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Block Club Chicago

Who runs Block Club Chicago, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest local news alternatives.

Who’s behind it: Not stated
Online since: Unknown
Trackers
Prices: No pricing page
Last price change: –
Closest alternative: Chicago Sun-Times

Measured from Block Club Chicago’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Block Club Chicago

Block Club Chicago blockclubchicago.org

Block Club Chicago is a nonprofit news organization dedicated to delivering reliable, nonpartisan and essential coverage of Chicago’s diverse neighborhoods.

Wikidata: nonprofit news organization

Company: No imprint we could read
Online since: Not in the Internet Archive
Audience: In English

02 · Privacy

What Block Club Chicago tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

More than all 16 alternatives below.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: None found
US company: 6 tools

Advertising and retargeting

Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Visitor analytics

Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
- Google AnalyticsUS
- Parse.lyUS
Tag manager

Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
- Google Tag ManagerUS

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Block Club Chicago

Fewer trackers than Block Club Chicago No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Block Club Chicago match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

What changed

Price and policy history →

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Block Club Chicago adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack and search numbers · 16 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,222
Vector: 384-d
Query: 31 ms

Built with

CMS: WordPress page source: /wp-content/
Ecommerce: WooCommerce page source: /plugins/woocommerce/
JavaScript libraries: jQuery asset https://blockclubchicago.org/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=3.7.1
Analytics: Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
Parse.ly page source: cdn.parsely.com
Tag managers: Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
Advertising: Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
Google Ads conversion tracking page source: gtag("config", "AW-
Meta Pixel page source: connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js
Payments: PayPal page source: paypal.com/sdk/js
Security: reCAPTCHA page source: google.com/recaptcha/api.js
Web servers: nginx header server: nginx
Languages & backends: PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
Email hosting: Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
DNS hosting: GoDaddy DNS NS ns14.domaincontrol.com
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=nb20HdcuNfCnu9QpXN--eCLehhfN_N1ItZ0a9m933-Q

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.