9/11 Remembrance Events Scheduled For Glencoe, Northfield, Winnetka

NEW TRIER TOWNSHIP, IL — Sometimes called Patriots Day, Sept. 11 has become a national day of remembrance honoring the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

In communities around New Trier Township, ceremonies are being held to honor those slain.

In Glencoe, the public safety department has partnered with the Am Shalom synagogue to host a memorial service at the flagpole at the coroner of Vernon and Lincoln avenues. It begins at 7:46 a.m. on Wednesday.

In Northfield, a Patriots Day ceremony is planned for 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. at the fire and public works facility at 1800 Winnetka Road.

In Winnetka, former trustee Andy Cripe leads an annual initiative to plant flags on Village Green, starting at 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 10, a local tradition that was started by a New Trier High School student more than a decade ago. Village staff encouraged residents to visit the memorial at some point on Wednesday to honor the lives lost in 2001.

Americans felt a collective trauma as first one and then another plane flew into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001.

As the truth dawned on people watching from their TVs that America was under attack, another plane took aim at the Pentagon.

A fourth was brought down in a field in Pennsylvania in a final act of heroism by passengers who realized their flight had been hijacked.

At least 2,973 people lost their lives in the attacks. The somber anniversary is marked across the country with memorial services, moments of silence and community events.

Among them were eight Illinois residents.

Jeff Mladenik, 43, of Hinsdale, died aboard Flight 11.

Dan Frederic Shanower, 40, of Naperville, was killed at the Pentagon.

Robert Arthur Rasmussen, 42, of Hinsdale, as well as five Chicago residents — Kathy Bantis, 44; Andrea Lyn Haberman, 25; Suzanne Kondratenko, 28; Darya Lin, 32; and Susan Sauer, 44 — died at the site of the World Trade Center tower collapses.