August 24 - 30, 2020

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Inside StreetWise

Are we ready for school sports during a pandemic?

Cover Story: John Lewis Remembering John Lewis.

From the Streets

"Always Growing, Auburn Gresham" receives $10 million Chicago Prize from the Pritzker Traubert Foundation.

Vendor A. Allen shares some words of wisdom in his "Vendor's Corner" and Vendor Tammy shares a poem.

The Playground ON THE COVER: Rep. John Lewis photographed by Anthony Geathers.

THIS PAGE: Rep. John Lewis official biopic Feb. 26, 2003, for the US Congress.

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ARTS & (HOME) ENTERTAINMENT RECOMMENDATIONS Since being stuck inside, which shows have you been watching? Which movies? Have you read any good books lately? Any new music releases have you dancing in your living room? StreetWise vendors, readers and staff are sharing what is occupying their attention during this unprecedented time.

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The Centennial of Women's Suffrage

"Rights, Responsibilities & Roadblocks: Critical Stories Leading to the 19th Amendment and Beyond" Recent headlines tell of reduced polling places, names taken off voter rolls, and requests for identification in places where none is required. One hundred years after the 19th Amendment affirmed women’s right to vote in the United States, many of these issues have become even more pressing. Roadblocks to exercising the right to vote still exist today, especially among minorities and the under-educated. The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center in partnership with the Woman’s Club of Evanston and Women’s Vote 100 Evanston will host a virtual program, “Rights, Responsibilities & Roadblocks: Critical Stories Leading to the 19th Amendment and Beyond,” in celebration of the centennial of women’s suffrage.

The program will be at 7 p.m. August 25, with registration https://www.ilholocaustmuseum.org/pages/programs/events/ Panelists include the former Cook County Circuit Judge Carole Kamin Bellows, State Sen. Laura Fine (D-Glenview), and writer/historian Rima Lunin Schultz. Cook County Circuit Judge Abbey Romanek, vice president of the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, will introduce the panelists. Lori Osborne, director of the Evanston Women's History Project and the Frances Willard House Museum and WCTU Archives, will moderate the panel.

(HOME) ENTERTAINMENT

Save a Pet!

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Clear the Shelters Animal shelters across the country are once again teaming up with NBC and Telemundo stations to find loving homes for pets in need with the Clear The Shelters pet adoption campaign through August 31.

To help individuals and communities continue to practice safe social distancing measures, the stations’ “Adopt & Donate” effort will feature virtual pet adoptions and make it easy for people to donate online to participating shelters and rescues such as Chicago Animal Care and Control, Anti-Cruelty Society, Tree House Humane Society and PAWS Chicago.

This year’s Clear The Shelters’ “Adopt & Donate” campaign features returning partners WeRescue and GreaterGood.org, and new partner 24PetWatch. Those looking for a new pet can use the WeRescue iOS app to locate adoptable pets near their ZIP code, submit their pet adoption applications through shelters’ websites, and ask questions directly to shelters. 24PetWatch is enabling shelters to increase their exposure through 24Petshelter.com/cleartheshelter, a free website providing a full list of participating shelters and their adoptable pets along with a link to contact them.

“As communities all across the country continue to practice social distancing, this year’s Clear The Shelters campaign will allow individuals to find their perfect pet through virtual platforms," said Valari Staab, president of NBCUniversal-owned television stations.

A History Lesson!

Lunch & Learn: Resistance in the Camps Discover how Jewish people found strength in their faith in order to maintain their humanity and dignity in the face of unimaginable tragedy and suffering with a program by Rabbi Reuven Brand. August 25, 12 p.m.; FREE. Register online at the Illinois Holocaust Museums's website at ilhmec.org

More Suffrage History

#19SuffrageStories The campaign for women’s suffrage was long, difficult, and often dramatic.

Diverse communities and organizations blazed the trail for equal voting rights across the nation. For many women, especially women of color, the fight didn’t end when the 19th Amendment became part of the U.S. Constitution on Aug. 26, 1920. Yet the stories of these suffragists have often been overlooked.

