July 2022

I have noted in past Mayor’s Messages, that I spent my professional career in the field of education, as an instructor and administrator.

Imagine a four-year-old boy, his eight-year-old sister and their father going out every Wednesday evening to a Chicago Public Library to select two books each for their weekly reading.

So here we are again, a tragic loss of life and no reasonable explanation for what causes an individual to go atop a building with an assault weapon and aim it at his fellow humans who are doing nothing more than enjoying the beauty of celebrating a national holiday.

The following is a note that Mayor Marchese sent to Mayor Nancy Rotering of Highland Park