Media in memoriam — 2017

Hugh Hefner

Gone but not forgotten: A look back at Chicago media luminaries who left us in 2017.

Jim Barker executive

Joe Collins

Alan Bickley radio newsman

George Collias station owner

Joe Collins traffic reporter

Ted Elbert producer

Jim Gannon radio newsman, sportscaster

Mary Nissenson

Hugh Hefner publisher

Bill Jurek announcer

Tom LaPorte producer

Ted Lauterbach talk show host

Jack Lenahan photographer

Ralph Otwell

Charles Leroux reporter, editor

Cliff Levine exec

Dick Locher cartoonist

Jim Mateja auto columnist

Mike Mathis traffic reporter

Jimmy Piersall

Keith Middleton radio host

Wade Nelson reporter

Mary Nissenson reporter

Bob O’Connor programmer

Dick Orkin Chickenman

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Ralph Otwell editor

Dick Penn executive

Darrel Peters executive

Jimmy Piersall baseball broadcaster

Greg Prather news anchor

Marty Zivin

Amy Krouse Rosenthal writer

Norman Schaefer graphic designer

Kelly Seaton executive

Mark Silva reporter

Bob Walsh executive

John Webster radio newsman

Cliff Winston programmer

Marty Zivin audio visionary