CHICAGO READER

The '''Chicago Reader''' is an alternative newsweekly in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded in 1971^[2] by a group of friends who attended Carleton College. In July 2007, the Reader was sold to Creative Loafing.^[3]
Issues are dated every Friday and distributed free to more than 1,400 locations in the Chicago metropolitan area on Thursday and Friday. As of June 2006, the average weekly circulation, audited by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, was 120,204,^[1] down from more than 138,000 just five years before.^[5]
The ''Reader'' has served two significant roles in Chicago. First, it offers exceptional local news and commentary. Because it is funded largely through extensive classified advertising and by small businesses, the Reader's journalism can be hard-hitting. Though the paper is famous/infamous for long, exhaustive cover stories, a la The New Yorker, it has always offered a variety of stories in a variety of lengths and voices, plus extensive arts coverage. In recent years, most of its cover stories have been of a fairly typical magazine-feature length, but some now believe the paper's overall quality has declined.^[3] Second, it offers an extensive guide to Chicago, primarily its culture and real-estate.

Contents

Format

References

External links

Format

Each issue consists of three sections (until mid-2006, four sections was the longstanding norm). Section 1 contains the lead story and also features local news and human interest stories, a weekly fashion feature, essay-style reviews of film, music, theater, art, dance, and books, and columns such as Hot Type (about other Chicago media), The Works (Chicago politics) and The Straight Dope.
Sections 2 and 3 contain listings for restaurants, movies, plays, museum and gallery exhibits, and live music for that week. Classified ads, as well as several indie comics such as Life in Hell and News of the Weird, end Sections 1 and 2.
The work of acclaimed comic book artist and cartoonist Chris Ware is regularly featured in the newspaper. The Reader's main film critic is Jonathan Rosenbaum.

'''The Reader’s Guide to Arts & Entertainment''', a spin-off launched in 1996, is a free weekly repackaging of the ''Reader's entertainment listings and arts writing for the suburbs north, northwest and west of Chicago.
The ''Reader'' was slow to offer its content on the Internet, but now it has most of its articles, features, listings and advertisements available from its website.

References

1. Chicago Reader
2. About the Chicago Reader, Inc. Publications
3. Reader has new owners
4. Chicago Reader
5. Reader? Less so, as circulation dips
6. Reader has new owners

External links

★ ''Chicago Reader'' website