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Daily Herald wins 54 awards from Northern Illinois Newspaper AssociationOct 29, 2021 1:00 am - The Daily Herald took home a personal best of 54 awards at the Northern Illinois Newspaper Association's annual gathering held virtually this year. The newspaper won fir...
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24th annual Influential Women in Business recognition eventOct 20, 2021 11:00 pm - Twenty-two local women executives will be honored in the 24th annual Influential Women in Business Awards and Recognition Event hosted by the Daily Herald Business Ledge...
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Behind the curtain: How much focus should a loud protest get?Oct 18, 2021 12:00 am - How may biases have come into play with some of the news we've covered over the past year? We on our Objectivity Council looked at how we covered schools and the pandemi...
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The stories that stick with us: In the wake of a tragedy, strangers step in to help orphaned girlsOct 03, 2021 1:00 am - Cook County courts is a bleak beat. Justice - when it prevails - is rooted in loss and frequently in tragedy seeing as how it results from crime. In 2013, after five yea...
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The stories that stick with us: Words of thanks from a high school kid gone proOct 03, 2021 1:00 am - When I announced on social media in August 2020 that I was taking over as editor of the Daily Herald Business Ledger, I heard from many of the contacts I'd made in my 21...
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The stories that stick with us: 'Last Letters Home' revealed permanent link to fallen troops' soulsOct 03, 2021 1:00 am - A story that's stuck with me for 13 years is "Last Letters Home," written for Memorial Day in 2008. It told the stories of the families of four local servicemen who had ...
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The stories that stick with us: How a Daily Herald photo shoot turned into something memorableOct 03, 2021 1:00 am - One of the best parts about this job is meeting inspiring people. They often are local volunteers, philanthropists, schoolteachers, police officers, firefighters and eve...
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The stories that stick with us: How an act of charity led to a powerful story ideaOct 03, 2021 1:00 am - As reporters, we're used to seeing news angles most everywhere we look. Ideas often can present themselves in our daily interactions, on the commute to work and in conve...
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The stories that stick with us: Back-to-back state championships in the hands of the same playerOct 03, 2021 1:00 am - An unforgettable ending made this my most unforgettable story in 26 years of covering high school sports for the Daily Herald. Tied with Montini in the closing seconds o...
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The stories that stick with us: How a last-place runner inspired inspired a passion for track and fieldOct 03, 2021 1:00 am - I had not been long on the track and field beat. The sport - really, the character of track athletes, coaches, parents - had not yet fully revealed itself to me. That ch...