In the middle of the last week of election craziness a very important person passed away, Studs Terkel - a devoted acitvist, author, radio host, actor and representative of Chicago.

There has been a lot of great coverage of the man, but I feel like I should direct you to 2 main places:

GreenCine Daily’s internet round-up and

The New York Times obit

Read up on a great man and takepart to get involved with an awesome local group that documents oral histories, StoryCorps.

* photo of Studs Terkel @ StoryCorps from trustynick’s Flickr Stream (creative commons)