Rick Kogan
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Born and raised and still living in Chicago, Rick Kogan has worked for the Chicago Daily News, Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Tribune, where he is currently a senior writer and columnist. Named Chicago’s Best Reporter in 1999, inducted into the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame in 2003 and the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame in 2022, he is the creator and host of WGN radio’s "After Hours with Rick Kogan" and the author of a dozen books.
Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame, March 2003 | Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, October 2022 | Chicago’s Best Reporter, 1999 | Chicago’s Greatest Living Journalist, 2002 | Honored at the 2004 Illinois Authors Book Fair sponsored by the Illinois Center for the Book and the Illinois State Library in Springfield, Illinois.
A Chicago tavern : | America’s mom : | Brunswick: The story of an American company from 1845 to 1985 | Dr. Night Life / | Everybody Pays | Lambs Farm | Pharmacist to the Nation | Sabers & Suites: the Story of Chicago’s Ambassador East | Sidewalks: Portraits of Chicago (Chicago Lives) | Sidewalks: Volume 2: Reflections on Chicago | Yesterday’s Chicago