Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards: A History of Flame and Folly in the Jungle (Disaster)
Chicago native John Hogan is a published historian and former broadcast journalist and on-air reporter (WGN-TV/Radio) who has written and produced newscasts and documentaries specializing in politics, government, the courts and the environment. As WGN-TV's environmental editor, he became the first recipient of the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Quality Award. His work also has been honored by the Associated Press. Hogan left broadcasting to become director of media relations and employee communications for Commonwealth Edison Company, one of the nation's largest electric utilities. Hogan is the author of Edison's one-hundred-year history,A Spirit Capable, as well as two unpublished novels and one political history. He holds a BS in journalism/communications from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and presently works as a freelance writer and public relations consultant.A fire buff for most of his life, Alex Burkholder began learning about the Chicago Fire Department as a youth, riding to fires on the engines and helping to extinguish the flames. Burkholder earned a BS and MS in journalism from Northwestern University. He went on to become an Emmy award winning investigative news producer, feature news producer, field producer and news writer/reporter for WGN-TV/Radio and ABC 7 Chicago. He has conducted a number of long-term investigations that required extensive research, writing and coordination and has written a number of magazine articles for publications devoted to firefighting and economics. Burkholder is a founding member of the Fire Museum of Greater Chicago and presently works as a freelance writer.