Chicago Weekend Citizen 10-28-2020

GET OUT AND VOTE!

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Ten-Year-Old Wins 2020 Kidventor Challenge Page 4

Women’s Health And Men’s Health Announce Nationwide Virtual Turkey Trot To Benefit Feeding America Page 6

Sandi Robinson is one of the co-founders of ChiGivesBack, an organization that inspires others to get involved in giving back to the community. Robinson founded the organization with Kouri Marshall and John Boddie in 2018. Photo courtesy of Sandi Robinson

Three Things Travelers Should Know About COVID-19 Testing and Travel Insurance Page 9

CO-FOUNDER OF CHIGIVESBACK WANTS TO INSPIRE OTHERS

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NEWS briefly EDUCATION SXU WELCOMES LARGEST FRESHMAN CLASS IN ITS HISTORY Saint Xavier University (SXU) has achieved an enrollment milestone in welcoming its largest freshman class in the institution’s history, despite challenges posed by COVID-19. 2020 follows 2018 and 2019, the previous two greatest enrollment years, culminating in the three largest classes on record. The Admission team identified ways to convey the college visit experience in a virtual setting through Zoom, recorded presentations and video tours. The marketing team created a greater sense of student life on social media with Instagram stickers, infographics and interactive posts.

“Saint Xavier is consistently ranked among U.S. News & World Report’s Best Value regional universities in the Midwest because of our combination of a transformational educational experience at an affordable cost – according to College Navigator, we are the most affordable Catholic college in Illinois,” said Brian Hotzfield, assistant vice president for enrollment management, student development and student success. “We invest in the success of our students through generous financial assistance, which all incoming freshmen receive.”

HEALTH

GOODWILL RECEIVES SNAP E&T NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP GRANT FROM USDA The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently announced that Goodwill Industries International, the largest nonprofit workforce provider in North America, is one of four national nonprofits that will receive a new grant to strengthen Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Employment and Training programs (SNAP E&T). This grant will significantly increase the reach and capabilities of these programs, which help SNAP participants build economic self-sufficiency.

The USDA is providing more than $6.7 million in SNAP E&T national partnership grants to four leading nonprofit organizations — Goodwill Industries International, the National Association of Workforce Boards, the American Public Human Services Association and the Roberts Enterprise Development Fund — to help enlarge program capacity to serve SNAP participants.

Grantees will use the funds to develop materials, train subject matter experts, and work with member or affiliate organizations to expand SNAP E&T. For more information or to find a Goodwill location near you, visit goodwill.org, or call (800) GOODWILL.

LAW & POLITICS

NEW HIGHER HEIGHTS NATIONAL POLL: BLACK WOMEN MORE MOTIVATED TO VOTE THAN EVER BEFORE Black women are more motivated to vote in the 2020 election than ever before, according to a new #BlackWomenVote 2020 nationwide poll released by Higher Heights. The poll’s findings also suggest that a majority of Black women believe that their turnout at the polls will make the biggest difference in this year’s election results.

“Black women are aware that we can be the deciding factor this election,” said Glynda C. Carr, president and CEO of Higher Heights Leadership Fund (Higher Heights). “We understand that this is the most consequential election of our time, for our communities, and for our country, and we know that we must vote as though our lives depended on it – because they do.”

Top factors energizing Black women to vote include protecting democracy and racial justice, with the majority of respondents attributing racism as the one main issue keeping them up at night.

Black women also prioritized addressing the coronavirus crisis, affordable healthcare, and the economy as important issues to their demographic and to the overall Black community as they prepare to cast their ballots. These findings are based on a survey of 506 likely 2020 Black women voters nationwide conducted between September 30 and October 4, 2020.

Read the full report of the poll results by visiting, https:// blackwomenvote.com/blackwomenvote-national-poll/

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BY TIA CAROL JONES

Sandi Robinson, co-founder of ChiGivesBack, knows the importance of raising funds to provide resources.

She also knows the importance of having a good team to support you in your endeavors.

ChiGivesBack was founded in 2018

by Robinson, Kouri Marshall and John Boddie. The organization got its start with a toy drive that Marshall coordinated. It was something Marshall had done when he lived in Washington, D.C., but on a smaller scale.

Robinson, who was looking to get back into participating in social organizations, said the toy drive was “the perfect opportunity.” It turned out incredibly, she stated. “We raised money and much more toys than we initially thought it would.”

Robinson said the one feel good event lit a spark. After that, they wanted to do more events and figure out more ways to give back to the community. That’s when ChiGivesBack was born.

ChiGivesBack’s mission is to improve the welfare of the global community through innovative charitable experiences. Its vision is to empower, inspire and influence people to give back to others.

“The most important part is being able to inspire other people to give back as well. We definitely make

a huge impact with teachers and students and people suffering from homelessness. It really boils down to, if we can inspire other people to do the same, then that’s where you really start to see the difference,” she added.

Robinson said the work the organization does really makes an impact in the community. She said people come up to them during the events they coordinate and thank them for the work they do. She said the organization finds the niche and tries to fill that void.

“Just seeing the response from people and really understanding, wow we’ve made a difference. We’ve seen exactly what we’ve done and that’s why we always encourage people to come out and volunteer with us because it’s one thing to give money, its one thing to say I’ve donated, but its another thing to come out and have that hands-on experience,” she said.

Robinson said when people have the hands-on experience and see the impact for themselves, it encourages them to continue to stay involved.

Teach2Give is one of ChiGivesBack’s initiatives. It was the second event after the toy drive. It started out as an idea to do a bookbag and school supply drive. Then, Boddie thought it was a good idea to do something for teachers. Now, people can nominate their favorite Chicago Public School teacher where the top teachers are selected. This year, 25 teachers were selected. Last year, 75 teachers were

selected. Robinson said it’s a humbling experience and represents a demographic of people who are not normally recognized.

