Michael Pfleger

Supporters hold signs Sept. 15, 2022, outside Cook County Jail during a conference regarding the Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today law, known as the SAFE-T Act.

Seth Limmer, et al.: The end of cash bail will make our criminal justice system more fair

September 30, 2022 at 5:16 p.m.

Now is the time for turning. The season has turned to fall. The weather is turning colder. The leaves, in their wisdom, are also beginning to turn. In the sacred...

Dozens of clergy and community members hold signs before staging a die-in outside of Chuck's Gun Shop on June 22, 2022, in Riverdale.

The Rev. Ciera Bates-Chamberlain, et al.: As faith leaders, we’ve written about gun violence all summer. Fall should bring action.

September 1, 2022 at 7:35 p.m.

Every winter, we start to worry about the summer. And then, when summer ends, we too often do nothing until it's summertime again. As we celebrate this Labor Day weekend,...

Balloons are released May 19, 2022, to honor Seandell Holliday, a 16-year-old student at Gary Comer College Prep who was fatally shot at Millennium Park.

The Rev. Ciera Bates-Chamberlain, et al.: What do our youths think about the violence?

August 25, 2022 at 9:14 p.m.

Opening the newspaper remains one of life's great joys, and, alas, also a portal to life's great sorrows. Last week, as we turned the Tribune's pages on the day this...

Mothers/Men Against Senseless Killings activist Nortasha Stingley speaks on July, 28, 2019, in the wake of the shooting deaths of two women in Englewood.

The Rev. Otis Moss III, et al.: If we want to stop the bloodshed, we have to listen to those most affected by it

August 18, 2022 at 7:05 p.m.

The best solutions are discovered by working with people whose everyday lives are affected by society's most serious problems. This is not just the premise of leading a congregation but...

A Chicago police officer inspects a sawed-off shotgun during a gun turn-in event in the Roseland neighborhood on Sept. 24, 2022.

The Rev. Michael Pfleger, et al.: Buyback programs are a key tool for removing guns from the streets

August 11, 2022 at 9:18 p.m.

"Even if we do something to counter this gun crisis, what are we going to do with the hundreds of thousands of guns already in America?" We have heard this...

Police officers lift perimeter tape at the scene where three men where shot, one fatally, in the 700 block of North Trumbull Avenue in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on Oct. 27, 2021, in Chicago.

Rabbi Seth Limmer, et al.: The city can reduce gun violence by improving clearance rates

August 4, 2022 at 7:38 p.m.

"They got away with murder" is, unfortunately, no idiom. This year in our city of Chicago, barely 1 in reported 10 crimes leads to an arrest, let alone a conviction....

The Rev. Michael Pfleger at The Ark of St. Sabina on May 18, 2022, before a bill signing by Gov. J.B. Pritzker restricting the sale and possession of unserialized firearms, also known as ghost guns.

The Rev. Ciera Bates-Chamberlain, et al.: Why we faith leaders are committed to anti-violence work and justice

July 28, 2022 at 4:23 p.m.

The violence that dominates so much of our lives is a serious problem. The gun violence that threatens us on the streets, in our cars, in restaurants and even in...

Christian Cambray, a job coach with READI Chicago, conducts a virtual cognitive behavioral therapy session with some of his clients on Sept. 30, 2020. Cambray was working on emotional regulation using a grounding technique.

The Rev. Otis Moss III, et al.: Violence interruption and street outreach work. Let’s fund them properly.

July 21, 2022 at 8:22 p.m.

It is hard to see a way forward from our seemingly endless cycle of gun violence. We barely recover from news of one mass shooting before another takes its place...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot appears at the annual St. Sabina peace march on June 17, 2022.

The Rev. Michael Pfleger, et al.: Chicagoans deserve an office dedicated to ending gun violence

July 14, 2022 at 8:29 p.m.

Gun violence is everywhere. Here in Chicago, shootings happen in every neighborhood. And leaving the city is no escape, as we learned painfully last week in Highland Park. Gun violence...

A person lights candles at a memorial set up at Central and St. Johns avenues in Highland Park on July 5, 2022, a day after a mass shooting at the city's Fourth of July Parade left seven dead and more than 30 injured.

Rabbi Seth Limmer, et al.: If we want to curb gun violence, we need more investments in treatment

July 7, 2022 at 11:21 p.m.

One shot from one gun is not just a single moment in time. Gun violence is never an isolated event. Sitting with victims who have been shot, counseling families who...

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