As Highland Park sits in the national spotlight, its residents want you to know a few things

On the Fourth of July, a gunman killed seven and wounded others during the holiday parade in Highland Park, a suburb on the North Shore of Chicago. In the days following the tragedy, it was portrayed in some of the news coverage as a gentle Mayberry, international press fixed affluent to its name and front pages somehow imagined a utopia. But Highland Park has never been a uniform place.