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Cover Story: Cody Hudson

After a 32 year absence, the NBA All-Star Game returns to Chicago February 14-16. Nike's Jordan Brand has commisioned the "8x8" project, selecting 8 local artists representing the 8 train lines to mark the occasion. Participating artist Cody Hudson speaks with the creative team at Notre (an on-trend boutique with curated sneakers and apparel, located in Fulton Market at 118 N. Peoria St.) about his work for the project and how his love for Chicago has formed his creative output.

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The Chicago Loop Alliance seeks public opinion on a proposed State Street Corridor plan. Also, the Chicago Continuum of Care receives federal grants to support homeless services, and Local School Councils are looking for candidates.

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Lunar New Year Parade: See February 2

JANUARY 31

Bite Nite When: 5:30 - 9:30 p.m.

Where: The Nineteenth Century Club, 178 Forest Ave., Oak Park What: Enjoy a mid-winter celebration of outstanding local dining, sampling small bites from 50+ local restaurants, caterers and food brands during an evening of music + drinks. $50 at oprfchamber.org.

11th Annual Eisenopoly When: 6:30 - 11 p.m.

Where: Revel Fulton Market, 1215 W. Fullerton Market What: EISENOPOLY 2020 will welcome over 600 guests to face off in gameplay, while enjoying delicious food, an open bar with handcrafted cocktails, and live music from the Gold Coast Allstars. Profits to benefit the Harold E. Eisenberg Foundation’s cancer research work with Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Center of Northwestern University. $140 at eisenbergfoundation.org.

The Rat Pack is Back When: 8 p.m.

Where: Rosemont Theatre, 5400 N. River Road, Rosemont What: Celebrity impersonators imitate Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Dean Martin in a tribute that celebrates the nostalgia and sparkle of the original Las Vegas-style lounge show. Tickets start at $29.50 at rosemont.com.

JAN 31 - FEB 1

36 Annual Chicago Motorcycle Show and Parts Expo When: Fri 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.; Sat 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Where: Tinley Park Convention Center, 18451 Convention Center Drive, Tinley Park What: Celebrate beautiful craftsmanship, attention to detail, and the hard work required to make quality custom motorcycles. Makers in the motorcycle world and those of us who define our lives by the time spent on two wheels come together for a weekend of trading parts, stories, and sharing our respect for the ride.

Also includes celebrity guests Emilio Rivera and Michael Irby from FX’s “Mayans” and Rusty Coones from “Sons of Anarchy” as well as a bikini and tattoo competition. $9 daily at chicagomotorcycleswap.com George Crumb Festival When: Fri 7:30 p.m.; Sat 5 p.m.

Where: Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Ave. What: The Music Institute of Chicago features the work of Grammy and Pulitzer Prizewinning composer George Crumb, who recently celebrated his 90th birthday. The schedule includes Concert I at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, panel discussion at 5 p.m. and Concert II at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, and multimedia exhibition opening at 6 p.m. Friday and 4 p.m. Saturday. Each concert is $25 at musicinst.org or $30 at the door, the panel

is $10 (or free with concert ticket purchase) and a two-day festival pass is $40. For more information and tickets visit musicinst.org.

JAN 31 - FEB 2

"Requiem: A White Wanderer" Sound Installation When: 11 - 6 p.m.

Where: Jay Pritzker Pavillion in Millennium Park, 205 E. Randolph St. What: Immersive sound project by the Chicago collaborative Luftwerk is inspired by LarsenC, a 120-mile long crack that ran along the Antarctic ice shelf and broke into a trillion-ton iceberg in 2017. Audiences will hear the way aquatic animals might experience a calving iceberg and feel the urgency of climate change. Source data is based on seismic recordings made by Douglas MacAyeal, a world-renowned glaciologist at the University of Chicago.

FREE.

FEBRUARY 1

2020 Indie Wed - Chicago When: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Where: Ravenswood Event Center, 4043 N. Ravenswood Ave. What: Three floors of vendors from across the Midwest, food and beverage tastings, musical performances, bridal fashions and more. $15 single / $25 2-pack in advance at indiewed. com or $20 at the door.

Chicago Whiskey Festival When: 1 - 4 p.m.

