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  Chicago
  Chicago (ⁱ/ʃɪˈkɑːɡoʊ/ or /ʃɪˈkɔːɡoʊ/) is the largest city in the US state of Illinois and the third most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. The city has around 2.7 million residents. Its metropolitan area, sometimes called "Chicagoland", is the third largest in the United States, with an estimated 9.8 million people. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, though a small portion also extends into DuPage County.
  Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed. Today, Chicago is listed as an alpha+ global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and ranks seventh in the world on the 2012 Global Cities Index. The city retains its status as an international hub for finance, industry, telecommunications and infrastructure, with O'Hare International Airport being the second busiest airport in the world in terms of traffic movements. In 2008^[update], the city hosted 45.6 million domestic and overseas visitors. Among metropolitan areas, Chicago has the 4th largest Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the world, ranking just behind Tokyo, New York City, and Los Angeles. Chicago is one of the most important Worldwide Centers of Commerce and trade.
  
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  Great Chicago Fire
  The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned from Sunday, October 8, to early Tuesday, October 10, 1871, killing hundreds and destroying about 3.3 square miles (9 km²) in Chicago, Illinois. Though the fire was one of the largest U.S. disasters of the 19th century, the rebuilding that began almost immediately spurred Chicago's development into one of the most populous and economically important American cities.
  On the flag of Chicago, the second star commemorates the fire. Although Mrs. Catherine O'Leary and her cow were publicly blamed for starting the fire for many years, evidence was eventually presented that the story was fabricated for dramatic effect by a journalist, and she was officially exonerated. The exact cause and origin of the fire remain uncertain.
  The fire started at about 9 p.m. on Sunday, October 8, in or around a small barn that bordered the alley behind 137 DeKoven Street. The traditional account of the origin of the fire is that it was started by a cow kicking over a lantern in the barn owned by Patrick and Catherine O'Leary. Michael Ahern, the Chicago Republican reporter who created the cow story, admitted in 1893 that he had made it up because he thought it would make colorful copy. While the barn was certainly the first building to be consumed by the fire, the official report at the time stated, "whether it originated from a spark blown from a chimney on that windy night, or was set on fire by human agency, we are unable to determine".
  
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  Illinois
  Illinois (ⁱ/ˌɪlɨˈnɔɪ/ IL-i-NOY) is the 25th most extensive and the 5th most populous of the 50 United States, and is often noted as a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal, timber, and petroleum in the south, Illinois has a broad economic base. Illinois is a major transportation hub. The Port of Chicago connects the state to other global ports from the Great Lakes, via the Saint Lawrence Seaway, to the Atlantic Ocean; as well as the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River, via the Illinois River. For decades, O'Hare International Airport has ranked as one of the world's busiest airports. Illinois has long had a reputation as a bellwether both in social and cultural terms and politics.
  Although the state's largest population centers today are in northern Illinois, originally the state's population grew from south to north, with settlers arriving from Kentucky in the 1810s. In 1818, Illinois achieved statehood. Chicago was founded in the 1830s on the banks of the Chicago River, one of the few natural harbors on southern Lake Michigan. Railroads and John Deere's invention of the self-scouring steel plow turned Illinois' rich prairie into some of the world's most productive and valuable farmlands, attracting immigrant farmers from Germany and Sweden. By 1900, the growth of industrial jobs in the northern cities and coal mining in the central and southern areas attracted immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe. Illinois was an important manufacturing center during both world wars. The Great Migration established a large community of African Americans in Chicago that created the city's famous jazz and blues cultures.
  
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  John Hancock Center
  John Hancock Center at 875 North Michigan Avenue in the Streeterville area of Chicago, Illinois, is a 100-story, 1,127-foot (344 m) tall skyscraper, constructed under the supervision of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, with chief designer Bruce Graham and structural engineer Fazlur Khan. When the building topped out on May 6, 1968, it was the tallest building in the world outside New York City. It is currently the fourth-tallest building in Chicago and the sixth-tallest in the United States, after the Willis Tower, the Empire State Building, the Bank of America Tower, the Trump Tower Chicago, and the Aon Center. When measured to the top of its antenna masts, it stands at 1,506 feet (459 m). The building is home to offices and restaurants, as well as about 700 condominiums and contains the third highest residence in the world, after the Trump Tower also in Chicago and the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. This skyscraper was named for John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, a developer and original tenant of the building.
  
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  Merchandise Mart
  When opened in 1930, the Merchandise Mart or the Merch Mart, located in the Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois, United States, was the largest building in the world with 4,000,000 square feet (372,000 m²) of floor space. Previously owned by the Marshall Field family, the Mart centralized Chicago's wholesale goods business by consolidating vendors and trade under a single roof. Massive in its construction, and serving as a monument to early 20th century merchandising and architecture, the art deco landmark anchors the daytime skyline at the junction of the Chicago River branches. With upper levels bathed in colored floodlight, the structure stands out against darker downtown buildings in night views. The building continues to be a leading retailing and wholesale destination, hosting 20,000 visitors and tenants per day. The Merchandise Mart is so large that it had its own ZIP code (60654) until 2008, when the code began to be shared with part of the surrounding area. In 2010, the building opened up its Design Center showrooms to the public for the first time.
  
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  Mirage Tavern
  The Mirage Tavern was a drinking establishment at 731 N. Wells St. in Chicago purchased by the Chicago Sun-Times in 1977 to investigate widespread allegations of official corruption and shakedowns visited on small businesses by city officials. The journalists used hidden cameras to help ensure that city inspectors caught accepting payoffs for ignoring safety hazards were all properly documented.
  In 1978, the Sun-Times broke the story in a 25-part series that documented the many abuses and crimes committed at the tavern, which was shaken down repeatedly by state and local officials. The series was initially awarded the Pulitzer Prize for general reporting, but the jury's decision was overturned by the Pulitzer board when editor Ben Bradlee of the Washington Post led an attack on the grounds that the reporters used undercover reporting, a form of deception, to report the story.
  The Mirage gave rise to major reforms including city code revisions, new procedures in city inspections and investigations at federal, state and city levels. The IRS sent in 20 agents to take a closer look at tax fraud by cash businesses. The Illinois Department of Revenue formed a new investigative unit: the Mirage Audit Unit. An ongoing federal investigation, spurred by the Mirage findings, managed indictments of a third of the city’s electrical inspectors in 1978, with more indictments to come later.
  
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  United States
  The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
  At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km²) and with over 312 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, with an estimated 2011 GDP of $15.1 trillion (22% of nominal global GDP and over 19% of global GDP at purchasing-power parity). Per capita income is the world's sixth-highest.
  
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  White House
  The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical style. It has been the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams. When Thomas Jefferson moved into the house in 1801, he (with architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe) expanded the building outward, creating two colonnades that were meant to conceal stables and storage.
  In 1814, during the War of 1812, the mansion was set ablaze by the British Army in the Burning of Washington, destroying the interior and charring much of the exterior. Reconstruction began almost immediately, and President James Monroe moved into the partially reconstructed house in October 1817. Construction continued with the addition of the South Portico in 1824 and the North in 1829. Because of crowding within the executive mansion itself, President Theodore Roosevelt had all work offices relocated to the newly constructed West Wing in 1901. Eight years later, President William Howard Taft expanded the West Wing and created the first Oval Office which was eventually moved as the section was expanded. The third-floor attic was converted to living quarters in 1927 by augmenting the existing hip roof with long shed dormers. A newly constructed East Wing was used as a reception area for social events; Jefferson's colonnades connected the new wings. East Wing alterations were completed in 1946, creating additional office space. By 1948, the house's load-bearing exterior walls and internal wood beams were found to be close to failure. Under Harry S. Truman, the interior rooms were completely dismantled and a new internal load-bearing steel frame constructed inside the walls. Once this work was completed, the interior rooms were rebuilt.
  
