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Windy Citizen


Windy Citizen lets you share your favorite Chicago news, events, photos, and videos with your friends on Twitter and Facebook. The Windy Citizen is the only Chicago news site built by its readers. The Windy Citizen is free. Free to share local news.

Site Url: http://www.windycitizen.com/

Feed Url: http://feeds.feedburner.com/WindyCitizenFullFeed

Target community: Chicago

Is the site active? Yes

Professional journalists? Mixed

Paid staff? No

Is the site part of a network? No

Is the site a media affiliate? No

Content created by: Open

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Year founded: 2006

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Does your site aggregate content from other online sites? Yes

Does your site provide training? No

Business model: For-profit

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Contact Information

Location: Chicago, IL, United States of America
Contact URL: [email protected]

How important is each of the following goals to your project?

1 means "not very important" and 6 means "very important"

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