Retired Chicago Cultural Historian Tim Samuelson

Sun-Times City Hall reporter Fran Spielman is joined by Tim Samuelson, the city’s first and only cultural historian. Samuelson, 69, worked for the city since 2002. Lois Weisberg, the former commissioner of cultural affairs, got him to leave the Chicago History Museum with the promise that he would be allowed to do “whatever you do” as the city’s cultural historian.