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20 unusual facts about Chicago Sun


1964 Denver Broncos season

In March 1964, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that then Chicago White Sox owner Arthur Allyn, Jr. planned to purchase the Broncos and move the franchise to Chicago where they would play at Comiskey Park.

A Woman Under the Influence

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated the film four out of four stars and called it "terribly complicated, involved and fascinating - a revelation."

AIM Media Texas

Halbreich served as head of the Chicago Sun-Times company from 2009-2012 before leaving to form AIM Media.

Buy-write

"New Funds Try Options to Boost Stock Income." Chicago Sun-Times, (October 10, 2004).

Conrad Sulzer Regional Library

In addition, a Chicago Sun-Times photographer was also denied access to the library.

Creative Loafing

In May 2012, the Chicago Reader was sold to Wrapports, publisher of the competing Chicago Sun-Times, in a deal reported at $3 million.

David Gobel

Chicago Sun-Times Build a better, longer-living mouse, and world will pay you thousands, By Andrew Herrmann, October 6, 2003

Herb Graffis

He wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times and founded the magazines Chicago Golfer, Golfdom, and Golfing.

Herman Kogan

Herman Kogan (November 6, 1914 - March 8, 1989) was a Jewish-American journalist who spent fifty years covering the city of Chicago, many with the Chicago Daily News and Chicago Sun-Times.

Jim Kokoris

Kokoris has also contributed humour articles to the Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, and Reader's Digest, among other publications.

Jim Rivera

He was first called "Jim" when he was 17, "Big Jim" when he started playing for the Chicago White Sox during the 1952 season, and then "Jungle Jim" in 1953 which was initiated by a Chicago Sun-Times sports writer.

John Cossar

In 1865 the family travelled to Canada and thence to Chicago, Illinois in the USA where John's older brother Walter Lyster Cossar later became City Editor of the Chicago Evening Journal.

Labh Singh

The Chicago Sun-Times reported that "12 to 15 Sikhs dressed as policemen and armed with submachine guns and rifles escaped with nearly $4.5 million in the biggest bank robbery in Indian history." "No one was injured."

Marques Sullivan

He was named all-state by the Chicago Sun-Times and the Champaign-Urbana News Gazette, and a high school All-American by Parade.

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.

Niagara Falls Reporter

He explained his problems with Parlato in a post written for Roger Ebert's blog on the Chicago Sun-Times's website.

Old Chicago Main Post Office

On June 9, 2009, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that the postal service was placing the post office on the auction block.

Rudy Fratto

In 2005, Fratto was identified in the Chicago Sun-Times as having met with Michael "Mickey" Marcello, the half-brother of reputed mob boss James Marcello, to approve efforts by the Marcellos to take over the video poker in several Chicago suburbs, including Cicero and Berwyn.

The New Century Family Money Book

The Chicago Sun-Times gave a positive review for the book upon its release and noted that it "covers every personal and family financial concern from basic investing to college aid formulas".

The Space Vampires

The Chicago Sun-Times acceptably regarded the novel as "Thoroughly intriguing", while the Chicago Tribune simply called it a "new slant on horror...unique rendering of the age-old enigma of the kiss of death".


1971 Pulitzer Prize

Jack Dykinga of the Chicago Sun-Times, for his photography at the Lincoln and Dixon State Schools for the Retarded (Illinois).

Ann Cottrell Free

A graduate of Collegiate School and Barnard College, she became the first woman Washington correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, Newsweek and the Chicago Sun, where she covered First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and wartime-Washington.

Chernevog

In a review of Chernevog in the Chicago Sun-Times, science fiction and fantasy writer Roland J. Green complemented Cherryh on her "deep historical scholarship, splendid folkloric skill, superb characterization, and ... mastery of mood-setting".

Fahey Flynn

Robert Feder of the Chicago Sun-Times described him as "an avuncular Irishman with a jaunty bow tie and a twinkle in his eye".

Graham Elliot

Under Elliot, Avenue earned a four-star rating from the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Magazine as well as a AAA Five Diamond Award.

J. T. the Brick

J.T. made a guest appearance on CNBC's The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch on June 26, 2006, to discuss the feud between Chicago Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti, and Chicago White Sox skipper Ozzie Guillén.

Javin Hunter

In football, he was a first team Parade prep All-American, USA Today second-team All-American, rated 34th best player nationally by The Sporting News and 37th best player by Chicago Sun-Times.

Lewis Beale

Lewis Beale is an American journalist, film critic and film lecturer whose articles and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Newsday, the Los Angeles Times the Chicago Sun-Times, Interview, USA Today, Film Journal International, and other publications.

Libyan Times

The founding editor George Hishmeh writes for a number of well known newspapers such as Gulf News Dubai, The Daily Star Beirut, The Jordan Times, Chicago Sun-Times, and the Washington Post, and he was successful to run one of the best local extensions to the Times name.

M.W. Newman

Although best known for his coverage of crime and local news in Chicago, he spent most of his later career writing for Inland Architect and Architectural Forum while also writing arts reviews for both the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times.

Majczek and Marcinkiewicz

On October 10, 1944, a classified advertisement appeared in the Chicago Times: "$5,000 REWARD FOR KILLERS OF OFFICER LUNDY ON DEC. 9, 1932. CALL GRO 1758, 12-7 P.M."

Pioneer Press

Angry with that and stung by several other actions by the newspaper, including the paper allowing Chicago Sun-Times publisher David Radler to overturn endorsement decisions made by staff, the sportswriter wrote an angry letter to then-Executive Editor Paul Sassone.

Ray Clay

Jordan was then playing for the Washington Wizards, and Chicago Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti asked Clay how he was going to introduce the ex-Bull.

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave it four stars, his highest rating, while Vincent Canby of The New York Times also reviewed it favorably, calling it "a good, tough, unsentimental movie".

The Rain People

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film four stars out of four and compared Natalie Ravenna's quest to that of the Peter Fonda character in Easy Rider, and called them both "lineal descendants of the most typical American searcher of them all, Huckleberry Finn."

The Sounds of the Sounds of Science

In an interview with Jim DeRogatis of the Chicago Sun-Times, guitarist Ira Kaplan stated: What was different was that it was all sound for the most part.

The Steve Wilkos Show

According to the Chicago Sun-Times, executive producer Richard Dominick was forced from the program by Springer and NBCU Domestic Television after encouraging Wilkos to become extremely physical with a guest.

Thomas E. Klocek

Klocek acknowledges that he told the United Muslims Moving Ahead student group that all terrorist attacks were committed by Muslims, but he claims that he was quoting Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg.

Tod Goldberg

It received notable reviews in numerous publications, including the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post and Chicago Sun-Times and was named a 2006 finalist for the Southern California Booksellers Association Award in Fiction.

West Town Academy

It became a fully state-certified high school in 1998 and, as cited in a November 11, 2003 article in the Chicago Tribune entitled "1 in 5 blacks drop out" and a Chicago Sun-Times January 9, 2004 article entitled "Schools pressured to dump bad students, critics say", has been retrieving "disenrolled" minority students from the Chicago Public Schools system through its association as a campus of Youth Connection Charter School.

Yvgenie

Science fiction and fantasy writer Roland J. Green wrote in a review of Yvgenie in the Chicago Sun-Times that he was impressed with Cherryh's "characterization and knowledge of folklore", and described the whole Russian series as her "most significant work of fantasy".