Recipients of Teach2Give are given teacher kits, with different supplies.

They also are able to get $100 of whatever they want. Robinson said the boxes look different this year. There are sanitizing products, masks and thermometers.

Robinson, who is also director of sales at the Godfrey Hotel, said people really want to help, they just want to know how, where and who is providing the platform. She said the hospitality industry has been really great to ChiGivesBack and ChiGivesBack has been able to give back to the hospitality industry as well through the COVID-19 Hospitality Relief Fund.

“We had to do something, so we were able to give $100 gift certificates to 75 people in the hospitality industry,” she said.

Robinson said she has learned that teamwork really does make the dream work. It’s also important to have a great staff and group of volunteers who are not just there, but who are there because they want to help.

Robinson said they run into people all of the time who want to help out.

She said each time they encounter people looking to lend a hand, “it feels so good because this is what it’s all about.”

For more information, visit chigivesback.com.

$45 Million In Awards To Support Testing, Tracking of Sexual Assault Kits Office of Justice Programs Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Katharine T. Sullivan recently announced awards of more than $45 million to help law enforcement agencies and crime labs process sexual assault evidence and increase the number of sexual assault kits submitted to crime labs in order to solve more crimes, including cold cases.

OJP’s Bureau of Justice Assistance made 36 grants to support the National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI), an effort to strengthen jurisdictions’ capacity to act on evidence

resulting from rape kits, and three grants to the Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence ‒ Inventory, Tracking and Reporting (SAFE-ITR) program.

“Far too many people endure the physical and emotional trauma of a sexual assault only to have evidence of the crime remain unanalyzed,” said Sullivan. “These grants will help investigators get these kits to labs, where they can be tested, used to solve crimes and ultimately bring justice to victims.”

With this year’s funding, SAKI has committed more than $238 million to 70

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sites across 44 states. As of December 2019, SAKI sites had uploaded 20,005 eligible DNA profiles to the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), where the profiles have found 9,892 matches to offenders and additional crimes, including long-standing cold cases.

From 2016, SAFE ‒ ITR has distributed 19 awards valued at nearly $8 million.

“We are committed to supporting the SAKI and SAFE ‒ ITR programs, which empower law enforcement to identify and remove rapists from our streets through the

analysis of critical forensic evidence,” said Kendel Ehrlich, Acting Director of BJA. “These grants will help state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies reduce the number of unsubmitted sexual assault kits, expand their capacity for handling forensic evidence in the future, resolve more sexual assault cases and bring a measure of justice to victims of sexual assault.”

Additional information about Fiscal Year 2020 grant awards made by the Office of Justice Programs can be found online at the OJP Awards Data webpage.

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NEWS Michelle Obama Urges Empathy for Black Women, Excoriates Trump in New Video Released

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Bala Chaudhary, an assistant professor at DePaul University in Chicago is a co-author of a new paper published in the journal PLOS Computational Biology which addresses racism in STEM workplaces.

Building an antiracist lab: Scientists offer steps to take action now Racial and ethnic diversity in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) remains low, continuing to raise concerns for equity and inclusion of scholars from minoritized communities. But there are steps that can be taken now to help make research groups more equitable and inclusive, stressed the authors of a new paper published Oct. 1, 2020, in the journal PLOS Computational Biology.

“Our paper is aimed particularly at STEM leaders, who set the culture and workplace climate in our labs and research groups, and are increasingly looking for tangible steps they themselves can take to address racism in STEM workplaces. The idea was to compile an easily digestible list to help so many of our colleagues who are in search of clear actionable items,” said Bala Chaudhary, an assistant professor at DePaul University in Chicago and a co-author of the paper: “Ten simple rules for building an antiracist lab.”

Some of the documented causes for a persistent lack of diversity in STEM include bias, discrimination and harassment of members of underrepresented communities.

“These issues persist due to continued marginalization, power imbalances, and lack of adequate policies against misconduct in academic and other scientific institutions,” wrote Chaudhary and co-author Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, a professor at the University of California in Merced.

“All scientists can play important roles in reversing this trend by shifting the culture of academic workplaces to intentionally implement equitable and inclusive policies, set norms for acceptable workplace conduct, and provide opportunities for mentorship and networking,” the authors noted.

“The global uprising against racist violence that began in May 2020 sparked in the science community a level of interest in antiracism that I have never seen before. We wrote this paper to help scientists who are new to antiracism work identify tangible actions and connect with resources to encourage the development of a more antiracist STEM environment,” Chaudhary said.

“As educators of the next generation of scholars, we have to boldly stand for justice and acknowledge that the academic institutions that we are part of are built on racist and colonial systems that were precisely created with a culture of exclusion in mind,” Berhe said.

“These historical structures continue to contribute to the persistent underrepresentation of Black, Indige-

nous, and people of color. But we can all play a role to improve culture, climate and representation of people from all walks of life”.

Chaudhary and Berhe are environmental scientists whose research projects are supported by the National Science Foundation (DEB-1844531 and HRD1725650 respectively). They wrote of first meeting on Twitter, “where they both sought and found a community of like-minded scholars who are passionate about equity and inclusion in the academy.”

In fact, they tweeted about working on this paper in early June and garnered more than 950 retweets and 1,400 likes, with scores of supportive comments.

The paper was downloaded more than 6,000 times from the preprint server EcoEvoRxiv before it was officially published by PLOS Computational Biology.

“Scientists increasingly acknowledge the problematic lack of racial and ethnic representation of Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) in science and are in search of clear actionable steps they themselves have the power to immediately enact,” the authors noted, adding that “building a lab that is antiracist is very different from building a lab that simply avoids racism.”

The steps outlined in the paper range from having principal investigators regularly lead informed discussions about antiracism in their labs to intentionally recruiting BIPOC students and staff; from advocating for racially diverse leadership in science to holding accountable the powerful, as well as colleagues and oneself, in creating healthy workplace climates.

