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Covers:  general features, breaking news, sports
Doesn't Cover: consumer
Photojournalist/Videographer at the Daily Herald

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George LeClaire has been a photojournalist with the Daily Herald for seventeen-years covering news and sports in Cook and Lake County working in the papers Arlington Heights office. George worked at the Daily Herald's Fox Valley office in Elgin for his first twelve years with the paper.
George shoots and producing news and feature videos for the Daily Herald and has earned national awards for multimedia production.
He attended high school at an American school in Munich Germany and has a degr…

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Moving Picture: Pace driver lifts passengers' spirits - DailyHerald.com

Moving Picture: Pace driver lifts passengers' spirits - DailyHerald.com

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Pace bus driver whistles while he works

Pace bus driver whistles while he works

Pace bus operator Michael Brown of Des Plaines actually does whistle while he works. "I want passengers to ge…

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Warm Weather Ice Carver

Warm Weather Ice Carver

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Red-breasted Nuthatch Illinois Invasion

Red-breasted Nuthatch Illinois Invasion

Suburban bird enthusiasts are in for a treat this winter. Plenty of migratory birds, including some rarely se…

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Ronnie Dunn replacing Gary Sinise at Rockin' for the Troops

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A new headliner will take center stage this summer when the eighth annual Rockin' for the Troops concert retu…

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Articles

20 years after Elgin mass shooting nightmares continue

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By George LeClaire Verified
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Bartender Dale Koehring talks with a customer at JB's bar in Elgin, Ill., in this April 15, 2001, photo. Schaumburg Police Chief Bill Wolf was one of the lead Elgin police detectives for the shooting rampage at JB’s Pub in Elgin 20 years ago. Wolf said he wishes he could hear a logical explanation for why the event occurred. In what has become part of the legend of the event, a bar patron subdued the shooter when one of the guns jammed.
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20 years after Elgin mass shooting nightmares continue

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ELGIN, Ill. (AP) — The desperate pounding on Steinar Andersen’s door was ominous in the way …
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Navy veteran finds new mission playing taps

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ROUND LAKE, Ill. (AP) — After being laid off from his job in the electronics industry about …
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How is social media changing news?

Greatly increases speak directly with readers.

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

Still cameras, video camera, with photo shop and final cut express.

Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?

Operated the blue stenograph machine to print Munich American High School newspaper.

Awards

NPPA Multimedia Contest

2012 - Video

National Press Photographers 1st place Video for recording load audio of Hummingbird's wings beat 55 times a second using a tie-clip mic.

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