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  Wrigley Building
  Coordinates: 41°53′23″N 87°37′29″W / 41.889707°N 87.624861°W / 41.889707; -87.624861
  The Wrigley Building (400-410 North Michigan Avenue, Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois) is a skyscraper located directly across Michigan Avenue from the Tribune Tower on the Magnificent Mile. It was built to house the corporate headquarters of the Wrigley Company.
  When ground was broken for the Wrigley Building in 1920, there were no major office buildings north of the Chicago River and the Michigan Avenue Bridge, which spans the river just south of the building was still under construction. The land was selected by chewing gum magnate William Wrigley Jr. to headquarter his gum company. The building was designed by the architectural firm of Graham, Anderson, Probst & White using the shape of the Giralda tower of Seville's Cathedral combined with French Renaissance details. The 425-foot (130 m) south tower was completed in April 1921 and the north tower in May 1924. Walkways between the towers were added at the ground level and the third floor. In 1931, another walkway was added at the fourteenth floor to connect to offices of a bank in accordance with a Chicago statute concerning bank branch offices. The two towers, not including the levels below Michigan Avenue, have a combined area of 453,433 square feet (42,125.3 m²).
  
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  Andy Ihnatko
  Andy Ihnatko ( /ɪˈnɑːtkoʊ/) is a technology journalist for the Chicago Sun-Times, and tech author. He currently resides in Massachusetts. He frequently appears on Leo Laporte's podcasts, specifically MacBreak Weekly and TWiT. He's also a regular on the MacNotables podcast, hosted by Chuck Joiner where he often is paired with fellow technology journalist Adam Engst.
  Ihnatko has also appeared on the CBS Saturday Early Show on July 13, 2007, where he discussed applications for cell phones to imitate if not exceed the capabilities of the Apple iPhone. He appeared again on August 25, 2007, to report his conclusions after testing several urban legends about recovering mobile phones that had been submerged in water.
  Andy, for a brief time in July 2007, was believed to be the author of the satirical "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs" weblog, until his formal denial on July 24 in an article for Macworld. He has also formally neither confirmed nor denied involvement in the Steve Jobs autobiography, which was rumoured on Valleywag.
  
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• Bill Adee
  Bill Adee is the vice president of digital operations for the Chicago Tribune. He joined the news organization as its sports editor in the spring of 2002. He previously worked for the Chicago Sun-Times, Los Angeles Daily News, Akron Beacon Journal of Akron, Ohio, "The Virginian-Pilot" of Norfolk, Virginia, "The Daily Herald' in Arlington Heights, Illinois and the News Sun of Waukegan, Illinois.
  Adee was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin and grew up in Waukegan, Illinois. He is a graduate of Waukegan East High School and Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.
  Adee earned his first byline at the Waukegan News Sun at age 16 , where he covered high school sports. He became sports editor of Chicago Sun-Times in 1993 at age 29. While in the role, Adee was named to the 1999 "40 Under 40" list produced by Crain's Chicago Business with his then-wife, Joycelyn Winnecke.
  Adee joined the Chicago Tribune as sports editor in 2002. In 2006, Adee became associate managing editor for innovation and was later promoted to vice president of digital in 2009.
  
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• Bob Greene
  Robert Bernard Greene, Jr. (born March 10, 1947) is an American journalist. He worked for 24 years for the Chicago Tribune newspaper, where he was an award-winning columnist. Greene has written books on subjects as varied as Michael Jordan, small towns, touring with Alice Cooper and U.S. presidents. His Hang Time: Days and Dreams with Michael Jordan became a bestseller. Greene has two children, Nick and Amanda, from a 31-year marriage with Susan Koebel Greene.
  Originally from Bexley, Ohio (a suburb of Columbus), Greene attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and became a reporter and feature writer for the Chicago Sun-Times upon graduating in 1969, receiving a regular column in the paper within two years. Greene first drew significant national attention with his book, Billion Dollar Baby (1975), a diary of his experiences while touring with rock musician Alice Cooper and portraying Santa Claus during the show.
  Greene's primary focus remained his newspaper column, for which he won the National Headliner Award for best column in 1977 from an American journalism group. Shortly afterward, Greene was hired by Chicago Tribune and began making occasional guest appearances on local television, eventually landing a commentary slot on the ABC news program Nightline. He also wrote the "American Beat" column in Esquire.
  
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• Carol Marin
  Carol Marin (born October 10, 1948) is a television and print journalist based in Chicago, Illinois.
  She began her career in 1972 at WBIR-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee working as a reporter, anchor, and assistant news director. In 1976, she moved to WSM-TV in Nashville, where she was instrumental in the investigative reporting that ultimately led to the ouster and indictment of then-Tennessee Governor Ray Blanton.
  In 1978, Marin was hired by the NBC owned and operated station, WMAQ-TV, in Chicago, where she worked for 19 years. On 1 May 1997, she resigned her position as 6 and 10 p.m. news anchor in protest of the station's decision to give Jerry Springer a commentary segment on the evening news program that she anchored; her co-anchor Ron Magers resigned a few weeks later for the same reason.
  Two months later, Marin and producer Don Moseley were hired by CBS News. Marin was both a network correspondent as well as an investigative reporter for WBBM-TV, the CBS station in Chicago. From 1997–2002, Marin reported for the CBS News programs 60 Minutes, 60 Minutes II, and Evening News with Dan Rather.
  
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  Chuck Neubauer
  Chuck Neubauer (born 13 February 1950) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.
  He received his M.S. degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 1973.
  He has worked as an investigative reporter at Chicago Today (1973–1974), the Chicago Tribune (1976–1983), the Chicago Sun-Times (1983–2001), the Los Angeles Times (2001–2008), and the Washington Times (from April 2009).
  While at the Chicago Tribune, Neubauer shared the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Local Investigative Specialized Reporting for a series about abuses in Federal Housing Administration programs. He also was a prominent investigator of the political dealings of Chicago's Dan Rostenkowski in the 1990s.
  
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  Conrad Black
  Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, PC, OC, KCSG (born August 25, 1944) is a Canadian-born member of the British House of Lords, and a historian, columnist and publisher, who was for a time the third largest newspaper magnate in the world. Lord Black controlled Hollinger International, Inc. Through affiliates, the company published major newspapers including The Daily Telegraph (UK), Chicago Sun Times (U.S.), Jerusalem Post (Israel), National Post (Canada), and hundreds of community newspapers in North America.
  Black is also an author and historian, having written two memoirs (A Life in Progress and A Matter of Principle) and biographies of Maurice Duplessis, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Richard Nixon. He writes a regular column for Canada’s National Post and contributes to The American Spectator, National Review Online, The Huffington Post and The Catholic Herald.
  
