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Convicted killers of Officer Wortham get life With television and photographer lenses allowed inside courtroom justice prevails

By Jay Coyden Palmer A popular Chicago police officer, who was gunned down four and a half years ago outside his parents Chatham home, received a measure of justice Wednesday

Thomas Wortham (February 4) as two men convicted of shooting and killing Thomas Wortham will spend the rest of their lives in prison. It was also the first time Cook County courtrooms allowed cameras inside as a part of a

pilot program that was approved last month by Chief Circuit Court Judge Timothy Evans.

Paris McGee and Toyious Taylor were two of four people who attempted to rob Wortham of his motorcycle in July of 2013. When Wortham announced he was a police officer, a shootout began. His father, a retired Chicago police sergeant, came to his son’s defense after retrieving his own handgun. He shot and killed one of the men, Brian Floyd, while another, Marcus Floyd was shot and seriously injured.

Floyd is still awaiting trial and is still receiving medical care for his injuries.

Wortham’s sister, Sandra, who has since run for office unsuccessfully, said her life was turned “upside down” after her brother’s death. She said at times she thinks maybe he was too good of a person for this world. She described him as a standup guy who had no problem putting his life on the line for others. She noted his military service, including two tours of duty in Iraq, in his personal commitment to freedom.

Wortham’s mother, Carolyn Wortham, said her son was the best son any mother could dream of. She said her son was faithful to the family and always stopped by to check in on his parents. She said on the night he was killed, he came by to show them the new motorcycle he had just bought. She said while she feared he could have been killed on the motorcycle, she never thought his life would end the way it did.

The man who Wortham was named after, read his victim impact statement to the court as well. He too described his son as a person with a warm heart and good-natured, easy-going personality. He said his

son’s death gave him even more resolve to help his community and he has participated in several anti-crime initiatives since the incident.

“All lives are valuable, I’m not trying to say my son was more important than any(Continued on page 2)

CHARLIE SIFFORD, THE first Black PGA member to successfully break through racial barriers and compete professionally on the PGA Tour, died Tuesday, Feb. 3 at the age of 92. In November 2014, Sifford was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama.

Pfleger to Rauner: ‘Stop raping the poor and our youth’ ‘Honor the contract, restore the money’

tors had approved their contracts, funds had been allocated, contracts signed by January 1, 2015 and verified by the state comptroller “as obligated funds to be paid out.”

On the eve of the governor’s “State of the State” address, Pfleger said since Rauner was sworn into office he has given nothing to the poor and the youth. In fact, he said Rauner has taken away what was legally given to them.

Referring to Rauner’s cutting the budgets for youth employment by $4.5 million, $3.5 million in afterschool care and day care programs, Pfleger said, “last Thursday the Governor

By Chinta Strausberg Saying Gov. Bruce Rauner doesn’t care about youth and the poor, Father Michael L. Pfleger and Henry English, CEO/COO/President of the Black United Fund of Illinois, Inc., Tuesday held a protest outside of the James R. Thompson Center demanding that Gov. Rauner restore the cuts and to cease “raping the poor and our youth programs” just to balance his budget.

Two busloads left Saint Sabina Church Tuesday morning (February 3) headed for the Thompson Center carrying signs that said, “Governor, Don’t Balance Budget on Backs of the Poor,” and “Rauner, Don’t Raise Unemployment.”

Some attendees were the victims of Rauner’s budget wielding knife even though the legisla-

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FATHER MICHAEL L. PFLEGER and Henry English, CEO/COO/President of the Black United Fund of Illinois, Inc., Tuesday held a protest outside of the James R. Thompson Center demanding that Gov. Rauner restore the cuts.

(Photo by Chinta Strausberg)

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NEWS

Chicago sucker-punched by February snow storm/blizzard

By J. Coyden Palmer As meteorologists still debate whether the 19 inches of snow that fell on the city Feb. 1 was a snow storm or a blizzard, citizens continue to curse the mayor as they slide down unplowed streets and slip on un-shoveled sidewalks. What had been a mild winter changed in 35 hours on Super Bowl Sunday as a light, but continuous snowstorm blanketed the area. With wind gusts at times surpassing 40 mph, driving became treacherous and many were caught by surprise.

“I was going to a Super Bowl party and I got stuck on the way there and never made it,” said Sharice Meadows of the South Side. “They said a snow storm not blizzard. I would have never come out in a blizzard.”

Meadows frustration with local weathermen was shared by others Crusader spoke with. Most said they thought it was going to be only six to eight inches of snow, but that prediction had changed by midday Sunday.

But most of the ire goes towards Mayor Emanuel, who they say has continued the city’s snow removing philosophy of ignoring alleys and getting to side streets in many cases too late.

“The problem with ignoring all the side streets is that this is where the majority of people live and we are the people who can’t get to work,” said Andrew Davis of Grand Crossing.

“There are cars stuck on side streets and alleys all over the city and a lot of the drivers are women. So what ends up happening is they have to depend on the kindness of men to get them out of a bad situation. I don’t see why they can’t do the main and side streets at the same time.”

The plowing of side streets has been a hot topic for decades and residents still are not satisfied. In 2008 under Mayor Richard Daley, the city experimented with an idea of not plowing side streets during weekend snowfall.

The plan was a disaster and citizens deluged aldermanic and the Mayor’s offices with phone calls demanding change. But things have not gotten better as a taxicab was stuck in the 2000 block of Shakespeare for over 24 hours during this recent storm, even after residents called the city to notify them about the situation.

“This is Chicago so it should be no surprise that we get lots of snow,” said mayoral candidate Bob Fioretti in a statement emailed to Crusader.

“What is surprising is that for the second year in a row, this mayor was not ready for a storm. Our side streets are horrific and we will be dealing with the fallout for days. Now the snow is packed on the side streets and salt is not going to help – ask any plow driver. We need a seasoned professional running Streets and Sanitation so that we avoid this kind of situation in the future. It is unacceptable and Chicagoans should be upset.”

On Feb. 3, two days after the storm and the first day Chicago Public Schools were reopened; parents found dropping their kids off a daunting task. Several drivers reported to Crusader about nearly impassible streets due to cars getting stuck in the snow and ice, which caused traffic tie-ups.

Even those who chose to walk to school still had problems with sidewalks not being cleared by property owners, forcing many to walk in the street, putting children and their parents in danger.

THIS WAS THE scene outside Scott Joplin School Feb. 3 after a school bus and several cars became stuck in snow in front of the South Side school. A quarter mile backup of vehicles attempting to drop off students was the result. (Photo by Shonique Perkins) “This is not what I was expecting she said. “The plow finally came at place ambulances but no critical care incidents that I’ve heard of,” said and I’m disappointed in the city’s re- 8:35.”

CFD spokesperson Larry Langford. sponse,” said David Lee, who walked The areas where most cars were gethis son to Scott Joplin at 7927 S. ting stuck were at intersections on “They’re trying not to go down the Honore. “This situation is danger- side streets and coming out of an alley middle of streets that are messed up. ous.” turning onto a side street, Crusader They’ll go to an intersection or corner Joplin students combined with high observed. One driver said the key is and try to bring the patient out, walk school students at neighboring Ralph having enough speed to make the down the street if necessary.”

Ellison High School, caused a quarter turn. But that is easier said than done.

City officials said they will be crackmile traffic jam in the area. A school Chicago Fire Department ambubus became stuck on the street mak- lances in some areas of stop driving ing down on property owners who do ing the situation worse. Parents and down side streets and are instead not follow the law and keep their sidestaff at one of the schools engaged in parking on main thoroughfares and walks clear of snow. A city ordinance arguments and even teachers were walking to treat patients in homes on requires property owners to put forth seen shoveling in their own parking side streets. A spokesperson for CFD a “good faith effort” to clear snow 24 lot, according to a witness that lives in said their vehicles kept getting stuck. hours after it stops snowing. Those the area Shonique Perkins.

“We’ve had a couple cases where who do not adhere to the law face “It was bad from about 7 to 9:15,” ambulances have responded to re- fines.

Fioretti, Commissioner Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, William “Dock” Walls and Willie Wilson and will focus on key issues that impact the African American community and the city as a whole, including job creation, business growth, education and public safety.

The 60 minute debate, which will air on CBS 2 during the regularly scheduled 6 p.m. newscast and preempt Entertainment Tonight, will be moderated by CBS 2 Chicago anchor and reporter Jim Williams.

The panelists will include: veteran television news anchor Robin Robinson, Chicago Sun-Times report-

er and assistant editor Maudlyne Ihejirika, and CBS 2 Chicago chief correspondent Jay Levine. CBS 2 evening anchor Rob Johnson will host the live event from the DuSable Museum. WVON will also broadcast the debate live.

“Despite some progress, African Americans in Chicago continue to struggle in the areas of educational achievement, economic success and community stability,” said Andrea L. Zopp, president and CEO of the Chicago Urban League. “This debate gives the mayoral candidates an opportunity to address the challenges we face and share their vision

CUL, BLC, CBS 2 and WVON to host mayoral debate Live Event will Feature All Candidates and Focus on African American Issues

The Chicago Urban League and the Business Leadership Council, in partnership with CBS 2 Chicago and WVON 1690 AM, will host the last debate prior to the February 24 mayoral election. Campaign 2015: The Chicago Mayoral Debate will take place on Tuesday, February 10 at 6:00 p.m. at the DuSable Museum of African American History. The live, televised debate will feature Mayor Rahm Emanuel and challengers Alderman Bob

Convicted killers of Officer Wortham (Continued from page 1) one else,” said Thomas Wortham III. “But when they killed my son, they didn’t just kill anyone.

They killed a man who always helped people and tried to make the world a better place.”

His mother added that she no longer feels safe in the Chatham community, a community which at the time of Wortham’s murder 2

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was seeing a large increase in violent crime. Current 6th Ward Alderman Roderick Sawyer, as well as former Ald. Fredrenna Lyle, said the Wortham family is an example of the typical family that lives in the community. Both said the Wortham family has been embraced by the community, both before and after Wortham’s death.

“This was a case that struck to the core of anyone who grew up in Chatham and had memories of what it was like to live here,” Sawyer said. “That is why it was such a huge outpouring of grief and support. Through his death I have seen people become more active, especially around the Cole Park area. People are taking their community back.”

for the city of Chicago. This debate is designed to engage and empower the community.”

"This mayoral debate provides a platform for the candidates to inform everyone about their specific plans to address the challenges that uniquely affect the Black community and impact the City of Chicago,” said Frank M. Clark, chairman of the board and president of the Business Leadership Council. “Issues including economic empowerment and business diversity deserve thoughtful and timely action from City Hall. We look forward to the candidates presenting their solutions on February 10 at the DuSable Museum."

“CBS 2 is pleased to again partner with the Chicago Urban League, the Business Leadership Council and WVON to broadcast this very important debate,” said Marty M. Wilke, general manager and president of CBS 2 Chicago. “We look forward to presenting the mayoral candidates to our viewers in this important conversation on issues that are important to the African American community and everyone who is concerned about the future of

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Chicago.”

“This election comes at a critical time for our city,” said Melody Spann Cooper, chairman of Midway Broadcasting Corporation and president of WVON 1690 AM. “Through this broadcast we want to ensure that all Chicagoans are engaged in the campaign and vote on Election Day.” The mayoral debate will take place before a live, invitation-only audience at the DuSable Museum of African American History. In addition to watching the debate live, the Chicago Urban League and the Business Leadership Council encourage citizens to submit questions to the candidates for consideration.

A community question will be selected and asked on-air during the debate. Community questions for the candidates can be submitted via email to debate2015@thechicagourbanleague.org.

In addition to broadcasting the mayoral debate live, CBS 2 Chicago will stream the event online at CBSchicago.com. WVON 1690 AM will also stream the debate online at wvon.com. www.chicagocrusader.com

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NEWS

Two youth workers accuse police of racial profiling

By J. Coyden Palmer Nearly a year after two Affordable Healthcare Act canvass workers were arrested by Chicago Police, the two youths are suing the city claiming they were wrongfully arrested. During a press conference at the Dirksen Federal Building Feb. 3, Kevin Tapia and Felipe Hernandez told the story of how they were working in a predominately white neighborhood when two CPD officers approached them and asked them what they were doing.

What happened after that is unclear. A spokesperson for the city’s Law Department declined to comment citing policy since litigation has been filed. But in their complaint, Hernandez and Tapia claim they were only doing their jobs going door to door in an attempt to inform people about how to sign up for the Affordable Care Act when they were stopped.

They were canvassing on behalf of the Brighton Park Neighborhood Council and the Grassroots Collaborative.

“I was shocked to be arrested for engaging in a legal activity and I

feared that I would now have a criminal record that could prevent me from working, continuing my education and becoming a citizen of the U.S,” stated Kevin Tapia. “I was frightened and feared the worst for no reason whatsoever.”

According to the suit, the duo was approached in the 5500 block of south Normandy by Officers who inquired about their activities. Not satisfied with their explanation, the two were arrested and charged with unlawful solicitation. They were held for three hours in the 8th district before being released on a recognizance bond.

“Kevin and Felipe’s arrests were deplorable and wholly unjustifiable,” said Joey Mogul, a lawyer with the People’s Law Office representing Tapia and Hernandez.

“They were racially profiled as young Latino men in a predominantly white neighborhood and arrested on a bogus charge. They should have been applauded for their political engagement by the City, and instead they were punished while exercising their First Amendment rights to free speech.”

PLAINTIFFS KEVIN TAPIA and Felipe Hernandez hold a copy of the lawsuit they filed in federal court this week accusing the Chicago Police Department of racial profiling in the case of their arrest last year while working as canvassers for the Affordable Healthcare Act. (photo provided by Grassroots Collaborative) Statistics provided by Grassroots youth also suffer disproportion- right and duty of citizens of a Collaborative show that people of ately, and are twice as likely as democracy to talk to our neighbors and fellow residents. It’s our color are disproportionately arrest- their white peers to be arrested. ed and charged by the Chicago Po“Door knocking campaigns play hope that many Chicago citizens, lice Department. In 2012, Black an important role in our civic en- including young people of color, and Latino youth aged 17 and un- gagement work and the work of will be exercising that right in the der were the target of 96 percent many organizations across our next few weeks. We are very of CPD arrests. Black youth are city,” said Amisha Patel, who pleased that Kevin and Felipe 10 times more likely than their serves as the executive director of have decided to file this lawsuit white peers to be arrested; Latino Grassroots Collaborative. “It’s the now.”

Pfleger to Rauner: ‘Stop raping the poor and our youth’ (Continued from page 1) without warning without conversation all programs were ended effective immediately. Nobody was spoken to.

