Stephanie Zimmermann

Watchdogs reporter, consumer investigations
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Stephanie Zimmermann is an award-winning investigative journalist who focuses on consumer issues, defined broadly to include credit and debt, insurance, food, housing, health, transportation, technology, unsafe products, scams/frauds and other issues that affect everyday people. Before joining the Sun-Times, Stephanie worked for the ABC News Investigative Unit and at news outlets in Florida and Illinois.

Nearly two years and $1.9 billion in sales since recreational marijuana was legalized, consumers can’t be sure the heavily taxed legal weed they buy is free from mold, yeast and bacteria and meets the label’s promised potency, a Sun-Times investigation found.

Dec 10, 2021

Latest from Stephanie Zimmermann

August closing of the Arlington Heights facility will make it hard for families to get affordable services, they say.
A bill approved Friday in Springfield would address some of the problems identified in “Failure to treat, failure to protect,” a Chicago Sun-Times Watchdogs series.
Illinois saw the second-highest jump in home insurance premiums in the nation, partly fueled by claims after extreme weather events.
They say the agency helped them advocate to protect other families after their children died in safety accidents.
A veteran is suing for fraud after he says he was led to believe he’d won $10,000 but instead got pressured into buying a car he couldn’t afford.
La cerca infringía la ordenanza de desarrollo que requiere acceso abierto a la plaza pública de 1.2 acres, según el Departamento de Planificación y Desarrollo de la ciudad
The fencing violated the planned development ordinance requiring open access to the 1.2-acre public plaza, according to the city’s Department of Planning and Development.
First-time homebuyers in Albany Park are suing the seller of a former “hoarder” house, saying that after the purchase closed, they discovered cat feces, urine and bones.
Mauro Galvan, who has severe mental illness, was a danger to himself and others, according to his relatives, who say the state should have done more in releasing him from Elgin Mental Health Center than just drop him on the sidewalk outside the Pacific Garden Mission.
Many ways to improve treatment are expensive and could be in peril if Medicaid funding is slashed by the Trump administration, experts say. One of the biggest problems with Illinois’ mental health treatment system is a lack of coordination, they say.