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Angry Crestwood residents attend hearing about tainted water supply

By J. Coyden Palmer CRESTWOOD — Nearly 300 angry residents of this small south suburban village jammed the auditorium at Oak Forest Hospital for an emergency town hall meeting hosted by Cong. Bobby Rush (D-1st).

The meeting was in response to the recent allegations that Crestwood officials allowed water from a polluted well, containing potentially cancer-causing chemicals, into the village’s drinking water. The well in question received chemicals from a nearby dry cleaning business.

Last week, federal agents raided the Village Hall and other public buildings. Federal officials want to know how and why the chemicals got into the 11,000 residents’ village drinking water supply and if Crestwood officials knew what was going on. Crestwood’s Department of Public Works was their first stop.

“We’re looking for evidence of environmental crimes,” said Randall Ashe, U.S. EPA Special Agent-In-Charge. Residents like Cathy Murphy are concerned about the future of the village and residents. She said this news will give the village a bad name and homeowners could see the value of their homes plummet. But her main concern is with the overall health of current and future residents, some of whom have cancer, including children.

“More people will die in Crestwood from drinking the water over the next several

years than died on 9-11,” Murphy said.

“There’s got to be something we can all do to see if we are at risk of one of the cancers we’re seeing people develop here.”

Murphy also wants to see the village declared a disaster area. The whole thing reminds many residents of the 2000 blockbuster film “Erin Brockovich” starring

Julia Roberts. In the movie, Roberts plays real-life paralegal [Brockovich] who uncovered a power company’s polluted re(Continued on page 3)

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA signs the Civil Rights History Project Act of 2009 bill into law in the Oval Office of t h e W h i t e H o u s e T u e s d a y , M a y 1 2 , 20 0 9 . W i t h P r e s i d e n t O b a m a a r e f r o m l e f t : R e p . M i k e Q u i g l e y ( D - I L ) ; R e p .

Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY); Rep. Sanford Bishop (D-GA); Rep. Lacy Clay (D-MO); Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) and Rep. John Lewis (D-GA). (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Youth demand better schools, safer communities 700 youth attend first-ever summit to end violence

By La Risa Lynch Billed as an event to allow youth a chance to have their voices heard, many attending the Safety Networks’ first-ever citywide youth summit believe their concerns fell on deaf ears.

More than 700 youth packed Dunbar High School’s auditorium last week as their peers quizzed policy makers and heads of state and community agencies on

youth jobs, criminal justice, and education.

Issues raised during the event will be transformed into recommendations and initiatives that the youth will present to local and state politicians.

Chicago Public Schools Chief Ron Huberman and Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis were on the hot seat as students probed for answers on fixing failing schools and improving relations between minorities and the police.

Evaristo Montoro was not impressed with Weis. The 21-year-old Chicago Lawn resident is part of a campaign against cops

carrying assault weapons. He said militarizing the police with assault weapons would do more harm than good.

“It is the youth that is going to be confronted with these weapons,” he said, ask-

ing under what circumstances will police use these weapons.

“They leave it to the officers’ discretion,” said Montoro, a youth organizer with the (Continued on page 2)

INSIDE THIS ISSUE Mount Carmel honors ’79 Graduate Craig Robinson SEE PAGE 19

NEWS

President Obama launches Office of Public Engagement Also unveils Citizens’ Briefing Book with ideas from Americans across the country President Obama recently announced a new name and a new mission for the White House office charged with dealing most closely with the American people. The Office of Public Liaison is now the Office of Public Engagement.

OPE, along with the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, will serve as the front door to the White House through which ordinary Americans can participate and inform the work of the President.

The current leadership will remain to carry out the new mission and includes Valerie Jarrett, Senior Adviser to the President, Christina M. Tchen, Director of OPE; and Michael Strautmanis Chief of Staff to the Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Relations and Public Engagement. Additional staff and issue areas can be viewed at the OPE website at www.whitehouse.gov/ope.

In a video announcement about OPE, President Obama said, “This office will seek to engage as many Americans as possible in the difficult work of changing this country, through meetings and conversations with groups and individuals held in Washington and across the country.”

OPE will help build relationships with Americans by increasing their meaningful engagement with the federal government. Serving as the front door to the White House, Christina M. Tchen

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OPE will allow ordinary Americans to offer their stories and ideas regarding issues that concern them and share their views on important topics such as health care, energy and education.

In addition to its traditional White House operations, OPE will now also focus on getting information from the American people outside the Washington Beltway through special public events as well as activities on the web site.

The office will have a strong on-

line presence, including blog postings from OPE staff and other interactive elements.

Since the beginning of the Administration, OPE has served a large role in developing White House outreach efforts whether it is a meeting with national innovators in the White House, a community health forum in Michigan or a town hall meeting in California.

The President also announced the release of the Citizens’ Briefing Book – the culmination of a project begun during the transition, and an example of the innovative ways the office will execute its new mission. In January, everyday Americans submitted their best ideas for dealing with some of the nation’s toughest issues. Visitors to the transition website ranked each idea and also had the opportunity to provide comments. The results can be viewed at www.whitehouse.gov/ope.

A New Name, Mission for White House Liaison Office The White House Office of Public Engagement Leadership Team: Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor and

Michael Strautmanis Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement. Prior to her current position, she served as Co-Chair of the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team, and Senior Advisor to Obama’s presidential campaign. Prior to joining the Obama administration, Jarrett served as a Director of corporate and not for profit boards, including Chairman of the University of Chicago Medical Center Board of Trustees, and Vice Chair of the (Continued on page 16)

Youths demand better schools, safer communities (Continued from page 1) Southwest Youth Collaborative.

“That doesn’t sit well with me. I really think that there should be some type of rules and structure for them to use that weapon.”

Montoro believes money spent on these weapons, which he said has the range of seven football fields, could be used to fund summer youth jobs.

“We believe that violence is not the answer to more violence,” he added.

Weis acknowledged a problem exists when it comes to categorizing all youth based on what they wear, where they live, and how they look.

He said his department offers sensitivity training for new recruits, especially for those who are not from Chicago.

“We have an aggressive training program, and we really emphasis a respect for religious differences, ethnic differences, and cultural differences,” he explained. “Our officers will react to what they see. Unfortunately, in some areas, it is a high crime area, and they will perhaps be more aggressive. But there is no reason that you can’t be treated with respect … unless the situation changes.”

Weis urged the students to suggest ways in which the police department can better train officers.

Commander Ernest Brown, the police department’s organized crime chief, added that youth must be responsible for their actions and exude a behavior that does not bring attention to themselves.

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YOUTH INVOLVED IN the Illinois Department of Human Service’s Safety Networks program quizzed several local and state agencies as well as community groups on ways they can help teens reduce violence. are not giving the law enforcement community or anybody else a hammer to hit you over the head with,” Brown said. “We have to make sure that our behavior is consistent with where we want to be in life.”

Students also took Huberman to task about programs to help formerly incarcerated youth reintegrate back into school. Huberman said his office is reviewing initiatives to address that. But he noted many students returning to schools from jail are more likely to fail because there are no supportive services for them.

Hurberman explained that when students return to class after months of incarceration “we put them right back where they left off” even though their classmates are months ahead of them.

CPS, he said, needs to have re-en-

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try programs to assess where students are with their school work and then connect them with tutoring “to try to get them caught up and keep them caught up.”

“It is our job to provide them with that extra help and so we are looking at this particular issue,” he said, noting that the youth at the summit had great ideas and asked tough questions.

Jazmine Ortiz, 19, a Wright Junior College student, also wants CPS to re-examine its zero tolerance policy. Ortiz said CPS should focus more on restorative justice initiatives instead of expelling and suspending students. She contends CPS should adopt an in-school suspension initiative where students

MORE THAN 700 youth attended a teen summit on violence p r e v e n t i on a t D u n b a r H i g h S c h oo l l a s t w e e k , w h e r e t h e y a s k e d t o u g h q u e s t i o n s o f C P S C h i e f R o n H ub e r m a n a n d Police Superintendent Jody Weis on fixing failing schools and improving police relations among minority communities.

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are in a group like a counseling setting to address disciplinary problems.

“It all starts at home, and once it starts at home, they bring it to school,” Ortiz explained.

Jacquay Carr, 21, was disappointed in the summit. He said some panelist glossed over questions and told the audience what they wanted to hear. He questioned why the city was raising money to bring the Olympics to Chicago, while students in Austin have books dating back to 1996. He contends most of the panelist came “because they were made to come.”

“They know after today they won’t see none of these people anymore,” he said.

But, David Villanueva, 16, believes some good can come from the summit. He believes youths are the answer to curbing gang violence, especially this summer.

“I would tell them that I am tired of seeing my own people — minorities hurt themselves, kill themselves, and settling for less,” Villanueva said. “If you want to get money, there are things that you can do legally where you would get more money than selling drugs, killing people and gangbanging.”

Ortiz added the summit was more for adults to let them know that youths are concerned about their futures.

“I think the people on the panel are going see that the youth are really interested in getting educated, and that the youth want a change,” she said. “The youth want their voices heard.”

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Stroger vetoes sales tax rollback

By J. Coyden Palmer Saying a one percent rollback on the county sales tax would only lead to undermining health and law enforcement services, Cook County Board President Todd Stroger vetoed a measure passed by county board commissioners last week setting off a nasty war of words. Stroger called the actions by his colleagues on the board “a political grandstanding” and said the county would stand to lose $274 million this year if they were to drop the sales tax. Stroger stood with supporters at Provident Hospital on the South Side Tuesday morning. Provident is run by the county and caters to many low-income patients who do not have health insurance.

“These are the people they want to hurt with their actions,” said Stroger as patients and political allies clapped in support. “I will not allow county commissioners to grandstand for political advantage.”

The board last week voted 12-3 to repeal the tax, with four commissioners reversing their positions in favor of a tax hike from a year earlier, while two others were absent from the vote. Fourteen commissioners would have to agree to override Stroger’s veto for the sales tax to be cut Jan. 1 and he believes

CO M M IS S IO N E R F R AN K AV ILA , with the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, will speak before the 21st District Senior Advisory Council, Tuesday, May 19 at 1 PM at Cottage View Terrace, 4829 South Cottage Grove. Officer Ruth Singleton, coordinator, announced the commissioner will explain the workings of the MWRD including the Deep Tunnel Project.

Commissioner Frank Avila has over 40 years of experience as an engineer and land surveyor, lending his talent to over 300 engineering projects. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of IllinoisChampaign-Urbana and a master of science from the University of Arizona.

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he has the votes to do so. Cook County currently has the dubious distinction of having the highest sales tax in the country.

Commissioners say their constituents are upset and have unleashed their rage on commissioners. In recent elections many villages had on their ballots symbolic ordinances to secede from the county. Last year Stroger appeared in Northwest suburban Palatine telling residents there that seceding from the county wouldn’t be in their best interest because of all the services Cook County provides. He said he understands people’s frustrations, but said the national and global economy is to blame not him. But Commissioner Elizabeth Gorman (R-Orland Park) said her constituents are frustrated with her not the global economy. She and others who voted to repeal the tax hike said they are looking to give relief to the public not grandstand.

