Midwest coverage for working businesses
We develop and place a dedicated feature about you in The Chicago Journal. Nothing goes live without your approval.
The Chicago Journal is a regional digital publication covering business, founders and city life in and around Chicago.
A Midwest feature balances a coastal press record and reads well to buyers who distrust momentum language.
Best for: Logistics, trades, healthcare and professional services.
The Chicago Journal is a smaller regional digital title, and the name carries more weight than the category does, so it is worth being plain. There is no print edition and no newsroom of staff reporters working beats. You can approach the editors yourself at no cost, subject to fit and capacity, or use a managed placement where the angle, the writing and the submission are handled and you approve the draft first. Contributed placements under your own byline are common at this tier, and paid or supplied pieces should be labelled. Confirm the exact domain on any placement, because a good number of publications use the word Journal in the masthead.
Chicago is a working business city, which shapes what reads well there. Category labels and momentum language land badly; an explanation of how something actually operates lands well. The strongest pieces are built around one real decision and its consequences: the client you stopped taking, the process you rebuilt after a costly failure, why you staff a function differently from everyone else in your sector. It sits in the business, operations and community coverage. Anchor every claim in a situation a reader can picture, because your name stays on the page permanently. Keep the Chicago connection genuine, whether that is where you operate, who you serve, or what you are seeing locally.
Tell us the story in a sentence. We reply within 24 hours and we will say plainly whether The Chicago Journal is realistic for you, and which route it would take.
We develop your story, write the feature to editorial standard, and manage the placement. You approve every word before anything goes live.
Yes. It is a genuine article published on the outlet, written about you and your work — not an ad you design yourself.
Most placements take weeks rather than days. We give you a realistic timeline for The Chicago Journal before we start, and never promise a date we cannot control.
You review and revise until it is right. Nothing publishes without your approval.