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As a young reporter at the Chicago Tribune in the early 1970s, Pam Zekman had repeatedly asked her editors to buy her a tavern.  Then she went across the street to the Sun-Times, and she found an editor ready to say yes. To be clear, Zekman’s desire to open a bar was stri

To take a long, hard look at corruption Eight Forty-Eight wanted to speak to a woman who's made a career exploring the city’s underbelly for the last four decades.