Where: Old Crow Smokehouse River North, 149 W. Kinzie St. What: Choose tastings of over 30 varieties of whiskeys, bourbons and scotches. Tickets start at $35 at rivernorthfests. com "Requiem: A White Wanderer" Concert When: 5 & 7 p.m.

Where: Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, 201 E. Randolph St. What: "Requiem: A White Wanderer" is an original score composed by Katherine Young for eight musicians.

Illuminated sculptural objects will fill the space with shadows and reflections creating a visual topography as if in a glacial landscape. Musicians include Myra Hinrichs (violin); Min Park (violin); Alexander Ellsworth (cello); Lia Kohl (cello); Anton Hatwich (bass); Jenna Lyle (vocals); Ryan Packard (percussion). 5 p.m. showing is a family-oriented musical performance, preceeded by a sound walk at 4 p.m. around the Jay Pritzker Pavilion lawn. 7 p.m. show is an all-ages musical performance and panel discussion with the artists and collaborators moderated by Kari Lydersen, Chicago-based reporter, author and lecturer in the journalism graduate program at Northwestern University; program followed by a sound walk at 8pm around

the Jay Pritzker Pavilion lawn.

FREE. Advance registration is suggested at eventbrite.com For the Love of Chocolate Annual Spectacle: Wild, Wild West When: 7 p.m. - 12 a.m.

Where: Palmer House Hilton, 17 E. Monroe St. What: Dust off your boots and come as your favorite cowboy or cowgirl and belly up to the O.K. Corral, try your hand at gambling, dance with can-can ladies, enjoy food from top area restaurants and drinks at 10 open bars. Proceeds to benefit For the Love of Chocolate Foundation, which funds scholarships for students in the pastry arts field. $195 at ftloc.org.

Giordano Dance Chicago When: 7:30 p.m.

Where: North Shore Center, 9501 Skokie Blvd., Skokie What: In 55 years as an artistic leader and innovator, Giordano Dance Chicago—America’s original jazz dance company—has contributed greatly to the health of Chicago’s performing arts community. This special North Shore Winter Series will include performances of “Groove, in formed” (2019), “Surrender” (1999), “Flickers” (2019), “Taal” (2001), “Sing, Sing, Sing” (1983), and “Sabroso” (2011). Tickets start at $25 at northshorecenter.org.

FEB 1 - APRIL 26

Luis Sahagun: Both Eagle and Serpent When: Mon - Fri 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.; Sat & Sun 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.; closed holidays Where: Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St. What: Known for his intricate and fantastical paintings and sculptures built from silicone, lumber, drywall, concrete and hardware, Luis Sahagun creates symbols that represent working-class immigrants in the United States. In both Eagle and Serpent, this solo exhibition artfully confronts the vile national rhetoric aimed at immigrants, migrants and the other, as an act of cultural reclamation to spotlight Latinx narratives of resilience and self-determination. FREE.

FEBRUARY 2

Lunar New Year Parade When: 1 p.m.

Where: Wentworth Ave., from 24th St. to Cermak Rd. What: Celebratory parade featuring marching bands, colorful floats, traditional lion dances and a special appearance by Ronald McDonald. FREE.

FEBRUARY 4

Stroller Grooves When 12 - 12:45 p.m.

Where: Navy Pier Crystal Gardens, 600 E. Grand Ave. What: Bring your children to

enjoy a FREE concert from local children’s musicians in partnership with the Chicago Children’s Museum.

FEBRUARY 4 - 9

Riverdance 25th Anniversary When: Tue 7:30 p.m.; Wed 2 & 7:30 p.m.; Thurs & Fri 7:30 p.m.; Sat 2 & 8 p.m.; Sun 2 p.m.

Where: Cadillac Palace Theatre, 151 W. Randolph St. What: A powerful and stirring reinvention of this beloved favorite, celebrated the world over for its Grammy award-winning score and the thrilling energy and passion of its Irish and international dance. Twenty-five years on, composer Bill Whelan has rerecorded his mesmerizing soundtrack while producer Moya Doherty and director John McColgan have completely reimagined the ground-breaking show with innovative and spectacular lighting, projection, stage and costume designs. Tickets start at $32 at broadwayinchicago.com

FEbruaRY 5

2020 Year of the Rat Lunar New Year Dinner When: 6 - 9 p.m.

Where: Cai Restaurant, 2100 S. Archer Ave. What: Dress in red and celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year of the Rat with traditional Chinese banquet featuring specially prepared Lunar New

Year dishes and entertainment, including raffle prizes and red envelope cash drawings. $85 per person at chicagochinatown.org

THROUGH MARCH 1

Jake’s Women When: Thurs & Fri 8 p.m.; Sat 3 & 8 p.m.; Sun 3 p.m.

