Daily Herald wins Chicago Headline Club awards
The Daily Herald staff won a Peter Lisagor Award for its coverage of the Feb. 1, 2011, record-breaking blizzard, and 4 individual Daily Herald reporters and photographers also are winners, the Chicago Headline Club announced Friday.
The staff was recognized in the deadline reporting category for coverage of the blizzard, which paralyzed the Chicago area with more than 20 inches of snow.
Working under challenging conditions and from many locations across the suburbs, reporters and photographers produced hundreds of stories and photos showing the drama that unfolded during a storm that trapped some people in cars for more than half a day, triggered snowmobile rescue brigades along suburban roads and fostering many acts of heroism and ingenuity.
Among the individual Lisagor Award winners, Daily Herald staff writer Matt Arado won in the arts reporting and criticism category for “Lollapalooza,” a preview of the 2011 concert in Chicago and the bands performing there.
Politics and Projects writer Kerry Lester won for education reporting for a series of stories on what led Angel Facio, now in prison, to stab his Elgin High School teacher. The stories uncovered problems across the suburbs with how schools and police communicate about troubled teens and inspired a bill that is making its way through the state legislature.
Sports columnist Barry Rozner won in the sports commentary category for a selection of submitted columns.
In addition, photographer John Starks won in sports photography for “Reflective wrestling.”