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r/chicagoNSFW

654K 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
654Kmembers
13.1Kbest post
1.1Kmost comments
237posts 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.

51% 15% 12% 11% 8%
Image 51% Link 15% Gallery 12% Text 11% Video 8% Question 2%

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 38 News 11 Meme 11 Event 10 Pictures 7 Video 6 CHI Talks 6 ICE 4 Ask CHI 1 Article 1

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.

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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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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.