James Kane

Deputy City Editor
  • Phone(847) 427-4469
  • Emailjkane@dailyherald.com

James Kane is assistant city editor for the Cook County staff of the Daily Herald. Since 2007, he has been supervising reporters on the Cook staff and editing copy for the news and neighbor sections. His prior duties at the Daily Herald include serving as editor of the award-winning business section for many years.

He started working with the Daily Herald in 1988 as a business reporter and became Business Editor in 1989.

Before joining the Daily Herald, his jobs included being business editor of The Times in Hammond, Ind.; a reporter for the Chicago Tribune; and reporter for the Quad-City Times in Davenport, Iowa.

Kane graduated from North Central College in Naperville and received a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri. He is married and the father of two adult daughters and an adult son.

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Lincoln Middle School students win state with solution to 'senior' problem

Feb 04 2013 | 8:30 am - When the nine-member Century Strikers First Lego League team at Lincoln Middle School in Mount Prospect organized last fall, their challenge for the year was "Senior Solutions" — identifying a problem older people faced and developing a...

Firefighter recognized in Des Plaines almost 60 years after his death

Jul 22 2012 | 7:05 pm - No one knows how John Minich ended up in a grave with no headstone in All Saints Cemetery in Des Plaines but that is rectified now. The Chicago firefighter died almost 60 years ago, collapsing after rescuing a very pregnant woman from a residential...

Eleven DuPage County students named Golden Apple Scholars

Mar 30 2012 | 1:22 pm - Golden Apple has selected a record 135 Illinois high school students that it will groom to be the top teachers of the future. Eleven of them are from DuPage County.

Lake County students named Golden Apple Scholars

Mar 29 2012 | 2:21 pm - Golden Apple has selected a record 135 Illinois high school students that it will groom to be the top teachers of the future. Several of them are from the Lake County area.

Nine Northwest suburban students named Golden Apple Scholars

Mar 28 2012 | 11:57 am - Golden Apple has selected a record 135 Illinois high school students that it will groom to be the top teachers of the future. Nine of them are from the Northwest suburbs.

Northwest Festival Orchestra holiday concert is Dec. 21 at Harper

Dec 12 2011 | 5:43 am - Meet the conductor of the the Northwest Festival Orchestra, which will perform a varied program of seasonal music including excerpts from "La Boheme" and "Many Moods of Christmas" for its holiday concert Wednesday, Dec. 21, at Harper College in...

Two charged with prostitution in Buffalo Grove

Jul 27 2011 | 5:09 pm - A 64-year-old Arlington Heights masseuse has been arrested and charged with prostitution for the second time in the last 18 months at a Buffalo Grove spa, police said.

Company sued for ripping off storm victims

Jun 30 2011 | 1:14 pm - The Cook County State's Attorney's Consumer Fraud Unit has filed a lawsuit against a Texas construction company and its agents for bilking thousands of dollars from Northwest suburban homeowners whose houses were damaged by hail and heavy winds last...

Oakton's Koehnline Museum features works by self-taught artists

Apr 27 2011 | 8:21 am - Fifty works by self-taught artists put together over 30 years by a Naperville's Jim and Beth Arient will be on display for three months at the Koehnline Museum of Art at Oakton Community College, 1600 E. Golf Road, Des Plaines. The exhibit, "Arient...

'Phantom' Streamwood High School's most ambitious production yet

Apr 12 2011 | 2:00 pm - "Phantom of the Opera" continues its run at Streamwood High School this weekend. Director of Choirs David Hain calls it the school's most ambitious musical production yet.

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