[6] In 1974, Petacque and Hough won the Pulitzer Prize for their work in uncovering new information about the murder of Valerie Percy, the daughter of U.S. Sen. Charles H.
[8] Although the murder was never solved, Petacque and Hough's work prompted police to reopen a probe into the death.
[15] Petacque also worked for Chicago's WLS-TV as a commentator on the station's afternoon newscasts, and won a local Emmy in 1984.
[16][17] After Petacque's death, Sun-Times reporter Neil Steinberg remembered him as "a colorful presence from a vanished age, with wild, unkempt eyebrows and a soggy cigar, drawing scraps of paper and matchbooks out of his pockets, reading notes on the doings of mobsters and madams...Art Petacque was a police captain when he needed to be a police captain, and a doctor when he needed to be a doctor.
[19] The paper's editor at the time, Dennis Britton, told the Chicago Reader after Petacque's death that "I had problems with some of the ways Art pursued his job.