The People are the News: Grant Pick’s Chicago Stories

This distinctive collection features writings from Grant Pick’s long, distinguished career in literary journalism. Most of his stories focus on interesting but overlooked Chicagoans, like the struggling owner of a Laundromat on the West Side or the successful doctor who, as he faced his own death, strove to enlighten his colleagues in the field of medicine. As only a lifetime Chicagoan could, he described in tender detail the worlds in which people lived or worked, providing a look not just at one city’s citizens but at humanity as a whole. Grant Pick (1947-2005) was a freelance writer whose work appeared most frequently in the
Chicago Reader . He also wrote for the
Chicago Tribune Magazine , the
Chicago Sun-Times ,
Crain’s Chicago Business , and
Catalyst
until his sudden death.