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Topic: random question of the day: chicago
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| joyeuxnoelle | Posted – 10/22/2007 2:23:37 PM | show profile | email poster Does any one know of any travel magazines based in Chicago. I'd like to move to Chicago in the short to medium term future and I'd love to establish a relationship with this pub as a freelancer. They can't all be in New /york, right? Thanks. |
| Marie | Posted – 10/23/2007 1:47:40 AM | show profile You can live in Chicago and freelance for a travel publication that's located anywhere. The only Chicago pubs I know of are the Tribune, Sun Star, Time Out, and there's probably a Chicago city magazine. It's a great city--wonderful architecture, food, music, culture and much lower cost of living than big cities in the Northeast -- is there anything else one needs? As a freelancer, you can live anywhere. Bu |
| junecleaver | Posted – 10/23/2007 10:20:40 AM | show profile True about Chicago: You'll want to freelance for pubs that aren't located in Chicago. There aren't a lot of magazines published locally, and as a result, there isn't a lot of magazine work. I believe there's a lot of writing work if you want to do copywriting, legal, financial or health writing. And, Time Out and the Tribune, and I think Chicago magazine, all use freelancers. Take a look at the local Chicago board further down on MB's bb page. There isn't much action there ... |
| JimmyG | Posted – 10/23/2007 11:02:00 AM | show profile I'm a freelancer in Chicago, having pretty much worked for the two consumer publishers outside of the newspapers and Chicago, Ebony/Jet. It's a great place to live--not as costly as New York, but still a major metropolitan city with the requisite culture--and the people are friendlier. It's not much of a publishing town anymore, outside of textbooks and trade mags, but you don't have to be down the street from a company to freelance for it. |
| joyeuxnoelle | Posted – 10/23/2007 1:23:50 PM | show profile | email poster actually ... Thanks for all the tips on how to be a freelancer in Chicago. I think that my initial post wasn't clear. I am a travel writer. I live abroad but eventually I would like to move back to the US, preferably Chicago, and work for a travel magazine on staff. My idea was to establish a relationship with them as a freelancer while I'm living abroad so I'd be (hopefully) placed in higher consideration if a full time gig comes up. I know that one pub, travelgirl, is based in Georgia. So I was wondering if there was a travel pub in Chicago that I hadn't thought of ... |