Nobody was talked to. The programs were just ended” including day care programs he said were not refunded as of January 31, 2015.

Pfleger said while this is going on, African American youth unemployment is at an “all time high and while the governor is cutting programs for young people… He is giving his deputy governor a 24 percent increase in salary. He’s giving his chief of staff a 38 percent increase in salary and he’s giving his general counsel a 53 percent

increase. He is giving his budget director a 20 percent increase in salary, and he’s giving his executive assistant a 94 percent increase in salary, and he’s hiring a chief of staff for his wife. How do you hire a chief of staff when you have no staff”?

“So you can increase your group around you and cut off programs in the African American and Latino communities…. Gov. Rauner, we’re here to tell you…you may have a lot of money and you may be a venture capitalist. You may be a business man, but we are not accepting this kind of business in the state of Illinois,” Pfleger said as the crowd screamed in support. “Do

OSCAR RIVERA, JR., who heads the Bikes N’ Roses under communities United, said the youth are devastated. Diane Liamas, a volunteer with Community United, said, “A lot of the youth we hired quit their jobs because they thought there was a contract and they thought this job was set in stone until the contract ran out. They quit their former jobs. (Photo by Chinta Strausberg) www.chicagocrusader.com

not balance your budget on the backs of poor people and Gov. Rauner don’t turn your back on our youth…. Restore the money now.”

More than 250 people joined Pfleger and English to protest the budget cuts chanting, “What do we want? Jobs. When do we want them?

Now. Restore the Jobs.”

Mr. English said, “We’re going to fight for justice… and for jobs…. We are not going to stand down. If you’re standing up, it’s hard for someone to stand on your back.” He called on legislators to “stand up” for their community. “We will fight for jobs and justice….

“You can’t just come in and disrespect us by sending us an e-mail” that ended their programs. “That is totally disrespect…. I’m calling on our community to stand up. We may have a long fight….we will circle, fight, do what ever is necessary to get justice for our community,” said English. Pfleger chanted, “honor the contract.”

Pfleger, who has had the largest youth employment agency in the Midwest, wasn’t the only one receiving an e-mail from the state ending social and economic programs. Lynette Santiago, executive director of the Fellowship Connection in Humboldt Park was another budgetary victim.

She hired 350 youth and said they depend on the funding to go to school and social workers “who have taken a vow of poverty” to help the youth.

“How can we work together…don’t just cut us out.

“Our families need this and we need you to speak to us.” Santiago said her

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organization subsidizes 28 agencies and churches to hire youth. Rauner canceled her $923,000 grant. The funding came from the Department of Labor and managed by the Department of Human Services. “We put so much money into this and we have no guarantee we’ll get it back.”

Community activist David Whittaker, CEO, Chicago Area Project, said, “There is a moral imperative that we look out for our young people,” he said are hurting and dying every day. “This program is one that works because it gives our young people hope…. We’re talking about the lives and welfare of these young folk.”

One of those who received an e-mail from the state canceling their funds was Oscar Rivera, Jr., who heads the Bikes N’ Roses under Communities United in Albany Park. He teaches youth about bicycle mechanics and job readiness training. He received a grant from the Illinois Department of Human Services.

When Rauner canceled the contract, Rivera was forced to fire more than 50 people he says are “traumatized.” “There were a lot of tears on that day,” Rivera said explaining he received the e-mail last Thursday. He said the youth “are confused. They’ve been shot down….”

Diane Liamas, a volunteer with Community United, said, “A lot of the youth we hired quit their jobs because they thought there was a contract and they thought this job was set in stone until the contract ran out. They quit their former job and now they don’t have a job at all.”

She also leased a space for the youth

to work and doesn’t know if her organization can break that lease. “This is very hard on our young people.”

Rosita Chatonda is the coordinating director for the Black Fund’s Teach for South Shore program and heads the Chicago Alliance of Urban School Educators where she advocates for more than 10,000 African American teachers who had been terminated due to school closings. She had 28 retired teachers and she was going to hire 40 parents. “It’s a wonderful program. ….

Pfleger said when Gov. Rauner was running; he said he was going to cutting the income tax…he did. We were presuming he had a plan and maybe the plan is what we’re seeing now.” “He ran for governor because he said he had a plan. Where’s the plan”? Pfleger asked why didn’t Rauner say this when he was running for governor?

Pfleger said the governor cut between $8 and $9 million and that he had 50 interns to show up for work yesterday.

“We had to turn them away,” he told reporters.

English said 91 percent of the youth are unemployed with 58 percent being Black men. “Those are staggering immoral figures and we have to figure out how to deal with that.” He hopes Rauner would take the moral road on resolving this situation.

The governor issued a statement saying: “Unfortunately, Gov. Quinn signed a budget that was unbalanced by $1.5 billion. The administration is taking action to manage the inherited budget hole and is working with the legislature to find responsible solutions.”

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EDITORIAL

EDITORIAL RACE AND CLASS IN BLACK AMERICA There are many issues in the Black community, and there is no shortage of armchair quarterbacks discussing solutions to these problems. The challenge is that most of us view problems from our own standpoint, and if we are not experiencing what others are experiencing we tend to miss the mark and look at things from an unrealistic perspective. This problem of not being able to detach ourselves from our own viewpoint to see what others see from their point of view is one of the biggest challenges in the world, and it is also one of the biggest problems in the Black community. For example, if you only READ about community violence and the youth who are impacted by it, it is easy for you to think that these problems could be cleared up by just offering more jobs to youth. More jobs would be welcomed, to be sure, but it would take more than jobs to fix problems in the community today. The challenges we face are partially grounded in spiritual malaise and class division that has its roots in historic deprivation due to institutional racism.

It is probably true that if you are an average “middle class” Black person, you have “middle class” values. And, by the way, being “middle class” is about more than money. It is a world view; it is an aspiration; it is a path laden with the expectation that what is sought after can be achieved through education, for example. It is grounded in hard work, usually within the mainstream, but sometimes out of it as well.

The so-called “underclass,” on the other hand, may not really understand these values. This is especially true of the very large numbers of children raising themselves or who are involved in the child welfare system. Far too often, their values are centered in materialism. It is not unusual to see impoverished youth sporting $500 Pelle Pelle jackets, expensive North Face coats, $200 belts and expensive hair weaves. They do not value marriage and it is rare to hear many of them with this goal. One young aspiring perpetually-truant rapper was heard telling a group of teachers that “I make more money than all of y’all!” He did not understand why they were encouraging him to stay in school.

The crass materialism that many of this ilk displays is no doubt fueled by lack; lack of money, lack of employment, lack of love, lack of a firm family foundation, and more. They are often totally unaware that there are other values that need to be cultivated in order to live a full life that is beneficial to self and community. If you question this notion, just spend time watching some of the rap videos that have so enthralled too many Black youth. They are usually about dissing each other, getting cash and bragging about it, and lust. They don’t make “music” about family and real love. (One notable exception was the late, great Tupac Shakur).

Now, what does all of this have to do with the class schism in the Black community? It is simply this - we have divergent groups that do not know each other and, because of this, cannot, or will not relate to each other. In order for healing to happen in the Black community, unity is needed. Blacks who are academically successful often look down on their less erudite brethren while those from the “underclass” think that academic success is acting white. There is no real communication between the groups. Because of this, there is no amount of reasoning that can keep troubled, underclass youth from killing each other in a Black-onBlack holocaust. They have no clue that there is another, higher way to live life because they have not lived it.

These problems, though seemingly intractable, can be addressed if the chasm between underclass, middle and upper class Blacks can be bridged. This cannot happen, however, until there is a concerted effort on the part of everyone in the Black community to focus on a campaign touting family values in lieu of materialism. It won’t happen if the family unit is not the focus of community healing. A luta continua (the struggle continues).

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Thank you for giving me the privilege to serve Dear Editor: Earlier this month I took the oath of office for my fifth and last time. I am writing to thank your readers for giving me the honor and privilege to serve as their Illinois Secretary of State for a historic fifth term.

Illinoisans deserve the very best from their government. As Secretary of State, it has been and continues to be my mission to run the office with honor, integrity and in a manner that the public deserves.

This is a responsibility that I have never, and will never, take for granted.

Since 1999, when I first took the oath of office for Secretary of State, I have focused my work to restore integrity, to make the office more efficient and customer friendly, and to make our roads safer. I am proud to say that we have made great strides in each of these important areas.

Working with my Inspector General, Jim Burns, the former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, we have changed the culture of the office, restoring integrity and weeding out corruption and wrongdoing.

Through the implementation of new technologies and streamlined operations, wait times at Driver Services facilities have been significantly reduced. My job is not done, and we will be rolling out new initiatives that will further improve customer service.

To make the roads safer, we toughened our DUI laws, which are now considered the best in the country. Since 1999, drunk driving fatalities have dropped by 60 percent. But we didn’t stop there.

Nationally, the leading cause of death for teens is traffic crashes.

Tragically, in a 15 month stretch between 2005 and 2006, 15 teenagers in Tazewell County lost their lives on Illinois roads. I was heartbroken, and I was angry. As Secretary of State, I needed to do something about it.

I created a task force made up of legislators, educators, law enforcement officers, judges and traffic safety experts from around the state and country.

Together, we revamped the licensing program for new teen drivers. We required more training, extended the length of the learner’s permit, and enhanced the penalties for failing to comply with the program. The result: Teen driving deaths in Illinois have dropped by over 57 percent.

That’s good, but let’s be clear – I’m still not satisfied. One death is one too many.

That’s why I will be reconvening

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our traffic safety task force to further improve road safety initiatives.

Before closing, I want to remind your readers that I served our country as a paratrooper in the Army’s 101st Airborne Division.

We had a saying there: when you jump out of an airplane, you don’t go half way, you go all the way.

That’s the way I live my life. I (Continued on page 17)

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COMMENTARY

Nigeria may be on the Road to Disaster Beyond the Rhetoric

By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Nigeria has the largest Black population in the world – 178 million.

Within that population are 300 differing ethnic and culture groups. Traditionally colonial powers such as England would group various ethnicities together to provide confusion and controversy. A confused populace was much easier to exploit and colonize. Nigeria has yet to evolve from that condition.

The largest group lives in the southwestern part of the nation and they are known as the Yoruba. They have a control system managed mainly by monarchs and are successful politically. Another large group is the Igbo which mainly live in the southern Delta area of the nation which is known for its oil exploration. The third largest group is the Hausa – Fulani which is basically Muslim and locally run by Emirs.

With the oil industry as its financial base, the Igbo decided in 1967 that they would go it alone and part from the government of Nigeria. Thus, the great Civil War of 1967 was begun.

This became one of the bloodiest

Harry C. Alford conflicts known to mankind. The Yoruba cut off the supply lines to Igbo country known as Biafra. At the end of the conflict, 1970, over 1 million Igbo had died mostly from starvation during this time as the rest of the world ignored it all. The nation has kept in original formation but the tribal chasms remain.

In contrast to the Delta oil region,

the northern Chad Lake Basin has discovered viable oil reserves and when the high price of oil returns you will see an extreme amount of exploration. The Hausa – Fulani control this segment and they have no ideas of sharing it. Besides the other major groups, the bordering nations of Chad, Niger and Cameroon have their ideas of exploiting it. This is the major problem versus peace.

The Hausa – Fulani is becoming more and more Jihadist. The major negative activity is that of the Boko Haram whose mission is to form an Islamic State right over the Chad Lake Basin. They are starting a cleansing process through roving groups of murderers and ethnic cleansing. The Boko Haram is as lethal and as vicious as the ISIS organization in the Middle East. This group was founded in 2002 by an educated, well dressed gentleman named Mohamad Yusuf. After his death in 2009, Abubaker Shekau replaced him. By contrast the new leader is a “butcher” with dreams of genocide.

Their funding is mysterious but one can bet it’s coming from the Middle East. With the oil revenue implications it can also be coming from secretive corporate means or Intel

European allies lack the “back bone” to get serious about a major war.

If there are religious and/or tribal implications it will be an exhaustive experience. Financing it will be no problem for the “bad guys” and the bad guys could be on all sides of the struggle. No one will win and the world will suffer. The entire African Diaspora will become pre-occupied and current progressive projects will be put on hold.

Our State Department has shown no viable strategy in the above mess.

The UN has shown token input or leadership. Right now the situation reminds us of Iraq just before ISIS came storming through at the shock and dismay of President Obama.

What we have is a large swath of land, well populated and about to boil over. The commercial activity of Nigeria may come to a big halt and it will take years and perhaps a few million deaths before some semblance of responsibility and good governance arrives. Is anyone listening?

Operandi such as the CIA, European and Middle Eastern counterparts and even the Israeli Mossud.

Boko Haram is growing and is unchecked by the Nigerian Army.

This army is inept and corrupt. You don’t know what you get whenever the Army starts to move. There have been more than a few reports of atrocities committed by the Nigerian Army on its own people. Tribal rift and revenge often come into play.

Coupled with an unreliable military is the political climate. For the first time in decades, President Goodluck Johnathan’s party is being seriously challenged in the upcoming elections. If President Johnathan is defeated there is a big question – Will he step aside? If not, major chaos throughout the nation will appear.

At the same time, Boko Haram will reap massacre on the Chad Lake Basin area. That will invite the armies of Chad, Niger and Cameroon to step in and add to the possible carnage. If this develops into a major, long-term military/revolutionary struggle, I wonder which nation or group of nations can come in and settle the situation. The U.S. military is already strained with the debacles in the Middle East. Our

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

Website: www.nationalbcc.org Email: halford@nationalbcc.org.

How Dick Gregory Got his Hollywood Star

By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Activist/SiriusXm satellite radio host Joe Madison was helping on a campaign to get the Four Tops a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame when he noticed another serious omission from the worldfamous tribute to entertainers.

“You go to Hollywood and Gene Autry had five (one in each category). Big Bird had a star.

When we did our campaign to get the Four Tops a star, I said, ‘My God, Dick Gregory doesn’t have a star’.” In 1997, seven years after getting inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Four Tops, – whose 1960s hits included such songs as “Baby I Need Your Loving,” “Ask the Lonely,” “I Can’t Help Myself ” and “It’s the Same Old Song” – finally were awarded a star.

But Madison couldn’t get over the fact that Dick Gregory, the first Black comedian to earn more than $1 million a year yet gave up his career to actively support Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), hadn’t been recognized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

“You can walk down there and not see Dick Gregory, but you’ll www.chicagocrusader.com

George E. Curry see Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor and Whoopi Goldberg,” Madison said. “I don’t know of any entertainer from the era who sacrificed more than Dick Gregory.”

About 10 years ago, he set out to change that.

