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Thomas Frisbie

Editorial Board Member

Thomas Frisbie, an award-winning journalist, has been with the Sun-Times for more than four decades and, as he likes to say, has “held almost every job at the paper besides editor.” He has been a member of the Editorial Board since 2009 and was previously news editor. As a reporter, he has covered government, the courts, education and other beats. Frisbie is the co-author of the award-winning “Victims of Justice” and “Victims of Justice Revisited,” on the wrongful convictions of three men for the 1983 murder of 10-year-old Jeanine Nicarico and the prosecution of seven law enforcement officials in connection with the case. Frisbie is a past president of the 109-year-old Society of Midland Authors and remains an active member on the organization’s board.

Much of his art, often completed at his studio in Antioch, was inspired by trips to ancient and natural sites in the United States and Canada.
Information he unearthed helped free innocent men in the 1983 killing of the 10-year-old Naperville girl. “I know there are at least three innocent men who owe their freedom and reputations to Randy,” attorney Gary Johnson said.
Power helped found the American Indian Center in Chicago.
Author of four books was a passionate reader and enjoyed travel, theater, music, cooking and gardening.
In 2002, Mr. Ryan passed up a possible third term as attorney general and ran for governor, losing to Democrat Rod Blagojevich.
A refugee from Latvia, he had respect for reporters and editors.
Her Fiery Clock Face bookstore in Andersonville was a gathering spot for bibliophiles and her annual New Year’s Eve party was an ‘A-list’ event.
He was an author at the forefront of a movement in which America claimed its identity through its ethnic writers.
Writer had ‘a crafty, mesmerizing style, a melange of the mundane and the magical.’