Sparklers illegal, but stores continue to sell them

Michelle Maloney fought for more than three years to ban the sale and use of sparklers in Chicago after her daughter suffered severe burns to her foot when a sparkler was dropped on the 6-year-old's shoe.

So it's no surprise Maloney was fired up when she saw sparklers on sale at her local Kmart, nearly a year after the ban went into effect.

"I started to feel like I was in the twilight zone," she said.

In September, the City Council passed an amendment adding sparklers to the list of banned fireworks.

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