Retired suburbanites stand at front lines of Chicago’s immigration response

Woman carrying child in front of Venezuela flag

By Sydney Meyer Medill Reports At 7 a.m. on a chilly Tuesday in February, Celine Woznica, a former Maryknoll missioner in Nicaragua and Mexico and longtime Oak Park resident, entered the side door of the abandoned St. Bernardine School, a Catholic elementary school in Forest Park, Ill. She climbed a set of stairs leading to a long hallway that has been transformed into what she now calls “Centro […]