Grace Bentkowski Family Pushing for Change After Train Incident Death [Video]

Grace Bentkowski’s family members are remembering the 22-year-old journalist — and pushing to increase safety standards at a Chicago-area station after she was hit and killed by a train last month.

“It still hasn’t sunk in,” uncle Michael O’Neill told The Chicago Sun-Times of her death.

Grace, who had just started working as a creative producer for NewsNation in May, was commuting home to Dyer, Ind., from downtown Chicago on Thursday, July 25, according to the newspaper and WGN-TV.

After exiting a train at the Hegewisch South Shore station, she followed other passengers across train tracks to access the parking lot, which was when she was struck and killed by another train.

Grace was rushed to the University of Chicago Medical Center and her parents and brother were present when she was later pronounced dead due to her injuries.

“My mom and dad burst into tears and screaming while I sat there, stone-faced, thinking, ‘This isn’t real. How is this even possible?’ …