Chris Minor

Chris Minor is an award-winning journalist who does her best to tell it like it is.

Covering the Quad Cities for more than 20 years, Chris was named Best Reporter by the Illinois Associated Press two years in a row, and has been honored with both Illinois and Iowa AP, and Edward R. Murrow awards.

Chris is a native of Park Ridge, Illinois where her family still lives.

When she's not breaking stories, she likes to spend time with her two nieces and twin nephews, play trivia, read memoirs and biographies, and hang out with her schnoodle named Clooney.

Recent Articles

Muscatine doctor pleads guilty

Posted on: 2:31 pm, March 4, 2013, by Chris Minor, updated on: 02:34pm, March 4, 2013

There’s a plea deal in the case of a Quad City area doctor accused of doling out drugs in exchange...
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Man charged with killing neighbor’s dog says its a case of self defense

Posted on: 4:10 pm, March 1, 2013, by Chris Minor, updated on: 09:37pm, March 1, 2013

Michael Coulter says he did not commit a crime but is a man who protected his son and his own...
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Illinois House rejects pension reform

Posted on: 5:07 pm, February 28, 2013, by Chris Minor, updated on: 05:18pm, February 28, 2013

Illinois lawmakers said “no” Thursday to four different pension reform plans, while the Republican minority in the House boycotted the...
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Cause of Rock Island house fire “undetermined”

Posted on: 5:01 pm, February 25, 2013, by Chris Minor, updated on: 07:02pm, February 25, 2013

A Rock Island house was demolished the very same day fire ripped through the two story structure Friday, after authorities...
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Family member, police officer help victims escape from burning Rock Island home

Posted on: 8:59 am, February 22, 2013, by Chris Minor, updated on: 09:21am, February 25, 2013

A police officer reportedly rescued two people forced onto the roof of a Rock Island house when fire broke out.
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Confession solves Moline cold case

Posted on: 11:36 am, February 21, 2013, by Chris Minor, updated on: 05:16pm, February 21, 2013

Police say the 1988 murder of a Moline woman found stabbed to death in her home is finally solved after...
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Caretaker of dog shot and killed calls it “cold-blooded murder”

Posted on: 5:22 pm, February 19, 2013, by Chris Minor, updated on: 09:52am, February 20, 2013

An East Moline woman says she still can’t bring herself to tell her six-year old daughter that the family pet...
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Lawyers for City of Dixon say accountants share the blame

Posted on: 4:13 pm, February 14, 2013, by Chris Minor, updated on: 08:44am, February 15, 2013

The City of Dixon is suing its former accountants for not catching on to Rita Crundwell and her $53 million...
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Dixon mayor says he hopes Rita Crundwell gets the “max”

Posted on: 1:33 pm, February 13, 2013, by Chris Minor, updated on: 10:31pm, February 13, 2013

Rita Crundwell will be sentenced for stealing $53 million dollars from the city of Dixon on Valentine's Day, and there is no love lost between Rita and her former co-workers.
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Ethics report says East Moline assistant warden not qualified

Posted on: 12:26 pm, January 31, 2013, by Chris Minor

An Illinois ethics report says an assistant warden at the East Moline Correctional Center should never have been hired.
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Quad City area doctor hit with 95 federal drug charges

Posted on: 3:01 pm, January 28, 2013, by Chris Minor, updated on: 04:42pm, January 28, 2013

A federal grand jury has indicted a Muscatine doctor on 95 federal charges, accused of illegally dispensing prescription drugs to female patients in exchange for sexual favors.
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Plea agreement reached in wreck that killed Rock Island woman

Posted on: 1:17 pm, January 25, 2013, by Chris Minor, updated on: 04:58pm, January 25, 2013

A Davenport man will serve just over seven years in prison after plowing into a crowd of people last fall and killed a Rock Island woman.
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