NEWSPAPER

Daily broadsheet, founded 1847.

Official Website:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/

Location:
Chicago, IL

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
David Axelrod	Government	22-Feb-1955		Obama's chief political advisor
Barbara Taylor Bradford	Novelist	5-May-1933		Emma Harte saga
Philip Caputo	Author	10-Jun-1941		A Rumor of War
George E. Curry	Publisher	23-Feb-1947		Emerge editor-in-chief
Finley Peter Dunne	Author	10-Jul-1867	24-Apr-1936	Creator of Mr. Dooley
Edna Ferber	Novelist	15-Aug-1885	16-Apr-1968	Show Boat and Giant
Bill Geist	Columnist	10-May-1945		60 Minutes II
Jan Crawford Greenburg	Journalist	c. 1965		Chicago Tribune legal reporter
Ruth Hale	Activist	1886	18-Sep-1933	Maiden name crusader
Louis Harris	Business	6-Jan-1921		Pollster, Louis Harris and Associates
David D. Hiller	Publisher	12-Jun-1953		LA Times publisher, 2006-08
Hedda Hopper	Actor	2-May-1885	1-Feb-1966	Queen of the Quickies
Jeff Jarvis	Blogger	12-Sep-1954		Founder of Entertainment Weekly
Joseph Kirkland	Novelist	7-Jan-1830	29-Apr-1894	Zury: The Meanest Man in Spring County
Ring Lardner	Journalist	6-Mar-1885	25-Sep-1933	Gullible's Travels
Henry Demarest Lloyd	Journalist	1-May-1847	28-Sep-1903	Radical reporter
Jeff MacNelly	Cartoonist	17-Sep-1948	8-Jun-2000	Editorial cartoonist, Shoe
Robert McCormick	Business	30-Jul-1880	1-Apr-1955	Xenophobe in the Tribune Tower
Michele Norris	Radio Personality	7-Sep-1961		NPR host, All Things Considered
James O'Shea	Journalist	?		LA Times Editor, 2006-08
Clarence Page	Columnist	2-Jun-1947		Newspaper columnist, talking head
Joseph Medill Patterson	Business	6-Jan-1879	26-May-1946	Founder of New York Daily News
Westbrook Pegler	Columnist	2-Aug-1894	24-Jun-1969	Ultraconservative newspaper columnist
Burton Rascoe	Critic	22-Oct-1892	19-Mar-1957	The New York Tribune
Mike Royko	Columnist	19-Sep-1932	29-Apr-1997	Syndicated Chicago columnist
William L. Shirer	Historian	23-Feb-1904	28-Dec-1993	Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Gene Siskel	Critic	26-Jan-1946	20-Feb-1999	Siskel and Ebert
Scott C. Smith	Publisher	13-Sep-1950		President of Tribune Publishing, 2005-08
James Thurber	Author	8-Dec-1894	2-Nov-1961	Short story writer and cartoonist
Liz Trotta	Journalist	28-Mar-1937		Fox News contributor
Bruce Vilanch	Author	23-Nov-1948		The fat guy who writes everyone's jokes

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