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The Chicago Reader will become a nonprofit organization after co-owner Len Goodman announced he would sign off and step down this past Wednesday. This comes after the Chicago Reader Union started mobilizing to transition into nonprofit status on April 14. They held one rally at Goodman’s residence on April 21. The union found out about...

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Employees of a beloved alt-weekly in Chicago are celebrating the end of a months-long fight with management that had threatened to put them out of business.

The labor win in Cary and Peoria came on the same day unionized workers at the Chicago Reader got what they wanted: a big step toward nonprofit status.

On Tuesday Leonard C. Goodman finally ended a monthslong fight over a column he wrote questioning whether children should be vaccinated for COVID-19. In resigning from the board of the Reader (along with three like-minded members), he allowed the paper to move to nonprofit status -- its only path to survival.

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Chicago Reader owner Len Goodman and three board members stepped down Tuesday amid protests from employees, freeing the embattled alternative newspaper to transition to a nonprofit organization.

After months of discord between the free weekly's owner and workers, Len Goodman will allow the 50-year-old publication to continue its plan to become a nonprofit.

The future of the Chicago Reader is at stake as a dispute drags on between staff members and one of the paper’s current owners.