Chicago Tribune's John Kass: Emily Beazley, the 12-year-old girl whose courageous fight against cancer inspired Chicago, has passed.

Emily Beazley, the 12-year-old girl whose courageous fight against cancer inspired Chicago, has passed.

If you followed her story, you knew. And if you didn't follow it, you learned about it Tuesday, reporters outside her home in the quiet Mount Greenwood neighborhood of cops and firefighters and city workers.

For months now, the neighborhood's colors have been purple and green, on ribbons, and purple and green lights outside neighbor's homes, on businesses, shops and taverns, all purple and green, the colors calling awareness to lymphoma of all types, the colors for Emily.

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