{"id":227,"date":"2008-09-12T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/2008\/09\/12\/library-speaker-series-event-meet-kevin-davis\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:38:16","slug":"library-speaker-series-event-meet-kevin-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/2008\/09\/12\/library-speaker-series-event-meet-kevin-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Speaker Series Event: Meet Kevin Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2008\/09\/kevdav-340-dtd-revised2.jpg\" alt=\"kevdav-340-dtd-revised2.jpg\" height=\"1\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2008\/09\/kevdav-340-dtd-revised2.jpg\" alt=\"kevdav-340-dtd-revised2.jpg\" \/>The University\u00a0Libraries will hold its first Library Speaker Series event for 2008-2009 on Thursday, September 18th 2008 at the Water Tower Campus.\u00a0 We are delighted to have Kevin Davis, veteran journalist and Loyola author, as our guest speaker.\u00a0 Mr. Davis is a part-time journalism instructor at Loyola University Chicago\u00a0and adjunct faculty member\u00a0at the University of Chicago Graham School of Continuing Studies.\u00a0 His work has been featured in several publications including the <strong><em>Chicago Tribune<\/em><\/strong> and the <strong><em>American Bar Association Journal<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Mr. Davis\u00a0will discuss his latest non-fiction work, <em>Defending the Damned: Inside a Dark Corner of the Criminal Justice System, <\/em>a story about a team of battle-scarred lawyers fighting against all odds in Chicago&#8217;s Cook County Public Defender&#8217;s Office.\u00a0 Davis&#8217; reporting gives the audience an insider&#8217;s look at\u00a0a day in the life\u00a0of public defenders and the challenges they face as\u00a0life and death hang in the balance.\u00a0<em> Defending the Damned<\/em> is a story that captivates readers by mixing courtroom drama and true-crime journalism into\u00a0one good read.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Please join us for this special event on Thursday, September 18 at Rubloff Reception Room, 25 East Pearson at the Water Tower Campus.\u00a0 The event starts at 6:00 p.m. and admission is free.\u00a0Following the reception, a book signing will take place.\u00a0 Please RSVP to Carol Franklin at 773-508-2641 or <a href=\"mailto:cfrankl@luc.edu\">cfrankl@luc.edu<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University\u00a0Libraries will hold its first Library Speaker Series event for 2008-2009 on Thursday, September 18th 2008 at the Water Tower Campus.\u00a0 We are delighted to have Kevin Davis, veteran journalist and Loyola author, as our guest speaker.\u00a0 Mr. Davis is a part-time journalism instructor at Loyola University Chicago\u00a0and adjunct faculty member\u00a0at the University of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7120,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/7120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}