{geni:about_me} Chicago Tribune
March 10, 1985
Ira J. Bach, 78, an author and urban planner who held various city posts under five Chicago mayors and retired three months ago as director of city development; he had served as commissioner of the city`s Department of Planning and executive director of the Land Clearance Commission; for the last 30 years he had been involved in all the city`s major development projects;