Susie An
As a reporter for WBEZ's news desk, Susie produces content for daily newscasts and WBEZ's website. She also anchors, occasionally, delivering news on WBEZ. She directed WBEZ's Schools on the Line monthly call-in show. Her work has also been heard on NPR, CBC and BBC. Susie joined WBEZ as a news desk intern in September 2007. Prior to joining WBEZ, Susie worked at the Peoria Journal Star newspaper and worked as an acquisitions editor for Publications International,Ltd.
Susie has a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Originally from Huntsville, Alabama, Susie lives in Chicago's Avondale neighborhood with her husband Demian and son Ogden.
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Remembrances and tributes are pouring in for the victims of the Highland Park July Fourth shootings.
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A state appellate court ruling is upending Gov. JB Pritzker’s COVID-19 school rules. -
In a blow to Gov. JB Pritzker’s school mask mandate, an appellate court dismissed an appeal of a hold on COVID measures in about 170 districts. -
Gov. JB Pritzker says Illinois schools should continue universal masking despite a flurry of legal and legislative action around the state’s school mask mandate.
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COVID safety concerns led to a five-day stalemate between Chicago's teachers union and school and city officials. Kids are back in school. Both sides are weighing whether it was the right decision.
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Public schools remain closed in Chicago Monday, the fourth day of a stalemate between the teacher's union and officials over COVID safety rules. Parents are increasingly frustrated.
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During remote classes, teachers get to glimpse some students' lives. Sometimes they observe things they never knew about at school. It has some teachers considering whether they've witnessed abuse.
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The Illinois attorney general has found 690 Catholic clergy members in the state have been accused of sexual abuse. But the church has not publicly identified about 500 of the accused.
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Halloween pop-up stores occupying temporarily vacant storefronts are back and the pop-up concept is expanding. Now online retailers and digital brands are taking the pop-up model and refining it.
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The company is so notorious for wrongly towing away cars that it has been immortalized in song. This week, the Illinois Commerce Commission revoked Lincoln's license.