They include women like Ida B. Wells-Barnett, who co-founded the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago in 1913 to advocate for women’s rights and push for the election of African Americans. She famously refused to march in the segregated section of the women’s suffrage parade that year in Washington, D.C. Another overlooked suffragist is Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin, of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. A lawyer who marched in the 1913 parade, she advocated for an act to make American Indians U.S. citizens.

To mark the centennial of the 19th Amendment, the Smithsonian Institution, Library of Congress, and National Archives are collaborating to bring these stories to you on social media.

Follow #19SuffrageStories on Instagram and Twitter now until August 26 to learn voting-rights history from the Library of Congress (@LibraryCongress on Instagram and Twitter), the National Archives (@USNatArchives), and the Smithsonian (@Smithsonian) about the many diverse women who fought for voting rights, long before and long after the amendment passed.

Play This!

Life is Strange 2 Looking for a new kind of video game to get hooked on? This is an episodic choose-your-own-adventure video game that revolves around two brothers, Sean and Daniel Diaz. Although the game is the second part of the series, it is still a separate story line so you don’t need to play the first installment to understand its story. It follows 17-year old Sean and his 9-year old brother Daniel, who learns he has telekinetic powers. After being accused of murdering their father and a police officer, the brothers are forced to flee to their father’s old home in Puerto Lobos, Mexico. While on their journey, they tackle issues like immigration and racism. I love this game because it not only explores the ethical implications of the situations that Sean and Daniel get into, and it exposes the player to a different way of thinking. Every choice you make in the video game has consequences, so choices have to be carefully made. It’s my favorite video game so far because of the dynamic journey the player undergoes and the overall art style. The events in the game are so unpredictable, I can’t help but keep playing to find out what happens to Sean and Daniel next. You can purchase the physical copy of the complete season for PS4 and Xbox One for $69.99 or the digital/PC version on Steam, store.playstation.com and xbox.com for $39.99.

Individual digital episodes are also available for $7.99 each.

-Recommended by StreetWise intern Camille Baranda -Compiled by Dave Hamilton & Suzanne Hanney

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Vendor Russ Adams chats with Executive Assistant Patrick Edwards about the world of sports.

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Should sports start when school is back in session?

Russ: Welcome to SportsWise! Russ Adams here, ready to express my thoughts on schools opening up—or not—their sports programs in this world of coronavirus.

I’m excited to be sitting here next to my man—the newest member of SportsWise—Patrick Edwards.

Patrick: Thank you, Russ.

I won’t lie: after last week’s laydown, I can’t wait to hear your comments on this topic.

I have a few thoughts on the topic, but I’m eager to hear what you have to say.

Russ: Yeah, that’s not pressure. None at all.

Both: (Laughing.)

Russ: I will speak, though. I say let’s skip the school sports season this year. By then, we should be okay in better dealing with COVID-19. If not, we’re still around, so, at least, we’re still relatively healthy.

Patrick: Good point.

Russ: I mean, shoot, spend some quality time with family, get deep into whatever passion you’ve always wanted to get deep in; perhaps even study like you’ve never thought you had the time or the desire to do. Work it

out. Because the one thing I’ve always thought is that to embrace these three things is the key to us, the community of all, bringing about an ideal. And that sounds like something I can definitely get down with.

Patrick: You and me both, my man.

Russ: For sure, cancelling the entire school sports season is a very tough decision…it really is…but I can’t see doing anything but to wait this thing out. The owners, especially—at least for the most part—want to go ahead and get the cash registers back to rolling, but, man, this being a life or death situation, I don’t feel it’s anywhere near to worth it. You feel me?

Patrick: I do…but to a very fine point. With youth sports being all that it is—a fulfiller, a joy, shoot, for many, a friggin’ chance—to deny them the opportunity—albeit, hopefully, for a brief moment in time—is a move I don’t know if I can get behind. Every second that some of these cats aren’t out there grinding on the court, or the gridiron, or the track—

wherever—is time and opportunity to veer off the path to becoming what we think of when we think “respectable citizen.” Let’s minimize the mind-numbing damage by allowing the youth to be, well, youthful. That strive to get better, to be better; shoot, to be somebody in the best way they know how.

