About This Site
The Windy City Dispatch is not a real newspaper. It's a fake news site created by Quangdao Nguyen as the backdrop for an April Fools' Day prank. The site was built to look just credible enough to house a single fake article about Quangdao getting caught breaking into the nvisia Chicago office — an April Fools' joke gone horribly wrong. The rest of the articles exist to sell the bit.
How it was made
Every article on this site was written by Claude Sonnet 4.5, Anthropic's AI model. Each fictional reporter has a distinct voice and style, and the articles range from absurdist takes on real Chicago news to completely invented stories reported with straight-faced seriousness. None of it is real. Please do not cite The Windy City Dispatch in a research paper.
Some of the images were generated using Nano Banana 2, an AI image model. The rest are stock photos.
The site itself is built with Astro, a modern static site framework, and is deployed as a set of plain HTML files — no server, no database, no JavaScript frameworks fighting each other in your browser. It was coded with the help of Claude Code, Anthropic's AI coding tool.