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Meet the team
Brian Hill has been a photographer with the Daily Herald since 2000. He recently won two first-place awards in the annual Illinois Associated Press contest. He won a Peter Lisagor award for features photojournalism in 2002 and third-place honors for sports photography in the 2003 Inland Press contest. He also has been honored several times by the Illinois Press Photographers Association, and the Illinois Press Association. Among his many awards are some for a photo that showed a Cubs fan interfering with a foul ball during Game 6 of the National League Championship Series at Wrigley Field last year. An Elgin resident, Hill previously worked for the Northwest Herald, the Kane County Chronicle and the Press-Republican Newspapers. He studied art and photography at Western Illinois University and Southern Illinois University.
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Stacy St. Clair joined the Daily Herald as a staff writer in 1995. Her reporting and writing has been honored by the Illinois Associated Press Editors Association, the Chicago Headline Club and the Chicago Press Veterans Association. She was among a team of Daily Herald journalists who won an enterprise award last year for "44 Minutes in January," an in-depth chronicling of the Palatine Brown's Chicken murders. A Naperville resident, St. Clair is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia.
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Jack Komperda joined the Daily Herald in 2003. He covers local government from the newspaper's DuPage County office in Lisle. He also has written for U.S. News and World Report and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Komperda, whose parents immigrated from Poland, is fluent in Polish. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a degree in psychology.
Brian Hill has been a photographer with the Daily Herald since 2000. He recently won two first-place awards in the annual Illinois Associated Press contest. He won a Peter Lisagor award for features photojournalism in 2002 and third-place honors for sports photography in the 2003 Inland Press contest. He also has been honored several times by the Illinois Press Photographers Association, and the Illinois Press Association. Among his many awards are some for a photo that showed a Cubs fan interfering with a foul ball during Game 6 of the National League Championship Series at Wrigley Field last year. An Elgin resident, Hill previously worked for the Northwest Herald, the Kane County Chronicle and the Press-Republican Newspapers. He studied art and photography at Western Illinois University and Southern Illinois University.
Stacy St. Clair joined the Daily Herald as a staff writer in 1995. Her reporting and writing has been honored by the Illinois Associated Press Editors Association, the Chicago Headline Club and the Chicago Press Veterans Association. She was among a team of Daily Herald journalists who won an enterprise award last year for "44 Minutes in January," an in-depth chronicling of the Palatine Brown's Chicken murders. A Naperville resident, St. Clair is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Jack Komperda joined the Daily Herald in 2003. He covers local government from the newspaper's DuPage County office in Lisle. He also has written for U.S. News and World Report and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Komperda, whose parents immigrated from Poland, is fluent in Polish. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a degree in psychology.