 She received many awards and honors during her career, including the Hannah G. Solomon Award from the National Council of Jewish Women in 1988, and was an inductee into the Chicago Women's Hall of Fame in 1989.Muriel "Manny" Friedman was born on May 17, 1922 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, as the youngest child in a family of nine children of Romanian-Jewish immigrants.After completing her secondary education, Friedman enrolled in the University of Chicago.