Articles filed under Pulling Back The Curtain
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Beyond the Byline: Northwestern journalism resident Maggie Rose BaronMay 10, 2024 4:33 pm - An Oak Park native who has spent her whole life in the Chicago area, Daily Herald intern and Northwestern University junior Maggie Rose Baron is learning to look at the s...
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Small details make a difference, like finding out what time something startsMay 10, 2024 3:26 pm - I learned a valuable lesson recently about the importance of small details when I agreed to write a story about an all-ages swim club in Elgin. Always find out what time...
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Reflections on a career in newsMay 10, 2024 3:36 pm - My first story for the Daily Herald was not actually for the Daily Herald but for the still-weekly Herald newspaper group Paddock Publications owned in Lake County. It wa...
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How we got the story: Looking back, but not staring, at a horrible caseMar 11, 2024 9:46 am - March 4, 1999. Many remember that fateful day in Naperville when we learned about the three Lemak children who were killed by their mother. As the 25th anniversary of th...
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Beyond the Byline: Christopher PlacekMar 08, 2024 5:56 pm - Senior writer Christopher Placek joined the Daily Herald in 2010, and currently covers news in the Northwest suburbs, with a focus on Arlington Heights, Rolling Meadows, ...
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From the editor: Prep sports coverage requires added graceMar 11, 2024 9:44 am - Several years ago, the owner of a Chicago professional sports team asked me how the Daily Herald covers high school sports and pro sports differently and why. When we cov...
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Movie of the month: The Mean SeasonMar 08, 2024 3:50 pm - Interested in a truly awful newspaper movie? Well, you could try this 1985 suspense film that is idiotic on several levels despite a reasonably good ensemble cast. A youn...
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Behind the photo: WWII vet still passionate about artMar 08, 2024 5:50 pm - Bernard Bluestein’s apartment looks like an art studio. The walls are covered with his drawings and paintings, and many of his sculptures stand tall next to the furniture...
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From hard rock to hard news: The switch from writing about music to designing front pagesJan 19, 2024 6:15 pm - For the last two decades, breaking news for me meant Riot Fest dropped a lineup update or Ravinia announced a new summer show. Now the phrase has taken on a whole new mea...
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Our game plan for Sports in 2024 and beyondJan 19, 2024 6:09 pm - Growing up in Nebraska, I tossed the news section aside every morning and went straight to the Sports section to read about the latest news and exploits of my Huskers. To...
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