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Eric Peterson

Staff Writer
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Eric Peterson currently covers Schaumburg and the seven-village Barrington area for the Daily Herald. He joined the paper in March 2000 after previously working for Pioneer Press, the Northwest Herald and the former Chicago Suburban Times newspapers.

Peterson was among the reporters whose 2006 series on international adoption, "Finding Family," won the Chicago Journalists Association's Sarah Brown Boyden Award for Best Series in 2007. He was the writer of "Last Letters Home" on the correspondence of four U.S. soldiers killed in action to their Chicago suburban families, which won the CJA's Sarah Brown Boyden Award for Online Features in 2008 and was named Best Multimedia Story in 2009 by the Illinois AP Editors Association in Division A.

Peterson earned his journalism degree from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.

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Schaumburg library under repair after crash

Feb 22 2012 | 3:04 pm - The west entrance of the Schaumburg Township District Library's central building in Schaumburg will remain closed indefinitely as repairs are made after a minivan crashed into it Tuesday afternoon. The library remains open, however, with all of its...

Dist. 220 faces budget, Chinese program dilemma

Feb 22 2012 | 1:30 am - Parents of students in Barrington Unit District 220’s Chinese language immersion program have been working to secure private funding and cut costs as officials struggle over continuing the program after its federal funding was lost.

Former Streamwood trustee, movie extra mourned

Feb 21 2012 | 7:17 pm - Family and friends are mourning the loss of William "Billy G" Golembiewski, who not only served his Streamwood community as a onetime village trustee and member of charitable organizations, but also became a subtly familiar face through numerous...

Schaumburg concedes $9 million to ash borer

Feb 20 2012 | 6:47 am - The village of Schaumburg is embarking on a 10-year, $9 million program to eradicate the emerald ash borer, that will eventually result in taking down most of the village's ash trees and replacing them with a variety of other species. “There's...

Painted horses to stampede through Barrington

Feb 16 2012 | 12:22 pm - Painted horses - proud, silly or surreal - will again stampede the streets of Barrington this summer as they did in 2009. The Barrington Area United Way is planning the Barrington Roundup II public art exhibit to follow in the hoofsteps of the first...

Schaumburg panel recommends banning donation boxes

Feb 16 2012 | 10:29 am - Despite requests for a less extreme form of regulation from two for-profit companies Wednesday, Schaumburg’s zoning board unanimously recommended a total ban on donation boxes throughout the village. Even a rep of Goodwill Industries, a...

Schaumburg approves site for Japanese church

Feb 15 2012 | 9:33 am - Schaumburg trustees Tuesday approved a special use permit for the local branch of a church that originated in Japan in the 1980s to move into an industrial park unit. About 40 church members who live in the area have had to meet at each other's...

Four suburbanites face federal drug charges

Feb 13 2012 | 7:29 pm - Residents of Barrington, Palatine and Wheaton are among 10 individuals across the country charged by federal authorities with conspiracy to manufacture, possess and distribute drugs between 2006 and September 2011.

Barrington approves new downtown concept plan

Feb 13 2012 | 11:48 pm - Barrington trustees Monday unanimously approved a developer's concept plan for three commercial buildings at the southwest corner of Hough and Main streets in the heart of downtown.

6th District Democrats compare credentials

Feb 12 2012 | 2:35 am - The interrelationship of job production, health care reform and tax code changes in improving citizens' lives was at the heart of a League of Women Voters forum for the three Democratic candidates in the 6th Congressional District race Saturday at...

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