Greg Zanis can talk a lot about the crosses he’s made — all 26,275. But the five more he made on Friday for the Aurora workplace victims were the toughest he’s ever had to make.

Greg Zanis of Aurora, Ill., prepares crosses to place at a makeshift memorial for victims of a mass shooting at a shopping complex in El Paso, Texas, Aug. 5, 2019.

Greg Zanis, an Illinois man who spent over 20 years making and delivering crosses to honor victims of mass shootings in the U.S., died Monday after battling with bladder cancer, his daughter ...

Greg Zanis, an Aurora man who gained national attention for placing crosses at the sites of mass shootings in the United States, died Monday after a battle with cancer. A drive-by event to salute ...

UPDATE MAY 4: Greg Zanis has died at age 69, according his publicist.Zanis is known for making crosses to honor victims of mass shootings, including 1 October in Las Vegas. It was recently ...

AURORA, Ill — Greg Zanis, the carpenter whose handmade crosses came to symbolize grief in the wake of tragedy, died Monday at age 69 after a year-long struggle with cancer. The humble carpenter ...

Mr. Zanis, a carpenter who traveled the country honoring the dead, made over 26,000 wooden memorials over the past two decades. By Neil Vigdor Many people knew Greg Zanis simply as “the cross ...

AURORA, Ill. (WLS) -- Greg Zanis, the Aurora man who built more than 27,000 white crosses to commemorate victims of gun violence in America, died Monday morning from cancer. He was 69. Zanis began ...

Let's remember these names, let's remember these people," Zanis said. He made his first cross after the 1996 murder of his father-in-law. The first mass shooting he went to was Columbine .

There are a lot of ways to make an electric car. Greg Zanis decided his should eschew all traditional design ideas and built an EV that looks like something out of an '80s science fiction movie.

Greg Zanis can talk a lot about the crosses he’s made — all 26,275. But the five more he made on Friday for the Aurora workplace victims were the toughest he’s ever had to make.