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  Dan Rostenkowski
  Daniel David "Dan" Rostenkowski (January 2, 1928 – August 11, 2010) was a United States Representative from Illinois, serving from 1959 to 1995. Raised in a blue-collar neighborhood on the Northwest Side of Chicago, Rostenkowski rose to become one of the most powerful legislators in Washington. He was a member of the Democratic Party. The son of an alderman and a product of the Cook County machine, Rostenkowski was for many years Democratic Committeeman of Chicago's 32nd Ward, retaining this position even while serving in Congress.
  In Washington, he rose by virtue of seniority to the rank of Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee in 1981, just as the Reagan Revolution marginalized many other Democratic politicians. As Chairman of Ways and Means, he played a critical role in formulating tax policy during the Republican administration of Ronald Reagan, including the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, which cut income taxes by 25%, and the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which further cut taxes and reduced the number of brackets to only two. He was also involved in trade policy, as well as reforms of the welfare system, health care and Social Security programs
  
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• David Radler
  F. David Radler (born 1944 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian executive and close associate of Conrad Black for 36 years. Radler was once president of Ravelston Corporation, a privately owned corporation owned by Black and Radler to control their former newspaper empire. Ravelston owned Argus Corporation which in turn controlled Chicago-based Hollinger International. In 2005 14.1% of Ravelston was owned by Radler.
  Radler graduated from Queen's University in 1967 with a Master's degree in Business Administration. In the 1980s Radler was in charge of the sale of Argus Corporation's Dominion supermarket chain to The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, or A&P. As well, Radler was once based in Chicago to help Black's media business—managed under Chicago-based Hollinger International) in the United States-- as publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper and president and chief operating officer of Hollinger International.
  After buying up the London Daily Telegraph, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Jerusalem Post, the Southam chain of Canadian newspapers and hundreds of small American newspapers, Hollinger International began to suffer from financial strain in the late 1990s. Radler and Black then sold off hundreds of their Canadian and American newspapers. Radler, who has lived in Vancouver, British Columbia, since the early 1970s, created a company called Horizon Publications Inc. This bought up some of the American newspapers owned by Hollinger International.
  
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• Doug Moench
  Douglas Moench (b. February 23, 1948), better known as Doug Moench, is an American comic book writer notable for his Batman work and as the creator of Black Mask, Moon Knight and Deathlok.
  Born in Chicago, Illinois, Moench has also written novels, short stories, newspaper feature articles, weekly newspaper comic strips, film screenplays and teleplays. His first published work was My Dog Sandy, a comic strip printed in his elementary school newspaper. He began his professional writing career in the early 1970s with scripts for Creepy, Eerie and Vampirella and articles for the Chicago Sun-Times. In 1973, he moved to New York City.
  Moench has worked for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Dark Horse Comics and many other smaller companies; he has written hundreds of issues of many different comics, and created dozens of characters, such as Moon Knight. In 1973, Moench became the de facto lead writer for the Marvel black-and-white magazine imprint Curtis Magazines. He contributed to the entire runs of Planet of the Apes, Rampaging Hulk (continuing on the title when it changed its name to The Hulk!) and Doc Savage, while also serving as a regular scribe for virtually every other Curtis title during the course of the imprint's existence. Moench is perhaps best known for his work on Batman, whose title he wrote from 1983–1986 and then again from 1992–1998. His first run on the title ended with issue #400 which featured work by several popular comics artists and included an introduction by novelist Stephen King. Moench also wrote the companion title Detective Comics from 1983–1986. In his second run on the title, Moench was one of the writers of the "Knightfall" storyline and wrote Batman #500 in which the character Azrael replaced Bruce Wayne as Batman.
  
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  Eppie Lederer
  Esther Pauline "Eppie" Lederer (née Friedman) (July 4, 1918 – June 22, 2002), better known by the pseudonym Ann Landers, was an American advice columnist and eventually a nationwide media celebrity who began her career writing the 'Ask Ann Landers' column in 1955, soon after the death of its creator, Ruth Crowley. Lederer not only wrote the column for 47 years, but publicly assumed the 'Ann Landers' name. As 'Landers', Lederer became a profile-raiser for several medical charities, via both her columns and media appearances. In 1977, President Carter appointed her to a six-year term on a cancer advisory board.
  She was the twin sister to Pauline Phillips, the woman known for writing the 'Dear Abby' column.
  Born Esther Pauline Friedman in Sioux City, Iowa, Esther Pauline and her identical twin sister, Pauline Esther ("Popo", who was 17 minutes younger than Eppie) were daughters of Russian Jewish emigrants Rebecca Friedman (nee Rushall) and Abraham B. Friedman. The sisters grew up in Sioux City, attending Morningside College for three and a half years (1936-9), where they wrote a gossip column for the college's newspaper. Eppie majored in journalism and psychology.
  
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  Financial Times
  The Financial Times (FT) is an international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and printed in 24 cities around the world.
  Along with FT.com, it has an average daily readership of 2.1 million people worldwide (PwC audited figures, November 2011). FT.com has 4 million registered users and 250,000 digital subscribers, as well as 585,681 paying users. FT Chinese has more than 1.7 million registered users. The Financial Times in print format has an average daily circulation of three hundred and five thousand copies worldwide (the British edition has a daily circulation of eighty eight thousand and a combined Saturday and Sunday, weekend, circulation of one hundred and thirteen thousand copies), as of April 2012.
  Founded in 1888 by James Sheridan and Horatio Bottomley, the Financial Times competed with four other finance-oriented newspapers, in 1945 absorbing the last, the Financial News (founded in 1884). The FT specialises in UK and international business and financial news, and is printed as a broadsheet on light salmon paper.
  
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• Frank Main
  Frank Main is a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter from Chicago, Il.
  Main was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey on September 8, 1964. He grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, graduating from Bishop Kelley High School in 1982. He then matriculated at Emory University in Georgia. Eventually he went on to earn his Master's Degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
  Frank Main writes for the Chicago Sun Times, focusing on crime and investigative stories.
  Main won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting alongside Mark Konkol and John Kim for articles documenting violence in Chicago neighborhoods and the culture of silence that allows it to continue. The entry included two series that examined the same issue: how many assault and murder cases in Chicago go unsolved because victims, witnesses and neighbors refuse to cooperate with police. Main spent four months shadowing homicide detectives as they tried to solve the gang-related murder of a teenager only to be stymied by a "no-snitch" culture. The series showed "originality and community expertise," the judges said.
  
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  Gerald Ford
  Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King, Jr.; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974. As the first person appointed to the vice-presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment (after Spiro Agnew had resigned), when he became President upon Richard Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974, he became the only President of the United States who was never elected President nor Vice-President by the Electoral College. Before ascending to the vice-presidency, Ford served nearly 25 years as the Representative from Michigan's 5th congressional district, eight of them as the Republican Minority Leader.
  As President, Ford signed the Helsinki Accords, marking a move toward détente in the Cold War. With the conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam nine months into his presidency, U.S. involvement in Vietnam essentially ended. Domestically, Ford presided over arguably the weakest economy since the Great Depression, with growing inflation and a recession during his tenure. One of his more controversial acts was to grant a presidential pardon to President Richard Nixon for his role in the Watergate scandal. During Ford's incumbency, foreign policy was characterized in procedural terms by the increased role Congress began to play, and by the corresponding curb on the powers of the President. In 1976, Ford narrowly defeated Ronald Reagan for the Republican nomination, but lost the presidential election to Democrat Jimmy Carter.
  
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  Irv Kupcinet
  Irv Kupcinet (July 31, 1912 – November 10, 2003) was an American newspaper columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and a broadcast personality based in Chicago, Illinois. He was popularly known by the nickname "Kup".
  His daily Kup's Column was launched in 1943 and remained a fixture in the Sun-Times for the next six decades.
  Kupcinet was youngest of four children born to Russian immigrants in the North Lawndale section of Chicago. While attending high school, he became editor of the school newspaper and the senior class president. He eventually won a football scholarship to Northwestern University, but a scuffle with another student led to his transferring to the University of North Dakota. Upon graduating college, Kupcinet was signed by the Philadelphia Eagles in 1935. His football career was cut short due to a shoulder injury, which led him to take a job as a sports writer for the Chicago Daily Times (now known as the Chicago Sun-Times) in 1935.
  While writing his sports column, Kupcinet also wrote a short "People" section which became officially known as "Kup's Column" in 1948 after The Chicago Sun and the Daily Times merged to form the Chicago Sun-Times. "Kup's Column" chronicled the nightlife of Chicago along with celebrity and political gossip. The column would eventually be distributed to more than 100 newspapers around the world.
  
