Taylor Casey’s loved ones are keeping hope alive a month after the Chicago woman disappeared in the Bahamas

It’s been a month since anyone reported seeing Taylor Casey. She was last spotted in the Bahamas on June 19. Her loved ones are making sure she’s still being seen.

It’s been a month since anyone reported seeing Taylor Casey. She was last spotted near Paradise Island in the Bahamas on June 19. Still, her loved ones are making sure she is being seen – by publicly campaigning for her safe return. Chicagoan Casey is described by friends and family as someone who defies “boundaries and definitions,” and a person “everyone notices when she enters a room.” When members of her community gathered July 11 to mark Casey’s 42nd birthday, plead with Bahamian police to keep searching for her and ask federal agencies to provide assistance, the event included balloons, snacks, games and bubbles. One reason support for finding Casey has been so monumental is that she is an “amazing, amazing friend,” said Jacqueline Boyd, Casey’s close friend and “chosen family” member for 17 years. “Anybody that has been in a room with her is really, really devastated right now, personally impacted and motivated to action,” Boyd told CNN.