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Design Firm Recommended For Highland Park Shooting Memorial
The working group planning for a Permanent Place of Remembrance made a recommendation about the future design for the memorial.

The working group planning for a Permanent Place of Remembrance made a recommendation about the future design for the memorial.

Three years after the tragic mass shooting at the Highland Park Independence Day Parade, the community gathered to honor everyone impacted.
The man who opened fire at a 2022 Fourth of July parade in Highland Park received seven consecutive life sentences Thursday.
Survivors and victims' loved ones spoke Wednesday before the sentencing of Highland Park parade mass shooter Robert Crimo III.
Heading into Wednesday's sentencing hearing, Robert Crimo III faces life in prison for 69 counts of murder and attempted murder.
An Illinois court ruled Tuesday that a wrongful death lawsuit against gun maker Smith & Wesson will proceed to trial.
After pleading guilty to the Highland Park parade shooting, Robert Crimo signed "Donald Trump" on his trial waiver instead of his own name.
"We were 1000% ready for trial and to prove him guilty," the state's attorney said after Bobby Crimo III pleaded guilty Monday.
Robert Crimo III withdrew his not-guilty plea moments before opening arguments were to start in his trial Monday.
Three years after seven people were killed in the July 4 parade mass shooting, Robert Crimo III is slated to stand trial.
The accused mass shooter is set to stand trial next month for the massacre at the 2022 Highland Park 4th of July parade.
With three potential memorial sites under consideration, officials hope to collect 200 more survey responses before the end of the month.
Bobby Crimo knowingly waived his right to an attorney during his questioning, the judge found, denying a motion to suppress the interview.
Attorneys debated whether actions by police and prosecutors during Bobby Crimo's interrogation denied him due process under Illinois law.
In a motion to suppress a statement to police, attorneys for Bobby Crimo claim cops kept a lawyer from him during his July 4 interrogation.
The accused shooter skipped his first court date since a plea reversal, as families of the victims sue state police for $58 million.
It felt particularly cruel, Roberts said, to see the man accused of paralyzing her son brought into court last week in a wheelchair.
Family members of Eduardo Uvaldo and survivors allege the firearm manufacturer's negligent marketing contributed to the 2022 mass shooting.
Dozens of victims and survivors showed up to court Wednesday expecting the defendant in the 2022 mass shooting to accept a life sentence.
Nearly 2 years after the parade shooting and 8 months before his murder trial was due to begin, the 23-year-old is expected to change pleas.
Prosecutors, defense attorneys are preparing to argue over what evidence jurors will get to see in the upcoming trial of Bobby Crimo.
The Lake County State's Attorney's Office asked the judge to modify the restrictions she placed on the accused gunman's communications.
The 2024 Highland Park Independence Day parade will march a new path, as city officials decide against arranging fireworks or a drone show.
The appellate court ruling means Lake County judges keep authority over civil suits filed by victims and survivors of the parade shooting.
Despite prosecutors' request to hold Bobby Crimo's murder trial by October, a Lake County judge scheduled it to start next February.
Susan Goldman withdrew her lawsuit against Highland Park Tuesday after a judge ruled against her and a gun rights group that backed her.
Chris Maliszewski was terminated last month after park district officials rejected what they described as a request for "indefinite leave."
Robert Crimo III was scheduled to go to trial in February, but the case will be delayed after he reversed his decision to represent himself.
Robert Crimo III used another inmate's PIN to call his mother despite his phone privileges being suspended, officials said.
Bobby Crimo III reversed course and no longer plans to represent himself when begins trial in February on the July 4 mass shooting charges.
Just 1 in 82 FOID cardholders has registered banned items with Illinois State Police, but it can't be determined how many declined to do so.
Last week, lenders asked a judge to allow them to repossess and sell the alleged mass shooter's foreclosed childhood home.
The justices rejected an appeal from a gun rights group with under 3 weeks to go before the law's deadline to register "grandfathered" guns.
The father of the alleged Highland Park mass shooter is now on probation for two years and forbidden from having a gun.
Accused of shooting more than 50 paradegoers from a Highland Park rooftop last year, he invoked his constitutional right to a speedy trial.
State police say they have strengthened firearm safety laws and increased education and training about Clear and Present Danger reports.
Robert Crimo Jr. showed up to begin serving his 60-day sentence at the Lake County Jail wearing a T-shirt that said, "I'm a political pawn."
Charged with reckless conduct in connection with helping his son get a FOID card, Bob Crimo Jr. pleaded guilty to seven reduced counts.
Prosecutors said they expect to present 10 witnesses during what is expected to be the weeklong trial of the alleged mass shooter's father.
The judge presiding over Bob Crimo's reckless conduct trial rejected his lawyer's efforts to prevent prosecution witnesses from testifying.