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• Jack Higgins
  Jack Higgins (born 27 July 1929) is the principal pseudonym of UK novelist Harry Patterson. Patterson is the author of more than 60 novels. As Higgins, most have been thrillers of various types and, since his breakthrough novel The Eagle Has Landed in 1975, nearly all have been bestsellers. The Eagle Has Landed sold over fifty million copies.
  Patterson was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. He moved to Belfast, Northern Ireland, with his mother after his parents' marriage foundered, and was raised there amid religious and political violence. First in Belfast and later in Leeds, Patterson proved to be an indifferent student and left school without completing his studies.^{[citation needed]}
  He found a home in the British Army, however, and served two years as a non-commissioned officer in the Household Cavalry (the Blues and Royals) on the East German border during the 1950s. Patterson found, during his military service, that he possessed both considerable sharpshooting skills and considerable intelligence (scoring 147 on an army intelligence test).^{[citation needed]}
  
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• Jay Mariotti
  Jay Mariotti (pronounced /mæriˈɒti/; born June 22, 1959) is a former sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times who has done work as a panelist on the ESPN show Around the Horn.
  Mariotti was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and attended Ohio University. He has appeared as a panelist on Around the Horn and has guest hosted Pardon the Interruption. Prior to his work with ESPN, he co-hosted a daily sports talk radio program on One on One Sports/Sporting News Radio.
  Mariotti is a long time sports columnist, starting with The Detroit News in the early 1980s. He moved to The Denver Post in the late 1980s, where he met Woody Paige, a fellow regular panelist on Around the Horn. Mariotti and Paige were said to have been in a long-running feud during their time together in Denver, which eventually resulted in Mariotti leaving the Post for the paper's then rival, the Rocky Mountain News; the rivalry was something that was mentioned at times in the early episodes of Around the Horn. Both have stated that the feud is over and the rivalry between them is now a friendly one. Mariotti left Denver and joined the Chicago Sun-Times in 1991, staying with the paper until 2008.
  
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  Jeffrey Zaslow
  “Those bonds are just not there... don’t get me wrong. I talk to my wife, and that’s it. I play poker every Thursday night with the guys, and we can go six hours and not one person will say a thing. And 80 percent of the conversation that does occur is about the cards.”
  
  Jeffrey Lloyd Zaslow (October 6, 1958 – February 10, 2012) was an American author and journalist and a columnist for The Wall Street Journal.
  Zaslow was widely known as coauthor of best-selling books including The Last Lecture (2008) with Randy Pausch; Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters with Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger (2009); as well as Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope (2011) with Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly. He was the sole author of numerous books, including Tell Me About It (1990), The Girls from Ames (2009), and The Magic Room (2012).
  Zaslow was born in 1958 in Broomall, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, one of the four children of Naomi and Harry Zaslow, a real estate investor. He attended Marple Newtown High School. After graduating from Carnegie Mellon University in 1980 with a degree in creative writing, Zaslow began his professional writing career at the Orlando Sentinel.
  
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• Jim DeRogatis
  James "Jim" DeRogatis (born September 2, 1964 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American music critic and co-host of Sound Opinions. DeRogatis has written articles for magazines such as Spin, Guitar World and Modern Drummer, and for fifteen years was the pop music critic for the Chicago Sun-Times.
  He joined Columbia College Chicago as a full-time faculty member in their Department of English in the fall of 2010.
  In 1982, while a senior at Hudson Catholic Regional High School in Jersey City, New Jersey, DeRogatis along with photographer Ray Zoltowski conducted one of the last interviews with rock critic Lester Bangs, two weeks before Bangs' death of a drug overdose. Over a decade later, this encounter would serve as the beginning and inspiration for DeRogatis's Lester Bangs biography Let it Blurt.
  DeRogatis first joined the Chicago Sun-Times in 1992; he left in 1995 to join Rolling Stone magazine, a job that lasted eight months, and was back at the Sun-Times in three years. While at Rolling Stone magazine, he was fired after writing a negative review of Hootie & the Blowfish's album Fairweather Johnson. The review irked Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner who had it pulled from publication. DeRogatis's employment with the magazine was terminated after he revealed this incident to the public.
  
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• John Grochowski
  John Grochowski (born c. 1952) is a gambling columnist and author. His weekly newspaper column began at the Chicago Sun-Times and is now syndicated nationally. He published his first gambling book in 1996 entitled Gaming: Cruising the Casino with a Syndicated Gambling Columnist. He then began a series of books all aimed at answering questions about a specific topic or game. The 1998 book The Casino Answer Book explained the basics of casino gambling for beginners. His other books include The Video Poker Answer Book 2000, The Craps Answer Book 2001 and The Slot Machine Answer Book 2005.
  The author also contributes articles to magazines and internet publications. His articles can be found online at the Casino City Times website and in a number of magazines including Casino Player, Strictly Slots, Southern Gaming and Destinations and Midwest Gaming & Travel magazines for players. He also writes for a number of industry publications, including Casino Journal and Slot Manager magazines.
  The author also has gone into broadcasting. His one-minute "Casino Answer Man" tips began airing on news-talk WLS-AM (890) in Chicago in July 2010. Before that, he did one-minute "Beat the Odds tips" on all-news WBBM-AM (780) and a one-hour Casino Answer Man talk show on WCKG-FM (105.9), both in Chicago. The WBBM spots aired from May 2005 through June 2010. The WCKG-FM talk show made its debut in February 2006, and last aired Oct. 28, 2007. It was canceled when the station changed formats.
  
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• Lewis Grizzard
  Lewis McDonald Grizzard, Jr. (October 20, 1946 – March 20, 1994) was an American writer and humorist, known for his Southern demeanor and commentary on the American South. Although he spent his early career as a newspaper sports writer and editor, becoming the sports editor of the Atlanta Journal at age 23, he is much better known for his humorous newspaper columns in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He was also a popular stand-up comedian & lecturer.
  Grizzard also published a total of twenty-five books, including collections of his columns (e.g. Chili Dawgs Always Bark at Night), expanded versions of his stand-up comedy routines (I Haven't Understood Anything Since 1962), and the autobiographical If I Ever Get Back to Georgia, I'm Gonna Nail My Feet to the Ground. Although much of his comedy discussed the South and Grizzard’s personal and professional lives, it was also a commentary on issues prevalent throughout America, including relationships between men and women (e.g. If Love Were Oil, I'd Be About a Quart Low), politics, and health, especially heart health. Grizzard was also the stepbrother of the Southern humorist Ludlow Porch.
  
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• Lynn Sweet
  Lynn Sweet is the Washington, D.C. bureau chief for the Chicago Sun-Times and a columnist for The Hill, a weekly newspaper that covers the U.S. Congress, and for The Huffington Post.
  Sweet is a past president of the Washington Press Club Foundation and is a member of the Gridiron Club.
  Sweet, a Chicago native, holds a master's from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley after attending the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
  
  
  
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• Mark Konkol
  Mark Konkol is Pulitzer Prize-winning writer from Chicago.
  Konkol was born and raised in Chicago's south suburbs. He graduated in 1991 from Thornwood High School in South Holland, Illinois. He then attended Culver–Stockton College for two years, where he was a starting lineman for the Wildcats football team. He transferred to Western Illinois University, where he graduated in 1995 with a bachelor degrees in communication and journalism. While at Western Illinois, he was a reporter and news editor at the Western Courier, the university's student newspaper. During the spring before his graduation, Konkol was hired by the Macomb Journal newspaper in Macomb, Illinois where he covered county government and high school sports.
  Konkol wrote for Star Newspapers. He later covered Chicago City Hall for the Daily Southtown newspaper (now the SouthtownStar) and wrote a column for the Chicago Sun-Times' Red Streak edition. He joined the Sun-Times' news staff in 2004 and has covered transportation, Cook County courts and government and Chicago neighborhoods.
  
