Roseland Ceasefire Extends Help to Kankakee Tornado Victims


Roseland Ceasefire Extends Help to Kankakee Tornado Victims


In recent months, The Roseland Ceasefire Project has become more than a violence intervention organization, the 20-year-old institution is a community lifeline. Saturday, March 21, 2026, Roseland Ceasefire will travel to Kankakee to deliver essential household items to victims of a Category 3 tornado that tore through the county less than two weeks ago.


Roseland Ceasefire is joining with Caldwell Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church to deliver items to Kankakee residents impacted by the storm. At least 30 homes were destroyed and 500 buildings damaged in Illinois, according to state officials. The body of a man was found in a nearby Kankakee village.


"We try to be helpful wherever possible," says Roseland Ceasefire President and CEO, Bob Jackson. "As a long-time community organization, we interact with people from Roseland to Kankakee. So, people often reach out to us when there is a problem."


Over the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, last year, the far South Side organization gave out food and toys. They also gave out food during the government shutdown to SNAP recipients, whose vouchers were held up.


Roseland Ceasefire was instrumental in helping to connect rapper Lil Zay Osama when Corshawda Hatter, a mother and her two children were attacked by students from Orville T. Bright Elementary School. The former Chicagoan was so moved by the news coverage that he wanted to give the Hatter family a Christmas gift of money and toys just for them. Osama asked Roseland Ceasefire to help make it possible.


Roseland Ceasefire is holding a news conference tomorrow at 11 a.m., 12549 S. Ashland Avenue in Calumet Park, before taking the donated items to Kankakee.

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