People who opted to stay in their tent encampments were concerned about leaving their belongings behind, and also reported that some can’t access transportation to get to shelters.
Lavell Winslow had gone to the North Side’s Lerner Park to celebrate a friend’s birthday, but another boy had brought a gun, apparently unaware that a bullet was loaded.
This Sunday, the women hope to have brunch together with at least 100 others who lost children to gun violence or COVID-19. Other attendees might also have lost mothers to