ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (WGN) — While mourners filled State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, to honor conservative activist Charlie Kirk, community members in the northwest suburbs gathered on Sunday to pay their final respects.

Rick Kling and his wife spent their day riding motorcycles through multiple suburbs. They stopped at Lakewood Chapel in Kirk’s hometown of Arlington Heights, where a livestream of Kirk’s memorial service was being shown.

“Today we ride for Charlie Kirk,” the pair said.

Pastor John Elleson says he had never met Kirk or followed his movement before he was shot and killed at an event on a Utah college campus on Sept. 10.

“I thought if it was my son or something, I’d want to honor him,” Elleson said.

Knowing Kirk had deep ties to the Arlington Heights community,

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