CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Monday marks the second anniversary of the mass shooting at a workplace in Aurora leaving five employees and a gunman dead.
At last year’s one-year anniversary, Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin said the mass murder at the Henry Pratt Company bruised his city, but did not break it.
Five employees were killed, a sixth was wounded, and six police officers were wounded or injured.
"This community has taken one of the darkest days in Aurora and found the ability to pull light out of that darkness," Mayor Irvin said last year.
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Congresswoman Lauren Underwood will be among those speaking at Monday’s memorial outside the Aurora Historical Society.
The gunman who was killed by police that day two years ago should not have legally been able to buy the gun he used, but was able to do so in 2014 after a background check failed to flag a prior felony conviction in Mississippi.
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This year, there’ll be a renewed effort in Springfield to pass new gun reform legislation; including requiring residents to provide their fingerprints before obtaining a firearm license; requiring background checks on additional types of gun sales; and providing for action by the Illinois State Police to enforce gun license revocations.