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Rick Kogan

Born: 1951 in Chicago, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Rick Kogan grew up in Chicago's Old Town neighborhood and still lives in Chicago.

Biography: Born and raised and still living in Chicago, Rick Kogan has worked for the Chicago Daily News, Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Tribune, where he is currently a senior writer and columnist. Named Chicago's Best Reporter in 1999, inducted into the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame in 2003 and the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame in 2022, he is the creator and host of WGN radio's "After Hours with Rick Kogan" and the author of a dozen books.


Awards:
  • Chicago's Best Reporter, 1999
  • Chicago's Greatest Living Journalist, 2002
  • Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame, March 2003
  • Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, October 2022
  • Honored at the 2004 Illinois Authors Book Fair sponsored by the Illinois Center for the Book and the Illinois State Library in Springfield, Illinois.

Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction; Non-Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

E-Mail: rkogan@tribune.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/profile.php?id=770098288&ref=search&sid=1535835302.660396616..1=rick+kogan
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rickkogan
Web: https://wgnradio.com/after-hours-with-rick-kogan/
Web: https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chinews-rick-kogans-sidewalks-20130507-staff.html
Web: https://muckrack.com/rick-kogan
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Kogan


Selected Titles

A Chicago tavern :
ISBN: 9781893121492 OCLC: [Chicago] :

Lake Claremont Press, [Chicago] : 2006.

America's mom :
ISBN: 9780061873102 OCLC: [Place of publication not identified] :

HarperCollins e-Books, [Place of publication not identified] : 2014.

For two generations of Americans, reading Ann Landers's daily column was as important as eating breakfast. For nearly fifty years an entire nation turned to this quick-witted, worldly-wise counselor for advice on everything from dinner etiquette to sex. But who was the woman behind the byline' Iowa-born Eppie Lederer was first hired by the Chicago Sun-Times to take over the daily advice column in 1955 -- and over the next half-century she helped shape the nation's social and sexual landscape. Award-winning journalist Rick Kogan was Ann Landers's last editor and close friend, and he paints a fascinating, full-bodied account of the triumphs, the wisdom, the courage, and the trials of one of the twentieth century's most enduring icons -- including her painful lifelong feud with her identical twin sister, Dear Abby ; her stubborn refusal to shy away from even the most controversial topics; and the tragic breakup of her own thirty-six-year marriage. Filled with remarkable stories shared by people from all walks of life who were profoundly affected by the good sense and guidance of Ann Landers, America's Mom is a moving tribute to a singular woman who has earned an eternal place in our culture ... and our hearts.

Brunswick: The story of an American company from 1845 to 1985
ISBN: B00070SZHS OCLC:

Brunswick Corp 1985

Dr. Night Life /
ISBN: 0914090720 OCLC: Chicago :

Chicago Review Press, Chicago : ©1979.

Everybody Pays
ISBN: 0399148108 OCLC: New York, NY :

Putnam Adult New York, NY : 2001

The story of a mob hit on Chicago's West Side in 1972 and the twenty-five year search for justice.

Lambs Farm
ISBN: 0615508774 OCLC:

Lambs Farm 2011

Pharmacist to the Nation
ISBN: B001I2X9L6 OCLC:

Walgreen Co. 1989

Sabers & Suites: the Story of Chicago's Ambassador East
ISBN: B0007B14AC OCLC:

Self Published 1983

Sidewalks: Portraits of Chicago (Chicago Lives)
ISBN: 0810151936 OCLC: Evanston, Ill. :

Northwestern University Press Evanston, Ill. : 2008

Few people know Chicago as do Rick Kogan and Charles Osgood, and their Sidewalks column for the Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine is a tour of the city like no other, taking readers to the off-beat and quintessential spots that give Chicago its character--that make its inhabitants feel at home and tell its visitors that they have arrived. Accompanied by evocative color photographs by Charles Osgood, Kogan's pieces revisit the lost places and people of Chicago, and take readers down the quiet byways and thriving thoroughfares, pointing out the characters and cornerstones, the oddities and institutions that make the city what it is. In this collection you will find an elegy for Maxwell Street, the marketplace that pulsed with city life for more than 100 years; a remembrance of a disturbing advertisement ( Are you a slave to housework? ) on the side of a building on Irving Park Road; a cross marking a deadly intersection; a magical miniature golf course; as well as ballad singer Fred Holstein, the denizens of the World Gym and memories of Bensinger's pool hall, the day-camp kids of summer, bike couriers, the creatures of the beach, and much, much more. Here is Chicago, past, present, and--let's hope--future, captured in the unique archive of Sidewalks. --Publisher's website.

Sidewalks: Volume 2: Reflections on Chicago
ISBN: 0984126503 OCLC: Evanston, Ill. :

Sidewalks Book Company Evanston, Ill. : 2009

Few people know Chicago as do Rick Kogan and Charles Osgood, and their Sidewalks column for the Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine is a tour of the city like no other, taking readers to the off-beat and quintessential spots that give Chicago its character--that make its inhabitants feel at home and tell its visitors that they have arrived. Accompanied by evocative color photographs by Charles Osgood, Kogan's pieces revisit the lost places and people of Chicago, and take readers down the quiet byways and thriving thoroughfares, pointing out the characters and cornerstones, the oddities and institutions that make the city what it is. In this collection you will find an elegy for Maxwell Street, the marketplace that pulsed with city life for more than 100 years; a remembrance of a disturbing advertisement ( Are you a slave to housework? ) on the side of a building on Irving Park Road; a cross marking a deadly intersection; a magical miniature golf course; as well as ballad singer Fred Holstein, the denizens of the World Gym and memories of Bensinger's pool hall, the day-camp kids of summer, bike couriers, the creatures of the beach, and much, much more. Here is Chicago, past, present, and--let's hope--future, captured in the unique archive of Sidewalks. --Publisher's website.

Yesterday's Chicago
ISBN: 0912458658 OCLC: Miami :

Seemann Miami : 1976

 

 

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