Articles filed under Special Reports
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Small details make a difference, like finding out what time something startsMay 12, 2024 3:25 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 12, 2024 3:00 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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Gag order doesn’t prevent Trump from testifyingMay 11, 2024 10:00 pm - While attending his criminal trial in which he’s accused of falsifying business records, former President Donald Trump often stops on his way out of court to talk to repo...
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Last billboards in Arlington Heights — other than one owned by Bears — to come downMay 07, 2024 7:33 pm - With approvals due to expire next month for the Bears’ revenue-generating billboard at Arlington Park, Arlington Heights village board members this week told a small-busi...
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Biden gas station stop misrepresented on social mediaMay 05, 2024 6:00 am - President Joe Biden, while campaigning in Pennsylvania last month, made a stop at a Sheetz gas station and convenience store to pick up sandwiches for construction worker...
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From promises of no new taxes to Burnham, Bears’ latest stadium presentation sounded familiarMay 04, 2024 11:45 am - As Chicago Bears executives last week presented glossy renderings and extolled the virtues of building a new stadium on the city’s lakefront, one could hear echoes of sim...
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Pritzker: Bears lakefront stadium proposal still ‘a non-starter’May 01, 2024 6:00 pm - Gov. J.B. Pritzker cast more doubt Wednesday on the Chicago Bears’ proposal to build a nearly $5 billion lakefront stadium, just hours after two of his top staff members ...
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Facts Matter: Hunter Biden, protesters and Trump have all been indictedApr 28, 2024 6:00 am - Former President Donald Trump has been sitting in a courtroom this month, facing 34 counts of falsifying business records, and listening to arguments in his first crimina...
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‘A different philosophy’: Bears’ original goal to own stadium shifts with latest public-private plansApr 25, 2024 6:47 pm - New Chicago Bears President and CEO Kevin Warren’s stated desire to build a publicly owned stadium on the Chicago lakefront marks an organizational shift in philosophy fr...
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O'Donnell: Clumsy McCaskey Bears dilute what should have been a breakout weekApr 24, 2024 6:00 am - Jim O’Donnell says the McCaskey family’s dysfunctionality is diluting what should have been a breakout week for the Bears.