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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Stefano Esposito

Fighting the church with sticks, sawhorses and crumbled brick

Dalia Radecki, from left, Josefa Rayes, Maria Mendez, Judy Vazques, and Marcelina Munoz stand in front of a barricade that they helped erect outside the St. Adalbert Church to prevent crews from removing a marble Pieta on Friday. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

A handful of mostly middle-aged women threw up a barricade made of sticks, branches, broken bricks and a couple of sawhorses Friday morning.

Then they sat down and prayed.

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