Political Quotes

“Today the city of Chicago, IL, is marking the passing of a legend. Just yesterday, Chicago, and the rest of the Nation as well, lost a giant--the famous Chicago Sun Times columnist Irv Kupcinet who died at age 91. In the city of Chicago, there are few landmarks anyone thinks of, but one of the great landmarks was Irv Kupcinet. He was a columnist not only known across Chicago but across the Nation. A native Chicagoan, Kup, as he was known to millions, said that even as a child he knew someday he would be in the newspaper business. But it wasn't until a shoulder injury ended his first National Football League season with the Philadelphia Eagles in 1935 that he turned to journalism, becoming a sports writer for the now defunct Chicago Times. In 1948 that paper merged with a cross-town rival to create the Sun-Times, the newspaper which Kup called home for the remaining 55 years of his life. And as any reader of his columns can attest, right up until the end, Irv Kupcinet still wrote with passion and wit about the subjects on which he built his career--famous people and his native Chicago.”