Gapers Block (Gapers Block Media, LLC) was a Chicago-centric web publication focused on covering Chicago culture under the tag line: "Slow down and check out Chicago". The site, gapersblock.com, lists local events, aggregates other Chicago blogs and news of local interest and features many topical blogs: A/C (arts and culture), Drive-Thru (food related), Transmission (local music), Mechanics (state and local politics), Tailgate (sports coverage), and Book Club (book club and literary scene coverage).
Conceived in 2003 by Andrew Huff and Naz Hamid, the stuck-in-traffic themed section names, such as Merge (blog, links aggregation), Slowdown (calendar event listings), and Rearview (noteworthy local photos), are inspired by the Chicago-coined term, "gapers' block", a synonym (with "gapers' delay") for rubbernecking. The site was the first city blog in Chicago and one of the earliest examples of the genre; Gothamist and the Metroblogging network were also founded in 2003.
The site is written by volunteers from various backgrounds and professions, with content organized into topical sections, including arts & culture, literature, food, music, politics, and sports.[1]
In 2010, the cookbook The Everything Cast Iron Cookbook was published, based in large part on author Cinnamon Cooper's "One Good Meal" column[2] on Gapers Block.[3]
In December 2015, editor and publisher Andrew Huff announced the site would be going on "indefinite hiatus" on January 1, 2016.[4]
Accreditations and awardsEdit
It was named a "Forbes Favorite"[5] in Forbes.com's Best of the Web directory, in the category "Best City Blogs."
Web design site Typesites credits Gapers Block’s aesthetics, “well-crafted layout”[6] and noteworthy typography.
Chicago Community Trust awarded Gapers Block $35,000 in an effort to boost new sources of local news and information and “increase the amount of neighborhood-based, original local coverage ... with priority given to stories about underserved communities and issues that affect them.”[7]
The Chicago Sun-Times in 2009 named the Gapers Block Book Club the #2 best way to find romance in Chicago.[8]
Gapers Block Editor and publisher Andrew Huff was listed in Crain’s Chicago Business’s “40 Under 40”[9] in 2009.
David Schalliol, Brian Ashby, Dave Nagel, Akemi Honga and Natalia Echeverry were the recipients of the Peter Lisagor Award for Best Use of Features Video[10] for "The Area" in 2014. Jason Prechtel was a finalist[11] for the award for Best Individual Blog Post, Independent for “Ventra’s Parent Company: An International History of Fare Card Glitches" the same year.
The site was named Best Local Blog in the Chicago Reader's "Best of Chicago" poll in 2013,[12] 2014[13] and 2015[14]
^"Congratulations to our 2013 Lisagor winners!". 3 May 2014.
^"Congrats to our Lisagor Finalists!". 19 March 2014.
^Chicago Reader - Best of Chicago 2013 - Best Local Blog Accessed Sept. 5, 2013.
^Chicago Reader - Best of Chicago 2014 - Best Local Blog Accessed June 25, 2014.
^Chicago Reader - Best of Chicago 2015 - Best Local Blog Accessed June 24, 2015.
External linksEdit
Gapers Block website
October 20, 2023
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