The Latest Breaking News from Illinois

CHICAGO — A day after a gunman fired 70 rounds into a crowd at the Highland Park Independence Day parade, concerns and questions began to emerge about the availability of high-capacity firepower in Illinois, including whether existing rules and laws around background checks are enough to protect the public.

Robert Crimo is charged with seven counts of murder and facing the possibility of life in prison

Washington (AFP) - A mostly Latino working-class elementary school.A supermarket with a largely Black clientele.A July 4th celebration in an upscale, mostly white community.

Retiring incumbent Jesse White is widely regarded as having used his position to help libraries, readers, writers and lifelong learners.

CHICAGO — Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the Democratic leaders in the Illinois General Assembly are pushing back a planned special legislative session aimed at increasing legal protections for abortion providers and patients in Illinois.

Highland Park, Illinois, native Rachel Brosnahan is reacting to the massacre that ended six lives during what should have been a celebratory Fourth of July parade Monday in the Chicago suburb.

Officials say the suspected shooter planned for weeks, wore women’s clothes as disguise and bought rifles legally.

Before Monday’s tragic mass shooting, affluent Highland Park, Illinois, had another claim to fame – as the film set for several iconic 1980s movies.

Robert E. Crimo III, identified as the suspect in the killings, bought the AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle used in the slayings, officials said Tuesday.