Deborah Donovan

Staff Writer
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  • Emailddonovan@dailyherald.com

Deborah Donovan was named to cover Arlington Heights, Rolling Meadows and Prospect Heights in May 2008. Besides reporting on governmental activities in those towns, she writes features about residents and organizations.

Donovan also is the lead writer for the Daily Herald's Home & Garden section. For many years she wrote about housing for the Daily Herald. In 2007, she participated in the award-winning series "The Dream Foreclosed" about home foreclosures. She was named Employee of the Year for the Editorial Department of the Daily Herald in 2008. Before coming to the Daily Herald in 1978, Donovan wrote for the Quad-City Times in Davenport, Iowa, and United Press International in Minneapolis. Donovan has presented her stories many Sunday mornings on ABC Channel 7.

She graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in journalism and took post-graduate courses at Michigan State University. She currently is pursuing a master's degree in library and information science at the University of Illinois. Donovan is married and the mother of two adult daughters and an adult son.

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Neighbors might not recognize 'Biggest Loser' contestant

Feb 11 2013 | 5:17 am - Danni Allen can go around the suburbs incognito because she already looks different than she does on the NBC television show "The Biggest Loser." While the reality series is halfway to its live finale in March, all the other episodes were pre-shot,...

'Biggest Loser' contestant from Wheeling shines in latest episode

Feb 06 2013 | 11:31 am - Her athleticism is helping Wheeling's Danni Allen continue to excel on The Biggest Loser, the NBC weight-loss reality show that reached its halfway point this week with the Mundelein High School grad still in the hunt for the grand prize. As of...

High school senior drops off Wheeling board ballot

Feb 06 2013 | 2:34 pm - Asher Horcher, the Northwest suburbs' youngest candidate for office on the April ballot has withdrawn from the race for the Wheeling Village Board, saying it is more important to the village that her father, Pat Horcher, be elected village president.

Wheeling mayoral candidates debate use of TIF districts

Jan 29 2013 | 9:43 pm - Wheeling's five tax increment financing districts promise to be an issue in the April mayoral election, where former trustee Pat Horcher and Trustee Dean Argiris are challenging incumbent Judy Abruscato. The candidates met with the Daily Herald this...

Leaders say Wheeling and Prospect Heights are doing well

Jan 29 2013 | 7:09 pm - Municipal leaders always try to put on a good face when recounting the past year for business leaders. But the reports Prospect Heights Mayor Nick Helmer and Wheeling Village President Judy Abruscato gave the Wheeling/Prospect Heights Area Chamber...

Jobless could become business owners in Wheeling

Jan 28 2013 | 11:20 pm - Wheeling will be the launching pad for a plan to turn unemployed people into entrepreneurs, according to a presentation heard by the village board Monday night.

Wheeling woman's decade of good deeds inspires

Jan 24 2013 | 7:41 pm - Impressed by a Wheeling woman's work for ailing children through the Make-A-Wish Foundation, a Schaumburg plumbing contractor decided to do a good deed of his own Wednesday and repair her collapsed sewer pipe for free. "She deserves something like...

Arlington Park Board votes to renovate Camelot center

Jan 23 2013 | 12:17 am - The fieldhouse at Camelot Park in northern Arlington Heights will be renovated and expanded at a cost of $5.5 million, the Arlington Heights Park Board voted 4-1 Monday night. The commissoners decided to use a $2.5 millionstate grant for the project.

Wheeling, Prospect Heights at odds over airport leadership

Jan 16 2013 | 10:48 am - Leaders of the two communities that own Chicago Executive Airport are at odds over who should head the facility's governing board. Prospect Heights' mayor introduced his choice for the job Monday, angering Wheeling's village president, who has her...

Rolling Meadows rejects ballot question on Meacham Road

Jan 16 2013 | 12:22 am - The Rolling Meadows City Council on Tuesday rejected launching a hurry-up effort to put a referendum on widening a rural section of Meacham Road on the April ballot but kept the possibility open for future elections.

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