The Hardest-Working Paper in America | 
Thursday, April 25, 2024
News Politics Springfield

NPR host Scott Simon, futures pioneer Leo Melamed among Order of Lincoln award winners

By  Associated Press
   
SHARE NPR host Scott Simon, futures pioneer Leo Melamed among Order of Lincoln award winners

A National Public Radio host, a pioneering Chicago futures trader, a former U.S. transportation secretary and the founder of a breast-cancer charity are recipients of this year’s Order of Lincoln Awards.

Gov. Bruce Rauner on Friday announced the six people receiving the state’s highest honor this year for professional achievement and public service.

This year’s winners include NPR “Weekend Edition Saturday” host Scott Simon, CME Group chairman emeritus Leo Melamed, Susan G. Komen for the Cure founder Nancy Goodman Brinker, former U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Illinois poet laureate Kevin Stein and retired Caterpillar president Robert Gilmore.

AX067_1660_9_600x450.jpg

Leo Melamed. | Sun-Times file photo

BX164_19A4_9_431x600.jpg

NPR host Scott Simon

The awards will be presented May 7 in Peoria.

Next Up In News
Netflix looks to curb password sharing, considers ads
Aiming to predict COVID, future pandemics better, CDC opens infectious diseases forecasting center
Joliet farmers wrangle cows thrown from semitrailer after crash on Interstate 80
1 killed, 3 wounded in shootings Tuesday in Chicago
Obama relatives sue Milwaukee school alleging racial bias
Unmasked transit: Pritzker ends mask mandates in public transportation, airports
The Latest
Generic Chicago Police Department
Other Views
Hate crimes keep increasing. Here's what Chicago is doing about it.
Last year, Black and Brown residents, Muslim Americans, Jewish Americans, members of the LGBTQ+ community and others were targeted in hate crimes more than 300 times. Smart new policies, zero tolerance, cooperation and unity can defeat hate.
By Debra Silverstein
 
Renderings of the proposed new Bears stadium
Columnists
Bears have designs on the lakefront, as Mayor Johnson plays the wrong position of cheerleader-in-chief
The city is willing to put private interests ahead of public benefit and cheer on a wrongheaded effort to build a massive domed stadium — that would be perfect for Arlington Heights — on Chicago’s lakefront.
By Lee Bey
 
CAVA-042524-09.jpg
Taste
Cava restaurant opens in Wicker Park on Friday, announces future suburban location
Following its launch, the popular Mediterranean restaurant is set to open a second area outlet this summer in Vernon Hills.
By Erica Thompson
 
"The People's Joker" director Vera Drew also stars as a frustrated trans comedian who takes on an alter ego.
Movies and TV
Why so serious? 'The People's Joker' warps Batman tropes into wildly inventive punk parody
Like no superhero movie before it, subversive coming-of-age story reinvents the villain’s origins with a mélange of visual styles and a barrage of gags.
By Richard Roeper
 
crime_scene_tape.jpg
Crime
Four armed robberies in downtown Chicago in 30 minutes
A 66-year-old woman was dragged into the street in the 600 block of North Fairbanks Avenue by two armed robbers who fired shots, police said.
By Sun-Times Wire