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This year, there have been nearly 100 gunfire incidents on school property in America. There have been at least three incidents of gun violence on school grounds just in the WNIJ listening area of northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin.
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Claire Comerford and her little sister are middle school students in Romeoville. On their first day of summer vacation, they joined a crowd protesting the school shooting in Texas. Their sign said “No more silence, end gun violence.”
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The top federal prosecutor for central Illinois says a new anti-gun violence initiative will improve coordination between law enforcement agencies and...
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Governor Bruce Rauner has blamed Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel for failure on the city’s violence.Governor Bruce Rauner says Rahm Emanuel has "failed…
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Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner says he will not dispatch the Illinois National Guard to Chicago to stem gun violence. The Republican on Wednesday said, "the…
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Chicago officials announced Tuesday hundreds of additional police officers will be deployed to city neighborhoods where a burst of gun violence over the…
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For many families and young adults living in Peoria’s South Side, gun violence is too often a part of life and something they’ve been fighting against —…
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The national conversation around gun violence generally centers around mass shootings, school shootings and gang activity. These problems need to be…
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Last month, about a dozen people gathered in the basement of a church in Champaign, Ill., to learn how traumatic experiences affect the lives of children…
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Gov. Bruce Rauner has a track record of handing the toughest topics to small bipartisan panels of legislators. These “working groups” have been tasked…