{"id":183809,"date":"2025-08-29T03:47:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T03:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/183809\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T03:47:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T03:47:14","slug":"miss-illinois-nitsaniyah-fitch-uses-platform-to-empower-young-girls-in-chicago-area-ahead-of-2026-miss-america-pageant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/183809\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss Illinois, Nitsaniyah Fitch, uses platform to empower young girls in Chicago area ahead of 2026 Miss America pageant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WLS logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/origin-wls.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, August 29, 2025 2:30AM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Miss Illinois uses platform to empower young girls in Chicago area\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Miss America competition starts next week in Orlando.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; The <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/abbie-stockard-alabama-has-been-crowned-miss-america-2025\/15760956\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miss America<\/a> competition starts next week in Orlando, Florida. Miss Illinois joined ABC7 Chicago Thursday to talk more about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Nitsaniyah Fitch was crowned this summer, and is using her platform to empower young girls across Chicago and Illinois.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/watch\/live\/11064984\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24\/7. Click here to watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Fitch talked about what wisdom she hopes to teach young girls, how she&#8217;s feeling about the competition, favorite moments from the experience and what she&#8217;s most looking forward to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">She said she also seeks to create impact within the nonprofit sector, especially related to environmental advocacy and corporate social responsibility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">She is multi-lingual and describes herself as having international exposure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Visit <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/missamerica.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">missamerica.org<\/a> or <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/missamericail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram <\/a>for more information.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team Friday, August 29, 2025 2:30AM The Miss America competition starts next week in Orlando.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":183810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[103275,960,5386,1818,103273,24092,103274],"class_list":{"0":"post-183809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-103275","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois","12":"tag-miss-america-2026","13":"tag-miss-america-pageant","14":"tag-nitsaniyah-fitch"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115110008823219752","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}