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Block Club Chicago is an online newspaper that reports local and neighborhood news in Chicago. The website operates as a non-profit, subscription-based service.[1][2]
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Type of site | News |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Owner | Block Club Chicago NFP |
| URL | blockclubchicago |
| Launched | June 2018 |
After DNAinfo was shut down in November 2017, Block Club Chicago was founded by three former DNAinfo Chicago editors – Shamus Toomey, Stephanie Lulay, and Jen Sabella. The new online publication was initially funded with a Kickstarter campaign and with capital from the Civil publishing platform. The Kickstarter was, at the time, the most successful local news Kickstarter campaign.[3] Block Club Chicago went live on June 12, 2018.[1][2][4][5][6][7]
Block Club Chicago was founded in order to supply a neighborhood-focused coverage.[8] It therefore adopted a geographic, rather than topical, structure, in which each reporter is assigned a "neighborhood beat".[3]
As of 2021, Block Club Chicago had a newsletter circulation of 140,000 and a paid subscribership of 15,500. It had ten reporters and five editors.[8]
As of 2023, the website had 20,000 paid subscribers, and offered news coverage of 45 of Chicago's 77 community areas.[9]
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