The
author spent two weeks working and living with the strange family that
runs a bucolic but financially strapped nine-hole golf course in
Ottawa, Ill. Winner of 2003 Peter Lisagor Award from the American Society of Professional Journalists.
“Unanswered Cries,” Chicago Magazine
Before she
died in 2004, Kathleen Savio, the third wife of former Bolingbrook
police sergeant Drew Peterson, repeatedly warned authorities she would
be killed. Now her death has been reclassified a homicide. Why wasn’t
there a stronger response to her pleas for help?
“Bolingbrook—C’est Moi!” Chicago Magazine
He
weeps, he insults, he builds lavish projects, and Mayor Roger Claar
sees in his own journey—from chubby outsider to powerful Republican—a
parallel to the booming emergence of his town.