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Evanston Sorority Hazing Wrongful Death: When Pledging Turns Deadly and Who Pays Under Illinois Law You are reading this because someone you love is gone, and a Greek organization — a sorority that was supposed to build sisterhood, not destroy it — had something to do with it. Maybe it was hazing. Maybe it was weeks of paddling, sleep deprivation, verbal abuse, and financial exploitation that nobody stopped. Maybe your daughter, your sister, your child told the people hurting her that she was breaking — that the abuse was triggering old trauma, filling her head with suicidal thoughts — and they kept going. And now she is dead, and the sorority is sending condolences while its lawyers are already circling. We know this because this is exactly what happened at Northwestern University in Evanston, in Cook County, Illinois, and the family of that student filed a federal lawsuit to hold every layer of the organization accountable. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We build wrongful death cases against institutions that let hazing kill. The first thing you need to know is this: what happened was not a personal failure of the person who died. It was the predictable,…