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A request for a street named in honor of Chicago author Saul Bellow was denied due to controversial remarks and writing by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Bellow's University of Chicago colleague and friend, Richard Stern, made the request to Ald. Toni Preckwinkle. Stern told the Chicago Tribune that Preckwinkle sent him a letter saying she had heard Bellow made racist comments and so would not endorse a memorial to him. Raised in Humboldt Park from...

Consummate Chicagoan, supreme storyteller, raconteur, and the man who elevated the interview to high art, Studs Terkel turned 95 years old on Wednesday. Other media outlets can't seem to agree on what to call him: interviewer, author, activist, media pioneer, oral historian, blacklisted lefty. We prefer to think Studs wouldn't mind any of those labels as long as you didn't call him late for his daily scotch. During Studs' birthday celebration this week he bemoaned...

A tribute for Saul Bellow is planned for tonight at 8:30pm at the Chicago Historical Society. Bellow will be remembered and his literary works will be read aloud by members of The Second City. Also, WGN Radio will be broadcasting a 2-hour program from the museum starting at 9pm. The tribute will be hosted by Milt Rosenberg, a longtime colleague of Bellow's. The schedule of events is - 8:30 pm – 9:00 pm: The...

Saul Bellow, the Nobel laureate whose life and characters were deeply associated with Chicago has died at the age of 89. Bellows won many awards - the National Book Award 3 times, even. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for a book called Humboldt's Gift, which reflected on the challenges of European immigrant life in Humboldt Park. That same year he won the Nobel Prize in literature. When he was just 9 years old,...