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Northbrook residents demand removal of sign featuring Nazi symbol
Jenna Barnes, Ashlyn Wright
May 27, 2025

In downtown Northbrook, a longstanding free speech zone is the focus of a new uproar with some neighbors saying it has now crossed the line into hate speech. “It was terrible. It was just gut wrenching. It was shocking,” Jeff Kaminsky said. A sign at the corner of Shermer Road and Walters Avenue reads ‘Northbrook stands with migrants’ and shows a blue inverted triangle, which is a Nazi symbol. “I live a block away. I can see it if I walk outside my door and come half a block up. I’m very upset by this,” Lisa Beth Gansberg with Friends of United Hatzalah said. READ MORE