A hearty congratulations to our colleagues over at the Chicago Tribune who 25 minutes ago published the fact that Governor Blagojevich has suffered a “thwart” in Cook County Court.

After a mere 7 months of unreported court proceedings the Trib found the space this evening to note that our governor was in a fairly messy court case that drug the Comptroller, Attorney General, the Secretary of State, a Republican Gubernatorial Candidate from 2006 through Cook and Sangamon County Courts systems.

Constitutional and day to day operational issues were at stake in the case, so it was imperative to the Tribune to not cover the story whatsoever until after Judge Epstein made a ruling.

Courageously, the Tribune was able to refrain from mentioning the lead plantiff in the case, Richard Caro, and a co-plantiff Ron Gidwitz, as to avoid any important facts which might identify involvement in the case.

No word yet from the bright ones over at the Sun Times as to the newsworthiness of the Illinois Governor being in court for over a half a year.

So nice work to the Chicago Paper of Record there at 435 N Michigan. We eagerly await other stories you have decided to hush up for the last 7 months.

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Disclosure note. Ron Gidwitz is one of the founders of the Chicago Daily Observer