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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 to brighten up interchange bridges

Jun 19 2013 | 1:50 pm - Schaumburg will soon reach out to the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority with a proposal to add and fund about $1 million in architectural features to the Meacham and Roselle Road interchange bridges to help them better adhere to the village's...

Schaumburg police looking for strong-arm robber

Jun 18 2013 | 4:32 pm - Schaumburg police are seeking the public's help in identifying a suspect in a strong-arm robbery that occurred Monday night. According to police, a Schaumburg woman was approaching the entrance of a condominium building on the 300 block of South...

Fire district makes new proposal to Barrington

Jun 18 2013 | 5:34 pm - The Barrington Countryside Fire Protection District is proposing a new model for continued cooperation with the Barrington Fire Department, rather than breaking off their contractual relationship completely at the end of the year. Under the...

Barrington fire district opens bids for contractors

Jun 17 2013 | 9:53 pm - The Barrington Countryside Fire Protection District Monday took another major step in its journey to independence by opening bids from private firefighter-paramedic firms to replace its contract for service from the Barrington Fire Department in...

Schaumburg police to bring back lieutenant jobs

Jun 13 2013 | 11:47 pm - Schaumburg will shortly reinstitute two lieutenant positions in its police department to supply an extra level of supervision which consultants believe was lacking since they were dropped in a 2011 restructuring. These two lieutenants will oversee...

Schaumburg police create Crisis Intervention Team

Jun 14 2013 | 1:52 pm - Schaumburg police are organizing their own Crisis Intervention Team of officers specially trained to use language to de-escalate confrontations with people with particular challenges such as autism, mental illness, depression, and drug or alcohol...

Fritz retiring as Schaumburg village manager

Jun 13 2013 | 3:55 pm - After 29 years with the village of Schaumburg and 15 as village manager, Ken Fritz will retire to Minnesota at the end of the summer to spend more time with family. Fritz said Thursday he and his wife had planned his retirement about this time, with...

Barrington police looking for suspicious photographer

Jun 14 2013 | 5:12 am - Barrington police are seeking the public's help in locating a man who on two recent occasions suspiciously asked to take photographs of young children walking in public. The first incident occurred May 31 in the area of South Grove Avenue and...

Schaumburg resolves dispute over church soccer field

Jun 12 2013 | 11:49 am - Schaumburg officials believe they’ve resolved a months-long dispute between St. Peter Lutheran Church and its neighbors about the use of the church’s field by a youth soccer club. The agreement requires the church to install landscape...

Truck driver ticketed in Barrington train crash

Jun 11 2013 | 7:16 pm - Barrington police have issued three citations to the truck driver blamed for a May 23 crash with a freight train at the Canadian National Railway crossing of Route 14 that injured two and delayed traffic for hours.

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