CHICAGO — In the three days before Lilia had to vacate her basement apartment last summer, she cried herself to sleep each night. Her husband, Cipriano, 70, was in a hospital bed recovering from an emergency amputation of his left foot due to gangrene complications. But their landlords of more than a decade told Lilia, 69, it was time for them to go. And without a lease, she had no choice but to oblige.
“I packed all of our things by myself,” she said in a recent interview, wiping away tears.
“Estabamos practicamente en la calle.” We were practically on the street, she said.
