Frank Main
Staff Reporter
Frank Main began his newspaper career in 1987 in Tulsa, Oklahoma and worked in Louisiana and Kentucky, covering local politics and crime. He was on the ground for Hurricanes Andrew and Katrina, the Bosnia conflict, the first Gulf War and the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in New York. In 2011, Main, another reporter and a photographer won the Pulitzer Prize for their stories in the Sun-Times about a ‘no-snitch code’ among Chicago’s victims of gun violence. For that project, Main spent six months embedded with homicide detectives. He’s a graduate of Emory University and Northwestern University’s graduate journalism program and teaches journalism at Loyola University.
The organizers of Wednesday’s demonstration are familiar with Chicago police and not affiliated with the group involved in Tuesday’s violence.
Dawn Chester was a middle-school teacher in Westchester at the time of the alleged abuse in 2000. Her accuser says she saw on social media that Chester, whose name was different in 2000, was teaching in a nearby school district and went to the police about her allegations in June.
During Monday’s march, dozens of protesters broke through the security perimeter fencing near Park 578, a designated protest site near the United Center. Police responded before the protesters could get any further, leading to a standoff. Eventually, the fencing was breached in five locations, and police detained several protesters.
President Joe Biden became a target of satirical, manipulated videos before he dropped his reelection bid. And a deepfake photo after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump was altered to make it appear Secret Service agents smiled as they encircled him — apparently an effort to make the shooting appear to be a hoax.
Ashley Moore is accused of scheming with two Chicago cops over two years. They face theft and misconduct charges.
El Mayo, whose real name is Ismael Zambada Garcia, evaded U.S. authorities for years, even after they captured Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera. El Mayo ran the white-collar side of the multibillion-dollar Mexican drug cartel, authorities have said.
El Mayo, cuyo verdadero nombre es Ismael Zambada García, evadió a las autoridades estadounidenses durante años, incluso después de que capturaron a Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera. El Mayo dirigía la parte de los negocios de cuello blanco del multimillonario cártel de la droga mexicano, según las autoridades.
Abdul Wahed, a 26-year-old India native in the U.S. on a student visa, is accused of filing tens of thousands of fraudulent claims in 2023.
The department got a black eye over how it dealt with protests following the police killing of George Floyd in 2020. And the images of cops beating demonstrators with batons during the Democratic convention in 1968 are still seared into the national consciousness.