The klezmer band playing as the bullets started flying can’t go back to Highland Park this July 4
Chicago's North Shore has spent a year mourning the victims of last year's Fourth of July parade in the heavily Jewish city of Highland Park
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Culture Three months after mass shooting, klezmer band returns to Highland Park
When a shooter opened fire on a Fourth of July Parade, a video of people fleeing past the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band went viral
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Fast Forward Suspected Highland Park shooter pleads not guilty
Robert Crimo III faces 117 criminal charges, including 21 counts of first-degree murder
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Opinion Pledging allegiance to the Highland Park of my childhood
The assault on the town where I grew up in the 1940s and 1950s prompts memories of precious civic space
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Opinion Most of the victims of Highland Park were Jewish. Why is their memorial filled with Christian imagery?
Even in death, Jews can become subsumed by the ubiquity of American Christianity
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Opinion I’m an extremism expert. The July Fourth shooter wasn’t targeting a particular racial or religious group.
The online footprint of mass shooters can be complicated. Here’s why ADL doesn’t yet see a clear extremist connection in Highland Park.
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News ‘We knew he was aggressive’: Highland Park activist recalls encounters with alleged shooter
Rachael Wachstein said he shoved and cursed people at a pro-Trump rally two years ago
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Opinion ‘I won’t let her murder make me a weaker person’: The daughter of a Highland Park victim speaks
Katherine Goldstein was shot and killed at a July Fourth parade. Her daughter, Cassie Goldstein, was with her when she died.
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