This image provided by Nancy Schneider shows workers painting steps in a business district that reopened Sunday, July 10, 2022 in Highland Park, Ill. It had been closed as a crime scene since the July 4 mass shooting that killed seven people. In the background is a makeshift memorial to victims. that left seven people dead reopened Sunday morning in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park.
“We came out at 5:30 this morning. It was open,” said Dale Miller, 70, who said was walking his dog, Milo, near where the shooting occurred. “This is our first walk of the day.” “She called me up in tears and said 'I've lost my safe haven,'” Miller recounted."'Highland Park was always the one place I could go where I was safe and that's taken away.'”