Don't get me wrong. All bar association installation events are newsworthy and noteworthy. I don't always put up notices, but that's because of my own limitations: Because I am not always asked to share these notices, they often take place before I am aware they were scheduled.
But next week's Cook County Bar Association installation is particularly newsworthy because it marks another halting step on the road to post-COVID normality.
As you will note from the event announcement on the CCBA website (a portion of which is reproduced above) people will be actually able to attend the CCBA's 107th Installation and Awards Program live and in person, albeit with masks.
That's right: Persons wishing to do so can actually purchase tickets for, and thereafter travel in person to, Abbington Distinctive Banquets, 3 South 002 Ill. Rt. 53 in Glen Ellyn, on Friday, June 11, and actually mix and mingle with fellow humans. The program starts at 6:00 p.m. A block of rooms has also been set aside at the Hilton Hotel & Conference Center, 2111 Butterfield Rd., in Downers Grove, for persons who wish to stay nearby.
In addition to installing Cannon D. Lambert, Sr. as CCBA President, the CCBA will confer a number of awards at this event. Honorees include:
- Richard E. Westbrook Award - Wiley Adams
- Edward H. Wright Award - Nicholas Cummings
- Kenneth E. Wilson Award - Ill. App. Ct. Justice Bertina Lampkin
- Ida B. Platt Award - Ill. House Speaker Emanuel C. Welch
- J. Ernest Wilkins Award - Cong. Robin L. Kelly and Cong. Lucy McBath
- William R. Ming Jr. Award - April Preyar
- Junior Counselor Award - Antonio Lee
- Senior Counselor Awards - Ill. App. Ct. Justice Marcus Salone (Ret.) and Valee Salone
- Meritorious Service Awards - Alexzandria Johnson, Antonio Lee, Tracie Porter, Raymond Rushing, and LeDeidre Turner
- R. Eugnen Pincham Award - Lonita Baker
- George N. Leighton Award - Ill. Sup. Ct. Justice P. Scott Neville
Darryl Dennard of V103 will serve as moderator and Master of Ceremonies. In addition, a number of persons will receive CCBA Presidential Awards at the event. These include Kenneth Carr, Urie R. Clark, Nicholas Cummings, Natasha Jenkins, Alexzandria Johnson, Cannon Lambert, Antonio Lee, Judge Celestia Mays, Tracie Porter, Delores Robinson, Raymond Rushing, and LeDeidre Turner.
In-person tickets for the event are $125 apiece and may obtained through the CCBA website or by clicking here. As the headline of this post indicates, the event will also be livestreamed, and online tickets are available for $50 each. Sponsorships and hotel rooms can be reserved via this link as well (and hotel rooms must be reserved by June 8 in order to secure the discounted price).
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