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The Mundelein Historical Commission is proud to present a special meet and greet author signing with eight local authors on Saturday, June 15, at the Mundelein Heritage Museum, 601 Noel Drive, in Mund...
Daily Herald Managing Editor Lisa Miner has been appointed the newspaper’s next executive editor, replacing Jim Baumann, who is retiring May 13. Miner, of Buffalo Grove, has spent four decades at th...
Stick a fork in me, dear readers. I’m done. Parting is such sweet sorrow, but after a decade of writing this column and four times as long (not four times longer) employed by the Daily Herald, I hav...
“When do idioms devolve into clichés?” Tom Connelly writes. Tom’s question is an interesting one. His verb choice hints at one of the main differences between the two: Idioms are generally thou...
Jim recounts every embarrassing word situation he can remember.