“When he had an opportunity to do the right thing and let the repeal go through, he basically thumbed his nose at us and said, ‘I don’t care.

I’m going to do what I want to do’, ” said Gorman of Stroger’s veto.

Other commissioners say the fight is just beginning despite Stroger’s claim on Tuesday that he has the four votes needed to override the veto. Commissioner Larry Sufferdin (D-Evanston) is one of the four commissioners who reversed course on the measure.

“I intend to work very hard to override this veto, and if I can’t override the veto, I will work in other ways to overturn this tax,” Sufferdin said.

County residents were split.

Many say any relief will help while others think one percent isn’t a big enough cut to make a difference.

But those who depend on the county for medical services like Jocelyn Harrison of suburban Markham, any cuts in healthcare could have a detrimental affect on her quality of life.

“I lost my job 14 months ago and with that went my health benefits,” said Harrison who suffers from diabetes and asthma, which require regular treatments. “I would be completely stuck without the county services. Don’t get me wrong it’s not the same services I got when I was able to afford my private doctor, but let’s face it, without the county medical care many people would be very sick or possibly die.”

Jasper Jackson of Dolton agrees with Stroger that the commissioners are making much to do about nothing. He is especially upset with those who originally voted for the measure, but now want to change their mind.

“I was never in favor of the hike to begin with but what I don’t like is the same people who put this in

NEWS

TAKING THE OATH: Circuit Court Judge Michael W. Stuttley (left) administers the oath of office to Lewis Towers as Mayor of Sauk Village, May 12, 2009 at village offices. Mayor Towers is the first African American to be elected mayor of Sauk Village, a far south suburb of Chicago. another year or two.” place now want to act like they are ing some relief for county homeCritics of the plan say there is no working for the people by asking owners. It will be the first time in guarantee property taxes will be cut for an appeal,” Jackson said. “It’s the county’s history that assessed and the property tax burden will just as bad as when Congress voted values will decline, according to only be shifted to businesses. They to go to war in Iraq then once we Houlihan. About 800,000 resi- fear higher business taxes will only went there they all complained dents will have their property val- run more companies and small about what George Bush was do- ues decreased between 4 percent businesses out of the county taking ing. It’s like when they do these and 15 percent. While it will ease jobs with them. Chicago has alvotes they’re not thinking about the the taxes paid by homeowners, ready lost a number of businesses affect it will have a year or two many who want to sell their home this year to suburban municipalidown the line. The only time they think it’s a knee-jerk reaction that ties and collar counties. Despite consider the consequences is when will only continue to hurt home that risk, Houlihan plans on movit’s election time again and their sales. ing forward with his idea.

“By lowering the assessment of head is on the chopping block.”

“To not take action, I believe, Stroger said he won’t play politics my house, it means I will have to would be irresponsible,” he said. with people’s lives. He said if the drop the price yet again,” said “The situation we are facing is excounty were $245 million in the Shirley Clarkson of Riverdale. “I’ve traordinary because of foreclosures hole as a result in the rollback many already dropped it twice and it’s still and declines in sale prices and volon the market. I’m not dropping it lives would be ruined. ume have taken a toll on home valIn the meantime Cook County anymore. I’m just going to have to ues.”

Assessor James Houlihan is provid- try and ride out this economy for

Angry Crestwood residents . . . tainer pond’s water had seeped into the water supply of the town around it. PG&E ended up having to pay $333 million in damages to over 300 plaintiffs for knowing the water was polluted and trying to cover it up. Rush said if that’s the case in Crestwood, there will be severe repercussions for those responsible.

“The government is supposed to protect its people but in this case it appears the Village of Crestwood did the complete opposite,” Rush said. “I intend to use the full weight of my office to see that justice is served and that this never happens in another U.S. city.

“I just can’t fathom a public official allowing contaminated water into the public water system.

That someone would knowingly allow children to drink contaminated water is unconscionable,” Rush said. “If it is found out that that indeed happened, I will make sure that person or persons are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

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(Continued from page 1) claiming responsibility for what happened but village officials vow to get to the bottom of it.

“We’re fully cooperating with the EPA,” said Mayor Robert Stranczek. “There is no issue with the water supply right now.”

However reports recently surfaced that for over 20 years, Crestwood secretly pumped water from the well into the village’s drinking supply. Illinois Environmental Protection Agency Director Doug Scott said the village also misled the IEPA, saying it wasn’t mixing the well water with drinking water. The village claimed its water came from Lake Michigan only.

“The village purposely misled us about its water use,” Scott said. “They said they weren’t using the well to mix with the Lake Michigan water. We don’t believe that.”

The well contained the chemical vinyl chloride, which is a known carcinogen. Vinyl chloride is a colorless, organic compound and industrial chemical chiefly used to produce the polymer polyvinyl chloride (PVC). At room temperature, vinyl chloride

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is a gas with a sickly sweet odor that is easily condensed but is highly toxic. Due to the hazardous nature of vinyl chloride to human health there are no end products that use vinyl chloride in its monomer form.

During the meeting, several residents told of loved ones who had died of cancer and wondered if the village’s water had something to do with it. Others expressed concerns about their children who have autism or neurological ailments. There were stories told by residents of brain cancer, thyroid cancer, breast cancer, liver cancer and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Among the speakers was Tricia Krause, a mother of three who has waged a long crusade to uncover the truth about the village’s water. For 10 years she’s been searching for answers. After Krause discovered incriminating documents and violation notices went to longtime village water engineer Frank Scaccia, the IEPA says he confessed that officials had routinely lied about water quality for many years.

Several civil lawsuits already have been filed against the village.

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EDITORIAL

OPINION

HOW LOW CAN YA GO? The money barons have gone “buck wild” in America.

Just when you are gathering your wits after reeling from the impact of the depression masquerading as a “recession,” news out of New York City causes you to sit right back down. Mayor Bloomberg has instituted a new policy that’s forcing the working homeless to pay rent! According to an article by Daily News staff writers Christina Boyle, Celeste Katz and Caitlin Millat, Bloomberg defended this policy by stating “Everybody else is doing it, and we’re told we have to do it, so we’re going to do it.”

This is ludicrous! Mayor Bloomberg, who has more money than Carter had little liver pills, can stand, incredulously, and demand that people who are technically homeless should pay rent in shelters. Obviously, if they had enough money, they would not be homeless, they would not be in shelters!

People in shelters are already at the very bottom rungs in society. As homeless people, they have obviously been beaten and bruised by the hand of fate, and, because of this, they deserve to be assisted out of their homelessness, not pulled deeper into the mire.

You can tell the character of a society by the way that it treats the most vulnerable individuals. Charging homeless people rent is like kicking people when they are down. It is unconscionable and should not happen. Advocates for the homeless should not rest until something is done about this dastardly situation.

Certainly, no one should get a free lunch, so to speak. It is not thought that freeloaders should be tolerated or encouraged. But homeless people, people who do not have their own little space on the planet, are, by their situations, people in need. For New York to charge them rent for their homelessness is an atrocity and an affront to decency. This is the height of inhospitality.

For those of you who agree with the Bloomberg policy, consider this – homelessness can visit almost any of us at any time. A catastrophic illness that depletes our resources, the sudden and unexpected loss of job, a devastating fire or a natural disaster are all variables that can change our state of existence in an instant. Therefore, before you look down your noses at these hapless victims, remember that you don’t know their backstories.

Based on the policy, residents are informed that they’re being charged via a notice that is sent to their shelters and caseworkers. They can appeal the amount in a hearing – but if they can’t pay, they’ll eventually be removed from housing. These people become, in essence, the “doubly homeless.”

According to the Daily News article, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer said “the ‘shocking’ policy hurts the homeless and should be reversed.” He further stated “If this is a state requirement, New York City should be taking the lead in getting it changed.” We agree.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Taxing sugary drinks to fund dental care makes sense Dear Editor: Without finding a sensible solution to funding dental programs, millions of Illinois families and children are at risk of suffering from both short-term and longterm health problems, including heart disease, stroke, pre-term childbirth and oral cancer.

As a dentist, I want to meet the dental care needs of every patient that walks through my doors, whether they’re backed by a major medical insurance provider, government-insured program or paying out of pocket. But as more people lose jobs so goes their medical coverage, leaving even more families without a viable option to pay for much needed medical assistance.

This is why I fully support legislation backed by the Bridge to Healthy Smiles Coalition to impose a five percent sales tax on soda pop and other high sugar drinks to fund dental care. Reports show that prolonged exposure to “liquid sugar” can lead to significant enamel loss and the erosive potential of colas is 10 times that of fruit juices in just the first three minutes of drinking.

Because Illinois has among the lowest funding rates in the nation for government-funded dental care, we are facing an oral-healthcare crisis where dental clinics have closed and services have sharply been reduced, but the need for care is dramatically increasing as the economy worsens.

Illinois currently has just one clinic per 8,400 children who rely on government insurance.

Modeled after a proposal introduced in New York, such a tax would generate millions of dollars in funding to increase dental reimbursement rates for oral health care. No one likes tax increases, but if this will help save a child’s beautiful smile and prevent long term health risks, then it’s worth every penny.

Mary J. Hayes DDS Pediatric Dental Health Associates, Ltd. Chicago, Illinois Spokesperson for Illinois State Dental Society

(SCLC) and members from Dr. Webb Evans, National President of the United American Progress Association; Head Quarters 7616 South Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago, IL. (60619).

I worked with Dr. Martin Luther King during his lifetime. I was with him in Washington August 28, 1963. I was also with him in a nu mber of other places.

I let him know while working (Continued on page 6)

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Open Letter to SCLC from UAPA Dear Editor: Open letter to Rev. Byron Clay, President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

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BEYOND THE RHETORIC

It is Time for Africa to Get Its Act Together

By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The year is 2009 and all of the African nations have yet to harness their very valuable resources and build wealth among its people. God has truly blessed this continent with gold and diamonds laying on the ground; oil

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burping from under the ground; the purest farm land in the world and the most scenic landscape known to man. Yet, the world knows no worst poverty, famine and struggle than this, the venue

of the beginning of man.

When Europeans mastered sailing and learned the power of organized armies, they quickly targeted Africa as a place for labor recruiting via human bondage, aka slavery.

It is ironic that when the United States emancipated slaves in 1863 that same year, via the Treaty of Berlin, Europe formally divided up the African continent into colonies for pillage of its resources.

The formal colonization began to crumble in 1957 when Kwame Nkrumah led Ghana to official independence. Yes, Africa actually began democracy before it was realized by African-Americans.

Vice President Nixon journeyed to Ghana in 1957 for the inauguration ceremonies.

He approached a group of African Americans sitting at the ceremony and mistook them for Ghanaians. He exclaimed, “How does it feel to be free?!” They replied, “We don’t know, we are from Alabama.” Wasn’t that profound?

African-Americans officially obtained democracy under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. However, Africa has had its ups and downs.

