Beloved friends and colleagues, I've left investigative reporting to pursue a masters in creative writing (poetry) at @UChicago ... High-stakes public service journalism took me around the globe, and deep into the city where I was born and raised. I am grateful beyond words for the friendships we forged and all the good we got to do together. Now, in my last open chapter, it's time to pivot -- to be a poet again. Peace and strength to you, truth-seekers! Your hear the cry for help that comes from just beyond earshot; hold real-world villains to account; expose the grift powerful institutions will never address because they’re tangled up in it; you build community. I will be following your great and needed work. I hope you will be in my life forever!

Injustice Watch advanced its investigation into Illinois' Special Prosecution Unit -- this time with a trove of documents from two whistleblowers. And the @Suntimes has been with us every step of the way - thank you, Bright One! chicago.suntimes.com/the-wat…

Following our Aug. 14 investigation into Illinois' Special Prosecution Unit, two whistleblowers brought us boxes of records revealing previously unreported misconduct and conflicts of interest by the elite unit. Today we published their accounts: injusticewatch.org/project/s…

I am so grateful to @WTTW, Chicago's trusted @PBS station (and my Window To The World), for republishing our investigation into Illinois’ Special Prosecution Unit: news.wttw.com/2026/08/14/wro…

Thank you to the hardest-working paper in America -- @Suntimes – for republishing our investigation into Illinois’ Special Prosecution Unit, and giving it that glorious slug: THE WATCHDOGS: chicago.suntimes.com/the-wat…

Thank you @ILTimes for making this week’s cover story our investigation into Illinois’ Special Prosecution Unit. Our reporting stood on the shoulders of early, hard-hitting stories by this 51-year-old alternative newsweekly. illinoistimes.com/

I am so grateful to the nonprofit news service @CapitolNewsIL for republishing our investigation into Illinois’ Special Prosecution Unit. Operated by the @ILPFoundation, CNI provides nonpartisan coverage of state government to hundreds of news outlets throughout the state. capitolnewsillinois.com/news…

Our investigation into Illinois’ Special Prosecution Unit launched today, at injusticewatch.org/ - This elite crew of state government attorneys is called in when local state’s attorneys have political or personal ties to a defendant, including cases of serious government corruption. We found the unit has been responsible for miscarriages of justice including withholding evidence and favorable treatment of political insiders, as well as conflicts of interest and ethical breaches. Illinois is an outlier among states in having a unit of special prosecutors who try local government corruption cases without oversight from any elected official, and other states have created safeguards against the insular leadership and a lack of accountability that plague the unit ...

Kudos to @ChicagoMaroon for breaking news its community needed, and for providing the most meticulous reporting: chicagomaroon.com/49435/news…

Earning the trust of people who use hard drugs, @ZushaElinson & @littlewern (Julie Wernau) examine their medical bills to expose the multimillion-dollar fraud in America’s booming rehab industry: wsj.com/us-news/drug-rehabs-…

From @BlockClubCHI, a powerful new @_ManuelRamos_ investigation into Chicago's "Death Hospital": blockclubchicago.org/2025/08…

Anger over Chicago's 2013 school closures helped fuel the CTU's rise to political power - but today, empty high schools struggle with chronic truancy and high dropout rates, @chalkbeatCHI & @propublica report: propublica.org/article/chica…