Denise Crosby
Journalist at Chicago Tribune
Long-time columnist for Sun-Times Media West. Looking to tell your stories out of Kane, DuPage, Kendall and Will counties.
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6 days ago |
chicagotribune.com | Denise Crosby
As I walked into the spacious third-floor office at Aurora Police Department headquarters recently for a final interview with the retiring police chief, Keith Cross was in the middle of reading an email from a resident asking him for the names of the three officers who responded to his missing child call and to make sure they were properly thanked for their professionalism and kindness. Not every email Cross received while sitting in that chair was positive, of course.
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1 week ago |
chicagotribune.com | Denise Crosby
As I watched my 14-year-old grandson playing baseball with his youth travel team Wednesday evening on Aurora University’s beautiful field, I looked around at all the other bustling diamonds in this section of the Fox Valley Park District’s Stuart Sports Complex and thanked the heavens for making the game part of my life. Baseball really is America’s sport. More specifically, baseball and softball have huge legacies in this area.
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1 week ago |
chicagotribune.com | Denise Crosby
Growing up as a kid squirrel hunting next to World War II Navy veteran Richard (Dick) Miller, Ed Huss never heard his neighbor on Hankes Road in Aurora talk about the horrors he’d been through when Japanese kamikazes sunk his ship near Okinawa, killing 158 sailors on board and wounding another 52, himself included.
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2 weeks ago |
chicagotribune.com | Denise Crosby
Say their names. You hear these three words a lot, including around Memorial Day when the country stops all its craziness to remember those who paid the ultimate price in defense of our freedoms. Still, sometimes words are not enough, especially to Gold Star families who worry that, particularly after they are gone, their loved one will no longer be remembered.
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2 weeks ago |
chicagotribune.com | Denise Crosby
Jesus Fernandez might not have bragging rights when it comes to his win/loss record this year, but the East Aurora High School boys varsity tennis coach has yet to find anyone who can match this newsworthy statistic: Three members of his team are heading to Harvard University after graduation.
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Aurora still impacted by Moshe Rogers murder 20 years later. http://t.co/ktBkVPXrfW
Monday column: thanks to Aurora's Rena Church, transportation across Chicago is about to get hairier. At least on Metra!
Four star general and a Medal of Honor recipient coming to Aurora next week for Veterans Day assembly at Metea Valley High School. Wow!