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Chicago’s Best and Brightest Hard at Work

Roger Ebert

Is that political commentator Jeff Greenfield, fresh out of college sitting at his desk? Of course not; why that's Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times in 1969, possibly looking over one of his dazzling movie reviews. Was it “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’’, “Midnight Cowboy’’ or maybe John Wayne's Oscar winning performance in “True Grit’’?

 

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Legendary gossip columnist Irv Kupcinet at his desk in 1948, pounding out “Kup's Column'' a fixture on the Sun-Times pages, beginning in 1943 (at the Chicago Daily Times) and lasting for six decades. The column was so popular it was distributed to more than 100 newspapers around the world.

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Chicago Sun-Times newsroom, 1956

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Chicago Sun-Times newsroom, 1960

NOTE:  Photos, courtesy of the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News Archives.

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    Sean

    Wonderful photos. Thanks for the great find. The late Paul Galloway – who was my stepfather and a big reason I got into journalism – started at the Sun Times around the same time as Roger Ebert and stayed until the ’80s. He always described it as a perfect place to work for the creative freedom he had as a journalist and the newsroom friends he made.

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  2. Sean Avatar
    Sean

    Wonderful photos. Thanks for the great find. The late Paul Galloway – who was my stepfather and a big reason I got into journalism – started at the Sun Times around the same time as Roger Ebert and stayed until the ’80s. He always described it as a perfect place to work for the creative freedom he had as a journalist and the newsroom friends he made.

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