Monday, December 5, 2005

By Don Babwin
The Associated Press
Published: 12/05/05

Excerpt:

Terkel is a reminder of something else the city may be losing: its distinctive voice. Of such famed Chicago writers and journalists as Mike Royko, Nelson Algren, Ben Hecht and Ann Landers, only Terkel is still alive. And he's past 90.

"Nobody has filled the void," said Roy Peter Clark, a senior scholar at the Poynter Institute. "There is still really terrific journalism going on in the city (but) the national influence has diminished."
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