Several Northern Star staff members attended the 22nd annual Illinois College Press Association convention in Chicago on Saturday where the Star was honored with 27 awards for Excellence in Illinois College Newspapers. The convention, sponsored by ICPA and the Chicago Tribune, is a yearly gathering of participating college newspapers from Illinois. Among the awards received, voters determined the Weekender, which is the Star’s weekly entertainment supplement, and the Star’s Web site, www.northernstar.info, as the best among college newspapers in Illinois. Below is a list of awards received:

First place:

Entertainment supplement, headline writing, feature page design, feature story, online Web site, photo essay, sports news, sports page design.

Second place:

Column (excluding sports), editorial, front page layout.

Third place:

Classified section, column (excluding sports), critical review (film), critical review (other than film), in-house promotion ad, news photo, news story, sports photo.

Honorable mention:

Advertisement, column (sports), feature story, headline writing, opinion pages, spot news photo, sports feature story.