Stay updated with breaking news from Failures Before. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Tribune reporter Cecilia Reyes and BGA reporter Madison Hopkins collaborated on "The Failures Before the Fires," a two-year investigation called "a piercing examination of the city's long history of failed building- and fire-safety code enforcement, which let scofflaw landlords commit serious violations that resulted in dozens of unnecessary deaths."
Robservations on the media beat: The Chicago Tribune and the Better Government Association shared the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting Monday. Tribune re
:quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tronc/QMUHEA75EBAKRFB2DTBP52DHOM.jpg)
Cecilia Reyes and Madison Hopkins win top prize for their powerful and painstaking investigation into fatal Chicago fires.
:quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tronc/74OM2AQ6DRDQZOSHEIWYOLTE4Y.jpg)
This yearlong investigation, a collaboration between the Tribune and the Better Government Association, revealed that at least 61 people died in residential fires in Chicago where officials were aware of fire hazards in the buildings but failed to ensure they were addressed.
The win comes more than 40 years after BGA nearly won a Pulitzer for opening a fake bar with the Chicago Sun-Times to uncover corruption