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Two BGA projects, with partners at the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times respectively, won first and second place for public service in a contest judged by newspaper editors throughout the state

Cecilia Reyes and Madison Hopkins win top prize for their powerful and painstaking investigation into fatal Chicago fires.

The awards were for public service and feature reporting, photography, lifetime achievement, and reporting “of ordinary people.”

Among the prizes are “Best News Website,” podcast honors for “The Madigan Rule,” and investigative awards for two projects “Failures Before the Fires” in collaboration with the Chicago Tribune and “The Costly toll of dead-end drug arrests” with the Chicago Sun-Times.

As vaccinations ramp up, there is a glimmer of a new normal on the horizon. Here's how to get a coronavirus vaccine in Chicago.

Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what’s happening this weekend with COVID-19 in the Chicago area Chicago Tribune staff, Chicago Tribune © Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune/Chicago Tribune/TNS Paul Antczak Jr., a nursing student, gives the first of two Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines to Robert Koc, a buildings and grounds director for Lyons School District 103 at Credit Union 1 Arena in Chicago on Feb. 8, 2021. A mass COVID-19 vaccination site capable of inoculating 6,000 p...

Structural racism, poverty among discussion topics at University of Michigan virtual event Updated Feb 23, 2021; Posted Feb 23, 2021 The seal of the University of Michigan on a sign for the Modern Languages Building, 812 Washington St. on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020.Jacob Hamilton/MLive.com Facebook Share ANN ARBOR, MI -- Improving the narrative around poverty in the United States and promoting a better understanding of structural inequity is the ...

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