CHICAGO (WLS) -- Local residents are reflecting, after Charlie Kirk was fatally shot Wednesday on a Utah college campus.

At a young age, Kirk impressed others with his tireless work ethic and ability to connect.

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Marko Sukovic of Lincolnshire worked with Kirk when his now-powerhouse political organization, Turning Point USA, was in its infancy, operating out of a garage below a one-room office in Lemont.

Around 2013, along with other energetic teens who'd volunteered for the campaign of suburban Congressman Bob Dold, Kirk sought to engage young people.

"A generation that kind of had really no one on the conservative side or on the center right communicating to them in any kind of effective way," Sukovic said.

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