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The Illinois House debates a bill requiring gun license applicants to be fingerprinted during the Illinois General Assembly's spring session at the State Capitol in Springfield on May 29, 2019.

What you should know about the gun reforms awaiting a vote by the Illinois Senate

May 31, 2019 at 7:32 a.m.

With Illinois' legislative session rapidly winding down, Democratic lawmakers were pushing Thursday to secure votes needed to pass significant changes to the state's gun licensing procedures — over the objections...

Rep. Barbara Hernandez, D-Aurora, invoked the February 2019 mass shooting there in supporting a bill that would require gun license applicants to be fingerprinted. "I don't want to see this happen anywhere else in Illinois," she said.

After heated debate, Illinois House approves bill requiring gun license applicants to be fingerprinted

June 1, 2019 at 8:19 a.m.

Looking to address the broken system that enabled the Aurora shooter to buy a gun and keep it — despite his criminal history — the Illinois House narrowly passed legislation...

Cook County sheriff's police investigators Todd Lukas, from left, Adrian Sandoval and Michael Ware exit an apartment building after looking for a person whose FOID card was revoked, Thursday, April 18, 2019, in Blue Island.

More than 34,000 Illinoisans have lost their right to own a gun. Nearly 80% may still be armed.

May 15, 2024 at 3:12 p.m.

As many as 30,000 guns may still be in the possession of Illinois residents deemed too dangerous to have them, according to a Tribune investigation. In an analysis of data...

Terrence Haynes outside the Kankakee County Courthouse on May 6, 2019, after a pretrial status hearing before his possible retrial in a 1999 murder.

After child witness says he lied on stand 20 years ago, authorities reviewing whether to retry man convicted of murder

May 23, 2019 at 2:03 a.m.

KANKAKEE — Local prosecutors need more time before committing to retry a man convicted of murder based on the words of child witness who has since recanted his testimony, the...

Terrence Haynes sits in his bedroom at his Kankakee home on April 23, 2019. Since recently leaving prison after nearly 20 years, Haynes often finds himself sitting alone in silence in the room, where he says he can think.

Shocking twists in murder case lead to convicted man’s release after 19 years — but can he keep his freedom?

May 5, 2019 at 2:46 p.m.

In the months since his court-ordered release from prison, Terrence Haynes has struggled to keep up with the world he left behind two decades ago. He reluctantly learned to text,...

People visit a memorial on Feb. 19, 2019, for the people killed at the Henry Pratt Co. in Aurora.

Wrongful death lawsuit against Illinois State Police filed by family of Aurora mass shooting victim

May 22, 2019 at 4:19 p.m.

The family of a man slain in last month’s mass shooting in Aurora has filed a lawsuit against the Illinois State Police for issuing a firearm license to the convicted...

J.A.K.'S Puppies and Hobo K-9 Rescue use the same storefront in Britt, Iowa, as their business address on veterinary inspection certificates, though a sign on the door identifies it only as the J.A.K.'S office.

Authorities move to shut down ‘national puppy laundering ring’ with ties to Chicago pet stores

May 23, 2019 at 1:52 a.m.

An alleged “national puppy laundering ring” that supplied dogs to Chicago pet shops could be shut down following a baiduhai report last year that exposed how the stores were...

Ald. Daniel Solis, 25th, attends a Chicago City Council meeting on Dec. 2, 2014.

Bombshell filing details FBI’s two-year probe of alleged corruption by Ald. Daniel Solis

May 23, 2019 at 1:51 a.m.

A bombshell court filing made public Wednesday shows the FBI spent more than two years investigating alleged corruption schemes by longtime Ald. Daniel Solis, secretly listening in on thousands of...

El concejal Daniel Solís grabó al concejal Edward Burke (no aparece en la foto) para cooperar con el FBI.

El FBI anduvo dos años tras Daniel Solís, lo investigaron por corrupción

March 13, 2019 at 1:47 p.m.

Documentos de la corte liberados el miércoles, indican que el FBI pasó más de dos años investigando supuestos esquemas de corrupción del concejal Daniel Solís (D-25), grabaron secretamente sus reuniones...

Emergency vehicles are staged near a commercial building where an active shooter was reported in the 600 block of Archer Avenue in Aurora on Feb. 15, 2019.

Aurora shooter announced, ‘We’re done here’ before opening fire on co-workers, says lawyer of man shot 3 times

May 23, 2019 at 1:50 a.m.

Upon learning he was being fired from his job at an Aurora warehouse, Gary Martin announced, “We’re done here” and began shooting the participants in his termination hearing, a lawyer...

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