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McCormick Place

  • Accession Number:
    1988:212
  • Artist:
    Kotalik, Bob
  • Date:
    April 14, 1970
  • Medium:
    Gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions:
    paper: 7 3/8 in x 9 7/16 in
  • Credit Line:
    Gift of the David and Reva Logan Foundation

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About the Photographer

Kotalik, Bob

An award-winng press photographer, Bob Kotalik spent the majority of his lengthy career at the Chicago Sun-Times. He started at the newspaper in the mid-1940s as a copy boy. After serving in the Army Signal Corps for two years during World War II, Kotalik returned to the Sun-Times in 1947 and was hired as a photographer. In 1972 he became the newspaper's chief photographer and he worked for the publication for 47 years, until his retirement in 1990.