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Greg Hinz specializes in coverage of education, government, government information, politics and teaching. He is columnist at Crain Communications Inc., where he writes a weekly column on local government and politics, from City Hall and the Illinois General Assembly to the Chicago Board of Education. He is also the head of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce.[CR-LF][CR-LF]Mr. Hinz joined Crain's in August 1996, after four years as political editor of Chicago magazine and nearly two decades as political editor and columnist with the Lerner Newspapers chain. Hinz took a brief leave of absence from journalism to serve as state press secretary to the Illinois Carter/Mondale campaign in the March 1980 primary. [CR-LF][CR-LF]He won reporting honors including the Stick O' Type from the Chicago Newspaper Guild and the Peter Lisagor Award from the Chicago Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Mr. Hinz recently took top honors for the best scoop from the Association of Area Business Publications for breaking news of Chicago Transit Authority President Frank Kruesi's plan to push through a pension sweetener for top agency executives.[CR-LF][CR-LF]He studied at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

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