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Don Hayner

Born: Chicago, Illinois
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Connection to Illinois: Hayner is a native Chicagoan. He graduated from Ripon College and John Marshall Law School.

Biography: Don Hayner is the retired editor-in-chief of the Chicago Sun-Times. During his tenure as managing editor and editor, the Sun-Times was awarded multiple national and local awards for investigative reporting and breaking news, including the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting in 2011. Hayner is the co-author, with Tom McNamee, of Streetwise Chicago: A History of Chicago Street Names, The Metro Chicago Almanac: Fascinating Facts and Offbeat Offerings about the Windy City, and The Stadium: 1929 - 1994, The Official Commemorative History of the Chicago Stadium.


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Non-Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Website: https://en.everybodywiki.com/Don_Hayner
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donald-hayner-6819712b
WorldCat: http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Don++Hayner


Selected Titles

Binga: The Rise and Fall of Chicago's First Black Banker
ISBN: 081014090X OCLC: 1089862592

Northwestern University Press 2019

Penned by a former editor in chief of the Chicago Sun-Times, Binga is the definitive biography of the first black banker in Chicago as well as a history of race, politics, and finance in early twentieth-century Chicago--

Metro Chicago Almanac: Fascinating Facts and Offbeat Offerings About the Windy City
ISBN: 0929387953 OCLC: 30896375

Chicago Sun-Times, Inc. : Chicago : ©1993.

Streetwise Chicago: A History of Chicago Street Names
ISBN: 0829405976 OCLC: 18070957

Loyola Pr 1988

Street names are in alphabetical order.

The Stadium: 1929-1994 : the official commemorative history of the Chicago Stadium
ISBN: B0006P62PG OCLC:

Performance Media 1993

 

 

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