Rachelle Zola, right, comforts her friend Mazell Sykes while Sykes discusses her childhood in Mississippi on Monday, June 14, 2021, outside Cosmopolitan United Church in Melrose Park. Zola began a 40-day all-liquid hunger strike to support H.R. 40, a House bill that would set up a commission to study reparations. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)
