Daniel Greer is having trouble sleeping these days.
The 49-year-old Berwyn resident keeps dreaming of federal immigration officers showing up where he works at Concordia Cemetery in the west suburban village of Forest Park. Again.
Last week, Greer was one of four cemetery workers, all U.S. citizens, arrested during a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation that crossed over onto the private Christian cemetery property. They were ultimately released without charges, but that was after they were hit with pepper balls and pepper spray unleashed by agents and then detained for hours, Greer recalled.
Greer, alongside two of the other three workers detained and Forest Park Mayor Rory Hoskins, stood together Monday evening at Constitution Court, a public square in the village’s down