Ghana later reverted to military coups and oppression but eventually returned to democracy in the 1990’s. Most African nations can say they are democratic.

But that is basically a sham. You can’t have true democracy without economic equity. These nations do not control their own resources as they are still being exploited by Europe and now along with Asia and the western hemisphere.

Even South Africa which has a 1st world economy is rigidly segregated. The wealth belongs to White Afrikaners and the massive poverty (factually 3rd world) is exclusive to the majority Black population.

When you sit down with Africans and frankly berate them for their dismal state they will come up with a hundred reasons for their plight. The simple reason is fear and the old “crabs in the barrel syndrome.”

A few tribal leaders find a way to get to the top and then suppress the rest of the people so that they can enjoy their temporary status for as long as they can. The Kikuyu in Kenya won’t step down from power just because they lost the election.

The Hutu, in Rwanda, decided

to kill over a million Tutsis rather then turn over the leadership to them. It goes on and on. Europe and the rest of the world are far too willing to feed this predatory system with stupid loans and deceitful aid designed to keep them confused and in terrible debt.

Meanwhile, the diamonds, oil, gold, etc. gets pulled out for pennies on the dollar and to no benefit of each nation and its people.

The first thing Africa needs to do is get rid of the tribal thing.

We are all God’s children and there is no section of us better than the rest. Let’s have one big tribe and call it mankind. Even China has over 32 different cultures and tribes but they found a way to blend them all together.

Next, and most importantly, African nations must control their own resources and add value to them. For every crop such as tomatoes, cocoa, pineapples, mangos, etc. they must process them there and control and own that process.

What good is growing cotton when you don’t own one cotton gin? Why does a gallon of gasoline in Nigeria costs more than in Amsterdam? It is pumped out of Nigeria so why isn’t it refined there and controlled 100% by

Nigerians from well to refinery to gas station. It is insane. Why do White South Africans and Europeans have a monopoly on gold and diamonds when you African nations possess the raw minerals?

Seize it, manage it and profit from it. The models of Mexico, Venezuela and Brazil clearly show how rich a nation and its people can become if they only start controlling its own resources that God has blessed them with.

If a sack of Coltran is bought in the Congo for $100 and is shipped to Belgium where it is cleaned up and sold to international telecom companies for over $100,000, I say let the future sacks of Coltran become void of the middle man or exploiter and the people of the Congo begin enjoying this money for themselves. If Africa gets its act together then the millions of educated Africans living in the West and Europe would return and offer their talents to their homelands.

For God’s sake Africa, WAKE UP!!!

H arry A lf ord i s t h e c ofounder, President/CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, Inc. Website: www.nationalbcc.org.

Obama Ain’t cha Mama!

By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Now that many believe we are living in nirvana, having reached the absolute pinnacle of our society’s glory; now that some think we have entered a post-racial era, replete with the all the trappings of idealism, sweetness, and light; now that we have achieved the collective dream of millions of people who thought “they would never live to see the election of a Black President;” and now that we have been inebriated for about 100 days; it’s time to sober up.

Having drunk the intoxicating elixir of “change,” “equality,” “yes we can,” and “togetherness,” it’s time for Black people, especially, to go on a serious coffee binge.

As the song once said, “Back to life, back to reality.” We still have much work to do among ourselves; we still have to fight for what we want and need; we still have to agitate, as Frederick Douglass taught us; and we still have to demand our equitable piece of this rock they call the United States of America.

As one of my Whirlwind members wrote, “Now is the time to fight harder than ever; folks singing ‘we are one’ is no guaranThe Chicago Crusader

tee of equality and equity in U.S. society. A horse and jockey are ‘as one,’ unified in the goal to succeed and achieve, but certainly are not equals!”

Brother K, in Wichita, Kansas, has it absolutely correct. Now is the time to fight even harder. Why? Because opportunities are available to us now that did not exist prior to Obama’s ascension to the throne.

That is, if we read the tea leaves correctly.

My good friend, Bob Law, restaurateur in Brooklyn, New York and former national talk radio personality, expressed his exasperation at what seems to be the only reason Black folks wanted Obama to be President: “Black people just wanted to have a Black President. That’s all. We had no other agenda than that.”

So I ask, “What is our collective agenda now that we have a Black man in the highest office in the land?” Why aren’t we beating down the door of the White House demanding some reciprocity for our enthusiastic support of Obama’s candidacy and ultimate victory?

Everyone else is.

Seems to me we are so enthralled with the symbolism of it all that we have forgotten what politics is really all about: Self interest, in case you need to be reminded. The parties

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and celebrations were nice, but now it’s time for serious work.

If we allow these four years to pass without achieving a higher level of collective economic advancement for Black people, we are simply foolish, and we will deserve what we get.

So don’t sit back and think that things will change simply because Obama is in office. Don’t think he is going to personally take care of your needs.

Obama ain’t cha mama; he is the president of a country that is still run, by and large, by white men who have, by their past resistance to change, proven time and again that Black folks will have to fight for everything we get in this country. I think it was Douglass who also said, “We may not get everything we fight for, but we will certainly have to fight for every-

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thing we get.”

As individuals, we must understand and act upon the fact that things are still about the same for most of us; each of us still has to work for what we want and need.

Collectively, we must form a broad-based coalition and submit a national Black agenda that addresses our needs and desires for this government of ours.

Do you think we can do that without some of us caving in, breaking ranks, and selling out? Do you think we can do that without worrying about who will be the HNIC? I think we can, at least those of us who are conscious and dedicated to the uplift of our people and a secure future for our children.

Please don’t fall for the okey-doke again, brothers and sisters. Be more than just happy to have a Black man in the White House. The results of our happiness and euphoria should be something tangible to which we can point and share with our children. Brother Obama’s children are fairly secure right now; their father and mother are millionaires twice over. They should be just fine. They are “in the house,” as we like to say. The question is: “Where are Black people in general?’’

Finally, let’s go back to the postracial society charade that some are promoting as a result of Obama’s Saturday, May 16, 2009

election. An excellent example of how some of us are thinking now is the national pledge campaign that was started after the election.

If you have seen the commercial, replete with celebrities, movie stars, athletes, and entertainers, you may have noticed what each of them pledged. (See http://www.myspace.com/presidentialp ledge) Of all the pledges, the one that struck me as strange and out of sync with the others was that of Michael Strahan, former New York Giant football player.

He said, “I pledge to consider myself an American, not an African- American.”

No other person of any of the various ethnic groups featured in the video said they would give up his or her identity; the Black man was the only one who volunteered to do that. Go figure.

As I said, Obama ain’t cha mama. Don’t sit back and think you will be clothed, fed, employed, educated, sheltered, and included, simply because a Black man sits at the top of the political food chain. Get real and get to work, before we miss another opportunity to build something for ourselves – something that will last far beyond the next four or eight years.

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Worrill’s World

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill

MY ANNUAL GRADUATION MESSAGE ( D r . C o nr a d W o r r i l l i s t h e National Chairman of the Nat i o n a l B l a c k U n i t e d F r o nt ( N B U F ) l o c a t e d a t 1 8 0 9 E a st 7 1 st S t r e e t , C h ic a g o , I l l i n o i s, 6 0 6 4 9 , 7 7 3 - 4 9 3 - 0 9 0 0 , Fa x # 7 7 3 - 4 9 3 - 9 8 1 9 , E - m a i l : n b u fchic@sbcglo bal.net, Web site: nbufront.org)

Once again, I am sharing my annual graduation speech in hopes that it will help African people in America understand the real meaning of these rites of

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passage for thousands of our young people who will be participating in commencement exercises affirming their graduation from elementary, middle school, high school, and college in the next few weeks.

Your life has just begun today brothers and sisters. This is probably one of the most important days in your life as you make this transition, this rite of passage in moving toward another stage in your development as young Africans in America.

I’d like to congratulate your teachers, parents, guardians, and extended family members who are with you today and who have supported you in reaching this critical stage of your life at this critical hour in history.

I want to have a brief but serious talk with you today brothers and sisters. It has been predicted that within the 21st century, if current trends continue, 70% of African men in America between the ages of 16 and 28 will be either in jail or addicted to drugs and/or alcohol. Increasingly, this same trend is occurring with African females in America. One of the purposes of our educational pursuits is to turn this devastat6

ing trend around.

What does all this mean today as you graduate from this educational institution that professes to be dedicated to the academic and cultural development of young people like you? As young Black people, or Africans in America, about to enter a new stage in life, let me define what being Black and African really means.

First, it is color your African ancestry.

Second, it is culture: practicing a lifestyle that recognizes the importance of our African and African in American heritage and traditions. I am speaking of an African culture that is geared to the values that will facilitate the present and future development of our people.

Third, it is consciousness. We should always be conscious of our strength, beauty, and potential as African people. In this connection, we should always interpret all situations from the standpoint of the greatest good for the greatest number of Africans in the world. This is called the African principle.

Fourth and finally, Black or being African means commitment.

It means a willingness to work tirelessly in the interests of African people and all oppressed humanity.

So it is today that I am challenging you to continue on the path of becoming independent African people who are not dependent on others outside of our communities for the things we can do for ourselves.

I am challenging you as you make this rite of passage to prepare yourselves to become committed to the struggle for the just and common cause for the liberation and redemption of African people worldwide.

This dedication to the common cause goes beyond the resources of one generation. It means we must always learn from previous generations. We must always learn from the wisdom of our ancestors using this knowledge as a way of seeking and struggling for a better way of life for African people based on goals and objectives in own best interests.

In other words, we must stop killing each other over bruised egos, over material items and drugs that other people manufacture and bring into our communities. We must stop the killing!

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We must seek to prepare the generations to come to develop the skills and resources for making our ultimate freedom and liberation a reality. As Malcolm X always said, “education is the passport to freedom.”

As the late, renowned, African in American educator, psychologist, and historian Dr. Asa G. Hilliard, III writes in SBA: The Reawakening of the African Mind, “We Africans… have not viewed our problems holistically.

After years of living under conditions of extreme oppression, we have settled for limited definitions of our problem.”

Dr. Hilliard explains; “A classic example may be taken from the period of the Civil Rights Movement. The evil and gross injustice of slavery and segregation violated the civil rights of African people and had to be addressed.

However, the necessary task of fighting for civil rights was insufficient to allow for the healing of a people. Our healing requires a greater conceptual frame than that provided by civil rights.”

Dr. Hilliard continues with this insight: “First we must see ourselves as an African people, or we will be unable to develop this critical frame. Second, we must understand not only the role that white supremacy has played in our subjugation, but also the role that we ourselves have played by not practicing self determination (Continued on page 16)

Challenging World for New Graduates

By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist

Ninety-nine young women walked across Bennett College for Women’s graduation stage on May 9, ninety-nine exuberant achievers who have cleared one life hurdle and now have to gear up for another. There are scientists going to study microbiology, aspiring lawyers heading to Indiana University and the University of Iowa, social workers headed to the University of Pittsburgh and Simmons College, an urban planner going to the University of Illinois, a budding journalist headed to Columbia University.

