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Award-winning stories
Dive Bars: I helmed this package about the shot-for-a-buck saloons that populate the side streets of Chicago. (Time Out Chicago, July 19, 2007. National Magazine Award finalist)
Down and Out: The story about meeting my childhood idol, former Dallas Cowboy wide receiver Golden Richards — and watching him overdose in front of me. (Texas Monthly, December 1995. The Best American Sports Writing of 1996)
Wildfire: Some California teens camp in the forest and don’t fully extinguish their campfire. The next day, the wind blows the dirt of their still-active embers and ignites a blaze that consumes thousands of acres and dozens of homes. (Point Reyes Light, October 5, 1995; Best News Story by Weekly Newspaper, Peninsula Press Club; Best Spot News Coverage, Weekly Newspaper by California Press Association)
When West Meets East: The three girls in Arlington Heights’ Utzinger family live in America, but their roots are in Japan — leaving them feeltorn between two countries. (Daily Herald, December 16, 2003. One of the stories submitted in the series that won the 2004 Peter Lisagor Award for Public Service; National Community Leadership Award from the Inland Press Association)
44 Minutes in January. I was a member of a team that extensively covered the 10th anniversary of the Brown’s Chicken murders in Palatine, Illinois. (Daily Herald, January 8-12, 2003; First place, Enterprise Reporting, Illinois AP)