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Followers
19.5K
Account age
2 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$109 – $178 / sponsored post
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📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Nov 30latest
6
Avg engagement / post
2–6
Typical post (engagement)
0%
Engagement vs followers
41/100
Variable reach
Aug 2024
On Bluesky since
Half of recent posts land between 2 and 6 likes + reposts (median 3) — reach is spiky, driven by the occasional post that pops.
🔥 Top post: Community members ask the Illinois EPA to deny a permit for the · 32 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
21.4 / week
Posts daily — consistently active for a campaign window.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
465×
Follows 42 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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Join us this weekend for Pop Quiz Hot Shot, a comedy-trivia hybrid built for a night of witty trivia, sharp comedy, and high-energy atmosphere.
Buy your tickets now at popquizhotshot.fun and meet us at The Lincoln Lodge this Sunday, Augus…
The durian massaman curry at Eat Fine Design by Khun Kung is a synthesis of creamy sweetness, warm earthiness, and silky richness. https://bit.ly/3Sa9mNL
Hipolito Sanchez's Slow Motion for Meat makes its Monday Night Foodball debut with a mystery menu of smoked meats and more. https://bit.ly/45DKRvm
The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago's independent and underground film scene has to offer. https://bit.ly/4g5Ooc0
Discord ripples through American Football (LP 4) like the rumbling of distant thunder. https://bit.ly/4w0xrVi
Raised by a musical family in Cabrini-Green, Isaiah Sharkey remembers that he was carrying around a toy guitar by age three and that his uncle gave him a small acoustic guitar at age four. https://bit.ly/4bHETxl
Jeff Kimmel and Jack Langdon play a spontaneous form of minimal music with an ecosystem like a pond: It's placid on the surface but teems with microtonal life underneath. https://bit.ly/4w0xr7K
“The Lawn Open" curators Molly Blumberg, Qiuchen Wu, and Alana Ferguson present mini golf in a way that's unexpectedly subversive. https://bit.ly/3U6uo0f
Gregg Araki's I Want Your Sex stumbles over genre pastiche but successfully delivers sex to the masses. https://bit.ly/4vXDJom
Kay Martinovich directs Carr's story of dreams, infidelity, and a woman's desire to have "more than good" in life at Gift Theatre. https://bit.ly/4wxSuPS
Social media and streaming have changed who can book shows and how. Those new incentives might even convince a local band to play a hot-dog joint. https://bit.ly/4w0vTdT
🦋 Handle & authenticity
✅ Domain-verified
@chicagoreader.com
The handle is the domain chicagoreader.com. On Bluesky a domain handle proves the owner controls that website — so this is verifiably the real chicagoreader.com account, not an impersonator.
On Bluesky since
Aug 2024
Joined after Bluesky opened to the public — a settled account with a real history.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Bluesky in 2024 — 2 years ago.
👁️Averages 6 views per post.
📤Posts about 21.4× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.
📍Based in United States.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated76/100
Good
Credibility score
92%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.0% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Bluesky.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Chicago's alternative newsroom since 1971 🗞
chicagoreader.com
🔀 Audience overlap
EstimatedEstimated shared audience with similar creators — useful for avoiding overlap (or doubling down) when planning a campaign.
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