Mark Konkol

Mark Konkol is Pulitzer Prize-winning writer from Chicago.

Early life and education

Konkol was born and raised in Chicago's south suburbs.^[1] He graduated in 1991 from Thornwood High School in South Holland, Illinois. He then attended Culver–Stockton College for two years, where he was a starting lineman for the Wildcats football team. He transferring to Western Illinois University, where he graduated in 1995 with a bachelor degrees in communication and journalism.^[2] While at Western Illinois, he began working for the Macomb Journal newspaper in Macomb, Illinois during the spring before his graduation.^[3]

Professional career

Konkol wrote for Star Newspapers, a south suburban weekly newspaper chain. He later covered Chicago City Hall for the Daily Southtown newspaper (now the SouthtownStar) and wrote a column for the Chicago Sun-Times' Red Streak edition. He joined the Sun-Times' news staff in 2004 and has covered transportation, Cook County courts and government and Chicago neighborhoods.^[4]

Among other things, Konkol currently writes columns and an occasional blog for the Chicago Sun-Times called "Konkol's Korner."^[5]

Pulitzer Prize

On April 18, 2011, Konkol, crime reporter Frank Main and photographer John J. Kim won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for “their immersive documentation of violence in Chicago neighborhoods, probing the lives of victims, criminals and detectives as a widespread code of silence impedes solutions.”

Personal

Konkol lives in Chicago's Pullman neighborhood on the city's South Side.^[6]

References

1. ^ http://www.wiu.edu/cas/news/index.php?id=334
2. ^ http://www.wiu.edu/cas/news/index.php?id=334
3. ^ http://www.pjstar.com/news/x128432284/WIU-graduate-Konkol-wins-Pulitzer-Prize
4. ^ http://www.wiu.edu/cas/news/index.php?id=334
5. ^ http://blogs.suntimes.com/konkol/
6. ^ http://blogs.suntimes.com/neighborhoods/2007/04/historic_pullman_like_living_i.html

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