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From Amber Nettles, SVP of Growth & Strategy
Alert! Best of Chicago voting ends at noon today. Your votes determine the winners! I’ve been with the Reader since 2020, and had worked on many “Best of” campaigns with other organizations over the years. The Reader’s is my favorite, partly because I see and hear about its impact frequently. At Paper Machete a few weeks ago, Best of Chicago was mentioned by Jill Hopkins during her performance, speaking about the recently passed Lin Brehmer. Hopkins spoked about losing Best of Chicago to Brehmer, and it was a poignant, funny detail within a beautiful tribute to a radio legend. It’s always an honor to hear the Reader mentioned in that way, highlighting how it’s been a piece of Chicago history for so long. And with our new editor in chief and our new publisher on board, I’m looking forward to seeing THEM excited about the Best of Chicago issue (and event) that we’re planning.
P.S.: Our first Windy City Times insert of the year is in our Feb. 23 issue, and there’s still time to reserve space in that issue (or lock in super low rates for all four quarterly inserts!). “For more than 35 years, Windy City Times has presented a weekly reflection of life in Chicago’s LGBT community, a printed product that has followed the path of the gay rights movement and adapted to a changing media landscape.” (From the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame)
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Branded content in 2023
Tell Your Story to our Readers
The Reader loves to work with businesses and individuals with great stories to tell, and we’re happy to discuss the various options for branded content series! For an example, check out Cityscape, a branded content partnership of the Chicago Architecture Center, Chicago History Museum, and Wrightwood 659, along with the Reader’s architecture coverage. You can also see examples from LaLaMove, DuPage Convention & Visitors Bureau, and the Tourist Office of Spain in Chicago, along with our Bull Horn series (sponsored by Red Bull in 2021) and our Poetry Corner (created in partnership with the Poetry Foundation). Contact us to talk about telling your story!
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The Reader, en español
Sponsors sought to support Spanish translations
To better serve our Spanish-speaking communities, the Reader is now translating and publishing some of its stories into Spanish. We’re seeking sponsors to help underwrite the cost of this endeavor. Sponsorship packages (click here to view) include print and digital tags, as well as additional media placements. Contact us today to partner in this project.
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The solution for small business: The Platform
Your business, in every issue
Looking for a way to be in every issue? Get your business or service printed in 60,000 copies across Chicago, every other week, which means that Reader readers never forget your name. Click here for information. (PDF)
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Top Stories from the Chicago Reader
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In praise of pickup basketball
Lost in the Game includes several humorous, psychologically probing profiles of the NBA’s biggest luminaries—Kyrie Irving of the Dallas Mavericks, Anthony Davis of the Los Angeles Lakers, and Zion Williamson of the New Orleans Pelicans, to name but a few—but also of some of its obscure, near-forgotten players, like Bol Bol of the Orlando Magic and Kerry Kittles, a pre-Brooklyn New Jersey Net…. MORE
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Boozy tiki drinks, Cantonese cuisine, and Elvis Live!
The parking lot is full, illuminated by a fading yellow sign adorned with a tiki drink and a palm tree. Unassumingly tucked away in North Riverside, just west of Chicago, Chef Shangri-La is preparing for a lively night—not uncommon for the suburban mainstay. The entire restaurant is bustling, packed with families that fill the festively decorated, tiki-inspired dining room… MORE
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Run to the Annual Festival of Films from Iran
In Amir Naderi’s The Runner, there’s a recurring motif where the young protagonist sprints toward the cargo ships he sees in the water and the planes that fly overhead the Iranian port city of Abadan, where he lives. The 11-year-old Amiro, who’s made a home of an abandoned tanker, is enthralled by the roving leviathans, yelling hey, hey, hey relentlessly at them. His gleeful entreaty is open for interpretation… MORE
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February 9 – February 22, 2023
Vol. 52, No.9
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