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In this Oct. 13, 2016 photo, Crystal Gonzalez holds a picture of her daughter, Kaylee Jacob, at her home in Effingham, Ill. Jacob was 16 when a teenage friend messing around with a gun in the backseat of a car parked in Effingham, Ill., accidentally shot her to death in 2015. Nearly a year later, the girl's mother said the pain still lingers,and she knows that it always will. &quot;Her death has forever changed my life and the lives of my other children,&quot; said Crystal Gonzalez.(Bill Grimes/Effingham Daily News via AP)

EXCHANGE: Illinois mom tries to cope with death of daughter

By BILL GRIMES - Associated Press

In this Monday, March 21, 2016 photo, family, neighbors and community members gather to remember Devon Lofton, 7, in front of the house where he lived and died in Englewood, Ill., after being accidentally shot. Forty-two times in a 2 1/2 year span a child was killed or injured in an accidental shooting in Illinois. (Brian Cassella /Chicago Tribune via AP)

Most accidental shootings of Illinois children in Chicago

By JASON KEYSER - Associated Press