Personal Life
Shiller separated from her husband Mark Zalkin, one of the Mayor Harold Washington's assistant press secretaries, and with Shiller a leader of the 46th Ward Community Service Center (later the Uptown Community Service Center) and an editor of Keep Strong magazine, and with Shiller and Coleman an editor of All-Chicago City News. Zalkin passed on February 23, 1998 at age 49 due to complications from multiple sclerosis.
Shiller and Zalkin have one son, Brendan Shiller. Brendan Shiller attended Joseph Stockton Elementary School, a Chicago Public School, and Whitney Young Magnet High School, a selective-enrollment public magnet high school in Chicago's Near West Side. While attending Truman College, Brendan Shiller was managing editor of All-Chicago City News. After Truman, Brendan went to Howard University in Washington, D.C. For two years starting in February, 1997 Brendan Shiller edited StreetWise, a street newspaper sold by people without homes or those at-risk for homelessness in Chicago. In 2003, Brendan graduated from John Marshall Law School number one in his class, obtaining numerous honors. In April, 2006, Brendan cashed in the 37th Annual World Series of Poker No-Limit Texas Hold'em World Championship Event, the $10,000 buy-in "Main Event," held at the Rio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, finishing 873rd of 8,769 entries. He currently works as a lawyer representing criminal defendants and police misconduct plaintiffs.
Helen Shiller and her long-time staff member Maggie Marystone were interviewed in separate chapters in Hope Dies Last, a collection of oral histories by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Uptown resident Studs Terkel.
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