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Chicago Baker Returns From Brussels, Vowing Life Will Go On

(CBS) – Now we're hearing from a Chicago woman who planned to leave Brussels the day of the attack but chose the day after.

She was also two blocks away when the Paris terror suspect was arrested.

Dominique Schewebach, who co-owns a bakery in Chicago's Gold Coast, is back home and shares her story with CBS 2's Suzanne Le Mignot.

She just returned from Brussels Wednesday night, following the terrorist attack on a train and at the Brussels on Tuesday.

"You feel so bad for all those other innocent people that you don't think about yourself," Schewebach says.

She says people in Brussels are bracing for another attack.

"It's something that everybody has in mind because those people who have been brainwashed have nothing to lose. It's not that complicated, unfortunately, to organize that kind of attack if you're willing to die," she says.

Schewebach was just two blocks away when the Paris terror suspect was arrested in Brussels, just a few days ago.

"I refuse to be afraid and to change my way.  I think it's exactly what happened in New York after September 11th.  People decide that life should go on, otherwise, (terrorists) would have won, and we don't want that," Schewebach says.

To get back to Chicago from Brussels, Schewebach took a train to Paris, where she flew to Copenhagen, then took another plane, to Chicago.

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