PAUL SIMON PUBLIC SERVICE AWARDS
TO BE PRESENTED WEDNESDAY NIGHT
The 2006 Paul Simon Public Service Awards will be presented at
6 p.m. Wednesday, May 10, at a downtown Chicago event hosted by the Illinois Campaign
for Political Reform (ICPR).
Sheila Simon, daughter of the late ICPR founder Paul Simon, will
present the awards to Mike Lawrence, director of the Paul Simon
Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University; Newton Minow,
a former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission; and the Peoria
Journal Star editorial page.
The event will take place at the Fadó Irish Pub and Restaurant, 100 W.
Grand Ave., Chicago. Popular comedian Aaron Freeman will perform,
and the evening will conclude with a reel of some of the funniest campaign commercials
from around the nation.
Simon, who died in 2003, founded the non-profit, non-partisan ICPR in 1999, and
ICPR created the Paul Simon Public Service Awards in his honor in 2004.
Tickets are $50 with proceeds benefiting ICPR. Members of the media covering the
event will be welcome without charge.
WHAT: Presentation of the 2006 Paul Simon Public Service Awards.
WHO: Awards to Mike Lawrence, Newton Minow and the editorial page of the Peoria
Journal Star.
WHERE: Fadó Irish Pub and Restaurant, 100 W. Grand Ave., Chicago.
WHEN: 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 10
MORE INFORMATION: Call 312-335-1767 or visit the ICPR website (www.ilcampaign.org).