Chicago Magazine

Chicago

Editor	Susanna Homan
Former editors	Beth Fenner
Frequency	Monthly
Company	tronc
Language	English
Website	www.chicagomag.com
ISSN	0362-4595
OCLC number	2398937

Chicago is a monthly magazine published by tronc. It concentrates on lifestyle and human interest stories, and on reviewing restaurants, travel, fashion, and theatre from or nearby Chicago. Its circulation in 2004 was 165,000, larger than People in its market. Also in 2004, it received the National Magazine Award for General Excellence. It is a member of the City and Regional Magazine Association (CRMA).

Chicago was established in 1952. It was founded as the programming guide for the classical radio station WFMT and was called Chicago Guide. The name was changed in 1975.

In 1981, Chicago introduced the Nelson Algren Award, a short story contest that the magazine later abandoned before it was picked up by the Chicago Tribune newspaper.

In December 1986, Chicago Educational Television Association, which had owned WFMT and WTTW, announced that it would sell the magazine for $17 million to a joint venture formed by Metropolitan Detroit Magazine and Adams Communications. The deal closed in January 1987. Landmark Communications bought the magazine in 1990. Primedia bought the magazine in 1995. Tribune bought the magazine from Primedia in 2002.

Chicago magazine's first editor was Allen Kelson. He later became editor-in-chief, and then publisher.

In 1984, Don Gold, the former managing editor of Playboy magazine, became the magazine's editorial director, in a new position created between editor-in-chief Allen Kelson and editor John Fink.

From 1986 until 1991, Hillel Levin served as the magazine's editor. He left in early 1991 to join other investors in buying a Miami-based and Caribbean media group. Levin was succeeded by Richard Babcock, who up to that point had been assistant managing editor of Rupert Murdoch's New York magazine.

In April 2009, the magazine laid off longtime literary editor Christine Newman.

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