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Bears surprised Highland Park shooting survivor at OTAs

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Bears surprise Highland Park’s Cooper Roberts with wheelchair for the beach

Eight-year-old Cooper was left paralyzed from the waist down after the Highland Park July 4 parade shooting.

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Cody Whitehair in a comfort zone at center

“It’s kind of like riding a bike,” said Whitehair, who has transitioned from guard to center and back since his rookie season with the Bears in 2016 — when he moved to center four days before the season opener.

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6 months after Highland Park massacre, wounded 8-year-old Cooper Roberts continues recovery

Cooper was shot in his spine and paralyzed below his waist in the shooting in which seven people were killed and nearly 50 others wounded.

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Migrants celebrate their first Christmas in Chicago, major winter storm forecast and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

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Family of Cooper Roberts, paralyzed in Highland Park mass shooting, raising money for new home

The 8-year-old boy continues to need rehabilitation. The family is trying to raise $2 million to buy or build a new house.

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Big dreams for tiny homes, a review of Steppenwolf’s ‘1919’ and more in your Chicago news roundup

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Highland Park shooting victim Cooper Roberts returns to school

The 8-year-old boy, paralyzed from a bullet on July 4, continues to require rehabilitation.

Chicago Sun-Times

8-year-old Illinois boy returns home after devastating July 4 mass shooting at parade

CHICAGO — Eight-year-old Cooper Roberts has returned to his home after being shot during the Independence Day parade in Highland Park, his family said Thursday.

Chicago Tribune

Boy shot in July 4 parade massacre returns home to family

An 8-year-old suburban Chicago boy is back home after more than two months of treatment for severe injuries he sustained during the Fourth of July parade shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, his family said Thursday

The Independent UK

Highland Park parade mass shooting victim Cooper Roberts returns home

Cooper had been rehabilitating at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab after a series of surgeries following injuries from a bullet that that severed his spinal cord and badly damaged some internal organs.

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Pakistan in dire need of humanitarian aid

Large parts of Pakistan have been flooded away, and starvation and disease are increasing with this disaster. Humanitarian aid from the global community is crucial.

Chicago Sun-Times

Inside Chicago's Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, the world-renowned rehab facility treating patients like Danny Golden and Cooper Roberts

CHICAGO -- Phillip Cline, 59, distinctly remembers the moment he became paralyzed from the neck down. He was run off the road while driving a motorcycle on July 4, 1996, at 1:20 p.m. in Wisconsin.

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Highland Park mass shooting victim Cooper Roberts struggles with memory

The 8-year-old boy’s brain function is a concern after he experiences memory loss and shows issues with fine motor skills, his family said.

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Highland Park shooting victim Cooper Roberts is off painkillers, eating solid food

The 8-year-old’s spirits are improved, say family members who released a video of the boy racing his wheelchair.

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After Highland Park parade mass shooting, schools prepare for traumatized kids

“Nobody’s had experience with this,” said Marty Esgar, a Deerfield High School teacher. “We don’t know how many of our students are going to come with levels of trauma.”

The Independent UK

Eight-year-old boy paralysed in Highland Park shooting is still in ‘constant pain’ more than six weeks on

‘He’s an eight-year-old boy who feels hopeless, sad, and angry as the reality of his life is setting in’

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Highland Park Hospital doesn’t see many victims of gun violence. Then July Fourth happened. Here’s how the day unfolded

It was relatively quiet the morning of July Fourth at Highland Park Hospital.

Chicago Sun-Times

Highland Park mass shooting victim Cooper Roberts feels ‘hopeless, sad and angry,’ family says

“What will I do at recess?” paralyzed 8-year-old boy asks his family, who says “the reality of his life is setting in.”

Chicago Tribune

8-year-old Highland Park shooting survivor experiencing PTSD symptoms as he begins rehab, is expected to return to school

CHICAGO — The summer for 8-year-old Cooper Roberts was suddenly truncated by the mass shooting at the Independence Day parade in Highland Park, where he was wounded and left paralyzed from the waist down. Despite a turbulent recovery, Cooper was finally transferred to Shirley Ryan AbilityLab earlier this month to…

Chicago Sun-Times

Highland Park shooting victim Cooper Roberts, 8, to spend several weeks at rehab center before returning to school

“This is a huge motivation for Cooper as he is excited to return to the classroom and see his friends,” the Roberts family said in a statement.

Chicago Tribune

Young boy paralyzed after Highland Park mass shooting out of critical condition: ‘Their lives are not a tragedy, they are a triumph’

Cooper Roberts, the 8-year-old boy who was paralyzed at the July Fourth mass shooting in Highland Park has been released from pediatric intensive care after almost a month of turbulent recovery.

Al Jazeera

Suspect in US Independence Day mass shooting pleads not guilty

Robert E Crimo III is charged with 117 counts connected to the attack, including 21 charges of first-degree murder.

The Independent UK

Highland Park shooting suspect pleads not guilty to all 117 charges

Robert E Crimo is accused of murdering seven and wounding dozens more in an Independence Day mass shooting

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