Russ: Right on. Let me say this, too, I watch all sports.

I mean, all sports. So I’m hurting a lil’ bit now… but I’ll manage. I'll manage even without the Little League World Series—that early sports opportunity for inner-city poor kids to shine, to have pure fun, to effin believe. To believe that there’s something more out there waiting for them to discover and to latch onto—and to not let go of.

Patrick: Man, Russ, you’re

making me wish I could swing back to 12 years old.

You really are.

Russ: Listen, one year of seasons won’t bring down the world, because the strong really do survive—I really believe that—and for those kids, and I don’t mean just the inner-city youth, I mean ALL youth who are involved, these kids, though they deeply need that time, that experience, to keep doing what they’re doing, also should be allowed to live. Not sure if I’ve said it, but know I realize the situation we’re in—we’re in some deep, deep stuff—but we can and will get through this. Shoot, we’re the human race.

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John Lewis traded the typical c for activism, arrests and jail c modern civil rights movement desperately needed to confront segregation. The thrust of direct-action protests, such as sit-ins and Freedom Rides, provided the dramatic confrontation that the earlier bus boycotts did not.

However, it was Lawson’s young pacifist disciples from Nashville that heavily influenced the ideology of the early student movement. It also aided in the creation of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, better known as SNCC.

an 18-year-old student attending a training sesAs sion for activists at the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee, John Lewis stuttered and struggled to read. A visiting professor mocked his stammered speech and “poor reading skills” and dismissed Lewis’ potential as a “suitable leader” for the burgeoning movement.

Famed activist and organizer Septima Clark rose to his defense and her support of Lewis paid off.

The unassuming teenager from the backwoods of Troy, Alabama, became a giant of the Black freedom struggle and, ultimately, would go on to serve more than three decades in Congress before his death on July 17.

Enthralled by ‘Social Gospel’ Lewis enrolled in American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee, mainly because it charged no tuition, but also due to the profound moral calling that he felt in his life. It was in Nashville where Lewis grew fascinated with the potential of the Social Gospel – a theoretical movement that applied Christian principles to addressing social problems such as poverty and white supremacy.

He soon came under the tutelage of James Lawson, a graduate student at Vanderbilt University who was fully immersed in the doctrines of non-violence. Lawson trained other notable activists such as Diane Nash, James Bevel and Bernard Lafayette – all friends and contemporaries of Lewis.

The student activism that emerged from southern Black colleges beginning in February of 1960 was the catalyst that the

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In dedicating his life to the movement as a young student, Lewis willingly gave up the comforts, experiences and accoutrements of a typical college student. Instead of gaining traditional work experience, Lewis got an insider’s look at numerous southern jails and prisons. His activism led to 40 arrests between 1960 and 1966.

Late-night bull sessions with his fellow SNCC activists who debated the proper path towards freedom became his laboratory. Sit-ins and Freedom Rides served as his examinations. They often resulted in beatings and bloodshed.

SNCC leadership By 1963 Lewis had assumed the chairmanship of SNCC, a position he would hold for the next three years. The formidable organization would undergo its most drastic changes during this period as they wrangled with more moderate and traditional organizations, concerns about white liberalism and the intractable nature of white supremacy.

Lewis and other SNCC organizers were forced to swallow a bitter pill during the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Although Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech became a focal point, it was Lewis’ speech that drew the most controversy.

Washington D.C. Roman Catholic Archbishop Patrick O'Boyle, along with march organizer Bayard Rustin, forced Lewis to change his original draft that placed a heavy critique on the slow response of the Kennedy administration in protecting the civil and human rights of activists in the Deep South. The edit prompted Malcolm X to derisively refer to the event as “The Farce on Washington.” It was not the last ideological scrum SNCC would have with liberals and moderates.

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OPPOSITE PAGE: John Lewis, right, marched with Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to fight for equality. Steve Schapiro / Contributor.

LEFT: John Lewis (left) and James Zwerg (right) stand in bloodshed after being beaten by pro-segregationists. Bettmann / Contributor.

