* June 9 – Chicago Tribune journalist Jake Lingle is shot in Chicago, Illinois.

" Chicago journalist Elizabeth Taylor said, " Because of Mayor Daley, Chicago did not become a Detroit or a Cleveland.

He began his writing career as a journalist for the Chicago Daily News.

Emile Marae a Tai, illiterate and raised in Tahiti, was brought to Chicago by French journalist Josette Giraud in 1963 and became an artist of note.

After his graduation from Yale in 1939, Dewey worked as a journalist for the Chicago Daily News in its Paris bureau.

Born in Chicago, he was the son of Ellis ( Abbott ) and journalist and humorist, Ring Lardner.

According to music journalist Jim DeRogatis, the EP marked a return to their earlier, harder sound —" free from the pseudo-funk moves and avant-garde tinkering that had been inspired by Chicago producer Jim O ' Rourke ".

* Ann Marie Lipinski, journalist and former editor of the Chicago Tribune, graduated from Trenton High School in 1974.

In January 1960 the couple moved to his hometown of Chicago, Illinois, where he worked at the Chicago Sun-Times as a journalist, and Albright worked as a picture editor for Encyclopædia Britannica.

He maintained a relationship from 1981 to 1986 with American theatre journalist Albert N. Williams ( no relation ), whom Emlyn Williams met while appearing at the Northlight Theatre in the Chicago area with his one-man Charles Dickens show.

Some of the influence for this can be traced to the anthropologist Lloyd Warner who was on the Chicago sociology faculty, and to Robert Park's experience as a journalist.

Nixon was born in New York City, the daughter of Anne Knoll, an actress from Chicago, and Walter E. Nixon, a radio journalist from Texas.

The Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert criticized the film's portrayal of an investigative newspaper reporter: " To say that no respectable journalist would ever do the things that Sally Field does about, to, and with Paul Newman in this movie.

They subsequently performed in Chicago, New Jersey and at the Festival for Beatles Fans convention in Las Vegas, July 1 and 2, 2009, where, according to a report by journalist Peter Palmiere for Beatlefan magazine, the pair were the performing highlight of the convention.

After graduating from the State Agricultural College ( now Michigan State University ), he attended law school at the University of Michigan in 1891 before launching his career as a journalist in 1892 with the Chicago News-Record, where he covered the Pullman Strike and Coxey's Army in 1894.

*( Louis ) Studs Terkel ( May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008 ) — Chicago writer, journalist, DJ, and oral historian

The term microhouse is usually credited to music journalist and DJ Philip Sherburne, writing for the magazine The Wire in 2001, to describe, according to Stelfox, " the spectral, hypnotic interpretation of classic Chicago grooves emerging on labels such as Perlon, Kompakt, Playhouse, Ongaku, Klang Elektronik and the Mille Plateaux family of imprints-most notably Force Tracks and Force Inc-at the turn of the millennium.

In August 2004, longtime Chicago broadcast journalist Carol Marin began writing regular columns in the Sun-Times, mostly on political issues.

The earliest known usage of the term " Bible Belt " was by American journalist and social commentator H. L. Mencken, who in 1924 wrote in the Chicago Daily Tribune: " The old game, I suspect, is beginning to play out in the Bible Belt.

A group of prominent citizens in Chicago, led by journalist and activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett, hired detective Louis P. Le Vin to investigate the Wilkes / Hose lynching.

* George Weller, novelist, playwright, Pulitzer prize winning journalist for The New York Times and The Chicago Daily News

* Laura S. Washington, Chicago journalist and editor

Because of their themes of spirit contact, the long-running show Supernatural Chicago and the annual Harry Houdini séance, both of which are held at the Excalibur nightclub in Chicago, Illinois, dub their lead performer " Neil Tobin, Necromancer ".

In 2006, University of Chicago paleontologist Neil Shubin and Academy of Natural Sciences paleontologist Ted Daeschler reported the discovery of the fossil of a Paleozoic ( ca.

A Walking Tour of the Shambles ( Little Walks For Sightseers # 16 ) ( 2002 ), written by Neil Gaiman and Gene Wolfe, is a tour guide concerning a fictional part of Chicago called ' The Shambles '.

Musicians who exemplified this era include The Beatles, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Cream, The Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Pink Floyd, Joni Mitchell, and, in their early years, Chicago.

The Chicago Reader ran a derisive column, " BobWatch: We Read Him So You Don't Have To ," penned pseudonymously by Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg.

On May 8, 2007, the three stations flipped to a Soft AC / oldies hybrid format as Love 105, featuring mellow cuts by artists including Chicago, Neil Diamond, Barbra Streisand, Sade, Bread, and many others.

