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Construction halted on charter school Bank stops financing on project and puts parents and students in limbo

that would be needed for a school.

With the exception of one security guard, there were no workers seen on the premises

after two different visits by the Crusader last week. On our third visit, there were two women working in a trailer in the rear

of the building distributing promotional material, but neither was authorized to (Continued on page 2)

By J. Coyden Palmer Over a week ago, the construction at the site of a planned charter school in Chatham stopped abruptly after the bank financing the project pulled out amidst unknown concerns, the Crusader has learned.

The Concept Charter School, in partnership with the Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church’s Legacy Project, is the subject of a federal criminal investigation the Crusader reported two weeks ago. Last month, the FBI raided 19 sites owned by Concept, based in suburban Des Plaines. A law enforcement source told the Crusader on July 7, that the wide-ranging investigation relates to Concept’s officials.

A person, who did not want to be identified on the site at 8527 Lafayette, told the Crusader because construction has stopped, the school will not open on Aug. 14 as originally planned. Alderman Howard Brookins (21) later confirmed that saying he had no idea if or when the school would open at all, adding he is not aware of any contingency plan for the students currently enrolled.

The Crusader obtained exclusive photos from inside the building, showing sewage drains protruding from the ground, no floors, ceilings or other essential elements

THE EXTERIOR OF proposed Concept Charter School in Chatham is not representative of the state of the interior of the building where construction has been halted due to financial issues.

Foreclosure help for elderly is a scam

By Mike Volpe Scammers have been targeting the elderly and desperate in Chicago with outlandish claims about saving homes from foreclosure, the Chicago Crusader has learned.

In an interview with the Crusader, John Mirkovic Director of Communications for the Cook County Recorder of Deeds stated that Karen Yarbrough, the Cook County Recorder of Deeds, is currently investigating a number of incidents of individuals claiming to be able to subvert foreclosure law by using so-called “sovereignty” to prey on desperate individuals who are in the process of foreclosure.

These individuals claim to be members of the Moorish Science Temple of America (MSTA), but Mirkovic warned that this scam is not being sanctioned by the group itself, but is being perpetrated by con artists

and “rogue” individuals.

Mirkovic called individuals who perpetuate these scams as “transients”—individuals who pass through Chicago temporarily and specifically to try and make money using this scam.

Robert Hill-Bey, a spokesperson in Chicago for the MSTA, didn’t respond to a phone call for comment.

Mirkovic stated that these scammers target areas with a large amount of foreclosure activities and use a variety of marketing techniques, including direct mail, advertisements on street signs, and knocking on doors to identify targets.

Once an individual is identified, the scammers claim to be members of the (Continued on page 3)

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FORECLOSURE HELP FOR elderly Chicagoans who may be losing their homes is being offered by individuals claiming to be members of the Moorish Science Temple of America., but there is no such assistance. Individuals who fall for the ploy do not get their homes out of foreclosure proceedings.

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NEWS

Brookins and constituents meet in heated exchange

By J. Coyden Palmer Inside a small conference room on the South Side July 8, Ald. Howard Brookins met with about a dozen angry community members who are upset that neighborhood public schools are being underfunded in the ward. After a protest outside Brookins’ office at 9011 S. Ashland organized by the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), a small group was allowed in to meet with Brookins and voice their concerns. For 45 minutes the sometimes contentious meeting ensued with the demonstrators demanding Brookins sign a pledge stating he would withdraw his support from the controversial Concept charter school and become an advocate for neighborhood schools. The alderman refused.

“I won’t sign this pledge now until I do a thorough investigation,” Brookins responded.

Gregory Clements is the secretary for Gresham Parents Students and Community United for Change. He is also a leader with the Cub Scout pack that was based out of Gresham School. He said Gresham had both a science lab and a library with no teacher, in addition to no music or art

programs and physical education only part time.

“We must register people to vote so we can get an elected school board.

That is our only hope of changing things,” Clements believes.

Others complained about the lack of options in the ward and compared it to a rigged poker game. CTU member Shoneice Reynolds went toe-to-toe with Brookins over the options parents have for high school students. Brookins contends the charter schools are an option and that there are people in his ward who want them there. But Reynolds countered that if you disinvest in all of the neighborhood schools and do not provide programs like art, music and computer technology, there really is not much of a choice.

“After canvassing the community and speaking with residents they are very disappointed that their neighborhood high school is not Calumet anymore,” said Shoneice Reynolds.

“Those students have to go all the way to Hirsch, outside of this community to go to a neighborhood public high school. That is not fair to them.”

The former Calumet high school, located at 81st and May, is now a

MEMBERS OF THE community joined with Chicago Teachers Union representatives in an up close and personal meeting with 21st Ward Ald. Howard Brookins Tuesday night on the South Side. The group wants better funding for neighborhood public schools in the ward. charter school run by Perspectives.

Hirsch is located at 77th and Drexel, some 3.5 miles away and in the 8th Ward. There is no high school in the 21st Ward that is not either selective enrollment, private or a charter school, the Crusader discovered.

Herb Singleton, a community outreach worker for the CTU, said there are currently a number of unfilled positions in schools within the 21st

Ward. According to the CTU, nine schools in the 21st ward do not have a music teacher; 12 schools are without a librarian and 14 schools with computer labs, but who do not have a computer science teacher.

“Technology runs education,” said Singleton, who has three master’s degrees and has taught within the CPS system for over 20 years. “It’s criminal, because all of the newest pro-

grams come through technology.”

Latisa Kindred was laid off this week from her position as the electrical shop teacher at Simeon Vocational Career Academy. With the program eliminated, there now is no school within the CPS system that offers electrical shop, according to CTU. Kindred said she is beyond disappointed in CPS’ decision.

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Construction halted on charter school (Continued from page 1) speak about the situation and referred the Crusader to Richard Townsell, executive director of the Legacy Project and the Lawndale Christian Development Corporation.

Reached via phone July 8, Townsell agreed to an interview, but asked to be emailed questions. He never responded to any of the Crusader’s questions.

The Crusader also reached out to the Chicago Public Schools; the CPS board voted in favor of Concept getting two new schools this fall. Last month, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) asked the Board of Education to suspend Concept’s charter license.

The Crusader asked three questions to the CPS communications office, which handles press inquiries: Why has construction stopped at the site? Is CPS CEO Dr. Barbara Byrd-Bennett aware of the stoppage?

What is CPS doing as a backup plan for the affected students and their parents who have already been accepted to the school during a June lottery?

CPS spokesperson Joel Hood responded via email stating, “CPS is monitoring the situation; however, further comment cannot be provided at this time.”

Alderman Roderick Sawyer (6th), whose ward borders the location of Concept site, said he originally supported the school based on Brookins’ recommendation. Sawyer told the 2

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THE CRUSADER OBTAINED photographs of the inside of the building, which is proposed to be the new Concept charter school in Chatham, as of last week. The school was scheduled to open on August 14 however construction at the site has ceased and a person answering the phones for the school said the school may not open now until the first week in September.

Crusader on July 8 he is “deeply con- cultural instruction. Sawyer said he sentation. The WCCA told the Crucerned” about what is taking place. originally met Concept representa- sader last week they felt “duped” by He said, at the time, he thought it tives at a West Chesterfield Commu- Concept.

Jackson Potter of the Chicago would be a great idea to have another nity Association (WCCA) meeting Teachers Union said they are happy school choice for his constituents, and again at his office. the construction has ceased at the whom he believed would benefit “I’d like to reserve my judgment unChatham site, but believes that conbased on its proximity to his ward. til I get a better picture of what is hapstruction should be stopped at anothHe also said that having Rev. Jenkins pening,” said Sawyer of the current er site at 54th and Western as well. as a part of the project gave him some situation. “But, I am concerned, and He said it would be good judgment comfort in believing the curriculum I want to know before I make a rash for CPS officials to follow CTU’s recwould be a Black-centered—similar decision to summarily pull back my ommendation of suspending the to Dixon Elementary, which is also in support for the school,” Sawyer charter license for Concept until the the 6th Ward. added.

FBI investigation is complete.

Potter As reported last week by the CruThe WCCA officially withdrew its sader, Concept’s network curriculum support from Concept last week after added having a financial institution is not Afrocentric, but incorporated a meeting of the WCCA executive pull the plug before CPS officials did into the formal curriculum or offered board. They expressed their concerns should not sit well with the public.

“I think it is a wise decision considin a student club. Students who at- over some of Concept’s labor pracering the questionable judgment of tend Concept schools in other loca- tices, curriculum and veracity of what the charter operator, the FBI investitions receive Turkish language and they were told during Concept’s preBlacks Must control their own coMMunity

gation and other factors. It is in the best interest of the community and the children who would be attending that school to operate under the assumption there is something amiss here,” Potter said. He added that a trend he is seeing across the nation: financial institutions withdrawing support from charter entities.

“As things progress and the financial malfeasance of numerous charter operators across the country come to light, the financers of these entities are getting nervous,” Potter continued.

“You see that with Standard and Poor’s downgrading their rating bonds for charter schools…there are concerns as these entities are exposed for engaging in corruption as it puts their financers at a risk for liability. It also shows the wrong values are determining public policy. It’s pretty backwards in terms of how things are being prioritized and how decisions are made by CPS.” The Crusader also learned this week through a confidential source that if the school cannot be opened at the current site, Jenkins has begun inquiring about possibly moving the school to Fellowship’s current location at 45th and Princeton.

Fellowship’s new church home will be at the Lafayette site along with retail stores, according to Brookins. If the school does not open this year as planned, Fellowship would lose more than a half a million dollars in leasing fees from Concept. Sources tell the Crusader Fellowship has already invested $2 million into the project.

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NEWS

Groundbreaking ceremony set for community center

By Wendell Hutson A groundbreaking ceremony is planned for a second major community center on the city’s Far South Side.

Ninth Ward Alderman Anthony Beale said a 10 a.m. July 26 groundbreaking is set for the $15 million, 138,000-square-foot Pullman Center at 104th Street and Woodlawn Avenue. The center is expected to open in September 2015.

“This is a game-changer all-day long because of what it will do for the development of kids in the area,” said Beale. “It’s going to be a place that cultivates smarter and professional caliber athletes who may not have access to sports training for outdoors sports for five or six months a year.”

In 2012, the Salvation Army opened the Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center at 1250 W. 119th St. The 167,000 square-foot center boasts a water park, basketball courts, game room and a 600-seat auditorium.

According to Beale, the Pullman Center would provide a climate controlled sports and entertain-

ment facility based on a family atmosphere for “fun, recreation, exercise and athletic advancement.”

He added that the project is something long overdue for the South Side and hopes to have it up and running in the next four years.

On a 12-acre parcel of land donated to Chicago Neighborhood Initiative (CNI) organization by U.S. Bank, the center will be located in Pullman Park development, south of Olive-Harvey College, 10001 S. Woodlawn Ave., and would serve as a complement to the continuing revitalization of the Pullman neighborhood, explained David Doig, president of CNI. The Pullman neighborhood on the city’s Far South Side is a location occupied by many new manufacturing companies that provide services to rehabbed homes.

“The Pullman Park development has already brought Walmart, Planet Fitness, Ross Dress for Less, and ecofriendly soap maker, Method, to the former Ryerson Steel property,” said Doig. “The center is addressing a community need for indoor recreational space.

A place to practice sports, have a family birthday party or run a soc-

Public is invited to name new MWRD boats The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) has added two boats to its fleet in honor of the district’s 125th anniversary. District officials, according to Commissioner Debra Shore are asking the public to name the two boats. The person whose name is selected gets to christen the boats during a fall ceremony. Entries should be sent to public.affairs@mwrd.org.

The boats, both dedicated to trash collection, will join two other 28foot pontoons that are collecting floatable items along the Chicago Area Waterways (CAW). Workers removed debris along the South Branch to the North Branch on the Chicago River.

The new skimmers will operate from mid-April to mid-October.

Shore said, “The Chicago Area Waterways are a vital amenity for peo-

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GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONIES FOR an expansive community center in Pullman are set for this month, and the center is expected to open in September 2015. Some are involved because it can be a catalyst to showcase Chicago baseball talent. cer league in the winter. It will be a funding for the development have ing. For instance, you only have great and highly utilized commu- been secured with investments by approximately 67 African-Amerinity asset.” The Pullman area has Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives can players in the major leagues been recommended for inclusion and grants from the state of Illi- and scouts usually don’t look to on the National Register of His- nois, U.S. Bank and the Major this region for ballplayers,” said toric Places by both Illinois U.S. League Baseball, according to Beale. “Now, we’ll have a place to Senators, Dick Durbin and Mark Beale. bring colleges and major league Kirk.

“The center is helping an under- teams in to showcase our talented To date, approximately $9 mil- served community that doesn’t kids in any weather.” lion of the $15 million dollars in have a lot of access to sports train-

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Deborah Shore ple in Cook County. These new debris collection boats will improve water quality and recreational experience for thousands of people canoeing, kayaking, boating and enjoying the waterways.” Shore is chairman of the district’s public information and education Committee.

In other district news, Commissioner Patrick Thompson made a presentation at the Fourth District Chicago Police Department station at 2525 E. 103rd St. recently. The commissioner spoke about the proper disposal of prescription medicines.

Thompson, a graduate of the John Marshall Law School, has been a commissioner since November 2012. He chairs the district’s industrial waste and water pollution, and the monitoring and research committees. He also is vice chair of the district’s information technology and judiciary committees.

MSTA, which they say is a sovereign group not governed by U.S. foreclosure laws, Mirkovic noted.

The con artists then convince the individual to do a quit-claim deed and transfer the property to the group. A quit-claim deed is a legal instrument by which the owner of a piece of real estate property transfers any interest to a recipient.

Mirkovic told the Crusader that many of these con artists use this scam as one of a number of scams and are likely to move on to another part of the country using cons which have nothing to do with the Moorish Science Temple.

In June, Chicago Sun-Times columnist, Mark Brown identified one victim: “One fellow told me about his elderly father, who was convinced that if he turned over his home to the group, it would allow him to stop the bank from foreclosing. Now, the 74year-old is facing eviction.”

According to publicly available information from the Cook County Recorder of Deeds, the MSTA is involved in more than 200 real estate transactions, but Mirkovic noted that the group

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files all sorts of things and these scams are just one small part of their legal filings.

Karen Yarbrough, according to Brown’s column, was the target of a different scam in which another individual claiming to be a member of the MSTA was living in a property she owned and filed paperwork with the Cook County Recorder of Deeds for a number of adjacent properties as well.

That particular scam mirrors others brought by people also claiming to be part of the group in other parts of the country. In 2011, an article in the Mecklenburg Times in North Carolina identified a nationwide epidemic.

“In San Bernardino County, CA, police arrested a man and woman in February for moving into a home they claimed ownership of through an illegitimate deed. Police said the couple attempted to cloud up the deed’s title history by claiming to have given the home to the MSTA, which in turn gave the property back to the couple, according to news reports.

“Similar incidents have been reported in Hampton, VA. A June 18, 2010, posting on williamsburgsrealestate.com warns of ‘a re-

cent incident where an organization using the name the MSTA has illegally entered a home listed for sale, changed the locks and taken over the premises,’” according to The Times.

