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Lawmakers Push For Background Checks For Online Daters
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (CBS) — Illinois lawmakers are pushing for criminal background checks for online daters. As WBBM Newsradio’s Pat Cassidy reports, the Illinois State Senate passed legislation by a...
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Emanuel, Quinn, Preckwinkle Laud President’s Gun Control Plan
CHICAGO (CBS) — Top Chicago Democrats were giving President Barack Obama high marks for the plans he announced Wednesday to help quell gun violence. The president announced he will press Congress to...
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Mayor Introduces Plan To Step Up Gun Control Measures In Chicago
CHICAGO (CBS) — Mayor Rahm Emanuel escalated his assault on gun manufacturers on Thursday, accusing them of being more concerned with their bottom line than either public safety, or the 2nd Amendment...
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State Rifle Association Head Supports Gun Checks For Mental Illness
CHICAGO (CBS) — The head of the Illinois State Rifle Association says Illinois has already complied with one of the elements in President Obama’s package of gun control proposals, and his group...
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Emanuel: Senate ‘Copped Out’ By Rejecting Expanded Background Checks On Gun...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Mayor Rahm Emanuel said, by failing to pass expanded background checks for gun sales, Congress has let politics has get in the way of what should be elected officials’ first priority:...
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Dart Slams 30-Day Deadline For Concealed Carry Background Checks
CHICAGO (CBS) — Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said his department doesn’t have the manpower, the time, or the money to properly conduct background checks for those who want to carry concealed weapons...
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Quinn Signs Gun Law Requiring Owners To Report Lost, Stolen Fireams
CHICAGO (CBS) — For the first time in Illinois history there are new rules in place for gun buyers and owners. CBS 2’s Chris Martinez reports the new law is all about keeping track of weapons lost by...
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State Police OK Instructors For Concealed Carry Training
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) — Illinois residents can begin applying in January for licenses to carry concealed weapons, but so far only 54 instructors — most from northern Illinois — have been...
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Emanuel Wants To Require Videotaping Of All Gun Sales In Chicago
http://media.chicago.cbslocal.com/CBSCHI_20140527181747507AA.mp4 Mayor Proposes Strict Limits For Chicago Gun Shops WBBM 780/105.9FMplaypause CHICAGO (CBS) — The Emanuel administration has outlined a...
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Lawmaker Outlines Ideas For New Ridesharing Rules
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A Democratic state lawmaker says background checks for drivers and wheelchair accessibility for passengers are among the provisions he wants included in new legislation calling...
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Alvarez: Journalists’ Slayings Highlight Need For Universal Background Checks
CHICAGO (CBS) — Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez said the televised shootings of reporter Alison Parker and photojournalist Adam Ward heightened the need to find better ways to prevent the...
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New Law Expands Background Checks For Student Teachers
CHICAGO (CBS) — When education majors return to Illinois colleges and universities in the new year, they’ll have to submit to sweeping criminal background checks before student teaching. Student...
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Obama Unveils Presidential Plan To Cut Gun Violence
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama unveiled an array of measures on Tuesday tightening control and enforcement of firearms in the U.S., using his presidential powers in the absence of legal...
View ArticleCPS To Redo Background Checks For All Adults Who Work In Schools By This Fall
CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago Public Schools officials will run new background checks by fall for thousands of employees who regularly work in schools, as part of the district’s ongoing response to a sex...
View ArticleMore than 260 CPS Employees’ Background Checks Were Not Cleared
CHICAGO (CBS) — More than 260 CPS employees will not be returning to their positions at Chicago Public Schools for the start of the new school year on Tuesday because their background checks were not...
View ArticleMany Substitute Teachers Fill CPS Classrooms, Hundreds Of CPS Employees Wait...
CHICAGO (CBS) — This week was the first of the new school year for Chicago Public Schools, but dozens of the schools have substitute teachers in the classrooms. Many regular teachers are not teaching...
View ArticleWomen Cite Damage To Children In Seeking Stricter Gun Laws
CHICAGO (AP) — Three Chicago women have filed a lawsuit calling for tighter regulation of gun sales in Illinois, including the video-recording of transactions and background checks on all gun store and...
View ArticleFailed Background Checks Prompt University Of Illinois To Rescind Job Offers
CHICAGO (CBS)—About 25 people who received job offers to work on University of Illinois campuses last year found out their prospective jobs are no longer being offered. The offers were revoked when the...
View ArticleActivists Urge Approval Of Proposal To Require Fingerprints For Illinois Gun...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Gun control advocates plan a rally in Springfield on Wednesday, to urge state lawmakers to approve legislation aimed at closing perceived loopholes in the state’s gun licensing system....
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