BELOW: John Lewis participated in student activism in Montgomery, Ala. Francis Miller / Contributor.

During the Democratic National Convention in 1964, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) arrived in Atlantic City, New Jersey, expecting to be the duly recognized delegation from the Magnolia State in place of the all-white delegation of the party that had used violence and intimidation in an attempt to keep Blacks from the polls.

Famed activist Fannie Lou Hamer declared that “if the MFDP is not seated now, I question America.” The party was not seated. A backroom compromise – orchestrated between traditional Black moderates such as NAACP head Roy Wilkins, SCLC organizer Bayard Rustin and Dr. King – left many younger activists bitter and broken. “This was the turning point of the civil rights movement,” Lewis declared. “We had played by the rules, done everything we were supposed to do, had played the game exactly as requested, had arrived at the doorstep, and found the door slammed in our face.”

A year after the disappointment of Atlantic City, the learning curve would continue for Lewis.

As bitter as he and other SNCC activists were about the fallout from the 1964 Democratic Convention, Lewis was still a committed ideologue who held fast to his belief in non-violence as a way of life. That position grew increasingly unpopular with younger activists who championed their constitutional right to armed self-defense in the face of tyranny.

Many SNCC activists grew wearisome of the practical politics, moderation and compromise that some (including Lewis) argued produced setbacks within the movement. This frustration was on full display during Lewis’ most famous moment - the Selma to Montgomery March of 1965. SNCC’s executive committee had voted against the organization’s involvement because they saw such protest marches as largely ineffective. Lewis participated anyway. The result was “Bloody Sunday,” a horrific display of white terrorism that served as a springboard for the passage of the Voting Rights Act later that year. The world watched in horror as television cameras captured the moment that Lewis and hundreds of other peaceful protesters were teargassed, beaten and trampled by state troopers.

Like many committed activists, the social and political education of John Lewis had numerous twists and turns - from

a wide-eyed and eager disciple of nonviolence (a commitment that never wavered) to a seasoned activist and organizer whose heroics and courage made him an icon of the movement. That journey came with bumps and bruises – both literally and figuratively – and he would later employ some of those lessons as a United States congressman representing the 5th Congressional District of Georgia for 33 years. In this role, Lewis would champion legislation that upheld the ideals that made him an icon of the movement. He sponsored or co-sponsored thousands of bills targeting poverty, gun violence, civil rights, health care and reform of America’s justice system, just to name a few. He became an award-winning author, and he was lionized as “the conscience of Congress.”

While Lewis learned the fine art of negotiating during his years as a movement leader, he never compromised in his insistence for justice and equality for all. In a tweet from 2018, Lewis implored young idealists and activists to “Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.” Lewis remained a noise maker and a “drum major for peace” until his final days, and his courage and sacrifice should be an inspiration for us all.

Jelani M. Favors is associate professor of history, Clayton State University. Courtesy of The Conversation.

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John Lewis and C.T. Vivian belon of religious leaders in the civil

LEFT: John Lewis linked arms with religious leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King, while marching from Selma to Montgomery in 1965.

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ABOVE: President Obama awarded Rev. C.T. Vivian the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013. Pablo Martinez Monsiváis. RIGHT: President Obama presents a 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom to Rep. John Lewis, Carolyn Kaster. FAR RIGHT: C.T. Vivian leading prayer on the courthouse steps in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. Horace Cort.

With the deaths of Rep. John Lewis and the Rev. Cordy Tindell “C.T.” Vivian, the U.S. has lost two civil rights greats who drew upon their faith as they pushed for equality for Black Americans.

Vivian, an early adviser to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died July 17 at the age of 95. News of his passing was followed just hours later by that of Lewis, 80, an ordained Baptist minister and towering figure in the civil rights struggle.

That both men were people of the cloth is no coincidence.

From the earliest times in U.S. history, religious leaders have led the struggle for liberation and racial justice for Black Americans. As an ordained minister and a historian, I see a common thread running from Black resistance in the earliest periods of slavery in the antebellum South, through the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s – in which Lewis and Vivian played important roles – and up to today’s Black Lives Matter movement.

