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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Arlington Hts. man has app for fighting off attacker

Feb 08 2013 | 11:42 pm - Peter Cahill of Arlington Heights is marketing a smartphone application that is designed to summon help immediately if someone is being attacked or robbed, and he wants to offer it free for a year to Barrington Unit District 220.

District 54 appoints three new school principals

Feb 08 2013 | 2:13 pm - Schaumburg Township Elementary District 54 board members this week appointed three new principals for the 2013-14 school year. Joann Kort will be principal of Dirksen Elementary in Schaumburg, Jillian Sagan will be principal of Mead Junior High in...

Write-in challenges Darch for Barrington president

Feb 08 2013 | 6:02 pm - Former Barrington trustee candidate Mike Kozel has announced his write-in candidacy challenging village President Karen Darch on April 9. Kozel, along with former running mates Jim Magnanenzi and JoAnn Fletcher, was thrown off the ballot last month...

Who makes Schaumburg a better place to live?

Feb 07 2013 | 12:50 pm - The village of Schaumburg is once again looking to honor the volunteers of all ages who make the community a safe and healthy place to live, work and play. Nominations for Schaumburg's Volunteer of the Year, Volunteer Organization of the Year and...

Dist. 220 board,teachers reach three-year deal

Feb 06 2013 | 5:10 pm - The Barrington Unit District 220 board of education and teachers union have reached a tentative agreement on a three-year teachers' contract, avoiding a potential strike later this month, officials announced Wednesday. The agreement, formally...

Dist. 220 considers promotion of child safety smartphone app

Feb 05 2013 | 1:21 pm - A software developer with a personal connection to Barrington Unit District 220 is hoping a new smartphone app he's created will help protect students in the district from the threat of stranger danger. But while district officials recognize a...

Schaumburg father, son performing this week on Letterman

Feb 06 2013 | 5:48 am - Father and son Dan and Zach Lentino of Schaumburg will appear on "The Late Show with David Letterman" this week backing up different Elvis tribute artists on different nights. Tuesday will be Zach's second of three nights on the show, as well as his...

Schaumburg Twp. commissioner holds back funds over lunch tiff

Feb 04 2013 | 12:40 pm - Schaumburg Township Highway Commissioner Robert Fecarotta said he will hold back $135,000 he'd been planning to transfer to the township's general fund after learning taxpayer money was used to pay for an employee appreciation lunch Friday. "It's...

Barrington Hills president race all about budget

Feb 03 2013 | 10:11 am - Village President Robert ABboud and challenger Martin McLaughlin meet with our editorial board

Are you chicken? This job's for you!

Jan 31 2013 | 1:00 pm - If you don't chicken out, you could win a new job being the center of attention before adoring crowds of thousands this summer. The Schaumburg Boomers baseball team will seek to fill the role of its fan-friendly mascot — a giant male prairie...

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