The Moorish Science Temple of America is a religion founded in the early part of the 20th century

by Timothy Drew, who changed his name to the Prophet Drew Ali. The religion was founded as an offshoot to Islam.

The MSTA name has been used by individuals of the so-called sovereign citizens’ movement in a number of legal filings. The sovereign citizens’ movement claims that certain citizens of the USA have sovereignty over federal law and are only governed by common law.

Wesley Snipes attempted to use this argument to avoid paying millions in back income taxes. He was sentenced to three years in jail and was released in April 2013.

The MSTA officials have repeatedly disavowed when individuals claim to use their name for this argument. The MSTA, is referred to “as a radical and subversive fringe groups” in an Associated Press article in 2011 on the trend.

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EDITORIAL

EDITORIAL ARE BLACKS RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR OWN CONDITION? Recently, The Pew Research Center released a report revealing that a wide majority of Americans believe that “Blacks who can’t get ahead are responsible for their own condition,” and that there is a popular perception among Americans that the consequences of discrimination ended with Jim Crow. This is a majority view of some types of liberals, according to an online Vox article offered by Max Fisher. And over 80% of conservatives say that they agree that “Blacks who can’t get ahead are mostly responsible for their own condition,” while just seven percent say that, “Racial discrimination is the main reason why many Black people can’t get ahead these days.”

Interestingly, as this study comes to light, an op-ed item appeared in The West View News, a monthly paper in New York’s West Village with a circulation of around 20,000, from author James Lincoln Collier titled “N----r in the White House.” This is actually a pro-Obama piece in which Collier argues that, “far right voters hate Obama because he is black.” The title of the op-ed piece was of questionable taste and, of course, has received some backlash, but it proves the point that there has been a blatant disrespect of Barack Obama, the first African American president of the United States.

Because of Obama’s election to the presidency, and because many Blacks no longer are living under overt Jim Crow conditions, it is easy for people, especially those who want to believe that there is a level playing field in America, that the lack of progress demonstrated by a large number of Blacks is due to their own fault. The truth of the matter is that Jim Crow didn’t cease to exist; he just changed form and became invisible. He is cloaked in the PTSD (Post-Traumatic Slavery Disorder) experienced by a large number of Black people. He is seen in depressed neighborhoods where unemployment is high and where young, disenfranchised Blacks are killing each other; he is seen in studies that hint at a lack of self-esteem among many Blacks; and he is seen in the hopelessness evidenced by those who have given up and have stopped trying to better their situations, often resorting to illicit “pharmaceuticals” for self-treatment.

Some scientists have come to the conclusion that the experiences that a human being has can be transferred to their progeny through their DNA. Since it is true that every person carries within them the DNA of all of their ancestors, it might be feasible to conclude that the actual experience of slavery and post-slavery traumas are genetically encoded in the DNA of many Black people, and that it impacts their behavior today. This is a controversial opinion, but the lack of acceptance of this view by some conservatives just might be the result of biases transferred genetically by their white supremacist ancestors.

The argument that Blacks are responsible for their own failure is being highlighted during a time where a discussion of reparations is on the ascendancy. Is this just a coincidence? Whether it is or isn’t, it serves to bolster the argument against reparations among those who are predisposed to oppose them. Be this as it may, white supremacy is definitely alive and well and has had an adverse impact on Black Americans and on people of color all across the globe. To deny this is to be disingenuous.

Now, though it is true that there are great obstacles against Black progress, it is also true that many Blacks have found a way to succeed. What this means is that there is a way out, but it would have to occur with the cooperation of the entire Black community in order to help those who are traumatized and therefore, ineffective rise to greater heights. This should definitely be one of our goals, but it does not let America off the hook for the maltreatment of an entire group of people who are being blamed by a majority of conservative respondents of the Pew Research study for their own maltreatment by America! A luta continua.

What is going on with Rev. Charles Jenkins personally and professionally puts me in the mind of a saying my grandmother used to use when I was a child.

More than once in my young mind I thought I had accomplished something great or that no other kid had done. I would boast about it to my grandmother and she would say, “don’t fly too high little bird you got to come down to eat.” It took me several decades to understand what she meant.

We witnessed Rev. Jenkins deliver some mighty words when Mayor Emanuel had his inauguration.

Then I wondered if the preacher realized that the mayor needed him (or any other up-and-coming Black face) more than he needed the mayor. But Jenkins seemed to enjoy the rarified air. Then came the rich Republicans giving him that huge factory by the Dan Ryan. To me he seemed to be too old not to recognize nobody, especially someone who doesn’t know you just gives you anything. The building put him in partnership with a charter school operation that we are finding out now isn’t all on the up and up. Let’s not even go into detail about his naked picture going viral.

Seems like the preacher has simply strayed away from his roots.

Looks like he did fly too high, and

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Don’t fly too high little bird Dear Editor:

now he has to come down to eat.

He has to do that with us every day folks. His Grammy awards, expensive suits and rich folk connections aren’t going to restore the faith so many have lost in him. It sure looks like being a preacher was more about helping himself than his “flock.”

Abner Williams

We have plenty of time Dear Editor: With all the talk and posturing going on right now you would think that the elections for mayor and aldermen were right around the corner. The news media is trying to get the high profile people like Toni Preckwinkle and Karen Lewis to commit to running against Rahm. They both understand the timing is right now. The same is true with Alderman Bob Fioretti. The people who announced they will run against Rahm don’t seem to have a clue except the young West Side woman named Amara Enyia. She is not terribly politically savvy but from the government side of things she seems to know.

I don’t know what Howard Brookins did or didn’t do but he sure has a lot of people early on lining up to run against him. No fewer than five folks have strongly hinted or said outright they will be a challenger for the 21st Ward seat. Doesn’t look like in any other part of the city so many people are so ticked off at their alderman

that they are lined up to run against him or her. But then again Will Burns did have folk camping outside of his office because he wasn’t saying the right thing about the Dyett School closing in the Fourth Ward. They were ticked, but nobody was saying they are taking out nominating petitions.

Come on folks we have all of the summer and fall to enjoy and do we really need people bothering us with fundraisers, asking us to sign petitions, or listening to the spiel. I don’t think so. The fall is (Continued on page 17)

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COMMENTARY

President Obama’s 54 Problems Beyond the Rhetoric

By Harry C. Alford In 2008, the whole world applauded the United States for electing its first African American president. No part of the world was happier than the continent of Africa with its 54 nations. After all, this president was half Caucasian and half Kenyan. He was a direct child of Africa not just a descendent. But to everyone’s surprise and disappointment, President Obama during his first four years showed very little love for his father’s homeland. In fact, when African heads of state (President/Prime Minister) would request a meeting with this new president they were denied. Even the First Lady of Kenya requested a short meeting with our First Lady and she was told in so many words, that will never happen.

As we would visit various nations in Africa we noticed that the disappointment started morphing into anger. We all thought that relations between Africa and our business entities would improve based on who was elected to lead the largest economy on earth. No, it didn’t happen. China, India, Pakistan, Turkey, etc. saw their relationships

Harry C. Alford with African nations improving. It is only natural that you love the one who loves you back. So, the billions of annual dollars that Africa trades with started to go at an increasing rate to nations other than America.

What really woke us up is when our Millennium Challenge Account awarded $800 million to Ghana to build a national highway.

They named the highway the George W. Bush Highway in hon-

or of the president who gave them the funding. However, when it came to selecting a construction company for this project they chose a Chinese firm at the request of the President of China. This denotes the anger in the leaders of Africa.

With the United States having an African American president, our business competitors picked up their game. China kicked it off with an “African Summit.” Their president invited every African president to come to its capital Beijing and receive heavy love. They entertained them lavishly. Even gave one big State Dinner in the historical Great Hall. They gave them $20 billion in financial aid with a promise of another $10 billion. The president of China promised to provide financial loans for every major project they plan as long as a Chinese firm was performing the contract.

Next came Japan who hosted its African Summit in Tokyo. The Japanese president gave fifteen minutes of personal time with each of the 46 participating heads of state. The nation chipped in $30 billion in financial aid plus the funding of 10,000 internships for young African entrepreneurs and students.

India and the European Union had their African Summits also.

Even Russia is now getting into the “Love Africa Movement.” They are providing financial aid and lending power to the continent. They are leveraging this positive relationship to gain needed votes at the UN as they start attacking their neighboring nations.

Yes, everyone jumped into the game ahead of us. We cannot get mad any time we hear of China, India or whoever else doing gigantic business with the richest continent (natural resources) on earth.

They worked it and deserve it at this point. We have been so stupid.

It is a major embarrassment and it is hurting our international trade.

Evidently, as President Obama reflects on his legacy he has decided to do something – even if it is token. If he needs to make up for lost opportunities, he had better do something fabulous. However, that doesn’t seem to be the case. Finally, he has called for an African Summit – August 4 - 6. All of us leaped in joy but as the itinerary is being formed there seems to be a lot missing.

As opposed to the summits of our competitors, no African head of state will receive a one on one with

our president. They will be herded into a room for some “interactive dialogue.” What? They are supposed to come all the way over here for a lecture? The Senate will hold some meetings with them. Cabinet secretaries have been instructed to have some meetings with the contingent. This is insulting. A president is supposed to meet with the other presidents. A cabinet secretary is a subordinate to a president.

The next event has me scratching my head. They are going to, at last, have a state dinner. But it won’t be in the formal White House. No, these African presidents will be escorted to the lawn of the White House. Where’s the love? They can’t even sit on the White House furniture and eat with exquisite china and such. No, it’s the lawn for these Black politicians.

Finally, I see no item in the itinerary that will afford them a meeting with our Congressional Black Caucus. That seems eerie. Our competitors must be laughing. African presidents are not laughing.

Mr. Alford is the co-founder, President/CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce®.

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Democrats ‘Ain’t Loyal’

By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Rev. Jamal Bryant of Baltimore was widely criticized recently for quoting a line from a popular Chris Brown’s song: “Hoes Ain’t Loyal.” Bryant could have avoided controversy – and been on point – if he had instead said, “Democrats ain’t loyal.”

They ain’t, to borrow the vernacular.

Although people of color comprised 45 percent of Democratic voters in 2012, less than 2 percent of the $1.1 billion collected over a 4-year period by the three primary Democratic fundraising committees went to people of color – defined as U.S. residents who are African American, Latino, Asian American or Pacific Islander, or Native American – according to the “2014 Fannie Lou Hamer Report” by PowerPAC+, a national advocacy organization that helps elect progressives to office by building on the political power of the multiracial majority in America.

Actually, the Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) figures are even smaller than reported because the study counted any firm that had a person of color as a principal owner, not the more commonly accepted definition requiring that they be the majority owner.

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Federal Election Commission reports filed by the three largest Democratic fundraising committees: the National Democratic Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

“Even amidst the massive infusion of ‘outside’ money, the Democratic Party remains the largest source of funds for Democrats seeking office (other than the Presidency ). Each cycle, the Party takes in hundreds of millions of dollars and uses these funds to provide the national electoral infrastructure and support those of the states,” the report stated.

It explained, “While most of the media attention falls on the megadonors who make significant financial contributions to the Democratic Party, in the aggregate, small donors actually contribute more to the Party’s finances than do the megadonors. Indeed, donors who made contributions of less than $200 provided a full third of the Party’s financial resources over the past two cycles, having donated over $371,345,529.”

According to the report, “Well over half a billion dollars was spent on these consultants over the past two election cycles, an amount that represents approximately half of the funds raised and disbursed by the Party.”

But few of those dollars found their way to people of color.

Overall, of 285 firms receiving disbursements from the Democratic Par-

George E. Curry ty in the 2010 and 2012 election cycles, only 14 – or 4.9 percent – were MBE firms. Five of the MBEs were polling firms, three provided communications services and six provided political strategy services or IT. Among the 14 firms, four of them received 87 percent of all dollars disbursed to MBEs. They were, in order, Peter D. Hart Research Associates, Inc., $2,206,772.50 (25 percent of all MBE Research, dollars); SKD Knickerbocker, $2,138,671 (24 percent); Brilliant Corners Research, Inc., $1,908,369.26 (22 percent) and Thoughtworks ($1,328,464.92).

Peter D. Hart, whose firm received the most MBE dollars, is a white male. Yet, highly-respected Black pollster Ronald L. Lester received only $45,670.00 from the Democratic Party, according to the report.

Brilliant Corners, headed by Cornel Belcher, an African American, was

third among MBEs with $1.9 million. Dewey Square Group, with Minyon Moore, African American, and Maria Cardona, a Latina, on its team received only $81,054.73, or 0.9 percent of MBE dollars.

Among the study’s recommendations: Conduct a disparity study to diagnose the problem; Set goals for diversifying contract awards; Make a plan to increase access and capacity and Measure progress and hold decision-makers accountable.

In 2014, the Democratic Party has no credible excuse for such poor performance. Even with an exaggerated definition of what constitutes a Minority Business Enterprise, Democrats fall short. “… Today’s voter looks quite different from the model voter of even 50 years ago who was much more likely to be male, have a job with a union that afforded him time off to vote during the work day, and have access to an array of news sources that offered some semblance of balanced reporting on the candidates and their positions, among other things,” the report stated. “Today, women, especially those not married, form a core part of the Democratic Party’s base, as do Voters of Color. To put it bluntly, these voters are already the largest constituencies within our Party, and their influence

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will only increase over the coming decades.”

Diversifying spending with Black vendors, Black media and African Americans who offer professional services does not detract from the Party’s overall goal. “…The ultimate goal of these efforts is to win,” the report observed. “And winning among today’s multiracial and ever evolving electorate requires cultural competence at its finest.”

This report should be followed up with others, including an examination of spending by Republicans.

As the report noted, “It is deeply disappointing that we are even having this conversation in 2014… If People of Color are smart and talented enough that one of them can serve as leader of the free world, then they are certainly smart and talented enough to run political campaigns for Congress, Senate, and the White House.”

George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine, is editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service (NNPA.) He is a keynote speaker, moderator, and media coach. Curry can be reached through his website, www.georgecurry.com. You can also follow him at www.twitter.com/currygeorge and George E. Curry Fan Page on Facebook.

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35th ANNUAL NATIONAL NBUF CONVENTION Dr. Conrad Worrill, Director/Professor, Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies (CCICS) located at 700 East Oakwood Blvd, Chicago, Illinois, 60653, 773-268-7500, Fax: 773-268-3835 E-mail: c-worrill@neiu.edu, Website: www.ccicschicago.org, Twitter: @CCICS_ Chicago.

Dr. Conrad Worrill The National Black United Front (NBUF) will hold its Thirty-fifth Annual National Convention from July 10-13, 2014 at Howard University in Washington, D.C. The theme of this year’s convention is “35 years of Black Empowerment and Self-Determination.”

This year’s convention will feature Omowale Clay of the December 12th Movement, Dr. Raymond Winbush of Morgan State University, Dr. Leonard Jeffries, Baba James Small, Dr. Marimba Ani and a host of other activists and scholars from around the country who will address the convention theme.

