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Local author digs deep into historical mysteries By Sandra Landen Machaj
the dining room table,” Honigford said over a cup When we read a work of coffee at Café Book in of published writing, we Antioch. often think that the author is She notes that the first someone special, unlike the story she remembers writing everyday people living in our and completing was called neighborhood with a family The Mouse That Didn’t and a full time job. Believe in Santa Claus which In reality, most authors are she wrote and illustrated special, but they also may be when she was in third grade. our next door neighbor, who “I still have it,” she added. like you, spend their days While writers always want caring for their family and to write, often life and family working a full time job. obligations become a twist in It is after these everyday the road to their ambitions. responsibilities are complete, So it was with Honigford that they begin to write. until nine years ago, when Many retire to their computer her family moved to Antioch. to make the magic words that Then she returned to will become their next work writing, turning out what appear on the screen. would become her first One such author is Cheryl published novel. Honigford, an Antioch With a long time interest resident. in history, a love of mystery, By day, Honigford is and old time radio it is not an employee at Abbott surprising that the setting Laboratories, a wife, and a for this book would be mother, and in her free time, Chicago in the 1930s and author of historical mystery that the main character fiction. would be a woman making While her first novel, her way into radio. Of The Darkness Knows, was course it would be a published in 2015, her mystery. interest in writing began long “I have always loved before, during her childhood historical research and spent a on the family farm in Ohio. lot of time researching life in “I began writing as a child, the 1930s,” she said. “ There pounding out stories on an are always details that may old Underwood typewriter be different from how these that would be brought out See AUTHOR, Page 7 by my Dad and placed on CORRESPONDENT
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Top: Author Cheryl Honigford at the Chicago Literary Fest signing copies of her novel The Darkness Knows, and displaying an advance copy of her new novel Homicide for the Holidays was released Oct. 10. Above: Cheryl Honigford photographed with her daughter ready to spend a mother daughter Saturday.
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Shooting in Felters subdivision sparks camera discussion By Gail Peckler-Dziki Correspondent On Sept. 12, there was a shooting incident in Felters Subdivision, about a half block from village limits, but is contiguous with the Village of Antioch. The incident started in the Jewel parking lot, about one mile as the crow flies, from Felters. Antioch Township trustee Peter Grant learned about the shooting that took place in his subdivision on Facebook later that same evening. authorities Recently, charged Derrius Crenshaw, of Chicago, with felony aggravated discharge of a firearm. Grant followed the Facebook posts. Then several days later based on the information he received from Facebook, he reached out to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office to set up a meeting. A Felters Subdivision resident with two small children attended the meeting to talk about how this violence so close to home affected her family, according to Grant. “This is a resort community and we have many summer and weekend residents,” Grant said. “Many who come here are just folks looking to get away and have fun.” “Some from the criminal element sometimes end up mi-
grating here also,” Grant added. “Tourism to the Chain of Lakes is the foundation of our local economy, we are a resort community,” Grant said. “We welcome people coming here for the boating and other lake activities.” The concern, however, is how to protect both residents and visitors alike from the criminal element. Grant believes that a greater police presence can go a long way to making that happen. Antioch village board trustee Ed Macek would like to see more tools available for law enforcement. He thinks that cameras strategically placed in public places are a good idea. “Its not just me,” Macek said in a telephone interview. “At the August committee of the whole meeting, the board agreed and asked Jim Keim (village administrator) to get some quotes to do that.” There are cameras on poles in the parking lot behind The Lodge that are no longer hooked up. “When dispatch was in the village hall, the cameras were wired into the village hall. When the dispatch location changed, the cameras were disconnected,” Macek said. Those cameras, according to Macek, are old technology and
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