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Books: Capturing the Backrooms of Ebony and Jet Magazines

By David Schonauer   Thursday November 5, 2026

The Johnson Publishing Company once occupied an 11-story tower at 820 S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago that was a monument to Black culture, sending out millions of copies of Ebony and Jet magazines each year. Financial woes led to the company’s collapse, and by 2012 the offices had been vacated. …

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