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<b>Bernie Mac: Life in pictures</b><br>
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<b>South Side guy</b><br>
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Mac was born Bernard Jeffrey McCollough in 1957 and raised in the South Side of Chicago; his mother died of cancer when he was a teenager. Mac, a devout fan of the Chicago White Sox, is said to have begun performing comedy shows in high school and to have started performing professionally in Chicago when he was 19.

Bernie Mac

( Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times )

Bernie Mac: Life in pictures

South Side guy

Mac was born Bernard Jeffrey McCollough in 1957 and raised in the South Side of Chicago; his mother died of cancer when he was a teenager. Mac, a devout fan of the Chicago White Sox, is said to have begun performing comedy shows in high school and to have started performing professionally in Chicago when he was 19.

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