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Christie Willhite

Assistant City Editor
  • Phone(630) 955-3536
  • Emailcwillhite@dailyherald.com

Christie Willhite is an assistant city editor, a position she has held since 2000. She works with reporters, photographers and editors to coordinate stories for the Neighbor section in our print editions for DuPage County and for the local pages of our website.

In 2008, she launched the Lend a Hand column highlighting charity groups and service organizations in DuPage County, and the following year introduced the Join In column to feature the activities of interesting local clubs. She also oversees Why We Walk, a series of essays from participants in charity walks and runs that describe why such events make a difference to those who support the cause.

Willhite covered Naperville Unit District 203 and Indian Prairie Unit District 204 from 1996 to 2000, writing stories ranging from features on classroom projects to reports on superintendent searches, threatened teacher strikes, attendance boundary changes and the opening of Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville. In 1997, she led a team of reporters in reporting on an accident in which three high school students were killed by a drunken driver. The coverage was recognized with a Lisagor Award from the Society of Professional Journalists' Chicago Headline Club.

Before reporting on the Naperville school systems, Willhite worked as a police reporter and handled a variety of municipal beats throughout DuPage County including Oak Brook, Oakbrook Terrace, Lombard, Villa Park and Wood Dale. She joined the Daily Herald in 1991 after an internship with the paper in 1990. Willhite graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in journalism and minors in political science and English. She grew up in Lombard and lives in Naperville.

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Wheaton walks aims to stamp out Huntington’s disease

May 16 2012 | 8:22 am - Dave and Susie Hodgson know the stats as well as anyone: Huntington's disease usually strikes adults in their 30s or 40s; one in 10,000 Americans has Huntington's; none will survive. But what the Sandwich couple knows better than most is what those...

New Naperville group brings moms, daughters closer through philanthropy

May 12 2012 | 10:09 am - As moms, we have a lot we want to pass along to our daughters -- lessons our own mothers gave us, values we hope our girls will instill in their own children one day. We give advice. We recognize traits in ourselves that we absorbed from watching...

Run Like A Mother 5K raising money for agency that battles homelessness

May 07 2012 | 11:31 am - In some ways, Yvonne Heller's story is no different from many of the women she'll run alongside Sunday. Heller, 42, was nervous to sign up for the Run Like A Mother race. She wasn't in her best shape. And her family is working through more important...

March for Babies funds research to help premature infants

Apr 26 2012 | 12:02 pm - Hundreds of parents will be walking together Sunday, April 29, brought together by experiences none of them expected to share. None of those parents thought they'd bring their babies into the world as much as three months early. None wanted to reach...

Naperville’s Spring Ahead Race changes teens’ lives

Apr 13 2012 | 8:26 am - Transforming lives. It's a big goal, a lofty promise. And yet it's a daily job description for the staff and volunteers at 360 Youth Services. Miguel Caballero of Naperville has seen 360 Youth as both a participant and a volunteer. Today, he tells...

Downers Grove Choral Society happy to be part of Human Race

Apr 10 2012 | 11:05 am - Mimi Brile could tell you how the Downers Grove Choral Society has been her second home -- how the music sustained her when she lost her husband and son, that the friendships built on music revitalized her and even brought her new love. But for...

Teacher, student to walk together for Literacy DuPage

Apr 10 2012 | 11:06 am - Through her volunteer work, Lisa Lam of Naperville has found a common motivation among those she helps, evident in her own family as well as in her husband's. The drive to create a better life. Lam tutors immigrants, helping them learn to read,...

Participants choose who benefits when they join The Human Race

Apr 09 2012 | 11:53 am - On any given weekend day you're likely to find a group of walkers or runners on our streets or in our parks, each of them dedicated to a common cause. Organizing a walk or a run, though, is a huge undertaking -- a fundraising option many small,...

Woman's club racing to protect Naperville landmark

Apr 09 2012 | 11:47 am - At the northern edge of downtown Naperville sits a small stone church, built in 1899 to house the German Evangelical People's Church. You may have noticed the landmark building's purple door, but members of the Naperville Woman's Club hope you've...

Glen Ellyn Newcomers Club celebrates 60th year of social events

Mar 01 2012 | 7:54 am - When a family moves, Mom and Dad usually worry about how the kids will handle changing schools, whether they'll find friends. But a move is just as disruptive to an adult's social life, and building new connections among grown ups is more difficult...

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