When their billionaire owner abruptly closed Chicago’s DNAInfo in 2017, three former editors decided to build a different kind of news source out of the remnants. Block Club Chicago launched seven months later, with a mission to combine neighborhood reporting with public service journalism and to do it under a nonprofit business model. It was an ambitious plan, but former … [Read more...] about Local Chicago news startup turns 3, with a growing list of newsletter readers and paid subscribers
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