Elaine Pierce, an Oak Park resident who opened her home to South American migrants last summer while coping with terminal cancer, died May 26. She was 69.

Ms. Pierce initially took in two families — six people — who’d been staying temporarily at a West Side police station.

“I only wish I could do more,” she told the Chicago Sun-Times last October.

Ms. Pierce went on to take in more migrants, all from Venezuela. Thirteen people, including three children, were living in her three-bedroom bungalow when her health worsened in recent weeks.

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