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Suburban Sikhs, non-Sikhs come together at two vigils

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Kawal Preet and her son Prabhnek, 15 months, visiting from San Francisco, take part in the candlelight vigil at Illinois Sikh Community Center in Wheaton on Monday.

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Members of the local Sikh community remembered the victims of Sunday's shooting at a suburban Milwaukee temple during two candlelight vigils, in Palatine and Wheaton. In Wheaton, local Sikhs were joined by representatives of other major religions at an interfaith prayer service. "What has happened did not happen to a Sikh, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Christian, a Jew, but to Americans," a temple spokesman said.

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