The Highland Park City Council agreed Tuesday to begin disassembling the informal downtown memorials honoring the victims of the July 4 mass shooting.
“Given the pain that’s been expressed literally since August, and concern particularly for people going to school and people who are still unable to come into this area, we need to be sensitive … to the pain that they’re experiencing,” she said.The twin memorials, which have been assembled and cared for by the public, have attracted countless visitors after the burst of violence at Highland Park’s Independence Day parade.
Others, though, said they are so disturbed by the memorials that they feel part of the city is off-limits to them. Artist and Highland Park resident Jacqueline von Edelberg conceived the art project that wrapped the pavilion posts in orange yarn — the color of the anti-gun violence movement — and invited people to leave thousands of messages on luggage tags dangling from the posts.
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