- Uncle Allen DuMont founded the first television network to be licensed in the United States, the DuMont Network.
- Was a member of the Peabody Awards' Board of Jurors from 1992 to 1998.
- Founder and former president of the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago.
- Made an unsuccessful run for a seat in the Illinois Senate in 1970.
- His documentary about teenage suicides for WBBM-TV earned him an Iris Award from the National Association of Television Programming.
- His documentary about censorship in public libraries earned him the Golden Gavel Award from the American Bar Association.
- Received a BA from Columbia College Chicago.
- Syndicated radio political analyst and television presenter based in Chicago, Illinois. He was the host of Beyond the Beltway, a syndicated talk radio show that was airing on 14 stations around the United States when it ended production on January 19, 2025. The program, which began in 1980 as Inside Politics, also aired a televised version on Chicago's secondary PBS station, WYCC, from 1996 to 2017, when WYCC went off the air.
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