Extra Extra: Sam Zell Says The 1 Percent Work Harder

By Chuck Sudo in News on Feb 8, 2014 12:00AM

• Sam Zell, who nearly ran Tribune Co. into the ground with a heavily leveraged buyout that didn't affect his way of life at all, agreed with businessman Tom Perkins that wealthy businessmen are a persecuted minority in America. Zell told Bloomberg Television’s "In the Loop" Wednesday people "should talk about emulating the 1 percent. The 1 percent work harder, the 1 percent are much bigger factors in all forms of our society." Our response to that would be unfit to print. [Tribune]
• A "Pure American" billboard off I-55 equating rifles to being as American as baseball and apple pie has some anti-gun groups up in arms. [Tribune]
• Former WBEZ host Steve Edwards has been named executive director of the University of Chicago Institute of Politics. [Robert Feder]
• Milwaukee Police said the theft of a rare Stradivarius violin was orchestrated by one person "smart enough to identify this as a valuable instrument." [Tribune]
• The Chiditarod Foundation is hosting a charity bowling tournament tonight. [Chiditabowl 2014]

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