“The first time we tried it, we filled out a very complicated application and the committee – the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce – didn’t award him a star,” Madison remembered. “I tried again and they still didn’t accept it. We let some time go by.

This time (in 2013), I said, ‘Look, this is ridiculous.’ That’s when I got Sheila Moses, who helped write Dick’s last book, help word the application. E. Faye Williams, president of the National Congress of Black Women, helped and we put the application together and sent it in. Finally, the committee accepted him in the class of 2015.”

At the age of 85, Gregory joins a class that includes Kool & the Gang, Pharrell Williams, Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler. The induction ceremony was carried live Monday on national and international television.

Before Gregory could receive his honor, $30,000 had to be submitted on his behalf to cover the creation and installation of his star as well as maintenance of the Walk of Fame.

A small group of supporters got together to strategize. The first idea was to reach out to some of the biggest names in Hollywood who could write the $30,000 within the blink of the eye, including fellow comedian Bill Cosby and Hugh Hefner, who lifted Gregory to national stardom in 1961 by regularly booking him at Chicago’s Playboy Club. The second idea was to identify 30 people willing to donate $1,000 each.

But Joe Madison had a better

idea.

He recalled, “I got with Sherry [his wife and radio producer] and said, ‘Let’s go on the air and make this very simple – 1,000 people with $30. If I don’t have 1,000 listeners who can afford $30, I need to be off the air’.”

Madison didn’t need to get off the air – the $30,000 goal of the Dick Gregory Hollywood Star Fund was reached in two weeks.

“What it really speaks to is Dick,” he said. And it’s hard to find anyone who has not been touched by Dick Gregory in some way.

As a teenager growing up in Tuscaloosa, Ala., I remember hearing him speak at First African Baptist Church, the nerve center of our efforts to desegregate my hometown. I was stunned by the way he boldly attacked segregation, keeping us laughing along the way.

He would say, “The last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant and this white waitress came up to me and said, ‘We don’t served colored people here.’ I said, ‘That’s all right. I don’t eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken’.” And there was this one: “Segregation is not all bad. Have you ever heard of a collision where the people in the back of the bus got hurt?”

There was simply no one else

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like Dick Gregory. And callers into Joe Madison’s radio show shared their special memories.

Madison remembers the callins: “One guy, who’s a doctor in New Orleans, said, ‘Dick Gregory spoke at Xavier University. I was a student and I still have the notes from that speech.’ He was in school in the 70s.

“An executive from Caterpillar in Peoria, Ill. said, ‘I am the only Black sitting up here on the 7th floor and I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for Dick Gregory. I know you asked for $30, but I am sending $1,500’.”

Most of the contributors were everyday people who donated $30.

“It had to be done,” Madison said of the campaign to honor Gregory. “People say, ‘Who cares about a star on the Walk of Fame? It’s about marking your territory’.”

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 Web site, 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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THE NEW MEANING OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH 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: 773268-3835. E-mail: c-worrill@neiu.edu, Web site: www.ccics-chicago.org, Twitter: @CCICS_Chicago

Dr. Conrad Worrill The African Centered Education Movement has brought a new meaning to the annual African American History Month celebrations that have become so popular. That new meaning of African Centered thought, as defined by Dr. Wade Nobles, “is

nothing more than a term categorizing a quality of thought and practice which is rooted in the cultural image and interest of African people and which represents and reflects the life experiences, history and traditions of African people as the center of analyses.” With this definition it is clear that we must study the liberation of African people.

Dr. Nobles further states that African Centered thought is, “the intellectual and philosophical foundations upon which African people should create their own scientific criterion for authenticating human reality.”

Through the African Centered Education Movement, African American History Month has now become the catalyst for the intense study of Africa and the history of African people throughout the world 365 days a year. We must pay particular attention in our studies to the history of the Reparations Movement.

Dr. Carter G. Woodson, who founded in February of 1926 what at that time was called “Negro History Week,” would indeed be inspired by the continuing discussion and debate over the infusion of the contributions of African people in all subjects. Dr. Woodson was deeply concerned that the contributions of African people to this society and the world were not given their proper recognition.

Dr. Woodson’s great book “The

Miseducation of the Negro,” written in 1933, described in the first chapter titled, “The Seat of the Trouble,” the essence of what the African Centered Curriculum Movement is battling against today— 80 years later.

Dr. Woodson explained that, “Of the hundreds of Negro high schools recently examined (1933) by an expert in the United States Bureau of Education, only eighteen offer a course taking up the history of the Negro, and in most of the Negro colleges and universities where the Negro is thought of, the race is studied only as a problem or dismissed as of little consequence.”

Continuing on, Dr. Woodson gave an example of, “an officer of a Negro university, thinking that an additional course on the Negro should be given there, called upon a Negro Doctor of Philosophy on the faculty to offer such work. He promptly informed the officer that he knew nothing about the Negro. He did not go to school to waste his time that way. He went to be educated in a system which dismissed the Negro as a nonentity.”

Obviously, since the writing of this great book, we have come a long way in our battle against challenging the white supremacy foundation of the American public school curriculum.

However, we still have a long way to go!

The Black Movement of the 1960s gave us an impetus to reexamine our history and its impact on this country and the world. This movement brought on renewed interest, on the part of our people, to study our history.

We moved from the use of the term “Negro” in referring to ourselves and began to use “Black” as the more appropriate way to describe who we are.

We went from Black History Week to Black History Month. In fact, some of us began to refer to the month of February as Black Liberation Month.

It was through the movement of the 1960s, particularly the Black Power Phase that we began to reidentify with our homeland— Africa, and the interconnection of African people throughout the world.

The Black student movement of the 1960s sparked demands for courses in Black Studies that lead the famous strike at San Francisco State University.

After a long battle with the administration at the university, the students finally won a victory for the first Black Studies Program to be established at an American college or university. As a result, a movement for Black Studies erupted all over America and stimulated at the elementary and secondary levels demands from courses dealing with Black History.

As we have come full circle today in our general acceptance of being African People, whose ancestral homeland is Africa, we are also beginning to recognize that African American History Month celebrations and activities are great, but the contributions of African people must be emphasized throughout the year.

There is no question that the setting aside of the month of February, as an extension of Dr. Woodson’s original idea of “Negro History Week” is something that we need to continue to support and institutionalize vigorously.

However, we are quite clear that the real meaning of African American History Month in this era, is to take the spirit from all the celebrations, great speeches, great entertainment and festive events to establish as a major agenda item in our movement, the serious study of the contributions of African people 365 days a year.

The basis of the current African Centered Education Movement, whose objective is to take control of the education of African people in America as we struggle to insure that the truth is taught in all institutions, in our communities and particularly in our schools.

We must take the spirit of African American History Month to another level. Our history must be studied throughout the year!

PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATES IGNORE RACE

By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist From everything I read – I like Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).

Her progressive ideas are just what we need while Hilary Clinton is straddling the fence, and still cozying up with bankers. Warren says she isn’t running for President, but there are quite a few political action committees urging her to run. And like President Barack Obama, she released a biography (A Fighting Chance) just two years before the 2016 election that provides details of her hardscrabble childhood, her early pregnancy and marriage, and her struggles combining work and family when she had a small child.

Men and women can relate to her story, as well as at the ways she became the guru for consumer rights and financial literacy. When senators would not confirm her for the permanent position in the Department of Treasury, she ran for the Senate. Running for office for the first time, and she won.

Warren has consistently articulated a progressive agenda focused on those at the bottom, but she has 6

consistently ignored race matters.

Perhaps this is because progressive politicians feel they will alienate part of their base if they talk about race. This makes Warren and the others not much different that conventional politicians, ignoring the economic differences between African Americans and others.

How would Elizabeth Warren deal with declining revenues for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)? Would she step in to close the unemployment rate gap or the achievement gap?

Would she deal with the housing discrimination that too many African Americans face? Or would she hide behind the common progressive refrain that when challenges at the bottom are addressed, African Americans are lifted up and their circumstance will change.

The progressive Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) has articulated a progressive agenda from the Senate for more than a decade. He hails from the swing state of Ohio, and many are wondering why he doesn’t command the same kind of attention that Elizabeth Warren does.

While his ideas are solid he, too, has

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Dr. Julianne Malveaux pretty much ignored the issue of race.

At the same time that progressives have been ignoring race, we have been barraged with report after report that race matters. Whether we are talking about those in kindergarten or in high schools, African American students face stricter discipline (with some of them, regardless of age, handcuffed and expelled from school), while teachers rely on

their sociology classes to justify keeping white kids in school for the same infractions. Conversations about disproportionate rates of incarceration, and racial disparities in the application of the death penalty are rarely raised in Congress unless members of the Congressional Black Caucus bring it up. Progressives should not talk about race matters exclusively, but they exhibit a pathetic myopia when they fail to talk about race at all.

African American Democrats will hold their noses and vote for Elizabeth Warren, or if they are Clinton loyalists, they will vote her instead.

Indeed, Elizabeth Warren has as much a change of winning a presidential contest as I do, but her committees will challenge the Clinton positions on domestic public policy.

If she is able to get Senator Clinton to alter her positions on just a few matters she will have done her job.

Still, like President Obama, the matter of race is off the table. The President addresses race gingerly, mainly because as an African American President he must debunk the myth that he is racially biased. I don’t agree with position, or the

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way he dealt with it in the State of the Union address when he had nothing to lose by dealing with race or simply saying the words “African American” or “Black.” Race still matters in our nation. What national leader has the courage to say it?

Warren, Clinton and Brown have more leeway than President Obama, but they have as much fear as President Obama does for addressing a key national issue.

There is significant excitement about the role Senator Elizabeth Warren will play in the 2016 election. Maybe she will garner enough delegates to force a roll call, or at least the opportunity to nominate Senator Clinton. Maybe she will have a chance to address the nation in one of the prime-time spots during the convention, just as President Obama did in 2000. Certainly her name will be whispered or even shouted as she gains popular support. But if she is unwilling to talk about race, she will not have met the expectations of some in the African American community.

Julianne Malveaux is an author and economist based in Washington, D.C.

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By Ima Gontellit EDITOR'S NOTE: This column is published as political satire, street gossip and humor, and therefore should not be considered as fact but rather as matter of opinion. None of the items therein are collected by the news gathering staff of the Crusader Newspaper Group. Items forwarded to The Chatterbox are kept confidential unless otherwise requested by the author in writing. For submissions please forward to: AChicagoCrusader@aol.com. Original photography and artwork are permitted. Thank you for reading!

In at least two debates, Walls talked like the front runner, while the Alderman Without A Ward, was reduced to a squealing pig; and the Commissioner Nobody Knows, came off as half asleep, and half awake—jolted only when he felt personally threatened by De Tiny Emperor. The other candidate in the race—Doctor Willie Wilson, made sense only to people in Lawndale and Austin. But this is about Walls…

The Chatterbox makes it pretty clear where it stands on much of de foolishness we experience as a group in America, and Ima been pretty clear about Doc Walls’ fake campaigns, that never have any campaign debt. And we don’t know

EARLY PIMPIN’

knows how to play both ends against the middle—and wind up being liked by both opposing sides.

This is why nobody is concerned about him not having his job for another four years.

-ImaHE GOT POWER NOW We hear the right Reverend State Senator James Meeks is cashing in on his newfound access and slither of power granted him by his massa now the Illinois Governor. At a recent meeting, we hear people was practically trying to get Meeks to lay hands on them, thinking he can stop all de cuts to their faith-based programs, that are about to come

down. He can’t. He won’t.

-ImaWEST SIDE FOLLIES #3 Former State Senator Rickey Hendon is de best Anasi De Spider the world has ever known. He is the master trickster, hustler, and politician con man who knows how to push de buttons of his lesser foes.

This is why he is said to be masterful in helping one politician help Rahm

You can begin trying to send De Tiny Emperor back to Washington, D.C., on February 9 when the early bird voting starts in Chicago. Eighteen Afro American people waiting for the Green Line promised out loud dat the minute the library door open they running up in de place and voting for... seven said Willie

-ImaTEACHER BASHING

Doc Walls

Rahm Emanuel Wilson, six said Fioretti, four said Jesus, and one said Doc Walls.... speaking of which...

-ImaDOC QUIXOTE Looks lak de mayoral campaign of the forever going back year after year candidate Bill “Doc” Walls is gaining momentum. Just jokin’. No one on de planet is takin’ Harold Washington’s coat holder/policy advisory seriously this year either. But what has been quite the cool drink of water is Walls is de only one making any sense on the street. He’s become sort of lak dis Mexican named Don Quixote who turned into a revolutionary after losin’ his mind and reading a bunch of speeches of his heros—or something lak dat. Donnie was crazy as a betsy bug but he wound up making sense—just like Doc Walls. www.chicagocrusader.com

mouth” who could make trouble in one ward, who is some sort of “community activist” who might be able to give the Rahm-lackey a run for her money. Well, how did this go down you ask...“by cutting a deal with this guy because he has a particular interest with (Deborah) Graham,” said one snitch who laks to drink Mickies at 9 in the morning.

“Its all over the streets, what done happened. Since he got hold to some purse strings, they is using him. They done promised this (Nword) he gone be mentored by Danny and be our congressman.

BULL (cussword). We don’t know that (n-word). Anyway I don’t give no (F-word) because if this what it take to cool his monkey (A-word) out, then they can tell him he gone be the President of the United States.” Ouch!

nothing about him really living in Las Vegas either. But what we do know is de white man is apparently tossin’ him under the bus financially and have turned their trickin’ to the more seasoned sell-outs because it looks lak Walls might one day wind up galvanizing ‘hood folk behind a cause.’ If Walls showed up a year before the mayor’s race, built a community organization and took up issues other than nano-technology, people might take him seriously.

And, then if he was taken seriously, he could actually wind up being– water commissioner or an alderman. He is smart. He ain’t ugly.

And, he know de streets and de law.

Folk can’t figure out why he running around with “strategist” Bruce Crosby and his gigantic brother and some other people who always seem angry and never have no plan about nothing.

James Meeks

Rickey Hendon Emanuel avoid a run-off; and how he will help at least two incumbent West Side aldermen retain their seats too. Somebody who lak to drink purple Kool-Aid and eat catfish with Rickey been tellin’ all de world about the 29th Ward and how they have “neutralized a loud-

One arch enemy of the teachers union lady is back running her mouth again about Karen Lewis being back and all over the front page of the Cloudy Times. “She had to come back. She need that health insurance,” the woman was overheard saying in the Bronzeville chicken and waffle place. The people who overheard it was mad, because they (Continued on page 17)

Doc Quixote is refreshing.

Doc Walls is tired.

