Chris Fusco
Former Executive Editor
Chris Fusco became editor-in-chief of the Chicago Sun-Times in October 2017 and was named executive editor in 2020. Before that, he served as the news organization’s managing editor and was a reporter for 16 years, producing numerous investigative reports involving government corruption, crime, child welfare, transportation, nursing home care and other subjects. Fusco is the recipient of more than a dozen local and several national journalism honors, including the George Polk Award for local reporting, which he shared with colleagues Tim Novak and Carol Marin in 2014.
The Chicago Teachers Union, having rejected a new teachers contract, is in a high-stakes battle with Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration.
The number of video-gambling machines at bars, strip malls, other small venues is booming. That has casino operators, who once fought them, buying in.
The state issued $15.9 million in tax credits for TV’s “Chicago Fire” last year but now keeps more details secret because NBCUniversal Media objected.
As 50,000 await housing aid, some CHA voucher-holders are living in lavish homes.
Thousands of low-income people spent years waiting in line for a CHA voucher, while others got vouchers in only a few days or weeks, a Chicago Sun-Times and Better Government Association investigation finds.
Cancer has left Greg Fusco blind, bruised and scarred. As he prepares for his next surgery, he lets his cousin, a Sun-Times reporter, tell his story.
Phillip B. Payne, the teen who mugged Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s son, has been sentenced to bootcamp for other crimes.
Johnny “Goo” Herndon is accused of operating the drug ring since the early 1990s and using the profits to buy and rehab dozens of apartment buildings, including buildings where some rents are subsidized through Section 8.
A Chicago cop facing suspension over the David Koschman case says City Hall waited too long to punish him, so his suspension should be dropped.