Eric Peterson

Staff Writer
  • Phone(847) 427-4482
  • Emailepeterson@dailyherald.com

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 Boomers ready to start second season

May 14 2013 | 1:51 pm - The Schaumburg Boomers' second opening day is this Thursday, May 16, but the independent league baseball team rolled out the red carpet two days early by hosting the Schaumburg Business Association's monthly breakfast meeting.

Barrington boy rejoins classmates after train accident

May 14 2013 | 5:48 pm - Classmates cheered as Dominic Szymanski, a fifth grader at Hough Street School in Barrington, made a surprise visit Tuesday, almost two months after the 11-year-old survived being struck by a train. The unexpected reunion came during an all-school...

Barrington train accident survivor thanks rescuers

May 13 2013 | 11:42 pm - Dominic Szymanski, the 11-year-old Barrington boy who survived being struck by a train in the village on March 15, made his first public appearance Monday night as the police officers, paramedics and good Samaritans who came to his aid nearly two...

Journalism seminar focuses on 21st century veterans

May 11 2013 | 9:45 am - Journalists and experts discussed how to better tell the stories of the new American veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq during a seminar Friday sponsored by the Illinois Press Association and The Poynter Institute. The event was held at the Daily...

Lyons ends 44 years with Schaumburg Township Library

May 09 2013 | 9:54 am - Schaumburg Township District Library Trustee Robert Lyons will end his 44-year tenure on the library board Monday, May 20 — one of the longest examples of continuous service by any elected official in the Northwest suburbs. "Obviously, I do so...

South Barrington supports underpass in Barrington

May 09 2013 | 11:35 pm - One of the first actions of new South Barrington Village President Paula McCombie's administration Thursday was to pass a resolution supporting a Route 14 underpass at the Canadian National Railway crossing in neighboring Barrington. The South...

Dist. 220 board updated on social-emotional learning

May 08 2013 | 12:02 am - In the wake of a high school student's suicide last month, Barrington Unit District 220 board members Tuesday heard a progress report on the district's social-emotional learning curriculum aimed in part at anticipating and avoiding such tragedies.

Good Shepherd Hospital plans $247 million modernization

May 07 2013 | 8:41 pm - Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital officials are hoping to get permission next month to embark on a four-year, $247 million modernization of the nearly 35-year-old facility near Lake Barrington.

District 54 names nine new assistant principals

May 06 2013 | 12:09 pm - The Schaumburg Township Elementary District 54 school board Thursday took a major step toward completing preparations for next school year by filling nine vacancies among its assistant principal ranks. The moves are effective July 1.

McLaughlin sworn in as Barrington Hills president

May 06 2013 | 9:44 pm - Barrington Hills got its ninth village president Monday — and its second named McLaughlin — as newly elected Martin McLaughlin took the oath of office. He succeeded Robert Abboud, whom he defeated in the April 9 election by 647 votes to...

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