As Patrisse Cullors, a founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, says: “The fight to save your life is a spiritual fight.”

Spiritual calling Vivian studied theology alongside Lewis at the American Baptist College in Nashville, Tennessee.

For both men, activism was an extension of their faith.

Speaking to PBS in 2004, Lewis explained: “In my estima-

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tion, the civil rights movement was a religious phenomenon.

When we’d go out to sit in or go out to march, I felt, and I really believe, there was a force in front of us and a force behind us, ’cause sometimes you didn’t know what to do.

You didn’t know what to say, you didn’t know how you were going to make it through the day or through the night. But somehow and some way, you believed – you had faith – that it all was going to be all right.”

Fellow civil rights activists knew Vivian as the “resident theologian” in King’s inner circle due to “how profound he is in both his political and biblical exegesis,” fellow campaigner Rev. Jesse Jackson recalled.

Rejecting ‘other world’ theology Faith traditions inform the civil rights and social justice work of many Black religious leaders. They interpret religious teachings through the prism of the injustice in the here and now.

Speaking of King’s influence, Lewis explained: “He was not concerned about the streets of heaven and the pearly gates and the streets paved with milk and honey. He was more concerned about the streets of Montgomery and the way that Black people and poor people were being treated in Montgomery.”

This focus on real-world struggles as part of the role of spiritual leaders was present in the earliest Black civil rights and anti-slavery leaders. Nat Turner, a leader in the revolt against slavery, for example, saw rebellion as the work of God, and

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drew upon biblical texts to inspire his actions. Likewise, fellow anti-slavery campaigners Sojourner Truth and Jarena Lee rejected the “otherworld” theology taught to enslaved Africans by their white captors, which sought to deflect attention away from their condition in “this world” with promises of a better afterlife.

Incorporating religion into the Black anti-slavery movement sowed the seeds for faith being central to the struggle for racial justice. As the church historian James Washington observed in 1986, the “very disorientation of their slavery and the persistent impact of systemic racism and other forms of oppression provided the opportunity – indeed the necessity – of a new religious synthesis.”

‘Ubuntuism’ The synthesis continued into the 20th century. Religious civil rights leaders like Lewis and Vivian clearly felt compelled to make the struggle for justice a central part of a spiritual leader’s role.

In 1965, Vivian was punched in the mouth by Dallas County Sheriff Jim Clark in an incident caught on camera and carried on national news. Vivian later said: “Everything I am as a minister, as an African American, as a civil rights activist and a struggler for justice for everyone came together in that moment.”

Though their activism was grounded in Christianity, Lewis and Vivian both forged strategic and powerful coalitions with those outside of their faith. In some ways, they tran-

scended theologically informed ideologies with a world view more akin to Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s interpretation of “Ubuntu” – that one’s own humanity is inextricably bound up with that of others.

Lewis and Vivian personified this value in their leadership styles.

George Floyd Racial justice remains integral to Black Christian leadership in the 21st century.

After the killing of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis, it was the Rev. Al Sharpton whose words were carried across the globe, calling on white America to “get your knee off our necks” at Floyd’s memorial service.

In recent years, the Rev. William J. Barber II has been such a vocal and powerful presence in protests that some Americans consider him to be a the successor to past civil rights greats.

In an interview in early 2020, Barber said: “There is not some separation between Jesus and justice; to be Christian is to be concerned with what’s going on in the world.”

John Lewis and Rev. C.T. Vivian lived those words.

Lawrence Burnley is vice president for diversity and inclusion, University of Dayton. Courtesy of The Conversation.

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'Always growing, auburn gresham' awarded $10 million 'Chicago Prize' from Pritzker Traubert Foundation "Always Growing, Auburn Gresham" was announced as the winner of the Pritzker Traubert Foundation’s $10 million Chicago Prize on August 6. The foundation also had a surprise: that the five other finalists for the prize will share a $2.5 million matching fund, which will infuse $5 million into their South and West Side communities.