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• Marshall Field III
  Marshall Field III (September 28, 1893 – November 8, 1956) was an American investment banker, publisher, racehorse owner/breeder, philanthropist, heir to the Marshall Field department store fortune and a leading financial supporter and founding board member of Saul Alinsky's community organizing network Industrial Areas Foundation.
  Born in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, he was raised primarily in England where he was educated at Eton College and at the University of Cambridge. In 1917 he joined the 1st Illinois Cavalry and served with the 122nd Field Artillery in France during World War I. He built an estate in 1925.
  On his discharge after the war ended, Field returned to Chicago where he went to work as a bond salesman at Lee, Higginson & Co. After learning the business, he left to open his own investment business. A director of Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, he eventually teamed up with Charles F. Glore and Pierce C. Ward to create the investment banking firm of Marshall Field, Glore, Ward & Co. In 1926, Field left the firm to pursue other interests.
  
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• Mike Royko
  Michael "Mike" Royko (September 19, 1932 – April 29, 1997) was a newspaper columnist in Chicago, who won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. Over his 30-year career, he wrote over 7,500 daily columns for three newspapers, the Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Tribune.
  Mike Royko grew up in Chicago, living in an apartment above a bar. His mother, Helen (née Zak), was Polish, and his father, Michael Royko, Ukrainian (born in Dolyna). He briefly attended Wright Junior College and then enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1952.
  On becoming a columnist, he drew on experiences from his childhood. He began his newsman's career as a columnist in 1955 for The O'Hare News (Air Force base newspaper), the City News Bureau of Chicago and Lerner Newspapers' Lincoln-Belmont Booster before working at the Chicago Daily News as a reporter, becoming an irritant to the City's Democratic Machine politicians with penetrating and skeptical questions and reports.
  Reporter Mike Royko covered Cook County politics and government in a weekly political column, soon supplemented with a second, weekly column reporting about Chicago's folk music scene. The success of those columns earned him a daily column in 1964, writing about all topics for the Daily News, a liberal afternoon newspaper. His column appeared five days a week until 1992, when he cut back to four days a week.Studs Terkel explained Royko's incredible productivity and longevity by simply saying, "He is possessed by a demon." In 1972, Royko received the Pulitzer Prize for commentary as a Daily News man.
  
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• Neil Steinberg
  Neil Steinberg is an American news columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. He joined the staff in 1987, and his column appears four times a week.
  Steinberg has written for a wide variety of publications, including The Washington Post, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Details, Men's Journal, National Lampoon and Spy. He has also written for many web sites, including Salon and Forbes.com. His essay on corruption appears in the fall 2009 special Chicago issue of Granta, the British literary quarterly.
  He is the author of seven books: If at All Possible, Involve a Cow: The Book of College Pranks (St. Martin's: 1992); Complete and Utter Failure: A Celebration of Also-Rans, Runners-Up, Never-Weres and Total Flops (Doubleday: 1994); The Alphabet of Modern Annoyances (Doubleday: 1996); Don't Give Up the Ship: Finding My Father While Lost at Sea (Ballantine: 2002); Hatless Jack (Plume: 2004); Drunkard (Dutton: 2008); and You Were Never in Chicago (University of Chicago Press: 2012). Drunkard is a memoir of his arrest for domestic battery and his struggle with alcoholism.The New York Post called it "at once hysterically funny and cringe inducing." His new book, You Were Never in Chicago, a memoir of life as an outsider in the city, is being published in late 2012 by the University of Chicago Press. Roger Ebert called it "wonderful" and "poetic."
  
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• Pam Zekman
  Pam Zekman (Born October 22, 1944 in Chicago) has been an investigative reporter at WBBM-TV in Chicago since 1981. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Zekman spent over a decade as a newspaper reporter before working in television. Zekman is known for her aggressive investigative work, including the purchase of the Mirage Tavern. She has shared two Pulitzer Prizes for her reporting for the Chicago Tribune (1971-76) and the Chicago Sun-Times (1976-81).
  As a young woman, Zekman was also a competitive figure skater, finishing fifth in junior ladies singles at the 1961 United States Figure Skating Championships. Outside the ice rink, she actively participates in "Nerf Outings" with local groups such as the Chicagoland Dart Tag Society.
  Zekman, along with fellow WBBM personalities, police reporter John Drummond, chief correspondent Jay Levine, and then evening anchor/reporter Lester Holt appeared in the final scenes of the 1993 film The Fugitive, playing themselves.
  
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  Richard Roeper
  Richard E. Roeper (born October 17, 1959) is an American columnist and film critic for The Chicago Sun-Times and now a co-host on The Roe Conn Show on WLS-AM. He co-hosted the television series At the Movies with Roger Ebert from 2000–2008, as the late Gene Siskel's replacement.
  Roeper was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was raised in south suburban Dolton, Illinois. He attended Thornridge High School and graduated from Illinois State University in 1982. He has described himself as a Catholic, although "not always first in line for Sunday Mass".^{[citation needed]}
  Roeper began working as a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times in 1987. The topics of his columns range from politics to media to entertainment. In more recent years, he has been widely considered one of the finest newspaper writers in Chicago, just a notch below the city's golden-inked "Mount Rushmore" of John Kass (Tribune), Dave Hoekstra (Sun-Times), Jay Mariotti (Sun-Times) and Roger Ebert (Sun-Times).
  He has also written seven books, on topics from movies to urban legends to conspiracy theories to the Chicago White Sox. In 2009 Roeper appeared on Howard Stern's show and said he had written a book on gambling, entitled Bet the House, which was released in the first quarter of 2010.
  
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• Rick Kogan
  Rick Kogan (born September 13, 1951) is a Chicago newspaperman, a Chicago radio personality and a noted author.
  A native of Chicago's Old Town neighborhood, Kogan was born the son of longtime Chicago newspaperman Herman Kogan (1914–1989) and longtime Chicago literary and journalism fixture Marilew Kogan (1919–2007). His parents named him Rick and not Richard as a tribute to Riccardo's, a legendary Chicago restaurant and watering hole that now is known as Stefani's. On the night that Kogan was born, noted author, historian and broadcaster Studs Terkel came over and took Kogan's father, Herman, out for a celebratory drink.
  Kogan's first home was in an apartment on the second floor of an old graystone at 1444 N. State Parkway on Chicago's Gold Coast, a building that was demolished in 1959. When Kogan's brother Mark was born several years later, the family relocated to an apartment in Old Town.
  Kogan attended LaSalle Elementary School in Chicago's Old Town neighborhood. and The Latin School of Chicago, Class of 1969. He did not earn a college degree, and worked a variety of jobs in his late teens and early twenties, including as a cab driver.
  
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• Rick Telander
  Rick Telander is the senior sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. Hired in 1995 from Sports Illustrated where he was a Senior Writer, Telander's presence at the newspaper was expected to counter the stable of sports columnists the rival Chicago Tribune had. Telander is a native of Peoria, Illinois and attended Northwestern University on a football scholarship. He played for coach Alex Agase as a cornerback (and punter junior year),making All-Big Ten his senior season and two-time All-Big Ten Academic. His teammates included Mike Adamle, who is also now a member of the Chicago media.
  After graduating from Northwestern, Telander was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in 1971 but was cut in training camp. Soon after, he moved to New York where he played basketball on city playgrounds and wrote the book Heaven Is A Playground, which later was made into a movie. In the 1980s, he was a Senior Writer at Sports Illustrated and was quickly recognized as a rising star. As the college football beat writer in the mid-1980s, he reported on the scandals that plagued the University of Miami, University of Oklahoma, University of South Carolina, and Southern Methodist University. He also observed what he believed to be hypocrisy by the National Collegiate Athletic Association as the college athletes would help the NCAA and the member schools make money, yet couldn't share in the wealth. Telander's 1990 book The Hundred-Yard Lie addressed the problems in college football.
  
