Page 25 - Nancy Rotering News Today

Six months later, Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering reflects on the deadly July 4 mass shooting and how the city is moving forward. "The impacts of this one minute will last for lifetimes," she said.

As the year winds to a close, the city continues to come to grips with what occurred, how to grieve those lost and what, if anything, should be done to prevent future gun violence, in what is tragically one of the Lake County News-Sun’s top stories of 2022.

Wait... what?

There's been sort of an unwritten rule the past several years in Springfield to stay away from doing things like ban assault weapons. The votes...

The first of several hearings on a proposed bill that would ban certain firearms and magazines in Illinois focused on victims and public health officials advocating for the bill’s passage.

Rich Miller Capitol Fax: Theres push-back on proposed gun legislation

The proposed legislation would ban the future sale of a list of guns defined as assault weapons. While the bill is many stages away from becoming law, leading Democrats are committed to its passage.

Survivors of mass shootings in suburban Highland Park and the East Garfield Park community of Chicago testify before an Illinois House committee in support of a proposal to ban assault weapons.

The event was one of a series of vigils held across the country for the 10th annual National Vigil for All Victims and Survivors of Gun Violence.

In 2022, Chicago has seen more than 630 homicides from gun violence, speakers said.