Every now and then, the Tribune lets me pretend I'm a wildlife photographer for an assignment. Reporter Ted Gregory is usually involved. These are some of my favorite kind of...
On a bluff in Lowden State park overlooking the Rock River sits a 104-year-old statue called The Eternal Indian. The figure is a massive depiction, 48 feet tall, and sculpted...
Today I covered my first Cubs baseball game of the season. I've been checking out the construction on Wrigley Field since the temperatures were in the single digits. I even...
I spent much of yesterday wandering around Coal City after it was struck by a tornado late Monday night. Every time I cover a tornado zone I'm struck by the...
Yesterday I saw the first fan wearing a Blackhawks jersey walking towards the bus station at 6am when I left my house to go get half and half for coffee...
Laura Elizondo was inside her Back of the Yards home when someone fired shots from two passing vehicles on her block. Elizondo ran outside to discover her friend David Martinez...
Thunder crackled loudly over the crime scene, muffling the angered speech of nearby friends and relatives of David Martinez and the more measured voices of police officers. A second later,...
As rain subsided, friends and other neighbors started to come back out to the street. "It's been hours. He is still lying there," said Laura Elizondo, who still had a...
Relatives and friends of the two men who were shot clustered around all sides of the crime scene as police cordoned off about a block of 44th Street between Wolcott...
With a 5-3 win over the Ducks the Blackhawks are headed to the Stanley Cup Final! The week fellow Tribune photographer Brian Cassella and I traveled to Anaheim to photograph...