
And now they’re getting to know the neighbors, just in time for Christmas. Kim Filian, 54, poses for a portrait in her home Wednesday Dec. Handel beat cancer and the two are getting married at the end of the month. For every bad person, there’s 100 nice people, and it is a really good lesson for them, and for all the children in the neighborhood, to see that there’s good in this world and it always outweighs the bad,” Handel said. “We said look at what all the good people are doing, look at all the nice people in the world. It was an amazing lesson in the goodness of humanity for the couple’s two children. “For me, whenever there’s a bad situation, I always remember there’s a silver lining, and this was our silver lining,” Rosado said.Īfter that, gifts started randomly showing up, and people started dropping by. “And I got to say, it just seemed like there was one thing that I could do that I had control of.” “Frankly, I’ve grown weary of this, of all this hate,” Filian said. Now they are everywhere around their neighborhood. Then she ordered more, then other neighbors kept asking for them. She didn’t really know the couple but she planted a pride flag on her lawn in solidarity. Sprites with extraordinary dimensions for an extraordinary game. Word got around the neighborhood and it was more than one of their neighbors, Kim Filian, could bear. ZADETTE is a collection of the best and worst of everything that made the great arcade games of the late 80's: A muscular hero in his underwear who slices his big sword at every enemy that stands in his way. The couple said the incident was chilling, but then something wonderful happened. “We were pretty devastated as far as, who would do this? Why would they do it?” Handel said. Two weeks ago, someone snuck into their yard and took it down and replaced it with a United States flag, according to WGN. They flew their rainbow flag behind their home. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.īARRINGTON, Illinois - A suburban Illinois couple got the best gift they could have imagined this holiday season: a neighborhood filled with rainbows after their LGBT pride flag was stolen.Ĭasey Handel and Zadette Rosado just moved into Barrington, northwest of Chicago, last May with their two daughters.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Decem11:02 AM EST A couple living in a suburb outside of Chicago had their rainbow flag stolen from a flagpole in their backyard a few weeks ago and replaced with an American flag.
