Lloyd Wendt

Lloyd Wendt

Lloyd Wendt (May 16, 1908 – October 21, 2007) was a long time Chicago journalist and the author of "Chicago Tribune: The rise of a Great American Newspaper" (Rand McNally, 1979), "Swift Walker: An Informal Biography of Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard" (Regnery, 1986), and three nonfiction pieces with Herman Kogan; "" (Rand-McNally 1952), "Big Bill of Chicago" (Bobbs-Merrill, 1953), and "Lords of the Levee" (Bobbs-Merrill, 1943) [cite news | last = Jensen | first = Trevor | coauthors = Trevor Jensen | title = Chicago editor, author | work = Chicago Tribune | pages = Section 2 page 11 | publisher = Chicago Tribune | date = 2007-10-25 | url = http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-hed_wendtoct25,0,4986572.story | accessdate = 2007-10-25]

After a lengthy battle with Alzheimer's, Wendt died in a nursing home in Sanford, Florida.

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