Jim Ridings
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Jim Ridings was born in Joliet, Illinois, in 1950. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism, with a minor in history, from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He was a reporter for The Daily Times in Ottawa and The Beacon-News in Aurora, and several weekly newspapers. He won more than a dozen awards for investigative reporting at both daily newspapers, from the Associated Press, United Press International, Copley Press, Illinois Press Association, Northern Illinois Newspaper Association, Illinois Department of Mental Health, Aurora Lions Club, SDX Society of Professional Journalists. </p>r r Ridings was presented a Studs Terkel Humanities Service bronze medal from the Illinois Humanities Council in 2006. Nine of his books have won awards from the Illinois State Historical Society. He and his wife Janet live in the historic John Herscher House in Herscher, Illinois. Their daughters are Stephanie and Laura, and grandchildren are Declan, Mia and Logan.r
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Ashpile | Cardiff 2: A Further History of the Ghost Town on the Prairie | Cheese Weasel #1 | Chicago to Springfield: Crime and Politics in the 1920s | County West Companion: A Further History of Western Kankakee County | County West: A Sesquicentennial History of Kankakee County West | Greetings From Kankakee: A Picture Postcard View Of Old Kankakee | Greetings From Ottawa: A Picture Postcard View Of Old Ottawa | Greetings from Starved Rock : | History of Herscher High School | Kankakee County Confidential | Kankakee County Stories – Wild Kankakee Vol. 3 | Kankakee Makes Good: A Second Volume Of Picture Postcards From Old Kankakee | Len Small: Governors and Gangsters | Memories of Reddick High School | Murder in the Fox Valley – The True Story of Serial Killer Bruce Lindahl | Ottawa / | Small Justice | The Illustrated History of the Cherry Mine Disaster of 1909 | The Illustrated History of the Ottawa Tent Colony | The Politically Incorrect Cheese Weasel | The Society of the Living Dead: The Illustrated History of Ottawa’s Radium Dial Scandal | Western Kankakee County