journal Star.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.