Jake Griffin is the Tax Watchdog Editor at the Daily Herald in Chicago, IL. He focuses on a range of themes including crime and justice, the judicial system, government and politics, and climate change, often covering topics related to white-collar crime and natural sciences. Jake's work has also been featured in CDC Gaming Reports.
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Jake Griffin's coverage predominantly focuses on local breaking news, particularly incidents related to crime, tragedy, and evolving stories. He seems interested in topics such as public pension funding, house fires, car accidents, crime-related incidents like stabbings and shootings.
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By: Jake Griffin
Illinois is poised to see its best year yet for tax revenue from adult-use marijuana sales in 2024.
By: Jake Griffin
A 40-year-old Gurnee woman is facing felony charges after attempting to rob a gas station near Lake Villa early Wednesday.
By: Jake Griffin
Besides enduring weeks of the 17-year cicada brood cacophony in 2024, we also dealt with the itch mite invasion that followed, an overabundance of earwigs in late spring and Asian lady beetle hordes in the fall.
By: Jake Griffin
No one can say there wasn't much variety among the submitted options to redesign the state flag of Illinois.
By: Jake Griffin
Minor injuries were reported after a school bus full of day campers from a Mount Prospect Park District program crashed on Interstate 290 near Itasca Monday morning.
By: Jake Griffin
An Arlington Heights woman is being held in the DuPage County jail while she awaits a trial on felony charges of attempting to flee from police.
By: Jake Griffin
A Kane County sheriff's deputy was cleared of any wrongdoing in the shooting death of an armed man in an Elgin intersection last summer, but a grand jury indicted two women on multiple felony counts related to the shooting.
Mundelein police are investigating a fatal crash that has closed Lake Street in both directions between Maple Avenue and Dunbar Road, WGN News is reporting The crash happened sometime around 3 a.m., a...
By: Jake Griffin
Wind chills in the suburbs have dropped into the negative 20s as several school districts move to e-learning for the day. National Weather Service meteorologists in Romeoville are warning that wind ch...
By: Jake Griffin
A former cannabis enterprise executive and three golfing buddies from the suburbs are facing federal insider trading charges.
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