Alderman Walter Burnett Jr. said he’s weighing running for congress or taking a private sector job after 30 years on the City Council.

As bizarre as it may seem, the Black Milwaukee middle class of the 1950s and 60s looked down and cross-eyed at the poor and ...

Longtime CBS News Chicago anchorman Walter Jacobson was honored Thursday by the Joint Civic Commission of Italian Americans. At the 2025 Dante & DiFrisco Awards luncheon Thursday at Galleria ...

Walter Jacobson's Beverly Shores house donated to PAWS, which will sell it Investigative reporter Chuck Goudie makes switch to NBC 5 Chicago Colin Cowherd confirms relocation to Chicago after a ...

Chicago anchorman and commentator Walter Jacobson rehearses his final “Perspective” with Ernie Scatton, creative services director, at WGN Radio, March 26, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune) ...

Walter Jacobson called his exclusive 1992 interview with serial killer John Wayne Gacy “the biggest scoop of my career.” In 1991, he spent 48 hours living on the street to report on the homelessness ...

Walter Jacobson, a fixture on Chicago TV and radio since the early 1960s who now does opinion segments at WGN Radio along the lines of his old televised "Perspective" pieces, told Crain's that ...

<p>What is ‘the mainstream media,’ anyway?</p>A reliable way to stir up attention is to posit that “the mainstream media” did or did not do something. Someone will invariably respond; everyone’s got ...

In "Mean Street Diary" – a six-part series of reports that began 30 years ago Wednesday on CBS 2 – Walter Jacobson approached the homelessness crisis in a manner that went beyond only reporting.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Walter Jacobson recounts the ongoing ...

In 1989, a former DDB Needham colleague and friend, Mary Haderlein, recruited Jacobson to take a job at the J. Walter Thompson USA ad agency in Chicago, where Jacobson first was an account ...