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2015 Kogan Awards Honorees
Print–Legal Beat Reporting Category:
Kogan Award:
David Jackson, GaryMarx and Duaa
Eldeib of the
Chicago Tribune
for “Harsh Treat-
ment” (investigative reporting on sexual assault
of minors in juvenile state wards and residential
treatment centers).
Meritorious Achievement Award:
Timothy P. O’Neill
of the John Marshall Law School writing for the
Chicago Daily LawBulletin,
“Discrimination in Jus-
tice System Can Lead to Economic, Psychological
Costs”(column on the cycle of crime set inmotion
when the poor receive traffic tickets they can’t
afford to pay, and must hide from authorities and
violate more ordinances as a result).
Meritorious Achievement Award:
Cynthia Dizikes
and Todd Lighty of the
Chicago Tribune
for
“Warrantless Searches: Threats, Missing Money
and Planted Drugs” (investigative reporting on
systematic abuse of probationers’civil rights in the
adult probation department of the Cook County
Circuit Court).
Print–Features and Series Category
Kogan Award:
David Bernstein and Noah Isack-
son of
Chicago Magazine
for “The Truth About
Chicago’s Crime Rates” (two-part investigative
series exposing the Chicago Police Department’s
under-reporting of city crime statistics).
Meritorious Achievement Award:
Roy Strom of
Chicago Lawyer
for “Who Do They Belong To?”
(groundbreaking Illinois court case involving
control of frozen embryos).
Online Category
Kogan Award:
Brett Chase, Patrick Rehkamp and
AndrewSchroedteroftheBetterGovernmentAsso-
ciation for“Next Up: IllinoisMunicipal Bankruptcy/
Suburban Pension Peril” (effect of the Illinois
pension situation on small towns and suburban
municipalities as many contemplate bankruptcy).
Broadcast Category
Kogan Award:
Robert Wildeboer, Cate Cahan,
and Patrick Smith of WBEZ-FM, Chicago Public
Media, for “Of Natural Causes: Death in Illinois
Prisons” (circumstances of natural deaths in Il-
linois prisons).
Meritorious Achievement Award:
Derek John and
NatalieMoore ofWBEZ-FM, Chicago PublicMedia,
for “Why Are We Still Collecting Taxes to Prevent
White Flight in Chicago?” (why taxing entities
developed over 20 years ago are still operating,
apparently unsupervised or unmonitored).
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