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February, 2012
Did you miss Editor and Interim Publisher Kimbriell Kelly on the Barber Shop Show? Listen online.
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September, 2011
The news:Englewood resident Rubin Robinson, a gay black man, was attacked July 3 by a group of black people in the predominantly white Boystown neighborhood.Behind the news:The stabbing in Boystown prompted significant media attention and backlash within the community.The incident prompted a community meeting, attracting 800 attendees, a YouTube video of the stabbing, which got more than 40,000...
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April, 2011
In 1976, Juilliard-trained pianist Rita Simó hung a sign outside a grungy old Uptown beauty salon, offering free food and beer to anyone willing to help her clean it up. Six hours and 18 volunteers later, all the caked-on hairspray and grime had been scrubbed away, making room for free music education: the People’s Music School.Simó, the founder, is quick to point out that this institution is not...
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March, 2011
The Chicago Reporter is partnering with the Chicago Community Trust and Community Media Workshop this year to provide a burst of local coverage by, for and about underserved communities on Chicago's South and West sides. In April, through its Community News Matters initiative, the Trust will award a series of $2,000 and $10,000 local reporting awards to fund original reporting and fact-based...
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October, 2007
StreetWise is one of the nation's most successful newspapers for the homeless, an analysis by The Chicago Reporter shows. Among 34 papers that address homeless issues in the United States, StreetWise boasts the largest circulation–"about 60,000 copies every two weeks.
Circulation figures among the other papers range from about 150 for the quarterly Change of Heart, in Lawrence, Kan.; to 50,000...
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September, 2007
More listeners tune in to WGCI-FM than any other radio station in Chicago. But the station, which has ranked number one for the past four years, has never reached the top of the chart in another important category: advertising revenue.
From 1997 through 2000, WGCI's revenues averaged $30.3 million per year. WGN-AM, long number one in revenue, brought in an average of $36.4 million,...
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September, 2007
WGCI surpassed WGN in audience share in 1997. WGN is the consistent leader in revenues. Stations shown are the top five in average audience share.
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September, 2007
WGN's and WGCI's audiences were radically different in 1999.
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September, 2007
While editing her latest film, "Turning a Corner," an hour-long documentary about prostitution in Chicago, Salome Chasnoff couldn't help but cry. The scene showed Lucretia Clay, a former prostitute, returning to the Sportsman's Inn motel on the city's Southwest Side, where she had spent 26 years of her life "turning dates" on street corners.
Clay "thought she had all this under control, that...
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