{"id":228184,"date":"2025-09-15T07:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/228184\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T07:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:37:14","slug":"arlington-heights-native-charlie-kirk-remembered-at-community-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/228184\/","title":{"rendered":"Arlington Heights native Charlie Kirk remembered at community memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/839BF0CED7AB7E22CB4E794740B050CE.jpg\" alt=\"Charlie Kirk vigil in Arlington Heights\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/video\/1707577\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlie Kirk vigil in Arlington Heights<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\">In Arlington Heights, a very public display of grief and reflection as a community came together to remember one of their own&#8212;Charlie Kirk honored for his impact on so many in a life cut tragically short.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.<\/strong> &#8211; In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/arlington-heights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arlington Heights<\/a>, a very public display of grief and reflection as a community came together on an otherwise beautiful fall afternoon to remember one of their own.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/news\/when-is-charlie-kirks-funeral-all-we-know-so-far\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Political activist Charlie Kirk<\/a> was honored at North School Park for his impact on so many in a life cut tragically short. Kirk was shot and killed on Sept. 10 at Utah Valley University.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Hundreds turned out for the event, with many chanting &#8220;Charlie, Charlie, Charlie!&#8221; while others held the American flag and signs. One of the signs read: &#8220;WE ARE ALL CHARLIE.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Kirk, who was killed just days ago during a speaking engagement at a university in Utah, was honored as one of the great communicators of his generation.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">One of the speakers told the crowd, &#8220;Charlie had a God-given gift\u2014he exhibited skills like active listening, empathy, patience, and always with some wit and with some humor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The memorial was just one of several scheduled around the country as people pause to honor the 31-year-old husband, father, and political firebrand who was born in Arlington Heights and raised in neighboring Prospect Heights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Turning Point USA, the organization founded by Kirk, is holding an event celebrating his life on Sunday, September 21 in Glendale, Arizona. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> This story contains reporting from Fox 32&#8217;s Scott Schneider.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/arlington-heights\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arlington Heights<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Illinois<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie Kirk vigil in Arlington Heights In Arlington Heights, a very public display of grief and reflection as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":228185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[11438,960,5404,5386,1818,50,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-228184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-arlington-heights","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-cook-county","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-illinois","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115207172536711551","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228184","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=228184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}