After a 50-year-old Ukrainian man living in Naperville was struck by a semitrailer during a winter storm, crowdfunding has helped raise more than $53,000 to cover the cost of his surgeries and medical expenses.
Illia Shemchuk, a truck driver who lives in Naperville, remains hospitalized in critical condition in Libertyville after being struck by semitractor-trailer Dec. 22 on Interstate 94 near Gurnee.
Illinois State Police said Shemchuk pulled his semitractor-trailer over on the left shoulder at milepost 9.25 on eastbound I-94, waiting to file a report on the crash his vehicle had with a Mercedes-Benz SUV.Garza said Shemchuk called her on his cellphone at 2:21 p.m. to say neither he nor the driver of the Mercedes were injured and to ask if her husband, Daniel Garza, a 19-year resident of Naperville, could come to assist with answering questions because he is not completely fluent in English.
Shemchuk was already in surgery at Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville when his family finally arrived. When the war broke out in her native Ukraine last February, the Garzas and Shemchuk worked to bring her mother — Shemchuk’s wife — and her maternal grandmother to the U.S. They arrived in August.
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