The Chicago Prize is dedicated to trying to make life in Chicago better, trustees Bryan Traubert and Penny Pritzker said in the announcement video. “One of the biggest challenges in Chicago is that not everyone has the same opportunities,” said Pritzker, secretary of the U.S. Dept. of Commerce under President Obama. ”Bryan and I have a fundamental belief there is leadership across the city, who know what their communities need.”

Traubert said he listened to dreams and aspirations of people across the city in six years as Chicago Park District president. “There was never a shortage of good people who had good ideas, but of resources to carry out those ideas,” he said.

FROM THE STREETS

Always Growing Auburn Gresham is led by Carlos Nelson of the Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corporation,

by Erika Allen of Urban Growers Collective and by Jason Feldman of Green Era Partners. The project has three components, which will be conducted in vacant buildings, on vacant land, with no displacement:

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• a Healthy Life style Hub in a 1920s terra cotta building – empty for decades – that will house health education, oral and mental health care • an Urban Farm Campus with year-round production of organic produce to be sold at a low cost that will also be a site for STEM youth education • Green Era, a self-sustainable anaerobic digester that will produce compost and renewable energy.

Located at the northwest corner of 83rd and Wallace Streets, the nine-acre Green Era Renewable Energy and Urban Farming campus is the $32 million redevelopment of a brownfield in Auburn Gresham. Construction will create an economic boost with an initial 240 construction jobs and 47 permanent ones after completion in spring 2022.

On August 7, Urban Growers Collective and Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced that the state will provide an additional $2 million toward construction of the nine-acre campus.

The seven-acre urban farm will offer nutritional food for residents facing systemic food apartheid on the city’s South and West Sides, it will expand the agricultural nonprofit’s city-wide impact and its mission to diminish systemic racism, and it will heal communities through urban agriculture, Urban Growers Collective officials said in a news release.

Compost will be produced for farmers throughout the city.

There will be community garden plots, native plant habitats, butterfly gardens and flowers.

The campus will include 13,000 square feet of greenhouse space, expected to grow 14,000 – 26,000+ pounds of organic produce per year. Fresh produce grown on the site, including kale, collard greens, eggplant, tomatoes and more, will be sold at the on-site produce stand or distributed to other “food deserts” via Urban Growers Collective’s Fresh Moves Mobile Market, a bus that will make weekly stops at South and West Side public schools and community and health centers including Howard Brown Health Center, King Health, Heartland Alliance and others.

In partnership with Chicago Public Schools, including Leo High School and Simeon High School, Green Era will offer a STEM curriculum centered on environmentally conscious urban farming, vermicomposting, urban gardening planning, seeding, entrepreneurship, and green engineering.

Green Era is partnering with Black Chicago Tomorrow and the City of Chicago to develop workforce training, prioritizing hiring for local residents as well as individuals with barriers to re-entry.

The self-sustainable anaerobic digester housed on the campus will compost food waste to renewable energy and nutrient-rich soil. As an alternative to landfills, Urban Growers Collective will partner with local restaurants and factories so that food waste and other vegetation will be brought into the fully-enclosed processing facility and broken down by natural microorganisms. The process will also produce biogas, which will be collected and utilized for energy. Approximately 85,000 tons of organic waste will be recycled through a natural, biological process, offsetting approximately 42,500 of CO2 per year.

The revenues of the digester will be reinvested into the community – an ongoing benefit, noted Penny Pritzker.

Green Era has committed to hiring locally and from disadvantaged communities at all skill levels for the construction and permanent jobs. In partnership with Heartland Alliance, Urban Growers Collective will expand its READI program for formerly incarcerated men to pursue a career path.

Renderings of the proposed “Healthy Lifestyle Hub.” The building will include health care, nutrition, urban farming, a recycling enterprise facilities and office space.

Funding is provided in part from a $2 million Rebuild Illinois grant and $1 million loan from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, supported through the state and federal New Market Tax Credits programs. There are also commitments from several local funding partners: IFF, Reinvestment Fund, Chicago Community Loan Fund, the MacArthur Foundation’s Benefit Chicago, and many others.