“PIs are uniquely positioned to step up and be leaders in confronting this racism in our everyday work environments,” Chaudhary and Berhe wrote.

“Despite the title of this paper, it may not be easy to rectify the long history of racist behaviors and structures that permeate all scientific disciplines. However, as leaders in science, it is our responsibility to take action and simple concrete steps can and must be made toward addressing individual, institutional, and systemic racism.”

They concluded with a call for peers to act now: ‘the work in our labs can begin today — no additional committees, focus groups, or surveys are required.”

The paper, “Ten simple rules for building an antiracist lab,” is part of PLOS Computational Biology’s Ten Simple Rules collection, and can be found online at https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008210.

Former first lady Michelle Obama believes America needs a fresh start and urged undecided voters to empathize with Black women.

“I want everyone who is still undecided to think about all those folks like me and my ancestors,” Obama stated in a video released on Oct. 6 by the Biden-Harris campaign.

“The millions of folks who look like me and fought and died and toiled as slaves and soldiers and laborers to help build this country.”

“Racism, fear, division, these are powerful weapons. And they can destroy this nation if we don’t deal with them head-on.”

During the 2016 presidential campaign and amid constant attacks by then-Republican nominee Donald Trump against Democrat Hillary Clinton, Obama spoke of raising the bar in the battle of barbs and innuendo.

“When they go low, we go high,” she famously stated.

In the new video billed as Obama’s “closing argument,” the popular former first lady pointed out Biden’s decades of public service and his perseverance in the aftermath of the tragic deaths of his wife and young daughter and eldest son.

She also pleaded for a large voter turnout.

“We don’t have the luxury to assume that things are going to turn out OK,” Obama declared. “We cannot afford to withhold our votes or waste them on a protest candidate. Work like this may not feel as impactful as attending a protest, but trust me, it is absolutely the most important thing that we can do right now to save our democracy.”

She continued: “We can no longer pretend that we don’t know exactly who and what this President stands for. Search your hearts, and your conscience, and then vote for Joe Biden like your lives depend on it.”

Obama cautioned minority voters not to give in to frustration and allow distraction to lead to disenchantment.

“Right now, the President and his allies are trying to tap into that frustration and distract from his breathtaking failures by giving folks someone to blame other than them,” she said.

“They’re stoking fears about Black and Brown Americans, lying about how minorities will destroy the suburbs, whipping up violence and intimidation – and they’re pinning it all on what’s been an overwhelmingly peaceful

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movement for racial solidarity.”

“So, what the President is doing is, once again, patently false. It’s morally wrong, and yes, it is racist. But that doesn’t mean it won’t work.”

Obama then seized upon Trump’s mishandling of the coronavirus that has led to more than 213,000 American deaths and millions more getting sick.

“Seven months later, he still won’t wear a mask consistently and encourage others to do the same, even when those simple actions could save countless lives,” Obama observed.

“Instead, he continues to gaslight the American people by acting like this pandemic is not a real threat.”

She excoriated Trump for his repeated demand that schools immediately reopen.

“Everybody wants their kids back in school as soon as it’s safe,” Obama reasoned. “But as a mom, it is frightening thinking about all of these young people, who were just our babies yesterday, quarantined alone in dorms or apartments with little or no support as the disease continues to spread, unable to come home if their symptoms get worse.”

The emphatic statement by Obama continued as she aimed arrows at white privilege.

“Think about it: You’ve worked hard all your life, and for too long, you’ve watched the rich get richer … you’ve seen your beloved towns shattered by joblessness … and it’s frustrating to hear some folks say that you’ve been the beneficiary of privilege, that the color of your skin gives you a head start,” Obama said.

“The President and his allies are stoking fears about Black and brown Americans, lying about how minorities will destroy the suburbs, whipping up violence and intimidation. It’s morally wrong, and yes, it is racist.

“Imagine how it feels to have suspicion cast on you from the day you were born simply because of the hue of your skin, to walk around your own country scared that someone’s unjustified fear of you could put you in harm’s way. Terrified of what four more years of this kind of division might mean for the safety of you and those you love?

“Electing Joe Biden is a chance for a fresh start.”

Former President Barack Obama re-tweeted his wife’s video.

“This is as powerful an argument as I’ve ever heard about the stakes of this election,” the popular ex-president wrote. “Watch it. Share it and get everyone you to know to vote for Joe Biden.”

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BUSINESS

SHRM Research Shows Employers Offering Paid Leave Has Increased A voluntary, comprehensive, and uniform federal paid leave framework is necessary to meet the needs of a modern, 21st century workplace, SHRM (the Society for Human Resource Management) recently wrote in a response to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau Request for Information on paid leave.

The letter presents research from SHRM and Oxford Economics that found more employers are offering paid parental leave—including maternity leave, paternity leave, and adoption leave.

The report showed: * Over half of employers (55 percent) now offer paid maternity leave, 45 percent offer paid paternity leave, and 35 percent provide paid extended family care leave; * Offering paid leave tends to have strategic benefits, including their ability to attract talent (58 percent), retention (55 percent), employee health and wellness (61 percent), and employee engagement (60 percent); * Employers’ most commonly cited reason for not offering paid leave programs was cost. The cost of a comprehensive national paid leave program could range between $21.5 billion and $43.0 billion annually, depending on policy.

“As U.S. workplaces adapt, and respond to the pandemic, employers

Research from SHRM and Oxford Economics that found more employers are offering paid parental leave—including maternity leave, paternity leave, and adoption leave.

have called on their HR departments to re-examine and update leave policies amid significant labor market turmoil,” said Emily M. Dickens, SHRM corporate secretary, chief of staff, & head, government affairs. “Congress

should work towards a voluntary federal framework that gives employers the flexibility to offer a paid leave program that meets the unique needs of both employees and the business interests of the organization.”