Some students are planning to work. And a good number are planning to look for work. But where will they look and what will they find in this challenging 2009 labor market?

Just a day before students graduated, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released unemployment rate data, announcing that unemployment rates are still rising, reaching an official rate of 8.9 percent in April.

That official rate translates into 15.8 percent when all of the people who work part time but want to work full time are counted along with the people who have just stopped looking for work.

The rates are more staggering when we look at other populations. The official rate is 15 percent for African Americans and 11.3 percent for Latinos.

If 8.9 percent translates into 15.8 percent for the overall population, then the 15 percent black unemployment rate translates into 26.6 percent. More than one in four African Americans is out

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of work!

Because the labor market is dynamic, there are still jobs out there and companies hiring, and there are opportunities in every economy. The team at Bennett has been stressing preparation for students who want to enter the world of work. That means impeccable resumes, top-notch interview skills, overwhelmingly positive attitudes, and flexible spirits. And it means a willingness to jump into a job with energy, enthusiasm, and gratitude.

Even with all those positive attributes, however, the economy is the context, the water in which we swim. Right now, we are swimming in some mighty muddy water.

Some would say it is less muddy than it has been – while more than half a million jobs were lost in April, that’s the lowest level of job loss we have experienced so far this year. Further, President Obama has asked states to change their unemployment insurance rules so that people who are unemployed and in school for job (Continued on page 17)

LETTER TO THE EDITOR (Continued from page 4) with him that I could not understand how Blacks could spend most of our money with the people who caused us to have to march. I told him it seems that we would be spending most of our money with Blacks. He stated that we would get to that part of the struggle.

Before he was assassinated he stated that he planned to change the Civil Rights struggle to a struggle for Economic and Political Empowerment.

I feel the biggest mistake we made during the Civil Rights struggle we never learned to march with our dollars to each other and haven’t learned it yet.

In order for us to carry out what Dr. Martin planned to do we should be investing every dollar we can in the Black Community.

President Barack Obama is talking about a Bail Out for America. If Blacks ever decide to spend their money with the business people who are living in the community where they live, I believe that would bail the Black community out. I don’t believe African Americans realize how much money we are spending. Blacks are spending more money than most countries in the world. The United States Department of Labor states that a Billion Dollars spent will create an average of 50,000 jobs annually.

If Blacks would invest their money as they should the President would not have to worry about bailing us out. We would be able to bail ourselves out. With Jesse Owens we discovered that Blacks could run as fast as any race. With Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali we discovered that we are the best boxers, with Marian Anderson and Mahalia Jackson and others we are some of the greatest singers, now since Barack Obama has become President we have become tops in politics. Our biggest challenge we face today is Economics. We are still at the bottom.

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Critical Commentary

By Maurice A. Clayton is on vacation this week.

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how about it if his kidneys fail and said he was the highjacker that missed the plane on 911.

Rush was seen a million times looking like the Goodyear blimp talking smack on T.V. about Barack and the Democrats and hoping that they would fail. He has sent a barrage of insults to the Black community. Now Ima ain’t usually for using health issues as

REPUBLICANS AIN’T DESERVING OF COLIN POWELL

Ol’ Dick (Never seen a swindle I didn’t like) Cheney all of a sudden is trying to portray himself as so self-righteous. He has stolen us blind by concocting a war to increase his bank account, among

CAN DISH IT OUT - BUT CAN’T TAKE IT!

Newsfolks have being buzzing all week about what Wanda Sykes said about Rush Limbaugh at the Correspondents’ dinner on Sunday night. In reference to Limbaugh’s remarks about hoping that the President failed, she said

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Dick Cheney Rush Limbaugh humor, but he deserves it this time and more. How about his feet growing to size 16 to fit the size of his mouth? How about his arms growing long like the baboon he is? How about his mouth being fitted with a size 20 zipper and the up and down piece falls off and the zipper is in the up position? So there, what you gonna do to Ima?

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probably is a big part of the reason that Colin could not stomach the shenanigans being pulled in the White House and decided to

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so many more things. He put the water in the bucket for wardboarding prisoners of war. He must be the President of the “No Due Process” Club because he sure does not believe in it. And Ima could go on and on, but for him to suggest that Colin Powell switch parties because he exercises his freedom of speech and thought guaranteed by the Constitution, takes the joke too far.

But now as I think of it, Colin is too fine of a gentleman to be in the same party as Cheney. He

leave early from the Bush administration. If ’n I was Cheney I would shut up, Colin could probably sink his crooked ship.

Now his daughter is trying to defend the crook, what is this country coming to? Ima sees hope on the horizon now that his crooked behind is out of the White House. Now if we could just find a muzzle to fit his crooked mouth and wash down the White House with lye maybe, just maybe we can make a lot of progress.

-ImaA LOT OF HYPOCRITS AT NOTRE DAME

Ima has been silent about all of

this hullabaloo at Notre Dame, but when I thought about it I said Ima you can’t let these hypocrites get away with this.

Whether or not Barack speaks at Notre Dame don’t matter to me, but when I think about the Devil’s chief advocates that have appeared there I get sick to my stomach. Now I know the Catholics are anti-abortion, but if truth be told the President of the university and his trustees better make sure those wives of childbearing age hide them birth control pills and make sure those medical records are safe from the public’s scrutiny about them thare bortions and such. By the way, Ima used to be one of them Catholics until my aurthuritis wouldn’t let me get up and down kneeling you see. But it’s all good to keep President Barack Obama grounded. I know he now and then needs help getting in and out of bed ‘cause sometimes the swelling in his head makes it difficult to maneuver. But what is so good whether you Catholic or Holy Roller, the word from above gets down to the ground to remind us all from whence we came. I hope you got the message here! If not, buy you and your high and mighty friends a mirror. It works everytime.

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A UT I S M S P E A K S A N N O UN C E S W A L K N O W FOR AUTISM: Autism Speaks, the nation’s largest autism advocacy organization, is hosting Walk Now for Autism, on Saturday, May 16th at Soldier Field.

All event proceeds support Autism Speaks, whose mission is to increase awareness about the growing autism epidemic, raise funds for research, family services and advocacy in local communities and nationwide. Walk Now for Autism is a unique fundraising event which creates a safe and fun day for families who are impacted by autism. The day includes a 2-to 3-mile walk and Community Resource fair with educational sources, therapists, schools, recreational organizations, and creative child-friendly activities-a true “one-stop-shop” for families affected by autism. For more information about Walk Now For Autism, visit www.walknowfor-autism.org.

CITY OF CHICAGO OPENS ITS DOORS TO GREAT ARCHITECTURE! CHICAGO CELEBRATES THE CENTENNIAL OF DANIEL BURNHAM’S PLAN OF CHICAGO IN 2009: Chicago opens its doors during Great Chicago Places and Spaces (GCPS) on Saturday, May 16.

For one day, the City of Chicago collaborates with architects, designers and community leaders on more than 100 free tours. The tours are created to reflect Chicago’s great architectural heritage as well as showcase “off limits” places and spaces. Some are obscure and many are world famous with most tours programmed and led by some of the world’s leading experts in architecture and design. GCPS has partnered with the Art Institute of Chicago to offer two pairs of tickets to the opening ceremonies of the Modern Wing at the Art Institute.

Special guest speaker is world renowned architect and designer of the Modern Wing, Renzo Piano. Opening ceremonies will take place May 16, 2009 at the Art Institute. Visit the GCPS website for details on how to enter to win! For more information visit: www.greatchicagoplaces.us or call 312- 744-3315.

IMPORTANT SEMI NARS OFFERED TO EDUCATE NOTARIES ON NEW STATE LAWS: The National Notary Association, the largest organization of notary professionals in the nation, has announced a schedule of live and online training courses designed to help the state’s 200,000 notaries comply with the mandates of the state’s new notary laws. There is a seminar scheduled in Chicago on Saturday, May 16. Notaries may com8

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plete their training at one of a series of local live seminars or online via the Association’s Web site. Senate Bill 546, passed by the Illinois General Assembly late last year, takes effect June 1. The NNA has worked closely with the Cook County Recorder of Deeds and other state and local officials to help ensure that Illinois notaries receive the proper compliance training. The course offerings cover all of the law’s new mandates, which include stronger identity verification measures by notaries public and, in Cook County, a new recordkeeping procedure — including obtaining the thumbprint of signers — to increase security when a property is transferred from seller to buyer. For further information or to enroll, visit www.nationalnotary.org/IL/LawChanges or contact the National Notary Association at 800-876-6827.

GREAT CHICAGO PLACES & SPACES: Great Chicago Places & Spaces is the annual celebration of architecture conducted by the Mayor’s Office of Special Events in partnership with the Chicago Architecture Foundation. It will take place on Saturday, May 16. Please visit www.greatchicagoplaces.us. for more information.

POETRY FROM THE MASTERS: On Sunday, May 17, from 2 pm to 4 pm, Useni Eugene Perkins, poet, playwright, publisher and editor, will present his new book, “Poetry from the Masters: The Black Arts Movement.” Useni will be joined by Chicago Black Arts Movement masters Angela Jackson, Haki Madhubuti, Sterling Plumpp and Carolyn Rodgers. The program will be held in the auditorium at Woodson Regional Library, 9525 South Halsted. The Black Arts Movement spanned less than two decades, but it left an undeniable mark on American literature and Black America. Poetry from the Masters explores what has been called one of the most controversial periods in the history of African American literature. The Black Arts Movement inspired and reflected the political and social activism of the 1960s and 1970s and challenged societal ideas. It produced some of the most powerful literary works by Black poets including Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Haki Madhubuti, Carolyn Rodgers, Sterling Plumpp, Angela Jackson, Quincey Troup and the Last Poets. Copies of Poetry from the Masters will be available for purchase and signing. The program is free and open to the public.

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MONEY: In this harsh economy it is hard to attract or retain money and become overall financially successful. ChicagoHealers.com business service owner, Julie Casserly, offers tips and advice on how to evaluate money and your emotions. She will lecture on how to change the way people feel towards money and how to structure financial DNA. The lecture will change how people feel about money and how to own personal power with money. It will be held from 7:30 pm – 9 pm on Monday, May 18,

at the Schaumburg Library, 130 South Roselle Road, Schaumburg, IL 60193. The cost is complimentary. For more information, visit www.ChicagoHealers.com.

FREE SEMINAR ON STRESS, EMOTIONAL EATING & INFERTILITY: Fertility Centers of Illinois, the leading infertility treatment center, with special guest Howard Farkus, Ph.D, founder & director, Chicago Behavioral Health – Faculty Member, Northwestern University

Feinberg School of Medicine, will host a discussion and seminar on the topic of Stress, emotional eating and infertility: The Delicate Balance, on Thursday, May 21, from 7 pm - 8:30 pm. It will take place at the Fertility Centers of Illinois, 900 North Kingsbury - Suite RW6, Annex Conference Room, Chicago, IL 60610. The seminar is open and FREE to everyone, however an RSVP is requested. To register: call 877324-4483 or sign-up online at www.fcionline.com. Click on Free Seminar Information.

