Hasta La Creative!

Steven Yahn, the first editor of Crain’s Chicago Business and an editor of Advertising Age in the 1990s, died on June 28. He was 69.

Mr. Yahn had lived in recent years with Parkinson’s disease, according to Rance Crain, president of Crain Communications and editor-in-chief of Ad Age and Crain’s Chicago Business, who chose Mr. Yahn to launch Crain’s Chicago Business.

Mr. Yahn was a charismatic and not-very-buttoned-down journalist who went on to become editor of Ad Age, where he had worked before, and the now-defunct Collector-Investor. He also helmed periodicals outside Crain Communications.

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