Can AI read chicagotribune.com?
chicagotribune.com blocks OAI-SearchBot and PerplexityBot in its robots.txt, so ChatGPT and Perplexity cannot cite it. Read live from the site's own robots.txt with Google's reference parser.
✗AI search crawlers can reach it
Blocked: OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot
✓Homepage is readable by crawlers
The page ships real text in its HTML, so an AI crawler can read it.
✗Has an llms.txt
No /llms.txt. It is an emerging, optional convention, not required to be cited today. You can generate one at https://ai-visibility.lastminutedealshq.com/llms-txt
OpenAI and Perplexity cannot index you for AI answers (robots.txt blocks OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot).