John McCormick is a Wall Street Journal reporter based in Chicago who covers national politics and government.
He followed Barack Obama's presidential bid from its start in February 2007 and traveled with the candidate to nearly 40 states while working for the Chicago Tribune.
[1] On Nov. 7, 2008, during the Q&A portion of a news conference [2] carried live on all major U.S. television networks, the then-president-elect allowed a handful of reporters to ask questions.
There, he has done investigative and project reporting, and has covered major news stories in Chicago and across the Midwest, including the 2002 fatal plane crash of Sen. Paul Wellstone in northern Minnesota.
In 2007, McCormick won the Chicago Tribune's Beck Award for Outstanding Profession Performance with another reporter for a year-long series on teen driving fatalities[7] that led to changes in Illinois law.