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• Robert Feder
  Robert Feder (born May 17, 1956) is a noted Chicago media blogger who was the TV and radio columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1980 until 2008 and a blogger for Vocalo.org from 2009 until 2010. He now writes a blog for Time Out Chicago.
  Born on Chicago's South Side and raised in Skokie, Illinois, Feder earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in 1978.
  Growing up, Feder considered his idol to be CBS legend Walter Cronkite, and he created the first and only fan club of Cronkite at age 14.,
  Feder got his start in journalism at Lerner Newspapers' Skokie Life newspaper. He then joined the Chicago Sun-Times in 1980, starting out as a legman for TV/radio columnist Gary Deeb. Feder eventually became the paper's TV and radio columnist after Deeb left to join a Chicago TV station, and Feder remained at the Sun-Times as its TV/radio columnist until the fall of 2008.
  In 2008, Feder took a buyout from the Sun-Times. After a one-year hiatus, he joined Chicago's Vocalo.org as a blogger, where he worked until December 2010.
  
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  Robert Novak
  Robert David Sanders "Bob" Novak (February 26, 1931 – August 18, 2009) was an American syndicated columnist, journalist, television personality, author, and conservative political commentator. After working for two newspapers before serving for the U.S. Army in the Korean War, he became a reporter for the Associated Press and then for The Wall Street Journal. He teamed up with Rowland Evans in 1963 to start Inside Report, which became the longest running syndicated political column in U.S. history and ran in hundreds of papers. They also started the Evans-Novak Political Report, a notable biweekly newsletter, in 1967.
  Novak and Evans played a significant role for CNN after the network's founding. He worked as a well-known television personality in programs such as The Capital Gang, Crossfire, and Evans, Novak, Hunt, & Shields. He also wrote for numerous other publications such as Reader's Digest. On August 4, 2008, Novak announced that he had been diagnosed with a brain tumor, that his prognosis was "dire", and that he was retiring. He succumbed to the disease on August 18, 2009 after having returned home to spend his last days with his family.
  
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  Roger Ebert
  Roger Joseph Ebert ( /ˈiːbərt/; born June 18, 1942) is an American journalist, film critic and screenwriter. He is the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.
  Ebert is known for his film review column (appearing in the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, and later online) and for the television programs Sneak Previews, At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, and Siskel and Ebert and The Movies, all of which he co-hosted for a combined 23 years with Gene Siskel. After Siskel's death in 1999, Ebert teamed with Richard Roeper for the television series Ebert & Roeper & the Movies, which began airing in 2000. Although his name remained in the title, Ebert did not appear on the show after mid-2006 after he suffered post-surgical complications related to thyroid cancer, leaving him unable to speak. Ebert ended his association with the show in July 2008, but in February 2009 he stated that he and Roeper would continue their work on a new show. Ebert's current show, Ebert Presents: At the Movies, premiered on January 21, 2011, with Ebert contributing a review voiced by someone else in a brief segment called "Roger's Office".
  
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  Ronald Reagan
  Ronald Wilson Reagan ( /ˈrɒnəld ˈwɪlsən ˈreɪɡən/; February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States, serving from 1981 to 1989. Prior to that, he was the 33rd Governor of California from 1967 to 1975 and a radio, film and television actor.
  Born in Tampico, Illinois and raised in Dixon, Reagan was educated at Eureka College, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and sociology. After his graduation, Reagan moved first to Iowa to work as a radio broadcaster and then in to Los Angeles in 1937 where he began a career as an actor, first in films and later television. Some of his most notable films include Knute Rockne, All American, Kings Row, and Bedtime for Bonzo. Reagan served as president of the Screen Actors Guild, and later as a spokesman for General Electric (GE); his start in politics occurred during his work for GE. Originally a member of the Democratic Party, his positions began shifting rightward in the late 1950s, and he switched to the Republican Party in 1962. After delivering a rousing speech in support of Barry Goldwater's presidential candidacy in 1964, he was persuaded to seek the California governorship, winning two years later and again in 1970. He was defeated in his run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968 as well as 1976, but won both the nomination and general election in 1980, defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter.
  
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  Rupert Murdoch
  Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KSG (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian American media mogul. Murdoch became managing director of Australia's News Limited, inherited from his father, in 1952. He is the founder, Chairman and CEO of global media holding company the News Corporation, the world's second-largest media conglomerate.
  In the 1950s and '60s, he acquired various newspapers in Australia and New Zealand, before expanding into the United Kingdom in 1969, taking over the News of the World followed closely by The Sun. He moved to New York in 1974 to expand into the US market and became a naturalised US citizen in 1985. In 1981, he bought The Times, his first British broadsheet.
  In 1986, keen to adopt newer electronic publishing technologies, he consolidated his UK printing operations in Wapping, causing bitter industrial disputes. His News Corporation acquired Twentieth Century Fox (1985), HarperCollins (1989) and The Wall Street Journal (2007). He formed BSkyB in 1990 and during the 1990s expanded into Asian networks and South American television. By 2000 Murdoch's News Corporation owned over 800 companies in more than 50 countries with a net worth of over $5 billion.
  
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• Wonderful Christmas Time (feat. Dolly Parton)
• Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
• I Saw Three Ships (feat. America)
• Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays
• What Are You Doing New Years Eve?
• It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
• I'll Be Home for Christmas
• On the Last Night of the Year
• Merry Christmas Darling (feat. Bebe Winans)
• Rockin' and Rollin' on Christmas Day (feat. Steve Cropper)
• My Favorite Things
• O Christmas Tree
• Jingle Bells
• Here Comes Santa Claus / Joy to the World

• 25 or 6 to 4
• Questions 67 and 68
• Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
• Make Me Smile
• Beginnings
• Lowdown
• Color My World
• I'm a Man
• Saturday in the Park
• Feelin' Stronger Every Day

• Niagara Falls
• Forever
• If She Would Have Been Faithful...
• 25 or 6 to 4
• Will You Still Love Me?
• Over and Over
• It's Alright
• Nothin's Gonna Stop Us Now
• I Believe
• One More Day

• Questions 67 & 68
• 25 or 6 to 4
• Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
• Make Me Smile
• Beginnings
• Colour My World
• Saturday in the Park
• Feelin' Stronger Every Day
• Just You 'n' Me
• (I've Been) Searchin' So Long
• Call On Me
• Wishing You Were Here
• Old Days
• Another Rainy Day in New York City
• If You Leave Me Now

• Feel (Hot single mix)
• King of Might Have Been
• Caroline
• Why Can't We
• Love Will Come Back
• Long Lost Friend
• 90 Degrees and Freezing
• Where Were You
• Already Gone
• Come to Me, Do
• Lovin' Chains
• Better
• Feel (The Horn Section mix)

• What You're Missing
• Waiting for You to Decide
• Bad Advice
• Chains
• Hard to Say I'm Sorry / Get Away
• Follow Me
• Sonny Think Twice
• What Can I Say
• Rescue You
• Love Me Tomorrow
• Daddy's Favorite Fool

• You're the Inspiration
• If You Leave Me Now (live, 2004) (feat. Philip Bailey)
• Hard to Say I'm Sorry / Get Away
• Here in My Heart
• Call on Me
• Colour My World
• Just You 'n' Me
• After the Love Has Gone (live, 2004) (feat. Earth, Wind & Fire)
• Hard Habit to Break
• Look Away
• Beginnings
• Happy Man
• Will You Still Love Me?
• No Tell Lover
• I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love
• Never Been in Love Before
• What Kind of Man Would I Be?
• Wishing You Were Here

