Chicago Police Chief of Patrol Jon Hein waits to testify Wednesday during a City Council budget hearing. | Credit: (Candace Dane Chambers / Chicago Sun-Times

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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.

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.