BMO Announces Partnership with The Clearing House, Launches Global Pay for U.S. Business Customers BMO Financial Group has announced its partnership with The Clearing House Payments Company, LLC (TCH), allowing business customers in the U.S. to receive funds immediately from any sending participant bank in the RealTime Payments (RTP®) network, the real-time U.S. payment system developed and operated by TCH. “Our partnership in RTP speaks to our ongoing commitment to innovation within the emerging payments business, and we’re excited about providing our customers with access to this evolving payment system – the first new payments system in the U.S. in 40 years,” said Sharon HawardLaird, head, North American Treasury & Payment Solutions, BMO Financial Group. “Providing our customers with a way to accelerate collections and reconcile payments with remittance information is significant during this challenging environment.”

BMO business customers will have the ability to send payments via the Real-Time Payments network in 2021.

In partnership with Mastercard, BMO also recently launched BMO Global Pay in the U.S. Using Mastercard Cross-Border Services, BMO business customers have the ability to send payments to more than 30 countries efficiently, seamlessly and securely, according to a press release.

Customers can view the final exchange rate before sending the payment and track the status of the payment from the moment the payment has been approved, with some destinations experiencing close to real-time delivery. The service is already available to BMO customers in Canada.

“As a cross-border bank, we understand that managing cross-border business can be complex. BMO Global Pay provides our customers with a quick, simple and secure option for cross-border payments,” added Haward-Laird.

“In an increasingly global marketplace, BMO Global Pay provides our customers with a cost effective and transparent option to meet their financial needs.”

Ten-Year-Old Wins 2020 Kidventor Challenge Fat Brain Toys, one of the nation’s leading independent toy companies, recently announced the winner of their Kidventor Challenge for 2020. The Kidventor Challenge invites children ages six to thirteen to submit toy or game ideas for the chance to have their concept commercially produced and sold around the world.

The winner of this year’s Kidventor Challenge is ten-year-old Tristan for his invention of a game entitled Sew Fast. A unique game of speed and skill, Sew Fast challenges players to sew specific shapes into “sew boards” full of random holes. The first player to complete the randomly chosen pattern before the 90-second timer is up wins the round. The first to score 10 points wins the game.

“Now in its fourth year, Kidventor 2020 really brought out a number of outstanding toy and game concepts from some seriously creative kid inventors,” said Mark Carson, co-founder of Fat Brain Toys. “As challenging as it was to pick an overall winner, we applaud Tristan’s innovative new twist on sewing.”

As the grand prize winner, Tristan will receive a $2,500 scholarship, a license agreement that offers ongoing royalties, $500 in toys from Fat Brain Toys, as well as round-trip airfare and hotel accommodations for two to attend the 2021 American International Toy Fair in New York City (depending on potential COVID-19 restrictions) where his invention will be showcased before thousands of buyers from around the world.

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The winner of this year’s Kidventor Challenge is ten-yearold Tristan for his invention of a game entitled Sew Fast.

A unique game of speed and skill, Sew Fast challenges players to sew specific shapes into “sew boards” full of random holes. The first player to complete the randomly chosen pattern before the 90-second timer is up wins the round. The first to score 10 points wins the game.

Brain Toys Co-Founders Karen Carson and Mark Carson.

The runners-up for this year’s Kidventor Challenge were ten-year-old Gia for her invention of Breeze Blaster, a leaf-blower turned explore-and-experiment adventure, and six-year-old Grant for his invention of the Ball Launcher Challenge, a ball-run target game.

Fat Brain Toys’ products are available at leading retailers around the world, including on their own website, www.fatbraintoys.com.

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GET OUT AND VOTE!

Political Endorsements: National and Local Races Voting has always been important, but this year, voting is VERY IMPORTANT. Participating in the Democratic process is how you get your voices heard. The ramifications of the Nov. 3 election will reverberate for years, if not decades to come.

Of course, the presidential election is important across the nation, but there are down ballot races that locally need attention as well.

Here are the candidates the Citizen Newspaper Group is endorsing:

Joe Biden – Vice President Joe Biden is the Democratic candidate for President of the United States. Photo from

Kamala Harris – Kamala Harris is a Senator from California who is running for Vice President of the United States of America, with Democratic candidate for President Joe Biden.

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President and Vice President, United States Joseph R. Biden and Kamala Harris: Biden was President Barack Obama’s Vice President. Harris has been a United States Senator since 2017.

Senator, United States Richard J. Durbin: Durbin is the incumbent in the race. He has been a United States Senator since 1996.

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Bobby Rush – Bobby Rush is the Congressman for the 1st District in Illinois. Photo courtesy of Bobby Rush.

United States Representative, 1st Congressional District Bobby L. Rush: Rush has been a Congressman representing the 1st District since 1993. Rush introduced H.R. 35, the Emmett Till Antilynching Bill.

Robin Kelly – Robin Kelly is the Congresswoman for the 2nd District in Illinois. Photo courtesy of Robin Kelly.

United States Representative, 2nd Congressional District Robin Kelly: Kelly has been a Congresswoman since 2013. Kelly introduced H.R. 8200, to improve the health of minority individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Women’s Health And Men’s Health Announce Nationwide Virtual Turkey Trot To Benefit Feeding America Women’s Health and Men’s Health, the most established wellness media brands published across six continents, recently announced a new nationwide virtual 5K event to raise funds and awareness for hunger relief in America.

Taking place on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 2020, the first-ever Women’s Health & Men’s Health Turkey Trot will benefit Feeding America®, the nation’s largest hunger-relief organization with a network of 200 food banks and 60,000 food pantries across the country.

Supporting the event are coanchors of the ABC News daytime program GMA3: What You Need to Know Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes, who will act as official hosts of the Women’s Health & Men’s Health Turkey Trot. Viewers and

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readers will have access to training plans, running content and tips for safely participating in virtual races this year across Men’s Health and Women’s Health platforms as well as on GMA3.

