Janan Hanna was an accomplished musician, lawyer and award-winning investigative journalist who grew up in Long Island, N.Y., and spent the last four decades in her adopted home of Chicago.
With a law degree from Loyola, a master’s from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern and a Civic Orchestra fellowship from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as a classical violinist, Hanna was accomplished in many fields.But of all her notable accomplishments, Hanna most loved telling stories of her experiences as a reporter for, who hired her out of the City News Bureau in 1990 and launched her career as an investigative journalist.
Hanna later became a general assignment reporter and was part of a team of Tribune reporters that won a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism award for the “Killing Our Children,” a series on the growing homicide rate for Chicago-area children. She also won a Peter Lisagor Award for her reporting at the paper where she spent 12 years before leaving for new adventures in 2002.
“It was important to her, her heritage and her background,” Judith Hanna said. “She was very much for social justice. She even marched at the Tribune when the paper sold the building off to make condos.
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