Megan Crepeau

Members of the community attend an interfaith service on July 10, 2022, at Glencoe Union Church after seven people were killed on July Fourth during a mass shooting in Highland Park.

Purchase of rifle allegedly used in Highland Park massacre highlights limits of Illinois gun laws

July 6, 2022 at 8:52 a.m.

A day after a gunman fired 70 rounds into a crowd at the Highland Park Independence Day parade, concerns and questions began to emerge about the availability of high-capacity firepower...

Alleged shooter in Highland Park July 4th parade attack charged with 7 counts of murder in ‘premeditated and calculated attack’

July 6, 2022 at 11:07 a.m.

Prosecutors on Tuesday filed murder charges against the man suspected of firing upon crowds gathered for a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park on Monday morning, killing at least...

Highland Park shooting: 6 dead and 2 dozen others shot at parade; suspect arrested

July 5, 2022 at 8:38 a.m.

On an idyllic summer morning, from a rooftop high above the Highland Park Independence Day parade, a gunman aimed down at the floats and lawn chairs and strollers and opened...

Highland Park was at the center of gun-control debate long before Monday’s shooting; just days ago city honored Uvalde victims

July 5, 2022 at 9:20 a.m.

What haunts longtime Highland Park resident Dana Gordon now are the words of the mother of one of the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting victims. Just days ago, Gordon helped organize...

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Purchase of rifle allegedly used in Highland Park massacre highlights limits of Illinois gun laws

Alleged shooter in Highland Park July 4th parade attack charged with 7 counts of murder in ‘premeditated and calculated attack’

Highland Park shooting: 6 dead and 2 dozen others shot at parade; suspect arrested

Highland Park was at the center of gun-control debate long before Monday’s shooting; just days ago city honored Uvalde victims

Long sentence in New York calls into question how R. Kelly’s Chicago cases might proceed

A day after R. Kelly’s New York sentencing, judge rules disgraced singer’s Chicago indictment will remain intact

R. Kelly sentenced to 30 years in prison in federal court in New York after judge says he left ‘a trail of broken lives’

‘If Kellz goes down, everybody’s going down’: R. Kelly fan charged with threatening federal prosecutors in New York

R. Kelly’s summer of reckoning: Convicted singer faces potentially decades in prison in New York, jury trial in Chicago

Former Dixmoor police commander convicted in assault on grandmother