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The city's Emergency Supplemental Victims’ Fund pilot program launched in December and helps cover funeral expenses, relocation costs and other basic needs, such as rent, utilities, groceries and more.
It has been more than two years since Nyisha Beemon’s daughter was shot and killed inside a convenience store. Now, she wants to purchase the store and turn it into a community hub that would offer support and counseling.
When Jaya Beemon was slain in 2020, her mother was overcome with grief. Now she is full of resolve to help her South Side Chicago community.
Nyisha Beemon is keeping her daughter's memory alive by working to combat gun violence in her community.
Chicago police / Chicago Fire Dept. We had the talk. It is time to have the other talk. Because I can’t think of anything worse than a 65-year-old man on a popcorn run getting fatally shot during a carjacking and a 15-year-old being charged with the crime. The family of Dwain Williams, a former Chicago Fire Department lieutenant, has publicly expressed what so many families are feeling. “I’m very disheartened that this was essentially a baby that has — I don’t even know if they understand the repercussion their actions have caused,” Williams’ daughter Dakeeda Williams-Barton to...