Tim Novak

Experience

1. Reporter

   Chicago Sun-Times

   Jan 1995 — Present

   Investigative reporter exposing government corruption in the city of Chicago, Cook County and the state of Illinois. A four-year investigation into a homicide led to appointment of a special prosecutor, resulting in Mayor Daley\'s nephew pleading guilty to manslaughter in 2014. A six-month investigation in 2004 brought down Daley\'s Hired Truck program, in which city agencies spent $40 million on trucking companies owned by mobsters and politically-connected insiders that were often paid to do nothing. An ensuing federal investigation led to indictments of 49 people, including 29 city employees. All were convicted except for a former city employee/mob bookie who fell from a horse and died before trial.

Education

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Bachelor, Journalism

  1976 — 1980