# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-kass
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:50:01.010Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-kass"
name: "John Kass"
slug: "john-kass"
description: "John Kass is an American columnist and former editorial board member for the Chicago Tribune and radio broadcaster. Until summer 2020, his opinion pieces regularly appeared on page 2 of the main news section of the Tribune, instead of on the opinion/editorial pages; this is the spot formerly occupied by Mike Royko."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Kass_(2014-03-06).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1956-06-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.07
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.289526666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/John_Kass"
    handle:    "John_Kass"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kass"
    title: "John Kass"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "جون كاس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "جون كاس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Kass"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%81%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Касс, Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kass"
    title: "John Kass"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16187140"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump