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“It’s strange to even think about getting prepared for a school year, realizing that this sort of thing doesn’t ever necessarily leave you or stop affecting you by a certain date,” she said.

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

“Nobody’s had experience with this,” said Marty Esgar, a Deerfield High School teacher. “We don’t know how many of our students are going to come with levels of trauma.”

A woman who rescued a toddler from under his fathers body at the Highland Park massacre said the orphaned youngster was on the verge of suffocating.

Mourners on Friday remembered Jacki Sundheim who worked tirelessly planning events at her synagogue in the first formal service to be held for the seven people killed.

Robert Crimo, 21, visited the Chabad synagogue along the parade route earlier this year, the synagogues volunteer security director has said.

The parents of Highland Park shooter Robert Bobby Crimo III, 21, have finally spoken out about their sons heinous actions.

Cassie Goldstein, 22, was watching the Fourth of July parade in the Chicago suburb with her mother, Katherine, 64, when police said gunman Robert Crimo, 21, fired into the crowd.

Billionaire Bill Ackman (right) donated $18,000 to a fundraiser supporting the family of two-year-old Aiden McCarthy (left). Aidens parents were killed in the Highland Park parade shooting.

Crimos parents Bob Crimo Sr. and Denise Espina have retained their family friend, Steve Greenberg, to represent them. They have not been charged and their attorney says they did nothing wrong.