Chicago Gun Laws

Updated story Residents on Chicago's South Side are "outraged" Tuesday after their elderly neighbor was arrested for shooting a man who tried to br...

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel spoke at a luncheon in Peoria, Ill. Wednesday, and urged those assembled there to reject the "Chicago versus downstate" div...

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is expected Thursday to introduce a proposal he hopes Illinois lawmakers will take up: a new, statewide handgun registry. ...

State officials announced this week that Chicago has seen a 16 percent increase in the number of people registering for state firearm owner's identifi...

Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy on Wednesday announced that his department removed 131 illegal guns from the city's streets on New Year's...

A measure pinning a new $3,000 fine on individuals caught with guns within 500 feet of Chicago schools and parks was approved last week by a City Coun...

Just over a year ago, handguns were outlawed within the Chicago city limits. Now, under a proposal from Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the city could soon be hom...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- As state after state voted to let residents carry concealed guns, Illinois has held out, for a long list of reasons: A strong gun...

Edison Park and Norwood Park are seemingly as far from Chicago's crime problems as one can get without leaving the city. The predominantly white, midd...

Chicago's outgoing mayor has long been a vocal proponent of gun control legislation. As the CEO of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns coalition, Mayor Da...

Samuel Caballero-Solis was shaking a leg at a wedding reception on Saturday night, in the gym at St. Michael's Church in Chicago's Back of the Yards n...

The .45-caliber handgun found feet from the body of Officer Thomas Wortham IV passed through three states and many hands before a chance encounter at ...

Starting today, Chicagoans can legally keep handguns in their homes. Following a Supreme Court decision that rendered the city's handgun ban illegal...

With many people predicting that the Supreme Court will overturn Chicago's ban on handguns following arguments heard Tuesday, Mayor Daley expressed ou...

Local gun shop owners say they're seeing an increase in the number of women shoppers right now....

Mayor Daley and Governor Quinn, on Thursday morning, signed new legislation targeting gang members. The new law is named in honor of Chicago Police Of...

Nebraska and 37 other states are supporting a challenge to Chicago's ban on handguns....

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether strict local and state gun control laws violate the Second Amendment, ensuring another high-profile battle over the rights of gun owners.

The court said it will review a lower court ruling that upheld a handgun ban in Chicago. Gun rights supporters challenged gun laws in Chicago and some suburbs immediately following the high court's decision in June 2008 that struck down a handgun ban in the District of Columbia, a federal enclave.

The new case tests whether last year's ruling applies as well to local and state laws.

The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld ordinances barring the ownership of handguns in most cases in Chicago and suburban Oak Park, Ill.

Judge Frank Easterbrook, an appointee of President Ronald Reagan, said that "the Constitution establishes a federal republic where local differences are to be cherished as elements of liberty rather than extirpated in order to produce a single, nationally applicable rule."

A City Council committee today approved an ordinance to require at least a few days behind bars for anyone convicted of illegally carrying a gun under...

CHICAGO (AP) -- The National Rifle Association and Chicago long have been the biggest and toughest guys on the block in the fight over handguns. Afte...

Mayor Richard Daley said today that Chicago will host a "gun conference" next month to look for ways to beef up gun laws and get guns off the streets....

Chicago won round one in its defense of the city's handgun ban, but Mayor Richard Daley said today he's looking at less sweeping gun control measures ...