Under the leadership of NBUF Chairperson, Brother Kofi Taharka of Houston, Texas, the new Vice Chairperson of Organizing and Training, Brother Salim Adofo, with the assistance of NBUF National Secretary, Toriono Granger and National Treasurer, Sandra Dean, NBUF continues to be a major participant in the Black Liberation Movement.

The National Black United Front, over a thirty-one year period, has related to, and organized around, numerous issues that have impacted on the African World Community.

Whether it was combating the numerous cases of police brutality in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and other urban centers, NBUF was there. Whether it was fighting to save people from the death penalty in Texas and Chicago, NBUF was there.

NBUF has constantly challenged the racist and white supremacists public policy positions of the Crimi-

nal Justice System and to that end our Prison Correspondence Program keeps us in contact with our sisters and brothers behind the walls throughout America.

NBUF was at the forefront of the Free South Africa Movement and played a leading role in forcing economic sanctions against South Africa’s Apartheid regime. Our picketing of entertainers who were on the South African Entertainers Hit List for performing in South Africa, against the will of the movement in South Africa, brought great public attention to the plight of our brothers and sisters in that region of the world.

Our work with the New Jewel Movement in Grenada was significant. Whether it was the Summer Work Study Project, working on the runway at the airport or volunteering in the schools, NBUF was there.

In our international work, the Commission on Women’s Issues of NBUF organized a delegation of NBUF sisters who attended the United Nations World Conference on Women, held in Nairobi, Kenya in July 10-19, 1985. The NBUF sisters made a significant contribution at this conference by networking with African women from all over the world and presenting a pa-

per on “The Presence of African Women in America.”

NBUF was there for Jesse Jackson’s presidential runs in 1984 and 1988, and the successful mayoral bids of African in America in Chicago, New York, St, Louis, Kansas City, and Houston in the 1980s.

NBUF participated in other electoral campaigns for seats in Congress and state offices in several districts around the country. In fact, one of our own, Rev. Jew Don Boney won a council seat in Houston, Texas. NBUF member, Lee Barnes successfully won a school board seat on the same board in Kansas City, Missouri.

NBUF played a key role in the efforts to organize the African American Leadership Summit in 1994.

NBUF members were key organizers in the historic Million Man March in October of 1995.

On the education front, over the past twenty years, NBUF has been, and continues to be, the key grassroots organizers in the African Centered Education Movement. Our World African Centered Education Plan is a model for addressing the various areas of education.

As a response to revelations that the CIA was involved in the explosion of crack/cocaine in the African

Communities in America in the summer of 1996, NBUF launched a historic Genocide Petition Campaign Against the United States Government. This Genocide Petition Campaign produced over 200,000 signatures and in May 1997, the NBUF led delegation traveled to the United Nations Human Rights Center in Geneva, Switzerland and presented these petitions and other evidence on behalf of African people in America.

Out of our successful Genocide Campaign, NBUF collaborated with the December 12th Movement that organized the Durban 400 to participate and helped successfully lobby the United Nations World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) to declare that the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery were Crimes Against Humanity in the summer of 2001.

As a follow-up to our successful participation in this conference, NBUF continued to collaborate with the December 12th Movement in organizing the Millions For Reparations Rally that was held August 17, 2002 in Washington, D.C., where over 50,000 African people attended from 38 states, 67 cities, and viewed by millions on (Continued on page 17)

INDEPENDENCE? ADVERTISING SUPPORT, AND AFRICAN AMERICAN ORGANIZATIONS In the “afterglow” of the Fourth of You Lie, I am flipping through an African American magazine, enjoying the content, but looking for the “bite.” For how can you not bite when you look at the space in which African American people occupy?

Our middle class is growing, but fragile. The level of poverty among African Americans has hardly changed in the past decade. Unemployment rates for African Americans remain high, despite talk of economic “recovery.” But too many of our organizations have little bark, and even less bite.

Have we been co-opted by the organizations that support us, the advertisers that fund our organizations, efforts, and magazines? To some extent, advertisers and others are working in their own best interest, targeting people who will purchase their products. From hair products to banks, it makes sense for organizations to reach out to the African American community. At the same time, is there a price we pay for patronage?

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efforts to engage in financial and economic literacy. Banks will be among my likely supporters. Will that muzzle me?

Can you accept money from banking institutions while criticizing redlining and the financial abuse of African Americans? Will organizations shy away from you when you simply tell the truth? Will support be withdrawn, either openly or subtly?

Is there a space where African American leaders can speak without restraint?

I remember, years ago, speaking at a technology organization’s conference and earning a collective gasp of horror when I spoke about the absence of African Americans in senior positions. After the speech and reception, the sister who had organized the event asked to speak with me privately. “Everything you said was correct, “she said. “But this was not the place to say it.” She went on to share that she had suggested that I do a series of talks for the organization, and that while she could not rescind her own proposal, she would be tepid.

That’s just my experience, but I wonder how many others have cut and pasted their views to seek corporate support? The Los Angeles chap-

Dr. Julianne Malveaux ter of the NAACP, for example, was all set to give Donald Sterling a second lifetime achievement award because he’d donated a few dollars (reports range from $45,000 to $100,000) to the organization. After Sterling’s racist comments were blasted, the offer of the achievement award was rescinded. The controversy surrounding the potential award caused the Los Angeles leader of the NAACP, Leon Jenkins, to resign.

There was no outcry when Sterling

got the first award, although he was a well-known racist slumlord.

Is a slumlord’s support worth an NAACP Lifetime Achievement Award? Are some of our organizations trading cash for honors and publicity? Or are we getting our earned sponsorships in exchange for our patronage? It is something to think about especially in light of the Koch Foundation’s recent support of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF). While many in the HBCU universe are grateful for the contribution, others are repelled by it, to the point of declining the direct contribution to their schools.

When I was President of the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Clubs (NANBPW), I was introduced to a corporate sponsor by one of my board members. Beforehand, I was asked to “tone it down” for fear that my abrasive style might turn the sponsor off. I sat for tea and bit my tongue so many times that I thought I’d find its tip floating in my tea. The result? A generous sponsorship and a hot, cleansing shower for me.

I am raising this question chafing at the paucity of independent and critical Black voices, understanding that

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too many are muted by the corporate support they receive. If voices are not muted, then the concern about support and challenging positions are certainly discussed behind closed doors. And the result? “We have to look into this matter.” “We need to study this a bit more.” In other words, we need to check with the folks who support us to make sure this is okay.

Without disparaging those organizations or individuals that depend on corporate support, I wonder if there is a way for progressive African Americans to support our own organization, free and unfettered, with no fear of implicit or explicit censorship. Dr. Ron Daniels and the Institute for the Black World does some of this work, but they struggle for lack of financial support, relying on a few volunteers and underpaid friends who maintain the organization.

It is often said that we buy what we want and beg for what we need. We need independent Black voices. We need them, but will we pay for them?

Julianne Malveaux is an economist and author based in Washington, DC www.chicagocrusader.com

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SORRY ‘BOUT THAT My boss at the newspaper is hotter than a wet hen that I missd the deadline last week, but chile me and Killer hung one on. Yu see he won $25 on a scratch off and we were celebrating the 4th early.

That White Lightnin don’t wear off quick and dem hog mauls don’t digest sometimes so there went the deadline. De boss said I had to poligize to all the readers that wait for this column each week. One man said that he took his newspaper to his family reunion down in the “Sippi and got all comfortable to read Ima uninterrupted and there was no Ima. I’ll try to make it up to you.

Holder, bullets are flying left and right, killing some people and maiming others. His police chief, fresh out the County Hospital, seems a little lost too, since all he seems to know how to do is hold a press conference just like his boss.

But at least the chief of cops has cool lookin’ guns at his.

With all of dis violence going down, people are saying either they gone change zip codes or dey gone change mayors. Which one be easier?

with a new scheme to make money and pay his taxes and leave the people from the Middle East on the West Side where few folk are concerned that teachers who don’t be speakee de English are trying to teach Keshawn and ‘em how to read. In de meantime, we hear the Rev. Clay Evans Charter School may not open in time for the school year since all construction has stopped on the monstrosity on 87th Street.

out with a bad contract that jammed the lowest paid people in the union—-and they are all Black. She ain’t nothing. Don’t trust it.” We don’t know what’s what on dis, but we do know that until she loses another 150 pounds she can’t be thinking about running for mayor—-right now she has to be dreaming about a brisk walk or at best a quick little jog. Ut oh.

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SPEAKING OF JOGGING FOR MAYOR

One fellow in the back of the Pace Bus was saying he ain’t think President Obammy (who is aging very well despite all dat stress) ain’t gone let Chicago get no Obama Library because the commander-in-chief ain’t hardly trying to come back to these bullet-flying streets, plus he don’t want no (sword) when the North Side is the site of the flashy place, courtesy of the white power structure who thank they in control of anything that’s of any good. That man with

Now dat the big lady from the teachers’ union is finally talkin’ bout she may run for the fifth floor of City Hall, a lot of mouths is running here and there about the possibility. While many folk seem to think even Doc Walls could beat Rahm Emanuel at this point, a few others still ain’t convinced that this move makes any sense—like a few angry Black female teachers who like to hang out in the Operation PUSH lobby. Seems lak dey thinkin’ that if Karen Lewis is talkin’ bout makin’ a run for it , then “its because the

Valerie Jarrett We hear the lady is using a Cricket phone to try to get through.

MORE JENKINS JINXIN One former Fellowship Baptist Church member is going around tellin’ people that his former pastor Rev. Charles Jenkins must got one of them ‘generational curses’ or something on him cause everything he get involved in “be fallin’ apart.” The former member who ran up in Greater Harvest six

Rickey Hendon

LOSIN’ CONTROL

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Folks are asking other folk if its true that former State Senator Rickey Hendon is about to make

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Folks rollin’ round the Great Bye-and-Goodbye Convalescent Home is wondering just who is in charge of dis here town? Looks like the Tiny Emperor has lost control. Nearly 100 folks got lit up over the Independence Day weekend—which was more people shot than during the original Independence weekend in 1776.

While he’s running around grinning with that good-lookin’ Eric

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President Obama

Karen Lewis white and Jewish” people who “control her” told her to do so. One mean former teacher, who we heard got booted for calling Border Patrol on a Mexican student’s mama, is very loud and out front on how much she hates the teachers union president— even though that big lady in red be de only one dat don’t seem afraid of de mayor. Folks out de know is spreading this on de street: “More Black teachers got fired under Lewis than any other union president. She is in cahoots with Rahm. We saw her laughing with Daley one time. She went down there and signed off on that SB7 but the teachers are the ones who shot it down. Then she took everybody out on strike and came

a stump on his left leg and a patch on his right eye say people might be surprised if they put that multimillion dollar tourist attraction in the president’s birthplace—and that would be somewhere in Hawaii and not Kenya.

Charles Jenkins months ago, said he had no proof that Jenkins was under a curse, but he said the Grammy Award winning singer should come up

some sort of comeback. No one at Wallace’s Catfish Corner seemed to know the answer and from what most folk can tell, Hendon is still hiding in that apartment deep on the West Side. Unfortunately, because he was all up in the MCC, he’s lost a lot of friends who are paranoid and thinking he’s on a “special mission” courtesy of the Alphabet Boys. Still, many of his fans who used to love his Amos n Andy type antics, are praying he emerges soon, and gets in the mayor’s fight—if for nothin’ else as so they can have a really good laugh.

-ImaDOUBLE TAKE We heard the people callin’ de White House trying to connect with super advisor Valerie Jarrett ain’t getting through. These people got the bright idea that this woman ought to tell Obama see ya later alligator and come home and run for mayor. “Since Toni Preckwinkle playin’ games, who else we got,” asked one lady in Lawndale. “She’s smart. She got money. She’s Black. She can beat Rahm Emanuel. It’s worth a try.”

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR

DUSABLE MUSEUM’S ARTS AND CRAFTS FESTIVAL: On Saturday, July 12 and Sunday, July 13, the DuSable Museum will host its annual Arts and Crafts Festival. This year’s festival is a milestone as they celebrate 40 years. The Festival is a showcase for local artists, an exhibition of fine art and unique and hand-crafted work which features artists working in traditional, ethnic and experimental fine arts and crafts that relate to African-American themes, identity, history and culture, and underscores the Museum’s mission of preserving the history and culture of the AfricanAmerican experience. It will also celebrate Dr. Margaret Burroughs (19152010), Founder of the DuSable Museum of African American History. The DuSable Museum of African American History is located at 740 E. 56th Place in Chicago. For more information, call 773-947-0600.

97NINE AND YOUR VILLAIN MY HERO AT BROOKFIELD ZOO’S SUMMER NIGHTS: On Saturday, July 12, 97Nine will be featured at Brookfield Zoo’s Summer Nights. This super group features guitarist Dave Uhrich and performs fistpumping classic rock hits from the 80s, 90s, and today. On Friday, July 18, Your Villain My Herowill be onstage. Lead vocalists Jennifer and Zigg get the crowd going with top 40 pop, club and dance music, and party favorites. Brookfield Zoo’s Summer Nights allows guests to enjoy the cooler evening weather while chilling out Friday and Saturday nights at Brookfield Zoo’s Summer Nights. Enjoy a wide variety of live music and entertainment, and choose from an assortment of food and refreshment options while relaxing and surrounded by the coolest animals and some of the most beautiful landscapes. Summer Nights will also feature kids’ activities and, as the sun sets, the evening will be topped off with a spectacular laser, light, and video show. Summer Nights continues through July 26, Fridays and Saturdays until 9 pm. Admission to Summer Nights is free for zoo members.

For non-members there is special after 4 pm value pricing of $14.95 for adults and $9.95 for children ages 311 and seniors age 65 and over. Children 2 and under are free. The after 4 pm Summer Nights admission includes a choice of one free attraction (The Carousel, Butterflies!, special 6 pm; Dolphins in Action, and Stingray Bay, Hamill Family Play Zoo (closes at 5:30 p.m.) or Motor Safari (closes at 6 p.m.). Parking for members is free at the North Gate or $2. at the South Gate.

Parking for non-members is half-price ($5). For further information about Summer Nights, visit www.CZS.org/Events or call 708-688-8000.

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Library’s Rahm’s Readers 2014 Summer Learning Challenge and in collaboration with Opening Minds USA™, the Library presents Opening Minds to STEM for Little Learners™ at neighborhood branch locations throughout July. Opening Minds to STEM for Little Learners™ is an interactive learning experience designed to prompt children to explore, observe, question, predict as well as demystify common childhood fears. It fosters STEM learning by engaging children in storytime activities, letting them create a one-of-a-kind art project that addresses their fear of the dark, and lets children play with lights and switches to experience bright light, darkness and shadow. The Summer Learning Challenge is based around STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) skills, critical to the success of 21st Century learners. This innovative learning experience created

by Opening Minds USA™, is designed to clarify common childhood fears and help young children grow up emotionally healthy and ready to learn.

