Beyond the Byline: Kevin Dollear, persnickety grammar nerd

Kevin Dollear joined the Daily Herald as a multiplatform editor in August 2016 and has been a persnickety grammar nerd since his birth in 1990.

He created a copy editor position at his high school's newspaper after the editor-in-chief said he complained too much about typos. He wrote a college admissions essay about lightly vandalizing a hot dog stand to remove extraneous apostrophes.

Dollear majored in news-editorial journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was a reporter, breaking news editor and copy chief at The Daily Illini.

He won the Raymond Clamage Memorial Award in 2013. In the summer of 2012, Dollear was a copy editing intern at the Daily Herald. The following summer, he interned at the Tampa Bay Times in St. Petersburg, Florida, and he worked as an office assistant in the Loop for a few years after graduating college.

Dollear, who lives on the Northwest Side of Chicago, felt fortunate to rejoin the Herald, which he now owns with his fellow employees. He loves working with reporters, photographers and fellow editors to put out a high-quality, trustworthy source of information every day.