Herman Kogan

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Herman Kogan (November 6, 1914 – March 8, 1989) was an American journalist who spent fifty years covering the city of Chicago, many with the Chicago Daily News and Chicago Sun-Times.^[1]

Kogan, a 1936 graduate of the University of Chicago and a Phi Beta Kappa, authored several books, including The Great EB: The Story of the Encyclopædia Britannica] (University of Chicago Press, 1958); Yesterday's Chicago (E.A. Seeman, 1976); Give the Lady What She Wants: The Story of Marshall Field & Company (Co-autored with Lloyd Wendt, Rand McNally, 1952); Big Bill of Chicago (Co-authored with Lloyd Wendt, Bobbs-Merrill, 1953); Lords of the Levee (Co-authored with Lloyd Wendt; Bobbs-Merrill, 1943) and Chicago: A Pictorial History (co-authored with Lloyd Wendt; Bonanza, 1958).^[2]

Kogan was the father of current Chicago Tribune journalist and WBEZ radio host Rick Kogan.^[3] Kogan was Jewish.

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• Bet a million! The story of John W. Gates by Lloyd Wendt and Herman Kogan. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Co. [1948]
• Herman Kogan Papers at the Newberry Library

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