Tell Illinois Legislators you and your family want to shop, dine, bank, and go to the movies – gun free! Add your name to support requiring businesses to post a sign if they allow loaded, concealed handguns on their premises.Read More

Twenty children or adolescents were hospitalized for firearm-related injuries every day in 2009, and 453 died of their wounds, a new report says. The study provides one of the most comprehensive recent efforts to tally the number of children hurt nationally in gun-related incidents. It was published Monday in the journal Pediatrics. A national database of patients...Read More

A 15-year-old boy getting out of a car was shot to death in a drive-by attack Sunday afternoon in the Little Village. His death was the third gunshot wound homicide in the Little Village neighborhood in less than two weeks and happened about 36 hours after another homicide along a gang border in that neighborhood....Read More

The weekend’s latest incident took place around 10 a.m. Sunday when a man was shot while shoveling snow on Chicago’s South Side. … Just before 5 a.m. Sunday, two men were found dead in the 9100 block of South Commercial Avenue. … Just before 5 a.m. Sunday, two men were found dead in the 9100 block...Read More