-ImaMONEY DUMP People is confused in de 20th Ward as to how former cop turned alderman Willie Cochran is able to get support of some progressive groups and De Mayor at the same time. They is saying Mr. Willie is one smart Council Member. He Blacks Must control their own coMMunity

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AFRICA INTERNATIONAL HOUSE USA BLACK HISTORY MONTH ACTIVITIES: On Saturday, February 7 Dr. Useni Perkins will discuss the Black Empowerment Movement in Chicago 1960 to 1975 and his book on the period at 2 p.m.

And on Friday, February 13 there will be an African Dinner and a Show at 6 p.m. ($10 for adults and $5 for students). These events will take place at the Center for Contemporary African Art and Culture, 6200 South Drexel, Chicago, Illinois 60637. For further information call 773-955ARTS. HACKLABS: The Adler and the Shedd Aquarium are teaming up to present HackLabs: Data in Difficult Places– a chance for you to learn more about citizen science and design your own experiments. HackLabs will take place once a month on Saturdays. The next one will be held at the Shedd Aquarium, 1200 S. Lake Shore Drive, on Saturday, February 7. HackLabs are free programs for a limited number of teens. Register today!

SECOND SUNDAYS AT THE HYDE PARK ART CENTER: On Sunday, February 8 from 1 p.m. - 4 p.m., the Hyde Park Art Center holds its monthly Second Sundays. Artist Lee Blalock will lead participants in transforming the space in a drawing, writing, and light installation and artist Candice Latimer will lead a winter themed black and white photo-darkroom session. Admission is free and all are welcome. The Hyde Park Art Center is located at 5020 South Cornell Avenue in Chicago. For more information call 773-324-5520 or visit or visit www.hydeparkart.org.

SOX VS. CUBS/THE CHICAGO CIVIL WARS: This exhibit continues through Sunday, February 8, in the Special Collections, Exhibit Hall, 9th Floor, of the Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State Street. For most Chicagoans, the rivalry between the Chicago White Sox and the Chicago Cubs is legendary. Fans’ loyalty to one team or the other appears to divide the city into North and South Sides. This fun exhibit features each team’s historical development, statistical information, photographs, memorabilia, souvenirs and other materials. The Sox vs. Cubs exhibit was produced by the Elmhurst Historical Museum, a department of The City of Elmhurst, Illinois. For additional information, call 312-7474050 or visit chipublib.org.

COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF BRAINERD CANDIDATES’ FORUM: Greetings to you all. Just for your information, the Community Relations Council of 8

Brainerd will be hosting its candidates forum on Wednesday, February 11, at 5 p.m. at Fort Dearborn School—9025 S. Throop. If you are available, you may wish to attend.

BIODIVERSITY ARCADE AT THE FIELD MUSEUM: Like playing games? Make Field Museum science games on Wednesday, February 11, at 4:30 p.m.! Join the Field Museum this winter as they make games about underwater ecosystems!

They’ll explore The Field Museum’s collections and research on life underneath the deep blue sea and explore the aquatic evolutionary tree of life. Teens will learn to program in Scratch and translate what they learn about Field Museum science into biodiversity video games. These activities are Free and open to teens ages 14-18 with a valid school or state ID. Teens must enter through the West Doors of the Museum; the program runs from 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. The Field Museum is located at 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive in Chicago.

CHICAGO AFRICAN AMERICANS IN PHILANTHROPY LISTENING SESSION: Calling all community residents living in the Austin, Garfield Park, and North Lawndale communities. Chicago African Americans in Philanthropy cordially invites you to attend a community listening session on Thursday, February 12, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at United Baptist Church (4242 West Roosevelt Road). Chicago African Americans in Philanthropy (CAAIP) is a membership organization committed to advancing philanthropy in African American communities. Please RSVP at rsvp@caaip.org and feel free to share this information with your neighbors.

WORLDS OF CHESLEY BONESTELL AT THE ADLER PLANETARIUM: The “Father of Modern Space Art,” American painter, designer and illustrator, Chesley Bonestell, transports visitors into the future in an exhibition ONGOING through April 26, 2015 at the Adler Planetarium, 1300 S. Lake Shore Drive. Worlds of Chesley Bonestell features eleven paintings as well as numerous examples of the artist’s work in popular culture including film, magazines and books. Bonestell combined an intimate knowledge of science with artistic talent to become a pioneer of space art that presented a stunning vision of the future. With remarkable detail, Bonestell depicted the space shuttle, space station, and details of our Solar System long before they were actually realized. Bonestell also created artwork for many iconic films including Destination Moon (1950), War of the Worlds

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THE TEMPLE OF MERCY Association will hold its 25th Black Heritage Banquet this year on Saturday, Feb. 21 at 6:00 p.m. at the Prince Hall Banquet Hall. Each year the association honors an individual with its Rev. M. Earl Sardon Community Activist Award. In the photo above from the 2014 event are, l-r: Rev. Floyd Plump, award recipient; Dr. Webb Evans, holding T-shirt design; Michael Evans, business owner and designer of the Dr. Webb Evans T-shirt; and the founder of the Temple of Mercy Association Black Heritage Banquet and Community Activist Award, Rev. Rahim Aton. For information about the upcoming event contact Rev. Rahim Aton at (773) 846-3091.

(1953) and Conquest of Space (1955). Worlds of Chesley Bonestell explores how, through popular culture, Bonestell inspired generations of science fiction fans, astronomers and astronauts. Please note: Worlds of Chesley Bonestell will be temporarily closed from February 16 through 20 so exhibit staff can switch out paintings.

ALISON RUTTAN/WHEN ALL YOU HAVE IS A HAMMER: In this new installation situated in all three Michigan Avenue Galleries of the Chicago Cultural Center, which is ONGOING through April 26, 2015, Alison Ruttan presents her earlier photographic and video project, based on Jane Goodall’s disturb-

ing study of Chimpanzee behavior along with a new series of ceramic maquettes based on photographic documentation of recent global conflict. This exhibit is located in the Michigan Avenue Galleries, 1st Floor of the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington Street, Chicago, IL 60602.

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*** Wood and coal stoves should be inspected annually. Have chimneys cleaned, too. Fireplaces should have sturdy screens to keep sparks from flying. Don’t keep a rug on the hearth. *** Don’t count on your fire extinguisher for anything more than a wastebasket blaze or a small kitchen fire. And don’t try to fight a growing fire. Get out as Blacks Must control their own coMMunity

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Financial freedom still eludes Black America As the annual, month-long Black History observance begins, now is a timely moment to reflect on the journey that succeeding generations of Blacks have trod in the continuing quest for total freedom and equality. From 1865’s Emancipation Proclamation, to 1954’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, and 1965’s

Charlene Crowell voting rights legislation, Black Americans have vigilantly fought for freedom.

Celebrations of our milestone moments convey our unique American history. By embracing our history, we teach our youth and remind older ones of significant strides achieved when we had none of the freedoms promised by our nation.

Most of these achievements were fought and won when Black personal financial resources were rare, limited or nonexistent.

Blacks serving in the United States Colored Troops during the Civil War fought for the union as well as for themselves and the futures they envisioned for their families. Imagine the pride they must have felt when for the first time in their lives they held their own paychecks. According to the National Archives, beginning in 1864, banks such as South Carolina’s Military Savings Bank and Louisiana’s Free Labor Bank were created for these soldiers.

For many, it was the first time they had ever been paid for their work.

Following the Civil War and regardless of locale, an important goal was to incorporate economic opportunity into the transition from slavery to freedom. And for a short time – from 1888 to 1934, 134 Black banks were established across the country. As Black banks grew, so did the number of Black customers and businesses. These were the institutions that sold and serviced loans for mortgages, built schools and churches, and invested in Black small businesses.

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panicked runs by depositors who demanded all of their monies as they closed accounts.

It also began a serious distrust of banks and other lending institutions. For many, money in the mattress or hidden places in the home were thought to be safer options than financial institutions. The National Negro Bankers Association, founded in 1924, tried to provide support for its members. But by 1942, only 70 institutions survived.

Fast forward to today, many consumers of color continue to distrust lending institutions. Despite federal laws, unequal treatment in the financial services sector has worsened age-old distrust and helped contribute to the growing racial wealth gap.

The number of Black-owned banks has shrunk to only 25 institutions as of September 2014, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. This still-dwindling number of Black financial institutions is especially intriguing when contrasted with findings from the National Newspaper Publishers Association commissioned a Neilsen Company report that projects Black purchasing power will reach $1.1 trillion this year.

With all of the growth in purchasing power, how is it then that so few Black people have wealth comparable to other groups?

One piece of this puzzle is the predatory lending that plagues our communities and has been documented by a series of research reports from the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL). From financing major purchases to small-dollar loans, predatory lending siphons off Black America’s money and wealth.

Subprime auto loans, now an $870 billion industry actively seeks consumers with less than stellar credit, only to lock them into longterm loans that charge interest rates as high as 400 percent or more and for as long as 96 months.

High-cost, for-profit colleges heavily recruit students of color through misleading marketing practices.

More often than not, for-profit students wind up dropping out of school and are left with no education and a lot of high-cost loans.

The few who earn degrees quickly learn that their time and student debt investment did not bring respected academic credentials or training that would lead to gainful employment.

When household expenses exceed monies available, borrowing a few hundred on a payday loan will result in fees that cost more than the principal borrowed. With each loan renewal, a difficult and deepening cycle of debt leaves borrowers even more financially challenged than ever.

Only time will tell how long it will

take to recover the nearly $1 billion of wealth lost by Black and Latino mortgage borrowers due to foreclosures, short sales and devalued properties.

The chains of slavery are long gone; but they have been replaced

by shackles of debt that deny our dreams and desired futures.

In 2015, let us learn from our history to take our financial patronage to businesses that offer fair and transparent value for their products.

It is time to keep more of our mon-

ey in our own pockets.

Charlene Crowell is a communications manager with the Center for Responsible Lending. She can be reached at Charlene.crowell@responsiblelending.org.

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Destination: Chicago links new interests to future careers Chicago City of Learning & Hive Learning Network bring together 20+ citywide youth-serving organizations.

Hundreds of young Chicagoans, along with their parents and teachers, plus representatives of two dozen youth-serving organizations citywide, converged at Jones College Prep Saturday Jan. 24 for the second annual Destination: Chicago – Winter Break. Presented by Chicago City of Learning (CCOL) and Hive Chicago Learning Network, the daylong Maker Party featured activity stations and pop-up workshops in photography, fashion, engineering, architecture, digital media, music, computer science, choreography, journalism, forensics and more!

“We came for enrichment. I understand the intrinsic value of letting kids explore different interests,” said South Shore’s Jeremiah Harris with daughters Taylor, 6, and Tamiah, 7, in tow.

“The variety of activities here is phenomenal and it’s a great use of our time.”

Taylor and Tamiah’s favorite parts of the day included engaging in Fashion Wars with Continuing Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, practicing hip-hop yoga with Mindful Practices, and making geo-

metric masterpieces with The Wishcraft Workshop. Others were enthralled by building skyscrapers with Chicago Architecture Foundation, coding with Adler Planetarium, finger printing with Project Exploration, urban gardening with The Chicago Academy of Sciences and its Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, exploring 3D Design and LEGO Robotics with Best Buy’s Geek Squad, or creating stroboscopic photography with YOUMedia.

Additional hands-on activities were offered by Argonne National Laboratories, Chicago Botanic Garden, Chicago Southside Mini Maker Faire, Center for College Access and Success of NEIU, CodeCreate, Comcast, Community STEM Badging Ecosystem, Digital Youth Network, Forall Systems, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Best Buy Teen Tech Center Little Black Pearl Workshop, Mikva Challenge, Scientists for Tomorrow, The Anti-Cruelty Society, and The National Veterans Art Museum.

“As youth explore what excites them at Destination: Chicago, they find new passions, learn skills and earn digital badges that can propel them along a pathway toward a career,” said Dr. Nichole Pinkard of Digital Youth Network at DePaul University, which

SOUTH SHORE RESIDENTS Jeremiah, Tamiah and Taylor Harris at Destination: Chicago, presented by Chicago City of Learning and Hive Learning Network (Photos Credit: Jim Sandherr, Digital Youth Network)

PATRICIA HARRIS, PROJECT Manager for Best Buy’s Geek Squad, presented laptops and iPads to the youth who won the Best Buy Challenge, powered by Chicago City of Learning.

From left to right they are: Robbie Austin of Irving Park, Zulieka Rudd of Brighton Park, Alex Pei of Lincoln Park and Marlena Sykes of South Shore. leads CCOL in Chicago. Pinkard said that once young people find areas of interest, through Chicago City of Learning’s website they can discover programs to participate in their neighborhood, throughout the city or engage in on-line activities – all of which provide learning, skill attainment and digital badges – an increasingly important measure of learning throughout the world.

Destination: Chicago was also a day of awards for many attendees. Leaders from CCOL’s first corporate sponsor, Best Buy, were on hand to announce the individual and school winners of the Best Buy Challenge.

Taking home the Chicago Public Schools Awards for the schools that enrolled the most students in CCOL were Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences and Mark Sheridan Elementary Math and Science Academy. As their prize, each school will get a full day’s visit with Best Buy’s Geek Squad – during which students

will learn the latest in digital printing, video production, sound technology and more.

In addition, Alex Pei of Lincoln Park, Zulieka Rudd of Brighton Park, Robbie Austin of Irving Park and Marlena Sykes of South Shore – were awarded iPads and laptop computers for their individual accomplishments during the Best Buy Challenge, a Playlist of five online activities. Taking home a digital camera was Heikki Espinoza, who completed the CCOL Scavenger Hunt Challenge. And leaving with an iPad Mini was James McClelland of Roseland, who completed Chicago City of Learning’s Winter Break Adventure Challenge.

Thrilled to win a laptop, courtesy of Comcast, in the day-of raffle, which youth were entered into when they turned in a completed Exploration Ticket, was Alana Newsome of Glenwood.

For the first time teachers were invited to attend Destination: Chicago

on the Teacher Track, presented by the Center for College Access and Success of NEIU as a part of their efforts with Hive Chicago to connect schools with out-of-school learning.

“I wish all of our professional development programs could be like this,” said Leticia Medellin, a teacher at Donald L. Morrill Math & Science Specialty School.

Chicago City of Learning is a citywide, year-round program that focuses on connected learning in which skills are garnered in the process of actively engaging art, science, writing, game playing, design and more. Digital badges are awarded to recognize skills garnered.

CCOL is led by the City of Chicago and Digital Youth Network at DePaul University, partners with Chicago Public Schools and is supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Best Buy and Comcast. Learn more at ChicagoCityofLearning.org.

