Greene Quits Tribune Over Sexual Misconduct

Nationally syndicated Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Greene resigned after acknowledging he engaged in inappropriate sexual conduct with a teenage girl, the newspaper said.

In a note on the paper’s front page Sunday, Editor Ann Marie Lipinski said Greene acknowledged the sexual conduct with a girl in her late teens whom he’d met in connection with his column.

Greene, 55, told Associated Press in an e-mail Sunday that there have been “indiscretions in my life that I am not proud of.”

Greene has written extensively on social issues and American life. In 1998, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for columns on local children whose lives had been mishandled by the judicial and welfare systems.