Articles filed under Pulling Back The Curtain
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How we got the story: Digging for clues after helicopter emergency led to critical interview with pilot
Sep 7, 2021 8:23 PM - How we got the story: Digging for clues after helicopter emergency in Prospect Heights led to a critical interview with the pilot. -
Behind the Curtain: Photographing Arlington Park's last Fourth of July fireworks show
Sep 7, 2021 8:23 PM - On the eve of Independence Day, I was assigned to photograph what could be the last Fourth of July fireworks show at Arlington Park. I arrived early to scout out a location: My goal, at least for the early photos, was to have the iconic grandstand and fireworks in the same frame. -
Policy Corner: Is 'Downstate' an offensive word?
Sep 7, 2021 8:23 PM - Managing Editor Jim Baumann explores whether 'Downstate' is a dirty word. -
Want to learn about a community? Read the obituaries
Sep 7, 2021 8:23 PM - Months after joining the Daily Herald's southern Illinois editorial staff as group editor in 2016, I was still puzzling over something I frequently saw in obituaries. In obits from Harrisburg, Benton, Goreville, Shawneetown and other small rural cities ground down by several generations of economic depression, memorial donations are often directed to "family choice," instead of a church or charity. I finally called one of the funeral home people I'd come to know in Chester, a pretty community on the Mississippi River and the hometown of Popeye creator Elzie Segar. Segar was a newspaper cartoonist who left Chester for Chicago when he was 20, and worked at the Chicago Herald (no relation) and the Chicago Evening American before he moved to King Features Syndicate in New York. There, in 1919, he dreamed up the strip Thimble Theatre, with characters like Olive Oyl and Harold Hamgravy. It was the precursor to "Popeye," who wasn't invented until 1929, when one of Segar's Thimble Theatre regulars needed a sailor to pilot his boat. -
Sep 7, 2021 8:23 PM - "You have to investigate. You have to be skeptical, but you shouldn't be vengeful. You have to be fair and you have to be careful." -- Katharine Graham, the legendary late publisher of The Washington Post
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Behind the Curtain: The September Newspaper Movie of the Month
Sep 7, 2021 8:23 PM - The Daily Herald pulls back the curtain into the newsroom, and along the way, has some fun by picking its Newspaper Movie of the Month for September. -
Behind the Curtain: August's Newspaper Movie of the Month
Aug 9, 2021 1:00 AM - The Daily Herald pulls back the curtain for a glimpse into the newsroom and in the process, offers up a newspaper movie of the month just for fun. -
From the Editor: Find the best ways to enjoy a Midwestern autumn with our Fall Fun Guide
Aug 9, 2021 1:00 AM - From The Editor: Metro Editor Lisa Miner describes the efforts that go into helping you find the best ways to enjoy a Midwestern autumn with our Fall Fun Guide. -
Policy Corner: What we do starts with you
Aug 9, 2021 1:00 AM - Managing Editor Jim Baumann's Policy Corner: It's important that we know what's on your minds, know what questions you're asking, know what keeps you up at night. -
How We Got The Picture: President Biden at MCC
Aug 9, 2021 1:00 AM - Behind the curtain photo from Brian Hill: See how we photographed President Biden at McHency County College in Crystal Lake.
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