Guns

A 16-year-old Rock Falls boy is being treated for life-threatening wounds after being shot once in the chest a

Two Joliet brothers are accused of attempting to kill their sister’s boyfriend in a July 2 shooting that apparently left him paralyzed, court records show.

Illinoisans who own weapons that can no longer be purchased or sold in the state under its new gun ban will soon be able to register those weapons so they can legally keep them

One man was killed and seven people were wounded in three separate shootings hours apart in Peoria, continuing a spate of gun violence that started in the central Illinois city last weekend.

A judge found Matthew Rutledge guilty of killing Quentin Woods and wounding his sister in a 2019 shooting that took place in broad daylight in Joliet. At the time, Woods' sister confronted Rutledge about her money that went missing.

A gun trade association has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a new Illinois law that restricts how gun dealers and manufacturers market their products.

A new law in Illinois restricts the way gun dealers and manufacturers can market and sell their products and subjects them to civil penalties for violations.

DeKalb County Sheriff Andy Sullivan said Friday he plans to enforce a statewide ban on semiautomatic weapons, reversing a declaration he made in January alongside sheriffs statewide that alleged the law was unconstitutional and wouldn’t be followed.

Local officials divided over impact of Illinois Supreme Court ruling on gun ban.

In some fairly predictable responses in the conservative-leaning Sauk Valley, legislative representatives and others reacted Friday to news that the state Supreme Court upheld a ban on semiautomatic assault guns.

A man convicted of a 2017 fatal shooting in Minooka without justification has successfully completed a four-year probation, a rare sentence that has only been issued in one other case filed since 2010 in Will County.

A newly launched group in DeKalb on a mission to advocate against senseless killings recently held an event to spread awareness of its cause and bring the community together.

A spate of weekend mass shootings and violence across the U.S. killed at least six people, including a Pennsylvania state trooper, and left dozens injured. In northern Illinois, there were shootings in Willowbrook and Streator, and overnight reports of gunfire in DeKalb.

A DeKalb man with a loaded 9 mm handgun tucked in his waistband was tired, so he took a nap on a stranger’s couch, according to court records.

A bullet struck the window of a residence during the chaos on Thursday morning in Romeoville that left an officer with a gunshot wound to the shoulder.