When Chicago passed a ban on handgun ownership in 1982, it was part of a trend. Washington, D.C. had done it in 1976, and a few Chicago suburbs took up the cause in the following years. They all expected to reduce the number of guns and thus curtail bloodshed.
District of Columbia Attorney General Linda Singer [...]
The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed poised to require state and local governments to obey the Second Amendment guarantee of a personal right to a gun, but with perhaps considerable authority to regulate that right. The dominant sentiment on the Court was to extend the Amendment beyond the federal level, based on the 14th [...]
A north suburban Grayslake Middle School student who was thought to have overdosed on Vicodin was not the only student who had health problems from taking pills supplied that day for free by a high school student.
Grayslake Police Cmdr. Matt McCutcheon said Tuesday the student did not overdose on Vicodin, that it was possibly a [...]
“In my home, this is the only time I worry,” McDonald said. “There's more guns coming into this city than the police can take away from them. So if I've got a gun, and if others have guns in their homes to protect themselves, then that's one thing that police would have to worry about [...]
A Far South Side was ordered held on $25,000 bond Thursday after police allegedly found cannabis plants, loaded handguns and more than $11,000 in cash inside a home across the street from a grammar school.
Ralph Lawson, 26, of the 9300 block of South Wallace Street was charged with one count each of felony cannabis manufacturing/delivery [...]
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