Chicago is a legendary city for cinephiles, one notable achievement being the first Pulitzer Prize awarded to a film critic, to the Chicago Sun-Times’ Roger Ebert in 1975. But our bragging rights go back beyond that; in 1914, the Chicago Tribune hired the nation’s first full-time staff film critic on a major newspaper. Jack Lawson’s reviews have never been collected and aren’t accessible online, yet the conversation he started is still going strong. (Robert Rodi)