Throughout his career, he has produced recordings for a wide range of musical artists, including Michael Bublé, Bryan Adams, Tamia, Christina Aguilera, The Bee Gees, Andrea Bocelli, Boz Scaggs, Mariah Carey, Toni Braxton, Chicago, Destiny's Child, Neil Diamond, Céline Dion, Earth Wind and Fire, Gloria Estefan, Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Chaka Khan, Beyoncé Knowles, Kenny Loggins, Madonna, Olivia Newton-John, Nsync, All-4-One, Plus One, Charice, Prince, LeAnn Rimes, Kenny Rogers, Barbra Streisand, Donna Summer, Shania Twain, Hall & Oates, Tim Feehan, The Tubes, Katherine Jenkins and Jackie Evancho.

Also, contemporary artists Neil Diamond, John Denver, and the rock group Chicago have played for audiences at Kresge, and former President George Bush made the front steps of Kresge his platform as commencement speaker while serving as vice president in 1986.

* Another 2006 ad features Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillén trying to call to the bullpen during a game, but instead reaching Neil Everett at ESPN.

* Neil Flynn as a Chicago police officer.

Neil Hagerty continued his ' noise-terrorist ' career with his girlfriend, Jennifer Herrema, in blues-rock duo Royal Trux, which the pair had formed in Chicago during 1987.

Henry Neil Mallon ( 1895 – 1983 ) was Chairman of the Board, President and Director 29 -, Dresser Industries ( Cleveland, OH ) ( now Halliburton ), President 31 -, Dresser Manufacturing Limited ( Toronto, Canada ); Chairman of the Board, Director, Bryant Heater Company ( Cleveland, Ohio ); Factory Manager, General Manager, Director 20-29, US Can Company ( Cincinnati, Ohio ); 19-20 w / Continental Can Company ( Chicago, Illinois ); Director, Bovaud & Seyfang Manufacturing Company ( Bradford, Pennsylvania ), Clark Brothers Inc ( Olean, New York ), Day & Night Manufacturing Company ( Monrovia, California ), International Derrick & Equipment Company ( Columbus, Ohio ), Kobe, Inc ( Huntington Park, California ), Pacific Pumps, Inc ( CA ), Roots-Connersville Blower Corporation ( Connersville, Indiana ), Security Engineering Company ( Whittier, California ), Stacey Brothers, Gus Construction Company ( Cincinnati, Ohio ), Pharis Tire & Rubber Company ( Newark, Ohio ), Petrolite Corporation ( St. Louis, Missouri ), Magazines of Industry ( New York, New York ), Hydrocarbon Research Inc ( New York, New York ), Carthage Hydrocol Corporation ( New York, New York ).

* The ( fictional ) Major Crimes Unit of the Gotham City Police Department in the Batman series of comic books ; and the agency of the Chicago Police Department in the TV Series Crime Story ; the term recurred again in the movie Heat, as the Unit from which Lt. Vincent Hanna ( Al Pacino ) takes down Neil McCauley ( Robert De Niro ) and his crew

The 5, 036 seat Entertainment Centre has hosted a variety of stars including Journey, Air Supply, Alice Cooper, Diana Ross, Kelly Clarkson, Creed, 3 Doors Down, Eric Burdon, The Searchers, Faith Hill, David Cook, Deep Purple, Gloria Estefan, Men at Work, Jay Leno, Jewel, Carrie Underwood, Chicago, Olivia Newton-John, Vince Gill, Tony Bennett, Bill Cosby, Styx, Michael Bolton, Ringo Starr, Neil Sedaka, Jeff Foxworthy, LeAnn Rimes, Alicia Keys, Art Garfunkel, Clint Black, David Copperfield, Petula Clark, Roger Hodgson, ZZ Top, Bad Company, Dolly Parton, The Guess Who, George Thorogood, Heart, Steve Miller, Tom Jones, New Kids on the Block, Smokey Robinson, Stone Temple Pilots, CCR, Air Supply, Hall & Oates, Lionel Richie, Weezer, Terra Naomi, Whitesnake and KISS.

The gangster role played by George Bancroft was modeled on " Terrible " Tommy O ' Connor, an Irish-American mobster who gunned down Chicago Police Chief Padraig O ' Neil in 1923 but escaped three days before execution and was never apprehended.

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.

It also publishes regional titles, such as The Encyclopedia of Chicago ( 2004 ), edited by James R. Grossman, Ann Durkin Keating and Janice Reiff ; The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age ( 2008 ) by Neil Harris ; One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko ( 1999 ), a collection of columns by Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaperman Mike Royko of the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune ; and many other books about the art, architecture, and nature of Chicago and the Midwest.

Some of the artists he worked with during this period include: Michael Jackson, Van Halen, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Stevie Wonder, Barbra Streisand, Billy Preston, Gladys Knight, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe ( Yes ), Jon Anderson, Carola Häggkvist, The Bee Gees, Roger Hodgson ( Supertramp ), Julio Iglesias, Belinda Carlisle, Richard Marx, Earth Wind and Fire, Phil Keaggy, The Gap Band, The Dazz Band, Chicago, Larry Carlton, George Benson and Earl Klugh, Boz Scaggs, Neil Diamond, Andrae Crouch, and Quincy Jones.

* Neil Posner, Sachnoff & Weaver, Ltd., Chicago, IL