brace Chicago Sun-Times reporters have won recognition from a national journalism organization for an investigation that revealed 100 convicted sex transgressors and 61 parolees convicted of non-sex crimes were living in nursing households across Illinois.

Reporters Lori Rackl and Chris Fusco were finalists for the prestigious IRE Awards, given annually on the journalism group Investigative Reporters & Editors.

Their two-part series showed that registered sex delinquents and other ex-cons -- many younger than 50 years antique -- were living in Illinois nursing family circles often unbeknownst to other residents or employee of the hearthstones In the wake of the series, the Illinois General Assembly passed modern laws requiring criminal-background checks of all nursing-home residents to make secure safety precautions are put in place to harbor vulnerable residents.

The Sun-Times series was common of five finalists for IRE Awards in the category of large newspapers -- those with a circulation between 250000 and 500000 The winner in that category was the southward Florida Sun-Sentinel, for stories that denudeed massive waste by the Federal conjuncture Management Agency.

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