Gunshot fired outside Illinois rally to support Israel

A man fired a gunshot into the air and several people, including a police officer, were pepper-sprayed when a pro-Palestinian group demonstrated outside a Jewish organization’s rally in solidarity with Israel Sunday, according to Lincolnwood and Skokie police. The rally was originally set to be a fundraising dinner for the Midwest Regional Office of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, whose website describes it as a Jewish human rights activist organization, but organizers switched it to a Solidarity with Israel event in Skokie after the Israel-Hamas war started on Oct. 7, they said in a news release...