Ebert comes home for 11th annual film fest in Champaign
Apr 21, 2009
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.
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.
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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 in 1967. His annual film festival starts Wednesday and runs through Sunday at the historic Virginia Theatre in neighboring Champaign.
