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Richard Carl Lindberg

Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 31343
Chicago, Illinois 60631

County: Cook

E-mail: RCLwriter@aol.com

Phone:
Work: 773-631-3023

Genre: Non-Fiction

Periodical Publications:

  • Published in U.S.A. Today Magazine, Chicago History, Chicago Tribune Magazine, Inside Chicago, The Reader, and Screen Magazine

Book Publications:

  • Return Again to the Scene of the Crime: A Guide to Even More Infamous Places in Chicago (2001)
  • Returning to the Scene of the Crime: A Guide to Infamous Places in Chicago Cumberland Spring 1999
  • To Serve and Collect: Chicago Politics and Police Corruption From the Lager Beer Riot to the Summerdale Scandal SIU Press 1998
  • Armchair Companion to Chicago Sports Cumberland House 1997
  • The White Sox Encyclopedia Temple University Press 1997
  • Quotable Chicago Wild Onion Books 1996
  • Chicago By Gaslight: A History of the Chicago Netherworld Academy Chicago 1996
  • Stealing First in a Two-Team Town: the White Sox From Comiskey to Reinsdorf Sagamore Press 1994
  • Passport's Guide to Ethnic Chicago NTC Contemporary 1992
  • Chicago Ragtime: Another Look at Chicago 1880-1920 (1985)
  • The Macmillan White Sox Encyclopedia (1984)
  • Who's On Third? The Chicago White Sox Story Icarus Press 1983

Forthcoming Publications:

  • Shattered Sense of Innocence, with Gloria Jean Sykes. (Manuscript in development)

Awards, Fellowships, Grants and Honors:

  • Listed in Who's Who in America, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
  • Inducted into the William Howard Taft High School (Chicago) Alumni Hall of Fame, May 2000
  • Recipient of the Frederic Milton Thrasher Award, August 2001, from the National Street Gang Crime Research Center
  • Distinguished Alumni Award from Northeastern Illinois University 1997
  • Robert Zegger Memorial Award 1988, Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society/Pi Gamma Chapter

Recent Readings, Performances and Productions:

  • Edgebrook Library Branch in Chicago, October 10, 2001. "Writing About Notorious Chicago."
  • Keynote speaker. Fund Raiser For Literacy, the Palatine Library District, October 12, 2001. Topic: "Writing in Chicago."
  • Television appearance, December 3, 2001: "Magic by the Lake: The Edgewater Beach Hotel," featured on Chicago Stories,a production of Network Chicago, WTTW, Channel 11

Recent Workshops:

  • Writing and Researching Notorious Chicago at Illinois Center for the Book Oct 1998
  • Gaslight Chicago for the Chicago Historical Soicety Aug 1997

Present Employment:

  • Marketing Director, Search International, Inc., Schaumburg, IL 1998-present

Preferred Audience:

  • Adult readers interested in Chicago history themes, sports, the notorious, and aspiring writers interested in breaking into print.

Willing to travel:

  • yes
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