Natasha Korecki is a national correspondent for POLITICO.
She previously worked as chief political writer at the Chicago Sun-Times where she wrote a reporting-based Sunday column. Before that, she covered federal courts and law enforcement during a golden age of political corruption prosecutions in Chicago. Korecki reported on the criminal trials of two consecutive governors – George Ryan and Rod Blagojevich – and created the “Blago Blog,” which drew a national following.
She is the author of Only in Chicago (Agate) based on the Blagojevich probe and trials.