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CICERO, Ill. - The sprawling Chicago suburbs that send their sons and daughters to Northern Illinois University struggled Sunday with the closeness of the country's latest massacre - this time the gunman grew up among them.
The tragedy hung over church services throughout the region, from the university's home in DeKalb on Chicago's western exurban edge, to Elk Grove Village, where the gunman grew up in what one resident called "Mayberry," to blue-collar Cicero bordering Chicago.See the full content of this document
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Niu Victims' Families, Hometowns Grieve
Parishioners at Our Lady of the Mount Catholic Church in Cicero prepared for the funeral of Catalina Garcia, the youngest of four children of parents originally from Guadalajara, Mexico. They are longtime parishioners at Our Lady of the Mount, a tight-knit group of low- and middle-income families, many of them...
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