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F O R E S T PA R K
REVIEW JUNE 3, 2020
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Forest Park, threatened by looting, incurs little damage Curfew imposed for third night By MARIA MAXHAM Editor
Despite significant looting and one gunshot death in nearby North Riverside on May 31 as well as major unrest in Cicero on June 1, Forest Park suffered relatively little damage. The village imposed a curfew on Sunday and Monday nights, from 8 p.m. until 6 a.m. and announced it would be in effect Tuesday night as well. On Sunday, Walmart, Portillo’s and Dollar Tree on Roosevelt Road were closed. The Walmart parking lot was blocked off by police cars, and later barriers, to prevent entry. Overnight, the Forest Park Public Works Department blocked entrances to the Forest Park Plaza mall on Roosevelt Road, using large trucks. By midafternoon on Sunday, Melody Winston, an executive at Living Word Christian Center, said they’d made the decision to shut down the mall entirely, including Living Fresh food store. “We want to make sure everyone’s safe,” she said. Walgreens, on the corner of Harlem Avenue and Roosevelt Road, was attacked by See LOOTING on page 16
IN MEMORIAM – NELLO RUBIO
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Nello Rubio (right), pictured here with his sons Nello (left) and Nico (center), was known for lighting up a room and making people laugh. He passed away on May 9, a few weeks after testing positive for COVID-19.
Forest Park loses long-time resident to COVID-19 ‘This is real. This is not pretend.’ By MARIA MAXHAM Editor
Nello Rubio liked to make people smile. “When he walked into a room, everyone knew it because within minutes they were all laughing,” said Karen Rubio, his wife. Nello, who was infected with COVID-19,
suffered a coronavirus-related stroke on May 4. On May 9, he died. He was 57 years old and in reasonably good health. Although he had Type 2 Diabetes, Nello had been focused on losing weight, reducing the medication he needed to take for the diabetes. In the second half of April, he was advised by his employer to remain at home because several of his coworkers had been diagnosed with COVID-19. The next day, he developed a fever and was told by his em-
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ployer to go get tested. His test was positive for COVID-19, and thus he believed that he contracted the illness from his coworkers. Thereafter, Karen became sick too, and they quarantined themselves at home. COVID-19 hit them hard. Nello’s fevers were high and hard to control, and he had chills and headaches. Karen was weak. She suffered from pain throughout her body. She lost weight rapidly, unable to eat. Her cough was worse than Nello’s, whose See NELLO RUBIO on page 6
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