Articles filed under Terrorism
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'You see their soul': Images of fallen Illinois service members on display at Arlington Heights librarySep 09, 2021 1:00 am - Those who walked into the Arlington Heights Memorial Library Thursday morning saw the faces of some 320 Illinois service members who gave the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq,...
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'I could hear others in the newsroom calling family members'Sep 09, 2021 1:00 am - It was a beautiful morning. I did a lot of singing on the way in to work, arriving at 8 a.m. As I walked into the newsroom, I saw a group of people watching the televisi...
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A U.S. Marine, a curious Afghan boy, an unfathomable momentSep 08, 2021 7:00 am - One day not long ago, I watched my soon-to-be 3-year-old son jump up and down to the sound of 'œho'ť and 'œhey.'ť It's a song by the Lumineers, an American folk-rock ban...
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They were some of 9/11's biggest names. Where are they now?Sep 08, 2021 7:00 am - Rudolph Giuliani was a hero before he was a punchline. Lisa Beamer was a wife and mother before she became a symbol of Sept. 11 - and though her celebrity passed, her wi...
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9/11 artifacts share 'pieces of truth' in victims' storiesSep 08, 2021 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - For nearly six years, Andrea Haberman's ashen and damaged wallet lay mostly untouched in a drawer at her parents' Wisconsin home, along with a partly mel...
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Watch as our journalists recount the emotions of working on 9/11Sep 08, 2021 5:00 am - The events of Sept. 11, 2001, shocked the Daily Herald newsroom as they did the entire country. It was a day no one could predict and no one will forget. Daily Herald jo...
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They don't remember 9/11, but suburban teachers say students are intensely interested in itSep 08, 2021 5:00 am - At the start of the school year, Fremd High School teacher LoriAnne Frieri often asks her social studies students which historical event they are most interested in stud...
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'Looking back on that day, there's so many emotions': Northbrook rabbi recalls his time at ground zero in 2001Sep 08, 2021 1:00 am - One day, the rabbi will give them a fitting burial. Aaron Melman has yet to reach that point: to lay to rest the work boots he wore ministering to New York City firefigh...
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Young Sikhs still struggle with post-Sept. 11 discriminationSep 07, 2021 7:00 am - MESA, Ariz. (AP) - Sikh entrepreneur Balbir Singh Sodhi was killed at his Arizona gas station four days after the Sept. 11 attacks by a man who declared he was 'œgoing t...
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Two decades after 9/11, Muslim Americans still fighting biasSep 07, 2021 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - A car passed, the driver's window rolled down and the man spat an epithet at two little girls wearing their hijabs: 'œTerrorist!'ť It was 2001, mere wee...