Parkland survivors, local students support gun control at Naperville town hall

Former Parkland, Florida, student Matthew Deitsch, a 2016 graduate of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, speaks during a town hall meeting Saturday at DuPage Unitarian Universalist Church in Naperville. The event was the second stop on the Parkland students’ Road to Change national tour. Steve Lundy | Staff Photographer Audience members clap as students who survived the shooting Feb. 14 at their high school in Parkland, Florida, join students from Downers Grove North High School and St. Sabina Academy in Chicago for a town hall meeting Saturday evening at DuPage Unitarian Universalist Church in Naperville. Steve Lundy | Staff Photographer Isa Chudzik, a recent graduate of Downers Grove North High School, washes a car during a benefit car wash Saturday at First United Methodist Church in Downers Grove. Joe Lewnard | Staff Photographer Students from Chicago, Downers Grove and Parkland, Florida, came together Saturday evening in Naperville in front of hundreds to advocate for better gun controls and an end to gun violence on the second day of the nationwide Road to Change tour. Each for his or her own reasons, student activists from Florida, the city and the suburbs promised to demand changes that they say will make people safer from gun violence. Calling themselves a "stubborn and impatient" generation, the students who spoke during Saturday’s town hall at DuPage Unitarian Universalist Church said recent school shootings, including the one that took 17 lives on Feb. 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, have shocked them […]

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