It was another difficult Mother's Day for those in the Chicago area with missing loved ones.
Family members of several missing people gathered at Daley Plaza to remember those who have disappeared.
Karen Phillips, the mother of Kierra Coles, the pregnant Postal Worker who vanished from the South Side in 2018 at the age of 27, said the public cannot forget the missing, saying "I need to have closure, however this is going to be for us...we want this to stay up front so everybody can say 'they're not going to give up without finding her' and we're not."
Also among those who gathered were family members of two-year-old King Walker who disappeared in Gary with his aunt, 21-year-old Diamond Bynum, in 2015, and 24-year-old Jerrica Laws, who was last seen in Park Forest the same year.
Families of the lost in ChicagoTerry Keshner
Vera Giles Norris, with the group Missing Please Come Home Global Alert, made a plea to the public for all these cases saying "If you're out there and you have information, will you please come forward, even if you just call the anonymous line and leave a tip. If it was your loved you would need someone to do it for you, you would want someone to do it for you."
Rabbi Michael Ben Yosef said the police, the public, and reporters don't pay enough attention to missing people of color, "had these mothers, these children, been white, there would have been mountains moved. Had these families been white like Gabby Petito - God Bless their families - but the same results are not for these families."
Terry Keshner
