Pam Kostecki, director of the Crisis Center for South Suburbia, held an electronic candle in front of eight cardboard cut-out silhouettes Wednesday night at the Action Behavior Center in Tinley Park along 183rd Street.

The cut-outs were on display for the center’s vigil for domestic violence fatalities and marked the start of domestic violence month. The cardboard figures, from a young girl to a pregnant woman and a dog, represented individuals who lost their lives to domestic violence in the south suburbs and who were some way connected to the crisis center.

Pam Kostecki, executive director at the Crisis Center for South Suburbia, participates in an event in Tinley Park Oct. 1, 2025, honoring people who lost their lives to domestic violence. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune)

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