All of the Opening Minds to STEM for Little Learners™ programs take place at 10:30 a.m, and the following are upcoming Library dates and locations: Monday, July 14 at Independence Branch, 3548 W. Irving Park Road, 312-744-0900, and Thursday, July 17 at the Rogers Park Branch, 6907 N. Clark Street, 312-744-0156.

MARQUETTE BANK EVENTS: Annual School Supply Drive – Monday, July 14 until Saturday, August 9, Marquette Bank is celebrating the back-to-school season with its annual School Supply Drive. Customers, employees, neighbors and businesses can donate school supplies at ANY OF Marquette Bank’s 22 locations starting Monday, July 14. Call 888-254-9500 for details. AARP Driver Safety Program Course – Wednesday, July 16 and Thursday, July 17 - An AARP Driver Safety Program course will be held at the Marquette Bank located at 5700 W. 159th Street in Oak Forest.

Participants will learn about safe and defensive driving techniques, new traffic laws and may be eligible for a discount on auto insurance after completing the course. The class will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 16 and Thursday, July 17. The cost is $15 for AARP members and $20 for non-members. The event is open to the public and is sponsored by The Marquette Club, a social club for Marquette Bank customers over age 50. For more information, call 708-342-8402. Free Meet and Greet Open House – Thursday, July 17 - Marquette Bank and Marquette Wealth Management will host a free meet and greet your financial experts open house at the Marquette Bank located at 3521 S. Archer Avenue in Chicago from 4:30 p.m. until 6 p.m. Attendees will have a chance to discuss any financial-related topics

THE IIT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, Mies van der Rohe Society, Boeing Scholars Academy (Office of Student Access, Succcess and Diversty Initiatives) will host “Help Build A LEGO City” Saturday, July 12 at 9 a.m. - 3:30 p.m on the Illinois Institute of Technology campus in the S. R. Crown Hall at 3360 S. State Street, Chicago for families who registered in advance. with Martin Chavez, Senior Financial Advisor for Marquette Wealth Management; John Power, Vice President of Trust and Investment Management; and Bill Paplauskas, Mortgage Originator – Retail Lending. The event is open to the public. To register, call 773-476-5100 ext. 1001.

SLEEP UNDER THE SKYSCRAPERS: OUTDOOR CAMPOUT AT LINCOLN PARK

ZOO: On Friday, July 18, grab your nighttime gear and get ready for an overnight adventure at Lincoln Park Zoo. The wild night includes a hike around Nature Boardwalk, a cozy campfire complete with s’mores, true tales from zoo experts, and exclusive after-hours animal viewing. S’mores, snacks, and continental breakfast provided. Tents are provided for a $10 rental fee or families can choose to bring their own tent with no charge.

Families not interested in having the overnight encounter can still enjoy a hike around Nature Boardwalk, eating s’mores, and after-hours animal viewing. Evening encounter - 7 p.m. 10:30 p.m.; full overnight encounter 7 p.m. - -8:30 a.m. Cost: Evening $40 ($34 for zoo members); Full overnight $65 ($55 for zoo members).

For more information, visit www.lpzoo.org.

Extended Coverage Are you renting a car? Check that your own auto insurance will cover an accident with another car. (Probably not in another country.) In any case, it may be worthwhile to spring for a waiver and protect your claims record. *** Your homeowner’s insurance generally covers belongings that are stolen or destroyed while you are away, but it may limit your coverage to 10 percent of the limit for personal possessions.

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*** Questions about insurance? We’ve got the answers you need at the Community Insurance Center, Inc., 526 E. 87th Street, your insurance headquarters. We have been serving the community since 1962.

For more information about the services we provide, call (773) 6516200. You can also reach us via email at: sales@communityinsurance.com or visit the website at www.communityins.com.

*** Insurance doesn’t usually cover lost items, but lost luggage is a special case. Both your insurer and your credit card company may protect you. *** Your health insurance will generally provide for emergency care anywhere in the U.S., but most insurance is not valid overseas. A travel insurance policy will provide the coverage you need, especially in case of emergency medical evacuation, which can be costly.

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Debt Settlement: Lots of Risk, No Guarantees

By Charlene Crowell You’ve probably heard the advertisements on urban radio urging consumers with at least $10,000 in debt to call a number right away for a financial rescue. Promising to end debt troubles by getting creditors to somehow accept less money than what is owed can sound really appealing. In reality however, consumers mired in debt may often find debt settlement programs to be costly, misleading, and far less helpful than the radio ad promises.

In the newest chapter in the research series titled The State of Lending, the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) finds that debt settlement is a risky strategy that can leave consumers more financially vulnerable and still laden with debt years after they enroll in such a program.

Regardless of how well a consumer follows the instructions of his/her debt settlement firm, they may ultimately be unsuccessful because many creditors simply refuse to deal with debt settlement companies.

According to the report, “Debt set-

tlement companies do not tell consumers whether creditors will work with their firms at the time of enrollment. However, even if debt-settlement companies were required to disclose whether a particular creditor routinely works with their firm, this provides no real guarantee. In many cases, the party who owns a debt changes over time, since a debt may be sold successively to multiple parties.”

Available data suggests that at least two-thirds of debts must be settled in order to achieve a net positive outcome from debt settlement. Even more debts must be settled for the consumer to achieve real savings if they end up being liable for taxes on the debt reduction.

In the end, many consumers never realize that kind of experience.

Rather, they end up worse off financially. According to the American Fair Credit Council, an industry trade association, consumers must typically be enrolled in debt settlement for three to four years in order to complete the program. During this time, debt balances grow an average 20 percent while consumers

Charlene Crowell wait for settlements to be reached.

Additionally, their credit scores are negatively affected, financial instability increased, and the likelihood of creditor lawsuits loom near.

According to Leslie Parrish, co-author of the report and deputy research director at CRL, “When a consumer stops making payments on a debt, not only is she/he vulnerable to fees and an increased interest

rate, the reporting of this delinquency to credit bureaus can impact credit scores for years.”

In general, the higher a consumer’s credit score is, the lower the cost of credit they will incur. Conversely, the lower one’s credit score, the higher the cost of credit and interest will be.

Whether applying for a credit card, auto loan or a mortgage, bad credit histories make future credit and borrowing more expensive.

In 2010, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued regulation that barred debt settlement companies from charging fees until they reached settlements with the client’s creditors. While this regulation has stopped some of the most egregious industry practices, CRL’s report finds that significant financial risks remain for debt settlement clients.

Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau shares regulatory oversight of debt settlement with the FTC. Thus far, CFPB has taken multiple enforcement actions against several debt-settlement companies and one payment processor.

CRL also sees a role for states to establish meaningful limits of debt set-

tlement fees. One recommendation is to limit the fees that can be charged and to calculate such fees on the basis of the amount of savings achieved for the consumer. This approach would make whatever savings derived relative to the amount originally owed at the time the consumer enrolled their debt.

State and federal regulators could also require better screening of prospective customers to lower the risk of a bad outcome. Factors such as the amount of debt to be enrolled, creditors and the consumer’s financial circumstances would be taken into account.

Additional recommendations can be found in the report located at: http://rspnsb.li/1x5lPOe. “What’s clear is that more action is necessary to protect consumers,” said Ellen Harnick, co-author of the report and senior policy counsel at CRL. Charlene Crowell is a communications manager with the Center for Responsible Lending. She can be reached at Charlene.crowell@responsiblelending.org.

Orland Park retail employer partners with Moraine Valley to train, hire 50+ A cohort of job-seekers age 50 and over received customer service training at Moraine Valley Community College as part of the AARP Foundation BACK TO WORK 50+ @ Moraine Valley Community College Initiative. David Huesser, general manager of Orland Square Mall and Lake View Plaza, facilitated the training at the Palos Hills campus in April and May. “With the retail sector being one of the largest employers in the southwest suburban region, it was important to partner with someone significant from the industry,” said Lisa Bly, assistant dean of Corporate, Community and Continuing Education at Moraine Valley and project director. “David brought examples of what he requires as an employer and real experiences regarding customer behavior and how it should be handled. He gave the hard core facts about retail and the ability to grow your career from entry level to executive positions.”

The AARP Foundation BACK TO WORK 50+ @ Moraine Valley Community College Initiative, funded by a two-year $165,200

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grant, helps low-income, older adults obtain good jobs in their communities, increase their financial capability and avoid being victims to financial fraud and abuse.

Moraine Valley is one of 15 community colleges selected nationally

by AARP Foundation in collaboration with the American Association of Community Colleges to administer BACK TO WORK 50+ in its communities. The college will connect 50+ job candidates to specific in-demand jobs in home health care, retail and call center industries.

“The program was well detailed, giving the potential employee an opportunity to learn the necessary skills to be successful and advance themselves in retail.” Huesser said. “The open dialog within the class was very valuable to the group, allowing for the sharing of experiences and ideas throughout the learning process. I feel the students left more prepared to move into a retail job, provided the right opportunity becomes available.”

Job candidates aged 50 and older can register at 1-855-850-2525 (select option two) to attend an infor-

mation session at Moraine Valley on Thursday, July 17, from 9 to 11 a.m.

During this session in the Moraine Business and Conference Center (Building M), they will learn how

the BACK TO WORK 50+ @ Moraine Valley Community College Coaching Program can help them update their personal marketing tools and networking strategies, tar-

get their job searches, get job leads, and find resources and training that can help them stay strong while they are looking for their next full-time job.

The CHICAGO REHAB NETWORK (CRN) recently awarded its first-ever CRN Legacy Awards, which recognizes the contributions of individuals who demonstrate exceptional commitment to changing lives and building strong communities. The presenters and three recipients for exemplary housing public service were (left to right) Executive Director of the Housing Authority of Cook County Richard Monocchio, presenter; CRN Board President and Executive Director of Bickerdike Redevelopment Corp. Joy Aruguete, presenter; 7th District Cook County Commissioner Jesús “Chuy” García, Legacy Award recipient; Central Region Managing Director for Supportive Housing Katrina Van Valkenburgh, Legacy Award recipient; Managing Deputy Commissioner/Housing Bureau, City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development Lawrence Grisham, Legacy Award recipient; and CRN Executive Director Kevin Jackson, presenter.

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500 youth get close-up of learning opportunities Hundreds of young people recently got a firsthand look at the summer offerings of the Chicago City of Learning (CCOL) – Chicago’s innovative ‘connected learning’ initiative that is being heralded and copied throughout the nation.

While 20 or so programs were available to the kids who gathered for a mini Maker Party (where they get to do and make things) and rally, throughout the summer CCOL is offering youth more than a thousand different programs sponsored by more than 120 organizations in neighborhoods throughout the city, online and through the city’s libraries and CCOL Youth Hubs. All programs – whether they are in science or math or sports or poetry – have some aspect of STEAM (Science Technology, Engineering, Arts or Math) to them. And all offer digital badges to participants who achieve the various skills embedded in each program.

The programs on display at Ping Tom Park were representative of the 1000s available. Among the most popular at the park were Sweetwater Foundation’s Aquaponics display, which uses the waste produced by fish to feed and grow vegetables and herbs; the TRIO Upward Bound Math and Science at NEIU’s robotics display; and the ever-popular Chicago Architecture Foundation’s

LEGO table, where children’s imagination abound. Kids had a chance to preview Mindful Practice’s hiphop yoga summer program as well as Chicago Park District’s Mobile Neighborhood Soccer League.

Other organizations offering activity stations in the Maker Party were: CrossRealms, Inc.; Global Girls Media; A Gathering of Wombynkind; Chicago History Museum; Redmoon Theater; Inferno Mobile Recording Studio of Chicago Park District; Red Clay Dance; and the City of Chicago – with a communal art project. All organizations at the event offer summer programs through CCOL and many are part of CCOL’s year-round activities.

DePaul Professor Nichole Pinkard, who directs the Chicago City of Learning partnership said, “As exciting as today was, CCOL itself is more exciting. We’ve assembled and worked with more than 120 organizations in virtually every neighborhood to ensure that the programs available this summer to Chicago’s youth are free or affordable, engage them in activities they love, and at the same time reward them for achieving the real world skills embedded in them – whether the activity be poetry or coding, creating videos and rap music or doing sports.”

The rally featured performances

500 YOUTH HAD an opportunity recently to explore hundreds of programs offered through Chicago City of Learning. The educational, recreational programs are provided by dozens of organizations with offices throughout the city.

Chicago and Digital Youth Network by local talent and words of wisdom Taylor Bennett.

Chicago City of Learning (CCOL) at DePaul University and is supportimparted by young Chicago professionals who through connected is a city-wide, year-round program ed by the John D. and Catherine T. learning experiences created path- that sees all of Chicago as a class- MacArthur Foundation. Since its ways to become leaders in their re- room – with endless opportunities first introduction last summer, to learn new skills, discover passions CCOL has not only grown to enspective fields.

Speakers included: Mayor Rahm and build pathways to further edu- compass 120 organizations, but it is Emanuel; Chicago Park District cation and careers. Digital badges also being replicated in cities across CEO Mike Kelly; Argonne Nation- offered through CCOL recognize the nation, including Dallas, Los al Laboratory Nuclear Engineer learning across programs in the ini- Angeles, Pittsburgh and WashingJ’Tia Taylor; Sweetwater Founda- tiative – whether at a park, museum, ton D.C. tion Founder and Executive Direc- library, or online course – giving For more information, visit Chicator Emmanuel Pratt; Google Soft- learners a digital portfolio that comware Engineer Asher Kach; and municates the skills they have devel- goCityofLearning.org, email ccol@musicians Sima Cunningham and oped. CCOL is led by the City of mkcpr.com or call 312-822-0505.

CHICAGO STUDENTS EAGERLY participate in a placemaking exercise as one of the nearly 1,000 programs available throughout the city this summer.

J’TIA TAYLOR, a nuclear engineer at Argonne National Laboratory shares words of encouragement with students in the Summer of Learning and the sponsors of the initiative.

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MAYOR RAHM EMANUEL (left, white shirt) joins students and an instructor as they learn about one of the many skills available through scores of local organizations.

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One-day ‘Blitz Build’ gives children’s facility a facelift A team of more than 150 design and construction professionals and volunteers came together June 25 for a one-day “blitz build” event to transform Metropolitan Family Services’ Learning and Wellness Center that recently opened on Chicago’s South Side. The team rallied to build a colorful play area and renovate the 30-year-old building’s interior.

The effort was organized by AEC Cares, a non-profit corporation supported by Reed Construction Data, with the American Institute of Ar-

Renee Pinczes, Vice President of Finance, Reed Construction Data, and Board President, AEC Cares, stated, “We are honored this year to bring AEC Cares to the Chicago community. Working with Metropolitan and our exceptional group of volunteers, we can create an exciting and fresh environment that encourages young children to learn and excel.”

This is the fourth year AEC Cares members have volunteered their time and skills for a rehab project.

The effort always takes place in the

ONE OF THE YOUNG learners at the Metropolitan Family Services Learning and Wellness Center shares her experiences with one of the AEC Cares volunteers. chitects and Hanley Wood, gener- host city of the AIA National Conous sponsors, donors and volun- vention the day before the convention kicks off. This year, with the teers.

