Tom Siebert was privileged to receive a journalism degree from the prestigious College of Communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Tom has worked as a staff writer and copyeditor for newspapers in California, Florida, and Illinois. He reported community news, interviewed entertainment figures, and covered elected officials––including four presidents and a pope.
Tom Siebert also profiled human suffering in the form of a Haitian immigrant dying of AIDS, a Las Vegas college cheerleader battling Hodgkin’s disease, and a South Florida senior couple living the long goodbye of Alzheimer’s.
In addition, Tom served as community relations director for Public Action to Deliver Shelter (PADS) of Kendall County, Illinois. In this volunteer position, he was afforded the high but humbling privilege of writing about the local homeless and those with huge hearts for helping them.
Tom Siebert currently covers community news and reviews movies and rock concerts.
Tom has reviewed Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, John Fogerty, the Rolling Stones, The Who, Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, the Eagles, Steely Dan, REO Speedwagon, Jeff Lynne's ELO, and Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.
His articles have appeared in the Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, Daily Herald, Elgin Courier-News, Naperville Sun, Kane County Chronicle, Kendall County Record, Reflejos, Boca Raton News, Santa Monica Outlook, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, and The Voice––as well as on Blogger, Bluesky, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, LiveJournal, Reddit, Substack, Threads, Tumblr, X, XPian News, WordPress, and many Patch community news sites.
