When a group of Oak Park Girl Scouts and their parents set out for the group’s annual food drive Saturday morning, they imagined it would be a day of helping in their community.

Instead, the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons and vehicles with dark-tinted windows as the sounds of whistles pierced the air.

“It just went from a morning of us trying to do something good and teaching the kids about helping others,” said Brooke Groulx, an Oak Park parent. “ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids.”

The 45-year-old mom of four and her 7-year-old daughter were among a group collecting donations for Oak Park’s Beyond Hunger food pantries.

In the 700 block of Elmwood Avenue, they came

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