“I am grateful every day for the ability to move and run, so when I heard about the Women’s Health & Men’s Health Turkey Trot, I knew it was something I wanted to be a part of,” said Robach. “Raising awareness for hunger relief during a time of great need, plus hosting with my friend and colleague T.J., makes it even better.”

“Running with Robach - virtually, of course - and shining a light on Feeding America and their incredible work is the perfect way to start Thanksgiving,” added Holmes.

“I can’t wait to see everyone hitting the pavement.”

By registering for the free event at WHMHTurkeyTrot. com participants are invited to run or walk a 5K course of their choosing anywhere in the country on Thanksgiving Day, utilizing their favorite tracking app to log mileage and time. Upon registration, participants will be invited to make a donation to Feeding America, which provides food and groceries to more than 40 million people each year.

“Thanksgiving Day has grown to become the biggest running day of the year, with over one million Americans lacing up annually,” said Men’s Health Editor-in-Chief Rich Dorment. “We’re excited to provide a virtual event and content platform that will inspire safe, sociallydistanced fitness and philanthropy while shining a light on the growing problem of food insecurity in the United States.”

“Whether you run daily or once a year, there’s no better way to start Thanksgiving morning than

by breaking a sweat with your friends and family,” said Women’s Health Editor-in-Chief Liz Plosser. “As IRL races go virtual in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we wanted to offer our audiences a way to continue their holiday traditions, or create new ones, while giving back on a national scale. By joining us for a walk or a run this Thanksgiving, you’re not only doing good for your physical, mental and emotional health, but also for the community at-large.”

According to Feeding America, food banks across the country have reported an average 60% increase in need for food assistance since the start of the pandemic. It estimates that one in six people in the U.S. could face hunger this year as a result of coronavirus, up from one in nine in 2019.

“The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on both the health and economic wellbeing of millions of people in this country,” said Feeding America Chief Marketing and Communication Officer Catherine Davis. “The virtual Turkey Trot is a great opportunity to give back, get active and get involved in your local community. We are excited to partner with Women’s Health and Men’s Health on this initiative and help people turning to food banks for help.”

Premium wearable technology manufacturer Garmin, whose products have revolutionized life for runners, cyclists, swimmers and athletes of all levels and abilities, has also joined on as a program sponsor.

To promote the event and encourage participation, Women’s Health and Men’s Health will be packaging race bibs in 10,000 subscriber copies for each of their December 2020 issues, arriving in subscriber mailboxes midNovember ahead of the holiday.

Participants who register will also be able to download and print their own bibs to wear as they race on November 26.

Additionally, the first 500 registrants for the Women’s Health & Men’s Health Turkey Trot 2020 will receive a special “Race in a Box” kit to commemorate the event.

For more information or to register today, visit WHMHTurkeyTrot.com.

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Pappas: See your property tax bill grow over 20 years at cookcountytreasurer.com Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas today released an unprecedented study of property taxes that shows the county’s tax bills virtually doubling over 20 years, an increase that is nearly triple the rise in the cost of living index.

“The Pappas Study” is a painstaking examination of tax bills on Cook County’s 1.7 million parcels of property that shows the increase of total taxes over the past 20 years, and allows taxpayers to see the increases in bills on their homes, businesses and land.

The study is posted on cookcountytreasurer.com with a research tool allowing owners to see “how local governments taxed property and people have paid the tax bill” over two decades, Pappas said.

“This website tool gives taxpayers a sobering reminder of what they

“BECAUSE THE STUDY LETS US SEE WHAT GOVERNMENT HAS DONE IN THE PAST, WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO CHART A BETTER, LESS COSTLY FUTURE. GOVERNMENT CANNOT JUST RAISE TAXES AND HOPE FOR THE BEST.” Maria Pappas Cook County Treasurer

have paid every year going back 20 years,” she said. “In the midst of the pandemic and a recession, local governments should take their foot off the gas pedal and stop raising property taxes.”

While the cost of living has risen just 36 percent over 20 years, the findings of the Pappas Study include: • In all of Cook County, total taxes billed increased 99 percent, from $7.85 billion to $15.58 billion • In Chicago, total taxes on resi-

dential properties skyrocketed 164 percent, from $1.33 billion to $3.51 billion • In Chicago, total taxes on commercial properties rose 81 percent, from $1.92 billion to $3.48 billion • In suburban Cook County, total taxes on residential properties jumped 116 percent, from $2.45 billion to $5.29 billion • In suburban Cook County, total taxes on commercial properties rose 53 percent, from $2.15 billion to $3.30 billion

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“Because the study lets us see what government has done in the past, we might be able to chart a better, less costly future,” Pappas said. “Government cannot just raise taxes and hope for the best.”

Cook County has 2,200 local government agencies, such as school districts, townships, parks, libraries, public health and safety agencies. The study analyzes total property taxes billed in the county’s 135 cities and villages by those 2,200 agencies.

Pappas: 20-year tax history search adds to cookcountytreasurer.com To see your property tax payment history over 20 years, visit cookcountytreasurer.com and follow these steps: • Select the purple box labeled “Your Property Tax Overview” • Enter your address or Property Index Number (PIN) • Select the tab on the left that says “20-Year Tax Bill History” • See an interactive map that shows how property taxes billed have increased in Chicago wards and suburbs since 2001 “Has it been worth it?” Pappas said. “There’s no longer any ignoring that question in a pandemic, not from homeowners who pay the taxes and not from the local officials who raise the taxes.”

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Get out and vote! Political Endorsements: National and Local Races Continued from page 5 United States Representative, 3rd Congressional District Marie Newman: Newman is the president of Marie Newman & Associates, a marketing and advertising agency.

