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Career built on love of suburbs, newspapers

Growing up in Bolingbrook in the 1970s and 1980s, Robert Sanchez enjoyed everything the suburbs had to offer.

He also developed an appreciation for local news, thanks to the newspapers his father brought home.

So when he was given the opportunity to return to the suburbs and work for the Daily Herald in 1995, Sanchez jumped at the opportunity.

Since starting as a weekend police and Warrenville reporter, Sanchez has done the rounds in the newspaper's DuPage County bureau, covering the communities of Lombard, Villa Park, Oakbrook Terrace, Oak Brook, Lisle, Winfield and Wheaton.

During the early part of his career, Sanchez chronicled the rise of the Cantera development in Warrenville, the demise of the DuPage Theatre in Lombard, and Wheaton College's first school dance.

Sanchez was named Assistant City Editor in 2007. Today, he covers a variety of issues related to DuPage government, the forest preserve district and politics.

In 2016, his coverage of turmoil at the College of DuPage earned him a Peter Lisagor Award for best political and government reporting.

Sanchez graduated from Eastern Illinois University with a journalism major and a political science minor. He lives in Bolingbrook with his wife and their three children.

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