Where: Oil Lamp Theater, 1723 Glenview Rd., Glenview What: Jake, a novelist who is more successful with fiction thatn with life, faces a marital crisis by daydreaming about the women in his life. The wildly comic and sometimes moving flashbacks played in his mind are interrupted by visitations from actual females. Tickets to the Neil Simon play are $40 ($25 students) at oillamptheater.org.

THROUGH MARCH 8

Bug When: Wed - Fri 7:30 p.m.; Sat 3 & 7:30 p.m.; Sun 3 p.m.

Where: Steppenwolf, 1650 N. Halsted St. What: In a seedy Oklahoma motel room, a lonely waitress begins an unexpected love affair with a young drifter. And then they see the first bugs…

Tracy Letts’s mind-bending cult classic—a luridly funny tale of love, paranoia and government conspiracy—makes its Steppenwolf debut. Tickets start at $64 at steppenwolf.org

-compiled by Dave Hamilton

11th Annual Eisenopoly: See January 31

Giordano Dance Chicago: See February 1

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Vendors Russell Adams, John Hagan and Donald Morris chat with Executive Assistant Patrick Edwards about the world of sports.

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Donald: I'll begin with the WNBA and the Chicago Sky. A new addition to the team, Katie Lou Samuelson, is hoping to bring to the team what she was known for in Europe: a lot of points, assists and takeaways. She was known as a shooter with amazing defense in regard to steals and getting to loose balls. And her rebounding was nothing to sneeze at either. I am excited to see how she does.

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John: Over to football for me.

Jimmie Johnson, head coach of the Dallas Cowboys for many years, was an integral part of a trade with the Minnesota Vikings--arguably the biggest trade in NFL history-that was known as the Herschel Walker Trade. Herschel was sent to the Vikings for a slew of players--all of whom the Cowboys were planning to shed. Jimmie and management were able to deal the cast-off players for other draft picks, and Jimmie led the Cowboys to multiple championships. This is why he has earned a spot in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Russell: Now that the college football season has ended, and the NFL season is nearing its end, I've been thinking about what I'm going to do for my sports watching. It's time for college basketball.

Patrick: Yes, March Madness is on the horizon.

Russell: Right, right. The Illinois Fightin' Illini is a good

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way to begin as they are ranked in the top 25 (24th) for the first time since the 2014-15 season. I am so looking forward to college basketball this season.

vis, Kawhi Leonard, and Giannis Antetkounmpo to begin with, it'll definitely be fun. As for the Super Bowl, the Kansas City Chiefs over the Green Bay Packers.

Patrick: I am as well, Russ.

Before this year, I never paid much attention during the regular season; this year, my goal? Lock in, baby. Especially with the way the DePaul Blue Demons' men have played. I'm ready to get back to the winning ways over there. Two other things I'm anticipating are the NBA All-Star Game and the NFL Playoffs. The All-Star game would have been, in years past, a grand slam for the West; however, with the new process of 2 players choosing teams, it makes for a more fair and exciting game. With LeBron James, Anthony Da-

John: In a close game for the NFC Championship, the Packers will edge the San Francisco 49'ers. Only way San Fran wins is if they blow out the Pack. On the other side of the league, the Tennessee Titans could take out Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs; however, I would love to see KC win for one reason only: the exciting play of Mahomes.

Russell: I agree, John. All week following that Houston/KC game, my customers talked about the Chiefs' comeback dominance. Mahomes told them, "Calm

down, I got this. We can come back." And come back they did--in history-making fashion. Amazing. So, never, ever, give up, kids. I'm taking the Chiefs and the Packers in the Super Bowl, but no pick from me. It'll just be a good one.

John: KC over Green Bay. Donald: I have Green Bay over KC. Aaron Rodgers of the Packers will prove his point.

