About Today’s Chicago Blues

To read the blog, Today’s Chicago Blues, click here.

The blog, Today’s Chicago Blues, is a companion website to the book, Today’s Chicago Blues, by Karen Hanson. Today’s Chicago Blues is the only guidebook dedicated solely to the Chicago blues. With this book, you can tour Chicago’s famous blues-related sites, hit the hot blues venues (including local favorites not covered in the general city guidebooks), and deepen your appreciate for blues history.

Highlights:

• Descriptions of nightspots where live blues bands play
• A listing of blues jams A directory of blues radio shows
• Information about historical blues sites
• A guide to the Chicago Blues Festival
• Profiles of numerous Chicago-based blues musicians

Today’s Chicago Blues is available at all major bookstores in the Chicago area and through online booksellers. To order, go the the blog and click on the book cover

Hire me

I welcome opportunities to write for you. I can do blogs, press kits and articles for your publication or website.

(But please note, I am a professional writer, and I accept only paying gigs. I am not an aspiring writer or a wannabe. I have received payment continuously since 1997 for my writing and have won numerous regional and statewide awards. Click here to see my work.)

My experience includes:

• Nine years as a journalist with newspapers and regional magazines in the Chicago suburbs.
• Four years as a columnist with a community newspaper.
• Previous experience writing blues feature stories and CDs.
• Community host with online chats and forums.
• Author of Today’s Chicago Blues, a guidebook to the blues in Chicago.

For details, please e-mail me at todayschicagoblues@gmail.com.