Brad Spirrison and Howard Wolinsky
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Howard Wolinsky has been freelancing full-time since leaving the
Chicago Sun-Times in January, working for Chicago Tribune, Ancestry,
Business Week Chicago, Nature and other publications. He had been with
the paper nearly 27 years, covering business/technology and medicine.
He is co-author of "The Serpent on the Staff: The Unhealthy Politics
of the American Medical Association."

Brad Spirrison has reported on business and technological development in the Chicago area for nearly a decade and currently write the Tech Matters column for the Chicago Sun-Times. A media executive and Internet entrepreneur in his own right, Spirrison is the publisher of MidwestBusiness.com and SpeedNetworking.com. More recently, he co-founded the "hope mashup" blog obamacubs.com as well as online social network MyCampFriends.com. Spirrison is a graduate of Emory University and the Latin School of Chicago. He is married and lives in Lakeview.

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Is Tech Dead In Chicago?

Posted August 22, 2008 | 06:33 PM (EST)

It was back before the Internet boom in the late '90s. I was riding in a Lincoln Town car heading downtown from a South Side school interviewing Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates for the Chicago Sun-Times.

I asked him what he knew about the Silicon Prairie. Gates is a well-informed...

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