{{Short description|Periodical in Chicago, Illinois}} {{Use American English|date=April 2023}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2023}} {{Infobox magazine | title = The Chicago Reporter | logo = The Chicago Reporter logo.jpg | image_file = The Chicago Reporter, November-December 2013.webp | image_caption = Cover of the November/December 2013 issue | frequency = Monthly | founded = 1972 | company = Community Renewal Society | country = United States | based = Chicago, Illinois | language = English | website = {{URL|http://www.chicagoreporter.com}} | issn = 0300-6921 }} '''''The Chicago Reporter''''' is a monthly periodical based in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Founded in 1972, it covers poverty and race issues.<ref name=jet>{{Citation|title = Chicago Reporter: Small Journal With Great Ways|newspaper=Jet|date=December 26, 1974|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qbIDAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22+the+chicago+reporter%22&pg=PA33|accessdate=February 9, 2010}}</ref> It was founded by John A. McDermott, who sought to create "the nation's first publication devoted to analyzing and investigating local racial issues."<ref name=":0">ROSSI, ROSALIND. "Chicago Reporter founder John McDermott dies at 70," Chicago Sun-Times, August 19, 1996: 16, accessed July 05, 2017, via Newsbank.</ref> In 1974, its yearly budget was $120,000, most of which was paid by the Ford Foundation.<ref name="jet" /> In 2016, sister publication ''Catalyst'', focused on education, merged into '' The Chicago Reporter''.<ref>{{Cite web| title = Catalyst folds into Chicago Reporter| accessdate = 2020-08-02| url = https://www.robertfeder.com/2016/07/14/robservations-after-25-years-catalyst-folds-into-chicago-reporter/}}</ref>
The interim editor and publisher is Glenn Reedus.
==Impact== ''The Chicago Reporter's'' investigative reporting has had impact in several areas of Chicago and Illinois infrastructure. The paper's earliest influence was its expose of the Chicago Police Department's discriminatory disorderly conduct arrests in 1982,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.chicagoreporter.com/arrests-jump-sharply-minority-leaders-charge-police-with-disorderly-conduct/|title=Minority Leaders Charge Police with 'Disorderly Conduct'|work=Chicago Reporter|access-date=2018-08-23|language=en-US}}</ref> which prompted the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to file suit against them, leading to a U.S. District Court Judge to rule their arrests unconstitutional. By 1983, the Chicago Police Department's disorderly arrest policy had to be changed to meet federal law.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.chicagoreporter.com/reporter-probe-spurs-u-s-action/|title=Reporter Probe Spurs U.S. Action|work=Chicago Reporter|access-date=2018-08-23|language=en-US}}</ref> In 2007, ''The Chicago Reporter'' also released a study detailing how the largest mortgage lender in the country, Countrywide, was lending high interest loans in majority to minority lenders leading then attorney general of Illinois Lisa Madigan to subpoena Countrywide, ultimately resulting in an $8.7 billion settlement in 2008.<ref>''Hearing on “The Causes and Current State of the Financial Crisis”'', Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. 6 (2010) (Testimony of Lisa Madigan). Retrieved 2018-08-23</ref> ''The Chicago Reporter'' also won recognition for reporting on the Chicago Fire Department's under-reporting fire deaths in poor and minority neighborhoods.<ref name=":0" />
== Reputation == ''The Chicago Reporter's'' style is regarded as "dispassionate investigative journalism" that has garnered it critical acclaim by several other news publications as well as politicians.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.communityrenewalsociety.org/newsroom/chicago-reporter-%E2%80%93-city%E2%80%99s-foremost-most-trusted-publication-race-and-poverty-issues-%E2%80%93-comme|title=The Chicago Reporter – City's Foremost, Most Trusted Publication on Race and Poverty Issues – Commemorates 40th Anniversary {{!}} Community Renewal Society|website=www.communityrenewalsociety.org|language=en|access-date=2018-08-23}}</ref> U.S. Senator for Illinois, Dick Durbin, has said, "''The Chicago Reporter'' gives us reflection, not reflex. In a digital world of speed and brevity, their coverage takes the time and invests the analysis in issues ranging from gun control to deficits to immigration. ''The Chicago Reporter'' earns its stripes with credibility and relevance". Clarence Page of the ''Chicago Tribune'' stated "''The Chicago Reporter'' is 'consistently focused on covering what continues to be Chicago's toughest, yet most important story: race relations.'"<ref name=":1" />
=== Awards === ''The Chicago Reporter'' and its staff have won several awards beginning in 1974, including the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service from the Society of Professional Journalists, dozens of Peter Lisagor Awards, and the Salute to Excellence Award from the National Association of Black Journalists.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.chicagoreporter.com/about/awards/|title=Chicago Reporter » Awards|work=Chicago Reporter|access-date=2018-08-23|language=en-US}}</ref>
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==External links== *[http://chicagoreporter.com/ Official website] *The Chicago Reporter papers/records are held by the [https://www.chicagohistory.org/ Chicago History Museum]
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