“Good things come to those who wait,” the adage goes. Back in the summer of 2009, I found myself in Chicago as an alternative journalism fellow at Medill, and I quickly fell in love with the city, its people, culture, and greasy spoons (if I close my eyes and concentrate hard enough, I can still […]
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Chicago Reader formally completes transition to nonprofit
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.
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Your favorite alt-weekly is up for two national awards
The Reader received two Association of Alternative Newsmedia nominations for best feature story and one for the Block Beat.
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Kedzie Avenue gets the Illustrated Press treatment
Darryl Holliday and company are Kickstarting their effort to collect stories for a second book, Kedzie Avenue.
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Weekly World News
Keith Griffith Over the weekend I escaped most of the air show’s after-burning flyovers by attending a writers’ conference in Evanston sponsored by Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, of which the Reader is a longtime member. Though I sorely needed the writing tips gleaned from the weekend’s workshops, it was also great to hear how writers […]