“The City of Chicago is deeply AIA convention in Chicago, Metrocommitted to providing quality ear- politan Family Services is the lucky ly learning to all children,” said recipient of AEC Cares members’ Mayor Rahm Emanuel. “A warm many talents.

“We are grateful to AEC Cares and and welcoming environment is an important part of the equation. I am Reed Construction for offering their grateful to the many corporate and professional expertise to improve the community partners who are com- facilities at our Englewood-area ing together to help beautify one of Learning and Wellness Center,” said our newest early childhood facili- Metropolitan Family Services President and CEO Ric Estrada. “Creatties.”

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YOUNGSTERS UP TO five years old will benefit from the work dozens of volunteers donated to give the Metropolitan Family Services operation a facelift recently. The facility opened in February. ing a bright, welcoming space that Chicago’s Englewood, West Engle- Learning and Wellness Center. “We stimulates children to learn and wood and Back of the Yards com- really appreciate their time.”

The Learning and Wellness Cenfamilies and the community to en- munities access to quality early gage is a valuable service that is very childhood programs plus a range of ter opened in February with a visit from Mayor Rahm Emanuel and much appreciated.” other family services.

Metropolitan’s new Learning and “We are excited about the volun- has the capacity to provide highWellness Center—the first of its teers coming to the Learning and quality early learning and care for up kind in the area—brings together Wellness Center and the work to 158 children, ages birth to 5 years early learning and children’s health they’ll be doing to update the build- old. Families can access a full range and wellness services, along with ing,” said Reginald Frazier, a parent of wrap-around services including family and community programs. with a child who attends the Pre(Continued on page 17) The Center offers residents of K/Early-Learning Program at the

METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES combines early learning, children’s health and wellness services, a first of its kind combination in the city. An AEC Cares volunteer decorates one of the renovated rooms at the 30year-old building.

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ENTERTAINMENT

By Elaine Hegwood Bowen, MSJ

By Raymond Ward HEY, HEY, HEY!: The DuSable Museum of African American History is honored to present a new exhibition, Funky Turns 40: Black Character Revolution, which provides a nostalgic foray into the animated images of the Black characters of popular cartoons of the 1970s.

The exhibition will continue at the Museum until October 19, 2014.

Funky Turns 40 contains sixty pieces of Black animated art from the 1970s and featured in popular shows such as Fat Albert and The Cosby Kids, Schoolhouse Rock, and the Harlem Globetrotters. Co-curated by cartoon aficionados Pamela Thomas and Loreen Williamson, Funky Turns 40 includes a dazzling array of pieces of animated art from the Museum Of UnCut Funk, an online collection developed by Thomas and commemorates the 40th anniversary of popular 1970s Saturday morning cartoons that featured positive Black characters for the first time in television history.

It was during the late 1960s/early 1970s that Saturday morning television cartoons began to feature Black animated characters in a positive and realistic manner. Fueled by the Civil Rights movement and the overwhelming commercial success of Black musicians and athletes

Fat Albert and The Cosby Kids during this time period, television producers began to explore projects with a wide, multicultural appeal.

This new generation of Black characters were stars of their own series with a modern look and with contemporary story lines that delivered culturally relevant messages. Bill Cosby’s Fat Albert and The Cosby Kids paved the way for a host of Black characters and shows featuring music icons, sports heroes, and multicultural casts like The Jackson Five, Josie and The Pussy Cats, The Harlem Globetrotters, and I Am The Greatest (featuring Muhammad Ali). Even franchises like the overtly white Hardy Boys series and Super Friends began to introduce positive Black characters who worked side by side with their white counterparts. For the first time, children saw cartoon characters that looked and talked like real Black people, full of warmth, humor and intelligence.

These shows empowered a generation of children with cartoon role models who promoted family values, education, friendship, civic duty, personal responsibility and sportsmanship in fun, vibrant bursts of animation. The production of these cartoons also employed Black animators, musicians and actors – jobs that had traditionally been filled by non-Blacks who often approximated their understanding of Black culture. It was also during this time that prominent African Americans like Bill Cosby and Berry Gordy led the development of animated television programming featuring Black characters, from concept through to art creation and production.

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Cinema/Chicago and the Chicago International Film Festival celebrate 50 years in October Celebrating 50 years of making Chicago an international destination for acclaimed filmmakers, bold new directors and lovers of cinema, the Chicago International Film Festival returns October 9

and Joe Swanberg, who are but a few of the hundreds of worldrenowned filmmakers recognized early on in their careers by the Festival.

“Since its founding, the singular

dance. Each year we rigorously pursue the best in international cinema as well as the cutting-edge work of new talents in our steadfast commitment to share the most innovative and ambitious

HALLE BERRY RECEIVING the Black Perspectives Award in 2001.

– 23, 2014. The anniversary cele- goal of the Chicago International cinematic art with our audiences.”

One of the Festival’s most nobration will kick off with an Film Festival has been to introOpening Night Gala presentation duce Chicago and the world to table features is the vast diversity of at the Harris Theater (205 E. new filmmakers, new stories and offerings, with numerous competiRandolph St.), followed by a new perspectives,” said Founder tive categories and several high- light Golden Anniversary celebration and Artistic Director Michael programs such as Black Perspectives, at the Chicago Cultural Center. Kutza. “Five decades later, the Cinema of the Americas, ReelAll other Festival screenings will Festival has grown to become a Women, Out-Look, After Dark, and be held at the AMC River East 21 highly respected annual event, the City & State program, showcas(322 E. Illinois St.) Programming showcasing films from more than ing films made in Chicago and and ticket information will be an- 50 countries, with filmmakers throughout Illinois. In 2014, the from around the world in attennounced at a future date.

(Continued on page 13) On November 9, 1965, a 22year-old Michael Kutza launched the Chicago International Film Festival at the Carnegie Theatre on Rush Street. A mere eight films competed in the feature category, but, even in its inaugural year, celebrated figures including King Vidor, Bette Davis and Stanley Kramer attended to support what would become North America’s oldest competitive international film festival. Fifty years later, the Festival has earned an international reputation for discovering groundbreaking directors, including Martin Scorsese, John Carpenter, Wim Wenders, Liv Ullmann, Peter Weir, Mike Leigh, Margarethe von Trotta, and DIRECTOR MELVIN VAN PEEBLES and actor Laurence Chicago’s own William Friedkin Fishburne, recipient of the Black Perspectives Award in 2000.

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‘EDGE OF TOMORROW’ A Review by Bonnie DeShong I can’t wait till the end of this review. Spend the money to see this film in the theater. I am not all that big on 3D films but you really should see “Edge of Tomorrow” in 3D if possible.

This is “Groundhog Day” on steroids and Tom Cruise is the best actor for the role.

Major Bill Cage (Tom Cruise) is better than “Uncle Sam” when it comes to Armed Forces recruitment. He is Mr. PR. After he gives his pitch anyone would follow him into battle. He is strong, good looking, confident and convincing; until he is given orders to lead a team of soldiers into battle against some alien spider life force. We find that Major Cage isn’t all that he seems.

At this point is where we become one with Major Cage as he lives the same day over and over and over again. The good major is now a pri-

TOM CRUISE IN a scene from his latest movie “Edge of Tomorrow” in which he plays a futuristic soldier that must adapt to win a war. he has found a way to include the vate and is being sent to battle with a unit of big bad ass soldiers. She is Rita. audience.

If you are looking for a reason for group of soldiers who have their own fearless. Emily Blunt is perfect for “The Edge of Tomorrow” is a issues but are a good working team. the role of Rita. She plays her strong the attack of the steel spiders, you see. It has everything; great must won’t get one. It doesn’t really matHe is put in battle gear, put in a plane and focused; hard and in control. characters that you really like, huTom Cruise gives us so many lay- ter. Will you get lost in the plot in and taken to war zone. In simple mor, tension, huge action scenes, terms, he is killed in the first five min- ers of major turned Private Cage. spots? You may. Will you care what cinematography, scary vilawesome Cocky, scared out of his mind, curi- happens to the characters? You will. utes on shore and it all begins again. lain, and Tom Cruise.

Director Doug Liman not only Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt) is a ous, adapting, confident, in control, It’s rated PG-13 bad-ass soldier that leads a special and yes, he really likes the beautiful brings everything to life in a big way,

Jazz stars will grace Chicago neighborhoods Jazz stars will grace Chicago neighborhoods The Chicago Jazz Festival is Labor Day weekend, August 28-31 and opens in Millennium Park,

but in the weeks leading up to the festival, free performances will be presented in venues across the city with the Chicago Jazz Festival: Neighborhood Nights concert series. Neighborhood Nights aims to

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(Continued from page 12) Festival will shine a spotlight on share in the art of visual storytelling and expand their worldScandinavian cinema.

“As we mark this great mile- view.”

The complete Festival schedule stone, we also celebrate the Chicago International Film Festival’s po- will be announced at a future sition as one of the city’s most date. Individual tickets ($7 - $20) vibrant arts organizations,” said and Special Event tickets ($30 Film Festival Managing Director Vi- $150) will go on sale in August. vian Teng. “Drawing people from Discounted parking is available at all walks of life from across Chicago AMC River East 21(322 E. Illiand beyond, the Festival is a place nois Street). For more informawhere audiences come together in tion, visit www.chicagofilmfestitheir common love of film to val.com or call 312-683-0121. www.chicagocrusader.com

expand the footprint of the Chicago Jazz Festival beyond the festival’s home in downtown Chicago and partnering with community institutions such as the Chicago Park District, as well as various Chicago Public Library branches and community centers throughout Chicago.

The first Neighborhood Nights is July 26 at the Garfield Park Conservatory (100 N. Central Park Ave., Chicago, 5-7 p.m.). The featured artist is the legendary Phil Cohran; an early member of Sun Ra’s Arkestra, a co-founder of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), inventor of the electric kalimba known as the frankiphone, and a bandleader who’s sound has influenced everyone from Earth, Wind & Fire to Kahil El’Zabar.

On August 1, the singer Margaret Murphy Webb will perform at Arts Incubator (301 E. Garfield Blvd., Chicago, 5-7 p.m.). Margaret Murphy is an award-winning vocalist who has been performing for over thirty years. She developed her unique vocal style and showmanship under the tutelage of world-renowned tenor saxophonist Von Freeman with whom she shared the stage at the Taste of Chicago, The Jazz Showcase, the Chicago Jazz Festival, Andy’s, The Green Mill and many other popular Chicago venues. As leader of her own quartet, she has been featured at the Navy Pier Beer Garden, Chicago Lake Cruises and Chicago neighborhood fests.

The final event of the Neighborhood Nights series will be August 16 at Woodson Regional Library (9525 S. Halsted St. 1-3 p.m.) and will feature piano powerhouse Willie Pickens, a long-time veteran

who has played with the likes of James Moody, Roy Eldridge, Max Roach, Clark Terry, Ira Sullivan and was a long-time sideman for Elvin Jones. Also featured will be NextGen bassist Katie Ernst and longtime Pickens collaborator Robert Shy. A favorite Labor Day weekend tradition celebrating both the mainstream of the national jazz scene as well as Chicago’s unique contributions to the art form, the 36th Annual Chicago Jazz Festival is August 28-31 in Millennium Park and at the Chicago Cultural Center (78 E. Washington Street), presented by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events and the Chicago Jazz Partnership and programmed by the Jazz Institute of Chicago.

The Chicago Jazz Festival is sponsored in part by American Airlines, Aquafina, Chicago Jazz Magazine, Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago Tribune, Chicagotribune.com, CLTVChicagoLand’s Television, Communications Direct, DownBeat Magazine, E&J Gallo Family Vineyards, LaGrou Distribution System, Metra, Pepsi and WGN-Television.

For the latest information on the Chicago Jazz Festival, visit chicagojazzfestival.us, like us on Facebook at Chicago Jazz Festival and follow us on Twitter (@ChicagoDCASE, #ChiJazzFest).

About Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events The Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) is dedicated to enriching Chicago’s artistic vitality and cultural vibrancy. This includes fostering the development of Chicago’s non-profit arts sector, independent working

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Phil Cohran artists and for-profit arts businesses; providing a framework to guide the City’s future cultural and economic growth, via the 2012 Chicago Cultural Plan; marketing the City’s cultural assets to a worldwide audience; and presenting high-quality, free and affordable cultural programs for residents and visitors.

About Jazz Institute of Chicago Founded in 1969, the not for profit Jazz Institute of Chicago has programmed the Chicago Jazz Festival in partnership with the City of Chicago since the festival began in 1979. The organization’s mission to promote and nurture jazz in Chicago is carried out by providing jazz education for youth and adults, supporting the creation of new work by Chicago jazz musicians; growing the audience for jazz by presenting programs that are free and available for all and fostering a thriving jazz community.

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ARTS AND CULTURE

League of American Orchestras awards Wayne Brown with its highest honor

By Barbara Wright-Pryor The League of American Orchestras’ National Conference, hosted by the Seattle Symphony, met June 4-6, 2014. Nearly 1000 orchestra administrators, musicians, volunteers, and board members came together to experience musical performances, events, and sessions presented by thought leaders, industry experts and beyond. The League’s highest honor, The Gold Baton Award, was presented to Wayne S. Brown by Deborah Rutter, president of The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association and president designate of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Director of Music and Opera for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for almost 17 years, and currently President and CEO of the Michigan Opera Theatre based in Detroit, Michigan, Wayne Brown was honored as “a

steadfast friend to orchestras nationwide, a fearless advocate, and a cherished advisor to countless colleagues.” The Gold Baton has been awarded by the organization (formerly known as The American Symphony Orchestra League) for distinguished service to America’s orchestras since 1948.

As NEA’s Director of Music and Opera, Brown managed thousands of music and opera grants.

In addition, he was integral to NEA’s national music initiatives, including the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowships, the nation’s highest award in jazz; NEA Opera Honors, celebrating individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to opera in America; and Great American Voices, in which vocal ensembles from opera companies toured military installations.

Prior to his affiliation with the NEA, Brown served as producer of music programs for the Cultur-

Wayne Brown al Olympiad in Atlanta, Georgia, part of the 1996 Olympic Games. He has a long history of involvement with symphony orchestras and holds membership in

The National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc. (NANM).

He was executive director of the Louisville Orchestra where he exceeded the organization’s $10 million goal for its endowment campaign, established a regional touring program, and produced two international music festivals.

With the Detroit Symphony Orchestra he was an administrative manager and later named an assistant manager.

Wayne Brown was a founding member of the Magic in Music Advisory Committee for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, has served on advisory boards for the Mellon and Ford Foundations, is a former vice chairman of the American Symphony Orchestra League, and previously served as a member of the American Arts Alliance Board.

In his address at the League’s annual meeting, League President and CEO Jesse Rosen’s state-of-

the-field overview underscored the connections between time and place as reflected in orchestra programming, finances, diversity, and artistry. He celebrated programming that reveals “creativity emerging from a deep sense of place” and emphasized that sense of place also encompasses the financial arena: “challenges and opportunities in your local market are at least as important, if not more so, than benchmarks compared to orchestras in other communities.” Rosen urged orchestra leaders to “prioritize diversity and inclusion work,” and to “support the entrepreneurs already playing in our orchestras, from the videographers creating content for their orchestras’ websites to the ambassadors building new community relationships.”

