Lois Weisberg

Lois Weisberg (May 6, 1925 – January 13, 2016) was the first Commissioner of Cultural Affairs for the City of Chicago, from 1989 until January 2011. She was profiled by writer Malcolm Gladwell in a New Yorker essay, "Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg"; Gladwell, who called Weisberg a "connector" and included the essay about her in his book The Tipping Point, asked: "She’s a grandmother, she lives in a big house in Chicago, and you’ve never heard of her. Does she run the world?"