“By investing in communities of color with a focus on key industries including agribusiness, renewable energy, ag tech and manufacturing, we are growing the jobs of the future in the community,” said Michael Negron, acting director of the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO). “The timing of this project could not be better to promote an equitable recovery in a community that has been disproportionately hit hard by the health and economic effects of COVID-19 and for too long has experienced disinvestment.”

The $2.5 million matching fund could potentially infuse $1 million into each of the other finalists’ projects: • Austin’s Aspire Initiative to build a stronger cradle to grave pipeline. Its Quality of Life plan will create four investments in the area bounded by Madison, Chicago, Central and Laramie Avenues. These investments will include a state of art early learning, health and recreation center; a new high school; an economic hub that connects low-income residents with real opportunities and 60 units of affordable housing for purchase so that residents can build wealth. Partners include the West Side Health Authority, LISC Chicago, Austin Coming Together and more.

• Englewood Go Green on Racine, located at 63rd and Racine, which would include a Fresh Market cooperative; a mixed-use development of 12 residential units, E.G. Woode’s business incubator and 24/7 co-working facility, a food retailer and a hyperlocal recycling enterprise that would repurpose the vacant Woods Academy to generate 55 per-

manent living wage jobs. Partners include the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN), Teamwork Englewood, Resident Association of Greater Englewood (RAGE) and E.G. Woode.

• Little Village – Creating a Solidarity Community, in which the Delta Institute and Little Village Environmental Justice Organization would turn a former Chicago Fire Department station at 2358 S. Whipple into a commercial kitchen and satellite retail storefront so that 150 food vendors could use professional grade equipment to offer food for sale.

LVEJO could also create a sustainable food network with compost produced at another site and offer other programming.

• North Lawndale – Now is the Time, Advancing North Lawndale Together – whose partners include Lawndale Christian Development Corporation, North Lawndale Employment Network, Sinai Health System and more, which focused on working families ready to own their own homes, low-income families in need of affordable housing, access to health care, and remediating blighted buildings and vacant lots.

• South Chicago We’re Steel Here, which would incorporate local waterfront and business corridors connecting to Commercial Avenue, leveraging prime thoroughfares that embrace transit-oriented development and green technology. In addition to 78 units of affordable housing and a quality grocery store, there would be a wellness center and business incubator, two athletic facilities, a performing arts center and natural play space. Partners include Claretian Associates, Interfaith Housing Development Corporation, Our Lady of Guadalupe parish and school, Neighbor Space, 10th ward Ald. Susan Garza and more.

–Suzanne Hanney, from online and email sources

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Money Matters, Education Matters, Employment Matters, LGBTQ Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter, StreetWise Matters.

To all who didn’t know StreetWise is a form of sobriety or soberness, seriousness, and temperance, we're living in a day and age where it pays to be level headed and serious. Not being drunk with pride, prestige, entitlement, or privilege. To be aware is to be alive.

Being sober is more than not drinking or drugging. Being sober is a way of life, and a way of thinking. Sobermindedness is following the COVID-19 safety guidelines of staying 6 feet apart, wearing a face covering and washing hands regularly. StreetWise and sobriety is loving and respecting yourself and your neighbors. It is honoring and appreciating all life. Being StreetWise and sober is taking time out to do the census. It is taking time out to vote. Being StreetWise and sober means going to work and making an honest living as most StreetWise vendors do daily.

Being StreetWise and sober is working with others and looking forward to the overall objective of making life better for all. It is so much more than drinking or drugging because a person can easily drink a fifth of resentment, or a six-pack of pride, you can snort some entitlement, smoke some self-pity, and shoot up some privilege. There are many ways that a person can be intoxicated, but the message today is to be StreetWise and sober so things will go better. Support your vendor and stay sober, because StreetWise and sobriety really do matter.

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'She is Me' by vendor Tammy she is me. i am the weather and she is me as she shares with us the sun's shinings, lets us feel the angels crying, as she warms, hugging me, when a tear i shed she drops three, and littlest of birdies come sit by me. i am the weather, she is me i am the weather she is me. i am the weather...

God i thank Thee I Always hope you 2 be well and always wish best 4 you all days! - Tammy

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Streetwise 6/22/20 Crossword To solve the Sudoku puzzle, each row, column and box must contain the

numbers 1 to 9.