• 25 or 6 to 4
• Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
• Colour My World
• Just You 'n' Me
• Saturday in the Park
• Feelin' Stronger Every Day
• Make Me Smile
• Wishing You Were Here
• Call on Me
• (I've Been) Searchin' So Long
• Beginnings

• In the Country
• Fancy Colours
• Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is (Free Form Intro)
• Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
• South California Purples
• Questions 67 and 68
• Sing a Mean Tune Kid
• Beginnings

• Movin' In
• The Road
• Poem for the People
• In the Country
• Wake Up Sunshine
• Make Me Smile
• So Much to Say, So Much to Give
• Anxiety's Moment
• West Virginia Fantasies
• Colour My World
• To Be Free
• Now More Than Ever
• Fancy Colours
• 25 or 6 to 4
• Prelude
• A.M. Mourning
• P.M. Mourning
• Memories of Love
• It Better End Soon (1st Movement)
• It Better End Soon (2nd Movement)
• It Better End Soon (3rd Movement)
• It Better End Soon (4th Movement)
• Where Do We Go From Here

• Introduction
• Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
• Beginnings
• Questions 67 and 68
• Listen
• South California Purples
• I'm a Man
• Movin' In
• Wake Up Sunshine
• Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon
• Colour My World
• To Be Free/Now More Than Ever
• Fancy Colours
• 25 or 6 to 4
• Poem for the People
• It Better End Soon Movements 1, 3, 4

• Once or Twice
• You Are on My Mind
• Skin Tight
• If You Leave Me Now
• Together Again
• Another Rainy Day in New York City
• Mama Mama
• Scrapbook
• Gently I'll Wake You
• You Get It Up
• Hope for Love
• I'd Rather Be Rich (original version/rehearsal)
• Your Love's an Attitude

• A Hit by Varèse
• All Is Well
• Now That You've Gone
• Dialogue (Part I)
• Dialogue (Part II)
• While the City Sleeps
• Saturday in the Park
• State of the Union
• Goodbye
• Alma Mater
• Dialogue (live)

• Winter Wonderland
• Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
• Jolly Old St. Nicholas
• Little Drummer Boy
• This Christmas
• Feliz Navidad
• Bethlehem
• The Christmas Song
• O Come All Ye Faithful
• Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer
• Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
• Sleigh Ride
• Silent Night
• What Child Is This?
• Christmas Time is Here
• God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
• Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
• Child's Prayer
• One Little Candle
• White Christmas

• Mississippi Delta City Blues
• Baby, What a Big Surprise
• 'Till the End of Time
• Policeman
• Take Me Back to Chicago
• Vote for Me
• Takin' It on Uptown
• This Time
• The Inner Stuggles of a Man
• Prelude (Little One)
• Little One
• Wish I Could Fly (rehearsal)
• Paris (rehearsal)

• Manipulation
• Upon Arrival
• Song for You
• Where Did the Lovin' Go
• Birthday Boy
• Hold On
• Overnight Cafe
• Thunder and Lightning
• I'd Rather Be Rich
• The American Dream
• Doin' Business
• Live It Up
• Soldier of Fortune

• Alive Again
• The Greatest Love on Earth
• Little Miss Lovin'
• Hot Streets
• Take a Chance
• Gone Long Gone
• Ain't It Time
• Love Was New
• No Tell Lover
• Show Me the Way
• Love Was New (alternate vocal)

• Sing a Mean Tune Kid
• Loneliness Is Just a Word
• What Else Can I Say
• I Don't Want Your Money
• Flight 602
• Motorboat to Mars
• Free
• Free Country
• At the Sunrise
• Happy 'Cause I'm Going Home
• Mother
• Lowdown
• A Hard Risin' Morning Without Breakfast
• Off to Work
• Fallin' Out
• Dreamin' Home
• Morning Blues Again
• When All the Laughter Dies in Sorrow
• Canon
• Once Upon a Time...
• Progress?
• The Approaching Storm
• Man Vs. Man: The End

• If You Leave Me Now
• Hard to Say I'm Sorry
• You're the Inspiration
• I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love
• Baby, What a Big Surprise
• Hard Habit to Break
• Will You Still Love Me?
• What Kind of Man Would I Be?
• Look Away
• Love Me Tomorrow
• Along Comes a Woman
• Stay the Night
• You Come to My Senses
• I'm a Man
• You're Not Alone
• Take Me Back to Chicago
• 25 or 6 to 4
• Saturday in the Park
• Colour My World

• Make Me Smile (new edit)
• 25 or 6 to 4
• Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? (new edit)
• Beginnings
• Questions 67 and 68
• I'm a Man (new edit)
• Colour My World
• Free
• Lowdown
• Saturday in the Park
• Dialogue (Part I & II) (single version)
• Just You 'n' Me
• Feelin' Stronger Every Day
• (I've Been) Searchin' So Long
• Wishing You Were Here
• Call on Me
• Happy Man (GH2 edit)
• Another Rainy Day in New York City
• If You Leave Me Now

• If You Leave Me Now
• Hard to Say I'm Sorry
• You're the Inspiration
• Hard Habit to Break
• Will You Still Love Me?
• Baby, What a Big Surprise
• Look Away
• What Kind of Man Would I Be?
• I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love
• Love Me Tomorrow
• Just You 'n' Me
• Happy Man
• You're Not Alone
• Chasin' the Wind
• Wishing You Were Here
• No Tell Lover
• (I've Been) Searchin' So Long
• Colour My World
• You Come to My Senses
• We Can Last Forever

• Prelude to Aire
• Aire
• Devil's Sweet
• Italian From New York
• Hanky Panky
• Life Saver
• Happy Man
• (I've Been) Searchin' So Long
• Mongonucleosis
• Song of the Evergreens
• Byblos
• Wishing You Were Here
• Call on Me
• Woman Don't Want to Love Me
• Skinny Boy
• Byblos (rehearsal)

• If You Leave Me Now
• Baby, What a Big Surprise
• Saturday in the Park
• Wishing You Were Here
• 25 or 6 to 4
• I'm a Man
• Feelin' Stronger Every Day
• Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
• Street Player
• Low Down
• Take Me Back to Chicago
• Make Me Smile
• Beginnings
• I've Been Searchin' So Long
• Questions 67 & 68

• The Ballet
• (I've Been) Searchin' So Long
• Mongonucleosis
• Hard Habit to Break
• Call on Me
• Feelin' Stronger Every Day
• Just You 'N' Me
• Beginnings
• Hard to Say I'm Sorry / Get Away
• 25 or 6 to 4
• Back to You
• If I Should Ever Lose You
• (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher

• 25 or 6 to 4
• Feelin' Stronger Every Day
• If You Leave Me Now
• Take Me Back to Chicago
• Love Me Tomorrow
• Baby What a Big Surprise
• Stay the Night
• You're the Inspiration
• Hard to Say I'm Sorry
• Wishing You Were Here
• (I've Been) Searchin' So Long
• Colour My World

• Little Drummer Boy
• God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
• Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
• The Christmas Song
• O Come All Ye Faithful
• Child's Prayer
• Feliz Navidad
• Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
• Christmas Time Is Here
• Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
• What Child Is This
• White Christmas
• Silent Night
• One Little Candle

• Dialogue (Part 1 & 2)
• Old Days
• All Roads Lead to You
• Love Me Tomorrow
• Baby, What a Big Surprise
• You're Not Alone
• What Kind of Man Would I Be
• No Tell Lover
• Show Me a Sign
• (I've Been) Searchin' So Long
• Call on Me
• I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love
• Feelin' Stronger Every Day
• Stay the Night
• I'm a Man
• 25 or 6 to 4

