Kenan Heise

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  Published on: 5/1/2007    Last Visited: 9/19/2007  

  , KENAN HEISE, author and retired Chicago Tribune reporter, spoke on March 11th.His topic was "Chicago: City of Creativity and Chaos."
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  "Chicago isn't simply a place, but an idea," Heise began."Chicago comes from chaos," but "a chaos that leads to creativity," he declared.Pointing to music, he praised "born in Chicago" gospel and blues, bluegrass, swing, and folk, and hailed the Old Town School of Folk Music and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.In literature he pointed to prize-winning novelist Edna Ferber.In theater he called Chicago's Little Theater movement "innovative" and Second City "revolutionary."He also lauded Chicago's modern architecture, in which "windows were the key" to representing "openness in our society."
  
  "You will see Chicago in other large cities of the world," Heise boasted."Look at its beaches, forest preserves, and landmark buildings," he added, especially praising our preservation of the lakefront."Chicago is charming," he continued."Walk down any block, and appreciate what's on it."He exclaimed, "The most beautiful thing about Chicago is the people."He praised Mayor Daley for Millennium Park and "the flowers," but condemned the city's ongoing gentrification and "economic cleansing."

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  Published on: 12/10/2007    Last Visited: 12/10/2007  

  "Tuesdays with Morrie" has nothing on "Chicago Afternoons with Leon" (AuthorHouse), author Kenan Heise's lively account of his recent adventures in the company of almost-centenarian and former alderman Leon Despres (the book's subtitle is "99 1/2 years old and looking forward," referring to Despres).
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  The slim volume has a very particular genesis, according to Heise, a former staff writer and reporter for the Chicago Tribune for 34 years.When Despres' wife, Marian, died in January after 75 years of marriage, Heise found his old friend "kind of down, not really looking forward to the future very much without Marian around."
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  Heise says that one of his longtime connections to Despres is the fact that the two "have some common heroes," especially Dr. Emil Hirsch, the dynamic, nationally known rabbi of Sinai Congregation from 1880 until his death in 1923.
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  "This is a love story of Len (as Despres' friends call him) toward Marian," Heise says.
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  It was a very thrilling thing to me to be involved with him about that," Heise says.
  
  "You always think, when the person you're married to dies, you are going to have sad memories.It's over," he says.

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  Published on: 5/20/2008    Last Visited: 5/20/2008  

  Author Reading: Leon Despres and Kenan Heise
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  Author Reading: Leon Despres and Kenan Heise
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  Kenan Heise, author of Chicago Afternoons with Leon: 99 , Years Old and Looking Forward, is joined in conversation by the book's subject, former 5th Ward Alderman Leon Despres.
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  The author of several books about Chicago, Kenan Heise was a journalist for more than thirty years at the Chicago Tribune.This author series is presented by the Friends of Blackstone Branch Library.

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  Published on: 1/2/2008    Last Visited: 1/16/2008  

  Kenan Heise, author of Afternoons with Leon: 99 1/2 Years Old and Looking Forward, will be joined in conversation by the book's subject, former 5th Ward Ald.
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  Heise, a journalist for more than 30 years with the Chicago Tribune, has written or co-authored dozens of books about Chicago, including Challenging the Daley Machine (with Despres) and Chaos, Creativity and Culture.

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  Published on: 6/30/2004    Last Visited: 3/5/2006  

  Former Chicago alderman Leon Despres--along with former Chicago Tribune reporter Kenan Heise--discusses his twenty years standing up to the Chicago Democratic machine, headed by the late Mayor Richard J. Daley.

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  Published on: 8/8/2001    Last Visited: 7/30/2004  

  Kenan Heise
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  Kenan Heise
  
  Kenan Heise was a journalist for more than 30 years with the Chicago Tribune and two other papers it owned. he is the author or co-author of 12 books on the city including Chaos, Creativity and Culture: A Sampling of Chicago in the 20th Century; Hands on Chicago; and Chicago Originals.His columns have appeared in Chicago Magazine.
  
  Chicago Originals, Rev. Ed.A Cast of the City's Colorful Characters
  
  by Ed Baumann and Kenan Heise
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  by Kenan Heise
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  by Mark Frazel and Kenan Heise
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  Chicago writers Kenan Heise and Mark Frazel have updated their best-selling user's guide to the Windy City for the 1990s and beyond ...

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  Published on: 8/28/2008    Last Visited: 9/1/2008  

  Chicago journalist and writer Kenan Heise was among them.Today he remembers that he almost missed the dramatic speech in his rush to get away from the crowds on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
  
  HEISE: I got about two to three blocks from it and the loud speaker system was working extraordinarily well and I heard this trembling voice saying, 'I have a dream' and I stopped right there.I didn't move an inch forward or backward and I listened to every word of it.
  
  Heise says he's been affected all his life by what King said, and by his own luck in hearing it in person.

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  Published on: 4/2/2004    Last Visited: 11/26/2004  

  Kenan Heise, Tribune Staff Writer

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  Published on: 5/27/2008    Last Visited: 5/27/2008  

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  Kenan Heise
  
  Kenan Heise was a journalist for more than 30 years with the Chicago Tribune and two other papers it owned. he is the author or co-author of 12 books on the city including Chaos, Creativity and Culture: A Sampling of Chicago in the 20th Century; Hands on Chicago; and Chicago Originals.His columns have appeared in Chicago Magazine.
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  by Ed Baumann and Kenan Heise
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  by Kenan Heise
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  by Mark Frazel and Kenan Heise
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  Chicago writers Kenan Heise and Mark Frazel have updated their best-selling user's guide to the Windy City for the 1990s and beyond ...

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  Published on: 1/10/2003    Last Visited: 10/12/2003  

  Local author and Chicago historian, Kenan Heise, will talk about Chicago Neighborhoods.Kenan is a well-known authority on the various neighborhoods in Chicago and has written many books, the most current title is Chicago the Beautiful: A City Reborn

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