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Article: Casey Banas, 64, longtime reporter
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 21, 2001
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A newspaperman who didn't become a cynic, Casey Banas covered
education for the Chicago Tribune for more than 30 years, using his
beat to prospect for the good in people.
"He had this big smile on his face" when he could write school
stories that might inspire kids to do better, said his colleague,
Tribune reporter Ron Kotulak.
Mr. Banas, 64, died when he was struck by a train shortly after
11:30 p.m. Sunday in Naperville on the Burlington Northern/Santa Fe
Railroad tracks at River Road.
He loved being able to inspire kids to do better by writing about
their successes. "He was the happiest doing that," said Kotulak, who
started at the Trib on the same day that Mr. Banas did, June 15,
1959.
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