One year ago, as families, friends, neighbors and revelers celebrated Independence Day in a relatively quiet suburb of Chicago, shots were fired from above. Within seconds, the scene in Highland Park devolved into something grisly and primal, as parents scrambled for kids and paradegoers ducked for cover.
The Highland Park Fourth of July parade shooting marked the deadliest mass shooting in Illinois in the last decade. Seven people were killed and dozens more injured after a gunman opened fire from a rooftop high above the parade’s main thoroughfare.
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A year later
As loved ones continue to mourn the loss of those killed in the tragic shooting on July 4, 2022, countless Illinois families have come to share in their grief, learning for themselves what it’s like to lose a loved one to gun violence.
In total, there have been 54 mass shootings in Illinois since that day, resulting in 50 deaths and 225 injuries, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as four or more people shot in a single event, not including the gunman.
In a year span, that equates to approximately one mass shooting every week in Illinois.
Browse the map below to see where mass shootings have occurred in Illinois since the Highland Park shooting on July 4, 2022. Hover over each point to see more information about that shooting.
Prior to Highland Park, the deadliest mass shooting in Illinois in at least a decade was a shooting at a manufacturing firm in Aurora in 2019. In that attack, a disgruntled employee shot and killed five employees and wounded five police officers.
More recently, a mass shooting at a Halloween party in Joliet in 2021 left three dead and a dozen injured and just last month, one person was killed and 22 were injured in a shooting in Willowbrook.
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