Please join MEF for the next event in our Breakfast with Champions morning speaker series, featuring Chicago Tribune Columnist John Kass.

MEF's Breakfast with Champions provides a unique opportunity to build community among people who share a common interest: guiding low-income youth in Chicago along pathways of success. 

Proceeds from your $35 ticket will benefit Midtown & Metro students. Space is limited to the first 100 attendees. 

About John Kass

Columnist 

The son of a Greek immigrant grocer, Kass was born June 23, 1956, on Chicago's South Side and grew up there and in Oak Lawn. He held a number of jobs — merchant marine sailor, ditch digger, waiter — before becoming a film student at Columbia College in Chicago, where he worked at the student newspaper. He obtained an internship at the Daily Calumet in 1980, and ended up working there as a reporter until he left for the Tribune in 1983. He has won honors including the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi national award for general column writing, the Scripps Howard Foundation's National Journalism Award for commentary, the Chicago Headline Club's Lisagor Award for best daily newspaper columnist and the Chicago Tribune's Beck Award for writing. He lives in the western suburbs with his wife and twin sons.