Nearly a dozen people in the audience of the Lincolnwood Village Board meeting Tuesday were there to call on leaders to adopt a sanctuary status for the village – especially, they say, since several board members are themselves immigrants or descendants of them.

With the backdrop of recent Chicago area immigration-related arrests , along with the shooting death in Franklin Park of a Hispanic man by a U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement agent, at least one north suburban area activist group is asking that Lincolnwood leaders declare the town a sanctuary municipality.

“Trustees, many of you are immigrants or children of immigrants,” Pam Lefkowitz said, before naming specific board members whose families immigrated to the country. “You owe it to your constituents to protect them …

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