Adrienne Drell, a resigned correspondent with the Chicago Sun Times, had quite recently picked a spot on Central Avenue toward the finish of the Highland Park Fourth of July march course.
She was not a long way from Sunset Park, 1801 Sunset Rd., where post-march exercises were planned.
A walking band sporting blue and white regalia (reasonable the Highland Park High School walking band) was passing by when she saw individuals running. Drell expressed:
"Out of nowhere, the band scatters and sort of starts running and I'm believing 'That is the way they're finishing the motorcade?'
And afterward they're running over my head and everybody expresses 'Leave! Leave!'
"Some more established man came up and said 'You must leave.' And then he gets me, in a real sense, pushing me away and afterward a cop dropped by with a canine and expressed, 'Leave.'
Everybody's running all over wildly. Also, we heard that there were shooters."
No less than six individuals were killed Monday morning and multiple dozen harmed after a shooter or shooters started shooting at the marchers and march participants.
Police still can't seem to track down the shooter and are requesting that individuals avoid downtown Highland Park.
Adjoining rural areas, including Evanston, have dropped all occasion exercises, marches, social events, firecrackers.
Evanston has shut the sea shores "out of intense watchfulness," the Evanston Police Department said.
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