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L-R: Ill. Secretary of State, Jesse White and Rev. Tyrone Crider, of Mt. Calvary Baptist Church on Chicago’s south side is in need of a heart transplant.

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South Suburban Mayors Launch Organ/Tissue Donor Awareness Outreach

South Suburban Chicago mayors, at least one U.S. elected official and area clergy, came together March 11 at Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey, to launch Gift of Hope Organ and Tissue Donor Network’s unprecedented “Mayors for Hope,” an initiative to deliver awareness and education regarding organ donation and transplantation to residents in their respective municipalities and to dispel myths, especially in African American communities associated with organ donation.