Christopher Placek
Staff Writer at Daily Herald
Newspaper reporter for the @dailyherald, Chicago guy, Cubs fan, Seinfeld enthusiast, @MarquetteU grad.
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2 days ago |
dailyherald.com | Christopher Placek
The marquee piece of a long-planned transformation of Recreation Park in Arlington Heights is restoration of a historic Works Progress Administration field house and replacement of the outdoor pool.
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4 days ago |
shawlocal.com | Christopher Placek
A Wheaton chapel-turned-restaurant — its stained glass windows still in place — may have been the perfect backdrop for the private audience a group of theologians had with the man who would become Pope Leo XIV. The dinner with then-Cardinal Robert Prevost took place last August at Ivy Restaurant, when the Chicago native was in town to visit relatives and celebrate Mass in South suburban New Lenox.
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5 days ago |
dailyherald.com | Christopher Placek
A group of Loyola University theologians had dinner with the future Pope Leo XIV, second from right, last August at Ivy Restaurant in Wheaton. Pictured, from left, are Peter Jones, dean for the Institute of Pastoral Studies; Michael Murphy, director of the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage; Professor Felipe Legarreta; and Miguel Díaz, a former U.S. ambassador to the Holy See who now works at Loyola.
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6 days ago |
dailyherald.com | Christopher Placek
The Very Rev. Gregory Sakowicz, rector of Holy Name Cathedral, said he learned of the new pope's selection while dispensing communion during noontime Mass Thursday. Christopher Placek/[email protected] The Very Rev. Gregory Sakowicz — who grew up in Park Ridge and Chicago’s North Side — was dispensing communion Thursday during the daily noontime Mass at Holy Name Cathedral when he learned the unthinkable: a priest from Chicago was elected pope.
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1 week ago |
dailyherald.com | Christopher Placek
Former FDNY Battalion Chief Herb Penner is among the retired New York City firefighters who lead tours of a Sept. 11, 2001, mobile museum. Courtesy of Tunnel to Towers Foundation A traveling museum of artifacts from New York City on Sept. 11, 2001, comes to Rosemont this weekend, with guided tours given by some of the firefighters who responded to ground zero that day.
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