Naperville Police Shoot Man When He Turns Gun On Them
Police responded to a call about a suspicious person Wednesday night and found a man with a gun pointed at his head.
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Police responded to a call about a suspicious person Wednesday night and found a man with a gun pointed at his head.
Gun-control advocates are rejoicing in the gun industry's misfortunes of late and chalking it up to not just shifting attitudes among Americans but a shift in elected political leaders.
A man in Hyde Park was in for a surprise when the woman he was trying to rob pulled out a gun and shot at him.
It took 16 years of work in the legislature, but Thursday Gov. JB Pritzker signed a landmark gun control bill into law.
The council said the zone wouldn't apply to hunters during hunting season and it wouldn't apply if gun owners get signed permission from their neighbors.
It's still not known if the guns that were found in November were discovered at Burke's ward office or at City Hall, but it's hard to miss the irony of a staunch gun control advocate having to turn over 23 guns as a condition of his bond.
CPD says it is on pace to recover about 900 more guns than were taken off the city's streets in 2017.
Tracking gang guns is especially difficult because they move from one faction to another, and when police finally seize them, they're rarely in the hands of the purchaser.
The Chicago Police Department said 525 firearms and 87 replicas were turned in at Saturday's gun turn-in.
From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., participants can turn in their guns for $100.
Purpose Over Pain coordinated the event aimed at making things a little easier for mothers who have lost children to gun violence.
The proposal would give school districts the option to allow highly trained teachers and staff to carry guns into schools.
Midlothian police are searching for a suspect who fled from a vehicle containing dozens of firearms, with one suspect already in custody.
"The most painful goodbyes are the ones that are never said and never explained,"
In south suburban Sauk Village, neighbors are finding bullet holes in the sides of their homes and families are keeping children inside.
A Cicero Police Officer has been shot during a police investigation, according to Chicago Police.
Protesters on Wednesday were calling on Chicago police to take action against a Bridgeport resident and firefighter accused of pulling a gun on someone as he ran a work-related errand.
New research shows active shooters with semi-automatic rifles wound and kill twice as many people as those using non-automatic weapons.
Gun deaths worldwide total about 250,000 yearly and the United States is among just six countries that make up half of those fatalities, a study found.
Arming teachers and other school employees has been a key proposal from Mr. Trump in the wake of the Parkland shooting.
The activist pastor who helped organize a small anti-violence march that briefly shut down Lake Shore Drive earlier this month now plans another march that would block traffic in and out of O'Hare International Airport on Labor Day.
Rev. Michael Pfleger also noted the homicide clearance rate at the Chicago Police Department dropped to an all-time low last year.
After an especially violent people saw 66 people shot in Chicago, police officials plan to deploy extra officers to neighborhoods that recently have suffered a surge in gun violence.
A group of religious and community leaders in Chicago called for a new way to end gun violence, saying what City Hall is doing isn't working.
Johnson said, while investigators have "really good leads" on several of the shootings, police have not made any arrests.
