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Tag: Writers – Bryan Smith

This Is Bill Kurtis
By Bryan Smith
Chicago’s iconic newsman opens up about a life of extraordinary triumphs, profound pain, and never-ending reinvention. Read more
My Father, the Stranger
I’d only seen my dad twice as an adult. I figured he was out of my life for good. Then came word that he was dying. Read more
Read Our City and Regional Magazine Award-Nominated Stories
By Whet Moser
From a look inside a high school that's half immigrants to the legacy of Charlie Trotter, some of the magazine's best writing from 2017 is here. Read more
Remember Rita? Documentary Digs Into Illinois's Most Interesting Embezzlement
By Bryan Smith
When Rita Crundwell stole $53 million from Dixon, Illinois, in 2012, the feds called it the largest case of municipal fraud in U.S. history. Read more
How Chris Collins Made a Winner of Northwestern Basketball
By Bryan Smith
After coaching the Wildcats to their first-ever NCAA tourney bid, the former Glenbrook North star is bent on making the program a perennial power. Read more
RIP Hugh Hefner: From a Hyde Park Card Table to a Media Empire
By Bryan Smith
The man who famously parlayed $8,000 into the Playboy empire died today at 91. We look back at what he meant to Chicago, and what Chicago meant to him. Read more
The Ballad of Ed "Bad Boy" Brown
By Bryan Smith
He was an undefeated boxer, a title contender. But he couldn’t escape the violence of the West Side. Read more
Meet the Doomsday Squad: Imagining Chicago's Disasters So We Don't Have To
By Bryan Smith
A team of computer modelers at Argonne National Laboratory is preparing for the urban calamities most Chicagoans would rather not think about. Read more
Inside the Mind of Rajon Rondo
By Bryan Smith
The Bulls point guard wants to get some things off his chest. Read more
The Double Life of Ahmad Obali
By Bryan Smith
From the basement of a modest home in Chicago’s far suburbs, an émigré wages a media war against Iran. Read more
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