Tribune staffers on Friday were honored by the Chicago Headline Club with awards for investigative, public service and feature reporting, photography, lifetime achievement and reporting “of ordinary people.”
A series of stories by the Tribune and the Better Government Association about lax safety practices among Chicago fire officials — which on Monday was awarded a
— was among several Tribune works of journalism that were honored Friday by the Chicago Headline Club.received four awards at the Headline Club’s 45th annual Peter Lisagor Awards dinner at the Union League Club of Chicago: best investigative reporting, best multimedia collaboration, best investigative/public service online reporting and best use of news video online. It was awarded a Pulitzer for local reporting.
An image from the Tribune/Better Government Association investigation which revealed that at least 61 men, women and children died in 42 fires in buildings where Chicago officials had been warned of major fire safety issues. In this photo, Eunicka Green holds a stuffed elephant containing the ashes of her 5-year-old daughter Kaitlynn Jeffries who was killed in a fire in 2019.
In addition to Hopkins and Reyes, others named in the awards were Kaarin Tisue, Armando Sanchez, Jonathon Berlin and Andrew Johnston from the Tribune, and David Kidwell, Olivia Obineme and Alex Garcia from the BGA.Tribune staffers also were presented Lisagor awards for feature reporting, photography, lifetime achievement and reporting “of ordinary people.”, named for a legendary Tribune writer who died in 2011.
Buckley’s award-winning work included stories on the aftermath of a fatal shooting of a college student
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