Responsible for all variety of news stories in the north and northwest suburbs. Robert McCoppin covers breaking news, trends, and investigations involving crime, politics, health care, and any other burning topic, great or small, that reveals how life is changing in the Chicago area.

There are few beats that reporter Robert McCoppin hasn't worked. He started covering morgue cases and City Hall for the storied City New Bureau in Chicago, and has explored municipal government, courts, transportation, features and entertainment, and health care. He's won several reporting awards, and started with the Tribune in 2010.

Loud rock and plain folk, playing soccer (more than watching it), stories that intrigue the mind and inflame the heart.