David Struett has been a reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times since 2018. He served as the Sun-Times’ interim deputy editor of the breaking news desk from December 2020 to April 2021.

He has been also published in the South Side Weekly, Chicago Sun-Times Homicide Watch and Harold Washington College’s paper, The Herald, where he was managing editor.

Before he was a journalist, he worked as an EMT on the Lurie Children’s Hospital transport team in downtown Chicago. He earned a B.A. in history from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and worked with the AmeriCorps at a food bank in New Orleans.

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Contact: dstruett@suntimes.com

Selected Work

• “Check fraud spikes: Chicago sees jump in checks stolen from mailboxes, ‘washed’ and cashed for thousands of dollars” Chicago Sun-Times, Oct 12, 2022 (newspaper clipping).
• “CPD’s growing use of cameras that read license plates leads to worries about data misuse” Chicago Sun-Times, Apr 20, 2022 (clip).
• “As opioid overdose deaths hit new record, pressure grows for safe places to inject drugs in Chicago” Chicago Sun-Times, Jan 17, 2022 (clip).
• “With neighborhoods becoming more dangerous, Chicago spending $411 million on a safety plan that has shown few results so far” Chicago Sun-Times, Dec 16, 2021 (clip).
• “Chicago mom loses her 12-year-old boy to COVID: ‘It’s too hard, and I miss my son’” Chicago Sun-Times, Aug 27, 2021 (clip).
• “Nearly a year into Lightfoot’s anti-violence plan, many of Chicago’s most dangerous neighborhoods are doing worse” Chicago Sun-Times, Jul 25, 2021 (clip).
• “Kevin Clark, drummer in ‘School of Rock,’ hit and killed by driver while biking in Avondale” Chicago Sun-Times, May 26, 2021 (clip).
• “66% of Chicago police chases in 2019 ended in crashes — 8 of them fatal — yet pursuit policy went unchanged until late 2020, emails show” Chicago Sun-Times, May 12, 2021 (clip).
• “Nearly 30 years ago, her 12-year-old son was killed by a Chicago cop. ‘Do I think anything’s changed? No, I think it’s even worse today.’” Chicago Sun-Times, Apr. 16, 2021 (clip).
• “Angela Jackson, state’s new poet laureate, hopes to empower children: ‘I want to awaken the poets’” Chicago Sun-Times, Nov. 25, 2020.
• “Two angling to replace Dorothy Brown pledge to reform court clerk’s office – from nepotism, to ‘cloud of deception’ to ‘landmines’” Sun-Times, Oct. 22, 2020.
• “Brutally attacked in South Shore, Black trans woman questions lagging police investigation” Sun-Times, July 24, 2020.
• “Boy lives out dream as superhero persona ‘Galacto’ at Make-A-Wish event” Sun-Times, June 9, 2019.
• “ParkWorks may not work for Pilsen” South Side Weekly, July 18, 2017.