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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.

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.
Interim police Supt. Fred Waller ordered that ties with Professional Law Enforcement Training be cut, but PLET was brought back late last year.
Guns trafficked from Tennessee in late 2021 and early 2022 by Brandon Miller and his Army crew were linked to least eight killings, authorities say.
Interim Cook County Inspector General Steven Cyranoski says he suspects eight workers of defrauding the Paycheck Protection Program — on top of at least 31 workers he previously identified.