A crowd that gathered in Sunset Woods Park in Highland Park called for new gun laws, in response to the July 4 shooting that killed seven and left dozens injured.
Right, Nicole Polarek of Highland Park of Highland Park helps children, from left, Drew Ferry, 9, a rising fourth-grader and Will Ferry, 7, a rising second-grader, affix orange fabric as a message to #Enough traveling art project. Polarek’s family had just had breakfast at Walker Bros. The Original Pancake House in Highland Park at Port Clinton Square when shots rang out at the Fourth of July parade on that block.
People who attended the Highland Park Community Rally had an opportunity to add to the #Enough traveling community display Saturday at Sunset Woods Park in Highland Park.“We’re learning that there’s a lot more good people in the world, a lot of helpers in this world, more than any bad,” Polarek said. “And that’s what we have been talking about today.”
Rachel Jacoby of Highland Park, rally co-organizer and a 2014 Vernon Hills High School graduate, said one purpose was, “to make space for the community to come together and grieve and heal following the tragedy from July Fourth.Images from the Highland Park Community Rally on July 9, 2022 at Sunset Woods Park in Highland Park.
“This is my hometown,” said Fliegler. “We need to be part of a movement to end this, because it keeps happening in places where people say, ‘I never thought this could happen here.’
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