FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 9, 2006
Contact: Cynthia Canary
312-335-1767

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).

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