For more information on Wayne S. Brown and the Michigan Opera Theatre visit michiganopera.org.

Hyde Park Suzuki Institute presents ‘Just a Touch of Love’ Iconic 70s funk band SLAVE to perform at benefit concert for South Side music school The Hyde Park Suzuki Institute (HPSI) will present SLAVE, Keepers of the Funk, and Captain Sky in a concert Saturday, August 2, to raise $10,000 towards the cost of relocating to the Chicago Theological Seminary. Over dinner conversation with a member of 70s Funk Band SLAVE, founder of the Hyde Park Suzuki Institute, Lucinda Ali-Landing, excitedly talked about her life’s passion - her music school on the South Side of Chicago whose students were recently accepted into Juilliard, Princeton and Curtis Institute to name a few.

The tone of the conversation quickly turned into concern as she then talked about the urgent need of the school to now move after an abrupt end to their current lease.

“We need to raise funds to cover the cost of the build-out into our own space by September.” Band drummer Steve Green immediately responded with, “Lu, we can make this happen for the kids.” The benefit concert will take place at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, 915 E. 60th St. General admission tickets are $25. VIP tickets are $75, which includes priority seating and a pre-concert reception. To purchase a ticket or become an event sponsorship, contact the Logan Center Box office or the HPSI office at 5500 S. Woodlawn Ave., Chicago or by calling the office at 773-643-1388.

The 16-year-old non-profit community music school learned several months ago that their lease would not be renewed in its present location at Augustana Lutheran Church, 5500 S. Woodlawn Ave. and it wants to remain in Hyde Park but needs dedicated space for its programming.

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Executive Director Lucinda Ali-Landing stands outside HPSI’s new home “Our Twinkle Stars, Suzuki, Outreach and Pathways college prep programs at HPSI will continue to provide access to high quality musical instruction and performance opportunities to families on the South Side of Chicago,” says Founder and Executive Director, Lucinda Ali-Landing.

As a violinist herself, she understands the value of having music education as part of a child’s educational experience. “We don’t just have fun and play musical games,” says Ali-Landing, former Junior/Youth Director of Chicago Music Association Branch No. 1, NANM, Inc. “We intentionally nurture and develop skills in children to a professional level that are marketable, valuable and useful to them as adults.”

A Chicago native and Kenwood Academy alumna, Lucinda AliLanding uses her skills as violinist to perform professionally with the first violin section of the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Chicago Sinfonietta where, as a member of the Sinfonietta, she also played with the Joffrey Ballet Orchestra in performances of Cinderella, Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream

and others. Additionally, Ali-Landing is a freelance artist who has performed with other artists such as Ray Charles, Barry White, The Winans, Brian McKnight, Oprah Winfrey, Three Mo’ Tenors, and Ben Vereen.

Iconic funk band SLAVE, known for their bass licks, rhythmic arrangements, and soaring lead vocals, had a number of chart topping hits in the late 70s early 80s. Their first big hit was the single “Slide” in 1977 for

Cotillion Records, where they remained until 1984. Other hits include “Watching You,” “Just a Touch of Love,” and “The Party Song.” “I think this concert is a perfect fit for music lovers in the Chicagoland area,” says Ali-Landing. “Adult band musicians started as child musicians learning the craft in hopes to play on a high level like world-renowned members of SLAVE and Captain Sky. Music is music and the genre doesn’t matter.”

The HPSI was established to fill a void that was experienced by its founder Lucinda Ali-Landing on the South Side of Chicago. Her father went to great lengths for her to study violin as a child by traveling to the North Shore three times weekly so that she would have access to quality instruction.

She completed her Master of Music degree at DePaul University.

The Hyde Park Suzuki Institute was founded in 1998 to bring the joy of music and the expression of its richness to children through the teaching methods of those who have

proven through experience and research the exceptional learning ability of the young child. And with years of teaching experience, Ali-Landing felt that there was a great need for a community music school that provided high quality music instruction.

“The Hyde Park Suzuki Institute is committed to providing access to high quality music instruction and performance opportunities to families of our culturally diverse communities in Chicago. Our students are encouraged to seek excellence and high musical achievement. “We maintain relationships with community partners who share our mission, which affords our students opportunities to interact with the music community, attend professional concerts and meet world-renowned musicians. Our community partnership programs provide public and private schools, religious institutions, and community-based organizations an opportunity to offer excellent music instruction to students at affordable rates.” For more information, please visit hydeparksuzuki.org.

Lyric Opera of Chicago in the black for 2013/14 season ‘The Sound of Music’ becomes top-selling production in Lyric history Anthony Freud, general director of Lyric Opera of Chicago, announced on June 30 that the company is reporting a break even operating performance for fiscal year 2014. Lyric has operated in the black for 26 of the past 27 years—a record among the country’s not-for-profit music and performing-arts companies.

Ticket revenue is $28.8 million

for fiscal year 2014—up from $26.6 million the previous year.

Both subscription and individualticket sales increased 8% over the previous season. “The Sound of Music” sold 71,074 tickets making it the top-selling production in Lyric history. Of the 284,440 tickets sold, 67,485 were purchased by people who were attending Lyric for the first time. Of that new-toLyric total, 41,223 were “Sound of Music” buyers.

Lyric will surpass its $23.6 million annual fundraising campaign

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goal and receive additional support from its annual endowment draw and its new “Breaking New Ground fund.” Some 111,725 children, students, and adults had participated in additional Lyric activities through the company’s Lyric Unlimited initiative, which includes Lyric’s community engagement and education programs.

Lyric’s operating expenses for the 103-performance 2013/14 season were $69.4 million. Audited financial statements will be issued in October. www.chicagocrusader.com

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SPIRITUALLY SPEAKING

A Moment to Super Size Your Thinking

By Effie Rolfe Family Reunion—gotta’ have a family reunion—it’s so nice to come together—to get together… Tis’ the season and time of the year that families are making plans to get together all around the world. Some will have simple picnics, banquets or fabulous backyard barbeques. While others might take a family cruise or vacation at an exciting resort or city of their choice. Whatever or wherever—nothing is better than siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, momma, papa, grandparents, grands and longtime friends uniting and coming together for food, fun and sweet fellowship.

I wish grandma could see, the whole family. I sure miss her face, And her warm and tender embrace.

And if grandpa was here, I know he’d be smiling for me a tear. To see what he has done, All the off-spring from his daughters and sons.

Beautiful songs have been written to celebrate the coming together as well as to build this wonderful unit that God ordained. Although family reunions are major—this event cannot take place without it’s key component—the family. Don’t allow any open wounds or cracks such as fresh or old offenses to disrupt the foundation that provides strength and support for its members, as well as outer circles. The physical family is the most important building block to human society, and as such, it should be nurtured and protected.

Families must stay intact. The family is so important, that God created all species and even plant life to produce after its own kind (Gene-

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sis1:11-12, 21-24).

So what does the Bible say about family? A lot. But more important is the new creation that God is making in Christ—the spiritual family, the Church, made up of all people who call upon the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior. The defining characteristic of this spiritual family is love for one another: John 13: 34-35 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

Generations past and present are depending on you to celebrate the lineage and legacy of our ancestors.

The O’Jays continue with the lyrics—It’s been a long, long time.

Since we had a chance to get together. Nobody knows the next time we see each other—Maybe years and

years from now. So until the next time—keep a prayer in your heart and a smile on your face concerning your posterity. Let’s uplift, bless, pray, respect, honor and have genuine love for and among each other concerning family. Remember, how we treat each other is how we treat our spiritual family—we are All God’s children. Let’s come together and stay together as the powerful unit that God created to bless each member and the world.

Are you grateful for your family..? ©Effie Rolfe is the author of “Supersize Your Thinking,” a Media Personality and Motivational Speaker. You can visit my website: effierolfe.com or follow me at twitter.com/effiedrolfe.

The Crusader Gospel Corner reach Community (MOC) is a not for profit organization developed in 2011. The agency serves all and has never turned away those who could not afford and offers pastoral counseling to most clients. For more information about this event call 773918-1556 or email monument outreach@yahoo.com The Wooten Choral Ensemble invites you to their 65th anniversary celebration on July 20, 5 p.m. at Beth Eden Baptist Church, 11121 S. Loomis Street in Chicago. The ensemble was founded by the late Robert Wooten, Sr. and continues with Robert (Bobby)

Congrats to Pastor Kimberly Ray, who will be walking down the aisle this weekend! The international speaker and author of Spiritual Interventions admitted that kingdom work kept her totally occupied, “I’ve been so busy pastoring and ministering. Its been daunting in that my travels have kept me isolated…but its been wonderful. I’ve been a happy single person and now I am happier and engaged.” Pastor Ray met her fiancé last April, “I was

Robert Wooten Sr. Wooten, Jr., known as the ‘Maestro.’

All are welcomed to attend.

John Henton

Pastor Kimberly Ray sitting in a brand new restaurant—my sister Denise had mentioned days before. I was reading my bible and studying in the restaurant preparing to speak in Milwaukee. This wonderful man came to the table. He was very gracious and masculine and asked to be allowed to introduce himself. It was brief because he did not want to dominate my time.

He left, paid for my meal and left his card,” she said smiling. Obviously, the rest is history.

Ray shared, “The scripture www.chicagocrusader.com

states, ‘… the man that finds a wife, finds a good thing.’ Our responsibility is to seek to please the Lord and in the book of Corinthians seek to please him in body and in spirit and pursue the things of God. When it’s time to be found, God will anoint the person to find you. Chapter 8 intervention for single women gives biblical content of our roles while waiting. It gives pitfalls for women not to fall into.

Not to put your life in a holding pattern, understanding when a man is going to commit and when he’s not. The times have changed because our single successful women are having difficulty being found,

because men have changed their desire to pursue women to have that alternative lifestyle. It is true that some men are players because their resources are many women.” This Saturday, she will be in an invitation only wedding.

Dr. John Henton and the Monument of Faith Outreach Community Services present the 13th Annual Luncheon and Fundraiser Event on Saturday, July 19th at 12 noon, 2750 W. Columbus Avenue in Chicago. Pastor Corey Brooks of New Beginnings Church will receive the Humanitarian Award.

Evangelist Tanya Ray will be the musical guest. Monument Out-

Mentor program observes 20th anniversary Pastor Mark Henton will be the keynote speaker during the Monument of Faith Church’s 20th anniversary Big Brother Mentor program.

The speech will be at the reunion luncheon July 12 from noon to 4 p.m. at the Garden Chalet, 11000 S. Ridgeland Ave. in Worth.

Ticket information is available by contacting Deborah Dillion at 773-241-0182 or Rebecca Grigler at 773-988-4391. Apostle R.D. Henton is the church’s senior pastor.

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Concussions a greater problem for Black youth

By Jazelle Hunt Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Despite the flurry of news about NFL lawsuits over concussions, the problem affects far more athletes at the high school and junior high school level, according to the federal government statistics.

In 2009 alone, nearly 250,000 youth age 19 or younger were treated in emergency rooms for sports and recreation-related injuries that included concussions, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Between 2001 and 2009, the rate of such visits rose 57 percent.

Concussions occur when the brain is shaken violently against the skull.

Although concussions are the most common brain injury, widespread awareness and concern about this issue in the world of student athletics is fairly recent.

But it is especially relevant for Black communities, particularly young men most likely to die from traumatic brain injuries, according to the CDC. And according to data from research nonprofit, Child Trends, 50 to 60 percent of Black American high schoolers were on a sports team in 2011.

In severe or untreated cases, they can cause brain damage, seizures, emotional distress, and death—in fact the CDC estimates that 5.3 million U.S. citizens are living with disability as a result of a traumatic brain injury (or TBI, an umbrella term that includes concussions).

“From an athletic trainer perspective concussions have always been a big concern. Coaches seemed to think that injuries increased because [athletic trainers] were there, but really it’s that awareness is increased,” says Jennifer Rheeling, a veteran athletic trainer in D.C. Public Schools and chair of the Sports Medicine Advisory Committee for the D.C. State Athletic Association.

“In the last five years particularly

with the NFL starting to talk about it, and the lawsuits, has helped immensely now that people get it on a mainstream level. What they thought was just getting their bell rung was really a concussion.”

On the most diligent and well-resourced student teams, players take baseline tests—a battery of motor skill drills and survey questions to record their individual peak cognitive health—and have athletic trainers who check for signs of decline. If a concussion is suspected, a player does another test to compare those results to his or her baseline. The ImPACT Concussion Management program is currently the program of record for these tests among school athletic programs.

But according to Dr. Vernon Williams, neurologist and medical director of the Sports Concussion Institute, a lack of access to care compounds the (now fading) problem of awareness. ImPACT, for example, costs a minimum of $400 per year for 100 baseline tests and 15 post-injury tests for one school.

Meanwhile, many schools and school districts, largely populated by Black and brown children, routinely have to make cuts to balance their budget.

“We have coaches who understand the need, but they have different resources. For example, we know baseline testing for people in contact collision sports can help evaluate when people get injured,” Dr. Williams explains. “But it’s uncommon for people to have access to state-ofthe-art baseline testing. Players, school systems, and parents don’t have access to those funds. But we can still implement treatment using creative measures.”

Currently, Dr. Gary Harris, who specializes in computer engineering and serves as associate provost for Research and Graduate Studies at Howard University, is working with engineering students and the Bison football team to devise an inexpensive concussion monitoring system,

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DR. GARY HARRIS hopes to improve the way the Howard University Bison football team combats concussion, using this “Lilypad” Arduino chip to measure impact during games. Photo courtesy of Howard University. ample. The activities are designed the issue of concussions and having using an open source platform. (“Open source” is a tech industry around “brain timing”—the ability some foundation across the board term that means the equipment and to clap to a beat, for example. As with how they should be managed,” information to create this system is users play games and do activities says Dr. Williams. “I think there are public as opposed to proprietary, so that test their reaction time, those some variables…related to who as to encourage others to innovate brain cell connections are repaired should be allowed to clear players.” and strengthened. Originally (and He and Rheeling have both seen and improve on the idea).

The project uses a computer chip primarily) used to improve motor athletes on under-resourced teams attached inside the helmet that mea- skills and cognitive function in chil- get clearance from an emergency sures impact up to 100 gs of force. dren with ADD/ADHD, the pro- room resident, for example, in conFor reference: a sneeze is about 2 or gram is beginning to see success trast with athletes who take a concussion test against their baseline 3 gs of force on the human body; an with TBI rehabilitation.

“We fit into concussions in a new with their team’s athletic trainer.

F-16 fighter jet barrel roll exerts 7 to 9 gs; a car crash at 45 mph is about way, which is helping out when They’ve also seen instances of stu60 gs. Concussions usually happen those [post-concussion] symptoms dents underreporting their sympwith collisions between 80 and 120 don’t dissipate,” says Nick Etten, toms, coaches resisting care recomvice president of Strategy and Busi- mendations, and parents being lax gs.

