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Robert Herguth

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Chicago writer, Sun-Times reporter ... can be reached via email at rherguth@suntimes.com ... I'm on Instagram @robertherguth
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Robert Herguth oversees investigative projects within the organization, and in collaboration with other media. He is a former assignment editor, assistant metro editor and reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times, and the former managing editor of the (Milwaukee) Business Journal.

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The case of the missing City Hall artwork: Where's the painting that hung in top Lightfoot aide's office?

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By Tim Novak Verified, Robert Herguth Verified
| WBEZ-FM (Chicago, IL) Verified
A painting that’s been in City Hall’s sprawling collection of public art since the 1980s and was last known to have been hanging in the office of a top aide to former Mayor Lori Lightfoot is missing. It’s an abstract work that artist Bill Cass says represented his exploration of “storytelling,” especially folk tales. If the painting started out as Brothers Grimm, it’s now more a Nancy Drew mystery.
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The case of the missing City Hall artwork: Where's the painting that hung in top Lightfoot aide's office?

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By Tim Novak Verified, Robert Herguth Verified
| Chicago Sun-Times Verified
A painting that’s been in City Hall’s sprawling collection of public art since the 1980s and was last known to have been hanging in the office of a top aide to former Mayor Lori Lightfoot is missing. It’s an abstract work that artist Bill Cass says represented his exploration of “storytelling,” especially folk tales. If the painting started out as Brothers Grimm, it’s now more a Nancy Drew mystery.
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Tiny snake native to Illinois prairies faces new hurdles in Chicago region and beyond

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By Robert Herguth Verified
| WBEZ-FM (Chicago, IL) Verified
Smooth greensnakes — a tiny, nonvenomous reptile native to Illinois and Midwestern prairies — were already known to be in trouble in the Chicago region and beyond, with their numbers believed to be way down as habitats shrink amid development and other human activities. But a recent study by a scientist with the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum found other local threats to the snakes that could further impact their survival and health in the area and elsewhere.
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