Jenna Dooley

WNIJ Morning Edition Producer/Reporter

Jenna Dooley has spent her professional career in public radio. She is a graduate of Northern Illinois University and the Public Affairs Reporting Program at the University of Illinois - Springfield. She returns to Northern Public Radio in DeKalb after several years hosting Morning Edition at WUIS-FM in Springfield. She has added teaching to her resume as an instructor at the Illinois Center for Broadcasting. She is not afraid to brag at parties that she has met Carl Kasell, Ira Glass, and Garrison Keillor (and has pictures to prove it). She and her husband live in Aurora.

jdooley@niu.edu

Opinions Differ On Curl Plea Deal

William Curl

By Mike Moen and Jenna Dooley

In a plea deal reached with DeKalb County prosecutors, William Curl will serve 37 years for the murder of Toni Keller. The NIU freshman art major was found murdered near campus in 2010.

11:43 am

Wed April 3, 2013

Curl Agrees To 37 Years In Prison

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Former DeKalb State's Attorney Clay Campbell

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Public Defender Tom McCulloch

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State's Attorney Richard Schmack

By Jenna Dooley

William Curl has agreed to spend the next 37 years in prison under a special plea agreement where he acknowledged that he could be convicted of murdering Northern Illinois University freshman Antinette "Toni" Keller, even though he maintains he is innocent.

Curl, DeKalb County State’s Attorney’s Richard Schmack and DeKalb County Public Defender Tom McCulloch conferred with Judge Robbin Stuckert on Tuesday to make the arrangements, which were finalized this morning.

6:28 am

Wed March 27, 2013

DeKalb Library Launches Expansion Campaign

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Haish Memorial Library on Oak St., DeKalb

By Jenna Dooley

The new campaign is called From Barbed Wire to Fully Wired. Library Director Dee Coover envisions a facility of the future with open rooms, up-to-date technology, and plenty of meeting spaces. Taxpayers will help pay for the expansion.

6:23 am

Tue March 26, 2013

Freeport Leader Promotes Ambitious Learning Model

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This is a "Choice Board" that each student receives and completes at their pace during the school week

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Freeport students play the "dice game" to complete a math activity on their choice board

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Freeport teacher Michele Downing shows students a math activity

By Jenna Dooley

We continue our “Community Close-Up” series with a proposed change to the educational structure in Freeport.

At Center Elementary School, some third grade students each have what are called “choice boards.” They get to choose when they will do each activity during the week, and then highlight each box when they complete a task.

6:24 am

Wed March 13, 2013

Sociologist's View: Same-Sex Marriage

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Sociologist Robert Hironimus-Wendt

By Jenna Dooley

The Illinois House may vote on a measure to make same-sex marriage legal in the state. The state's consideration comes amid a national conversation about gay marriage. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear two key cases regarding same-sex marriage on March 26 and 27. At both government levels, the debate involves the effect of same-sex marriage on families, and how they are viewed in society.

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