Hi. I’m Scott Smith.

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago before moving into the city proper in 1998.  My years attending college in Ohio were my most formative and my years since, living in Chicago, have been my most enriching. I live on the South Side in Morgan Park with my wife, Erin, and daughter, Abigail.

I run a live reading series about the South Side called The Frunchroom, co-produced with The Beverly Area Arts Alliance. You can read all about that here.

I’m currently the Chief of Staff for the Cook County Assessor’s Office. I’ve also written and edited for a variety of publications including Time Out Chicago, Chicago magazine, Chicagoist and Playboy.com. You can get details on all of the above at my LinkedIn profile here. An ethics and disclosure statement can be found here.

In addition to the work cited above, I’ve worked as a tech support rep for a financial data services company and a supervisor at a runaway youth hotline. I spent a year as a social work grad student and also engaged in a public feud with ’80s rocker Richard Marx (which was later immortalized in a YouTube video).

In the past, I’ve been a board member with both the Southwest Chicago Diversity Collaborative, a neighborhood advocacy group for diversity and social justice in our community, and the Beverly Area Planning Association, a non-profit, community-based alliance of more than a dozen civic and business groups dedicated to serving the historic Beverly Hills/Morgan Park neighborhood of Chicago.

I’m no longer active on Twitter but you can follow me on Instagram. I can be reached via ourmaninchicago at gmail.com.