Peter Nickeas
Reporter at Better Government Association
Gun violence, childhood trauma, early life adversity. Reporter, @bettergov. Formerly @uarkansas, @cnn, @chicagotribune, @niemanfdn, @dartcenter. #chicago
Articles
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1 week 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.
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2 weeks ago |
dailyherald.com | Peter Nickeas
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart sponsored the legislation requiring the DCFS reports when he was a state lawmaker in the late 1990s. He calls the failure to produce the reports “stunning.” Victor Hilitski The state agency responsible for keeping Illinois’ most vulnerable children safe has failed to produce legally required public reports after examining what went wrong in hundreds of cases of child deaths and thousands of serious injuries, the Illinois Answers Project reports.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month ago |
wbez.org | Peter Nickeas
The state agency responsible for keeping Illinois’ most vulnerable children safe has failed to produce legally required public reports after examining what went wrong in hundreds of cases of child deaths and thousands of serious injuries, an Illinois Answers Project investigation found.
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