Chicago Guns

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's call for a statewide handgun registry was only announced Thursday, but the plan has already come under intense scrutiny b...

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

At least 20 people, including one child and several teens, have been wounded so far during a violent and unseasonably warm weekend in Chicago. The...

At least 14 people were wounded by gunfire on an unseasonably warm Thursday in Chicago. The violence began about 1:15 p.m., when a 20-year-old man...

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

Two 16-year-old boys were charged Wednesday in the broad daylight shooting of a 1-year-old girl who remains hospitalized. The baby was with her 15...

A 1-year-old girl is reportedly having surgery at Children's Memorial Hospital Tuesday after being shot in the head on Chicago's South Side. The C...

On Monday night, Chicago police officers shot and wounded two people--including a 13-year-old boy who reportedly had a BB gun. On Tuesday night, an of...

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...

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...

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 shotgun involved in the apparently accidental shooting that claimed the life of a 12-year-old boy in his Roseland home was kept for protection, pu...

At Gene's Playmate Lounge at Cermak and Kildare, you can't have a drink unless you're at least 25 years old. Young guys who might be packing pistols c...

It's 33 acres of land filled with trees, grass and plants. It's home to rare birds and other wildlife, and it's in the city of Chicago. But Chicag...

On Monday, June 28, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Chicago's 28-year-old handgun ban unconstitutional. Over the next four days, Mayor Daley muscled the ...

At least four people were left dead and 12 wounded in overnight shootings in Chicago, most on the South Side, officials said. The most recent homi...

Two Chicago police officers were wounded early Wednesday while attempting to serve a search warrant for weapons in the home of a gang member. Accord...

CHICAGO — The Chicago City Council on Friday approved what city officials say is the strictest handgun ordinance in the nation, but not before l...

CHICAGO -- The bonding moment between Veronica Tinajero and the student she calls Big Sunshine came during one of their first meetings. "Have you e...

Gerald Vernon says he did everything he should have to obtain a permit to hold a meeting at the Tuley Park field house on the south side. He told the ...

A 17-year-old boy was charged with one count of endangering a child causing death Thursday morning after the teen's 5-year-old nephew was accidentally...

CHICAGO — The twin 5-year-old boys had just climbed out of the bathtub and into their pajamas the night before the first day of kindergarten whe...

A man wearing a ski mask and dressed in all-black walked into an East Garfield Park neighborhood grocery store Tuesday evening and shot two men there...

On Sunday, anti-violence activists gathered once again to speak out against Chicago violence. Community members and local religious leaders called for...