• Questions 67 & 68
• Make Me Smile
• 25 or 6 to 4
• Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
• Beginnings
• Saturday in the Park
• Wishing You Were Here
• If You Leave Me Now
• Baby, What a Big Surprise
• Hard to Say I'm Sorry
• Love Me Tomorrow
• Hard Habit to Break

• If You Leave Me Now
• Baby What a Big Surprise
• Saturday in the Park
• Wishing You Were Here
• 25 or 6 to 4
• I'm a Man
• Feelin' Stronger Everyday
• Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
• Street Player
• Low Down
• Take Me Back to Chicago
• Make Me Smile
• Beginnings
• I've Been Searchin' So Long
• Questions
• Bigger Than Elvis
• Let's Take a Lifetime

• Dialogue (Part I & II)
• A Hit by Varèse
• Lowdown (Japanese version)
• State of the Union
• Saturday in the Park
• Make Me Smile
• So Much to Say, So Much to Give
• Anxiety's Moment
• West Virginia Fantasies
• Colour My World
• To Be Free
• Now More Than Ever
• Beginnings
• Mississippi Delta City Blues

• Take Me Back to Chicago
• Mississippi Delta City Blues
• Baby, What a Big Surprise
• Prelude (Little One)
• Little One
• Not Tell Lover
• Closer to You
• Gone Long Gone
• Alive Again
• Must Have Been Crazy
• Doin' Business
• Song for You
• Thunder and Lightning
• The American Dream
• Beginnings (live)

• Make Me Smile
• 25 or 6 to 4
• Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
• Bigger Than Elvis
• Free
• Lowdown
• Beginnings
• Colour My World
• Questions 67 & 68
• Saturday in the Park (live)
• Dialogue (Part I & II) (live)
• Feelin' Stronger Every Day
• Just You 'n' Me
• (I've Been) Searchin' So Long

• Chicago
• Caravan
• Dream a Little Dream of Me (feat. Jade, Paul Shaffer)
• Goody Goody
• Moonlight Serenade
• Night & Day
• Blues in the Night
• Sing, Sing, Sing (feat. Gipsy Kings)
• Sophisticated Lady
• In the Mood
• Don't Get Around Much Anymore
• Take the "A" Train

• Baby What a Big Surprise
• Dialogue (Part II)
• No Tell Lover
• Alive Again
• Old Days
• If You Leave Me Now
• Questions 67 & 68
• Happy Man
• Gone Long Gone
• Take Me Back to Chicago

• If You Leave Me Now
• Saturday in the Park
• Feelin' Stronger Everyday
• (I've Been) Searchin' So Long
• 25 or 6 to 4
• Baby, What a Big Surprise
• Wishing You Were Here
• No Tell Lover
• Another Rainy Day in New York City
• Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
• Song for You

• Introduction
• Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
• Beginnings
• Questions 67 & 68
• Listen
• Poem 58
• I'm a Man
• Make Me Smile
• So Much to Say, So Much to Give
• Anxiety's Moment
• West Virginia Fantasies
• Colour My World
• To Be Free
• Now More Than Ever
• Fancy Colors
• 25 or 6 to 4
• Where Do We Go From Here

• Life Saver
• Happy Man
• (I've Been) Searchin' So Long
• Sunny Boy
• Byblos
• Wishing You Were Here
• Call on Me
• Brand New Love Affair Part I & II
• Harry Truman
• Old Days
• You Are on My Mind
• If You Leave Me Now
• Together Again
• Another Rainy Day in New York City
• Hope for Love

• Flight 602
• Free
• What Else Can I Say
• Mother
• Lowdown
• A Song for Richard and His Friends
• A Hit by Varèse
• Saturday in the Park
• Dialogue (Part I)
• Dialogue (Part II)
• Alma Mater
• Feelin' Stronger Every Day
• In Terms of Two
• Critic's Choice
• Just You 'n' Me
• Something in This City Changes People

• Explain It to My Heart
• If It Were You
• You Come to My Senses
• Somebody, Somewhere
• What Does It Take
• One From the Heart
• Chasin' the Wind
• God Save the Queen
• Man to Woman
• Only Time Can Heal the Wounded
• Who Do You Love
• Holdin' On

• Hard to Say I'm Sorry / Get Away
• Look Away
• Stay the Night
• Will You Still Love Me?
• Love Me Tomorrow
• What Kind of Man Would I Be? (remix)
• You're the Inspiration
• I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love
• Hard Habit to Break
• Along Comes a Woman
• If She Would Have Been Faithful...
• We Can Last Forever

• If You Leave Me Now
• Baby What a Big Surprise
• Where Did the Loving Go?
• Take Me Back to Chicago
• Hard to Say I'm Sorry
• Love Me Tomorrow
• Hard Habit to Break
• Only You
• You're the Inspiration
• Along Comes a Woman
• Remember the Feeling
• If She Would Have Been Faithful
• Will You Still Love Me
• What Kind of Man Would I Be?
• Look Away

• Colour My World
• Questions 67 & 68
• No Tell Lover
• Old Days
• If You Leave Me Now
• 25 Or 6 To 4
• Another Rainy Day In New York City
• (I've Been) Searchin' So Long
• Make Me Smile
• I'm A Man
• Baby What A Big Surprise
• Call On Me
• Feelin' Stronger Everyday
• Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
• Saturday In The Park
• Just You 'N' Me
• Wishing You Were Here

• In the Country
• Fancy Colours
• Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? (free form intro)
• Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
• South California Purples
• Questions 67 and 68

• 25 Or 6 To 4
• Saturday In The Park
• Make Me A Smile
• The Approaching Storm
• Lowdown
• In The Country
• Listen
• Free
• I Don't Want Your Money
• Question 67 and 68
• Beginnings
• If You Leave Me Now

• Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
• Beginnings
• Questions 67 & 68
• I'm a Man
• Wake Up Sunshine
• Make Me Smile
• 25 or 6 to 4
• Lowdown
• Dialogue, Parts I & II
• Saturday in the Park
• Just You 'n' Me
• Feelin' Stronger Every Day

• All the Years
• Stone of Sisyphus
• Bigger Than Elvis
• Sleeping in the Middle of the Bed
• Mah Jongg
• Let's Take a Lifetime
• The Pull
• Candle for the Dark
• Plaid
• Cry for the Lost
• Get on This
• The Show Must Go On

• If You Leave Me Now
• Hard to Say I'm Sorry
• You're the Inspiration
• Hard Habit to Break
• Will You Still Love Me?
• Baby, What a Big Surprise
• Look Away
• What Kind of Man Would I Be?
• I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love
• Love Me Tomorrow
• Just You 'n Me
• Happy Man
• You're Not Alone
• Song For You
• Wishing You Were Here
• No Tell Lover
• (I've Been) Searchin' So Long
• You Come to my Senses

• Anyway You Want
• Brand New Love Affair (Part 1 and 2)
• Never Been in Love Before
• Hideaway
• Till We Meet Again
• Harry Truman
• Oh, Thank You Great Spirit
• Long Time No See
• Ain't It Blue
• Old Days

• Baby, What a Big Surprise
• Happy Man
• Take Me Back to Chicago
• If You Leave Me Now
• Old Days
• Song for You
• Thunder and Lightning
• Wishing You Were Here
• Mama Take
• Run Away

• If You Leave Me Now
• Saturday in the Park
• Take Me Back to Chicago
• 25 or 6 to 4
• Baby What a Big Surprise
• Colour My World
• Alive Again
• Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
• Dialogue (Part II)
• Questions 67 & 68
• Happy Man
• Make Me Smile
• Gone Long Gone
• Old Days
• (I've Been) Searchin' So Long
• Just You 'n' Me