COOK COUNTY TREASURER Maria Pappas present an award of excellence to Deborah Allen, with the African American Police League in honor of National Law Day for their professionalism and community commitment in her downtown, Chicago office. “I commend this law enforcement organization for their outstanding work in promoting heritage, culture, supporting community events and causes, and their charity work within their communities and surrounding areas,” Pappas said.

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EDUCATION

Hales Franciscan High School seniors sign nearly $5 million in scholarship commitments On Tuesday, May 5, 2009, Hales Franciscan High School held its 1st National Scholarship Signing Day to highlight the scholastic achievements of its senior class. Parents, teachers, and the entire student body witnessed 13 members of the senior class sign nearly $5 million in scholarship commitments to colleges and universities across the country.

“Today is special to me because it is a culmination of all the hard work that I have put in over the last four years,” stated Jabari Jelks, valedictorian of the 2009 senior class, who has a 4.6 G.P.A. “It is also a proud day for Hales because it gives the school an opportunity to showcase the caliber of students who attend.”

This idea originated from National High School Football Signing Day, which was mentioned in a February 2009 ESPN interview with sports analyst Michael Wilbon. Mr. Wilbon expressed concern with the type of pressure and celebrity status society was placing on teenage student-athletes. While Hales held its own ceremony earlier this year for our students who received football scholarships, we decided to honor our scholastic achievers in the same manner.

“This day makes me proud and fulfilled,” says Barbara Ellzey, mother of the Class of 2009 salutatorian, George Ellzey. “For George to get five full-rides to college is amazing.” He will attend Bowdoin College, one of the top-ranked liberal arts colleges in the nation on a full academic

scholarship. Since 1996, Hales Franciscan High School has had a 100% graduation rate, and over 90% of Hales graduates continue to pursue a post-secondary education. The 2009 senior class continues the Hales rich tradition of academic excellence by receiving nearly $5 million in academic scholarships (approximately $150K/student) from colleges and universities from across the country.

“It’s the zenith of four years of team effort from students, parents, faculty, staff, administra-

tion, alumni, trustees and the community. And the result is our best and brightest being publicly commended as an incentive for others to replicate their hard work,” stated Zeb McLaurin, Chairman of the Board of Trustees when asked what this day meant to him as a member of the board, as well as a member of Hales’ Class of 1986.

Since opening its doors 46 years ago, Hales Franciscan has been committed to a rigorous program of academic, religious education, community service, athletics and

social activities designed to develop the mind, body and spirit of each student. It is because of the commitment of the Board of Trustees, faculty and staff that Hales Franciscan High School has produced more African American male college graduates than any other Catholic or private school in the Midwest.

“Today’s event was a great experience, it gives our underclassmen something to look forward to, and the day exemplified unto perfect manhood,” says Ramonda Dillard, the school’s entrepre-

neurial studies teacher. The mission of Hales Franciscan High School is to develop leaders who embrace academic excellence and embody wisdom, character, and Catholic Christian values. The goal of the school is to develop young men In Virum Perfectum (“UNTO PERFECT MANHOOD”) who are assets to society. This goal shall be accomplished by providing a competitive college preparatory education and character-building program in the Catholic and Franciscan traditions.

Four De La Salle Institute Musicians named to All-Catholic Honor Band De La Salle Institute proudly announces that four of its students were chosen to the AllCatholic Honor Band for the 2008-09 school year.

Recognized for their musical gifts were senior Jeremy Joanes (Greater Grand Crossing), juniors Joseph Chineworth (Fuller Park) and Jessica Mims (Greater Grand Crossing) and sophomore David Therriault (Evergreen Park).

Joanes was feted for his expertise on trumpet, Chineworth on tenor saxophone, Mims on flute and Therriault on tuba. Joanes is enrolled in Larry Pawlowski’s Intramural Band class at De La Salle, while Chineworth, Mims and Therriault are in the Concert Band class.

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RE/MAX Hot Air Balloon to make educational visit to Our Lady Of The Gardens school in Chicago Jessica Mims, Jeremy Joanes, Joseph Chineworth, David Therriault and teacher Larry Pawlowski of these talented young musicians on their achievements and wishes them every future success.

De La Salle Institute is an independent Catholic secondary school rooted in the tradition of Christian Education begun by St. John Baptist de La Salle. Found-

ed in 1889, its mission has been, and is, to foster a desire for excellence in education. Young people from a variety of ethnic and economic backgrounds are given the opportunity to fully develop their abilities so they may be active, contributing members of our complex changing society.

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The students at Our Lady of the Gardens School, 13300 S. Langley Ave., in Chicago’s Riverdale neighborhood will get an exciting introduction to hot air ballooning when the RE/MAX Hot Air Balloon and its crew visit the school on May 17.

The visit is part of an on-going interactive educational program developed by the RE/MAX Northern Illinois real estate network.

The 200 students and staff at the school will learn about various aspects of ballooning, including its

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history, the scientific principles involved and a demonstration on how the balloon functions. The program will be presented at 1:30 p.m. in the school gymnasium where the 75-foot-tall balloon envelope will be inflated with cold air so that students can walk inside it as part of the educational presentation.

Students also will go outside for a demonstration of the balloon basket and its propane burners, which heat air to lift the balloon.

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HEALTH

Access Community Health Network spon 500,000 African-American and Hispanic women statewide reached African-American and Hispanic women in hundreds of houses of worship across Illinois participated in the 3rd Annual Pin-A-Sister Sunday™, the hallmark event of the Pin-A-Sister™ Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign (women of all faiths were encouraged to participate) on Mother’s Day. This campaign targets uninsured and low-income women to heighten awareness of the severe racial disparities in breast cancer mortality.

Despite the fact that AfricanAmerican women are far less likely to get breast cancer than white women, they are 116% more likely to die from this devastating disease, according to a 2005 study by the Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force. Mortality rates for Hispanic women are similarly high.

“There hasn’t been much change in the breast cancer mortality rate for underserved women since 1980. While there have been many advances in mammography screening, which leads to early detection, a large segment of African-American and Hispanic women in particular are still losing their lives to breast cancer,” said Donna Thompson, CEO of Access Community Health Network. Pin-A-Sister™’s mission is to highlight these unacceptable statistics and encourage women to be proactive in taking care of themselves and each other. We want mothers who were in church this Mother’s Day to be around to celebrate the next Mother’s Day,” said Thompson.

Access Community Health Network launched Pin-A-Sister™ in 2007 in cooperation with Stand Against Cancer, a state-funded collaboration between Illinois’ faith-based, health care and community organizations with the mission of reducing disparities in access to cancer screening and treatment. The campaign has grown exponentially since its inception. With an initial reach of 67,000 women across Chicago, Pin-A-Sister™ went statewide in its second year, reaching 250,000 women in 300 houses of worship across Illinois. The 2009 goal for Pin-A-Sister was to reach 500,000 women statewide.

Several elected officials also participated in this year’s campaign, including Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, State Senators Mattie Hunter (3rd Dist.), Kimberly Lightford (4th Dist.), Christine Radogno (41st Dist.) and for(Continued on page 11) 10

STATE REPRESENTATIVE DEBORAH GRAHAM (L) pins a congregant at Truth a nd Deliverance Christi an Church i n ob se r v a n c e o f t h e 3 r d A n n u a l P i n - A - S i s t e r S u n d a y , a st a t e wide, faith-based Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign, sponsored by ACCESS Community Health Network.

FORMER PRESIDENT OF the Cook County Board of Commissioners Bobbie Steele (R) is pinned by a congregant at Mt. Vernon Church in observance of the 3rd Annual Pin-A-Sister Sunday, a state-wide, faith-based Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign, sponsored by ACCESS Community Health Network.

FIRST LADY JAMELL Meeks pins Cook County Commissioner Deborah Sims (R) at Salem Baptist/House of Hope Church as Former State Senator Alice Palmer (L) looks on, in observance of the 3rd Annual Pin-A-Sister Sunday, a state-wide, faith-based Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign, sponsored by ACCESS Community Health Network.

MELODY SPANN-COOPER (L), president of WVON radio, is pinned by a congregant at New Covenant Baptist Church in o b s e r v a n c e o f t h e 3 r d A n n ua l P i n - A - S i s t e r S u n d a y , a s t a t e wide, faith-based Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign, sponsored by ACCESS Community Health Network.

STATE SENATOR MATTIE HUNTER (R) is pinned by First Lady Dr. Tyra Jenkins (L) at Fellowship Mi ssionary Baptist C h u r c h i n o b s er v an c e o f t h e 3 r d A n n u al P in - A - S is t er S u n da y, a s t a t e - w i de , f a i t h - b a s e d B r e a s t C a n c e r A w a r e n e s s C a m pa i g n , s po n s o r e d b y A C C E S S C o m m u n i t y H e a l t h Network.

A L D E R M A N T O N I F O U L K E S (R ) p i n s a c o n g r e g a n t a t Evening Star Missionary Baptist Church in observance of the 3 r d A n n u a l P i n - A - S i s t e r S u n d a y , a s t a t e - w i de , fa i t h - b a s e d Bre ast Cance r Awareness Campa ign, sponsored by ACCESS Community Health Network.

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nsors 3rd Annual Pin-A-Sister™ Campaign mer State Senator Alice Palmer; State Representatives Esther Golar (6th Dist.), Karen Yarbrough (7th Dist.), Connie Howard (34th Dist.), Toni Berrios (39th Dist.) and Deborah Graham (78th Dist.); Cook County Clerk of the Circuit Court Dorothy Brown, Cook County Commissioner Deborah Sims and former Cook County Board President Bobbie Steele. Aldermen Pat Dowell (3rd Ward), Leslie Hairston (5th Ward), Michelle Harris (8th Ward), Toni Foulkes (15th Ward), Virginia Rugai (19th Ward) and Carrie Austin (34th Ward) also joined in this year’s effort.

These prominent Chicago women participated in a multifaceted public awareness campaign, which included lending their images to a statewide outdoor advertising campaign that included billboards and CTA transit advertising, speaking at houses of worship and correctional facilities, and radio and television public service announcements and interviews. Also supporting this year’s campaign were Rev. Willie Taplin Barrow and Rev. Dr. Mildred

V A L E R I E W A R N E R O F W G N - T V ( R ) pi n s V e R h o n d a Chachere (L) at Covenant United Church of Christ in observ a n c e o f t h e 3 r d A n n u a l P i n - A - S i st e r S u n d a y , a s t a t e - w i d e , faith-based Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign, sponsored by ACCESS Community Health Network.

Harris, two of the state’s most influential women clergy, and Vera Davis, of the West Side NAACP and wife of Congressman Danny Davis (7th Dist.), as well as Chicago United’s Gloria Castillo.

