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It’s also where mourners, including Chavez’s father, Daniel Chavez, her brother, Daniel Chavez Jr., and sister Iris Chavez, stood to demand answers from police officers about what happened on the night of Dec. 18.
Chicago resident and Southwest Airlines flight attendant Corliss King was determined to expand Illinois' paid leave law to cover Illinois airline workers after her employer denied her request to use sick leave to care for her critically ill husband Terrance Hale, who died in 2020. Photographed with her daughters Nayla Hale, left, and Adurah Hale, near the South Shore Cultural Center on Dec. 22, 2021.
As a mother of two teenage daughters who spent her days juggling family responsibilities with her job as a flight attendant, Chicago resident Corliss King had no time in her busy schedule for political activism. After the 2020 legislative session was truncated by the coronavirus pandemic, this year turned into a busy one for Illinois lawmakers and Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
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