The chip records the force of im- ness Development at Interactive in monitoring their child’s rest after pact for every collision—it can be Metronome. “There’s a lot of em- a concussion.

Emerging laws are attempting to programmed to transmit this infor- phasis on technology these days— mation wirelessly, say, to a cell phone it’s really important in the world of add another layer of protection by app. Or, it can be downloaded from concussions and cognitive rehab. regulating the number of weekly the helmet using a USB cable. It can We’re starting to understand that practices involving rough contact also be programmed to send an alert there was a big void in information.” drills, thus reducing exposure to colTechnology has helped improve lisions and risk of concussion. Trainwhen a hit exceeds a certain threshidentifying and treating concus- ers, coaches, parents, and athletes old.

“You can have an entire team’s list sions; on the prevention front, can also receive guidance through where you know all their shock, sports health care professionals now resources such as the American trauma, and incidents on file,” says have the backing of the law. In all 50 Academy of Neurology online Dr. Harris. “We still don’t know the states, a student athlete must be im- Sports Concussion Toolkit, and orthreshold of force for brain damage, mediately removed from play if a ganizations such as the Sports Legawe don’t know how many hits it concussion is suspected, and cannot cy Network.

“We’re at the end of the beginning takes, but the first thing we have to return to practice or play without medical clearance. Some states also as it relates to concussion managedo is collect the data.”

Each of these chips costs approxi- mandate that a student must remain ment. We’re learning more every day free of symptoms or remain on the and the process will continue to mately $30.

Technology is also being used to injured list for a set period of time, evolve,” says Dr. Williams. “We’re improve care and outcomes the af- even if they gain medical clearance out of the phase of explaining what a concussion is, identifying symptermath of serious concussion cases. immediately.

But there are still holes in prevent- toms… It’s no longer an unrecogInteractive Metronome, a health nized epidemic, we’re aware of the tech company that creates neurolog- ing these injuries.

“There’s clearly benefits to legisla- issues and that [a concussion] has to ical research-based brain training programs and activities, is one ex- tion in terms of drawing attention to be managed effectively.”

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One-day ‘Blitz Build’ gives children’s facility a facelift (Cont’d from page 11) support services for parents and pregnant mothers, adult & children’s mental health services, legal assistance, and job readiness programs.

Openings in early childhood and other programs are still available.

The Center is located in the annex of Arthur Libby Elementary School, 5338 S. Loomis Street, and is operated by Metropolitan Family Services in partnership with the City of Chicago, Chicago Public Schools, Miles Square Health Center and numerous other community leaders and contributors. The Center was

the focus of a recent visit from the National League of Cities’ Institute for Youth, Education & Families, which convened in Chicago to discuss innovative ways communities are aligning services to meet the needs of children and families.

About Metropolitan Family Services Metropolitan Family Services empowers families to learn, to earn, to heal, to thrive. Part mentor, part motivator, part advocate, since 1857 Metropolitan has been the engine of change that em-

IT ONLY TOOK one day for a cadre of architects, contractors, manufacturers and industry professionals to transform space at the Arthur Libby Elementary School into a one-of-a-kind health, wellness and educational center.

35th ANNUAL (Cont’d from page 6) CSPAN. In the spring of 2003, NBUF National Chairman, Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, requested that Minister Louis Farrakhan convene a meeting of the key reparations organizers, activists, researchers, scholars, and spiritual workers. This meeting occurred in July 2003 at the Salaam Restaurant in Chicago and out of that meeting the NDABA Movement unfolded.

On September 13, 2003, NBUF joined the Millions For Reparations Rally at the United Nations in New York and helped to link the Reparations Movement with the Pan African struggle worldwide.

The NDABA Movement meetings were convened in October 2003 in Jackson, Mississippi and in March 2004 in Houston, Texas. This process greatly helped strengthened the unity in the Reparations Movement in America.

Through the NDABA Movement process, NBUF Chairman Worrill proposed the establishment of a Reparations Petition Campaign that was adopted by the NDABA forces with the goal of securing one million signatures by the fall

presidential election.

Since our inception, NBUF has consistently sponsored a variety of cultural programs throughout the United States, including our Frontlines Album Project, our sponsorship of annual Kwanzaa Programs, and African Liberation Day activities. This has been a major part of NBUF’s work.

Through our Frontline Newsletter, Front Page Newspaper, NBUF’s website, e-mail, letters, phone calls, and the traditional grapevine, NBUF communicates with the world.

Most importantly, in our organizing efforts, NBUF has maintained strict financial independence, and has recently become a certified organization with the National Black Federation of Charities, an arm of the National Black United Fund, Inc. We are now able to receive donations through payroll deduction from people in the federal workplace throughout the world.

We encourage everyone to attend this year’s historic NBUF Convention. For more information call: 347-422-7823; email: blackunitedfront@gmail.com; or visit the website at www.nbufront.org.

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powers families to reach their greatest potential and positively impact their communities. Metropolitan reaches more than 63,000 families and individuals annually through seven community centers, with services that promote education, economic stability, emotional wellness and empowerment. For more information, visit www.metrofami-

ly.org.

About AEC Cares AEC Cares is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation actively supported by Reed Construction Data, with the AIA and Hanley Wood, generous sponsors, donors and volunteers. Bringing together architects, contractors, manu-

Brookins and constituents (Cont’d from page 2) “The program just started back up in 2012, it had been closed a few years,” according to Kindred. “In 2013 two Simeon grads started their apprenticeships and I have two more starting this summer.

My layoff was not based on performance. The trades are an avenue for the middle class.

The trades give my students power because they can work with their hands. They have earning potential and the world in their hands. It is important that our children have these opportunities.”

The activists are also upset about what they say is a caste system in which voices on the North Side are respected and responded to, whereas those on the South and West Sides of the city are ignored. They cited the example of the proposed Obama High School that was to be built on the site of the old Cabrini-Green housing complex. But after residents in the area and park organizations complained loudly, the plans were scrapp ed weeks later and the city offered an apology saying

“more community input was needed.”

Brookins said he agreed that the schools in his ward should be better funded, but believes the demonstrators fight should be with CPS and not his office. He committed to using his office to try to make some changes for the schools in his ward.

“Yes I will fight for the electrical program at Simeon; yes I will fight for the music, art and computer science teachers and yes I will fight for those parents who feel there are better options for them out there,” Brookins said.

Brookins also took exception to the assertion that the money that would be given to Concept would automatically take away funding from other schools in his ward. He said if a resident in his ward were to send their child to a private school, the other neighborhood schools would not get the money anyway, so he does not see this situation as just charter versus neighborhood school.

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dayjene Louella Spralls And Chanel Spralls, Mother Raymond dixon, Alleged Father tO: Raymond dixon

NOtiCe iS HeReby GiVeN to the above noted parent, whose whereabouts are unknown, and who is the alleged father of dayjene Spralls (date of birth August 9, 2007), that the indiana department of Child Services has filed its Verified Petition Alleging the Child to be in Need of Services, in accordance with indiana Code 31-34-9-3, and that an adjudication hearing has been scheduled with the Court. tHe AdJudiCAtiON HeARiNG at which Raymond dixon must appear is scheduled for September 8, 2014, at 9:30 a.m. at the St. Joseph County Probate Court, Juvenile division, 1000 South Michigan Street, South bend, indiana. At said hearing, the court will consider the Petition and evidence thereon and will render its decision as to whether above named minor child is a child in need of services and shall enter adjudication accordingly. uPON eNtRy OF SAid AdJudiCAtiON, A diSPOSitiONAL HeARiNG will be held in which the Court will consider: (1) Alternatives for the care, treatment, or rehabilitation for the child; (2) the necessity, nature, and extent of your participation in the program of care, treatment, or rehabilitation for the child; and, (3) your financial responsibility for any services provided for the parent, guardian, or custodian of the child, including child support. yOu MuSt ReSPONd by appearing in the case in person or by attorney within thirty (30) days after the last publication of this notice, and in the event you fail to do so, an adjudication on said petition and a dispositional decree may be entered against you without further notice. tHe AttORNeyS RePReSeNtiNG tHe iNdiANA dePARtMeNt OF CHiLd SeRViCeS, are Sharon Albrecht, Holly deneve, emily Steele, and Richard Klinedinst, at 300 N. Michigan Street, Suite 230, South bend, iN 46601; telephone (574) 232-3042. date this 2nd day of July, 2014

Clerk of St. Joseph County

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (Cont’d from page 4) plenty of time to start these campaigns in earnest. In the meantime, we need a break from politics.

Jerry Johnson

HOUSES FOR SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION US BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR STRUCTURED ASSET THE SECURITIES CORPORATION MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, 2006-EQ1; P l a i n t i f f , s . v TONYA T. MANNEY AKA TONYA MANNEY; DELORES MANNEY; CAMPUS PARK ASSOCIATION; CONDOMINIUM UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; D e f e n d a n t s , 11 CH 18896 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause on May 12, 2014 Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Friday, August 15, 2014 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: 20-23-211-051-1003 new, P.I.N. old.

20-23-211-047-0000 Commonly known as 6552 South Kimbark Avenue, Unit 3N, Chicago, IL 60637.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a condominium residence. The purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by subdivisions (g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9 of the Condominium Property Act Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours.

No refunds. The property will NOT be for inspection open For information call Mr. Anthony Porto at Plaintiff's Attorney, Freedman Anselmo Lindberg LLC, 1771 West Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois 60563-1890. (630) 453-6960. For Bidding instructions visit www.fal-illinois.com 24 hours prior to sale.

F 1 1 0 1 0 2 8 6 JUDICIAL SALES INTERCOUNTY C O R P O R A T I O N (312) 444-1122 Selling Officer, I616024 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK ILLINOIS COUNTY, DEPARTMENT COUNTY DIVISION CHANCERY THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON COMPANY, TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS GRANTOR TRUSTEE OF THE PROTIUM MASTER GRANTOR TRUST, Plaintiff, v s .

BARBARA CONWAY; NEIGHBORHOOD LENDING SERVICES, INC., Defendants, 13 CH 1243 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause on November 12, 2013 Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Monday, August 11, 2014 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: Commonly known as 6612 S. University Avenue, Chicago, Il 60637.

P.I.N. 20-23-125-016.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours.

No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection For information call William E. Dutton, Jr. at Plaintiff's Attorney, DUTTON & DUTTON, P.C., 10325 West Lincoln Highway, Frankfort, Illinois 60423. (815) 8 0 6 - 8 2 0 0 .

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES C O R P O R A T I O N Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I615966

iN tHe CiRCuit COuRt OF COOK COuNty, iLLiNOiS COuNty dePARtMeNt - CHANCeRy diViSiON GuidANCe ReSideNtiAL, LLC Plaintiff, -v.ViCtORiA buRtON, 2004-0000162, LLC, AbduL KAHN defendants 13 CH 016649 5536 S. MORGAN StReet CHiCAGO, iL 60621 NOtiCe OF SALe PubLiC NOtiCe iS HeReby GiVeN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on April 30, 2014, an agent for the Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 2:00 PM on August 6, 2014, at the Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker drive - 24th Floor, CHiCAGO, iL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 5536 S. MORGAN StReet, CHiCAGO, iL 60621 Property index No. 20-17-203-028. the real estate is improved with a single family residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to the Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. the balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. the subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS iS” condition. the sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. the property will NOt be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. if this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by the Condominium Property Act, 765 iLCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). if this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by the Condominium Property Act, 765 iLCS 605/18.5(g-1). iF yOu ARe tHe MORtGAGOR (HOMeOWNeR), yOu HAVe tHe RiGHt tO ReMAiN iN POSSeSSiON FOR 30 dAyS AFteR eNtRy OF AN ORdeR OF POSSeSSiON, iN ACCORdANCe WitH SeCtiON 15-1701(C) OF tHe iLLiNOiS MORtGAGe FOReCLOSuRe LAW. effective May 1st, 2014 you will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: COdiLiS & ASSOCiAteS, P.C., 15W030 NORtH FRONtAGe ROAd, Suite 100, buRR RidGe, iL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-13-12497. tHe JudiCiAL SALeS CORPORAtiON One South Wacker drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, iL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALe you can also visit the Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. COdiLiS & ASSOCiAteS, P.C. 15W030 NORtH FRONtAGe ROAd, Suite 100 buRR RidGe, iL 60527 (630) 794-5300 Attorney File No. 14-13-12497 Attorney ARdC No. 00468002 Attorney Code.

21762 Case Number: 13 CH 016649 tJSC#: 34-8033 NOte: Pursuant to the Fair debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. i615328

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iN tHe CiRCuit COuRt OF COOK COuNty, iLLiNOiS COuNty dePARtMeNt CHANCeRy diViSiON deutSCHe bANK NAtiONAL tRuSt COMPANy, AS tRuStee FOR J.P. MORGAN MORtGAGe ACQuiSitiON tRuSt 2007-CH5, ASSet bACKed PASS-tHROuGH CeRtiFiCAteS, SeRieS 2007-CH5 Plaintiff, -v.ORViN W. WiLLiAMS A/K/A ORViN WiLLiAMS, diANe WiLLiAMS defendants 12 CH 32048 6234 SOutH LANGLey AVeNue Chicago, iL 60637 NOtiCe OF SALe PubLiC NOtiCe iS HeReby GiVeN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on February 15, 2013, an agent for the Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on August 5, 2014, at the Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker drive - 24th Floor, CHiCAGO, iL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 6234 SOutH LANGLey AVeNue, Chicago, iL 60637 Property index No. 20-15-421-0260000. the real estate is improved with a multifamily residence. the judgment amount was $121,540.45. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to the Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. the balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. the subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS iS” condition. the sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. the property will NOt be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. if this property is a condominium unit, or a unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by the Condominium Property Act, 765 iLCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). in accordance with 735 iLCS 5/15-1507(c)(1)(h-1) and (h-2), 765 iLCS 605/9(g)(5), and 765 iLCS 605/18.5(g-1), you are hereby notified that the purchaser of the property, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and legal fees required by subsections (g)(1) and (g)(4) of section 9 and the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of section 18.5 of the illinois Condominium Property Act. iF yOu ARe tHe MORtGAGOR (HOMeOWNeR), yOu HAVe tHe RiGHt tO ReMAiN iN POSSeSSiON FOR 30 dAyS AFteR eNtRy OF AN ORdeR OF POSSeSSiON, iN ACCORdANCe WitH SeCtiON 151701(C) OF tHe iLLiNOiS MORtGAGe FOReCLOSuRe LAW. effective May 1st, 2014 you will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues. For information, contact the sales department, FReedMAN ANSeLMO LiNdbeRG LLC, 1771 W. diehl Road, Suite 120, NAPeRViLLe, iL 60563, (630) 453-6960 For bidding instructions, visit www.falillinois.com. Please refer to file number F11100250. tHe JudiCiAL SALeS CORPORAtiON One South Wacker drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, iL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALe you can also visit the Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. FReedMAN ANSeLMO LiNdbeRG LLC 1771 W. diehl Road, Suite 120 NAPeRViLLe, iL 60563 (630) 453-6960 e-Mail: foreclosurenotice@fal-illinois.com Attorney File No. F11100250 Attorney ARdC No. 3126232 Attorney Code. 26122 Case Number: 12 CH 32048 tJSC#: 34-10412 NOte: Pursuant to the Fair debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. i614585 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.; P l a i n t i f f , v s .

