ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. — Thousands of people in Charlie Kirk's hometown gathered at North School Park to honor the man who founded Turning Point USA and who was atrociously killed at a campus event in Utah last week.

Charlie was born in Arlington Heights and raised in the suburbs of Chicago. He graduated from Wheeling High School and started TPUSA out his parents' garage. As the organization grew, the headquarters was moved to Lemont, where early backer and support Bill Montgomery lived and worked. TPUSA's headquarters eventually was uprooted from Illinois and moved to Phoenix, Arizona.

'Charlie was a courageous warrior for Christ, and politics was second with him.'

Kirk became a worldwide phenomenon through his activism. The people who gathered on Sunday were proud that he came from

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