CHESTER BILINSKI, 60, spent more than four decades directing traffic on the Chicago Sun-Times' classified advertising pages. Bilinski was born in 1949 in Bartoszyce, Poland, and emigrated to Chicago in 1963. He graduated from CarI Schurz High School and went to work for the Sun-Times before enlisting in the U.S. Army. After serving in Germany for two years, he returned to Chicago, got married and resumed his post at the Sun-Times. His official title was classified advertising supervisor of pagination, but his work went well beyond that over his countless years at the paper.

From: Polish American Journal, August 2010, p. 17; Obituary compiled by Jennifer Moskal