Ebert's television career began the year he won the Pulitzer, first on WTTW-TV, the Chicago PBS station, then nationwide on PBS and later on several commercial syndication services.

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These days, I contribute stories to the New York Times, Chicago Medicine magazine and teach writing at Loyola University Chicago and you can hear me on XM Satellite's ReachMD or in Chicago on CBS' WBBM newsradio or see me on PBS affiliate WTTW's Chicago Tonight television public affairs program.

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Then watch The Race to Mackinac, a 2002 documentary produced by Chicago public television station WTTW. The station put cameras on two boats and zoomed in on such passing scenery as Sleeping Bear Dunes (a national park on the Michigan coast) and Beaver Island, where a rogue Mormon leader once declared himself king.

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