Elizabeth Eccher started her delivery route at around 9:45 a.m. on Wednesday. This week, she has four stops. Many weeks, she has five or six.

Eccher, 69, who’s retired, has been volunteering with the Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry since July, taking bags of food to homes in the community.

According to Katie Arko, the pantry’s executive director, demand for home deliveries has increased significantly in recent weeks — in part, she thinks, because residents are concerned about leaving their homes amid fears of federal immigration enforcement in the area.

Nearly two months into President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security’s “Operation Midway Blitz,” a surge of immigration law enforcement in Chicago and its surrounding suburbs, Aurora-area food pantry leaders are saying th

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