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From Seattle writer and consultant Matt Rosenberg...
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Matt Rosenberg cut his teeth in Chicago politics and journalism. While attending Northwestern University, he spent the summer of 1977 working for a prominent civic organization battling political corruption in Chicago: The Better Government Association. As an Assistant to the Chief Investigator, Matt did public records research, investigative photography, and joined the undercover team of the Mirage Tavern, a joint investigative project of the BGA and The Chicago Sun-Times. Undertaken to document long-standing complaints from small businesses of shakedowns by city, county and state building inspectors, and in response to concerns about accountant-driven tax fraud that was shortchanging government coffers, The Mirage resulted in a month-long, Pulitzer-finalist Sun-Times series, a book, and an episode of "60 Minutes."
Less than a year later, while still attending Northwestern, Matt headed up a Get Out The Vote effort in seven precincts of Chicago's 48th Ward for an independent aldermanic challenger to the city's notorious Democratic Machine. The candidate, Marion Kennedy Volini, was elected to The Chicago City Council. Matt still remembers being tailed all day on Election Day by an "off duty" Chicago Streets and Sanitation Worker.
After an interlude involving time away from college, Matt resumed his undergraduate education at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, and graduated with Dean's List and Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1982. He worked as a paid intern for an Illinois congressman in the nation's capital, and then returned home to Chicago.
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