Mitch Dudek
Staff reporter
Mitch Dudek is a staff reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times.
He was a curse-word virtuoso and a storyteller and quipster with little regard for audience — abrasive and endearing, friends said.
Mr. Stern, who greeted friends with a bear hug, made it his mission to inform people about the Holocaust, so it wouldn’t ever happen again.
Ms. Kelley was a voracious reader who rented a separate Presidential Towers apartment just to house her book collection.
By day, he made ads promoting musicians from Pearl Jam to the Rolling Stones, and by night he frequented bars, clubs, restaurants and parties, always with a camera at the ready.
She marched with MLK and helped elect Mayor Harold Washington, and her views were forged as an activist with Students for a Democratic Society during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Mr. Porterfield, with more than 50 years of experience, was the dean of Chicago new anchors when he signed off in 2015 at age 87.
But the court-appointed independent administrator of Joseph Stancak’s estate says he is “highly suspicious” of the authenticity of the purported will.
“He’s had an extraordinary career dating to the 1960s,” said Porchlight Artistic Director Michael Weber.
“So many artists have said we didn’t even know the alliance existed.” said Charlique Rolle, the group’s new president.