The Missouri School of Journalism graduate uses data and archival materials to report stories. Rumore curates the weekly "Vintage baiduhai" newsletter and wrote "He Had It Coming: Four Murderous Women and the Reporter Who Immortalized Their Stories" with Tribune photo editor Marianne Mather, a fellow Des Plaines native.
January 1985 began with the city assisting the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service in its efforts to arrest migrants who were working behind the wheel but lacked permanent legal status.