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Pick up a print copy of this week’s Chicago Reader

by Chicago Reader August 17, 2022August 17, 2022

The Reader is available free of charge at more than 1,100 Chicago area locations. Issues are dated Thursday, and distributed Wednesday morning through Thursday night of the issue date. Some locations are restocked the following Wednesday.

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[PRESS RELEASE] Baim stepping down as Reader publisher end of 2022

by Chicago Reader August 5, 2022August 5, 2022

The board of directors of the Reader Institute for Community Journalism (RICJ), publishers of the Chicago Reader, has announced that Tracy Baim is stepping down as president and publisher at the end of 2022.

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Chicago Reader hires social justice reporter

by Reader staff August 4, 2022August 4, 2022

Writer Debbie-Marie Brown hired for this position, made possible in part by grant funding from the Field Foundation.

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by Chicago Reader August 4, 2022August 4, 2022

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Matches

by Chicago Reader August 4, 2022August 4, 2022

Oo looking for females . . .

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[PRESS RELEASE] Lawyers for Social Justice Reception

by Chicago Reader July 5, 2022July 15, 2022

CHICAGO — The Reader Institute for Community Journalism is hosting the Lawyers for Social Justice reception on Thursday, July 28, at City Winery, 1200 W. Randolph, at 5:30 – 7:30 p.m., […]

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Lawyers for Social Justice Reception

by Chicago Reader July 1, 2022July 15, 2022

At City Winery, 1200 W. Randolph, ChicagoThursday, July 28, 20225:30 – 7:30 p.m., with program at 6:00 p.m. The Reader Institute for Community Journalism highlights the intersections of law and journalism at […]

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Reader co-publisher Karen Hawkins to move to The 19th*

by Chicago Reader May 24, 2022August 4, 2022

Karen Hawkins, co-publisher and editor-in-chief of the Chicago Reader, is leaving the organization to become story editor with The 19th*, an independent, national nonprofit newsroom reporting on the intersection of gender, politics, and policy

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Chicago Reader formally completes transition to nonprofit

by Chicago Reader May 17, 2022May 17, 2022

Sale documents were signed May 16, 2022, to transfer ownership of the Chicago Reader to the Reader Institute for Community Journalism, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

Still free. Still freaky. The Reader is finally free!
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The Chicago Reader will be fully nonprofit

by Tracy Baim and Karen Hawkins April 27, 2022May 17, 2022

It is with excitement that we are able to (finally) announce that the Chicago Reader is transitioning fully to its nonprofit status under the Reader Institute for Community Journalism!

Issue cover, October 28, 2021 (Vol. 51, No. 2) | Reader 50: ‘House of Screams’ revisited by Michael Miner, ‘Hello, Woman of Color’ by Karen Hawkins, Long Live Section Three by Leor Galil
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The Chicago Reader is free—again—and still freaky

by Reader staff April 26, 2022April 29, 2022

Reader co-owner Leonard C. Goodman has reportedly dropped his opposition to the newspaper’s transition to a full nonprofit.

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Panel weighs problems and solutions at Cook County domestic violence court

by Josh McGhee, Injustice Watch March 11, 2022April 20, 2022

The Chicago Reader and Injustice Watch hosted a panel discussion Tuesday about the challenges that survivors of domestic violence face navigating the Cook County court system.  The event came on […]

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Best of Chicago 2021 print issue (PDF)

by Chicago Reader March 3, 2022March 18, 2022

March 3, 2022 (Vol. 51, No. 11)

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