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    New to Chicago, migrant family in mourning after their 11-month-old baby is killed in car crash

    by Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune Jan 25, 2024 4 minutes
    A Christmas decoration features the image of Theo Aleman Gonzalez, 11 months old, in the apartment of his family in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood on Jan. 23, 2024.

    At a tidy home in Chicago Lawn, an empty baby chair faces a small rectangular kitchen table. Plastic garlands and ornaments are still hung around the living room from the family’s first Christmas in the United States.

    The family of four — migrants from Venezuela just getting their footing in Chicago — had their lives suddenly altered in a fatal car crash Friday afternoon when their 11-month-old baby died.

    The family was coming home from an appointment with their lawyer around 3 p.m. when a car heading in the same direction struck them on southbound I-290. Yusmelis Gonzalez, 31, and their baby, Theo

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