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Andre Williams, left, and his mother, Crystal Reynolds, outside their home in South Shore. Last September, they dodged bullets from a gun that had been stolen from the Gresham District police station. (Credit: Zubaer Khan / Sun-Times)
Andre Williams, left, and his mother, Crystal Reynolds, outside their home in South Shore. Last September, they dodged bullets from a gun that had been stolen from the Gresham District police station. (Credit: Zubaer Khan / Chicago Sun-Times)

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Peter Nickeas joined Better Government Association as an investigative reporter in 2023. He previously covered policing for CNN and violence for the Chicago Tribune. He was a 2019 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism and a 2018 Ochberg Fellow at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma.

Casey Toner, a Chicago native, has been an Illinois Answers reporter since 2016, taking the lead on numerous projects about criminal justice and politics. His series on police shootings in suburban Cook County resulted in a state law requiring procedural investigations of all police shootings in Illinois. Before he joined Illinois Answers, he wrote for the Daily Southtown and was a statewide reporter for Alabama Media Group, a consortium of Alabama newspapers. Outside of work, he enjoys watching soccer and writing music.

Tom Schuba is a reporter and editor at the Chicago Sun-Times focused on criminal justice issues, and he previously covered the legalization of marijuana across Illinois. He has earned a National Headliner Award for a series of stories investigating the state’s troubled cannabis testing regulations, among other prizes for his reporting.