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Chicago Picks is Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice.  If we can't say anything nice, we don't say it at all.

Chicago Picks is a subscription-driven online publication delivered to subscribers each Friday via email.  It’s a fun and sassy vehicle for City Secrets that reaches a highly targeted market.  Chicago Picks readers are mostly women, busy and well-educated “influencers,” who like to purchase items and use services that enhance the quality of their lives.

Chicago Picks are mostly the unsolicited opinions of the Chicago Picks staff.  They are hints, recommendations, and best-kept secrets of shops, restaurants, products, and services.  Chicago Picks' parent company, City Picks Group, is a subsidiary of Westover Media, LLC.

Chicago Picks founder, Kathi O'Neil, started her career in Manhattan with Hearst Magazines and The Hearst Corporation.  A native Oregonian, O'Neil and her husband returned to Portland in the early 90s.  There O'Neil started Westover Media, a full-service marketing firm whose partial list of clients includes: Elle, In Style, Lucky, Tom's of Maine, Oprah, Gourmet, The New Yorker, Town and Country, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Conde Nast Traveler, W and Health, to name a few.

Editor in Chief Alisa Sloan directs the content and managing editors in all cities and heads the flagship Portland Picks publication.  Based in Portland, she has been with Westover Media since June of 2005 and brings more than 12 years of experience in publishing, marketing and content management to the team. 

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Staff
Kathi O’Neil Alisa Sloan Abby Yemm Maggie Dunphy
Kathi O’Neil
Publisher
 Alisa Sloan
Editor in Chief		 Abby Yemm
 Managing Editor		 Maggie Dunphy
 Senior Writer
       
Theresa Donaghy Megan Baldwin Aramide Esubi
Theresa Donaghy
Contributing Writer		 Eliana Shapiro
Contributing Writer		 Megan Baldwin
Contributor		 Aramide Esubi
Contributing Writer
       
Bethany Kovar Sam Roloff  
Bethany Kovar
Contributor		 Freya Kerr
Contributor		 Sam Roloff
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