Patrick: After listening to the fellas' expertise, I'm flipping: I'm taking Green Bay over the Chiefs.

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The Wisconsin-born, Chicago-based visual practitioner Cody Hudson’s work is a testament to the potential of curiosity. Throughout his career, he’s followed his intuition more than any set strategy, seeking always to add different skills to his toolkit and to exercise different creative muscles. The result is a body of work that spans painting, sculpture, prints, site-specifi c installations, large scale murals, record sleeves, gig fl yers—the list goes on. Tying it all together is a sense of perfect imperfection. Hudson’s work is never too precisely executed, always bearing uniquely expressive hand-hewn touches—evidence that someone has been there, that this was made by a person rather than an algorithm.

A sample of recent projects are a testament to his versatility. They include a solo show of paintings and steel sculptures at David B. Smith Gallery in Colorado called “I Came Home;” contributions to a group show at Somerset House in London called “Mushrooms: The Art, Design, and Future of Fungi;” and an installation called “New Forms” at Fool’s Gold Records’ Brooklyn

shop. Beyond the artwork, Hudson is also a partner at Land and Sea Department—a project development studio that also owns and operates Chicago landmark restaurants and bars like Longman & Eagle and Lonesome Rose—and a partner in Letherbee Distillers. He is, suffi ce to say, a person of many interests.

Hudson has done his fair share of work in fashion, too, beginning with designing T-shirts for his friends’ bands, and more recently working with Nike and Jordan Brand on several different projects. Just last week, Hudson’s fi rst collaboration with Jordan Brand launched part of their Chicago-celebrating 8x8 project. To commemorate the launch of Hudson’s contribution to this project, he has designed a large-scale sculpture for Notre, a fashion and sneaker boutique located at 118 N. Peoria in the West Loop. The sculpture will be on view at Notre until February 2. Hudson has also designed a series of prints, currently for sale at Notre, in support of StreetWise. All proceeds from these prints will be donated to the magazine. Notre visited Cody for a chat at his studio.

Notre:

I’m familiar with a bunch of the different projects that you do,

and the aesthetic of your work, but I don’t know too much about your background. You’re from Wisconsin, right?

Notre:

Cody: Cody: Yeah, I was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, basically the first city over the Illinois border. We were in the middle, so we could go up to Mil-

The Midwest has an amazing tradition of rave flyers, especially

from that era.

The main stuff I did was around ‘94 to ‘99. I was right in the

middle, so most of my clients were either Milwaukee or Chicago. It was great to work for both cities at the same time.

waukee to skateboard at the Turf, and later on go to punk shows, and also go down to Chicago to go to warehouse parties and raves.

Notre:

Notre: ator?

Was doing those flyers the first platform you had as a visual cre-

I have an long-standing streak of never not getting along with

someone I’ve met from Wisconsin.

Cody: I had done some mixtape covers for friends. I made a T-shirt for one of my brothers’ bands, or I’d make stickers and ‘zines for our skateboard

Cody:

crew. But, rave flyers were probably the first ones where I really realized that

Well, that’s a good thing. Wisconsin is pretty mellow—it’s not a

bad place to be from.

this stuff gets out there and people really see it. I’d go to Gramaphone and there’d be a big stack of them and I’d be like, “Oh, yeah! I made that.” That

Notre:

When did you make the move to Chicago?

was the first time I started to see it more out in the world.

Cody:

The first time I moved here was about 23 years ago. Then I moved

Notre:

How’d that feel?

around for a few years and in between every move would end up moving back to Chicago. I’ve been here nonstop since 2001.

Notre:

What kept you coming back?

Cody: I’d run out of money so I’d travel for a job, then once I was out of debt I’d want to go back to doing my own thing, and I would move back to Chicago, knowing that was my home base. All the times I moved were for

Cody: It was very exciting at the time, especially being pretty young, still trying to kind of figure out what you want to do in life. And doing graphics for a scene that I was a part of was a pretty great experience. The first flyer I designed was for a party I was helping throw. I designed it to save some money, as I had just gotten a computer. But I quickly realized I liked the graphic design more than I liked throwing parties. The work doesn’t look at

jobs. I’d get an opportunity in New Jersey, or Miami, or Vermont, to design for a clothing brand, or a magazine, or snowboards, and then after

all like what I’m doing now, but it definitely was all a part of the path that helped me get here. I got that same feeling when I started doing record cover designs later on, and same for skateboard graphics and clothing designs. It’s

awhile, I learned some new things, I’d go back to Chicago.

always cool to see something you made on the street.

