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, November 20, 2008 Online

Cover Story
One Man's Drive Is Another Man's Disorder
UIC prof Lennard Davis argues that obsession is largely in the eye of the beholder.
By Deanna Isaacs

Are you sure you have your cell phone? Your wallet? Your keys? Did you lock the door when you left home this morning? Turn off the stove? Turn off the flat iron?

Positive?

Want to just go back and take a look?

We live in an age of obsession, some of us sick with it and some of us wildly successful because of it. If you ran the appointed number of miles for your workout this morning, took all your supplements, read the papers, perused all the necessary Web sites, and are planning to put in a focused, 10- or 12-hour day on the job, you’re headed down the culturally approved obsessive path to reward. ...

COLUMNS
The Chickens Outfox the Foxes How Hyde Parkers leveraged labor's clout to drive out a university-backed hotel development
The Works by Ben Joravsky

Let the Finger-Pointing Begin As the fourth estate founders, journalists and their readers alike ask: who can we blame?
Hot Type by Michael Miner

Building a Place to Remember Stanley Tigerman on his design for the Illinois Holocaust Museum
The Business by Deanna Isaacs

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