The memorials have drawn sizable crowds and been praised as centers of comfort and unity, but they have also proven controversial.
Notes, flowers and other items are left at the public art installation on Aug, 28, 2022, created by local artist Jacqueline von Edelberg and others in and around the memorial for the victims of the Independence Day mass shooting on Central Avenue Sunday in Highland Park, Illinois.
Brady Kunitz, 7, and his sister Layla Kunitz, 11, with their parents Andrew and Lauren write notes on Aug. 28, 2022, for Cooper Roberts at the public art installation created by local artist Jacqueline von Edelberg and others in and around the memorial for the victims of the Independence Day mass shooting in Highland Park. Roberts was paralyzed in the shooting.
Artist Jacqueline von Edelberg has made a counterproposal regarding the installation, which builds on other projects she has done to protest gun violence and remember its victims. Residents and visitors have wrapped the pavilion pillars and numerous stones in orange yarn — the color adopted by anti-gun violence activists — and left thousands of messages on luggage tags.
Highland Park aims to build a permanent memorial to the victims of the violence carried out at the city’s Independence Day parade, but it’s in the early planning stages.Chicago Tribune editors' top story picks, delivered to your inbox each afternoon.City staffers suggest two possibilities for relocating the informal memorials.
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