Winthrop Harbor police officers responded at about 11:10 p.m. to the 1400-block of Sheridan Road.
Police said a pedestrian as struck by a vehicle heading northbound and the vehicle fled the scene.
The victim was transported to Vista Medical Center and was pronounced dead, police said.
The daughter of 50-year-old Shanna White told ABC7 she was the type of woman to give the shirt off of her back, and so they say they can't seem to comprehend how someone would simply leave her on the side of the road.
"It feel like I'm in a bad dream that i can't get up from," Shaeve White said.
It was the call she never saw coming.
"My mom is the sweetest person," Shaeve White said. "She'll give a person a shirt off her back. And anybody that know my mom always know Shanna had a heart and she was gonna be a good time."
Winthrop Harbor police say a car was moving along Sheridan Road in Winthrop Harbor just after 11 p.m. Thursday when the driver hit 50-year-old Shanna White. The family says she often walked the road on her way to Kenosha. Police say after she was hit, that driver then left the scene.
"The audacity for them to not even stop and, you know, see if she was okay, at least not considering if she has family, if she's leaving loved ones behind, like, y'all just really just kept going, like, it's just crazy," White said.
Shanna's daughter, Shaeve, says when she went to visit the scene, it looked like her mother had been dragged along the road after getting hit. She was taken to the hospital where she later died.
She leaves behind her five children and several grandchildren.
"Just come forward and explain yourself, explain what happened," Shaeve White said.
The family is now demanding justice and pleading for help, with the hopes someone will come forward.
"If you've seen anything. I'm offering $5,000," Shaeve White said. "If anybody seen anything, I got $5,000 I can offer y'all."
"It sucks, because you only get one mom, you know," Shaeve White said. "So you can have aunties a million cousins, but you can only get one mom."
Police say they don't know what type of car was involved, but are asking anyone with information to come forward.