With the Supreme Court of the United States scheduled to hear arguments in McDonald v. Chicago (the case of the City of Chicago's handgun ban) next week, Mayor Daley is making the rounds in Washington, D.C. to garner more support for the ban. Daley appeared at the National Press Club along with a few other civic leaders from around the nation who support such local bans to keep communities safe. Gun rights advocates insist the ban violates Second Amendment rights. A similar ban in D.C. was overturned in 2008. Said Mayor Daley, "In this day and age when we think the right to bear arms in all of our communities that means any type of weapon. I don't think our founding fathers believed that these type of weapons would be on the street and to me every jurisdiction have a right to talk about the health and safety of their communities." Daley was joined by Chicago firefighter Annette Nance-Holt, and her husband Chicago Police Officer Ronald Holt, parents of Blair Holt, the teen shot and killed on board a CTA bus in 2007. The teen who killed Holt was sentenced to 100 years in prison last summer while an accomplice received a 10-year sentence. more ›

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in Heller vs District of Columbia, the first major gun-rights case to come before the court in nearly 70 years. At issue is a long unresolved constitutional question: Does the Second Amendment protect an individual's right to keep and bear arms, or does it only protect a state's right to arm a militia? more ›

Before you continue reading, we want you to raise your right arm, take your index finger, place it on the top of your head and begin to scratch. A woman visiting Chicago from Tennessee was arrested yesterday morning after attempting to visit the Skydeck of the Sears Tower with a loaded gun in her purse. When passing through the metal detector, it was discovered the she was packing a .38-caliber revolver. She was taken into... more ›

One of the nuances of reviewing restaurants is that you don't want to draw attention to yourself. This means that you don't want to break out the camera and notepad until absolutely necessary. It was a lesson we thought we learned at Pilsen's Fogata Village last summer. Then we entered the Cal-Harbor Restaurant and Lounge, in the Historic Pullman district, with the notepad and camera in plain sight. What followed was a dialogue straight out... more ›

A South Side woman is in a whole bunch of trouble today after a serious bout of road rage. Athena Morris, 49, didn’t feel like waiting for the ambulance in front of her to move out of the way yesterday afternoon, so she drove onto the sidewalk to get around it. more ›

Yesterday Governor Blagojevich visited the Sun-Times editorial board and tried to convince them to endorse his reelection bid. Blago, who seemed "larger than life" to Carol Marin, didn’t seem too worried about his primary challenge from Edwin Eisendrath and instead focused on Republican frontrunner Judy Baar Topinka and called her a shill for the National Rifle Association. more ›

It was just about two weeks ago that Chicagoist mentioned yet another Tank Johnson arest, when he got hauled in for threatening a cop and then resisting arrest outside the Level nightclub. We asked for predictions about where and why Tank would next run into problems with the men in blue. Friend of Chicagoist and Trib columnist/blogger Eric Zorn emailed us at the time to suggest we had the workings of a Bears Clue board... more ›

When Chicagoist started reading this article in the Sun Times on Alan Keyes thoughts on guns we couldn't even believe it was a real news story. Surely someone must have hacked the site and put this made up story there, right? It's so redic. Basically, Keyes said he thinks the constitution grants properly trained private individuals the right to own and carry machine guns. more ›