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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
David Struett

Heroic police officers, firefighters honored for bravery in ceremony not held since COVID-19 lockdown

Chicago Police Officers Ravyn Morgan and Jake Schmeisser receive the Carter H. Harrison Medal, the city’s top award for police department bravery, during a ceremony Wednesday at City Hall. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

Most people would call it heroism when a police officer doesn’t let the threat of being shot stop them from trying to protect others, or a firefighter crawls through a burning home to save a toddler.

But the men and women honored Wednesday with the city’s top awards for police and fire department bravery modestly pinned it on good training.

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