Illinois prosecutor rounds up county support for gun education and safety lock program swoknews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from swoknews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
CHICAGO — Support for a gun education and safety lock program has the Lake County Prosecutor’s Office looking for help from the county council in accepting donations to launch the effort. Bernie Johnsen, supervising deputy prosecutor, said since Indiana changed its gun laws in 2023 enabling easy access to firearms for almost anybody, there has been a substantial number of accidental shootings .
Lake County Councilwoman Christine Cid, D-East Chicago, will return to the dais for a second term as president after an interim stint in the post last year. She previously served as the body’s elected president in 2008. Cid, who was nominated for the job by Councilman Randy Niemeyer, R-Cedar Lake, won the seat by a 4-3 margin over fellow nominee Councilman Ted Bilski, D-Hobart, who was .
Two Republican state senators say they would like another set of eyes on the South Shore Convention and Visitors Authority’s budget. Senators Rick Niemeyer, R-Lowell, and Dan Dernulc, R-Highland, are co-sponsoring legislation in the coming legislative short session that would return final oversight of the SSCVA budget to the Lake County Council. It is the same process currently used to provide .