Penelope Roewe

Penelope Roewe is a reporting intern at The Record. In the past, she has reported on Skokie news as an editor for Niles North’s student newspaper, North Star News. She is currently a sophomore studying journalism and political science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and writes for The Daily Illini.

Penelope Roewe

Recent Stories

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