One of the state’s largest labor unions expressed solidarity with the people of Ukraine by donating $10,000 and hosting an interfaith prayer vigil Friday at Daley Plaza.
Genie Kastrup, president of Service Employees International Union Local 1, handed the check to Serhiy Koledov, Ukraine’s consul general in Chicago, in front of about 100 people waving the country’s flag and holding signs calling for Russian aggression to cease. Among them: “No War in Ukraine” and “Close the Sky in Ukraine,” a call for NATO to implement a no-fly zone over the country’s airspace.
