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'What am I going to do?' A Chicago-area woman traveled near the Ukraine border to help her parents escape

by ANGIE LEVENTIS LOURGOS Chicago Tribune
| March 22, 2022 7:00 AM

CHICAGO — As Russian troops and bombs descended on Ukraine, the daughter frantically booked a flight from Chicago to Warsaw, Poland, to help her parents fleeing their home in Kyiv.

Her 78-year-old mother and father earlier this month escaped the war-torn capital with the clothing on their backs and few other possessions...

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