Kim Budil, a physicist and the first female director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, always “wanted to be a lawyer,” she told a Commonwealth Club audience last week.
Phil Kadner grew up on the Southwest Side of Chicago, graduating Bogan High School and later Northern Illinois University, where he would be inducted into the Northern Star student newspaper’s Hall of Fame. He has received the Studs Terkel Award from the Community Media Workshop, lifetime achievement and ethics awards from the Chicago Headline Club and the James Craven Award for freedom of information from the Illinois Press Association. He has also received the Dianne Masters Award from the Crisis Center for South Suburbia. Kadner has won 12 Peter Lisagor Awards from the Chicago Headline Club for column writing and public service. In 2013, he was voted Illinois journalist of the year by the faculty of Northern Illinois University and the Northern Illinois Newspaper Association. He currently resides in the southwest suburbs with his wife, Jeannie.
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) agreed to pay $1.5million to two families whose sons were raped in the William J. Bogan High School bathroom 8 months apart.