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Mild-mannered freelance girl reporter for hire. Previously seen in, among others, @eater, @theguardian, @Chicago_Reader, @thetakeout, and @RiverfrontTimes

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Aimee Levitt’s Biography

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Staff writer for the Chicago Reader, formerly for the Riverfront Times in St. Louis. I write about books, hipsters, dogs, the Human Cannonball, Napoleon enthusiasts, the afterlife, and many, many other things.

Aimee Levitt’s Journalist Portfolio

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The Electric Pencil: A long-lost cache of sketches by a state mental hospital inmate finally yiel...

The Electric Pencil: A long-lost cache of sketches by a state mental hospital inmate finally yiel...

Two hundred eighty-three drawings: all done in crayon and colored pencil on ledger paper bearing the imprimat…

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Dr. Peanut: A St. Louis pediatrician battles child malnutrition in Haiti with peanut butter

Dr. Peanut: A St. Louis pediatrician battles child malnutrition in Haiti with peanut butter

In Cap-Haïtien, Haiti, everyone rises with the roosters, and by 8 a.m. the unpaved streets outside Hospital J…

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The migration of the hipster

The migration of the hipster

The Dil Pickle Club was beautiful. So was Urbus Orbis. And Maury's bookstore. And Logan Beach. And Ralph Clar…

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Little House in the Present: America's economic downturns run through Laura Ingalls Wilder's book...

Little House in the Present: America's economic downturns run through Laura Ingalls Wilder's book...

In late August 1894, the Wilder family - Almanzo, Laura and their seven-year-old daughter Rose - arrived in M…

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Heaven Can't Wait: A skeptic's guide to afterlife awareness

Heaven Can't Wait: A skeptic's guide to afterlife awareness

If death is the final, irrevocable cessation of life, the concept of life after death is a paradox and comple…

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Paradiso Blekitna Przystan is the sexiest dog in Chicago

Paradiso Blekitna Przystan is the sexiest dog in Chicago

If it weren't the sort of cold, drizzly evening at the time of year when melting snow turns the entire world …

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Where to Grab Dinner After a Long Day on the Lake

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Partner Content From This advertising content was produced in collaboration between Vox Creative and our advertiser, without involvement from Vox Media editorial staff. A table teeming with food at Libanais. Neil Burger Sunburnt, sandy, and hungry? Dinner is already en route with Grubhub Jun 30, 2026, 3:08 PM UTC Aimee Levitt is a freelance writer in Chicago. When the weather finally gets warm, Chicago comes to life.
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Anxious, optimistic and all in: These Midwestern entrepreneurs size up the moment

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On a steamy day in mid-June, several hundred small business owners from Chicago, the suburbs and nearby states jammed the narrow corridors of the Isadore and Sadie Dorin Forum, an event space on the campus of the University of Illinois Chicago. Attendees of the Small Business Expo, a traveling conference and networking event, clutched their phones and glided past vintage photos of small business owners who once worked at the Maxwell Street Market that occupied this spot a century ago.
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An AI financial coaching app in Ecuador helps unbanked build credit

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When Jens Thobo-Carlsen’s father died a few years ago, he was deeply in debt, something his son and the rest of his family only found out after the fact. This isn’t an uncommon situation. In Ecuador, as in the rest of Latin America, formal credit can be hard to access but it can be easy to borrow from informal and often predatory lenders, who lack oversight from the government and credit bureaus. The average Ecuadoran carries eight loans, according to one report, with some as many as 13.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

At the Riverfront Times in St. Louis. I was lucky: they hired me right out of journalism school.

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Hildy Johnson in "His Girl Friday"

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

My iPhone. Also Google docs and our paper's blog software.