How Chicago Is Using Lawsuits to Force Change

Source Chicago Magazine
Original Load Date Dec. 8, 2025, 6:01 a.m.
Last Updated Dec. 8, 2025, 6:01 a.m.
Original URL https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/january-2026/how-chicago-is-using-lawsuits-to-force-change/

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Around 2 a.m. one night in the summer of 2022, five friends walked out of a club in the Loop and got into an argument with a man who then pulled a gun. He fired a Glock pistol at them, one that had been illicitly converted into an automatic weapon capable of unleashing 20 rounds every second. A witn...