Quick Contact Info
Circulation: Jill Wagner (jill@oakpark.com)
Classifieds and Legal Notices: Kamil Brady (kamil@growingcommunitymedia.org)
Advertising: Marc Stopeck (marc@oakpark.com), Lourdes Nicholls (lourdes@oakpark.com), Kamil Brady (kamil@growingcommunitymedia.org)
Address: 141 S. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park, Illinois 60302
Phone: 708-524-8300
Francia Garcia Hernandez
Staff Reporter (francia@growingcommunitymedia.org)
Francia is a communications strategist and journalist from Mexico City. She joined Growing Community Media after getting her master’s in civic media from Columbia College Chicago. When she’s not finding stories on Chicago’s West Side, you can find her at a coffee shop or art gallery.
Igor Studenkov
Staff Reporter (igor@growingcommunitymedia.org)
Igor Studenkov is a winner of multiple iPA journalism awards for government and business reporting. He wrote for Growing Community Media’s Chicago Journal in 2012. He has been covering Chicago’s West Side communities for Austin Weekly News since 2015, and he is currently the lead reporter for Forest Park Review. Igor contributes to Streetsblog Chicago, as well as various Chicago area community publications.
Dan Haley
President and Publisher (dhaley@wjinc.com)
Dan was one of the three founders of Wednesday Journal in 1980. He’s still here as its five flags – Wednesday Journal, Austin Weekly News, Forest Park Review, Village Free Press and Riverside-Brookfield Landmark – make the switch to the nonprofit model of Growing Community Media. He sees independent community journalism as the glue that makes a neighborhood vital.
