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A previously convicted felon was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday for stealing hundreds guns from a Chicago cargo train and proceeding to sell more than a dozen of them.

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A former gang member turned gun control champion has stepped down from many of the organizations she once supported and now legally carries a handgun.

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A former player for the National Basketball Association was sentenced to 8 years in prison Thursday for possessing guns stolen from a Chicago rail yard.

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Five men have been indicted in a straw purchasing scheme that brought at least nine handguns from Michigan to Chicago, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced Tuesday.

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The Archdiocese of Chicago, headed by Cardinal Blase Cupich, has announced that firearms are now officially banned from all church properties.

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The violence continued in Chicago last weekend, as 5 people were killed and 31 more wounded in shootings around the city from Friday afternoon through Monday morning.

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Two Chicago alderman are pushing an ordinance that would ban guns and other weapons from all protests held in the Windy City.

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Chicago Police have seized nearly 6,000 illegally possessed guns so far in 2017, up by 250 from this time last year.

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A Chicago felon was sentenced to 7 years in prison Tuesday for illegally brokering the sale of more than 75 firearms.

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The mercurial Chicago-based rapper Chief Keef has become known for rapping about guns and violence in the Windy City, but recently admitted he had turned to paintballing in an attempt to distance himself from real firearms.

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A Chicago teen is finding an escape from all the gun violence in a unlikely place--a local funeral home on the Windy City's south side.

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A convicted felon was sentenced to 7 years in prison Wednesday for firing a gun near Wrigley Field after the Chicago Cubs won the 2015 National League Division Series.

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