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William Garth, CEO
of Chicago-based Citizen Newspaper Group, dies at the age of 78
(September
26, 2016) Longtime publisher, philanthropist and activist, William
"Bill" Garth, Sr., CEO of the Citizen newspaper chain in Chicago, died
on Friday, Sept. 23 from complications of diabetes at RML
Specialty Hospital. William Darrell Garth, Jr. said that funeral
services and public memorial will be announced soon.
"Chicago lost a beacon for our community," said his son, Darrell Garth
in a statement. "He was a very savvy newspaperman and publisher. "He
cared about, as he would always say, being the eyes and ears of the
community as he reported what is right, what is just and what was
important to the community."
A native of Alabama, Garth began his career at Citizen Newspapers in
1969 as an advertising sales representative. When the publisher at the
time, Gus Savage, won election to a seat in the U.S. House of
Representatives in 1980, Garth purchased the Chatham Citizen, Southend
Citizen and Chicago Weekend and later added the South Suburban and the
Hyde Park editions. He also founded Garthco Publications, which
published PUSH Magazine, a bi-monthly national publication.
Garth has long been active in civic and industry associations. He is the
former President of Midwest Region III of the National Newspaper
Publishers Association (NNPA), its regional Advertising Representative,
and board member of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition.
He became the first African-American to be elected President of the
Illinois Press Association, the state’s largest newspaper association
and the trade organization for Illinois weekly and daily newspapers. He
was elected a stockholder in the Cook County South Suburban Publishers
Association and in 2009, was elected Chairman of the Cook County
Publishers Association for 2010.
In 1995, Garth founded and chaired the Quentis Bernard Garth (Q.B.G.)
Foundation in memory of his youngest son, who was killed in a domestic
stabbing at his South Side home. The Q.B.G. Foundation provides
scholarships to the disenfranchised, inner city youths in the
Chicagoland area and has helped over 49 students with more than $1
million in scholarship awards.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel said in a statement that Garth "was more than the
successful publisher of the Chicago Citizen and other respected
publications. He was a philanthropist and community leader whose legacy
will live on in the countless lives he has touched."
Garth was a founding member of the Chatham Business Association, and was
instrumental in the area’s revitalization which included the opening of
several national chain stores. "Mr. Garth was responsible for a lot of
the development in Chatham," Melinda Kelly, the business association's
executive director, told the Chicago Tribune. "In bringing a Nike outlet
(store), the Target store, the Home Depot, he was at the forefront."
"He was a man of integrity who cared a lot about his community," said
Paul A. Labonne, a vice president and community investment officer for
PNC Bank, whom Garth wooed to the Chatham Business Association as his
vice chairman. "He will be deeply missed."
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