BRIDGEPORT — Like many Chicagoans, Isabella and Salvador Guzman are frustrated about the lack of street parking near their home — a problem that gets far worse during the snowy winter months.
Though the couple don't drive, they shovel and use "dibs" to save a spot for the revolving door of nurses, medical supply companies and ambulances that visit their daughter Gabriella, 5, who's hooked up to a ventilator and requires 24-hour care.
But after one of the overnight nurses who cares for Gabriella parked in a different spot on the block Saturday night, vandals placed two big city garbage cans atop her sedan. The Guzmans don't think the nurse was targeted on purpose, but the nurse has since threatened to quit.
On this DNAinfo Radio Extra, Casey Cora discusses what possible solutions there are to find the Guzman's nurses parking spots:
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