Images: Suburban Sept. 11 Remembrance Ceremonies
Updated 9/11/2019 8:52 PM
The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 were remembered today in Elgin and Lincolnshire. Other ceremonies will be held this evening in Hoffman Estates, Wheaton and Naperville.















Mary Light of Wheaton and other visitors on Wednesday to the First Division Museum at Cantigny Park recognized the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks with a ceremony introducing a new permanent exhibit. Two steel beams salvaged from the remains of the World Trade Center are the centerpiece. Chicago Fire Department Battalion Chief Patrick Maloney spoke during the event.
Patrick Kunzer | Staff Photographer

People rise for the national anthem on Wednesday at the First Division Museum at Cantigny Park and recognize the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks with a ceremony introducing a new permanent exhibit. Two steel beams salvaged from the remains of the World Trade Center are the centerpiece.
Patrick Kunzer | Staff Photographer

Visitors on Wednesday to the First Division Museum at Cantigny Park recognized the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks by tying blue ribbons at a ceremony introducing a new permanent exhibit. Two steel beams salvaged from the remains of the World Trade Center are the centerpiece.
Patrick Kunzer | Staff Photographer

Visitors on Wednesday to the First Division Museum at Cantigny Park recognized the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks with a ceremony introducing a new permanent exhibit. Two steel beams salvaged from the remains of the World Trade Center are the centerpiece. Chicago Fire Department Battalion Chief Patrick Maloney spoke about his experience assisting in New York City in the wake of the attack.
Patrick Kunzer | Staff Photographer

Visitors on Wednesday to the First Division Museum at Cantigny Park recognized the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks with a ceremony introducing a new permanent exhibit. Two steel beams salvaged from the remains of the World Trade Center are the centerpiece. Chicago Fire Department Battalion Chief Patrick Maloney spoke during the event.
Patrick Kunzer | Staff Photographer

Kathy Moore of Lombard wipes away tears after touching World Trade Center steel on Wednesday. Visitors to the First Division Museum at Cantigny Park recognized the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks with a ceremony introducing a new permanent exhibit. Two steel beams salvaged from the remains of the World Trade Center are the centerpiece.
Patrick Kunzer | Staff Photographer

Charles F. Johanns, co-chair of the Naperville 9/11 Shanower Memorial Commission speaks at a Sept. 11 ceremony at the memorial on the riverwalk in Naperville Wednesday. Commander Dan Shanower of the U.S.Navy was a Naperville native who was killed in the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. In the foreground is a twisted iron beam from the World Trade Center in New York City.
John Starks | Staff Photographer






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