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Highland Park City Council
Mayor Rotering encourages residents to wear orange for National Gun Violence Awareness Day
Eric Bradach
Freelance Reporter
With nationwide movement
to combat gun
violence, Mayor Nancy
Rotering announced that
Highland Park will participate
in National Gun
Violence Awareness Day,
June 2, at City Council’s
May 28 meeting.
“The horrifying news is
that over 100,000 people
are injured or killed by
gun violence every year,”
Rotering said. “Like so
many others, I along my
City Council colleagues
recognize the very real
challenges facing our nation’s
efforts to reduce
gun violence. But no,
we’re still the only civilized
nation that faces this
extreme amount of gun violence.
None of our peer
countries have anything
close to this.”
Rotering encouraged
all residents to join the
national campaign in
wearing orange to raise
awareness of the issue and
encourage safety.
“No parent should have
to worry about sending a
child to school, to the park
or to the movies,” she
said. “Gun violence in our
nation has created an unnecessary
culture of fear.”
Representative from
Moms Demand Action, a
nationwide grassroots organization
that advocates
for public safety policy
to combat gun violence,
attended the meeting.
They said it is open to all
political views and is not
against the 2nd Amendment
but is “pro common
sense.”
The coalition movement
to declare June 2
as National Gun Violence
Awareness Day
came after the January
2013 murder of Hadiya
Pendleton, a 15-year-old
Black girl from Chicago,
Illinois, who was shot
and killed while in a park
with friends. The organizers
chose the color orange
because it’s what hunters
use to announce their
presence to other hunters
and it also symbolizes the
value of human life.
“While we have a city
Join us Tuesday
ordinance that bans the
ownership of assault
weapons and high-capacity
magazines in Highland
Park, for reasons that remain
unclear to me, our
Illinois General Assembly
has failed to offer that opportunity
to other municipalities,”
Rotering said. “I
and my fellow colleagues
will continue to fight to
push the General Assembly
to allow other municipalities
to have that right
to ban these weapons of
war in their communities.”
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Round It Up:
A brief recap of City
Council action from
May 28
• An ordinance to
amend Article XXI of
the City of HIghland
Park Zoning Ordinance
was sent back to
committee for further
review.
• DCG Roofing
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the Highland Park
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