(Jewish Group) At least 6 killed at July 4 parade in Highland Park, Illinois, heavily Jewish suburb

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https://www.jta.org/2022/07/04/united-states/at-least-6-killed-at-july-4-parade-in-highland-park-illinois-heavily-jewish-suburb-of-chicago

A klezmer band was playing when a shooting interrupted a Fourth of July parade in a suburb of Chicago Monday, killing at least six people and sending dozens more to local hospitals.

The mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, home to a substantial Jewish population, is at least the 250th in the United States this year. Local and Chicago police and the FBI said they were investigating Monday afternoon, as the shooter remained at large more than three hours after the shooting.

About a third of the 30,000 residents in the suburb along Lake Michigan about 25 miles north of Chicago are Jewish, according to some estimates, and they include many Israelis. There are synagogues from multiple denominations, and substantial Jewish populations in many of the neighboring suburbs.

Lynn Sweet, the Washington bureau chief for the Chicago Sun-Times, posted a video showing the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band, Chicago’s preeminent Jewish music group, playing in the parade as bystanders scatter and scream. Sweet subsequently posted a picture showing bloodied bodies lying on the sidewalk.