Damar Hamlin s collapse during an NFL game, coinciding with the six-month anniversary of the July 4 Highland Park shooting, and the reactions of both the football players and the wounded in Highland Park, are reminders of what s really important.
For National Newspaper Week, we asked members of our staff which story really stuck with them for years and why. As the paper s executive editor in 1995, Doug Ray lived close to the scene of the Fox River Grove bus/train crash that left seven students dead and more injured, so he put his reporter s hat on and captured the scene.