ISP director talks challenges facing the agency
— March 10, 2022SPRINGFIELD – Illinois State Police Director Brendan Kelly told a state violence prevention task force this week that expressway shootings, gun trafficking, trooper staffing levels…
SPRINGFIELD – Illinois State Police Director Brendan Kelly told a state violence prevention task force this week that expressway shootings, gun trafficking, trooper staffing levels…
SPRINGFIELD – A state program aiming to take a “comprehensive approach to ending Illinois’ firearm violence epidemic” will be expanded under a law signed Friday, Dec. 10…
SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois House Judiciary Criminal Committee advanced several bills Tuesday, March 9 including measures pertaining to animal cruelty laws, record expungement and…
A Chicago-based organization is looking to use art to curb the gun violence plaguing communities across the nation. The National Youth Art Movement Against Gun Violence is developing…
For Kristen Ziman, thoughts of the victims of last year’s Henry Pratt Company shootings are never far away. The Aurora police chief has spoken around the country about her department’s…
SPRINGFIELD – Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed an executive order Monday, Nov. 1 classifying ongoing gun violence in Illinois as a public health crisis and announced his intent to include…
Several events will be conducted in area communities as part of Moms Demand Action’s Wear Orange events to prevent gun violence. Orange is the color that the friends of Chicago teen…
Chicago police are investigating a rash of recent shootings, including four fatalities, and a man and his dog both being shot. A 37-year-old man died at Stroger Hospital after being…