The Chicago Reader is an alternative newsweekly in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded in 1971 by a group of friends who attended Carleton College. In July 2007, the Reader was sold to Creative Loafing,  and in mid-September 2007, it was announced that printing of the paper has been outsourced to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Milwaukee priniting facilities.

Issues are dated every Friday and distributed free to more than 1,400 locations in the Chicago metropolitan area on Thursday and Friday. As of June 2006, the average weekly circulation, audited by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, was 120,204, down from more than 138,000 just five years before.

The Reader has served two significant roles in Chicago. First, it offers exceptional local news and commentary. Because it is funded largely through extensive classified advertising and by small businesses, the Reader's journalism can be hard-hitting. (Wikipedia.org)

Read Chicago Reader, January 1, 2009 Online

Cover Story
1,000 Words The Reader's second annual photo issue

Welcome to the Reader’s second annual 1,000 Words issue. To select the photos in this year’s edition, we held a contest; readers could enter either by submitting photos to us directly or by placing them in the Chicago Reader Flickr pool. Two of the photographers whose work we’re publishing here will win $150 Best Buy gift cards in a drawing after the holidays. ...

Food & Drink
What's New Raising the bar in the Viagra Triangle, Andersonville's glut of good 'za, a deli disappointment, and middling Middle Eastern
By Mike Sula and Anne Spieslman

Arts & Entertainment
Movies
Anti-Fantasy By and large, the best films of 2008 kept it real.
By J.R. Jones

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