Federal prosecutors in Chicago are less likely than those in most other jurisdictions including Los Angeles and New York to approve gun charges. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is taking up some of those rejected cases.
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Early one morning in June 2022, Earl Westforth sat down at a small table inside a hotel conference room in northwest Indiana and began defending his life’s work. Fourteen months earlier, the city of Chicago had sued his namesake Westforth Sports Inc., alleging that the outdoor- and sports-equipment shop was negligent in how it screened gun buyers and had become an epicenter for the unlawful purchase of guns, which were flooding into the
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