Crystal Lake Post Office renamed in honor of fallen Marine

The Crystal Lake Post Office at 301 Congress Parkway now is the Ryan J. Cummings Post Office.A bill signed into law by President Joe Biden at the e...

January 15, 2023
12:06 AM

The Crystal Lake Post Office at 301 Congress Parkway now is the Ryan J. Cummings Post Office.A bill signed into law by President Joe Biden at the end of last year renamed the post office after Cummings, a Marine who died at the age of 22 while on duty in Iraq in 2006.The family lived in Crystal Lake at the time.U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth and U.S. Rep. Sean Casten, D-Downers Grove, had been working on getting versions of the bill passed in the Senate and House.Cumming's father, John, told the Northwest Herald last year that he first met Duckworth several years ago at Abraham Lincoln Cemetery in Elwood, where his son is buried.

Aaron Dorman