Connecting Women To The Right Resources The Stand Against Cancer pro-

gram, a state-funded program that addresses racial and ethnic disparities in breast cancer awareness and treatment by targeting AfricanAmerican, Hispanic and low-income and uninsured women throughout the state of Illinois, offers low-cost to free mammograms and Pap smears to eligible participants. Initiated in 2002, the pro-

CONGREGANTS AT COVENANT United Church of Christ pin one another in observance of the 3rd Annual Pin-A-Sister S u n d a y , a s t a t e - w i d e , fa i t h - b a s e d B r e a s t C a n c e r A w a r e n e ss Cam pai gn , sponsored by A CCESS Com muni ty Hea lth Network. (Photos Credit Steven Ross) gram provides follow-up treatment through the Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program.

United Effort Since its inception, Pin-A-Sister™ has had the united support of several major breast cancer advocates and organizations: The

Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University; The Chicagoland Area Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure®; American Cancer Society; the Illinois Department of Public Health, The Silver Lining Foundation and the effort’s sponsor, Access Community Health Network.

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ENTERTAINMENT

ENTERTAINMENT: CHICAGO STYLE

By Elaine Hegwood Bowen, MSJ

Next Day Air

By Raymond Ward

EASE ON DOWN TO NYC: “The musical which won seven Tony Awards when it made its debut on Broadway, “The Wiz,“ including Best Director, Geoffrey Holder; Best Featured Actress, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Best Featured Actor, Ted Ross and Best Choreography, George Faison, is being revived in a new version starring R&B star Ashanti as Dorothy, and actor and comedian Orlando Jones (“Mad TV”) in the title role of The Wiz. LaChanze, the Tony Award winner for “The Color Purple” (Miss Celie) will play Glinda, The Good Witch; Tichina Arnold of “Everybody Hates Chris” take over as Evillene, the Wicked Witch of the West; and Dawnn Lewis (Hanging With Mr. Cooper and A Different World) tackles Addaperle.

Completing the cast are Joshua Henry as The Tinman; James Monroe Iglehart as The Lion and Christian White as The Scarecrow. This production of The Wiz is directed by Thomas Kail and choreographed by Andy Blankenbuehler and will run at the New York City Center from June 12th until July 5th, and then hopefully move on to Broadway.

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BIG EASY PARTY! Get ready for shrimp gumbo, oyster po-boys, beignets and coffee, and all the “hurricanes” you can drink, because the Essence Music Festival returns to New Orleans, July 3rd, 4th and 5th and it’s going to be

“the ultimate party!”

Scheduled to perform at this year’s Festival, which is sponsored by Coca-Cola are: Beyonce, Maxwell, John Legend, Anita Baker, Lionel Richie, Robin Thicke, Ne-Yo, Salt-N-Pepa, Charlie Wilson, Jazmine Sullivan, Al Green, Teena Marie, En Vogue and a starstudded tribute to Maze featuring Frankie Beverly.

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Wood Harris, Michael Epps, Mos Def and Donald Faison are great in a movie that will have you guessing whether it wants to be a comedy or a gangster flick.

Faison plays a pot-smoking courier named Leo Jackson in Next Da y Air, in which stage and screen veteran Debbie Allen has a small role as the manager of the mail delivery service (and mother of Faison) that mistakenly delivers a shipment of 10 kilos of cocaine to the wrong apartment.

While one couple awaits a drug delivery, the apartment down the hall, occupied by Harris, Epps and their semi-comatose roommate—who no one knows exactly how he came to be a roommate—takes delivery of the package. Once they discover what’s in the box, the enterprising thugs devise a plan to sell the coke that they say is “sent from God” to Epps’ cousin, another street corner pharmacist.

Epps plays Brody, who’s really a Barney Fife to Harris’ character named Guch, who could as well be Sheriff Taylor. When God said brains, Brody certainly thought he said “rain,” and this misinterpretation or “play on words” serves as the first gag in Next Day Air, as Brody takes direction from Guch.

While rehashing the story of their recent failed bank robbery, Brody thinks Guch says to “get the tapes,” when he actually says, “get the safe.” What ensues is a news broadcast making fun of the bumbling criminals, because they only take the bank surveillance tapes during the robbery.

While Brody and Guch think they’ve hit the jackpot, the package of what appears to be pure coke brings more strife than relief.

The movie details many other missteps in the fashion of “A Simple Plan” or “True Romance,” and one mistake leads to decisions made that just seem to make the situation worse—and therein lies the comedic spin to what develops into a gangster movie, complete with a grand shootout, filled with bloodshed and carnage.

The main drug kingpin Bodega Diablo, played by Emilio Rivera, who ships the package from Mexico to the young Puerto Rican couple — bobble head, lame brained Chita and arrogant, bling-wearing Jesus (who insists of being called JESUS)—living in Philadelphia (Cisco Reyes and Yasmin Deliz), gets word that the

OMA RI HAR DW ICKE AS S ha voo, Dar ius McC rar y as B ud d y , W o o d H a r r i s a s G u c h a n d M i k e E p p s a s B r o d y i n "Next Day Air." package has been mishandled, in Superfly. Shavoo just feels that he’d taken his mind off of and everybody goes after Leo. Meanwhile while the drug king- what’s important and that living a pin, his main man and the couple life on the edge isn’t worth it anyattempt to track down Leo, more.

But what he doesn’t know is Brody and Guch hope to sell the dope to Brody’s cousin, Shavoo, that once he decided to get in on played by Oma ri Hardwick. this dubious drug deal, there They scheme together to accom- won’t be much life left.

Next Day Air is a movie filled plish this, all the while fearing that they may get played or have with great one-liners and laughs, the coke stolen right out from mostly delivered by Guch and Brody. under them.

A surprising addition to this The comic relief adds a bit of cast of characters is Family Matters’ Darius McCrary, who plays levity, as it sets up a “last-manBuddy, the beefy, bodyguard/- standing, winner-take-all” ending that’s probably so close to reality gangster pal of Shavoo’s.

There’s even time for soul- in drug dealers’ lives that it could searching reflection, with Shavoo serve as a public service anvowing to get out of the game, in nouncement that echoes the senthe grand fashion of Ron O’Neal timent—crime doesn’t pay!

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Chicago Icons Penny Pritzker and Joan M. Hall Celebrate Success at Girl Power Founding Mothers of the Young Women’s Leadership Charter School of Chicago Honored for Exemplary Leadership and Achievements Nine years ago, five women, including Retired Partner of Jenner & Block Joan M. Hall, came together around an innovative goal: to create the first all-girls charter school in the city. Today, Chicago Icon Penny Pritzker joined students, faculty, alumnae and other supporters to recognize these dedicated women for their vision, tenacity and success at Girl Power, this year’s benefit luncheon for the school they founded, the Young Women’s Leadership Charter School of Chicago (YWLCS).

Nearly 600 guests attended Girl Power on at the Hyatt Regency Chicago to honor the “founding mothers,” including Joan M. Hall, Founding Chair of the YWLCS, Dr. Margaret Small & Mary Ann Pitcher, Founding Co-Directors of the YWLCS, Jeanne Nowaczewski, Founding Godmother of the YWLCS and Ann Rubenstein Tisch, Founder & President of the Young Women’s Leadership Network, recently.

“The Young Women’s Leadership Charter School of Chicago would not be what it is today without the experience and leadership of all these wonderful women,” said Joan M. Hall. “Everyone recognized not only provided the school their personal and professional expertise but also added their passion and dedication to educating young women to be the leaders of tomorrow.”

Keynote speaker Penny Pritzker, CEO of the Pritzker Realty Group, who served as the National Finance Chairman of Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and now

serves as a member of the President’s Economic Recovery Council, focused on her experience in launching and helping to lead President Obama’s extraordinary journey to the White House, underscoring the school’s philosophy that there need not be any limit on goals and accomplishments.

YWLCS is the only all-girls public school in Chicago and ranks in the top 10% of Chicago Public Schools (CPS), including selective magnet schools in terms of percentage of students enrolled in college or post-secondary education.

The students, chosen by a lottery admission system instead of a merit based system, are representative of

J A T H I A M A C K I L I N O F G r a n d Bo u l e v a r d a d d r e s s e s n e a r l y 6 0 0 g u e s t s a t G i r l P o w e r , t h i s year’s benefit luncheon for the Young Women’s Leadership Charter School of Chicago.

A R Y A N A M I N O R O F A s h b ur n s h o w c a s e s h e r s c h o o l w o r k f o r K i m H i l e y , o w n e r o f Be t a Boutique in the West Village . Aryana a nd other YWLCS students had the chance to display their work at Girl Power at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. students in the CPS system as a whole, coming from 29 different zip codes within the city.

“My experience at the Young Women’s Leadership Charter

STUDENTS FROM THE Young Women’s Leadership Charter School of Chicago (YWLCS) showcased their work at Girl Power, this year’s benefit luncheon for the YWLCS. Nearly 600 g u e s t s a t t e n d e d G i r l P o w e r a t t h e H y a t t R e g e n c y C h i c a g o t o h o n o r t h e s c h o o l s “ f o un d i n g mothers.”

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School really prepared me for my life at University of Illinois and in grad school,” said LaSheena Clark, one of the first students and graduates of YWLCS and a current student at Adler School of Professional Psychology where she is getting her Master's in Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy. “Sure it taught the basics like, math, science, and history, but most importantly it has taught me to pursue my goals to the fullest and to never give up on my dreams."

LaSheena and other YWLCS students attended Girl Power to celebrate the women who made their school possible, and to showcase a sampling of their hard work and accomplishments from this school year. On average, 85% of YWLCS graduates start college or other post-secondary schooling in the fall following high school graduation.

The completion of this school year will commemorate the 6th graduating class from YWLCS and the 2nd graduating college class.

For more information about YWLCS visit http://www.ywlcs.org/.

STACI MORRIS OF Woodlawn introduces keynote speaker Penny Pritzker at this year’s benefit luncheon for the Young Women’s Leadership Charter School of Chicago, Girl Power.

Nearly 600 guests attended Girl Power at the Hyatt Regency Chicago to honor the schools “founding mothers.”

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MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC

Ravinia Festival’s Customer Appreciation Day offers 20 percent discount and extra seating to some sold-out Concerts 98.7 WFMT to broadcast live from the festival Ravinia Festival’s celebrates their patrons with Customer Appreciation Day on Saturday, May 16 during a day filled with discounts, the chance to purchase pavilion seating to some sold-out concerts and promotions and samples from some of Ravinia’s supporters. This is the first day that the Ravinia Box Office is officially open for walk-up sales and

be sold throughout Customer Appreciation Day until 6 p.m. A limited number of additional, temporary seats, will be added to the sides of the pavilion for some sold-out events and tickets for those seats will be sold exclusively on May 16 to in-person customers on a first-come, firstserved basis (limited to four per ticket-buyer).

The opening-day festivities will be broadcast live on the grounds by 98.7 WFMT, the Official Classical Music Station of Ravinia Festival. The broadcast will feature glimpses of the complete Ravinia season and will include live interviews with artists appearing during the 2009 season as well as live performances.

