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Jim Bowman, Writer
Jim Bowman, former Chicago Tribune columnist and former Chicago Daily News reporter, writes business history. Most recently he collaborated with retired banker C. Paul Johnson in Good Guys Finish First: Reflections of a CEO and How to Start a De Novo Community Bank.
His work includes book-length histories of Booz, Allen & Hamilton, CFS Continental, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, and Safety-Kleen. For each he dug into archives and outside documents and interviewed people from chairman to shipping clerk for what makes a company or institution unique.
He is available to do the same for your company in book, article, brochure, or however you want to memorialize your company, inspire employees, or stimulate business.
The Books:
* Reach Out . . . The Story of Motorola and its People, by Harry Mark Petrakis, 2003; Bowman was an editor.
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Since January, 2004, he has done a monthly column for Wednesday Journal of Oak Park & River Forest (Illinois). Recent columns.
Blithely, Blithely -- Mostly conservative commentary, with special attention to Oak Park Illinois
1982-85. For the Tribune Sunday Magazine, "The Way We Were," a column on Chicago history using Tribune clips and Chicago Historical Society, Newberry Library, and Art Institute of Chicago files.
1968-78. Reporter, Chicago Daily News
Member, past president, Society of Midland Authors
Member, webmaster, Midwest Writers Association
