Alexander Polikoff Author

Alexander Polikoff served for twenty-nine years as executive director of BPI, Business and Professional People for the Public Interest, a Chicago public interest law and policy center. He is the author of many articles on urban affairs and of Housing the Poor: The Case for Heroism (Ballinger, 1977). Polikoff is the recipient of a 2006 The American Lawyer Lifetime Achievement Award. He lives in the Chicago area with his wife, a writer of fiction for young people, and continues to work at BPI. Clarence Page is a nationally syndicated columnist and a member of the Chicago Tribune's editorial board. He appears frequently on television and has won many journalism awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for commentary.