Hear all about it on the Sunday Papers!
Rick Kogan starts off
your Sunday morning (and probably finishes off his Saturday night)
with stories unique to Chicago and discussion on the news and
oddities of the day.
Rick's
Bio
Rick
Kogan, the host of WGN's "Sunday Papers with Rick Kogan"
(6:30-9 a.m. Sundays), is the son of legendary newspaperman and
author Herman Kogan. He was raised in the city's Old Town neighborhood
and wrote his first story for the Sun-Times at 16.
He
worked there during the tumultuous Democratic Convention of 1968
and in various writing capacities over the next decade. He was
later on the staff of Panorama, the arts and entertainment section
of the Chicago Daily News and when that paper ceased publication
in 1978, joined the Sun-Times. There he began a weekly column
on the city's night club scene, later collected in a book, "Dr.
Night Life's Chicago."
By the mid-1980s, he
was on the staff of the Chicago Tribune where he was TV critic
for five years and later the editor of Tempo, the paper's daily
feature section. He is now a senior writer and Sidewalks columnist
for the paper's Sunday magazine.
Kogan is a frequent
guest on national radio and television shows and has been an on-air
critic for WBBM radio and WBBM-TV; was creator/host of "The
Sunday Papers" on WLUP-FM radio; co-host of the daily "Media
Creatures" program on AM1000 radio; and is a featured weekly
commentator on the television program "Fox Thing in the Morning."
He has written eight books, including, in collaboration with his
father,
"Yesterday's Chicago." In 2001 he wrote, in collaboration
with Tribune colleague Maurice Possley, "Everybody Pays,"
published by Penguin Putnam and called by television's Bill Kurtis,
"The best Chicago crime story since the St. Valentine's Day
Massacre." His latest book, "America's Mom: The Life,
Lessons and Legacy of Ann Landers," a personal portrait of
his friend and colleague, was published in the fall of 2003 by
William Morrow.
Rick, recently, at the Chicago River (photo by Charles Osgood)
