Chaz Ebert

Film critic Roger Ebert's boyhood home is getting the thumbs up. Officials in Urbana, Ill., decided to honor the Chicago Sun-Times critic by placing a bronze plaque on the sidewalk in front of 410 E. Washington St. That's where Ebert lived with his parents from his birth in 1942 until 1961. The 66-year-old Ebert and his wife, Chaz, were in Urbana for Wednesday's ceremony. In a column Tuesday, Ebert described the home as "a two-bedroom white stucco house with green canvas awnings, evergreens and geraniums in front and a white picket fence enclosing the back yard." Ebert became film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times ... Read Full Story

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