Chicago professor and political analyst Paul Green passed away this weekend due to an aortic aneurysm.
Green was director of Roosevelt University's Institute of Politics, but he was also well known for moderating panels and giving lectures as Chairman of the City Club of Chicago. President Jay Doherty said he’s known Green for more than thirty years.
“Impeccably honest and brutally frank,” Doherty said. “He just called it like it was. He had a very biting wit. As he said many times, ‘I don’t give a rip. I’m going to tell it how it is.’”
Businessman Ed Mazur, a fellow City Club member who knew Green since they were in college, agreed. “He didn’t care much for what you might call BS,” Mazur said. “He didn’t like to dance around the edges. He liked to get to the heart of the matter.”
His candor was even appreciated by Dick Simpson, political science professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Simpson said he and Green were frequently sparring partners. “We would show up to media events, and generally, he supported the Democratic machine. And usually I opposed him. We nonetheless were good friends. He was a good colleague, and we collaborated and cooperated on many projects,”
Paul Green was 73.