Jenna Dooley

WNIJ Morning Edition Producer/Reporter
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.

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Black History Month
12:26 pm
Fri February 8, 2013

Slideshow: Civil Rights Buttons On Display in Rockford

The Rockford Peace & Justice Action Committee has put together a display of political pins from the civil rights era in honor of Black History Month.

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DeKalb County
11:51 am
Thu February 7, 2013

Education Board Looking for Trustees

Credit DeKalb County

There’s a scramble in DeKalb County to fill four trustee vacancies on the Regional Board of Education. Trustees decide questions of school transfers and district consolidations.

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Rockford
6:35 am
Tue February 5, 2013

Presentation Highlights Experiences of "Black Rockfordians"

The book, Black Rockfordians, was published in 2007.

Estelle Black was born and raised in Rockford.  Several years ago, she shared her life experience for an oral history project chronicling  66 African Americans who have lived in the Forest City for 25 years or more.

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Rita Crundwell
5:06 am
Thu January 24, 2013

Crundwell Liquidation Nearly Complete

Credit Jenna Dooley

The U.S. Marshals Service has liquidated nearly all of the assets of Rita Crundwell, the former Dixon comptroller who admitted embezzling vast sums from the city. One of the final sales will be her personal jewelry collection. The jewelry sale, scheduled Feb. 23 in Texas, will be simulcast to reach a wider audience.

When all is said and done, the city of Dixon will only recoup a fraction of the $53 million taken from the city's coffers over the last two decades.

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NIU
5:15 am
Wed January 23, 2013

Former Officer Sues NIU Board and Grady

Credit DeKalb County

A former campus police officer is suing the NIU Board of Trustees and Police Chief Don Grady. Andrew Rifkin filed the lawsuit Jan. 22 in DeKalb County. Rifkin was charged in 2011 with sexually assaulting a student. Those charges were later dropped.

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