Casey Toner

1 month ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Peter Nickeas |Casey Toner |Tom Schuba

A woman shot in a leg while getting a ride to her South Side home. A mother and son who dodged bullets as they tried to thwart a car break-in. Another woman who, after her car was stolen, learned it had been used in a shooting, with a bullet cracking its windshield and shell casings on the floor. Each of their stories has the same twist: The same Glock handgun was used in all three crimes. That happened even though that gun was supposed to have been destroyed.

2 months ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Casey Toner |Tom Schuba |Peter Nickeas

On a typically brisk day in December 2023, a throng of people gathered in the basement of St. Sabina Church in Auburn Gresham to hand over hundreds of guns. The scene was similar to dozens of other gun buyback events held at the Catholic parish, where more than 5,100 guns have been exchanged for gift cards over the past 19 years, more than any other location in the city.

2 months ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Casey Toner |Tom Schuba |Peter Nickeas

Cook County Judge William Stewart Boyd turned over two old guns at Immaculate Conception Church in South Chicago nearly two decades ago. They were among more than 5,900 guns the Chicago Police Department recovered at buybacks that day — its most successful haul ever. But five years later, one of the guns Boyd had given up resurfaced at the scene of a fatal police shooting in Cicero.

Mar 13, 2025 | blockclubchicago.org | Casey Toner

This story was republished from the Illinois Answers Project, a nonpartisan investigations and solutions journalism news organization. CHICAGO — The city of Chicago has reached a tentative $11.5 million agreement to settle its legal battle against the companies of a north suburban woman that city attorney’s have dubbed Chicago’s “worst landowner,” who has accrued millions of dollars in unpaid fines for hundreds of weed-strewn and garbage-filled lots across the South and West Sides.

Mar 12, 2025 | illinoisanswers.org | Casey Toner

The city of Chicago has reached a tentative, $11.5 million agreement to settle its legal battle against the companies of a north suburban woman that city attorney’s have dubbed Chicago’s “worst landowner,” who has accrued millions of dollars in unpaid fines for hundreds of weed-strewn and garbage-filled lots across the South and West Sides.