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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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