The replacement of the 160-foot-long bridge on Coombs Road on Elgin s west side begins. Pete Rosengren of Batavia is awarded the Carnegie Hero Medal posthumously. Naperville officials are looking to ban the commercial sale of semi-automatic weapons. Debate continues in Barrington Community Unit District 220 over the book "Gender Queer."
The family of Pete Rosengren, a Batavia man who died while saving children caught in a rip current last year, on Tuesday received a rare Carnegie Hero Medal posthumously recognizing his bravery.
A Daily Herald editorial says that whenever there are those who seek to cause tragedy, there will always be people who put themselves in harm s way to help others.
Pete Rosengren, the late Daily Herald Media Group executive who died last year saving children from a rip current while on vacation in Florida, has been posthumously named a Carnegie Hero Medal winner.