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Linze Rice

Reporter/Producer @linzerice Contact

Linze Rice is a neighborhood reporter and photographer covering Chicago's Far North Side for DNAinfo.com. 

Before taking over the Rogers Park/Edgewater beat, Linze was a general assignment reporter with DNAinfo, covering everything from breaking crime, to mayoral press conferences, to seeing the new bleachers first unveiled at Wrigley Field. Linze was also the editor at the American Chamber of Commerce Resources, a writing and social media consultant for Curiosity.com, a law industry copywriter, and a counselor at a women's inpatient drug and alcohol recovery center. 

Linze has a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology with a minor in Women's Studies and Spanish, and was awarded an LGBT Ally award in 2012 from Northern Illinois University.

Linze is from a tiny corn-fed village in DeKalb County called Kingston, where she grew up with her parents and two younger siblings. Linze's dad is a hog farmer, so there were many pigs present throughout her upbringing as well. 

In her free time, Linze likes to enjoy Chicago's beaches, incredible architecture, and eat as much as possible. She lives in Edgewater (formerly Uptown and the Loop) with her writer husband, two cats, and pitbull named Bruce Wayne. 

Fun fact: When she was six, Linze went up on stage with Wynonna Judd during a concert (and has the pictures to prove it) and was also seen on TV dancing during a taped performance of Deana Carter with Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. She met them after the show in the parking lot thanks to her eccentric mother.

Rogers Park & Edgewater »

March 29, 2016

The shooting occurred in the 7400 block of North Ridge Boulevard at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday, police said.

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March 29, 2016

"[Students] are going to be taken care of, they're going to be loved," said interim Principal Mary Beck.

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March 29, 2016

The café opened the same year Ed & Erv's closed, and is now ready to honor its classic storefront.

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March 28, 2016

Interim Principal Mary Beck will answer questions alongside Jason Siegellak and Kevin Gallick.

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March 24, 2016

The teen killed Wednesday in West Ridge was lying in the street when a gunman shot him, witnesses said.

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March 23, 2016

The new facility is home to the L'il Buds Theatre Company and recently got some its last needed permits.

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March 23, 2016

Urbanologist Max Grinnell will lead a free walking tour of the neighborhood "rain or shine."