DL 250 Damian Auditorium

Event Name: PAS: Dave Savini<br>Event State: Confirmed<br>Organization: Arts & Ideas<br>Event Locator: 2025-AATABZ<br><br><p>Dave Savini is an investigative reporter and news anchor for CBS News Chicago, WBBM-TV. Savini has been honored with every major national broadcast journalism award. Dave is five-time National Edward R. Murrow Award winner and recipient of the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award, Alfred I. duPont Award, and Investigative Reporters and Editors Award (IRE). Savini was hired by CBS in 2004 and his career in Chicago started at NBC5 Chicago with the UNIT-5 Investigative Team where he was the investigative reporter from 1993-2004. His other awards include 27 regional Emmys, a national Emmy Crystal Pillar award. In 2019 he earned the national IRE award and 2019 George Foster Peabody award for his series “unWarranted” which exposed a systematic pattern of wrong police raids at the homes of innocent families, including the raid on Anjanette Young’s home. He also won the 2020 and 2021 National Association of Black Journalists network investigative award for his reporting on wrong raids for the CBS Evening News. The raid on Young, one of the most high-profile raids, also garnered the 2020 Emmy and the national Crystal Pillar award. Savini was voted best reporter by the Illinois Associated Press 5 times. He filed his first reports in 1989 at WKEF in Dayton, Ohio and at WHIZ in Zanesville, Ohio. He specializes in exposing government waste, police corruption, consumer scams, product liability, environmental reporting, and medical negligence. Other areas of expertise include investigating public transportation, public schools, and failing infrastructure. He is a Chicago native and graduated from the University of Dayton. He volunteers with numerous local charities and lives with his wife Shannon in Naperville.</p> <p>This event is not ticketed. Admission free and seating is first come, first served.</p> <p>Visit <a href="https://LUArtsandIdeas.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LUArtsandIdeas.org</a> for more information</p>

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