Company Profile

Company Description:

Block Club Chicago is a nonprofit news organization dedicated to delivering reliable, relevant and nonpartisan coverage of Chicago’s diverse neighborhoods.

Block Club believes all neighborhoods deserve to be covered in a meaningful way. We amplify positive stories, show up to development and local school council meetings and serve as watchdogs in neighborhoods that are often ostracized by traditional news media. 

Our reporters don’t parachute in once to cover a story. They are in the neighborhoods they cover every day building relationships over time with neighbors. We believe this ground-level approach not only builds community but leads to a more accurate portrayal of a neighborhood. 

Block Club is the most prolific hyperlocal news operation in the Chicago area. We've published more than 14,000 stories on Chicago’s neighborhoods, covered hundreds of community meetings and send our newsletter out to more than 100,000 people daily. 

We've built this loyalty by proving to folks that we are not only covering their neighborhoods, we're actually part of them. Most of our reporters live in the neighborhoods they cover and make themselves accessible and accountable to the community they serve. 

Some of us have internalized the national media’s narrative of a broken Chicago. We aim to change that by celebrating our neighborhoods, our resilience and highlighting the people who fight every day to make the city a better place for all.