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Dave Reidy

Chicago
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Covers:  Housing, parenting, family history, storytelling, literature, pop music, baseball, arts, culture, Chicago
Two books of fiction | Fiction @grantamag | Nonfiction @southsideweekly, @beltmag | Opinions mine, not necessarily those of my employer or clients

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Dave Reidy’s Biography

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Finalist for Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism (2022), writing essays about parenting, fatherhood, storytelling, literature, pop music, culture, arts, and Chicago.

Author of two books of fiction: CAPTIVE AUDIENCE: STORIES and THE VOICEOVER ARTIST: A NOVEL.

Dave Reidy’s Journalist Portfolio

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“We Saw Them When.” Tales Out of School . . . Campus Concerts | Notre Dame Magazine

“We Saw Them When.” Tales Out of School . . . Campus Concerts | Notre Dame Magazine

I was first in line at LaFortune on the winter day that tickets went on sale to see Beck and The Roots at Ste…

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The Reinvestment Movement After Redlining

The Reinvestment Movement After Redlining

A new book corrects longstanding popular narratives of real estate crises and white flight.

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Following the Yellowlined Road

Following the Yellowlined Road

In December 1939, yellow ink flooded Chicago's Southwest Side. Frank Reidy, my paternal grandfather, and his …

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Thirty-five moments that brought Chicago music to the world

Thirty-five moments that brought Chicago music to the world

Contributed ghostwriting to this piece behind the Arts & Business Council of Chicago byline. For more tha…

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The White Sox Then and Now: A Ballad of Low Demand

The White Sox Then and Now: A Ballad of Low Demand

Author @Dave_Reidy writes about the organization's attendance as the city's second team and the generational …

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Dadwell & Co. Podcast, S1 E5: Dave Reidy

Dadwell & Co. Podcast, S1 E5: Dave Reidy

A conversation with Dave Reidy, writer, author and creative director. Dadwell & Co. is an independent med…

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Articles

The Reinvestment Movement After Redlining – South Side Weekly

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By Dave Reidy
| South Side Weekly Verified
Only a writer with great confidence in her scholarly and narrative abilities would reserve a book’s most dramatic line for the acknowledgments. On the 237th page of After Redlining: The Urban Reinvestment Movement in the Era of Financial Deregulation (University of Chicago Press), author and historian Rebecca K.
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Following the Yellowlined Road

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By Dave Reidy
| Belt Magazine
Yellowlining—the lesser cousin of federal-government redlining—was a discriminatory force that historians and economists have only begun to explore By Dave Reidy In December 1939, yellow ink flooded Chicago’s Southwest Side. Frank Reidy, my paternal grandfather, and his neighbors never saw it coming. At the time, the twenty-four-year-old man was living with his Irish-immigrant parents at 64th Street and Maplewood Avenue in the Marquette Manor section of Chicago Lawn.
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Following the Yellowlined Road – South Side Weekly

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By Dave Reidy
| South Side Weekly Verified
In December 1939, yellow ink flooded Chicago’s Southwest Side. Frank Reidy, my paternal grandfather, and his neighbors never saw it coming. At the time, the twenty-four-year-old man was living with his Irish-immigrant parents at 64th Street and Maplewood Avenue in the Marquette Manor section of Chicago Lawn.
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Lisagor Award (Finalist)

2022 - Best Business Reporting/Non-Daily Newspaper, Magazine, Or Newspaper Magazine Section

The Chicago Headline Club presents the finalists for the 45th annual Peter Lisagor Awards, representing some of the best journalism produced across the Chicago region and throughout Illinois over the past year in 100 categories, including newspapers, magazines, television, radio and digital media. For “The Reinvestment Movement After Redlining: A new book corrects longstanding popular narratives of real estate crises and white flight," published in South Side Weekly

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Pen Parentis Writing Fellowship for New Parents (Honorable Mention)

2014 - Short Fiction
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Emerging Writers Network Short Fiction Contest (Winner; Charles D'Ambrosio, Judge)

2007 - Short Fiction