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Beloved North Lawndale gym teacher and Navy vet mourned

by Pascal Sabino/Block Club Chicago March 28, 2022March 28, 2022

Students, teachers and loved ones at Holy Family School in North Lawndale are grieving the loss of two members of the school community who were killed earlier this month in West Humboldt Park. Joseph Stokes, the physical education teacher at Holy Family, and Dejuan Thomas, a parent at the school, were fatally shot about at […]

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