Janice Petterchak

Janice Petterchak is a researcher and writer of biographies and business histories. Her subjects include Andrew McNally (of Rand McNally), sportscaster Jack Brickhouse and W.D. Boyce, founder of the Boy Scouts of America. From 1987 to 1995, she wa director of the Illinois State Historical Library. She has also held several key positions with the Illinois State Historical Society and for six years directed a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities to catalog newspaper collections in Illinois repositories. She holds a bachelor's degree in political studies and a master's degree in American history from Sangamon State University in Springfield, Illinois.