LBRA Honors Community Champions at Annual Meeting & Awards Ceremony

Celebrating Excellence: Highlights from the LBRA Annual Meeting

We were thrilled to gather our business community for the Lawndale Business Renaissance Association (LBRA) Annual Meeting and Awards Ceremony to celebrate the leaders driving growth, sustainability, and equity in our neighborhood. 
Please join us in congratulating our exceptional Honorees:

• Advocacy Award: Congressman Danny K. Davis – Recognized for his decades of steadfast advocacy for social justice and economic empowerment in Illinois’s 7th District.

• Leadership Award: George Gatto Sr. (Gatto Industrial Platers) – Honored for building one of the nation's largest metal finishing companies and his ongoing commitment to local commercial investment.

• Volunteer of the Year: Mark Awtry (Office Furniture Center) – Celebrated for his outstanding community impact through corporate sustainability and landfill diversion initiatives.

• Community Spirit Award: Brittini Duncan & Emma Meersman (ComEd) – Awarded for their incredible work advancing energy-efficiency partnerships and strengthening local neighborhood ties through the ComEd MDI Program.

Thank you to all our honorees, members, and partners who make this critical work possible. Swipe through to see photos from this memorable celebration!