Congresswoman Kelly hosts STEM Boot Camp at SSC Middle school students built a tabletop wind turbine from scratch during a STEM Boot Camp hosted by Congresswoman Robin Kelly at South Suburban College recently.

Twenty-five Coolidge Middle School students from South Holland also measured the energy output of the mini-turbine they assembled, and experimented with polymers to create the basis of Styrofoam cups and other everyday products. Professors Desmond Campbell and Jim Simpson led the experiments.

“The students were fascinated with the experiments and became very excited about renew10

able energy. Both the students and their parents were made more conscious of the benefits of alternative energy,” Congresswoman Kelly said. “The spark I saw in these kids is why I started the STEM Boot Camp program, to expose students to STEM fields with the hope of encouraging them to pursue STEM careers.”

Congresswoman Kelly regularly hosts STEM Boot Camps throughout the 2nd Congressional District. She is also a cochair of the newly-formed Diversifying Tech Caucus, which aims to increase diversity in the technology field.

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CONGRESSWOMAN ROBIN KELLY (center) watches as Coolidge Middle School students, with the assistance of an administrator from South Holland School District 151, assemble a tabletop wind turbine.

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Students learn fundamentals of housing development and management 2015 Classes Open for Registration The second phase of the Chicago Rehab Network’s (CRN) awardwinning training series is now open for registration. The entire series entails 128 hours of instruction led by some of the most experienced practitioners in the field and covers the fundamentals of housing development and management in a community development context. Students develop or enhance their technical understanding of how to put together and nurture place-based housing strategies.

Classes held during 2014 covered such areas as community building, financing, and proforma development and analysis. Topics and dates for the 2015 Empowerment Series are: • Single Family Housing Development – January 14-15 • Multifamily Housing Development – February 10-11 • Project Construction & Management – March 11-12 • Property & Asset Management – April 7-8 Workshop participants will learn technical development skills, discuss strategies for community empowerment and reinvestment, and forge lasting bonds with a cohort of emerging community development leaders. Workshops mostly will be held from 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. at CRN’s offices at 140 S. Dearborn, Suite 1420, while others will take place in the field. Lunch will be served. Certificates will be presented to those

who attend all eight workshops.

Applicants can find more detailed information about each workshop as well as register online at www.chicagorehab.org or call 312-663-3936.

The Empowerment Series is a driving force behind CRN Legacy 35, the organization’s first-ever campaign to raise $1 million to continue its renowned advocacy, programming and training initiatives. One pillar of the campaign is to provide funds to support CRN’s new training facility, the Community Housing and Development Institute (CHDI). The 20142015 Empowerment Series will be the first convened in the new CHDI, which is housed in CRN’s new headquarters located in the historic Marquette Building.

About the Chicago Rehab Network – For over 35 years, CRN has worked to train, coordinate and empower community-based organizations engaged in developing affordable housing across Chicago and the region. CRN is well known for leading a coalition of over 270 Chicago community development organizations during its Affordable Housing and Community Jobs Campaign, which resulted in the establishment of the first City of Chicago Five-Year Affordable Housing Plan in 1993.

CRN’s robust advocacy efforts also have resulted in numerous affordable housing policies and resources, including the Affordable Requirements Ordinance, the Tax Reactivation Program, State of Illinois Housing Trust Fund, various property tax reforms, and the Illinois Affordable Housing

PARTICIPANTS IN THE Chicago Rehab Network Empowerment Series get hands-on practical training in the fundamentals of housing development and management in a community development context. The 128-hour series began in 2014 and included classes that covered such areas as community building, financing, and pro forma development and analysis. Limited registration is available for the next class which covers Multifamily Housing Development on Feb. 10 and 11.

In addition to advocacy and train- analysis related to housing needs and Tax Credit. For this and more, the Rehab Network received the MacArthur ing, CRN provides industry-wide markets. The Chicago Rehab Network Foundation’s Award for Creative and thought leadership through regular also consults on research issues, comEffective Institutions, also known as policy updates, best practice case stud- munity engagement, and organizaies, and demographic and economic tional and real estate development. the “genius award” for organizations.

Unveiling the foundation for 28 years “He was the father of Black consciousness during our Colored and Negro days, he was Black.” Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, February 26,1975 Saviour’s Day in Chicago.

On Sunday, February 8 at 5:30

p.m., the community and the Coalition for the Remembrance of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad (C.R.O.E.) will celebrate its 28th anniversary. Guest and visitors from around the country along

THREE MEN WILL be recognized for their dedication to preserving the life, legacy, and imagery of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and they are, l-r,: Shahid Muslim, Munir Muhammad, and Halif Muhammad. The event will take place Sunday, Feb. 8. at C.R.O.E., 2435 W. 71st Street in Chicago. www.chicagocrusader.com

with many of Chicago’s civic and business leaders will come together to celebrate Founder’s Day with a salute to three men: Halif Muhammad (Secretary), Shahid Muslim (Director), and Munir Muhammad (Business Manager). This dedicated trio are the architects of an institution that has been at the forefront of a mission to make certain the name, accomplishments, and ideas of Nation of Islam leader the Honorable Elijah Muhammad (1897-1975) are remembered.

Established in 1987, C.R.O.E. is an archival library and information center dedicated to preserving the life, legacy, and imagery of the man known affectionately by his followers and the Black community as The Messenger. Inside the doors of C.R.O.E. are housed the most extensive collection of audio/visual speeches, radio broadcast, press conferences, table talks, interviews and Muhammad Speaks newspaper periodicals, along with other memorabilia pertaining to the leader of Nation of Islam.

Photographs of Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., his wife

Coretta and Al Raby adorn the walls of C.R.OE., along with hundreds of pictures featuring visitors and heads of state from around the globe. The organization has meticulously utilized its vast array of material resources to unveil to the world the foundation by which many Black personalities and notables popular in Black culture from politics, music, activism and literature stood.

Upon visiting C.R.OE. one is giving a concise comprehensive understanding of how Muhammad’s life-giving teachings directly propelled his students to the world stage from his national representatives: Malcolm X, Min. Louis Farrakhan, heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, and Black scholar Naim Akbar. Indirectly, the example set by his followers influenced the Black community from entertainers such as James Brown, John Coltrane and the Delfonics, along with numerous Black entrepreneurs and activist across the country. Uncompromising in its approach, C.R.O.E. insist that the history, events and circumstances per-

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taining to the life of the Messenger be viewed and analyzed in the proper context. In 1994, C.R.O.E. TV was launched to expand the organization’s ability to educate the world about the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Additionally, C.R.O.E. TV has been a resource the community has relied upon to provide them with unfiltered news and information from around the globe. From their studio on the Southwest Side of Chicago, C.R.O.E. TV has a distribution network throughout many of Americas major cities; such as New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Charlotte, NC; Birmingham, AL; Cincinnati, OH; Dayton, OH; Minneapolis, MN; Gary, IN; and Madison, WI. C.R.O.E. TV has been committed to providing the Black community and the general public with news and vital information, which the viewer can use. To find out about Founder’s Day ticket information contact C.R.O.E. at (773) 925-1600, Email: croe@croe.org. or visit the office at 2435 W. 71st Street in Chicago.

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By Elaine Hegwood Bowen, MSJ

By Raymond Ward THE FIRST LADY: As America commemorates the 50th anniversary of two milestones in the Civil Rights Movement—the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965—the name Ethel Payne has remained largely unspoken. I remember people such as Frances T. Matlock, Gloria Wailes and Fred Walls always talking about her, so luckily I was familiar with this Black icon. A pioneering African American journalist, Payne reported extensively on the movement in which she herself was firmly embedded. Yet, because she wrote for the Black press, her seminal contribution has been overlooked by many civil rights historians, who have obtained their version of history largely from the coverage of the mainstream white media of the time.

In EYE ON THE STRUGGLE (Amistad/HarperCollins; February 17, 2015; $25.99), acclaimed biographer James McGrath Morris for the first time tells the complete story of the woman dubbed the “First Lady of the Black Press”—a story inextricably linked to the dark history of segregation and the grassroots struggle to end it. In the 1950s and 60s, the Black Press operated in a different, parallel sphere from the white press. The latter generally portrayed the civil rights legislation as a munificent gift bestowed on African Americans. But Ethel Payne, writing for the Chicago Defender, saw through the rhetoric and reported on the failures of the legislation to grant her people the equal

Still marching for equality more than 50 years later

In the spirit of Black History march.” know it, I was the youngest particiMonth and to further celebrate the Silber said that she and her stepfa- pant. My mother found out that success of the movie “Selma,” I have ther went down to the 16th Street our neighbor’s daughter was going interviewed a long-time friend, Birm- Baptist Church for training. “We on the same day, and she was eningham, Alabama transplant and were asked about our responses to trusted with my care.” Silber says now Chicagoan Belinda Silber, about different situations, such as what that she sees this young lady’s picher life growing up in Jim Crow would you do if a white person put a ture often on television and in hisBirmingham in the 1950s. cigarette out on your arm? My stepfa- torical photos, but she is not sure if She mentioned life in “B’ham” after ther was sent home, because he failed this picture was taken when they the 1954 court decision Brown vs.

Board of Education, saying that nothing much had changed.

“When I started attending school, everyone went to segregated schools, and although most people know the stories of the separate lunch counters, water fountains and buses, we citizens of Birmingham learned to live and navigate through these waters daily and with dignity.”

She adds that her family life was strong and proactively Black. “I was not allowed to ever have a white doll and if my siblings cried for a Chatty Cathy doll and my mother could only find a white one, well you didn’t get a doll that year.”

When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visited Birmingham in 1963, Silber admitted that it was an exciting event, Belinda Silber but she also admits that not much changed within her family unit. “The this part.” She added that prospective were marching together or if older people just said he was stirring marchers also went through exercises Daniela went back again. “I had up a lot of trouble. And when Fred of simulated physical assaults. “You made arrangements with my aunt Ethel Payne Shuttlesworth helped form the local learned how to protect your head and to have me out of jail by Easter. I rights that were their due. By viewing the civil rights era through her branch of the NAACP, that forma- most importantly not to respond vio- didn’t want to spend Easter in jail.” eyes, we gain a fresh perspective of the frustrations and compromises tion was deemed illegal.” lently to anything that might happen Silber packed a kit of writing paper, that marked the years of struggle, and better understand the discontent She vividly recalled when she was to you.” pen and stamps, because she among African Americans. planned to write the President The struggle for civil rights, however, is only part of Ethel Payne’s rewhile she was in jail. “My mother markable story. The granddaughter of slaves and the daughter of a Pulljust smiled and sent me on my way; man porter, Payne grew up in the thriving Black community of a the entire family sent me away like I deeply segregated Chicago in the first half of the twentieth century. The was going off to some foreign land.” fifth child in a large family that placed a great emphasis on education, In the early morning, marchers young Ethel dreamed of being a novelist. Her father’s death when she were given their signs and locawas fourteen placed a great strain on family finances, which were furtions. “After so many people were ther affected as the Depression took hold. Never an ardent student, arrested and the jails were filled, I Ethel set aside greater ambitions and became a librarian. But interest in was taken to a juvenile facility community politics inspired her participation in the 1940s March on where I had all my property reWashington Movement led by A. Philip Randolph, and her adventurmoved and was strip searched. The ous spirit led her to a stint in Japan working as a service club director vaginal cavity search was painful for the military. While there, her keen observations of racial issues and traumatic, but a lady in the among the occupation forces led to her first publication in the Defendroom held my hand and told me to er, and when she returned home to Chicago she parlayed her talents inbreath.” While at the facility, Silber to the job as the paper’s Washington correspondent. In the nation’s cap- PHOTO OF HIGH school students being dosed with high said that she was greeted with awe. ital she became one of only three accredited African Americans in the pressure fire hoses in 1963 Birmingham, Alabama.

She said that no one working at the White House press corps, where she made national headlines by once arrested for participating in a After a day of drills of what to expect facility had seen marchers confined rankling President Eisenhower with her questions about his desegrega- children’s march. “It was 1963, and I in jail, how to conduct yourself on the there, and they asked questions tion policy. was 12 years old and in the 6th grade. line and what songs to sing, Silber about what was gong on with the Ethel Payne’s storied career took her to many places on the front lines There were daily demonstrations, went home and told her mother movement. of history, including Montgomery, Alabama, where the unprecedented and it was all the rage. Your moral about her assigned date. “I could not “I was only there for one week bus boycott launched the new Black leadership of twenty-seven-year- obligations were to boycott the stores have been more excited and she could and, as promised, I was out the day old Martin Luther King, Jr. When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed (who depended heavily on Black not have been more afraid—but before Easter. Just in time to wear (Continued on page 17) shoppers during Easter) and to proud. At that time, although I didn’t last year’s outfit to Mass.”

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BLACK OR WHITE A Review by Bonnie DeShong Eloise Anderson (Jillian Estell) is a beautiful, smart, and loving little girl. Her mother is white and is the only daughter of an affluent family who lives in a white upper class neighborhood in California. Eloise is also the daughter of a man named Reggie who is Black and comes from a large loving family who lives in Compton. Both families love Eloise but do not understand the real importance of each other in her life.

Her mother died in childbirth so she will never know her. Although

she has never met her father she longs for him.

Eloise was taken to be raised by her grandparents Elliot (Kevin Costner), a very successful attorney and Carol (Jennifer Ehle) Anderson.

Carol made sure that Eloise knew and interacted with her father’s family. The unthinkable happens and Carol dies in a car accident and Elliott finds himself the sole parent of Eloise. Enter Rowena Jeffers (Octavia Spencer), Eloise’s paternal grandmother. She feels that now is the time for Eloise to come and live with the Black side of her family. A legal battle ensues on

who will have custody.

The film is very Black or white, cut and dry, right or wrong, have or have not. No, it isn’t. The film has a lot of gray.

Elliott Anderson on the surface is a successful attorney, has a large home with a pool, loves his wife, daughter and granddaughter with all his heart and truly feels that Eloise would be better off living with him. He hates Reggie, Eloise’s father, even though he has some respect for his family. Elliott is also an alcoholic and has never really interacted with Eloise on more than a surface level.

OCTAVIA SPENCER AND Anthony Mackie in "Black or White."

JILLIAN ESTELL AND Kevin Costner in "Black or White."

Reggie came from a family who lent job of portraying both sides in loved him dearly. His mother is an a positive and humorous but staininnovative business woman who ed light. One of my many favorite keeps her large family close with scenes takes place in Rowena’s big hugs and works hard to make home and music is being played. sure they are given every opportu- You’ll know it when you see it. nity to succeed. Reggie is basically Very seldom do we see Black famia good guy but he is a crack addict lies portrayed in a positive collecwho has never seen nor taken re- tive way. The acting is awesome.

