The Brief

Gathering together for National Gun Violence Awareness Month, the Chester community stepped up for the 2025 Wear Orange Peace Walk.

Additionally, after the walk, a block party was held for the benefit of bringing residents together in the hope of peace in the city’s streets.

The City of Chester banded together for the 2025 Wear Orange Peace Walk, with a block party after, to show unity and in the hope that gun violence can be put to an end.

What we know:

It was a loud and clear message through the streets of Chester, a call for peace in the streets and the end to gun violence in the city.

Many of those leading the charge are those hurt by gun violence.

"In 2014, my older brother was murdered to gun violence and he wasn’t even in the streets. It just made me realize someone

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