Illinois State Representative, 27th District Justin Q. Slaughter; Slaughter has been a State Representative since 2017.

Illinois State Representative, 28th District Robert “Bob” Rita: Rita has been a State Representative since 2003.

sentative since 2010.

Illinois State Representative, 80th District Anthony DeLuca: DeLuca has been a State Representative since 2009.

Judge, 2nd Cook County Subcircuit Sondra Nicole Denmark Judge, 7th Cook County Subcircuit (Vacancy of Fleming) Pamela Reaves-Harris

United States Representative, 4th District Jesus “Chuy” Garcia: Garcia has been a Congressman since 2019. Garcia introduced H.R.7402, to protect renters from evictions and fees.

Kimberly Neely Dubuclet – Kimberly Neely Dubuclet is the Commissioner for the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District. Photo courtesy of Thaddeus Jones – Thaddeus Jones is the Illinois State Representative for the 29th District. Photo courtesy of Thaddeus Jones.

Danny Davis – Danny Davis is the Congressman for the 7th District in Illinois. Photo courtesy of Danny Davis.

United State Representative, 7th District Danny K. Davis: Davis has been a Congressman since 1997. Davis sponsored H. R. 6460, to provide funding for needed child and adult care so that essential workers can report to work during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Illinois State Senator, 13th District Robert Peters: Peters has been a State Senator since 2018.

Illinois State Representative, 29th District Thaddeus Jones: Jones has been a State Representative since 2011.

Kimberly Neely Dubuclet.

Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Commissioner Kimberly Neely Dubuclet M Cameron “Cam” Davis Eira L. Corral Sepulveda

Illinois State Representative, 30th District William “Will” Davis: Davis has been a State Representative since 2003.

Illinois State Representative, 32nd District Andre Thapedi: Thapedia has been a State Representative since 2009.

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx

Illinois State Representative, 5th District Lamont J. Robinson: Robinson has been a State Representative since 2019.

Clerk of Circuit Court, Cook County Iris Y. Martinez: Martinez is currently a member of the Illinois Senate, where she has served since 2003.

Illinois State Representative, 6th District Sonya Marie Harper: Harper has been a State Representative since 2015.

Judge, Illinois Supreme Court (Vacancy of Freeman) P. Scott Neville, Jr.

Illinois State Representative, 7th District Emanuel “Chris” Welch: Welch has been a State Representative since 2013.

Illinois State Representative, 8th District LaShawn K. Ford: Ford has been a State Representative since 2007.

Illinois State Representative, 25th District Curtis J. Tarver II: Tarver has been a State Representative since 2019.

Illinois State Representative, 26th District Kam Buckner: Buckner has been a State Representative since 2019.

Marcus Evans, Jr. – Marcus Evans, Jr. is the Illinois State Representative for the 33rd District.

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Illinois State Representative, 33rd District Marcus C. Evans, Jr.: Evans has been a State Representative since 2012.

Illinois State Representative, 34th District Nicholas “Nick” Smith: Smith has been a State Representative since 2018.

Illinois State Representative, 38th District Debbie Meyers-Martin: Meyers-Martin has been a State Representative since 2019.

Illinois State Representative, 78th District Camille Lilly: Lilly has been a State Repre-

Judge, Cook County Judicial Circuit (Retention) Cynthia Y. Cobbs

- “In creating its city-wide plan for continued growth and sustainability, should the city of Chicago place equal focus on the goals of resiliency, equity, and diversity?”

Yes Kim Foxx – Kim Foxx is the Cook County State’s Attorney. Photo courtesy of Kim Foxx.

Illinois State Senator, 19th District Michael E. Hastings: Hastings has been a State Senator since 2013.

Cynthia Cobbs.

There also are public questions on the ballot to voters of the city of Chicago - “Should the city of Chicago act to ensure that all the city’s community areas have access to broadband internet?”

Yes

Illinois State Representative, 31st District Mary E. Flowers: Flowers has been a State Representative since 2003.

Illinois State Senator, 16th District Jacqueline “Jacqui” Collins: Collins has been a State Senator since 2003.

Cynthia Cobbs – Cynthia Cobbs is the Cook County Circuit Court Judge. Photo courtesy of

Judge, Illinois Appellate Court, 1st District (Vacancy of Neville, Jr.) Sharon O. Johnson Judge, 1st Cook County Subcircuit (Vacancy of Crawford) Tyria B. Walton Judge, Cook County Judicial Circuit (Vacancy of Funderburk) Celestia L. Mays Judge, Cook County Judicial Circuit (Vacancy of Murphy Gorman) Sheree Desiree Henry

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- “Should the state of Illinois restrict the sale or possession of firearms that have been defined as assault weapons or of magazines that can hold more than a certain number of rounds of ammunition?”

Yes The question on the Ballot about the Proposed Amendment to the 1970 Illinois Constitution, also known as the Fair tax Amendment, has been discussed on television advertisements, as well as on our own Conversations with the Citizen, featuring State Representative Marcus Evans, Jr. Here’s what we know: The amendment of Section 3 of Article IX (9) of the Illinois Constitution grants the authority to impose a higher income tax rates on higher income levels.

The amendment would remove the portion of the article of the Illinois Constitution referred as the “flat tax,” which requires all taxes on income to be the same rate.

Those with higher income levels would have a higher tax rate imposed on them. Those with a middle and lower income levels would have a lower income tax rate imposed on them.

For the proposed amendment of Section 3 of Article IX of the Illinois Constitution.

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Three Things Travelers Should Know About COVID-19 Testing and Travel Insurance Some airlines and airports now offer rapid COVID-19 testing to accommodate travelers required to show a negative test at their destination.

But what happens if a traveler tests positive before a trip? Travel insurance comparison site, Squaremouth, breaks down three things travelers need to know about COVID-19 testing and travel insurance.