Jillian Estell who plays Eloise is sponsibility for his daughter.

Both men have a drug of choice amazing to watch. Mpho Koaho they put before Eloise. Are they re- who plays the tutor Duvan steals ally that much different because the show.

I say SPEND THE MONEY one is white and binges on alcohol and the other is Black and uses and see “BLACK OR WHITE” in the theaters. I am sure you will crack?

I loved the film. I thought writer come out smiling, having shed a director Mike Binder did an excel- few tears, and with a warm heart.

THE BOOKWORM SEZ

“Is There Life after Football? Surviving the NFL”

By James A. Holstein, Richard S. Jones and George E. Koonce, Jr. c.2015, New York University Press $27.95 / higher in Canada 321 pages Your favorite player was out for most of the season.

Last fall, he took a hit mid-pass and went down like a sack of rocks.

They checked him over, took him off the field, and that was that. He hasn’t been back since.

Every now and then, someone mentions him and you wonder how he’s doing, whether he’ll ever play again. In the new book “Is There Life after Football?” by James A. Holstein, Richard S. Jones and George E. Koonce, Jr., you’ll get a glimpse of a possible future.

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juries are the result of a “suck it up” mentality: players are more likely to shake off an injury than to seek treatment for it, until it’s too late.

And those are just the physical ailments…

But the news isn’t all bad, and that’s the pleasant surprise inside “Is There Life after Football?” Authors Holstein, Jones, and Koonce, Jr. give their readers balance – and if you’re first inclination is to forego sympathy due to high salaries, you’ll get a dose of truth, too.

big news: football is a brutal sport and we all know its potential careerending effects. But what happens after the cheers go silent?

To understand, we have to understand the backstory, too.

Many little boys dream of playing football, of course, but the truth is that relatively few actually make it.

The journey to the NFL starts with laser-focus on a dream, incessant practice, high school, then college.

By that point, future NFLers have been convinced that they’re “special;” college perks underscore that notion.

“Dreaming of a lucrative NFL career is a relatively recent phenomenon,” say the authors. “In 1956, the minimum NFL salary was reported as $5,000,” but the kind of money that today’s young player gets is often more than he’s ever seen in his life.

The NFL promotes financial responsibility, but a new hire often goes wild with new-found wealth; later, he might go broke. Being in the NFL, say the authors, is expensive.

When it’s over, that’s tough to take.

Living without praise, paychecks, and the social structure within the NFL is a challenge - as is living with “a lifetime of hurt.” Almost twentyfive percent of all current former players claim game-related brain injuries. Surgery is “routine.” Some in-

Using statistics you won’t see in the game, NFL history, and personal stories, this book offers a litany of things that should give fans pause: ruined lives for both players and families, ruined health, and financial ruin. But before we turn off the TV in dismay (just kidding!), we’re encouraged to lift our jaws off the floor with tales of success and of the men who’ve stepped off-field and into their own personal second half.

This is a book fans should read before the next game – or before they let their own son suit up. If you’ve ever wondered “What ever happened to….?” then “Is There Life after Football?” is a book you shouldn’t pass.

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IN MEMORIAM - Andrew Patner (1959-2015)

By Barbara Wright-Pryor Andrew Patner, longtime music and arts journalist and free-lance critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and WFMT 98.7 FM, died suddenly in St. Joseph’s Hospital on February 3.

He was 55 years old.

The announcement of Andrew Patner’s death was made by morning host Carl Grapentine through reading the official announcement issued by the station’s Vice President and General Manager, Steve Robinson.

I stopped dead in my tracks in total disbelief! Not Andrew Patner! No, it can’t be. I just saw him a week ago at a press conference. This must be a mistake, all the while knowing deep down inside that, while totally unbelievable, it had to be true. Thoughts of long ago came rushing into my head.

Not that Andrew Patner! “ Not Andrew Patner, whom I have known since he was 8 years old singing in the KAM Temple Children’s Choir under Max and Gretel Janowski, and the Chicago Children’s Choir under its founder, Christopher Moore that combined with the St. James United Methodist Church Children’s Choir with George Williams, and later, Gerald Rizzer, and me to sing for the annual Hyde Park-Kenwood Churches and Synagogues Thanksgiving Services at Rockefeller Chapel. You have gone too soon and left us all heartbroken!”

May you rest in peace along with your Dad and my hero, Marshall Patner, who dedicated his life’s work to righting the injustices of this old world! My deepest condolences to your beloved partner Tom

Bachtell and your mother Irene Patner, brothers Seth and Joshua and family.”

“Deep river, I want to cross over into campground.”

All of Andrew’s colleagues are wearing their hearts at “half staff” as SunTimes journalist, the late Irv Kupcinet would have said. Excerpts from some their tributes are re-printed herewith.

“Andrew was already at WFMT when I arrived in 2000. He did two programs for us, Critical Thinking and Critic’s Choice, which was aired twice a week. But his presence was much larger than that. He put me in touch with organizations all around the world, including the Salzburg Festival. WFMT is now in its fourth season in broadcasting the festival around the world, solely because of his connections with the festival.

When it came to his show, Critical Thinking, there were no boundaries to the guests he would have on. He’d have any musician from any genre, really. He wasn’t restricted to classical music—it could be jazz or folk. And it wasn’t just music. He was very knowledgeable about all art forms, like literature or architecture. I never met anybody who was as deeply knowledgeable about so many aspects of the arts. And it wasn’t just the arts. He was very knowledgeable about politics, be it city, state, country or world politics.

He’s the only person in the city who ever met my mom. She visited in 2001 or 2000, at the very beginning of my time here. He got wind she was in town, and on his way back from Ravinia, I think, he made a detour to

Andrew Patner Rose Ann Grundman Wilmette for a visit. No one else did that. I’ll always remember that.”

WFMT General Manager Steve Robinson “It was a total shock for everyone here at the station. I just saw him last week. He seemed to be in his usual good spirits and chipper. This sudden illness came on over the weekend.

We’re all just totally shocked. It was so unexpected. He was only 55 years old.

I’ve known him a long time. We worked on various projects. Knowing him through the years, seeing him and talking with him, what struck me was his incredible wealth of knowledge about seemingly everything. And it seemed he knew every-

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Wynton Marsalis and JLCO return to Symphony Center Wynton Marsalis and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) will return to Chicago for three concert programs over Valentine’s Day weekend in February. Their two-day residency opens with a Symphony Center Presents Jazz series concert on Friday, February 13 at 8 p. m. and continues on Saturday, February 14 with a Jazz for Young People® matinee concert, followed by an evening concert featuring the full 15-piece JLCO, as well as a selection of jazz standards with special guest vocalist René Marie in her Symphony Center debut.

The world-renowned trumpeter and bandleader and members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will also work with young Chicago musicians on Friday, February 13.

Marsalis will give a master class to DePaul University’s Jazz Workshop at Symphony Center, while several members of JLCO will lead three off-site workshops at the Chicago High School for the Arts (Chi-Arts), Whitney Young High School and Kenwood Academy.

Marsalis and the JLCO will present their program—Jazz Titans: Duke, Dizzy, ‘Trane, Mingus and 14

Wynton Marsalis Brubeck for the SCP Jazz series concert Friday, February 13 at 8 p.m.

Program highlights may include Ellington’s “Latin American Suite,” John Coltrane’s “Africa Brass,” Charlie Mingus’ “Tijuana Moods” and pieces from Dizzy Gillespie’s early Afro-Cuban explorations, as well as classic tunes by American jazz piano great Dave Brubeck.

On Valentine’s Day, Saturday, February 14 at 1 p.m., Marsalis and JLCO present their Jazz For Young People® program, Who is Dave Brubeck?, which celebrates the legendary pianist and composer Dave

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Brubeck, whose contributions to jazz include the landmark tune “Take 5.”Designed as an interactive introduction to jazz for families and school age children, Jazz For Young People ® is a short-format program developed by the JLCO that highlights the music and personality of jazz greats such as Tito Puente, Billie Holiday and others for the next generation of listeners. There will be a Q&A session with audience members immediately following the concert.

Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra are back on the night of Saturday, February 14 at 8 p.m., for a romantic evening of music that includes a selection of jazz standards featuring Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist René Marie, one of today’s most provocative risk-takers among jazz artists, in her Symphony Center debut.

Tickets for all CSOA-presented concerts can be purchased by phone at 800-223-7114 or 312-294-3000; online at cso.org, or at the Symphony Center box office: 220 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60604. For group rates, please call 312-2943040.

who worked here for decades. They were close. I know Andrew idolized him, and in many ways tried to mimic himself after Studs. And Studs’ mantra was: “stay curious.” And Andrew lived that every day, always learning and always sharing what he learned with people.” WFMT Program Host Lisa Flynn “I am very sorry to learn of the passing of Andrew Patner this morning. I had enormous respect for him as a man of great culture and deep humanity. We had a sincere friendship and his death is a tragic loss to the cultural life of Chicago. My profound condolences to all his family and friends.” Chicago Symphony Orchestra Music Director Riccardo Muti “All of us at Lyric share in the profound sense of loss and sadness at the news of Andrew’s death. He was a profoundly intelligent man of great wisdom. We will miss him greatly and send our deepest condolences to Tom and the family.” Lyric Opera of Chicago General Director Anthony Freud Survivors are Tom Bachtell, Andrew’s partner of 25 years, his mother Irene Patner, and brothers Seth and Joshua. At Chicago Crusader press time, memorial services were pending.

one. I’d run into him at concerts, and he’d be surrounded by people of all walks of life, talking with them. He knew everybody and everything. He could talk about every subject with such insight and knowledge. I learned so much talking with him or hearing his commentary on the station. He was a true renaissance man.

We first got to know each other when I was producing a magazinetype music show in Chicago, previewing upcoming music events. He would do a review segment. I was just always amazed. He would sit down with no notes, and he could just start talking and come up with these beautiful reviews. As if they were prewritten—just off the top of his head. He was so articulate and so well-spoken. He knew so much about everything. He could just sit down and talk, and it was just an amazing thing to watch.

He had an all-encompassing type of knowledge. It wasn’t just music.

He was very knowledgeable about visual arts and theater. All of that informed his commentary. And history too; he was knowledgeable about Chicago politics. That would play into his commentary. He would tie all those threads together.

He was endlessly curious. That was one thing. He idolized Studs Terkel,

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As part of its special 2014/15 residency, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and leader Wynton Marsalis treat audiences to an evening of timeless big band classics. Hear the jazz masters of the orchestra reinterpret these favorites as only they can!

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SPIRITUALLY SPEAKING

A Moment to Super Size Your Thinking

By Effie Rolfe Beautiful Feet. One of my favorite gospel composers is Donald Lawrence who penned the song entitled “Beautiful Feet.” The lyrics refer to the feet of the ministers, evangelists and pastors that carry the “good news” gospel message of Jesus Christ. The lyrics are “Beautiful feet of those who carry the gospel, they go where they are sent without a compliment yet they still smile sometimes crying inside, beautiful they have beautiful feet. So don’t give up on this gospel. Don’t let life destroy your faith, don’t give up on this message, oh beautiful they have beautiful feet. Beautiful are the feet, of those who carry this gospel.

Oh if you only knew, the things that they go through. Yet, they still care, they inspire others to live, beautiful they have beautiful feet.”

It absolutely amazes me that God would focus on what is con-

preciated Mary of Bethany’s approach to serve. She took time to wash his feet with her tears and dry them with her hair and later used some of the most expensive perfume back in the day a “box of alabaster” on the master’s feet (Luke 7:7). The majority of people looked at this woman as a sinner. However, this precious handiwork of God obviously recognized the importance of Jesus carrying the gospel to heal, deliver and love the lost. More importantly when you distribute God’s life changing word, you are giving life, hope and encouragement to the world— this is serious business in the sight of God. Perhaps you are not a preacher, but you can share your favorite bible verse with another. Remember, it is His word that is powerful, “For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit,

sidered the least attractive part of the body to describe one’s beauty.

In fact, the one thing that makes one beautiful in God’s sight is to carry out His plan and purpose for your life and ultimately share the Word of God. It’s refreshing to know that God’s definition of beauty is not predicated on receiving ivy-league degrees, pedigrees, manicures nor pedicures. With today’s beauty culture focused on youth, cosmetic fillers and outward appearances, God always looks at the heart of the matter (1 Samuel 16:7).

His standard of beauty is not predicated or endorsed by society at large. He looks far and deep beneath the surface into the very spirit of man. This is a prime example “that God’s thoughts are higher than our thoughts and His ways are not our ways…” (Isaiah 55:8-9).

Perhaps that is why Jesus so ap-

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joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart” (Hebrews 4:12). The Word of God is a life changer. Therefore, sharing the word impregnates the individual with a seed that is forever life changing and life giving. This anointed work pleases God from the crown of the head to the very soul of “beautiful” feet.

To all of those who preach, teach and share the gospel of Jesus Christ in word and song…I salute you... your beautiful feet!

Do you have beautiful feet…? ©Effie Rolfe is an author of “Supersize Your Thinking,” Media Personality and Motivational Speaker. You can contact her effierolfe.com or on twitter.com/effiedrolfe Listen to her on UrbanPraiseRadio.org.

The Crusader Gospel Corner Join Apostolic Faith Church and The Family Institute for “The 42 Percent” an event that will take a closer look at the romantic lives of single, African American women, and the unique challenges and opportunities they face on Thursday, Feb. 12 at 7 p.m. at the Apostolic Faith Church. This event will tackle issues concerning—freedom to travel and the joys of independence, to the challenges of parenting and feelings of loneliness, we will ask questions, give advice and share together. According to a study from Yale University, 42 percent of African American women have yet to get married.

This event promises to take a closer look at the romantic lives of single, African American women, and the unique challenges and opportunities they face.

Each of the presenters are engaging, thoughtful and will share more about this topic along with the Christian perspective, especially leading up to Valentine’s Day. The Presenter for the evening will feature a panel of experts including Bishop Horace E. Smith,

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M.D., Pastor of the Apostolic Faith Church and an attending physician specializing in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago (formerly Children’s

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Reginald C. Richardson Memorial Hospital). Dr. Smith’s experience in treating bodies and souls for over three decades has enabled him to author a book, “Blood Works,” and to speak extensively about the connection between medicine and spirituality.

Reginald C. Richardson, PhD, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker at The Family Institute at Northwestern University and a Clinical Lecturer in Psychology at Northwestern University and a frequent speaker and trainer in the area of child and family issues. His research has focused on Understanding Behavioral Problems in Children of Color, Parenting Practices in Kinship Foster Care and Evaluation of Social Service Programs. Dr. Richardson maintains a clinical practice that specializes in individual, couple, family therapy and outreach to persons of color

in under-resourced communities.

