Pilsen CTA Worker Remembered As Bright Light At Pink Line Station

PILSEN — Juana “Juanita” Fuentes Alacantara would greet commuters every day at the 18th Street Pink Line station where she worked with an ear-to-ear smile and warm conversation.

“She just wanted to do a good job at the CTA,” Fuentes Alacantara’s daughter, Diana Alacantara, said during a Sunday event honoring her mother.

Fuentes Alacantara died April 5 from complications related to pneumonia and cancer at the age of 63, leaving behind her husband, Eduardo, and four children. Diana Alacantara and others gathered at Sunday’s memorial at the Pilsen Arts and Community Center, 1637 W. 18th St., to remember Fuentes Alacantara, who was

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