This year is the second Lorena Martinez of Hanover Park has stopped to honor the Virgin of Guadalupe at the shrine on the Maryville Academy campus in Des Plaines. She arrived Sunday night with her son and daughter with a special reason to be thankful. Martinez’s mother had an operation on her spine Monday in Zacatecas, Mexico.

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Thousands flock to shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Des Plaines