Crain’s Chicago hires Quig for politics beat

A.D. Quig

A.D. Quig has joined Crain’s Chicago to cover city and state politics.

A.D. Quig

Quig joins Crain’s from The Daily Line, which was formerly called Aldertrack, a Chicago-focused newsletter and website that covers political news related to the city’s land developers, contractors, lobbyists, and other powerful individuals. The Daily Line expanded coverage to Springfield, IL in 2017.

She was formerly a reporter/producer at WSBT in South Bend, Indiana; NPR’s daily call-in current events show, Talk of the Nation; the national politics podcast Ken Rudin’s Political Junkie; and at the Chicago radio startup, Rivet.

Quig is a 2012 graduate of Indiana University’s School of Journalism, with a focus on political science and radio.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.