Thanks, Reader readers!

You’ve landed Chicago Public Square first-runner-up honors for Best Email Newsletter and Best Independent Website in the Chicago Reader’s annual Best of Chicago poll—for which the Reader reports more than 40,000 ballots cast.


Hats off to the winner in both categories, Block Club Chicago.

Here’s the congratulatory ad Square’s running on Page 66 of the Reader’s Best of print edition, which is downloadable as a PDF.

Square up.

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