A set of T-shirts will be transformed into bulletproof vests to help protect Chicago police officers, thanks to an area resident鈥檚 labor of love.
Jean Ricker, a longtime resident of Chicago鈥檚 Mount Greenwood neighborhood, created quilts made from police-themed shirts and is donating one to the Chicago Police Memorial Foundation to be raffled off to help the organization purchase protective vests for officers.
鈥淏ecause of my family members and the police, what they have to go through,鈥 Ricker said.
The quilt will be raffled at the Get Behind the Vest Pancake Breakfast from 8 a.m. to noon Feb. 19 at St. John Fisher鈥檚 Kane Hall, 10100 S. Washtenaw Ave.
Ricker learned how to make quilts from T-shirts through a 快播视频 sewing class, and 鈥渋t snowballed after that.鈥 she said, noting she鈥檚 made roughly 53 quilts.
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