The Daily Herald ran a correction that I missed, but a sharp-eyed reader saw and sent to me.

It reads,

“To correct a report in some Aug. 14 editions, Community Unit School District 300 awarded Elgin-based design firm Burnidge Cassell and Associates a no-bid contract to design new schools on Oct. 11, 2005, before the referendum that funded the school construction.”

This is the firm that later contributed $5,000 to the District 300 tax hike committee, Advance 300 and earlier bragged that it had raised $100,000 for referendum efforts.

No mention in the Daily Herald (or the Northwest Herald) of Burnidge’s bragging about raising $100,000 in a letter dated February 25, 2005.