Annie Shea Wheeler was just weeks from graduating college when she was struck by pieces of concrete falling from a Wicker Park building, causing traumatic brain injuries and “completely uprooting” her life, she said Monday.
On April 6, the 22-year-old was walking home from the Division stop of the Blue Line — as she’d done almost every day — when the next thing she remembers, she was lying face down in the crosswalk in the 1200 block of North Milwaukee Avenue.
