Chicago journalist and South Side activist Hannah Hayes was killed in a hit-and-run crash in Bronzeville near E. 49th Street and S. Drexel Blvd.
Hannah Hayes' relatives passed out fliers this weekend near the crash site at E. 49th Street and S. Drexel Blvd.Hannah Hayes' relatives passed out fliers this weekend near the crash site at E. 49th Street and S. Drexel Blvd.
On July 11, Hayes was driving on 49th Street when the driver of a silver 2012 Lexus sped through a stop sign at Drexel Boulevard and slammed into her car.The people in the Lexus ran from the scene. Days later, police released images of two suspects wanted in connection with the hit-and-run. Hayes husband said she had been ingrained in Chicago politics, working on both of former Mayor Harold Washington's campaigns. She had also been an activist and advocate for public education for many years, her husband said.
Her husband said he wants her to be remembered "as somebody who really gave a damn, and acted on that as much as she could."Hayes was also a journalist with pieces published in the Sun-Times, Smithsonian Air and Space, the Journal of the AMA and Christian Science Monitor, among others.
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