[2] Stockyard Media, Inc. – the company that owned and published Stockyard – was founded in 2008 by four alumni of the University of Chicago;[3] originally slated to be a print magazine,[1] the magazine moved to Internet-only, citing "the flexibility and ingenuity that the Internet allows.

"[3] Stockyard published Guggenheim fellows, and authors from New York, Washington, D.C., London, and Edinburgh, despite its basis in the city of Chicago.

[4] Stockyard received praise for its notable section, the Galerie,[5] for its well-curated art from Chicago artists, and for the strong voices of its writers.

Fiction author Doug Shiloh praised the magazine, writing, "Speed is a plus to these times.

Editor Rory Tolan and crew are creating something special in Chicago with the scope of what they're giving to audience.