Jamie Sotonoff

Staff Writer
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  • Emailjsotonoff@dailyherald.com

Jamie Sotonoff joined the Daily Herald in 1997 and currently works as a general assignment reporter, focusing on lifestyle and trend stories. She is also the Assistant Sunday Editor and a fill-in editor.

A graduate of Maine East High School and Indiana University, Sotonoff started her journalism career as a reporter for Pioneer Press.

The Daily Herald hired her as a city news reporter, and she went on to work as a features writer, a fashion columnist, a Reflejos editor, a concert/movie/theater/restaurant reviewer, and a Neighbor editor.

During her career, Sotonoff has reported on many of the suburbs' biggest news stories (Fox River Grove bus-train accident, Brown's Chicken murders, NIU shootings, Tylenol poisonings investigation) and won dozens of awards for her work, including two Peter Lisagor Awards and numerous awards from the Illinois Associated Press Editors Association and the Northern Illinois Newspaper Association.

Sotonoff has interviewed many celebrities -- Tom Cruise, Joan Rivers, Meatloaf and Barry Williams, to name a few -- but says stories about real people have the most profound impact on her.

Sotonoff lives in the Northwest suburbs with her husband and two children, and her hobbies include travel, music, hanging out in the city, and having fun with family and friends.

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Suburban Catholics support pope's decision, pray for the future

Feb 11 2013 | 7:06 pm - Surprised more than sad, many suburban Catholics expressed admiration and understanding for Pope Benedict XVI's decision to resign, and now look toward the church's future with a little uncertainty but mostly hope. "It must have been a tremendous...

Suburban musicians among Grammy nominees

Feb 07 2013 | 5:32 pm - Their names will sound familiar, either because you're a music fan or because they grew up in your neighborhood. And you might hear their names Sunday night, during the Grammy Awards ceremony on CBS. A handful of suburban natives are nominated for...

Downers Grove songwriter nominated for two Grammy Awards

Feb 05 2013 | 12:50 pm - More than 25,000 people have sent emails and letters to Matthew West, sharing their life stories with him. The singer/songwriter from Downers Grove has sifted through nearly all of them. The stories that moved him he turned into songs. West's latest...

Prospect grad creates 'Zero Dark Thirty' sound effects

Jan 29 2013 | 5:28 am - Prospect High graduate Alex Ullrich works as a Foley artist in Hollywood. He's the guy who supplies the sounds you hear in movies, cartoons and TV shows. Every sound he adds is in postproduction. "You start with a scene that's completely blank,...

Sean Hayes, suburban pal team up for TV success

Jan 22 2013 | 11:56 am - Glenbard West High School (Glen Ellyn) graduate Sean Hayes joined Conant High School (Hoffman Estates) graduate Todd Milliner in 2004 to create the L.A. company Hazy Mills Productions that now boasts three TV shows. “I take working in...

1 in 5 in suburbs in or near poverty

Jan 15 2013 | 11:56 pm - At least one in five people living in the six suburban counties were poor or living near poverty in 2011. “It’s the highest number we’ve seen,” said Amy Terpstra, assistant director of Social IMPACT Research Center who helped...

Down syndrome photo exhibit to debut Tuesday at Woodfield

Jan 14 2013 | 7:52 pm - An exhibit of black and white portraits of local children with Down syndrome and their families will be unveiled Tuesday at Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg. The exhibit, ""One Million Voices," an initiative by Hoffman Estates-based GiGi's Playhouse...

‘American Idol’-mocking website to shut down

Jan 13 2013 | 8:24 pm - For the past nine years, West suburban resident Dave Della Terza has mocked “American Idol” contestants on his popular but maligned website,VoteForTheWorst.com. On Sunday night, Della Terza announced plans to shut down “VFTW”...

Maday guilty of escape, armed bank robbery

Jan 09 2013 | 7:30 pm - Robert Maday, who broke out of custody and went on a 27-hour crime spree across the suburbs in 2009, was convicted on five federal charges Wednesday, including escape and bank robbery, and will most likely spend the rest of his life in prison. "He...

Maday jury to get time to look at guns

Jan 09 2013 | 5:40 am - Jurors will resume deliberations Wednesday in the trial of Robert Maday, the man charged with bank robbery, escaping custody and going on a 27-hour crime spree through the Northwest suburbs in September 2009. About an hour into deliberations, jurors...

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