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CHICAGO — Steve Straus, 88, was an exceptional joke-teller, an avid reader and a “culture vulture” who enjoyed the artistic fruits of the Art Institute and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, family members said Tuesday. Energetic beyond his years, Straus commuted on Metra five days a week to his office downtown,…

"Congress needs to have the courage to act and renew the assault weapons ban," Harris told a teachers convention in Chicago before visiting the shooting scene at nearby Highland Park.

Illinois police charge a 22-year-old man alleged to have shot seven people during an Independence Day parade with murder, saying he had planned the attack for weeks.

CHICAGO — A seventh person has died in the Highland Park parade shooting attack and authorities Tuesday afternoon released the names of the six of the victims.

Seven people died and more than three dozen others were left wounded in the attack

Little changes when these kind of shootings happen in Black communities. But now that it’s happened in a community that is mostly white and affluent, let’s see if things will change now.

For many people, the mass shooting that killed at least seven people and injured 30 others in a Chicago suburb on July 4 was yet another reminder that any place, any event in the U.S. can turn dangerous or deadly

CHICAGO — At a press briefing Tuesday afternoon, authorities said a seventh person has died in the Highland Park parade attack and released the names of the six other victims.

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