Articles filed under Straight from the Source
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Straight From The Source: How remote learning has brought me new success at school
Oct 7, 2020 1:00 AM - Remote learning has given me the chance to almost create my own schedule, and I have found that I am getting so much more stuff done. -
Straight From the Source: Sophomore at Hersey High School explains the difficulties associated with doing high school by computer
Sep 15, 2020 2:12 PM - In this "Straight From The Source" essay, Hersey High School sophomore Elyse Dattilo explains why remote learning just isn't working for her and many of her schoolmates. -
Straight from the Source: Gurnee man with heart damage from a virus says take COVID-19 seriously
Aug 8, 2020 5:59 PM - A suburban man whose heart was damaged by a virus years ago warns others to take the coronavirus seriously. "The sheer terror of knowing I was not breathing on my own still haunts me," Steven Urizar writes. -
Local FOP chief on George Floyd: We stand in solidarity with every outraged person
Jul 18, 2020 3:00 PM - In an excerpt from a Naperville FOP Statement issued June 25, John Reed decries the death a month earlier of George Floyd after being restrained with a knee against his neck for more than eight minutes by a Minneapolis police officer. -
How it feels these days to be a cop: The view from a suburban detective
Jul 18, 2020 3:00 PM - Policing is a complex job, and officers want the public to understand it better before calling for change, says John Reed, the Fraternal Order of Police president in Naperville. This is his reflection, as told to Daily Herald Senior Writer Marie Wilson. -
Oak Brook physician who came from India laments being ignorant of nation's racist past
Jul 5, 2020 6:00 AM - "Recent events have shocked me into the realization that I have been woefully ignorant of the racist past of my country. There are millions like me," a suburban physician writes. -
COVID-19 Diary, Part 3: 'We are the lucky ones'
Jun 28, 2020 12:17 AM - In Day 3 of Barrington resident Alix Atwell's COVID-19 Diary, she talks about the challenges her family faces as she, the caregiver, must now rely on others to see her through the disease. She's lucky, she says, to have that. -
COVID-19 Diary, Part 2: 'I feel like my knees are going to just give out underneath me.'
Jun 28, 2020 12:17 AM - In Day 2 of Barrington resident Alix Atwell's COVID-19 Diary, she talks about her husband's bout with the virus, her two kids getting infected and the decision to ride it out together. -
COVID-19 Diary, Part 1: 'I'm scared, but I can't show it'
Jun 28, 2020 12:16 AM - Alix Atwell, a nurse, mom and aspiring writer living in Barrington, begins her COVID-19 Diary. She describes how her husband was the first member of her household to contract it -- on a simple run to the home improvement store and to fill the tank -- and how the illness has taken over their lives since. -
'My mom was tough. COVID-19 was tougher.'
Jun 7, 2020 8:26 AM - Julie Hanson of Arlington Heights talks about her mother's death from COVID-19 and those last weeks of communicating through a pane of glass.
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