Tuesday was another red-letter day for Block Club Chicago. In what it called “a wonderful vote of confidence,” the vital nonprofit neighborhood news site landed a $1.6 million grant from the American Journalism Project and a $450,000 matching grant from the Chicago Community Trust.
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