SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — A new plan in Springfield would allow judges and State Attorneys to have a gun while in the courtroom The bill would allow judicial officers the ability to conceal carry in ...

State Reps. Mike Smiddy, D-Hillsdale, and Pat Verschoore, D-Milan, have co-sponsored a bill that could see Illinois join every other state in the nation by allowing the concealed carry of firearms.

Wednesday was the first lobby day after Illinois became the last state to pass a concealed carry law last summer. Gun owners and activists rallied at the Prairie Capitol Convention Center before ...

Springfield – A State Senate proposal to allow carrying of concealed weapons would let big cities add to the list of places considered off-limits to guns. The local control would be limited to cities ...