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Frank Main

Staff reporter

Frank Main began his newspaper career in 1987 in Tulsa, Oklahoma and worked in Louisiana and Kentucky, covering local politics and crime. He was on the ground for Hurricanes Andrew and Katrina, the Bosnia conflict, the first Gulf War and the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in New York. In 2011, Main, another reporter and a photographer won the Pulitzer Prize for their stories in the Sun-Times about a ‘no-snitch code’ among Chicago’s victims of gun violence. For that project, Main spent six months embedded with homicide detectives. He’s a graduate of Emory University and Northwestern University’s graduate journalism program and teaches journalism at Loyola University.

Another federal judge in Chicago who also has dismissed gun cases based on the same Supreme Court ruling says the high court’s decision in what’s known as the Bruen case will “inevitably lead to more gun violence, more dead citizens and more devastated communities.”
Reed’s life sentence was commuted by Gov. J.B. Pritzker in 2021, but Reed’s lawyer says that doesn’t prevent prosecutors from retrying him.
One critic says suing a gun maker over its design is like suing an automaker for cars that go too fast and crash.
Joseph Burgos was caught at Chicago’s downtown Greyhound bus station with a backpack full of opioid pills, authorities say.
In her lawsuit in 2020, Officer Cynthia Donald accused Johnson of forcing her to have sex and continuing to harass her after she was demoted.
The Sun-Times spoke with some key decision makers in Illinois and Texas about the early months of Texas’ program to export migrants to Democratic cities like Chicago.
The recordings have them also plotting to loot bank accounts, especially in “rich” ZIP codes.
Rodney “Hot Rod” Phillips is a former Black Disciples member featured in “The Interrupters,” a documentary about felons hired to intervene in conflicts. But he wound up back in prison. “When I came home, I rededicated myself back to the work,” he says. “The flame was lit.”
Marvin Williford was convicted of a 2000 attack on Delwin Foxworth. Later, DNA on the weapon was linked to an unidentified man whose DNA was recovered from 11-year-old Holly Staker, who was raped and killed in 1992 in Waukegan. Williford’s DNA wasn’t on that weapon, his lawyers say.