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Air Force veteran's growing charity helps fellow vets heal
Jan 18, 2020 4:44 PM - Air Force veteran Marshall Fox's Growing Healthy Veterans sees gardening as therapy to cultivate the soul and heal the spirit. -
Finding heartwarming community stories in daily beat reporting
Jan 14, 2020 1:00 AM - Staff writer Lauren Rohr: As a beat reporter, I'm often reminded of how important it is to be present in the communities I cover. -
Facts Matter: U.S. has not reinstated military draft
Jan 11, 2020 6:07 PM - After some people received text messages ordering them to report for the draft, the Selective Service and military took to Twitter to refute the hoax, Bob Oswald says in his Facts Matter column.
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Elk Grove VFW officially dedicates new elevator
Jan 11, 2020 2:41 PM - The Elk Grove Village VFW officially dedicated its new elevator on Saturday. The $179,000 building addition makes the 1972 Veterans of Foreign War post accessible to people with disabilities. -
Mendoza: State won't collect red light camera fines. Suburbs: We'll get someone else to do it
Jan 11, 2020 4:59 PM - Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza's decision to stop garnishing money owed by red light scofflaws jeopardizes almost $2 million for 21 suburbs annually. She says the fines disproportionally hit poor people and cites corruption within the red light camera industry, but some surburbs say they'll just find someone else to handle collections.
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District 300 staff members jump into action when student collapses
Jan 11, 2020 8:39 PM - Officials credit good staff training and the availability of automated external defibrillators in helping save the life of a Dundee-Crown High School student-athlete who collapsed during basketball practice. -
Curtain: The December newspaper movie of the month
Jan 9, 2020 1:00 AM - The Daily Herald's newspaper movie of the month for January has a suburban connection -- even if it's just a slight one. -
How we got the pitcure: 'Egret criss-crossing the Fox River'
Jan 8, 2020 8:48 AM - Photographers are used to working under tight deadlines. High school sports, school board meetings and breaking news are among the variety of assignments where we are asked to search for and submit defining moments from often complex situations. An egret flying over the Fox River offered me a respite. -
Beyond the byline: Caroline Linden, news editor
Jan 7, 2020 9:49 AM - Growing up the daughter of a University of Missouri (Columbia) journalism professor, News Editor Caroline Linden never entertained the idea of a journalism career until she was recommended to take a journalistic writing class in high school. She was told her writing was too long-winded and this might help. When her feature on the marching band drum majors was chosen to run in the paper, she was hooked. Two days after graduating from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, she started as a copy editor on the Daily Herald's night desk. That was 22 years ago. -
No 12-oz. curls here: Arlington Heights gym isn't a typical American Legion hall
Jan 6, 2020 6:23 AM - Located in a nondescript gym in Arlington Heights, Illinois' newest chartered American Legion post focuses on bicep curls and the bench press instead of beer and bingo.
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