Notre:

Notre:

When did you start Struggle, Inc.?

Cody: Mid '90s. I needed a name to put on rave flyers I was making. I was designing them for parties, and didn’t want to put my own name there.

There’s a line in the bio on your website that just says, “Big fan

of circles.” Which, I would agree—also probably my favorite shape. What is it about the circle that appeals to you, if it’s something you could even articulate?

Cody: It’s such a simple symbol, but it’s also so universal and can kind of mean anything. Anything and nothing, all at the same time, and everyone who looks at it is going to think something different about it. It’s the circle of life. It’s the Earth. It’s everything around you. It’s a black hole. It’s the end and the beginning of everything. It’s the first thing you see when you open your eyes, and the last thing you see when you close them.

Notre:

I want to push you more about what kept you coming back to Chicago—what makes it such a unique city?

Cody: I really like the people here. It’s got great food, great art, great music. I spent enough time in New York and LA, and like them both, but not being on one of the coasts, it’s just a different mentality. And it’s a city that’s really embraced me and given me an opportunity to make a living doing something I love. I met my wife here, both my daughters were born here. To me, Chicago really has become my home.

Notre: What do you think the Chicago or the Midwest mentality leads to, in terms of visual production?

Cody: I think there’s just this honest nature about Chicago and the Midwest, which is something that I try to push through in my work—not necessarily try to make everything perfect, or hide how it was made, or to take shortcuts. There’s a very Midwestern work ethic, as well. Not chasing

the hype. You’re working, you’re doing your thing, and you want the world to see it, but, at least for me, it doesn’t seem like that’s always the main goal.

Chicago is more about the work and less about putting your face out there and being the person in front of the work.

Notre: When it comes to the work with Jordan Brand on the 8x8 project, how did that whole relationship come about?

Cody: I’ve worked with Nike quite a bit in the past, but this is the first time I’ve worked with Jordan. This one was really exciting, obviously, because of the connection Jordan has to Chicago.

Notre: In terms of the collection itself, and the look of it, how did you approach it? What were you trying to bring to it?

Cody: I was thinking about this whole “Unite” campaign, uniting the city, all these train lines coming together at all these different locations throughout the city. I started thinking on that and cutting up paper shapes.

I wanted to keep it abstract, but also resonate with Chicago. The stars and some of the stripe-like elements feel like deconstructed elements from the Chicago flag, but then also can represent landscape-style elements. I like when people can look at something and bring their own thoughts to it instead of me saying, “Well, this is exactly what this means.” So, in my head, there’s little bits and pieces there that all connect, but someone else will look at it and bring something totally different to it. I’m excited about seeing what it means to other people.

And then the big message, “All One.” That’s a combination of a couple different references, the hippie feeling of “All One Or None” meeting more of a “One Love” hip-hop mentality, and trying to bring this whole city together with one of the stars in between a heart.

Notre: You’ve described yourself before as a “professional amateur.”

What does that mean?

Cody: Everyone is so different in how they work. I’ve been around, doing everything for a long time, but I’m still figuring out what that even is—coming to the studio every day and thinking, “What am I going to do today? Am I going to make a sculpture? Make a painting? Or design an album cover, or a poster, or paint a mural, or just make some doodles?” It’s a low-key setup, but one that can generate almost anything. So, it’s professional in the sense that this is how I’ve been making a living for the last 20 years, but at the same time, I still sometimes question if it’s even a real business. It’s just me, sitting in the studio, kind of doing whatever I want, and somehow that’s actually turned into my job. Which is pretty wild to think about.

Notre: Given the whole “Unite” nature of the 8x8 project, is there anyone in Chicago, whether it’s another designer, or an artist, or a restaurant, that you really love and want to shout out?

