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He survived a mass shooting near Highland Park 34 years ago. Now, he helps others

A mass shooting hit the town of Winnetka, Ill., 34 years ago. Phil Andrew survived, and that experience shaped his path as a special agent for the FBI and lifelong gun control advocate.

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Week after Highland Park July 4th parade massacre, activists head to DC to push assault weapons ban

The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a July 20 hearing on the Highland Park slaughter; HP Mayor Nancy Rotering to testify.

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Highland Park’s Central Avenue reopens with busy shops, bustling traffic and remembrances of a week ago

Memorials, violin music and ‘HP strong’ signs greeted people returning to the scene of last week’s massacre.

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Highland Park shooting suspect’s father ‘may have certain responsibility’ for attack police warn

Bob Crimo sponsored son’s firearms licence despite police being called to family home two months earlier because he threatened to ‘kill everyone’

The Independent UK

Business area opens for 1st time since July 4 parade attack

A business district that had been blocked since the deadly July 4 parade mass shooting in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park has reopened

The Independent UK

As Highland Park sits in the national spotlight, its residents want you to know a few things

CHICAGO — Highland Park, located on the North Shore of Chicago, sits between the suburbs of Highwood and Glencoe.

Chicago Tribune

Only blocking assault gun access will lead to fewer mass shootings

Just as the only protection from COVID-19 is a vaccination that protects us from the virus, the only effective action against mass shooting is controlling access to assault weapons.

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A victim of the Highland Park parade attack is remembered for his kindness

Friends, neighbors and dignitaries paid their respects Saturday to the family of Eduardo Uvaldo, one of the seven people who were killed in the attack on a July Fourth parade near Chicago.

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July 4 parade attack victim remembered for love of family

Friends, neighbors and dignitaries are paying their respects to the family of Eduardo Uvaldo, one of the seven people who were killed in the attack on a July Fourth parade near Chicago

The Independent UK

Amid chaos, some at July 4 parade ran toward gunfire to help

People from every corner of the Highland Park community sprung into action on July 4 after a gunman opened fire on a parade route in the Chicago suburb

The Independent UK

Highland Park parade mass murder suspect Robert E. Crimo III through people who knew him, police reports

He grew up in a home where his parents regularly called the police on each other, and his mother left him unattended in a car on a hot August day before he was 2.

Chicago Sun-Times

First funerals held for Highland Park shooting victims: ‘We will never be the same, but we will carry him with us’

CHICAGO — Mourners began the heartbreaking task Friday of saying goodbye to victims of the Highland Park shooting, cherishing what made their loved ones special while decrying the sudden, senseless violence that ended their lives.

Chicago Tribune

Brewers honor 8-year-old injured in Highland Park shooting

The Milwaukee Brewers placed a ceremonial jersey in their dugout Friday to honor an 8-year-old fan of the team who was wounded during the July Fourth mass shooting in a Chicago suburb

The Independent UK

Information lacking on Spanish-language resources for Highland Park victims, advocates say

Community members cite a lack of access to computers in the Latino community.

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8-year-old boy paralyzed by gunshot at Highland Park massacre is conscious for the first time

CHICAGO — An 8-year-old boy who was shot in the chest at the Fourth of July parade shooting in Highland Park is now paralyzed from the waist down, his family said Friday through their spokesman.

Chicago Sun-Times

Assault weapons are too readily available

A country that allows, indeed encourages and celebrates such acquisition, is committing genocide on its own people.

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Services begin for the victims of the Highland Park attack

Mourners remembered a woman who worked tirelessly at her synagogue and a gentle man who loved art in the first formal services to be held for the seven people killed during a July Fourth parade.

The Independent UK

Highland Park shooting suspect’s mother was convicted of abandoning him in hot car when he was two

Highland Park Police responded to at least nine domestic disputes between Robert Crimo’s parents from 2010 to 2014

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Picture Chicago: must-see images from Sun-Times photographers this past week

The weekend began with fireworks, but two mass shootings on the Fourth of July in Highland Park and Chicago turned celebrations into grieving.

Chicago Tribune

Police records paint picture of turbulent home life for alleged gunman in Highland Park mass shooting

CHICAGO — Highland Park police were called to the family home of the alleged Independence Day parade sniper at least nine times between 2010 and 2014 in response to domestic disputes, according to newly released police records.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Good toddlers with guns: The craziness of the gun nuts

After his parents were cut down by a maniac in Highland Park, Illinois, Monday, 2-year-old Aiden McCarthy was found bloodied, lying under his father’s body. He was rescued and eventually delivered into the loving arms of his grandparents.

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Martin Schram: Red flags can’t wave themselves

Red flags will just hang like limp noodles if their flag-wavers go AWOL on breezeless days. Left unattended, those red bits of cloth will signal no warning alert, send no sense of alarm that urgent action is needed to save lives.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: How can states limit guns? By protecting the right to peaceably assemble

The deadly July Fourth attack in Highland Park, Illinois, underscores how a cherished constitutional right is under attack — the First Amendment right to peacefully assemble.

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: Elon Musk is walking away from his Twitter deal, just as you knew he would

Elon Musk late Friday proved that it’s a mistake to think of him as unpredictable. In a move that everyone from investors to casual observers have been predicting for many weeks, he formally bailed out on his $44-billion deal to buy Twitter.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Guns should be more regulated than uteruses

In the United States, uteruses are increasingly more regulated than guns. This must change if we are to avoid a repeat of horrific mass shootings like those in Highland Park, Illinois; Uvalde, Texas; Buffalo, New York, and dozens of other cities and towns in the last few months alone. And…

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