The Lamp staff spent Thursday and Friday in Chicago for the annual ICCJA conference.
This is where colleges from all around get together and listen to speeches and take notes on different subjects retaining to journalism.
The students headed to their choice in speeches and for right at an hour headed down the halls to then listened to another speech.
The staff then got together with all the other college newspapers and listened to a guest speaker.
After a trip to the popular local pizza place they then headed back to the hotel to get ready for the meetings the next morning.
Again they headed back to Harold Washington community college in Chicago, Illinois who hosted the event to attend speeches till early afternoon when they all sat down for wonderful dinner.
While finishing up dinner the awards were then given out.
The Lamp walked away with several awards with First place to The Lamp Staff award to finish it off a great couple days.