When the anniversary of their parents’ deaths comes around, sisters Melody Smith and Kim Jockl head to the chapel at O’Hare International Airport or to a trailer park near the crash site of American Airlines Flight 191.
Next year, they will be able to visit a memorial to their parents and the 271 others who died when the plane crashed in Elk Grove Township just after takeoff from O’Hare on May 25, 1979. The monument is set to be unveiled Oct. 15 in Des Plaines’ Lake Park, near the crash site.
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Along with submitting their work to the Constitutional Rights Foundation, the class reached out to U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Evanston and state Sen. Dan Kotowski of Park Ridge, who both helped find funding and a location for the memorial.
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