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Balancing Act: 'It shook my foundation': After girl's drowning, Logan Square garden honors her memory, offers hope to others

CHICAGO - On the southwest corner of Logan Square's Haas Park playground, next to a state-of-the-art soccer field where kids in cleats run daytime scrimmages and families spread blankets for nighttime movies, a tiny, beautiful garden has taken root.

It bears the name of a girl who used to play there, back when there was no soccer field. Back when a baseball diamond took up most of the play space and home plate sat in that same southwest corner, the one where purple coneflowers and blue lupine plants now grow.

"Sofia Khan Garden," reads a little blue sign - unassuming in stature,

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