Not All Policies Include Cancellation Coverage for Contracting Coronavirus Select travel insurance policies include trip cancellation coverage in the event a traveler, or their family, contracts coronavirus before departure and cannot travel. This benefit can reimburse travelers who must cancel their trip.

As of October 15th, there were 38 policies available on Squaremouth. com that included this cancellation coverage.

Positive COVID-19 Test Result May Not Immediately Trigger Cancellation Benefits Many travel insurance policies require documentation from a doctor advising against travel in order for benefits to apply. In this case, a positive coronavirus test result alone may not be enough to

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Travelers that test positive should contact a doctor as soon as possible, prior to canceling their trip.

The doctor can provide documentation that will be required when travelers file a claim.

Cost of COVID-19 Testing Not an Insurable Expense Most travel insurance policies will not cover the cost of COVID-19 testing before departure, even if their destination requires a negative COVID-19 test result for entry.

If a traveler is medically required to take a COVID-19 test while traveling, this cost may be reimbursed depending on the policy.

Squaremouth.com created the Coronavirus Pandemic Current Event Center which is updated daily with available travel insurance coverage and answers to FAQs as the COVID-19 pandemic evolves.

SQUAREMOUTH compares travel insurance policies from every major travel insurance provider in the United States. Using Squaremouth’s comparison engine and third-party customer reviews, travelers can research and compare travel insurance policies side-by-side. More information can be found at www.squaremouth.com.

Travel insurance comparison site, Squaremouth, breaks down three things travelers need to know about COVID-19 testing and travel insurance.

New Kwanzaa Stamp Now Available The U.S. Postal Service is celebrating Kwanzaa, which honors the values and beliefs around African American heritage, by ded- icating a new Kwanzaa stamp. News of this Forever stamp is being shared with the hashtag #KwanzaaStamps. The stamp is available nationwide.

“This new Kwanzaa stamp captures the essence of the African American cultural celebration.

The stamp depicts the profile of a reflective woman with a kinara, or candleholder, with seven lit candles in front of her,” said USPS Regional Processing Operations Eastern Vice President Dane Coleman, the dedicating official. “The stamp, which was hand-sketched and digitally colored, evokes a sense of inner peace with its cool tones and vibrant design elements to give a festive feel to the celebration of Kwanzaa.”

Kwanzaa takes place over seven days annually from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1, bringing family, community and culture together for many.

Each year, millions of African Americans gather with friends and family throughout Kwanzaa week to honor the Pan-African holiday’s seven founding principles including: * unity (umoja)

* self-determination (kujichagulia) * collective work and responsibility (ujima) * cooperative economics (ujamaa) * purpose (nia) * creativity (kuumba) and * faith (imani) Each day of Kwanzaa is dedicated to one of these seven principles, collectively known as the Nguzo Saba.

Kwanzaa was created in 1966, drawing on a variety of African traditions, deriving its name from the Swahili phrase “matunda ya kwanza,” meaning “first fruits.”

Kwanzaa is a festive time for rejoicing in the prospect of health, prosperity and good luck in the coming year.

It is also a time for contemplation and recollection of past hardships, faced by individuals and communities, and the ways history can inform and impact future happiness.

Art director Antonio Alcala designed the stamp, and Andrea Pippins was the illustrator.

The Kwanzaa stamp is being issued as a Forever stamp in a pane of 20. Forever stamps will always be equal in value to the current FirstClass Mail 1-ounce price.

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ENTERTAINMENT Chicago-based artist Ayanah Moor’s work on display at DePaul Art Museum In a new site-specific billboard exhibition at DePaul Art Museum viewable from the Chicago Transit Authority’s Fullerton ‘L’ platform, Chicago-based artist Ayanah Moor asks audiences to question our personal and national progress, intentions and methods of change surrounding issues of equity and inclusion.

“Ayanah Moor’s text-based works are incredibly powerful,” said Laura-Caroline de Lara, interim director of DePaul Art Museum and the exhibition’s curator. “Moor’s site-specific designs for the museum and their placement on our building set in a university campus are a pertinent and crucial reminder that we as a city and as a university community have much work to do around these issues.”

The artist’s text-based paintings started years before the current moment of protest poster aesthetics and neighborhood storefronts announcing their alliances with Black, brown and LGBTQ+ groups through window displays, said de Lara. For her DePaul Art Museum exhibition, Moor challenges audiences to ask whether their personal alliances are swift and superficial, or deeply rooted and ready for hard-fought change.

Four separate billboards combine to make up Moor’s exhibition called “for you,” with each text-based piece displaying a reconfiguration of the same phrase “This blackness is just for you,” asking audiences to consider how the meaning of the phrase changes as each word and its emphasis are rearranged.

“In my artwork, text-as-image can affirm, complicate or challenge the viewer’s thinking, and I’m most drawn to messages that allow the viewer to participate in making meaning,” says Moor.

Her hope is that audiences rethink and unlearn their relationships to the issues of race, politics and progress through

the act of wordplay and the power of individual words in her artwork. She invites audiences to read the work through their personal histories, perspectives and observations and to question their own, as well as the artist’s, motives and relationships to the concept of Blackness, race and color theory in social and art historical contexts. Moor asks, what is in a name, a label or a color; how does the power of words change with our inflection of tone as we perform and pronounce them; and how can changing one word or the order of one segment of a phrase completely reimagine its meaning.

An investigation into her own experiences in academia — specifically in relationship to diversity initiatives in university settings — Moor’s work wrestles with the problematics for people of color in accepting invitations to participate in environments and systems not historically built for or in consideration of them. She engages with how these settings and their intentions can both help and harm communities of color.

At DePaul Art Museum, Moor’s text-based works are positioned in a transitional location: both physically on and off a university campus, at and outside of a museum, and for audiences literally in-between places on the ‘L’ platform.

