Family seeks public’s help after woman plunges to her death from Uptown apartment window

Jillian Schappa was found in this alley near the 4900 block of North Kenmore Avenue in Uptown on Saturday. Schappa lived in an apartment on the block and told authorities that she’d been pushed out of a window. She died Monday afternoon. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times)

Jillian Schappa struggled to live on her own after coming to Chicago from Michigan to attend college.

But she found a place in Uptown through Thresholds, an organization that provides health care, housing and other services to people with mental health issues, according to her mother.