Snelling called Rivera “young, vibrant and a hard worker.” Her mother told The Chicago Sun-Times that she had dreamed of being a police officer since she was young.

She was 61 when she did the Shoah interview, one of thousands of 52,000 stories recorded over eight years. “Family is what’s most important,” Steinmetz said. She was too young to remember ...

Officials say the 64-year-old woman was walking into a Boscov's store entrance when she was hit by the vehicle. The driver of the vehicle was identified as an 88-year-old woman.