{"id":8243,"date":"2021-05-17T10:39:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T10:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rgc.gr\/?page_id=8243"},"modified":"2021-05-17T10:40:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T10:40:28","slug":"dan-mihalopoulos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rgc.gr\/gr\/dan-mihalopoulos\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Mihalopoulos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"8243\" class=\"elementor elementor-8243\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-88c72c9 elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"88c72c9\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 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class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div>Dan is an investigative reporter on WBEZ\u2019s Government &amp; Politics Team. He joined WBEZ in 2018 from the Chicago Sun-Times, where he was on the newspaper\u2019s \u201cWatchdogs\u201d team and wrote a weekly political column. His stories for the Sun-Times led\u00a0to the resignations of Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool and the leader of the state\u2019s largest charter-school network.<\/div><div>Dan is a two-time winner of the Chicago Headline Club\u2019s Watchdog Award for Excellence in Public Interest Reporting and was awarded the Headline Club\u2019s 2018 Anne Keegan Award for his feature stories about immigrants. His work also earned first prize for investigative reporting in the Education Writers Association\u2019s national awards in 2014.\u00a0<\/div><div>He worked previously at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Chicago News Cooperative (Chicago section of the New York Times) and the Chicago Tribune, where he covered City Hall, the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York, and the 2004 Summer Olympics.<\/div><div>Dan was born in Chicago, went to Maine West High School in Des Plaines and graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. His first language was Greek and he speaks fluent Spanish.<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-06b2162 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"06b2162\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f95f510\" data-id=\"f95f510\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e8660c2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"e8660c2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Mihalopoulos Reporter, Government and Politics Dan is an investigative reporter on WBEZ\u2019s Government &amp; Politics Team. 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