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    Remembering Chicago writer and filmmaker Scott Jacobs, dead at 71. His stories about politics were also about the people

    CHICAGO — Scott Jacobs was born to tell stories and he knew it. Once, standing in a harsh winter wind on a South Side “L” platform, pointing a video camera at political candidates for mayor trying to talk to rushing commuters, he said, “I have always thought of myself as a storyteller in the Mark Twain tradition. Like Twain said, ‘First get your facts right. Then you can distort them all you ...
    by Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune Nov 02, 2021 3 minutes

    CHICAGO — Scott Jacobs was born to tell stories and he knew it.

    Once, standing in a harsh winter wind on a South Side “L” platform, pointing a video camera at political candidates for mayor trying to talk to rushing commuters, he said, “I have always thought of myself as a storyteller in the Mark Twain tradition. Like Twain said, ‘First get your facts right. Then you can distort them all you want.’”

    Creative and innovative with video cameras or pens, Scott William Jacobs died Oct. 21 in Chicago. The

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