City Spotlight: Publishing in Chicago

Substance over Style

"Chicago was never about glamorous trade publishing," says Ela Aktay, executive editor at National Geographic Learning/Cengage Learning in Evanston, just north of Chicago. "We're just about that steady, bread-and-butter kind of publishing."

Publishers abound in and around the Windy City: academic, association, education, evangelical, independent, medical, specialty and university presses. Today, Chicago is home to more than 125 book publishers.