Ravinia President and CEO Welz Kauffman will join WFMT host

Herbie Hancock all in-person purchases will be discounted by 20 percent (discounts are not available for the July 18 Gala Benefit Evening, Aug. 30 and 31 Carrie Underwood concerts, the June 28 Woodstock lawn party and already discounted dining/ticket packages). Tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. Please note that based on past experience, customers may begin lining up prior to this time.

Tickets to the 2009 season will

Ramsey Lewis Carl Grapentine on the air to discuss the summer season beginning at 9 a.m. and continuing until 1:30 p.m. inside Ravinia’s

Yo-Yo Ma dining pavilion.

Also in the dining pavilion on the first floor will be an area filled with samplings and promotions featuring some of Ravinia’s supporters and vendors from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Levy Restaurants will hand out free samples to patrons who can vote for this year’s “signature dishes” in Ravinia’s restaurants. Also on the first floor is Ravinia Gifts, which will feature Ravinia souvenirs, apparel, picnic accessories, jewelry and gift items up to 70 percent off.

Ravinia’s 2009 season presents a diverse lineup of more than 120 events from June 5 through Sept.

19, with 38 debuts, more than 25 free or specially priced events and over 135 guest artists and ensembles including the summer residency of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra featuring Ravinia Festival Music Director James Conlon. Guest artists include Lang

Lang, Pink Martini, Herbie Hancock, Yo-Yo Ma, Ramsey Lewis, George Hearn, Jackson Browne, Thomas Hampson, Patti LuPone, Christoph Eschenbach, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Diana Krall, Juilliard String Quartet, Joe Cocker, Susan Graham, John Legend, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Bonnie Raitt, David Hyde Pierce, Carrie Underwood, Matthias Goerne, Elvis Costello and many others.

Tickets to Ravinia events are now available online, prior to Customer Appreciation Day, at www.ravinia.org. Orders are also being accepted now by fax at (847) 266-0641 or through mail by sending a printable online order form and payment to Ravinia Festival, P.O. Box 896, Highland Park, IL 60035. Phone orders at (847) 266-5100 and walk-up sales will be accepted beginning May 17 and will continue

John Legend throughout the season MondaySaturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sundays and holidays (closed July 4) 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Ravinia Festival is located at Lake Cook and Green Bay roads in Highland Park.

Ravinia is a not-for-profit organization.

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company

Northwestern June 2009 Music Calendar The Northwestern University Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music’s Spring 2009 season concludes in June with performances by the Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra (June 4), the Symphonic Band (June 5) and the Contemporary Music Ensemble (June 6) Events listed below are open to the public and will be held on Northwestern’s Evanston campus at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, 50

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Arts Circle Drive, as noted.

For more information, call the Pick-Staiger Concert Office at (847) 491-5441 or visit the PickStaiger Web site at http://www. pickstaiger.org/. To order tickets by phone, call the Pick-Staiger Ticket Office at (847) 467-4000.

JUNE MUSIC EVENTS Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra, “Music of Their

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Youth,” 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 4, Pick-Staiger Concert Hall. Bienen School of Music faculty member Robert G. Hasty will conduct the Chamber Orchestra in a performance featuring saxophonist and Bienen School of Music Professor Frederick L. Hemke and violist Kristin Figard. The program will include Samuel Foster Hall’s Concerto for Saxophone and Viola and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 1 in F Minor. Tickets are $7 for the general public; $5 for senior citizens and Northwestern faculty and staff; and $4 for fulltime students with IDs. Symphonic Band, “Heroes, Lost and Fallen,” 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 5, Pick-Staiger Concert Hall. Bienen School of Music faculty member Ryan T. Nelson will conduct the Symphonic Band in a program featuring David Gillingham’s “Heroes, Lost and

Fallen” and David Del Tredici’s “In Wartime.” Tickets are $7 for the general public; $5 for senior citizens and Northwestern faculty and staff; and $4 for full-time students with IDs. Contemporary Music Ensemble, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 6, Pick-Staiger Concert Hall. Bienen School of Music faculty

member Ryan T. Nelson will conduct the Contemporary Music Ensemble in a program featuring new music by graduate and undergraduate students in Northwestern’s composition program.

Tickets are $7 for the general public; $5 for senior citizens and Northwestern faculty and staff; and $4 for full-time students with IDs.

Dett Club presents “Stars of Tomorrow” The R. Nathaniel Dett Club of Music and Allied Arts will present its annual “Stars of Tomorrow” Youth Festival Program on Sunday, May 24, 2009 at 4:00 p.m. at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 3801 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago. The program will feature young artists performing vocal, instrumental, dance, and dramatic presenta-

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tions. Admission is FREE and open to the public.

Sharon V. Hamilton is president of the Dett Club and Doris Nichols Smith is publicity chair. The R. Nathaniel Dett Club of Music and Allied Arts is an affiliate of NANM, Inc. (National Association of Negro Musicians, established in 1919).

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Telethon and church tour registers thousands to save lives Campaign goes to churches, schools, and theaters to register African American donors Nearly 4,000 new organ donors signed up to the Illinois registry

with Dr. Robert Higgins, chairman, department of cardiovascular-thoracic surgery, Rush University Medical Center, and the only African American heart transplant surgeon in the U.S; 18-year-old Mariah Madison, whose heart is as-

F R O M LE F T : J A C K Ly n c h , d i r e c t or o f c om m u n i t y a ff a i r s , Gift of Hope; and Cli ff Kelley , host, The Cliff Kelley Show, W V O N A M l o o k o n a s L o u E s t e r P e t t y , v o l un t e e r , G i f t o f H o p e t a l k s a b o ut t h e n um b e r o f n e w o r g a n d o n o r r e g i s t r a t i on s r e c e i v e d a s p a r t of t h e g r o u p ’ s “ M e s s e n g e r s o f H op e ” church tour and telethon, which generated nearly 4,000 new donors on April 26, 2009. during a multi-church tour and sisted by a temporary, battery-opertelethon on Sunday, April 26, ated mechanical heart installed by 2009. The events were part of an Dr. Higgins; the parents of Faris April campaign by the African- Samara, a 9-month-old boy who American Task Force of Gift of needs a heart transplant; and Paul Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Net- Hutchins, a former NFL player work to encourage new organ who received the kidneys of a threedonors in the African American year-old child in March 2009. The community. broadcast also featured messages The hour-long telethon, held at from Charles Tillman, a Chicago Salem Baptist Church’s House of Bears player whose infant daughter Hope in Chicago and broadcast on received a heart transplant in 2008; WJYS TV, featured live interviews and music icon Stevie Wonder,

godfather of 17-year-old heart transplant recipient, Quinn Kyles.

Currently, more than 100,000 people in the United States need lifesaving organ transplants. And while African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. popu-

lation, they comprise 29 percent of patients waiting to receive transplants, and 37 percent of those awaiting kidneys, while representing only 10 percent of all donors.

“With thousands of lives to be saved, our goal is not only to edu-

cate our community, but to inspire action,” says Jack D. Lynch, director of community affairs, Gift of Hope. “We take our message where the people are— churches, schools and movie theaters—to encourage them to give the gift of life.”

JACK LYNCH, DIRECTOR of community affairs, Gift of Hope (left), poses with volunteers who helped sign up new organ donors at Salem Baptist Church in Chicago.

South Shore United Methodist Church host annual Women’s Day The women of South Shore United Methodist Church have prepared a feast “for those who will” when they celebrate their 34th Annual Women’s Day on Sunday, May 17 at 11:00 AM at the church, 7350 S. Jeffery Blvd., Chicago, IL. The theme this year is “Who’s At The Table?”

Social Action Coordinator of the Northern Illinois Conference, Rita L. Smith, is the guest speaker. Ms. Smith who is known for her inspirational sermons is expected to rise to the occasion. Her work as social action coordinator has given her opportunity to benefit people in Illinois and beyond.

Assisting in this endeavor are South Shore UMC’s future young women sisters Marcella, Dorsey and Sarah Hill. These high school students are well known for their helpfulness in

L-R: Marcella, Dorsey & Sarah Hill

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preparing for the annual event. This year Dorsey will present the welcome address opening the 34th annual presentation of Women’s Day. In addition to being great assets to this annual affair they are also well known for their musical accomplishments. The girls play a pretty cool violin in their sisterly string trio.

Gail Bradley, program chairperson,

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Gail Bradley and Lois Morrow, president have worked diligently to make this year’s affair a memorable one. A special, inclusive women’s chorus will perform during this year’s service.

“All are welcome to enjoy this year’s affair as we celebrate women here at South Shore,” said Dennis Langdon, pastor of the United Methodist Church. “We look forward to interacting with all of those who come to share in the joy that the day is sure to bring.”

The majority of believing citizens and residents committed 1) to unified praying for personal, community, national, and global peace and 2) to faithfully seeking to live and promote the Golden Rule, Christ’s New Commandment, & The United States Constitution’s Preamble.

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President Obama lau nches Office of Publ ic Enga gement (Cont’d from page 2) University of Chicago Board of Trustees, and the Chicago 2016 Olympic Committee.

Jarrett received her A.B. from Stanford University in 1978 and her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1981.

Christina M. Tchen, Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement. Tchen was previously a partner in corporate litigation at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. In that capacity, Tchen represented public agencies in state and federal class actions, including the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, the Illinois Department of Public

Aid, and the Chicago Housing Authority. Tchen is the recipient of many awards, including the Leadership Award from the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois (1999); “Women of Achievement” award from the Anti-Defamation Lea gue (1996); and Chicago Lawyer “Person of the Year” (1994).

Michael Strautmanis, Chief of Staff to the Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Relations and Public Engagement. Strautmanis practiced complex litigation and employment law in Chicago before joining the Clinton Administration at the U.S. Agency for International Development. Following this, he

served as Counsel for Legislation for the American Association of Justice. Strautmanis served as Chief Counsel and Deputy Chief of Staff to thenSenator Obama in the United States Senate. He continued as Senior Counsel for Obama for America, where he played a leading role in political outreach as a member of the Congressional Relations team.

Strautmanis received a B.S. from the University of Illinois, and a J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law. Staff members of The White House Office of Public Engagement are as follows: Brian Bond, Deputy Di-

rector of the White House Office of Public Engagement.

Buffy Wicks, Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.

Ashley Baia, Staff Assistant, White House Office of Public Engagement.

Michael Blake, Deputy Associate Director, White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.

Danielle Borrin, Special Assistant for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement, Office of the Vice President.

Anne Brewer, Executive Assistant to the White House Director of Public

people never teach powerless people how to take power from them. Education is one of the most sensitive arenas in the life of a people. Its role is to be honest and true and to tell people where they have been and what they are.”

Most importantly, Dr. Clarke points out that the role of education and history is to “tell a people where they still must go.

Karen Richardson, Associate Director, White House Office of Public Engagement.

Susan S. Sher, Associate Counsel to the President and Counsel to the First Lady.

Stephanie Valencia, Associate Director, White House Office of Public Engagement.

David O. Washington, Ph.D, Associate Director; White House Office of Public Engagement.

Jenny Yeager, Special Assistant to the Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.

Additionally, other White House and agency staff may assist OPE and IGA in their activities.

