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r/chicagoNSFW

This community is private, banned or no longer exists on Reddit. The numbers below are what we captured while it was public.

658K members. The best post we have captured here reached 13.1K upvotes, which works out to 20 per 1,000 members.

20peak upvotes per 1,000 members
658Kmembers
13.1Kbest post
1.1Kmost comments
946posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

35% 32% 11% 10%
Link 35% Image 32% Gallery 11% Text 10% Video 6% Question 5%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Picture 229 Article 178 News 113 Ask CHI 86 CHI Talks 70 Event 39 Video 39 Meme 30 Review 8 Pictures 7

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

I made the Chicago loop in stained glass!

↑ 13.1K 💬 315 gallery 2025

An astonishing crowd!

↑ 12.9K 💬 385 video 2025

Immigrants Eat Our Dogs

↑ 10.1K 💬 123 image 2024

There is a heroin epidemic in the Northwest Suburbs. Rolling Meadows police department decided to do something about it.

↑ 9.7K 💬 809 image 2015

Chicago at its best

↑ 9K 💬 244 image 2025

Chicago stands with Minnesota

↑ 8.9K 💬 147 video 2026

Proud of you folks ✊🫡

↑ 8.2K 💬 628 image 2025

Spotted over Lake Shore Drive in Chicago

↑ 8.1K 💬 582 image 2024

Shoutout to the bride who walked out of her hotel into the middle of the protest and just went with it

↑ 7.7K 💬 108 image 2025

Best pope related tweet I’ve seen

↑ 7.2K 💬 275 image 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/chicago, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/chicago have?
r/chicago has about 658K members. ViralHunt has tracked 946 of its posts; the biggest reached 13.1K upvotes, which is 20 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/chicago?
"I made the Chicago loop in stained glass!" reached 13.1K upvotes and 315 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/chicago.
What subreddits are similar to r/chicago?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Yosemite, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/madisonwi, r/NoFilterNews.
What kind of posts do best on r/chicago?
Of the posts we hold, 35% are link posts and 32% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/chicago?
Across 946 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 21:00 UTC (4.7K avg upvotes), Sunday at 15:00 UTC (3.4K avg upvotes), Friday at 23:00 UTC (3.3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/chicago?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/chicago has 6.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 300 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/chicago, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.