Cicero Independiente is a volunteer-run, bilingual, independent news outlet for Cicero residents. 



We’ll be publishing stories and projects for the community regularly. To stay updated subscribe to our newsletter and follow us on social media. 



If you have always been curious about something happening in Cicero, have ideas for a story, or want to get involved email us at <a href="mailto:info@ciceroindependiente.com">info@ciceroindependiente.com</a>. Stories should be about issues that affect and/or are of interest to Cicero residents and be a topic that is usually under-reported.

Cicero Independiente

AirGo is a weekly podcast and cultural media hub in Chicago, showcasing the artists, rappers, poets, musicians, organizers, and changemakers reshaping the culture of the city and country for the more equitable and creative. Through longform conversations, AirGo puts Chicago’s reimaginers in conversation, documenting Chicago’s radical renaissance and creating a living archive of humanizing dialogue telling the stories of our creative communities and social movements. AirGo is a sponsored project of Allied Media Projects, a Detroit-based organization that cultivates media for liberation.

AirGo Radio

A news site committed to in-depth reporting on issues concerning the Austin neighborhood located on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois.

Austin Weekly News

The Better Government Association is Illinois’ only non-partisan, full-service watchdog organization. We’re shining a light on government in Illinois and holding public officials accountable.

Better Government Association

The Crusader Newspaper Group consists of two weekly newspapers in Illinois and Indiana featuring news, commentary and life style reporting geared toward the African American community. The Chicago Crusader and Gary Crusader, published by minority media champion Dorothy R. Leavell, reach two unique markets with a shared $47 billion (annual) consumer buying power.

Chicago Crusader

Chicago Music Guide – Your Guide to Great Music in Chicago!



Chicago Music Guide is a music resource webzine dedicated to working with all entities of the music and entertainment industry.



Founded by Dennis M. Kelly in 2004, Chicago Music Guide began as a reference for friends and quickly grew into a multimedia guide throughout the Chicagoland area. Chicago Music Guide holds a desire and mission to highlight, educate, and assist musicians and all those involved in the music industry in a timely, relevant, and personable fashion.



Many of the staff members of Chicago Music Guide are current/past musicians or other members of the music industry community, ensuring a unique presentation and extra care to artists, professionals, and readers.

Chicago Music Guide

Mission: To bring you news and links of interest and importance to the Chicago area—without wasting your time.



The Reader poll’s pick for best blog.

Chicago Public Square

<h4>MISSION</h4>



The Chicago Reader is a media company creating and curating political and cultural coverage by and for Chicagoans, including highlighting underrepresented communities and stories.



As a social enterprise, we reinvest all of our profits to achieve sustainability, grow our reach, and ensure the fulfillment of our mission.



<h4>ABOUT US</h4>



The Chicago Reader has been a fearless, innovative, and nationally respected media voice in Chicago for nearly 50 years. In print every other week and daily online, we are tastemakers, incisive critics, and agenda-setters. Our readers look to us for what’s new, what’s now, what’s next, and depend on us to hold local government accountable — not take sides.



Newly independent with new leadership, the Reader hit the ground running in 2019. Our new business structure is L3C, which means we are mission-driven, not profit-driven. We are community-supported, fifty percent African American owned, and we could not be more proud of our equitable approach to community coverage, staffing, and vendor supply. We’ve got fresh talent and fresh energy, and we’re thrilled to continue to deliver our unflagging, unfiltered take on Chicago.



<h4>We are the Reader. We are Chicago. And we speak Chicago.</h4>

Chicago Reader

CHIRP is a volunteer-driven, community radio station that focuses on music, arts, and culture. The station can be heard on the north side of Chicago at 107.1FM and worldwide at <a href="http://chirpradio.org/">chirpradio.org</a>. We are live and local every day of the year from 6am-midnight from our studios in Chicago’s North Center neighborhood, and the city we live in is a key part of everything we do. CHIRP Radio plays a wide mix of local, independent, lesser-heard, and just generally good music from a variety of genres and eras. CHIRP DJs are true music fans who love to share their discoveries, new and old, with listeners. The station also features conversations with artists, activists, and other people doing interesting work, and our features department produces pieces highlighting Chicago’s diverse voices and stories.

CHIRP Radio

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Founded in 2015, City Bureau is a nonprofit civic journalism lab based on the South Side of Chicago. We bring journalists and communities together in a collaborative spirit to produce media that is impactful, equitable and responsive to the public.



<h3>Vision</h3>



City Bureau envisions a future in which all people are equipped with the tools and knowledge to effect change in their communities.



<h3>Core Values</h3>



City Bureau makes journalism more democratic from the ground up.



We don’t believe in heroes. We believe in holistic, structural change focused on equity and inclusivity.



We want to build this movement together. We value collaboration, responsiveness and exchange. We know we are standing on the shoulders of those who came before us, just as we will hoist others to stand on ours.



We value and respect the process as much as the product. We will always be open and honest about our successes, failures and the processes that led us there.



We believe in place. Though we may have an impact nationally and internationally, we are committed to Chicago.

City Bureau

E3 Radio is an online radio station playing queer & independent music in high rotation. Our three pillars are to educate, empower, & entertain. E3 Radio is Queer Radio Done Right.



In 2009, Anna DeShawn founded E3 because we needed something different. We needed a media platform that uplifted the voices & the music for people who couldn’t get any airtime. This need still exists today and Anna is determined to ride media into its next era by utilizing online radio streams to play the music and tell the stories that need to be heard.



Our Team is so dope and we come together to create this beautiful thing called E3 Radio.

E3 Radio

Free Spirit Media provides teens and young adults in communities of color on Chicago’s West and South sides with a comprehensive foundation in media literacy and hands-on media production experience. Free Spirit Media runs in-school arts education, after school, and summer digital media programs, and advanced creative workforce development programs.

Free Spirit Media

Founded in 1882, the Hyde Park Herald is a weekly newspaper that serves the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.

Hyde Park Herald

Injustice Watch is a non-partisan, not-for-profit journalism organization that conducts in-depth research exposing institutional failures that obstruct justice and equality.

Injustice Watch

Independent, intensely local, covering Oak Park and River Forest.