LAKEVIEW — When 16-year-old Ofelia Torres’ father called from the Broadview ICE facility to say he had been taken by four masked federal immigration agents, the teen’s mother was at home helping drain the small IV port that keeps Ofelia nourished and alive during Stage 4, while the teenager showed her cousins how the small medical contraption worked.

For almost a year, Ofelia Torres, a student at Lake View High School, has been receiving treatment for a rare and aggressive form of cancer. She had been home from the hospital for less than a day when the call came Saturday.

She’d just finished 39 days of treatment at Lurie Children’s Hospital, including another grueling round of chemotherapy. The night before her dad disappeared, she walked slowly through her backyard and lay in her own be

See Full Page