Highland Park leaders say they'll take their time on permanent memorial to shooting victims

Leaders say designing permanent memorial to victims of Highland Park mass shooting will likely take years and involve the community

Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering said coming up with the permanent monument is going to be a deliberative process.

In the hours and days after the shooting that killed seven people and injured dozens more, a makeshift memorial to the shooting victims was formed near the Veterans Memorial at St. Johns and Central avenues. In November, Rotering and other officials established and dedicated a new temporary memorial in the rose garden with a plaque for each of the seven people killed. That temporary memorial will remain until a permanent version is completed, officials said Monday.

Early on in the discussion, which lasted around 30 minutes Monday night, Rotering became overwhelmed with emotion and had to pause while thanking shooting survivors and victims' families for attending.

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