HIGHLAND PARK (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - The owners of an Evanston food truck have been helping feed the people of Highland Park in the days after Monday’s deadly shooting.
Like many people, Rachel Angulo was moved to help after the shooting and thought distributing meals from the La Cocinita Food Truck that she owns with her husband would be a good way to serve a community that has been good to them.
“I think a lot of people have been too drained and devastated and paralyzed to deal with the mundane task of meal preparation,” Angulo said.
She said serving meals to Highland Park residents has been heartbreaking but also the perfect marriage of her prior social work and current position.
“Some politely order and take their food and that’s it. And others cry at the window with me,” Angulo said.
She set up in front of Highland Park High School where she hoped to feed people who had received counseling there and the truck ended up acting as a bit of a beacon.
“They had come either for the food or they drove by and saw the food truck and stopped for the food, and then while they were there ended up getting counseling. So, I was really thrilled to see that,” Angulo added.
She went back the next day to Oak Terrace Elementary School to dish out tacos, Caribbean bowls and quesadillas. Angulo estimates she served about 350 people over two days, with donations paying for some of it.
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