As life’s rhythms return, Highland Park residents resist ‘normalization’ of shootings

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. — The trauma of the Fourth of July was already beginning to yield to life’s regular rhythms Wednesday, just 48 hours after America’s latest mass shooting brought tragedy and infamy to another tranquil U.S. community. 
At Central Avenue and Green Bay Road, commuter traffic — that fixture of every large American city’s suburban margins, to say nothing of Chicago — returned to a junction that has been closed to vehicles, and a backdrop on