Cody: So much good food here—Lula Cafe is my neighborhood favorite for sure. I have a soft spot for a Manny’s pastrami sandwich. Artists like Kerry James Marshall, Jose Lerma, Ryan Travis Christian, Gladys Nilsson, Karl Wirsum, Judy Ledgerwood, Nick Cave, Anna Kunz, Stephen Eichhorn, Alice Tippit, Robert Burnier, and Sonnenzimmer, to name a few, make this a good city to be in. So much good design, as well, with people like Bill Connors, Other Studio, Drew Ryan, Normal Studio, and Chuck Anderson doing good work. I could keep going with this list for days, so I think it just shows Chicago is a pretty great place to be right now.

Jordan’s 8x8 collection is a celebration of what makes Chicago special: eight train routes, eight collaborators that rep the city in their own way. Each participant has worked with Jordan to design a capsule collection of apparel, footwear, or both, using the colors of the CTA routes as inspiration. Releasing between now and NBA All-Star Weekend, the theme of the 8x8 project is “Unite”—bringing the city together, like train lines meeting at the Loop. Participants in the program are: Cody Hudson; streetwear shop Succezz; Drew the Barber of No Cuts, No Glory; fashion designer Sheila Rashid; students from the WINGS Design Program; music platform Lyrical Lemonade; Chance the Rapper’s SocialWorks; and Virgil Abloh, founder of Off-White and artistic director of Louis Vuitton.

Chicago Loop Alliance seeks public input for first State Street Corridor Plan in 33 years.

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State Street photos by Adam Allexander Photography for Chicago Loop Alliance.

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Chicago Loop Alliance will produce the first State Street Corridor Plan in 33 years with the help of Site Design Group Ltd. (Site), an urban design and architecture firm that was selected from a competitive pool of applicants. The plan, to be released next fall, will include recommendations on character, aesthetics and infrastructure, public space, transportation and mobility, retail and business mix, and technology. Community engagement is sought for the planning process; you can sign up for news and to become involved at www.loopchicago.com/statestreet.

The corridor plan will be Chicago Loop Alliance’s first plan for State Street since 1987, when the organization called for the street to be reopened to automobile traffic after becoming a bus and pedestrian mall in 1979. State Street reopened in 1996 with historic-looking light poles, bus kiosks and planters.

“As we showed with our Economic Profile last year, everything about the Loop is changing rapidly—residential demographics, commercial real estate, mobility, etc.,” said Chicago Loop Alliance Director of Planning Kalindi Parikh. “We see this street as a connector for all of Chicago’s neighborhoods. Our corridor plan will guide us in keeping the street competitive in a changing economic landscape, and in keeping it a ‘great street’ for all Chicagoans.”

Chicago Loop Alliance previously worked with Site on Lightscape, a light and sound installation located in 17 planters along State Street that was installed in 2011. Site is also known for projects around Chicago including the Argyle Shared Street, McCormick Square, Mary Bartelme Park, Chicago Riverwalk East, West Loop Design Guidelines, and Printer’s Row Park.

To kick off the State Street Corridor Plan process, Site principal and co-founder Ernie Wong will keynote Chicago Loop Alliance’s 2020 annual meeting, from 8-10:15 a.m. on Thursday, February 20, in the Grand Ballroom of the Palmer House Hilton. Wong will answer the question, “Why create a plan for State Street?” and will explain how stakeholders can get involved with the planning process.

The event will also feature remarks from Samir Mayekar, Chicago’s deputy mayor for economic and neighborhood development. Tickets for the annual meeting are $75 members/$85 non-members and can be purchased at www.loopchicago.com/ annualmeeting.

-Suzanne Hanney, from online sources

Chicago to receive Candidates needed $72.72M in Federal for local school funding for homeless councils programs The Chicago Continuum of Care (CoC) has received $72.72 million in federal funding for 140 programs intended to prevent or end homelessness, as part of $2.2 billion in grants announced by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on January 14. Last year, the Chicago CoC received $68 million for 167 programs.

HUD CoC grants serve more than one million people annually through emergency shelter, transitional and permanent housing programs. The federal department challenges state and local planning organizations known as “continuums of care” to support their highest performing, most effective programs.

For the past decade, All Chicago Making Homelessness History has been the Chicago CoC’s collaborative applicant for the federal grants. This year’s recipients include Breakthrough, Catholic Charities, Featherfist, Heartland Health Outreach, HOW Inc., Interfaith Housing, Low Income Housing Trust Fund, Mercy Housing, Sarah’s Circle, Thresholds, Trilogy and more.

