It was a random Tuesday. Mostly the unexpected happens like that. Like a geurrilla attack, news of the most startling kind has a way of making the rest of my world come screeching to a halt. As far as I knew, I had a High School of the Week photo at Oak Forest. Like every day, I check in with Ernie on the the desk about 7:30AM to see what's up.
"Status quo?" I asked him when he answered the phone. "Wellll..." he said, "The governor just got arrested."
"You've got to be (bleeping) kidding me," I screamed. Nope, he confirmed. It just happened and the Tribune posted it a few minutes ago.
Then he told me to bip my job at Oak Forest and get downtown.
Like a kid on Christmas morning, I gleefully hurried to OFHS. I shot the kids and was out in seven minutes flat; and that included a short conversation with the assistant SD about the governor.
I spoke with Ernie a couple times in the car, and with the adrenalin flowing, headed to Dirksen Federal Building to join the rest of the horde already gathered there. Over the next couple hours, we waited and listened and waited. We talked, read the complaint and speculated on what would happen next.
This news was huge, by anyone's standards. And even when I never had a chance to shoot a single frame of Rod, it's a complete rush to be part of the story. And sitting there, in the courthouse, I knew people would be reading the paper the next day to make sense of it all. And we at the Sun-Times did a great job of breaking down the details and doing just that.
That is what it's all about.
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