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A previously convicted felon was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday for stealing hundreds guns from a Chicago cargo train and proceeding to sell more than a dozen of them.

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A major U.S. railroad company says it has installed new security measures at a Chicago rail yard where around 150 guns have been stolen in recent years.

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A mother from the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago was sentenced to 24 days in jail last week for buying guns stolen from a Norfolk Southern rail yard.

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A former player for the Boston Celtics was found guilty in federal court Thursday for being a convicted felon in possession of stolen firearms.

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The violence continued in Chicago over the weekend, with three people killed and 29 wounded in shootings across the city between Friday afternoon and Monday morning.

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Joel Levin, acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, has called out the Chicago Sun-Times for "unfairly" criticizing former U.S. Attorney Zach Fardon for not prosecuting as many gun traffickers as other districts.

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A man plead guilty Friday in federal court as part of a case in which more than 100 guns were stolen from a rail yard on the south side of Chicago.

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U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin told Norfolk Southern Railway this week that it must beef up its security at a south side Chicago rail yard in which three major gun thefts have occurred the last three years.

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