The All Chicago website listed 16,437 beds in 291 homeless projects at 77 agencies. This information from the Housing Inventory Count and the Point-in-Time (PIT) count of people on the streets Jan. 24, 2019, was submitted to HUD. Two out of 3 beds (66 percent) among the 291 homeless projects were in permanent supportive housing, with the remainder in emergency shelters (19 percent) and transitional housing (15 percent). Just over half (52 percent) of Chicago homeless beds were available to adults without children, 43 percent went to households with children and 5 percent to unaccompanied youth under age 24.

The upcoming HUD grants will fund roughly 6,593 local programs on the front lines of homelessness. Most of the United States experienced a decrease in homelessness last year, according to HUD officials, “but significant increases in unsheltered and chronic homelessness on the West Coast, particularly California and Oregon, offset those nationwide decreases, causing an overall increase in homelessness of 2.7 percent.”

HUD’s 2019 annual homelessness assessment to Congress showed that 567,715 persons were homeless across the nation, according to the Jan. 24, 2019 Housing Inventory and PIT counts.

The number was up 2.7 percent from 2018 but down 11 percent since 2010.

HUD officials said also that the number of families with children experiencing homelessness declined 5 percent from 2018 and 32 percent since 2010. Veteran homelessness also decreased 2.1 percent since the previous year and 50 percent since 2010.

-Suzanne Hanney, from online sources

Local School Councils (LSCs) are the closest thing to democracy in education Chicagoans can get without the benefit of an elected school board, advocates say ahead of this year’s biennial elections.

Candidates are needed for over 4,000 LSC seats in Chicago Public Schools. The filing deadline is March 5 in the school of choice. Elections will be April 22 in elementary schools and April 23 in high schools.

LSCs were a school reform movement idea of Mayor Harold Washington, who called for local governance in public schools, according to the Facebook page of the LSCs4All Coalition. “Over the years, LSCs have been the fall guys for what’s wrong with public education. When in reality they can be the answers for ALL schools to be great. Start with policies that give all parents – no matter what type of school they attend – the power to help create great change in our schools.”

Created by the School Reform Act of 1988, LSCs have three responsibilities: to approve how school funds are allocated, to develop and monitor a School Improvement Plan, and to select and evaluate the school principal.

Traditional LSCs are comprised of the principal, six parent representatives, two community representatives, two teacher representatives, one representative of the non-teacher staff; and at the high school level, one student representative. All parents, community members and school staff members who want to strengthen their local schools are eligible to run.

No experience or formal education is required of LSC members.

Candidates must file an annual statement of economic interests, complete a criminal disclosure form, undergo fingerprint-based criminal conviction investigation (and complete a criminal conviction disclosure form) and complete required training within six months of taking office.

The LSCs4All Coalition includes the Lugenia Burns Hope Center, Kenwood Oakland Community Organization (KOCO), Pilsen Alliance, Chicago United for Equity (CUE), Blocks Together, Northside Action for Justice, Chicago Teachers Union and Raise Your Hand for Illinois Public Education (RYH).

Two years ago, City Bureau cited CPS numbers that showed only 221 of the 512 schools eligible for LSCs had enough members for a full council.

-Suzanne Hanney, from online sources

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Streetwise 12/23/19 Crossword numbers 1 to 9.

Sudoku

To solve the Sudoku puzzle, each row, column and box must contain the

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64 Scientific study of food preparation 66 Folk dance 67 Big name in pineapples 68 Hand or foot 69 Spotted 70 Mos. and mos.

71 “Wanna ___?”

7 Realtor’s offering 37 Flowery verse 8 Baseball stat 40 Streaked 9 Strong green 43 Dine liqueurs 47 Took place 10 Ukraine’s capital 49 Lothario’s look 11 Anti-fur org.

