Once a reporter, always a reporter? Maybe so.
For me, working on the Chronicle is coming full circle.
My first job was at a newspaper. I was a high school file clerk/typist and in short order a writer at my neighborhood paper, The Daily Calumet. Its moniker was “America’s Oldest Community Newspaper” and it reported on South Shore, South Chicago, the East Side, Hegewisch and outlying neighborhoods from 1881 until 1987.
My job at The Cal paid…
