Articles filed under Special Reports
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Facts Matter: State bill won’t relabel all offendersMay 31, 2024 2:43 pm - In this week’s Facts Matter column, Bob Oswald examines claims that a new Illinois will use a new term to apply to convicts, Donald Trump spoke to a miles-long crowd during his New York trial, the bird flu is being used as an election issue and more.
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Facts Matter: Agent serving papers to Giuliani didn’t first sing to former mayorMay 26, 2024 9:00 am - In this week’s Facts Matter column, Bob Oswald examines claims that an Arizona official sang before serving a notice of indictment on Rudy Giuliani, an expert witness was not allowed to testify in Donald Trump’s New York City trial, a video showed the cabin of an airline flight caught in severe turbulence and more.
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Facts matter: Northern Lights not created by research programMay 17, 2024 11:49 am - Much of the U.S. was treated to a recent show as the Northern Lights were visible after solar flares set off geomagnetic storms last weekend. There were also some reports...
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‘It won’t sit fallow’: Rolling Meadows forges ahead with zoning review near Arlington ParkMay 17, 2024 7:51 am - Despite the uncertainty over the future of the Chicago Bears at Arlington Park, officials in nearby Rolling Meadows are still proceeding with planning and zoning studies ...
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Unlikely allies? Suburban mayor, GOP legislator backs Bears’ lakefront planMay 13, 2024 8:42 pm - The governor of Illinois and top leaders in both chambers of the state legislature have thrown cold water on the Bears’ request for public subsidies to develop a new Chicago lakefront stadium. But the plan has a key supporter who wields influence in the Northwest suburbs, city of Chicago and hallways of the state Capitol in Springfield: Brad Stephens.
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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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Gag order doesn’t prevent Trump from testifyingMay 10, 2024 10:53 am - 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 08, 2024 6:42 am - 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...