Ana Fernandez, 77, Died a Month After a Driver Struck Her in Belmont Heights
Fernandez was the third pedestrian fatality of 2019.
2:11 PM CST on February 4, 2019
The senior, who lived about a block from the crash site, was transported to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, where she died last Saturday from complications from the collision, the Sun-Times reported.
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