Date: October 17, 2009
Location: Hyatt Regency Chicago, Grand Ballroom
Details: Formal Awards Dinner, Live Entertainment
Price: Individual tickets- $200 per person-includes 3 mo. subscription
Corporate table – $2500 with signage, partial proceeds to benefit the Abbott-Sengstacke Scholarship fund for journalism students
Objective: Produce an awards gala designed to recognize world-class citizens who display the highest level of leadership, whose commitment to excellence is empowering and whose achievements are unparalleled.
Program: Throughout its history, the Chicago Defender has presented awards to a variety of people and organizations for their contributions to improving the welfare of all citizens. The Newsmakers Awards is designed to follow in that tradition by recognizing world-class citizens who display the highest level of leadership, whose commitment to excellence is empowering and whose achievements are unparalleled. Honorees are selected because they have stood the test of time, are rising to new heights and who daily set the pace. 2008 was a huge success! We are expecting to repeat and even surpass the success in 2009!
Awardees: Government - U.S. Senator Ronald Burris
Business - Mellody Hobson - Ariel Investments
Sports - Kenny Williams - General Manager of the Chicago White Sox
Education - Michael Scott - Chicago Board of Education
Media - Communications - Harry Porterfield
Community Leadership and Service - Regina Evans - 1st Black Female Chief of Police in the State of Illinois
Health - Dr. Terry Mason – Chicago Department of Public Health
Lifetime Achievement award - Timuel Black and Albertina Walker
Tribute to Michael Jackson
Contact Person: Adrienne Jones
Director of Non-traditional Sales
Community Program Development
Chicago Defender
4445 S. Martin Luther King Drive
Chicago, IL 60653
Ph: 312-225-2400x170
ajones@chicagodefender.com
