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Second City Cop keeps a running commentary from a cop perspective on Chicago's adventures with crime, guns, police scuttlebutt, and politics. He (or maybe it is they, I am not sure if SSC is one guy or a group blog) probably does not represent the views of the CPD leadership, since he is pro-2A and sees the Chicago political class and the criminal class as in partnership to keep their respective power domains. He covers stories like the above, often with some background or inside info, but almost always with snarky comment contrasting the pronounced wisdom of the Chicago leadership with what's actually happening in the neighborhoods.

Some recent articles he linked to concerning gun laws in the People's Republic of Illinois:

Chicago's 3-year-old gun registry could go away as part of the concealed carry law state lawmakers recently passed, but few are publicly mourning the loss of a database once heralded as a key part of the city's gun control laws...The numbers indicate the registry wasn't effective. There are now about 8,650 Chicago firearms permit holders who have registered around 22,000 firearms, according to Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office. That's compared with the roughly 150,000 Chicago households the University of Chicago Crime Lab estimates currently have guns.

Also:

June 12, 2013 (ST. LOUIS) -- A second Illinois prosecutor has decided to let his county's residents carry concealed weapons even as the governor weighs whether to allow it statewide, reflecting surging impatience among local law enforcement months after a federal court tossed out the state's last-in-the-nation ban.

Randolph County State's Attorney Jeremy Walker's announcement Tuesday that he'll stop prosecuting the prohibition on guns in public came just days after his counterpart in suburban St. Louis' Madison County issued a similar declaration. The sheriff of southern Illinois' Clinton County also has joined suit, saying any armed person found in his jurisdiction from counties that allow concealed weapons won't be arrested for packing heat.


Not gun-related (at least directly), but part of the same cess-pool: hey, look, some familiar names:
A former south suburban police chief is expected to plead guilty to diverting hundreds of thousands of dollars from a state job-training grant to friends and family, her attorney said Tuesday as more charges were filed in the case.

Regina Evans, a former Chicago police lieutenant and Country Club Hills chief, has been in custody since mid-March, when authorities charged her with trying to coax an associate into lying to the grand jury.

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In April, prosecutors charged Regina Evans' friend Jeri Wright and accused her of helping Evans to convert cash from the grant to personal use through paychecks. Wright is the daughter of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., President Barack Obama's former pastor.