20 Facts About Edwin Eisendrath

Edwin Eisendrath was born on February 3,1958 and is former CEO of the Chicago Sun-Times and former alderman of the 43rd ward of Chicago.

Edwin Eisendrath III was born into a Jewish family, the son of Edwin W Eisendrath Jr.

Edwin Eisendrath's father was an attorney and his mother came from a powerful West Side political family.

Edwin Eisendrath's parents divorced when he was a child, and his mother married Lewis Manilow.

Edwin Eisendrath was raised in the East Lake View neighborhood of Chicago.

In 1987, Eisendrath successfully ran to succeed the retiring Martin J Oberman as alderman in Chicago's 43rd ward.

Edwin Eisendrath raised $225,000 for her campaign, and his campaign spent what was at the time an all-time record amount for a Chicago City Council campaign.

Edwin Eisendrath promised that he would be neutral in the Chicago Council Wars, not joining either of the council's warring political factions.

Edwin Eisendrath was described by the Chicago Tribune as positioning himself to be a "Lakefront independent".

Edwin Eisendrath backed the Chicago School Reform Act, legislation enacted by the state of Illinois in 1988 to reform Chicago Public Schools.

Edwin Eisendrath ran in the 1990 Democratic primary election for the US House of Representatives in Illinois's 9th congressional district, challenging longtime incumbent Sid Yates.

Edwin Eisendrath ran an anti-incumbent campaign focused on the decades-long length of Yates' tenure.

Edwin Eisendrath later served as Vice President of Academic Affairs for Kendall College but resigned the position in 2007.

From 2007 to 2017, Edwin Eisendrath was an international business consultant with a focus on global higher education.

Edwin Eisendrath sought the Democratic nomination for Governor of Illinois in 2006, but was defeated in the primary by incumbent governor Rod Blagojevich.

In 2017, Edwin Eisendrath led a group, including retired WLS-TV anchor Linda Yu and the Chicago Federation of Labor, to place a bid for the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper.

Shortly thereafter, Edwin Eisendrath was named the new chief executive officer of the newspaper.

In January 2018, Edwin Eisendrath hired Mark Konkol as executive editor of then-Sun-Times-owned Chicago Reader Konkol soon published an issue with racist cover and Edwin Eisendrath fired Konkol.

In 2019, Edwin Eisendrath helped launch Verifiable, a company that uses advanced technologies to provide real-time license verification and continuous monitoring of healthcare providers to increase efficiency and reduce compliance costs to hospitals and other health care organization.

Edwin Eisendrath is an inventor on several issued and pending US and international patents related to virtual on-line universities.