More than 1,000 people gathered in the Loop on Saturday to rally against gun violence, while dozens of others participated in a city gun turn-in program at a St. Sabina Church, in a day of initiative and advocacy to stop gun violence.
Over a hundred people lined up outside of St. Sabina Catholic Church in Auburn Gresham Saturday morning to turn in their guns for a $100 reward, an effort by the Chicago Police Department to get guns off the streets.
Around noon on Saturday, around 1,000 people gathered at Federal Plaza to take part in the rally, which was one of more than 500 other planned March for Our Lives demonstrations across the country.