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.
On the South Side, a 22-year-old Chicago man the police said was a gang member was shot to death May 27 inside a Washington Park apartment described
Greg Fusco, whose lifelong bout with cancer was the subject of a Sun-Times story, is back home after surgery to remove a huge tumor from his face.
<p><span style="line-height:1.5em;">A clout-heavy couple convicted of stealing more than $3 million in state grant money to support a lavish lifestyle
The ruling is the latest example of just how slowly police-discipline cases can move through the Chicago Police Department’s disciplinary process.
Chicago cops have stayed on job despite being charged with crimes including battery, assault and child endangerment, a Sun-Times’ investigation finds.
Chicago cops who were fired or quit while facing dismissal are getting $1.2 million a year in city pensions, Sun-Times ‘Tarnished Badges’ probe finds.
Chicago Sun-Times’ “Tarnished Badges’ investigation finds Chicago Police Department discipline, Chicago Police Board rulings are “very inconsistent.”
Officer Richard A. Rizzo — a subject of the Chicago Sun-Times’ “Tarnished Badges” investigation last year who’s been arrested four times by his own department in 17 years as a Chicago cop — should be fired, Supt. Garry McCarthy says.
After 29 disciplinary investigations, multiple suspensions and four arrests by his own department, Richard A. Rizzo has been fired as a Chicago cop.