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Like Isthmus, the Chicago Reader — one of the nation’s oldest alt-weeklies — decided to transition to a nonprofit. But a dispute over content almost derailed the whole thing.

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...

The Chicago Reader Union held their first rally at Len Goodman’s, co-owner of the publication, residence demanding he authorize the sale to make the Reader the non profit on Thursday. The union inflated two Scabby the Rats in front Goodman’s residence in Lakeview at 300 Wellington and Lakeshore Drive. Scabby the Rat has been used...

The Chicago Reader Union held their first rally at Len Goodman’s, co-owner of the publication, residence on Thursday, demanding he authorize the sale to make the Reader a non-profit. The union inflated two Scabby the Rats in front Goodman’s residence in Lakeview at 300 Wellington and Lakeshore Drive. Scabby the Rat has been used as...

The Chicago Reader Union will rally this Thursday to demand that co-owner Leonard Goodman authorize the publication’s nonprofit status. Goodman has been blocking the sale since 2021. Goodman, a criminal defense lawyer and an adjunct professor at DePaul’s College of Law, bought the Reader under Leonard C. Goodman’s Institute for Investigative Reporting in 2018. He...