Donna R. Baptiste, EdD, is a highly experienced individual and family therapist with an active clinical practice at The Family Institute’s downtown and Evanston offices.

Dr. Baptiste’s specialties include couple counseling, including premarital relationships; child and adolescent emotional and behavioral therapy; parenting support and education; divorce recovery; child custody arrangements; and emotional/cultural adjustment in immigrant families. Dr. Baptiste

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also has vast expertise in counseling women and girls. Adia Gooden, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Fellow at The Family Institute at Northwestern University receiving advanced training in the treatment of couples and families. Dr. Gooden received her BA in Psychology from Stanford University and her Master’s of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Clinical Psychology at DePaul University. Dr. Gooden has spent three years training at college counseling centers (University of Chicago and University of Southern California) and enjoys supporting individuals as they learn and grow during this stage of life.

This event is Thursday, Feb. 12 at 7 p.m. at the Apostolic Faith Church, 3823 South Indiana Avenue in Chicago. Get all the information at 708-359-7547 or visit www.Afcchicago.org/42. This event is totally free and open to all! *** Join Angie Ray Ministries along with Pastor Kimberly Ray-Gavin, the Ray Sisters and the Church on the Rock for the Deliverance Prayer Tour at Greater Harvest Church, 5141 S. State Street in Chicago where Pastor Eric Thomas is Pastor. This powerful prayer will take place at noon Saturday, Feb. 7. For more information call 708-503-1140. *** Radio personality and morning show host Angela Martin of the “Angela & Mark” show invites all to Onederful Prayer Saturday from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at the New Zion Upper Room, 1950 W. 13th

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Angela Martin Street in Chicago. The prayer is a powerful conversation between a father and daughter. Doors open at 8:45 a.m. This event is always free. For information visit onederfulprayer.com. *** Faith Hope Deliverance Evangelistic Church will be celebrating their Pastor Prophetess JoAnn Brown’s second year pastoral anniversary on Sunday, March 1 at 4 p.m. The event will be held at First Pentecostal Church of God, Inc. The Keynote Speaker is Prophetess Jennifer Long from Jacksonville, FL. The address to the church is 5146 South Ashland Avenue, Chicago, IL. Apostle Bernice Williams is the host pastor. *** The legendary Edwin Hawkins was in town with Elaine Pheloan for the Edwin Hawkins Music and Arts Seminar Chicago Chapter. While in Chicago he made visits to Pleasant Green Baptist and New Mt Pilgrim M.B. Church over the weekend.

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Beat the Feb. 15 Deadline to enroll in health coverage: What Illinois residents need to know Don’t delay – enroll today with Get Covered Illinois and avoid a fine The clock is ticking to enroll in a health insurance plan, and you may be up against more than expensive health care costs if you don’t enroll by February 15. Almost everyone is required to have health insurance under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but time is almost up to take advantage of the quality health coverage options available on the Marketplace. However, Get Covered Illinois (GCI) has resources available to help Illinois residents choose the best plan to fit their health needs and budget.

Here are a few things people

should keep in mind about selecting coverage: 1. Feb. 15 is the deadline to enroll in coverage that starts March 1. If you miss this important deadline, you may have to wait until 2016 for health coverage through the Marketplace.

2. You may have to pay a penalty on your 2015 taxes if you do not choose a health plan by Feb. 15. Depending on your income, the fine for not having health insurance may be $325 at minimum.

3. Sign up early and beat the rush to enroll. Last year, website traffic through GetCoveredIllinois.gov, calls to the GCI Help Desk and appointments with

trained professionals spiked in the final days of Open Enrollment, creating longer wait times and jeopardizes the chances of getting covered in time. Make sure you take advantage of the opportunities available for free in-person help by enrolling today.

4. You may pay more for your health care if you do not enroll in a health plan through the Marketplace, meaning you must pay for any services you receive from the doctor out of pocket. Accidents

happen, and it’s better to be ready for them. Health insurance can help make your treatment affordable.

5. You don’t have to do it alone. Free in-person assistance from hundreds of trained professionals near you is available throughout the state. Get Covered Illinois is extending hours at enrollment locations, and in-person appointments are available to help consumers enroll before the deadline.

“February 15 is the last day to enroll in health coverage, and we’re urging everyone to beat the rush and enroll today,” said Jennifer Koehler, executive director for GCI. “It’s important that every uninsured Illinois resident takes advantage of the health care opportunities available and sign up for coverage before it’s too late.”

GCI is hosting enrollment events and extending hours at locations leading up to the Feb. 15 deadline. For a complete list of locations, visit GetCoveredIllinois.gov or call the Help Desk at (866) 311-1119 to schedule an appointment or to find free in-person help near you.

University of Chicago Medicine opens Heart and Vascular center Center pulls expertise from cardiology, cardiac surgery, vascular surgery The University of Chicago Medicine has launched the Heart and Vascular Center, which combines resources from three clinical specialties to meet the growing needs of patients seeking cardiovascular care in a highly coordinated setting.

This new center, which includes more than 40 faculty physicians, incorporates specialists, technologies and dedicated nursing and support staff into a carefully orchestrated network of world-renowned experts focused on medical problems involving the heart and blood vessels.

Melding patient-centered care with the most advanced treatment options for all forms of cardiovascular disease, the center will enhance care coordination and patient experience, leading to improved outcomes and faster recovery times.

This approach to care has become critical as the nation’s population ages and complex cardiovascular dis-

ease becomes more common. The American Heart Association predicts more than 40 percent of Americans will have some form of cardiovascular disease by 2030.

“This enables us to provide the most cutting-edge services,” said James Liao, MD, section chief of cardiology and the medical director of the Heart and Vascular Center.

“Combining resources in this way will improve medical care and patient convenience. It should also make us more efficient practitioners.”

The Heart and Vascular Center builds on the University of Chicago Medicine’s considerable expertise.

The University is already home to Illinois’ largest heart transplant program (the second largest in the Midwest), a nationally known program for the placement and management of ventricular-assist devices, one of the nation’s most comprehensive programs using robotic surgery for cardiovascular operations and a nationally acclaimed program in bloodless cardiac surgery and cardiovascu-

lar imaging.

“It takes extreme coordination to deliver this sort of care,” said Christopher Skelly, MD, section chief of vascular surgery. “That’s what we’re building. Complex operations, such as a valve replacement, are now performed by a team that combines an interventional cardiologist with a vascular surgeon. We have already built hybrid operating rooms to accommodate this seamless approach, which can speed patient recovery and reduce the need for surgical incisions.”

University of Chicago teams perform nearly all adult and pediatric cardiac and vascular procedures, working collaboratively with trusted colleagues from related specialties. They received more than $19 million in research funding last year from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.

Heart and vascular specialists at the University helped develop several diagnostic approaches. They were the first in the United States to

CARDIOLOGY, CARDIAC SURGERY and vascular surgery section chiefs and directors within the recently opened Heart and Vascular Center at the University of Chicago are Christopher Skelly, MD, section chief of vascular surgery; Valluvan Jeevanadam, MD, section chief of cardiac and thoracic surgery and surgical director of the Heart and Vascular Center; and James Liao, MD, section chief of cardiology and the medical director of the Heart and Vascular Center. provide three-dimensional echocarUniversity of Chicago faculty were diography and have enhanced the among the pioneers in understanduse of high speed-CT and advanced ing the basic biology of heart muscle MR scanning in the diagnosis of activity, which led to the developheart disease. ment of new drugs. They performed groundbreaking early studies on the effects of lifestyle and genetics in heart and vascular disease and on prevention of these disorders. They are leaders in treatment for hypertension. University of Chicago cardiologists implanted the first subcutaneous implantable cardioverterdefibrillator in the U.S. in 2010 and, in 2014, installed one of the world’s smallest cardiac pacemakers as part of a clinical trial.

“That sort of innovation rarely happens in a silo,” said Valluvan Jeevanandam, MD, section chief of cardiac and thoracic surgery and surgical director of the Heart and Vascular Center. “Clinical advances now involve interdepartmental partnerships, such as our new center. It takes a combination of resources and cross-boundary imagination to generate ideas that will change practice or improve the patient experience.

THE PHYSICIANS AND staff of the University of Chicago’s Heart and Vascular Centers combined their expertise to lead the Our Heart and Vascular Center is way in innovation, treatment and care of the heart. designed to make that happen.”

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

I read a little while ago that the mayor is passing out campaign contributions to his favorite aldermen. It is nothing new because he did this the first time that he ran for mayor, but now that he has $30 million to play with he can hand out a lot

more than the $25,000 and $50,000 he gave to the incumbents who were in a run off.

This time even before he knows whether there will be a runoff he is giving the incumbents money and making sure they will be beholding to him.

To me that makes it easy to know who not to vote for in my ward. Most of these Black incumbents kept their mouths shut while the mayor closed 50 schools. They didn’t have anything to say either when he shut down a halfdozen mental health clinics.

The schools and the clinics were desperately needed in our community.

The mayor is making it very clear he doesn’t give a hoot about Black folks or Latinos so I see no reason to support anybody who supports him or

he is supporting. There are a lot of candidates new to politics, who I feel will do a much better job than those at Rahm’s beck and call.

Chicago needs a lot of new blood on the city council because it is clear much of the current council has turned over their responsibilities to the mayor’s office. Funny that they haven’t turned over those six figure paychecks.

It is becoming clearer by the day that every day we have to exist with Rahm Emanuel’s city government, including many of our alderman are for sale. I am not going to use this time to let people know how badly we need to get rid of the mayor, but I do want them to know they shouldn’t stop with him when it comes to booting out incumbents.

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(Cont’d from page 4) really believe Lewis is an honest, decent, labor leader who mysteriously got brain cancer two days before she was going to run for mayor. The Negro teacher in a big, Patti-Labelle wig, used to be on the internet calling Lewis out as a puppet of the Jewish establishment and claimed that the once-fat loudmouth was really in cohoots with Rahm Emanuel. Then somebody standing on the corner of

Roosevelt and Halsted, reminded folk that this woman running her mouf could be one of the many disgruntled former Negro employees who have been gunning for the beloved teachers union lady for some time. And nobody understands that letter dat been poppin’ up in certain places about the “Jews inside the teachers union” throwin’ de Chicago election for obvious reasons. Since it wasn’t signed, people thought

somebody named TMZ put it out—or at least that’s what the young people is saying.

Which means—-ain’t nobody got time for that hatin comin’ from colored gals with an axe to grind. Leave Karen be. She is who she is and she aint who she is either—ain’t nobody that been knowing her for the last 30 years confused about that. If she willing to help the Colored Chillen’s get some books then we is with her.”

(Cont’d from page 4) never quit.

And that’s why I thank the people of Illinois for the opportunity to continue serving them over the next four years.

Sincerely, Jesse White Illinois Secretary of State

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TO PLACE AN AD IN THE CHICAGO CRUSADER CALL 773-752-2500 (Continued from page 12) the Civil Rights Act, he invited Payne to be one of the observers in the East Room, presenting her with one of the signing pens as well as one a year later when he signed the Voting Rights Act. She traveled to Indonesia to report on the groundbreaking conference between African and Asian leaders and accompanied Vice President Richard Nixon to Ghana. (A lifelong Democrat, Payne nonetheless recognized that the future Republican President often espoused more advanced views on civil rights issues during the 1950’s than his Democratic colleagues). After leaving journalism for nine years, she returned with a special assignment from the Defender—-three months in Vietnam to assess how the war was viewed by Black troops. She would go on to cover the Nigerian civil war, visit China as one of the first American journalists allowed in after Nixon’s visit, and become the first African American woman radio and television commentator on a national network.

Drawing on a rich and untapped trove of material—including Payne’s personal papers, oral histories, FBI documents, and Payne’s own newspaper writings themselves, EYE ON THE STRUGGLE is the first book to give the full measure of this extraordinary woman’s life and work. www.chicagocrusader.com

in the above cause on December 5, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 6, 2015, 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 7639 SOUTH PERRY AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60620 Property Index No. 20-28-412-012-0000.

The real estate is improved with a single family house with a detached 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 Residential Property Abandoned 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 required by The assessments 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 OF AN ORDER OF ENTRY IN ACCORDANCE POSSESSION, WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver's license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

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 PA1101269. 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. PA1101269 Attorney Code. 91220 Case Number: 11 CH 7357 TJSC#: 34-21090 I643243

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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 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. 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 14-1306899. 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. 14-13-06899 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code.

21762 Case Number: 13 CH 016807 TJSC#: 34-20040 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.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION REVERSE MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS, INC Plaintiff, -v.CITIBANK, N.A. S/I/I TO CITIBANK (SOUTH DAKOTA), N.A., CHICAGO MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES CREDIT UNION, CAPITAL ONE BANK (USA), N.A., UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF CARLEEN CLAY, IF ANY, KEVIN RODNEY CLAY, WILLIAM BUTCHER, SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF CARLEEN CLAY, DECEASED, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 12 CH 26498 9204 SOUTH PEORIA STREET CHICAGO, IL 60620 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 11, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 12, 2015, 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 9204 SOUTH PEORIA STREET, CHICAGO, IL 60620 Property Index No. 25-05-410-022-0000. The real estate is improved with a brown, brick, single family home; 2 car detached 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

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC P l a i n t i f f , v .

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK PHILLIP E. COCHRAN, TERRI L. COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTCOCHRAN, DIAMOND HOME MENT - CHANCERY DIVISION SERVICE, SFC FUNDING TRUST GREEN TREE SERVICING LLC D e f e n d a n t s Plaintiff, 11 CH 7357 -v.7639 SOUTH PERRY AVENUE DEIRDRE REED, PALISADES COLCHICAGO, IL 60620 LECTION, L.L.C. NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS Defendants HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a 13 CH 016807 Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered 7625 S. DAMEN AVENUE CHICAGO, IL in the above cause on December 5, 2014, 60620 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS an agent for The Judicial Sales HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 6, Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale en2015, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, tered in the above cause on One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, November 5, 2014, an agent for The CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public Judicial Sales Corporation, will at auction to the highest bidder, as set forth 10:30 AM on February 9, 2015, at The below, the following described real estate: Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Commonly known as 7639 SOUTH Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, PERRY AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60620 IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the Property Index No. 20-28-412-012-0000. highest bidder, as set forth below, the The real estate is improved with a single following described real estate: family house with a detached garage. Sale Commonly known as 7625 S. DAMEN terms: 25% down of the highest bid by AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60620 certified funds at the close of the sale Property Index No. 20-30-412-009. The payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. real estate is improved with a single No third party checks will be accepted. The family residence. Sale terms: 25% balance, including the Judicial sale fee for down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable Abandoned Residential Property to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No Municipality Relief Fund, which is third party checks will be accepted. calculated on residential real estate at the The balance, including the Judicial rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser Blacks Mustnot control heir wn c oMMunity to exceed t $300, in o 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

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(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 lefees required by The gal 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 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information: Visit our website at service.attypierce.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 PA1213079. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (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. PA1213079 Attorney Code. 91220 Case Number: 12 CH 26498 TJSC#: 34-21397 I643948 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION OCWEN LOAN SERVICING, LLC; P l a i n t i f f , v s .

