Articles filed under Pulling Back The Curtain
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'The Philadelphia Story'Jun 28, 2024 7:39 pm - Movie of the Month: Philadelphia Story
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Our mission: Keeping you in the knowJun 28, 2024 7:48 pm - In my desk, I keep a few reminders of my earliest days in the Daily Herald newsroom. One is a tattered paperback dictionary, now held together with a rubber band, passed...
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Behind the curtain: Field of flagsJun 28, 2024 7:18 pm - Every day is different as a Daily Herald photojournalist, and every assignment that I cover brings a new opportunity to tell our readers’ stories. On Thursday, May 23, I ...
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The lengths to which I’ll go for a story: I drank cicada-infused Malört so you didn’t have toJun 28, 2024 7:19 pm - When a lombard brewery started serving cicada-infused Malört, there was really only one way to properly tell the story: try it.
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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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