Dave wrote the Wisch List online at chicagotribune.com from July 2005 to July 2007, chronicling life — and the people who live it — throughout Chicagoland and beyond. Prior to becoming the Tribune’s third-ever blogger and helping to pioneer the technology for the newspaper’s Web site, Dave started up the Wisch List as a print column in 2002 while writing for the The Daily Times in Ottawa, Ill. Two years later, he transformed 75 of his columns into a book, Northern IlliNOISE: Tales of a Territory shortly before moving to Chicago’s Wrigleyville neighborhood.

In May 2009, Dave returned to his roots, resurrecting the Wisch List as a Chicago-centric, general-interest column for his hometown area newspaper, the Daily Journal in Kankakee.

You can read Dave’s weekly columns from the Journal each Saturday at www.daily-journal.com (subscription-only) or right here at wischlist.com.

A 1998 graduate of the University of Illinois and a former sports writer, Dave was the winner of 18 national, regional and statewide editorial awards for columns, features, sports and news — including six first places — between 2001 to 2005 while in Ottawa.

And with that, it’s welcome to the Wisch List. We hope you enjoy your stay.

(And, you know, come back again real soon … And bring friends … And bookmark us … And … yeah, that about covers it.)