Sudoku

Crossword Across

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10 Driveway 43 Command to material Fido 11 Like a case, 45 “___ so fast!” at times 48 Comfort 12 Viva Zapata! 49 Author actress Jean LeShan 16 Musical 51 Airport McEntire building 18 Poet Hughes 52 Gossips 22 Increases 54 Color of wn 24 Scheme honey Triumphant cry 25 Small parrot 55 Meddle 26 Stresses Grinder 57 Old dagger 28 Israeli city Country club 59 Ford figure 29 Scoundrel contemporary Artist’s 31 Cousin of an 61 Cricket field workroom ostrich parts 33 Stir-fry pan Bistro 63 One of the 38 Actor Gibson 1949 Tracy, Clantons Hepburn flick 39 Like many tin 64 Kimono Twitch cans closer Copyright ©2020 PuzzleJunction.com Metric unit 40 Broke bread 65 Completely 42 Lubricates Con game 66 Golf bag item Parade item Farm animal Vista Scraped (out) Competent To be, to Tiberius Some wines Peeve

1 4 8 12 13 14 16 18 19 20 22 23 27 29 31 35

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Sudoku Solution last week's Puzzle Answers

Solution

38 39 40 41 44 45 47

Solution

48 49 50 53 55 59

Find your nearest StreetWise Vendor at www.streetwise.org

62 64 65

Combat Vase name Prompted In the past Venezuela copper center Foray Morning planets Use a key And others, for short Desire Maiden name Brush up on a subject Direction Wishful thinker Coarse file “___ show time!”

Sicilian city ___-upper “Alley ___!”

Child of another, at times Compass pt.

Plays a horn Town in Calif. or Italy Hog haven Choir part Make believe Scarlett’s home Contestant Stomach muscles, briefly Camping gear Food thickener Venue

67 71 72 73 74 75

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Headquarters Clodhopper Retired Human race Farm females It can be barbed 76 Cockpit reading (Abbr.)

Down 1 Long-legged aquatic bird 2 Quartz variety 3 Palace dweller 4 Pad 5 A Gershwin 6 Neither’s partner 7 Deep cut 8 Ice cream holders

9 10 11 14 15 17 21 24 25 26 28 30 32 33 34 35 36 37 39

WWW address Collar type Gaming cubes Building caretaker Barely get, with “out” Coaster Be in arrears Bailiwicks Rip apart ___-second Before angle or cycle Sugar source Sacks Dispatched Quarry Small amount Hammer, for one Detect False move

42 43 46 50 51 52 54 56 57 58 59 60 61 63 66 68 69 70

Carry Paradise Youngster Primp Dashed Ho-hum Book of maps Terrestrial lizard Twangy, as a voice 1545 council site Priestly garb Dullard Harbor vessel Defrost Grow old ___-Wan Kenobi Sea (Fr.) Dutch city

How StreetWise Works

Our Mission

Orientation Participants complete a monthlong orientation, focusing on customer service skills, financial literacy and time management to become a badged vendor.

Financial Literacy Vendors buy StreetWise for $0.90, and sell it for $2. The profit of $1.10 goes directly to the licensed vendor for them to earn a living.

Supportive Services StreetWise provides referrals, advocacy and other support to assist participants in meeting their basic needs and getting out of crisis.

S.T.E.P. Program StreetWise’s S.T.E.P. Program provides job readiness training and ongoing direct service support to ensure participants’ success in entering the traditional workforce.

Soluti

THE PLAYGROUND

To empower the entrepreneurial spirit through the dignity of self-employment by providing Chicagoans facing homelessness with a combination of supportive social services, workforce development resources and immediate access to gainful employment.

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The recently widowed “Mother of America”—attended to by the very enslaved people who will be free the moment she dies—takes us deep into the ugly and thorny ramifications of America’s original sin.

RADICALLY VULNERABLE, OUTRAGEOUSLY HILARIOUS

APRIL 2 – MAY 17 | steppenwolf.org | 312-335-1650 MAJOR PRODUCTION SPONSOR

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