“Nobody wanted a parade. It was inappropriate,” the mayor of Highland Park says. “But it was important for us to say that evil doesn’t win. And this is our parade route, and this is our community that we are taking back.”
One year after a shooter terrorized July Fourth paradegoers in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, community members gathered Tuesday toThe city was hosting a series of events aimed at giving people “an opportunity to engage with the day and gather as a community in the way that feels most comfortable to them,” city communications manager Amanda Bennett said last month. The city approached the event planning with a trauma-informed perspective, Bennett said.
Rotering said a third-grader asked her at City Hall this year: “‘Do we ever get to celebrate the Fourth of July?’ And that just really broke my heart for so many of us who’ve grown up here, who raised our children here, who have wonderful memories. There is no reason that this one act of cowardice and hate should take away that joy from this community,” she said.
to mark the exact time police say the first shot was fired. Then, attendees may walk the parade route. At night, the city planned to have a drone show instead to avoid the “very familiar sounds” of fireworks, Rotering said.There will be no floats, performers or giveaways.
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