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Late Night at Lincoln Park’s The Grand Central

The Grand Central Photo

Waitress Daryl Misrac balances work at The Grand Central with other jobs and school. (Photo by Jillian Wolande)

Serving the late-night bar crowd can test anyone’s limits. But Daryl Misrac not only waitresses at Lincoln Park bar The Grand Central, she also works at a boutique and studies stenography at the College of Court Reporting.

ChicagoStorytelling’s Jillian Wolande interviewed her about about maintaining a work-life balance around-the-clock.

Chicago’s Red Door Animal Shelter

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Huey the cat relaxes inside the Red Door Animal Shelter in Rogers Park. Huey was rescued years ago and has become the shelter's unofficial mascot. (Photo Courtesy of the Red Door Animal Shelter)

By Katie Karpowicz

If not for the Red Door Animal Shelter in Rogers Park, Huey the cat’s future may not have been so bright.

Since its start in 1998, the Red Door Animal Shelter has been dedicated to giving homeless animals in Chicago, like Huey, a different kind of shelter experience.
Huey was severely abused as a kitten and, as a result, suffers neurological damage. The cat has no control over his hind legs, tail and bladder.

Huey was brought to Red Door as a kitten. He has lived at the shelter ever since. Red Door employees estimate that the cat is now between 8 and 10 years old. The extra care that he requires makes it hard to find a home for Huey said employees at Red Door.

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Q&A: Laura Washington of the Chicago Sun-Times

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Laura Washington (Courtesy Photo)

In her journalism career that has spanned three decades, Laura Washington has reported across multiple platforms. She has written for newspapers, appeared on broadcast news programs and oversaw the launch of Web content as editor-in-chief of the The Chicago Reporter in the 1990s.

ChicagoStorytelling’s Kevin Dempsey talked with Washington about her column in the Chicago Sun-Times, how she once resisted the move to blogging, and how reporting fundamentals must still drive good journalism, regardless of the platform.

Interview: Jeff Dickerson of ESPNChicago.com

Jeff Dickerson

Jeff Dickerson of Chicago's ESPN 1000-AM (Courtesy Photo)

Jeff Dickerson has been a Chicago Bears beat reporter for ESPN 1000-AM since 2004, with a Bears blog at ESPNChicago.com since April. He also hosts a weeknight Chicago radio show on ESPN 1000 and helps with Bears coverage for ABC-7 “The Chicago Huddle” show.

ChicagoStorytelling’s Sam Kraft talked with Dickerson about reporting on the Bears in a football-crazed city and how he incorporates social media into his daily coverage.

Audio: Dickerson offers advice for aspiring sports journalists.


Audio: Dickerson talks about what it takes to do his job.


Chicago 2016 Olympic Presentation Complete

Chicago, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro and Madrid made their presentations to the International Olympic Committee Friday in Copenhagen.

Chicago, the first city to present, counted heavily on presentations by President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. [DePaulia coverage from sports editor Pat Flynn in Copenhagen. Read his Twitter feed]

Watch video of the presentation on WGN TV. DePaul University journalism professor Mike Conklin is co-anchoring CBS-2 Chicago’slive coverage, starting at 9 a.m.

The IOC begins several rounds of voting at 10:10 a.m. Central Time on Friday. The city with the lowest vote total is eliminated in each round, until a winner is determined. The announcement is expected to be made at 11:57 a.m. Central Time and will be broadcast live at an event in Daley Plaza.