Windy City Election Forecast from the Chicago Tribune
Bruce Dold, Kristen McQueary, and John Kass
Tuesday, Feb 17, 2015
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Bruce Dold
Bruce Dold is the Editor of the Tribune editorial page. He joined the Tribune in 1978 as a reporter and covered city, state and national politics. He joined the editorial board in 1990, became deputy editorial page editor in 1995, and editorial page editor in 2000. In 1994, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Under his direction, the editorial board has won a dozen national awards, including the Pulitzer Prize in 2003.
Kristen McQueary
Kristen McQueary is a member of the Tribune editorial board. Her areas of focus include government, politics, education and candidate endorsements. Before joining the editorial board, she wrote a political column for the Sun-Times News Group’s SouthtownStar and covered the statehouse for Chicago Public Radio and the Chicago News Cooperative, which published in The New York Times.
John Kass
John Kass, the son of a Greek immigrant grocer, was born June 23, 1956, on Chicago's South Side. He grew up there and in Oak Lawn. Growing up he held a number of jobs — merchant marine sailor, ditch digger, waiter — before becoming a film student at Columbia College in Chicago, where he worked at the student newspaper. He obtained an internship at the Daily Calumet in 1980, and ended up working there as a reporter until he left for the Tribune in 1983. He has won honors including the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi national award for general column writing, the Scripps Howard Foundation's National Journalism Award for commentary, the Chicago Headline Club's Lisagor Award for best daily newspaper columnist and the Chicago Tribune's Beck Award for writing. He lives in the western suburbs with his wife and twin sons.
