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, Apr 23, 2012
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Journalist and author Bill Granger dies
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, Dec 22, 2011
Sun-Times Media has new owners and a new stepbrother, the CNC
Will Sun-Times Media and Chicago News Coop find synergies through new common investors?
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Peter Smith—a Chicago author who got away
Author and Public Radio commentator Peter Smith will read from his new memoir in the Chicago suburbs.
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Dinner on a Dime, From a Vintage Cookbook
Chef Troy Graves tries out a 115-year-old cookbook, but skips the squirrel.
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How I Made It in Comedy: Harold Ramis
"At the time—it was the late 1960s—the Playboy editors wanted to modernize the jokes a bit, to make them more counterculture. A big part of my job was changing 'the farmer' into 'a swinging advertising executive.'"
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, Mar 18, 2009
Nick Shuman
When Marshall Field sold the Chicago Sun-Times, Nick Shuman was the editorial writer who called him out.
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, Oct 31, 2008
Charles Nicodemus, happy warrior
Charles Nicodemus, investigative reporter and Newspaper Guild leader at the Chicago Sun-Times, dies in Colorado.
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, Sep 19, 2008
Offer: final issue of the Daily News
Valjean McLenighan leaves behind a copy of the final edition of the Chicago Daily News and it could be yours.
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Members of the community
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