McHenry County Blog

Monday, I pointed out that the reporter covering the State Capitol for Illinois Issues had started a blog.

Yesterday, I found out that reporter Bethany Carson is from Algonquin.

Illinois Issues is a monthly magazine that helps people keep up on state issues. The statehouse blog is a welcome addition to the very few news sources that keep citizens informed on what is happening in Springfield.

I asked the new blogger for a brief biography and here is what she sent:

I graduated from Jacobs in 1998 and went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to major in journalism. Four days after graduation in 2002, I started working as the managing editor of a weekly newspaper in Hoopeston.

I left in 2003 to attend the Public Affairs Reporting program at the University of Illinois at Springfield. I earned my master's degree while interning for Illinois Issues magazine.

Two days after I finished the internship in 2004, I became the health reporter at the Herald & Review in Decatur. I stayed there for about a year-and-a-half.

The day I finished at the Herald & Review, I moved back to Springfield to serve as Illinois Issues' Statehouse bureau chief. I've been here for three months, and I absolutely love it.

Another reporter with Algonquin roots is Natasha Korecki. She covered the George Ryan corruption trial for the Chicago Sun-Times.