Donald Jonjack, 51, a former reporter for the Sun-Times, a historian and free-lance writer for the Tribune died of a heart attack Friday while working in Northwest Illinois. He was born and raised in Chicago and attended the University of Chicago. He worked as a general-assignment reporter in the ’60s and ’70s at the Sun-Times and covered the 1968 Democratic National Convention. He taught communications at Columbia College in Chicago, and in the late 1960s was one of the founders of Chicago Journalism Review, a journal that critiqued the Chicago press. He held many jobs after moving to Galena in 1976. He was the curator of the Galena Historical Museum, an editor of a Dubuque, Iowa, literary publication and a manager to a folk singer. He was a landscaper at the time of his death. He is survived by his wife Janet; a daughter Tania; parents Dorothy and Charles; four step-children, Amanda, Christopher and Maxwell De Zutter and Eddie Turner; a brother, and a sister. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Grace Episcopal Church, 309 Hill St., Galena.
