Alex Nitkin is a government finance and accountability reporter conducting investigations on systemic problems and the public policies that are meant to fix them in Chicago, Cook County and Illinois government. Before joining Illinois Answers, he worked as a reporter and editor for The Daily Line covering Cook County and Chicago government. He previously worked at The Real Deal Chicago, where he covered local real estate news, and DNAinfo Chicago, where he worked as a breaking news reporter and then as a neighborhood reporter covering the city's Northwest Side. A New York native who grew up in Connecticut, Alex graduated Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism with a bachelor’s degree.

A recent graduate from the University of Notre Dame, Adriana is a Chicago Tribune reporter on the metro desk. She has worked at the Dallas Morning News and as editor-in-chief of The Observer, Notre Dame's student newspaper.

Grey Lucas was an investigative reporting intern with the Illinois Answers Project in 2022 and 2023.