GEORGE A. WILDER; D e f e n d a n t s , 13 CH 28145 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause on April 3, 2014 Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, July 29, 2014 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: Commonly known as 6537 South Vernon Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637.

P.I.N. 20-22-217-013-0000.

The mortgaged real estate is improved12, 18 SATURDAY, JULY with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours.

No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection For information call Sales Department at Plaintiff's Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (312) 651-6705.

1 3 - 0 3 8 2 7 0 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES C O R P O R A T I O N Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I613687

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause on April 3, 2014 Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, July 29, 2014 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: Commonly known as 6537 South Vernon Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637.

P.I.N. 20-22-217-013-0000.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours.

No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection For information call Sales Department at Plaintiff's Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (312) 651-6705.

1 3 - 0 3 8 2 7 0 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES C O R P O R A T I O N Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I613687

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. P l a i n t i f f , v .

RHONDA BERRY A/K/A RHONDA M. BERRY, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 13 CH 25497 6522 SOUTH RHODES AVENUE CHICAGO, IL 60637 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on May 15, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on July 30, 2014, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 6522 SOUTH RHODES AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60637 Property Index No. 20-22-218-029-0000. The real estate is improved with a 2 unit home with no garage. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. Effective May 1st, 2014 you will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver's license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues. For information: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5 pm. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES, Plaintiff's Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300, CHICAGO, IL 60602.

Tel No. (312) 476-5500. Please refer to file number PA1315042. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300 CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 476-5500 Attorney File No. PA1315042 Attorney Code. 91220 Case Number: 13 CH 25497 TJSC#: 34-8732 I614095

2014

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. P l a i n t i f f , v .

BRIAN MALONE A/K/A BRIAN K MALONE, SILVER COAST CITADEL CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION D e f e n d a n t s 13 CH 14207 7205 S YATES BLVD APT 4A CHICAGO, IL 60649 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on April 24, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on July 25, 2014, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 7205 S YATES BLVD APT 4A, CHICAGO, IL 60649 Property Index No. 21-30-104-042-1064. The real estate is improved with a 4 or more units condominium with no garage. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. Effective May 1st, 2014 you will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver's license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues. For information: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5 pm. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES, Plaintiff's Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300, CHICAGO, IL 60602.

Tel No. (312) 476-5500. Please refer to file number PA1307986. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300 CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 476-5500 Attorney File No. PA1307986 Attorney Code. 91220 Case Number: 13 CH 14207 TJSC#: 34-7156 I613033

HOUSES FOR SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION RES-IL ONE, LLC, P l a i n t i f f , v s .

RASHAD UNDERWOOD, CITY OF CHICAGO; AMERICAN GENERAL FINANCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS, INC., NOW KNOWN AS SPRINGLEAF FINANCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS, INC.; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS; AND UNKNOWN TENANTS, OCCUPANTS, L E A S E H O L D S , D e f e n d a n t s , 13 CH 27288 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Monday, July 28, 2014, at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: Commonly known as 6337 S. Langley Avenue, Chicago, Il 60637.

P.I.N. 20-22-206-012-0000.

The mortgaged real estate is a multi-family residence. The successful purchaser is entitled to possession of the property only. The purchaser may only obtain possession of units within the multi-unit property occupied by individuals named in the order of possession.

Sale terms: Bidders must present, at the time of sale, a cashier's or certified check for 10% of the successful bid amount. The balance of the successful bid shall be paid within 24 hours, by similar funds. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call Ms. Jennifer J. Sackett-Pohlenz at Plaintiff's Attorney, Clark Hill, PLC, 150 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (312) 9 8 5 - 5 9 1 2 .

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES C O R P O R A T I O N Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I613661 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION CITIMORTGAGE, INC. P l a i n t i f f , v s .

WINSLOW O YOUNG; 6200 SOUTH EVANS CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION; 6200 SOUTH EVANS C O N D O M I N I U M ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD C L A I M A N T S ; D e f e n d a n t s , 13 CH 26507 PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on June 5, 2014, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Monday, July 28, 2014, at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: P.I.N. 20-15-422-029-1023, 20-15-422- 0 1 3 - 0 0 0 0 .

Commonly known as 6208 SOUTH EVANS AVENUE UNIT 3 AKA 6208 SOUTH EVANS UNIT 3, CHICAGO, IL 6 0 6 3 7 .

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a condominium residence. The purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by subdivisions (g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9 of the Condominium Property Act Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.

For information: Visit our website at http://service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only. Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 1 3 1 5 8 1 4 .

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES C O R P O R A T I O N Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I613658

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK ILLINOIS COUNTY, DEPARTMENT COUNTY DIVISION CHANCERY FUNDING, LLC, SILVERLEAF P l a i n t i f f , v s .

DD&H CONSTRUCTION, INC., SYLVESTER HAYES, UNKNOWN PROPERTY MANAGERS AND LESSEE/TENANTS OF DD&H CONSTRUCTION, INC., UNKNOWN OWNERS, GENERALLY, AND NON-RECORD C L A I M A N T S , D e f e n d a n t s , 13 CH 28233 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK entered in the above entitled cause COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will DEPARTMENT CHANCERY on Tuesday, July 22, 2014, at the hour of 11 DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison P l a i n t i f f , Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell v . to the highest bidder for cash, the BRIAN MALONE A/K/A BRIAN K following described mortgaged real estate: MALONE, SILVER COAST CITADEL Commonly known as 6414 South Morgan CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION Street, Chicago, IL 60621.

D e f e n d a n t s P.I.N. 20-20-211-028-0000.

13 CH 14207 The mortgaged real estate is a mixed 7205 S YATES BLVD APT 4A CHICAGO, residential/commercial building.

The IL 60649 property may be open for inspection by NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS contacting Andrew Yonke at (312) HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a 9 2 9 - 1 8 4 0 .

Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered Sale terms: Bidders mustcpresent, at the in the above cause B onlacks April 24,M 2014, an ust control their own oMMunity time of sale, a cashier's or certified check agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, for 10% of the successful bid amount. The will at 10:30 AM on July 25, 2014, at The balance of the successful bid shall be paid Judicial Sales Corporation, One South within 24 hours, by similar funds.

Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, For information call Mr. Gary E. Green at 60606, sell at public auction to the highest Clark Hill PLC, 150 North Michigan bidder, as set forth below, the following Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (312) described real estate: Commonly known 9 8 5 - 5 9 0 0 . as 7205 S YATES BLVD APT 4A, INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CHICAGO, IL 60649 Property Index No. C O R P O R A T I O N 21-30-104-042-1064. The real estate is Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 improved with a 4 or more units I612719 condominium with no garage. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the

PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, July 22, 2014, at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: Commonly known as 6414 South Morgan Street, Chicago, IL 60621.

P.I.N. 20-20-211-028-0000.

The mortgaged real estate is a mixed residential/commercial building.

The property may be open for inspection by contacting Andrew Yonke at (312) 9 2 9 - 1 8 4 0 .

Sale terms: Bidders must present, at the time of sale, a cashier's or certified check for 10% of the successful bid amount. The balance of the successful bid shall be paid within 24 hours, by similar funds.

For information call Mr. Gary E. Green at Clark Hill PLC, 150 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (312) 9 8 5 - 5 9 0 0 .

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES C O R P O R A T I O N Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I612719 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK ILLINOIS COUNTY, COUNTY DEPARTMENT, CHANCERY O N D I V I S I JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., f P l a i n t i f .

V KELI L. KNIGHT A/KA KELI KNIGHT; PNC BANK, N.A. F/K/A MIDAMERICA THE BLACKSTONE BANK, FSB; CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC.; BANK OF CHICAGO; AUSTIN OWNERS AND UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS; NON-RECORD OCCUPANTS, UNKNOWN D e f e n d a n t s CH 29670 12 6511 SOUTH Property Address: BLACKSTONE AVE. UNIT 1 CHICAGO, 60637 IL NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE C O N D O M I N I U M Fisher and Shapiro file # 12-061822 (It is advised that interested parties consult their with own attorneys before bidding at mortgage sales.) foreclosure PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that to a Judgment of Foreclosure pursuant entered on May 6, 2014, Kallen Realty Services, Inc., as Selling Official will at 12:30 p.m. on August 8, 2014, at 205 W. Randolph Street, Suite 1020, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real property: Commonly known as 6511 South Blackstone Avenue, Unit 1, Chicago, IL 6 0 6 3 7 Permanent Index No.: 20-23-219-030-1016 The mortgaged real estate is improved with a dwelling. The property will NOT be open for inspection. The purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

The judgment amount was $72,617.17.

Sale terms for non-parties: 10% of successful bid immediately at conclusion of auction, balance by 12:30 p.m. the next business day, both by cashier's checks; and no refunds. The sale shall be subject to general real estate taxes, special taxes, special assessments, special taxes levied, and superior liens, if any. The property is offered "as is," with no express or implied warranties and without any representation as to the quality of title or recourse to Plaintiff.

Prospective bidders are admonished to review the court file to verify all information and to view auction rules at ww w . k a l l e n r s . c o m .

For information: Sale Clerk, Fisher and Shapiro, Attorney # 42168, 2121 Waukegan Road, Suite 301, Bannockburn, Illinois 60015, (847) 291-1717, between 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. weekdays only.

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Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. Effective May 1st, 2014 you will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver's license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues. For information: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5 pm. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES, Plaintiff's Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300, CHICAGO, IL 60602.

Tel No. (312) 476-5500. Please refer to file number PA1225552. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300 CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 476-5500 Attorney File No. PA1225552 Attorney Code. 91220 Case Number: 13 CH 01166 TJSC#: 34-9222 I614600

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF Cook County, Illinois, County Department, Chancery Division.

Champion Mortgage Company P l a i n t i f f , v s .

Minnie Howard aka Minnie L. Howard aka Minnie L. Dejohette; Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants D e f e n d a n t s , 14 CH 2142 Sheriff's # 140505 F14010097 CPN Pursuant to a Judgment made and entered by said Court in the above entitled cause, Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff of Cook County, Illinois, will on August 18, 2014, at 1pm in room LL06 of the Richard J. Daley Center, 50 West Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction the following described premises and real estate mentioned in said Judgment: Common Address: 6604 South Maryland Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637 P.I.N: 20-23-120-017-0000 Improvements: This property consists of a Two Story Multi-Family Residence.

Sale shall be under the following terms: payment of not less than ten percent (10%) of the amount of the successful and highest bid to be paid to the Sheriff by cashier's check or certified funds at the sale; and the full remaining balance to be paid to the Sheriff by cashier's check or certified funds within twenty-four (24) hours after the sale.

Sale shall be subject to general taxes, special assessments.

Premise will NOT be open for inspection.

Firm Information: Plaintiff's Attorney FREEDMAN ANSELMO LINDBERG LLC Anthony Porto 1807 W. DIEHL., Ste 333 Naperville, IL 60566-7228 foreclosurenotice@fal-illino i s . c o m 866-402-8661 fax 630-428-4620 For bidding instructions, visit www.fal-il l i n o i s . c o m This is an attempt to collect a debt pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION P l a i n t i f f , v .

JAWANE ERVIN A/K/A JAWANE P E R V I N D e f e n d a n t s 13 CH 01166 6237 SOUTH LANGLEY AVENUE CHICAGO, IL 60637 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 29, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on August 1, 2014, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 6237 SOUTH LANGLEY AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60637 Property Index No. 20-15-422-009-0000. The real estate is improved with a two unit condominium with no garage. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The www.chicagocrusader.com subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a

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Burnside Park opens new playground One of 103 playgrounds to be rebuilt or refurbished throughout Chicago’s neighborhoods this year Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Park District General Superintendent Michael P. Kelly, Alderman Michelle Harris and members of the Burnside community recently celebrated the opening of a new playground at Burnside Park. The playground is one of the 103 neighborhood playgrounds that will be built or refurbished this year across the City as part of

is within a 10 minute walk of a park or playground.” The Chicago Plays! playground renovation program was launched last spring by Mayor Emanuel, who announced that Chicago Park District would rebuild, repair and/or refurbish 325 playgrounds in communities across Chicago. Last year, 50 playgrounds were rehabilitated under the program. “The new playground at Burnside Park gives children and families in the community a safe place to have fun and be active,” said Kelly. “We are excited to continue improving the quality of life

MAYOR EMANUEL AND Chicago Park District attend officials opening ceremony for Burnside Park Playground, which is one of 103 playgrounds to be rebuilt or refurbished throughout Chicago’s neighborhoods this year. Photo by Brooke Collins (City of Chicago).

Chicago Plays! program underscores the major announcements the Mayor has previously made regarding parks, including a comprehensive plan to build and improve parks throughout the city. Burnside Park is also one of many of the Chicago Park District’s Night Out in the Parks sites this summer. Upcoming events include EcoArt Studio, a space to create art projects with natural materials, on July 22 and a Movie in the Park featuring 42 on August

For more information about the Chicago Park District’s more than 8,100 acres of parkland,

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more than 580 parks, 26 miles of lakefront, nine museums, two world-class conservatories, 16 historic lagoons, nearly 50 nature areas, thousands of special events, sports and entertaining programs, please visit www.chicagoparkdistrict.com or contact the Chicago Park District at 312-742.PLAY or 312-747-2001 (TTY).

Want to share your talent? Volunteer in the parks by calling, 312-742-PLAY.

A NIGHT OF BIG FUN!”

–Dean Richards, WGN TV/Radio

RAYMOND LUKE, JR. PHOTO BY JOAN MARCUS. ALL OTHER PHOTOS BY ANDREW ECCLES.

NEIGHBORHOOD CHILDREN PLAY at the new park as the mayor looks on. Families now have a usable park within walking distance in their community.

Mayor Emanuel’s Chicago Plays! in Chicago through this initiaprogram. “Chicago is only as tive.” The program invests approxstrong as its neighborhoods. Park imately $125,000 in new playplaygrounds provide safe places ground equipment at each park for kids to play and grow, but they location for a total program cost of also serve as neighborhood hubs $37,500,000, providing a broad that foster friendships and strength- investment in capital projects en communities,” said Mayor throughout the City. The Park DisEmanuel. “Through this program, trict partnered with Friends of the we’re rebuilding Chicago so that Park to seek community input to prievery child in every neighborhood oritize locations. Mayor Emanuel’s

27. The Night Out in the Parks series brings 1,000 events and programs to more than 250 neighborhood parks throughout the City.

The Chicago Park District has partnered with more than 50 artists and community organizations to expand and produce this successful initiative.

THE NEW BURNSIDE Park is located at 9400 S. Greenwood in Chicago’s Burnside community. The park will also host movies in the park for community residents. www.chicagocrusader.com

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