Marni Pyke

Marni Pyke is a reporter who focuses on transportation and politics for the Daily Herald. Her beat includes Metra, the Regional Transportation Authority, the Illinois tollway, Pace, aviation and a weekly column called “In Transit”. Throughout her career at the Daily Herald, Pyke has covered various topics such as COVID-19 pandemic, DuPage and Cook county governments, environmental issues, courts, congressional elections and the 2018 gubernatorial race. She has received multiple awards for her investigative reporting on patronage concerns at the Illinois tollway and other projects. Pyke has also won Lisagor Awards in 2009 and 2011 in the Science, Health, Technology, Environmental Reporting category. She previously worked as a reporter at the Northwest Herald and Press Publications in Elmhurst where she was a managing editor and received first place at the Illinois Press Association awards for editorial writing. Pyke has been a guest on several local broadcast programs including ABC 7 Chicago's Sunday morning news show, “Chicago Tonight” on WTTW, and WBBM radio's “At Issue”. She graduated from Victoria University at the University of Toronto with a bachelor's degree in English and history and has a graduate certificate in journalism from Sheridan College, Ontario. Pyke currently lives in Downers Grove with her family and assorted pets.