‘Heartbreaking’: Moroccan community across Chicagoland rallies to help after country’s devastating earthquake
Achraf Issam flew back to his home in Illinois on Thursday after a three-week trip to visit his parents in Morocco. The next day, he got a “surreal” call about a devastating earthquake that hit the country.
“My parents live in Marrakech, so that’s only 40 miles or so from the epicenter,” Issam said. “My mom had been sleeping. My dad was awake, and they said that the whole house was shaking for what seemed like forever.”
The 30-year-old Gurnee resident began searching Google, looking for information
