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  • Portait of George Ade
    George Ade
    Ade's Fables; In pastures New; Pink Marsh...
  • Portait of Vachel Lindsay
    Vachel Lindsay
    Selected poems of Vachel Lindsay; Daniel jazz and other poems; General William Booth Enters into Heaven...
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    Studs Terkel
    American dreams, lost and found; Chicago; Giants of jazz...
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F. Richard Ciccone

Born: N/A
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: N/A

Biography: F. Richard Ciccone worked for the Associated Press bureau in Chicago, 1961-1975 and the Chicago Tribune 1975-2001. He is now an adjunct professor of journalism University of Notre Dame.

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Email: F.R.Ciccone.4@nd.edu
F. Richard Ciccone on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=f.++richard+ciccone

Selected Titles

Chicago and the American century :
ISBN: 0809226758 OCLC: 39307343

Contemporary Books, Chicago, Ill. : ©1999.

Contains profiles of one hundred Chicagoans that had a significant impact on American culture during the twentieth-century, featuring ten individuals from each of the categories of politics, sports, crime, business, media, law, performing arts, literature, architecture, and potpourri.
Daley :
ISBN: 0809231514 OCLC: 34722126

Contemporary Books, Chicago, Ill. : ©1996.

Explores the life and career of Richard J. Daley, one of the most powerful politicians of the twentieth century.
Royko :
ISBN: 158648172X OCLC: 228131384

Public Affairs, New York : 2003.

 

 

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