Rick Kogan

Born, raised, and based in Chicago, Rick Kogan has worked for the Chicago Daily News, Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Tribune, where he is a senior writer and columnist. Named Chicago’s Best Reporter in 1999 and inducted into the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame in 2003, he is a longtime fixture of Chicago television and radio broadcasting, most recently as the creator and host of WGN radio’s After Hours with Rick Kogan. Kogan was also an on-air reporter and critic for WBBM TV and radio, and an Emmy Award-winning contributor for WFLD. He is also the author of a dozen books, including: Everybody Pays: Two Men, One Murder and the Price of Truth (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2001), cowritten with Maurice Possley; A Chicago Tavern: A Goat, a Curse, and the American Dream (Lake Claremont Press, 2006); and America’s Mom: The Life, Lessons, and Legacy of Ann Landers (William Morrow, 2013). Alongside the work of photographer Charles Osgood, Kogan’s columns are also compiled in the collections Sidewalks I: Portraits of Chicago and Sidewalks II: Reflections on Chicago (Northwestern University Press, 2006 and 2009).