HARRISON KING; GLENNIE J. KING; HEIRS UNKNOWN AND LEGATEES OF HARRISON KING, ANY; IF UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF J. KING GLENNIE IF ANY; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND CLAIMANT NONRECORD D e f e n d a n t s , CH 12343 14 OF SALE NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN PUBLIC that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Friday, March 6, 2015 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: P.I.N. 21-31-201-013-0000.

Commonly known as 7949 South Muskegon Avenue, Chicago, IL 60617.

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 the Sales Clerk at Plaintiff's Attorney, The Wirbicki Law Group, 33 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603. (312) 360-9455 W14-1754.

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LEGAL NOTICE Notice is hereby given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed business Name in the conduct or transaction of business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: D15140598 on January 13, 2015 under the Assumed business Name of ALLURING DESIGNS with the business located at 20525 Attica Road, Olympia Fields, IL 60461. the true name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partners(s) Full Name is: SHARON D. TERRY 20525 ATTICA ROAD, OLYMPIA FIELDS, IL 60461, USA. 1/24, 1/31, 2/6

HOUSES FOR SALE 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 s .

CATHERINE M. DOUGLAS AKA CATHERINE DENWOOD; WERKS OF CHICAGO, INC.; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; D e f e n d a n t s , 12 CH 37883 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Friday, February 20, 2015 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: P.I.N. 20-17-209-001-0000.

Commonly known as 5601 South May Street, Chicago, IL 60621.

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 The Sales Department 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.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK ILLINOIS COUNTY, DEPARTMENT COUNTY DIVISION CHANCERY OF AMERICA, N.A.; BANK P l a i n t i f f , s . v MICHAEL S. TAYLOR; BANK OF N.A.; THE AMERICA, OF CHICAGO; CITY D e f e n d a n t s , CH 1371 13 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Friday, March 6, 2015 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 7621 South Vernon Avenue, Chicago, IL 60619.

P.I.N. 20-27-409-008-0000.

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. (614) 220-5611.

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Urban Partnership Bank, P l a i n t i f f , v s .

Deborah Whitaker, Phoenix Bond & Indemnity Company, all Unknown Owners and all Non-Record Claimants, D e f e n d a n t s .

13 CH 6797; february 7, 2015 Sheriff's No. 150039-001F. 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 March 3, 2015, at 1:00 P.M. in Room LL06 of the Richard J. Daley Center, 50 West Washington Street, Chicago, IL, sell at public auction the following described premises and real estate mentioned in said Judgment: PIN: 20-36-316-014-0000.Address: 1627 E. 85th Street, Chicago, IL 60617.Improvements: Single Family.Sale shall be under the following terms: Ten percent (10%) at the time of sale and the balance within twenty-four (24) hours; plus, for residential real estate, a statutory judicial sale fee calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser to the person conducting the sale, not to exceed $300,

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE, IN TRUST FOR REGISTERED HOLDERS OF LONG BEACH MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2005-1 ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-1 Plaintiff, -v.DIONNE MEEKINS, CITIMORTGAGE, INC., UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 12 CH 23774 8929 S MORGAN ST CHICAGO, IL 60620 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on November 24, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 3, 2015, 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 8929 S MORGAN ST, CHICAGO, IL 60620 Property Index No. 25-05-221034-0000. The real estate is improved with a single family 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

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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 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information: Visit our website at service.attypierce.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 PA1312850. 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. PA1312850 Attorney Code. 91220 Case Number: 12 CH 23774 TJSC#: 351372 I643801

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, Illinois, County Department, Division.

Chancery Partnership Bank, Urban P l a i n t i f f , s . v Deborah Whitaker, Phoenix Bond & Indemnity Company, all Unknown Owners all Non-Record Claimants, and D e f e n d a n t s .

CH 6797; 13 No. 150039-001F. Sheriff's 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 March 3, 2015, at 1:00 P.M. in Room LL06 of the Richard J. Daley Center, 50 West Washington Street, Chicago, IL, sell at public auction the following described premises and real estate mentioned in said Judgment: PIN: 20-36-316-014-0000.Address: 1627 E. Street, Chicago, IL 85th 60617.Improvements: Single Family.Sale shall be under the following terms: Ten percent (10%) at the time of sale and the balance within twenty-four (24) hours; plus, for residential real estate, a statutory judicial sale fee calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser to the person conducting the sale, not to exceed $300, for deposit into the Abandoned Residential Property Municipal Relief Fund. No judicial sale 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. All payments shall be made with cashier check or certified funds payable to the Sheriff of Cook County. In the event the property is a condominium, 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 unit, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessment and legal fees required by Subdivision (g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9 and the assessments required by (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Sale shall be subject to general Act. taxes, special assessments, and any prior first mortgages. Premises will NOT be For information: open for inspection.

Rachel C. Steiner, Pugh, Jones & Johnson, P.C., Plaintiff's Attorneys, 180 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 3400, Chicago, IL 60601. Tel. No. (312) 768-7800.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.I643611 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.14 CH 000093 7730 S. WOOD STREET CHICAGO, IL 60620 JUANITA COTTON, CAPITAL ONE BANK (USA), N.A. Defendants NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on November 20, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on February 23, 2015, 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 7730 S. WOOD STREET, CHICAGO, IL 60620 Property Index No. 20-30-423-029. 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 fore-

HOUSES FOR SALE closure 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 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. 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 14-13-33989. 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. 14-13-33989 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code.

21762 Case Number: 14 CH 000093 TJSC#: 34-21078 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.

I641166 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION ONEWEST BANK N.A. Plaintiff, -v.MARQUETTE BANK, AS TRUSTEE U/T/A DATED 1/15/01 A/K/A TRUST NO. 15401, UNKNOWN BENEFICIARIES OF THE MARQUETTE BANK, AS TRUSTEE U/T/A DATED 1/15/01 A/K/A TRUST NO. 15401, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, WILLIAM P. BUTCHER, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR LACELLE WILSON (DECEASED) Defendants 14 CH 011187 7110 S. VERNON AVENUE CHICAGO, IL 60619 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 3, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 5, 2015, 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 7110 S. VERNON AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60619 Property Index No. 20-27-200-020. The real estate is improved with a 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. Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption. 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

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POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

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 14-14-12172. 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. 14-14-12172 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 14 CH 011187 TJSC#: 34-21678 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.

I643195 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION HSBC BANK USA, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.RACHEL SOLOMON, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF EVELYN HICKS, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, WILLIAM P. BUTCHER, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR EVELYN HICKS A/K/A EVELYN A. HICKS (DECEASED) Defendants 13 CH 027297 7350 S. EUCLID AVENUE 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 December 2, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 5, 2015, 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 7350 S. EUCLID AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60649 Property Index No. 20-25-129-028. 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. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. 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 14-13-30387. 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. 14-13-30387 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 13 CH 027297 TJSC#: 34-21616 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.

I643052 iN tHe CiRCuit COuRt OF COOK COuNty, iLLiNOiS COuNty dePARtMeNt - CHANCeRy diViSiON deutSCHe bANK NAtiONAL tRuSt COMPANy, AS tRuStee FOR tHe CeRtiFiCAteHOLdeRS OF MeRRiLL LyNCH MORtGAGe iNVeStORS tRuSt, MORtGAGe LOAN ASSetbACKed CeRtiFiCAteS, SeRieS 2007-MLN1 Plaintiff, -v.dWAyNe C. CORLey, LutiCiA A. CORLey, City OF CHiCAGO, uNKNOWN OWNeRS ANd NONReCORd CLAiMANtS defendants 12 CH 028674 7810 S. MiCHiGAN AVeNue CHiCAGO, iL 60619 NOtiCe OF SALe PubLiC NOtiCe iS HeReby GiVeN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on November 19, 2014, an agent for the Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on February 23, 2015, 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 7810 S. MiCHiGAN AVeNue, CHiCAGO, iL 60619 Property index No. 20-27-319-016. the real estate is improved with a multifamily 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. you will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where the Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

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 14-12-21965. 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. 14-12-21965 Attorney ARdC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 12 CH 028674 tJSC#: 3421306 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. i641317

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CPS City/Suburban shootout showcases best teams and players in area

By J. Coyden Palmer Over 20 Division I college coaches, including Dawn Staley from the University of South Carolina and hundreds of fans came to watch 10 of the best girls basketball teams and players in the area at this year’s CPS City/Suburban Shootout at Kenwood Academy Jan. 24. The showcase event provided a big stage for players and the games did not disappoint either. CPS schools edged out the suburban schools three wins to two, to win this year’s five-game challenge.

Whitney Young capped off the evening with a thrilling 64-61 overtime win over Joliet Catholic.

Young, the number one ranked team in the state, sent the game into overtime with a three-point field goal from the deep corner by senior Madinah Muhammad at the buzzer of regulation. The two teams had been engaged in a heated battle in the second half with neither team being able to get a decisive advantage.

JCA tied the game at 56 with less than two minutes remaining in regulation after a three-pointer

by Mia Farrell. JCA took the lead moments later on a layup by Nicole Ekhomu, who led the Angels with 20 points.

“I thought we had them but there is a reason why they are one of the best teams in the state every year,” said JCA coach Kenny Battle after the game. “We could have chosen to foul them in those last few seconds to prevent them from shooting a three, but that’s in hindsight. I think we competed well and gave the fans a good show. We’re not going to let this game undermine what our ultimate goal is, and that’s to continue to compete and be champions at the end.”

The tournament got off to a fast start with Bloom (Chicago Heights) and Brooks engaging in a track meet in the opening game of the day. Brooks defeated Bloom 89-77 behind Akina Wellere’s 39 points.

Amara Graham added 27 points for Brooks and Camryn Julun supplied 14 points and 22 rebounds.

Bolingbrook defeated South Shore 47-32 behind Paris Bryant’s 11-point performance. And the host school Kenwood Academy, one of the up and coming programs in CPS, easily routed Oswego in the only game of the day that was never in doubt. Montini of Lombard defeated North Lawndale 58-46 in another matchup of good teams.

Lea Kerstein and Rainey Kuykendall scored 12 points each, and Kaylee Bambule added 10 points for Montini (20-4).

“I think this year our event was a big success,” said CPS Girl’s Basketball Coordinator Cynthia Irvin. “I think we’ve shown once again that the Chicago area has the best girl’s and boy’s basketball players in the country. Our girl’s programs are getting better with teams like North Lawndale, Kenwood, Morgan Park and South Shore getting ready to make their mark.”

WHITNEY YOUNG SENIOR Madinah Muhammad hit the game-tying three at the end of regulation to send the game against Joliet Catholic into overtime during last Saturday’s CPS City/Suburban Shootout at Kenwood Academy. Young won the game in overtime.

Malcolm X College men’s basketball player earns Region IV honor Warren Gordon of Malcolm X College receives his third Region IV Player of the Week award For the second consecutive week and third time this season, Warren Gordon of the Malcolm X College men’s basketball team was named Region IV Division I Player of the Week.

Gordon, a 6-foot sophomore guard claimed his most-recent accolade January 12 after scoring a career-best 34 points and contributing six assists, five rebounds and two steals in the Hawks’ 8883 loss to Sauk Valley Communi-

ty College on January 10. The six assists and five rebounds equal Gordon’s season highs.

Gordon, who was also the Player of the Week recipient November 17 and January 5, leads Malcolm X (7-9) with a 19.4 points-pergame average. He is second on the team in both assists and steals, averaging 3.5 and 1.8 per game, respectively.

Gordon, a graduate of Pike High School in Indianapolis, is pursuing an associate degree at Malcolm X College.

About City Colleges of Chicago

Warren Gordon

City Colleges of Chicago is the largest community college system in Illinois and one of the largest in the nation, with 5,800 faculty and staff serving 115,000 students annually at seven colleges and six satellite sites citywide. City Colleges of Chicago is in the midst of a Reinvention, a collaborative effort to review and revise City Colleges programs and practices to ensure students leave City Colleges college-ready, careerready and prepared to pursue their life’s goals.

City Colleges of Chicago offers

intercollegiate athletics at six colleges: Richard J. Daley College (soccer and basketball), KennedyKing College (soccer and basketball), Malcolm X College (soccer, volleyball, and basketball), OliveHarvey College (basketball and baseball), Harry S. Truman College (soccer and basketball) and Wilbur Wright College (basketball). City Colleges of Chicago is a member of the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA). For more information about City Colleges of Chicago, call: (773) COLLEGE or visit www.ccc.edu.

Adult-Child Baseball Camps coming to SSC in February The South Suburban College Baseball Program and Head Coach Steve Ruzich will be conducting Adult-Child Baseball Camps February 13 through 22nd for boys and girls 6-14 years of age. The camps will feature sessions for pitching, hitting, advanced hitting, and fielding while providing adults and kids the opportunity to improve their knowledge of baseball skills and techniques. Kids will be given expert instruction and time to practice and improve their skills through a variety of station drills. Adults will be taught how to use effective teaching methods, provide instruction using proper skill techniques, and utilize effective drills.

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losses. He was recently named to the NJCAA Coaches Hall of Fame. Not only has he enjoyed success as a college coach and player, he has also established himself as a reputable youth baseball camp director around the state. In addition to Ruzich’s instruction, SSC baseball players will be on hand to help the campers develop and improve their skills.

The cost is $45 for one adult and one child per camp, and $40 per camp if enrolled in more than one. The cost is $30 for each additional child. The camp schedule is as follows: Pitching: Friday, February 13, 6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. and Saturday, February 21, 9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Hitting: Saturday, February 14, 9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., Sunday, February 15, 12 noon –

2:30 p.m., and Sunday, February 22, 11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Advanced Hitting: Sunday, February 23, 2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Fielding: Sunday, February 15, 3:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. and Friday, February 21, 6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Enrollment is limited, so early sign-up is encouraged. Checks should be made payable to South Suburban College Baseball. The camps are located at Bulldog Field and the Gymnasium on SSC’s Main Campus. To register, please contact Coach Ruzich at (708) 596-2000, ext.

2413, or email sruzich@ssc.edu. SSC is located at 15800 South State Street, South Holland, Illinois.

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