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''Block Club Chicago'' is an
online newspaper An online newspaper (or electronic news or electronic news publication) is the electronic publishing, online version of a newspaper, either as a stand-alone publication or as the online version of a printed periodical literature, periodical. Goin ...
that reports local and neighborhood news in
Chicago Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of Unite ...
. The website operates as a non-profit, subscription-based service. 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 Kickstarter, PBC is an American Benefit corporation, public benefit corporation based in Brooklyn, New York City, that maintains a global crowdfunding platform focused on creativity. The company's stated mission is to "help bring creative project ...
campaign and with capital from the Civil publishing platform. The Kickstarter was, at the time, the most successful local news Kickstarter campaign. ''Block Club Chicago'' went live on June 12, 2018. Block Club Chicago was founded in order to supply a neighborhood-focused coverage. It therefore adopted a geographic, rather than topical, structure, in which each reporter is assigned a "neighborhood beat". 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. As of 2023, the website had 20,000 paid subscribers, and offered news coverage of 45 of Chicago's 77 community areas.


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*{{Official website, https://blockclubchicago.org/ American news websites Newspapers published in Chicago 2018 establishments in Illinois