51 Rap sheet 12 Agoutis listing 14 Give it a whirl 52 Cambodian 16 Bat’s home currency 20 Toni Morrison’s 53 Skirt style “___ Baby” 54 Understood 25 Door opener Down 55 Lion’s share 1 Two-footed 26 Slanted text 56 Gullible one 2 Leaves off 27 Grit 57 Mitch Miller’s 28 Combustible pile 3 ___ seul (dance instrument solo) 29 Cry of pain 59 Small 4 Director of 30 Compass pt. whirlpool 31 Pastrami purveyor 62 Supplement, “Meet John 32 ___ employed Doe” with “out” 5 Small fishing 34 Some whistle 63 “Way cool!” blowers net 65 Place to 35 Crew tool 6 Narcissist’s love unwind Copyright ©2019 PuzzleJunction.com

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Last Week’s Solution Puzzle Answers

Solution

Solution

Find your nearest StreetWise Vendor at www.streetwise.org

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Crossword Across 1 Sandpiper 5 Lingerie item 9 Painter Chagall 13 Declare 14 Inadvisable action 15 Detached 17 Cuzco’s country 18 Wood sorrels 19 Birth-related 20 Orange kin 22 Buddy 23 Met display 24 High spirits 27 Scarlett O’Hara, e.g.

30 “So soon?”

31 Early evictee 32 Like some humor 33 Nativity 60 Wild goat nursery 61 Pretend 36 Trouser part 62 From square 37 Personal quirk one 38 Sweet potato 63 Thunder 39 Fortune sound 40 Clans 64 Soaks, as flax 42 Thai river 65 Glasgow gal 43 Stars and 66 Achilles, e.g.

Stripes land 44 Piece of men’s Down jewelry 1 Spellbound 46 Liabilities 2 Part of the eye 48 Camisole 3 Terrarium 50 Juliet, to plant Romeo 4 Penny51 Donations pinching 52 Vaporize 5 Sound of 57 Salmon River contempt locale 6 Places 59 Church 7 Fatuously section 8 Charlatan

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9 Kind of power 10 Like some desserts 11 Service organization 12 Raccoon relative 16 Kind of collar 21 Bard’s “before” 25 Ice cream flavor 26 Mischief 27 Boxing prize 28 Constantly 29 Lawful 30 Rainbow’s shape 32 “Saturday Night Fever” music 34 Party thrower

35 37 38 41 42 45 46 47 48 49 50 53 54 55 56 58

J.F.K. postings Adolescent Jabber VIP, usually Shangri-la Relating to the spleen Twosome Improve, in a way Bucket Patriarch Gushes Ancient greetings Competent Drop from Niobe Really big show Switch settings

How StreetWise Works

Our Mission 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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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.

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Vendors Corner: evolution

by A. Allen | photo by Kathleen Hinkel

The incredible, evolving StreetWise organization and those diligent, awesome and respectful vendors, yeah, you've come a long ways, baby, as they used to say in the Virginia Slims cigarette commercial. From being a monthly Chicago street paper purchased by the vendor for a quarter and sold for a dollar, to empowering the homeless through employment, the StreetWise Transitional Employment Program (STEP).

We are, also, evolving with the cashless society. We have credit card payments, as well as Venmo.

In the year 2020, we are expecting exciting things to happen. Some creative things. With the advent of social media, StreetWise and its vendors have come a long ways in a number of aspects. Not only are we bridging the gap in the social realm, we, also, support a magazine that is full-out quality, and is very contemporary in its content. It has evolved in so many ways. All that to say: "You've come a long ways, baby..."

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Yeah, the most common early sales pitch was "Can you help the homeless?"

Yeah, the organization started out slowly--but it went surely. Some 27 years ago, many homeless or near-homeless Chicagoans found refuge and safety in earning an honest living. Since then, we became a magazine that helps our people rise from homelessness (or nearhomelessness), and we've become, and are becoming, entrepreneurs. We have become independent contractors with a hand up--not a hand out. Yes, we have evolved into being a distributor of the very informative StreetWise magazine, which pertains to Chicago, as well as to international, news. .

Today, we are connected globally through the International Network of Street Papers, based in Glasgow, Scotland. There are over 100 street papers similar to StreetWise in 35 nations and 25 languages. Roughly 8,750 vendors are selling street papers at any one time. Yeah, you've come a long ways, baby; not only that, living with a hand-up and not a hand-out means StreetWise is a stepping stone to better things such as the STEP Program, which offers a shot at a conventional 9 to 5 job.

It, also, offers vendors a real chance at becoming self-reliant. Vendors get a real shot at becoming successful, self-employed entrepreneurs.

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