This is not necessarily an endorsement of those TV one-man-bands, as they're known. I've been covering stories by myself in Chicago for 35+ years. I've driven in marked station vehicles a number of those years, have carried recorders, microphones, laptops and more. Not once have I been mugged, attacked or threatened as I've worked in just about every neighborhood in Chicago at all hours of the day and night. (The last 20+ years have been in the morning drive hours.) People have asked me if I'm afraid to go into \"bad\" neighborhoods and I tell them there's no such thing as a bad neighborhood. Communities are mostly made up of good people who want the same things for themselves and their families as you and I. It's just the small minority of knuckleheads who make it bad for those who live there. Do you have to be street smart and watch your surroundings? Of course. But as a now-former city kid from the Southeast Side, I do that everywhere I am.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robservations on the media beat: WRLR 98.3-FM, the low-power nonprofit community radio station that bills itself as \"The Voice of Lake County,\" has a new claim to fame: It boasts the only broadcast studio inside a train depot. Since February WRLR\u2019s Studio B has been located in the Metra train station\u2019s vacant ticket-agent office in... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21106"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21125,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21106\/revisions\/21125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}