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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Mitch Dudek

Jim Frost, who captured Mirage tavern bribes as a Sun-Times photographer, dead at 79

Sun-Times photographers Jim Frost (left) and Gene Pesek in their hideaway at the Mirage tavern. (Sun-Times file)
Whether he was bopping wayward hogs on the nose with a slingshot on his family’s farm as a boy or shooting bribe-taking city inspectors, exquisitely placed lemons or sashaying supermodels as a Chicago Sun-Times photographer, Jim Frost always had good aim.

His most famous images came while perched in what amounted to a journalistic deer blind at a dive bar on the Near North Side.

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