Useful Links

Illinois Ethnic Coalition
Created in 1971. Works collaboratively with mainstream and ethnic institutions to advise them on ways to more effectively reach out to Chicago's diverse communities. Publishes an ethnic media guide.

Community Media Workshop
Founded by journalists and community activists, the Community Media Workshop that encourages the media to "tell the stories of the other Chicago, the oft-neglected neighborhoods and back streets." The Workshop publishes a Chicago media guide, to which there are over 1,400 subscribers.

Chicago Historical Society
Privately-endowed institution devoted to collecting, interpreting and presenting multicultural history of Chicago. Participant of the Illinois Newspaper Project/United States Newspaper Program, a state and national effort to locate, catalog and preserve newspapers published in the U.S. from the eighteenth century to the present.

Independent Press Association
Headquartered in New York, the IPA is a nonprofit trade association representing more than 400 independent and public interest periodicals. Recently, it opened a chapter in Chicago after showing the national board that the city had a vibrant ethnic media scene.

National Association of Hispanic Publications
Founded in 1982, NAHP promotes Hispanic print media. Membership includes 180 publications throughout the United States, including the Midwest's biggest Spanish-language publication, La Raza. One of only a handful of ethnic press associations.

DATABASES:
The Center for Research Libraries Ethnic Press database
Illinois Newspaper Project Database

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