Welcome to Our New Website

Long-running fans and first-time visitors alike, welcome to the newly designed website– bolstered by a new logo– for Chicago Indie Critics, organized by Illinois Indie Critics NFP. Since 2016, we have established ourselves as a talented, diverse, and vigilant group of film and TV critics from the Chicagoland area. We are an industry-recognized awards voting body and represent critics from various mediums across print, radio, online, podcasting, and video. As of 2024, we are 38 members strong and growing every year.

This website you’re browsing will be our home for member profiles, as well as a continuous blog connecting their current and ongoing creative works. Promoting our members’ content has long been a feather in our hat, and we are pleased to have this new site as a base for that member benefit. In addition, this website will be a home for the CIC’s social media connections, group news and events, and the archive of our annual Windie Awards. Finally, we have pages linked to our membership applications for interested new members.

A big heap of thanks goes out to Matt Kubinski and the CIC directors (Don Shanahan, El’Ahrai Stanek, and Andrea Thompson) for stewarding this design process. We hope you like what you see and our critics even more. Stick around. Bookmark this lovely place and come back often.