Straus, 88, was a joke-teller, avid reader and a “culture vulture,” family members said Tuesday.
People watch as law enforcement continue to investigate the scene along Central Avenue on July 5, 2022, the day after a mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.
Steve Straus, 88, was an exceptional joke-teller, an avid reader and a “culture vulture” who enjoyed the artistic fruits of the Art Institute and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, family members said Tuesday. Energetic beyond his years, Straus commuted on Metra five days a week to his office downtown, where he worked as a stockbroker.A longtime Highland Park resident who was born and raised on the Chicago’s South Side, his son Jonathan Straus described him as “a product of Chicago.
Steve Straus is survived his wife, Linda, to whom he had been married for almost 60 years, and a brother, Lawrence, of Glenview. In addition to his two sons, he had four grandchildren, upon whom he doted.Peter Straus said his father went to Highland Park’s Fourth of July parade every year. “I called him yesterday just to wish him a Happy Fourth of July and he didn’t respond, which I didn’t make much of. And then news stories started coming out about a shooting in Highland Park,” said Straus, who lives in San Francisco.
“I’m a psychologist, and so my feeling is that there are many people with undiagnosed and untreated mental illnesses that are, occasionally, sometimes, gun owners, and that the combination is as lethal as I learned yesterday,” Straus said.
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