CHICAGO (WLS) -- The life of Rev. Jesse Jackson was celebrated.
Chicago and the nation said goodbye to Rev. Jesse Jackson on Friday and Saturday.
Services were held in Chicago and South Carolina.
Plans in Washington, D.C. were postponed.
The final service for the late Rev. Jesse Jackson was one of love, laughter, tears and inspiration.
Saturday's events were the culmination of days of homegoing services for the reverend who died Feb. 17.
A procession to the cemetery immediately followed Saturday's service, which people from all over came to.
Crowds lined up early Saturday morning to get into Rainbow PUSH Coalition headquarters.
Rainbow Push Political Director Betty Magness joined ABC7 to talk about moments from Rev. Jesse Jackson that stick with her, what young activists should learn from his life and what his leadership was like inside the movement.
Rev. Jackson's former memoirist and Roosevelt University Professor John Fountain joined ABC7 to talk about what he saw behind Rev. Jesse Jackson's image.
Karen Freeman-Wilson, president and CEO of the Chicago Urban League, joined ABC7 to talk about how he impacted her leadership journey and personal moments that capture who Rev. Jackson was.
The Jackson family will lead the casket on a procession to the House of Hope Friday morning.
The procession is expected to get underway at 7:45 a,m.
The Jackson family will lead the procession from Leaks and Sons Funeral Home.
This is a full circle moment.
The Leaks family welcomed Reverend Jackson and his family when they moved to Chicago.
The Leak's family house in the South Shore neighborhood was the first home the Jacksons moved to.
Leak & Sons also drove Jackson's body to lie in state in South Carolina last week. The hearse had a state police escort for the trip.
The Leaks family said helping plan Reverend Jackson's funeral has been an honor.
"I've been given an awesome responsibility because of this awesome man, and I just want everything to go perfectly for him," Spencer Leak Jr. said.
The processional route will go down Cottage Grove then west to 115th.
The city's Office of Emergency Management and Communication said people should expect rolling street closures once the procession begins.
