The Trib’s Rick Kogan is one of Chicago’s last great newspaper men. His magnetism as a writer is fed by an insatiable appetite for listening. As a kid, Rick’s ears were filled with the mystical voices of Nelson Algren, Studs Terkel, Marcel Marceau and countless other renowned characters who joined his parents’ late night parties in their Old Town living room.
In this conversation, Kogan speaks the truth about why “knowing Chicago” is impossible, and what leads him to the stories nobody else gives a sh!t about.
