A well-known street vendor in the Rogers Park neighborhood died Friday after being hospitalized with COVID-19 for several weeks. Felipe Vallarta, who was 61, contracted the virus days away from getting his first dose of a vaccine in early April, his daughter said. “As much as doctors tried, they said there was nothing left to do to save him; he needed to rest,” his niece said. On Saturday, .
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Beloved Rogers Park elotero in ICU with COVID-19
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Felipe Vallarta, 58, an elotero, serves corn from his stand at the intersection of Clark and Rogers in Rogers Park, Sunday afternoon, June 24, 2018. | Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times
CHICAGO - Felipe Vallarta a beloved elotero who has sold everything from corn to tamales on a Rogers Park street corner for several years was hospitalized last month with COVID-19 and is currently in a medically induced coma.
When he wasn’t selling elotes the popular Mexican street food of corn drizzled with butter, mayonnaise, cheese and seasonings Vallarta was working a part-time job at a restaurant, his granddaughter, Jany Andrade said.