Posing her tongue-in-cheek phrases in this specific locale, the artist asks audiences to consider what the process of change really looks like within their institutional systems and how their physical and historical environments influence their reading, understanding and engagement with certain visual cues.

“Certainly, the artist’s pieces are timely, given our current sociopolitical situations, but the subject matter is by no means

InForm Press Announces Release of “Out of the Shadows: The Henson Festivals and Their Impact on Contemporary Puppet Theater” What is the first name that comes to mind when you hear the word puppet?

Likely, it is Jim Henson. Many books and thousands of pages have been written about the beloved American icon’s life and work. Out of the Shadows is the first to focus solely on his love of, and impact on, puppetry as a vital contemporary art form, an important and previously unexplored aspect of the Henson legacy.

The Jim Henson Foundation’s International Puppet Festivals brought puppet theater into mainstream American theater. This year, 2020, marks the 20th Anniversary of the last Henson Festival and the 30th Anniversary of Jim Henson’s death.

Taking this timely opportunity for reflection and drawing from a wealth of first-hand experience, in Out of the Shadows Asch presents a visually rich narrative of the festivals and their continued legacy, including a comprehensive look at the contemporary puppet theater landscape.

To realize Jim Henson’s vision for a puppetry festival in New York, Leslee Asch served as producing director, working with Jim’s daughter Cheryl, who served as executive producer, to present five award-winning festivals that would equal European festivals and put U.S. puppet artists on the international stage. Between 1992 and 2000, the Jim Henson Foundation hosted the International Festivals of Puppet Theater in New York City, and developed a national touring program.

Many prominent New York theaters participated in the festivals, including: The Public Theater, La Mama E.T.C., HERE Arts Center, P.S.122 and The New Victory Theater.

The breadth of notable participating artists included Robert LePage, director of Wagner’s Ring

“Woyzeck on the Highveld,” by Handspring Puppet Company of South Africa. Directed and with animations by William Kentridge. Photo (c) Ruphin Coudyzer FPPSA

Cycle at the Metropolitan Opera; Julie Taymor, the creator of Disney’s The Lion King; and worldrenowned artist William Kentridge, featured in a major MoMA exhibition.

Author Leslee Asch worked for Jim Henson and The Jim Henson Company for over twenty years. She is a recognized expert in the field and has published articles and catalogs on the subject, including The Art of Contemporary Puppet Theater, for the Katonah Museum of Art. For Holiday Gift Lists: The 248-page, hardbound book has a dust jacket and includes 156 photos (129 in color), many full-page and is available for $45 on InForm Press at https://inform-press.com and on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Out-Shadows-FestivalsContemporary-Theater/dp/0578665344

new. As a museum, our aim is to raise timeless questions for our community and ourselves, in hopes of provoking possible answers, solutions and change,” said de Lara.

Moor lives and works in Chicago, and has participated in numerous exhibitions around the world, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago; The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh; ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives — University of Southern California Libraries in Los Angeles; Proyecto ‘ace in Buenos Aires; Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids, Michigan; daadgalerie in Berlin; and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.

Her work is featured in “Incite: Journal of Experimental Media, Sports Issue (2017),” by Astria Suparak and Brett Kashmere; “Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness (2011),” by Nicole Fleetwood; and “What is Contemporary Art? (2009),” by Terry E. Smith.

The site-specific installation is currently on view and runs through Dec. 28. Each billboard is also available for viewing online at http://bit.ly/for-you-dpam.

“For you” is one of two outdoor installations viewable at DePaul Art Museum through the end of the calendar year. The museum’s front windows located on Fullerton Avenue are dedicated to Kathryn Andrews’ work about women presidential candidates and features the names of 87 women who have run for the highest office in the United States. More information about that window exhibition is available at http://depaulne.ws/andrewsDPAM. Additional information about DePaul Art Museum is at http:// artmuseum.depaul.edu or by calling 773-325-7506.

School Updates Curriculum to Feature More Music Created by Black Artists School of Rock, which provides students of all ages with the opportunity to take guitar, drum, bass, keyboard and singing lessons is enhancing its proprietary curriculum to feature more music created by Black artists. The goal is to further educate students on the Black community’s history and central contributions to the development of Rock and Roll.

Founded as a single school in Philadelphia, PA in 1998, School of Rock has become a rapidly growing international franchise with 280 schools open and in development across nine global markets.

“We teach musical proficiency through rock because contemporary songs offer an effective toolkit, particularly in group performance. Just as importantly, popular music opens a door to history. We have an obligation to honor those Black artists without whom there would be no Rock and Roll, and by extension no School of Rock,” said Rob Price, CEO of School of Rock.

To start, School of Rock has added new feature shows to its performancebased curriculum. Each of these programs encompass 20-25 songs from Black artists. As part of the curriculum, students will learn to perform these songs and discover important lessons about the complex experience of marginalized communities. New shows include “Roots of the British Invasion,”

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“The Music of Memphis,” and “The Music of New Orleans.”

Additionally, utilizing the collective knowledge of the talented instructors across the School of Rock system, the company has published on its website a series of articles and interactive content on the historical contribution of Black artists to Rock and Roll. Early Rock artists featured include Etta James, Ray Charles, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, in addition to more recent innovators like Prince, Tracy Chapman, and Gary Clary, Jr. “This project has been energizing, and it inspires us to better understand and teach the stories of other groups’ contributions to the art form,” continues Price. “We also hope that by better understanding our musical past, we can contribute to a more harmonious future.”

Drawing from all styles of rock and roll, School of Rock students learn theory and techniques via songs from legendary artists such as Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Wonder, and Frank Zappa.

Because of the school’s performancebased approach, students around the world have gained instrumental skills and confidence on the big stage, with some moving on to record deals and larger platforms such as American Idol, The Voice and Broadway.

For more information on School of Rock, please visit www.SchoolofRock. com.

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