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Bruce Sagan, Publisher Who Revitalized Community News and Helped Save and Bring the Joffrey Ballet to Chicago, Dies at 96

Bruce Sagan, the Chicago newspaperman who turned a failing neighborhood weekly into a platform for investigative reporting, built one of the largest community newspaper groups in the country, and later played a central role in transforming Chicago into a major center for dance and theater, died today at his home in Chicago after a brief battle with cancer. He was 96.