Since launching last year, the Highland Park Peace Project has graded more than 180 companies based on their connections to ...

As Highland Park High School students head back to class Wednesday for the 2023-24 school year, a new "weapons detection system" will be in place across the building at certain entrances, officials ...

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SPRINGFIELD Ill. (WLS) -- The full Illinois House is poised to take up historic legislation aimed at curbing mass shootings and the epidemic of gun violence plaguing every corner of the state. This ...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court gave Illinois gun control advocates a victory Monday when they announced they will not consider a legal challenge to an assault weapons ban in Highland Park. The ...

CHICAGO (CBS) – Wednesday marks a somber six months since the Highland Park parade shooting. This coincides with a renewed push to ban semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines at the state ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Members of Congress are back from recess in Washington .D.C, , and so are protesters -- demanding lawmakers take action after even more mass shootings. They are tired of feeling ...

Students at Highland Park High School arriving for the first day of school year Wednesday will pass through a weapons detection system before proceeding to their locker and classes. Plans originally ...

Illinois passed an assault weapons ban Tuesday, six months after a mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park left seven dead and dozens wounded. Illinois Gov. J.B ...