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Worrill’s World (Cont’d from page 6) in our struggle to counter the MAAFA (this is a KiSwahili term that means disaster or as Marimba Ani has conceptualized it to mean the African holocaust of Eurasian enslavement / colonialism).”

Remember parents, teachers, and students as our esteemed ancestor Dr. John Henrik Clarke repeatedly warned, “Powerful

Engagement.

Kareem Dale, Special Assistant to the President for Disability Policy.

Matthew Flavin, Assistant to the National Security Council Legal Advisor.

Jodi A. Gillette, Deputy Associate Director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.

Joe Kennedy, Staff Assistant, White House Office of Public Engagement.

Lisa Kohnke, Deputy Director of Special Events, White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs.

D. Paul Monteiro, Associate Director, White House Office of Public Engagement.

This is a great day for you who have make this step in your rite of passage and transition. We congratulate you in the name of all of our ancestors and send you forward to the next stage of your development in the cycle of life.

A Luta Continua the struggle continues and we will conquer without a doubt. Hotep (peace)!

The NEW Four-One-One (Continued from page 12) www.EssenceMusicFestival.com. ..and since New Orleans is about more than just the French Quarter and Bourbon Street, while you’re in New Orleans why not turn your trip into a learning experience and visit Louisiana’s African-American Heritage Trail.

For centuries, African-Americans in Louisiana have changed the world with their ideas, art, and action. From street corners and marketplaces to churches, cafes, universities, and beyond...come visit the places that have inspired generations of Louisianans to add their unique flavor to the world.

For more information on the Louisiana Trail, please visit www.LouisianaTravel.com/AfricanAmericanHeritageTrail.

HOLY ROLLERS! The City of Chicago celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Chicago Gospel Music Festival, June 6th and 7th in Millennium Park and this year’s line up has several Grammy and Stellar Award winners on the schedule for what promises to be a foot-stomping and handclapping good time.

On Saturday, June 6th, the one and only Donnie McClurkin headlines the festival with a performance at 8:30 P.M. Elizabeth Norman, Felicia Coleman-Evans, Shekinah Glory Ministry, The Celestials and Maurice Griffin are among the performers that will also be featured that day.

On Sunday, June 7th, the day includes: Lee Williams & The Spiritual QC’s; Father Charles G. Hayes & The Cosmopolitan Church of Prayer Choir, Evelyn Turrentine-Agee, American Idol winner Fantasia and culminates with Kirk Franklin at 8:30 P.M. There’s also Gospel Steppers, Youth Choirs, Drum Lines, Gospel Drill Teams, Gospel Rappers and much more on the weekend’s schedule. For more information please call the Mayor’s Office of Special Events at 312-744-3370 or visit www.chicagogospelmusicfestival.us DRESS-UP! The legendary Nick Ashford & Valerie Simpson will perform at the United Negro College Fund’s “Black& White Ball” on Saturday, June 13th at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers in Chicago. A Reception, Dinner and Live Auction will also be a part of the evening, which benefits the United Negro College Fund. For more information please call 312-845-2200 or visit www.UNCF.org and remember, “a mind is a terrible thing to waste” so please support this very worthwhile event.

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5/9, 5/16, 5/23, 5/30

BLACKS MUST CONTROL THEIR OWN COMMUNITY

The Chicago Crusader

Challenging World for New Graduates (Continued from page 6) retraining can keep their unemployment benefits.

That’s good news – presently, people have to prove they are looking for work, and their time can often be better spent training for a different line of work.

What does this mean for Bennett students, and for the 1.5 million young people who will complete college this year? Some will find themselves working in unpaid or low paid internships, amassing experience until the economy turns around. Others will go to graduate or professional school if they find the job market uninviting.

Still others will have to make compromises, working not at their “dream” job, but at a job that will help them pay their bills.

The average college graduate shoulders more than $20,000 in student loan debt that they must begin to repay just 6 months after graduation.

Given the weakness of the labor market, the Department of Education might want to allow students a year or 18 months before beginning to repay those loans.

College career service and alumni offices must also do whatever we can to share job opportunities with our new graduates. The networks that they developed while in college will keep connections strong after graduation. And the students who learned to develop their networks will do best in the job market.

High unemployment rates notwithstanding, employers are hiring even as they lay people off. The Class of 2009 faces a far more competitive labor market than any graduating class has faced in the last decade or so.

And if the unemployment rates are any indication, African-American graduates face stiffer competition than others. Those of us who encouraged these students to chase the brass ring of an undergraduate degree are now charged with helping them make the degree meaningful through work or graduate school.

J u l i a n ne M a l v e a u x i s President of Bennett Col-

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lege for Women. She can be re ache d at presbe nnett@bennett.edu.

HELP WANTED

Senior Consultant wanted in Chicago. Responsibilities include, but not limited to, evaluating customer processes and procedures using analytical and mathematical modeling skills in order to improve operations. Requires a Masters Degree in Engineering or Business Administration plus two years progressively responsible post-graduate financial consulting experience. Prevailing wages and working conditions offered. Must be authorized to work in the United States. Please send resume and salary requirements to Human Roland Berger Resources, Strategy Consultants, LLC, 2401 Big Beaver Road, Ste. 5000, Troy, MI 48084.

HOUSES FOR SALE

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE UNDER THE POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT DATED AS OF JULY 1, 2005, FREMONT HOME LOAN TRUST 2005C Plaintiff, -v.ANTWAIN STRICKLAND, et al Defendant 08 CH 33603 NOTICE OF SALE

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on March 10, 2009, an agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation will at 10:30 AM on June 12, 2009, at the 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 5840 S. SHIELDS AVENUE, Chicago, IL 60621 Property Index No. 20-16-216-026 The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $207,986.09.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; the balance, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. 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.

If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgageeʼs attorney.

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 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. For information, contact Plaintiffʼs attorney: The Sale Clerk, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 between the hours of 1 and 3 PM only and ask for the sales department. Please refer to file number 14-08-23866.

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.

NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiffʼs attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I181706

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION HSBC MORTGAGE SERVICES INC Plaintiff, -v.SHANNON BOOTHE, et al Defendant 08 CH 8259 NOTICE OF SALE

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on March 11, 2009, an agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation will at 10:30 AM on June 12, 2009, at the 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 6036 SOUTH SAINT LAWRENCE AVENUE, Chicago, IL 60637 Property Index No. 20-15-404-025-0000 The real estate is improved with a multifamily residence.

The judgment amount was $251,186.06.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; the balance, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and SUBJECT TO A PRIOR RECORDED 1st Mortgage 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 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. For information, contact Plaintiffʼs attorney: FREEDMAN, ANSELMO, LINDBERG & RAPPE, LLC, 1807 W. DIEHL ROAD, SUITE 333, NAPERVILLE, IL 60563, (630) 983-0770. Please refer to file number X0802196.

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.

NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiffʼs attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I181594

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC, A DELAWARE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Plaintiff, -v.STEVEN LICK, DUANE JONES, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY-INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE Defendant 07 CH 12976 NOTICE OF SALE

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on March 10, 2009, an agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation will at 10:30 AM on June 11, 2009, at the 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 5602-24 S. STATE ST., Chicago, IL Property Index No. 20-16-207-059-0000, Property Index No. 20-16-207-060-0000, Property Index No. 20-16-207-062-0000, Property Index No. 20-16-207-063-0000, Property Index No. 20-16-207-064-0000,

HOUSES FOR SALE

Property Index No. 20-16-207-061-0000 The real estate is improved with a commercial property.

The judgment amount was $1,010,825.67.

Sale terms: The bid amount shall be paid in certified funds immediately by the highest and best bidder at the conclusion of 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 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. For information, contact Plaintiffʼs attorney: HEAVNER, SCOTT, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC, 111 East Main Street, Suite 200, DECATUR, IL 62523, (217) 422-1719.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiffʼs 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 REO PROPERTIES CORPORATION, Plaintiff V. ADEWALE SAMUEL A/K/A SAMUEL A. ADELWARE; AYODEJI DAIRO; EQUIFIRST CORPORATION; CITY OF CHICAGO, AN ILLINOIS MUNICIPAL CORPORATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants 08 CH 41303

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

Fisher and Shapiro file # 08-12594 (It is advised that interested parties consult with their own attorneys before bidding at mortgage foreclosure sales.)

PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered on February 26, 2009, Kallen Realty Services, Inc., as Selling Official will at 12:30 p.m. on June 29, 2009, at 205 W. Randolph Street, Suite 1020, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real property: Commonly known as 6526 South Eberhart Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637 Permanent Index No.: 20-22-217-031 The mortgaged real estate is improved with a dwelling. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

The judgment amount was $310,101.17.

Sale terms: 10% of successful bid immediately at conclusion of auction, balance by 12:30 p.m. the next business day, both by cashierʼs checks; and no refunds.

The sale shall be subject to general real estate taxes, special taxes, special assessments, special taxes levied, and superior liens, if any.

The property is offered “as is,” with no express or implied warranties and without any representation as to the quality of title or recourse to Plaintiff. Prospective bidders are admonished to review the court file to verify all information.

For information: Sale Clerk, Fisher and Shapiro, 4201 Lake Cook Rd., 1st floor, Northbrook, Illinois 60062, (847) 4989990, between 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. weekdays only.

I171358 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR HASCO 20074-WF1, MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-WF1; Plaintiff, vs.

AMBER FULLILOVE; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF AMBER FULLILOVE, IF ANY; UNKNOWN OWNERS

BLACKS MUST CONTROL THEIR OWN COMMUNITY

AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 08 CH 13635 PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on 9/3/2008, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Monday, June 8, 2009, at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: P.I.N. 20-17-209-048.

Commonly known as 5652 SOUTH ABERDEEN STREET, CHICAGO, IL 60621.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence with 1.5 car garage. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.

For information: Visit our website at http://service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only. Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602.

Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 0807714.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I178436 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION THE PROVIDENT BANK; Plaintiff, vs.

DENISE KILLINGSWORTH; CHESTER BORSUK D/B/A UNION AUTO SALES, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 03 CH 19672 NOTICE OF SALE

PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on July 9, 2008, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, June 9, 2009, at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: Commonly known as 453 West Englewood Ave., Chicago, IL 60621.

P.I.N. 20-16-326-002.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence.

Sale terms: Bidders must present, at the time of sale, a cashier's or certified check for 10% of the successful bid amount.

The balance of the successful bid shall be paid within 24 hours, by similar funds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call Mr. Peter Vucha at Plaintiff's Attorney, Roeser & Vucha, 920 Davis Road, Elgin, Illinois 60123. (847) 888-1820. 1181.12016 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I178485 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS, SERVICING LP Plaintiff, vs.

JAMEL ADAMS; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF JAMEL ADAMS, IF ANY; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants, 08 CH 34890

PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on 3/4/2009, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, June 9, 2009, at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: P.I.N. 20-16-323-002-0000.

Commonly known as 453 WEST 62ND STREET, CHICAGO, IL 60621.

The improvement on the property consists of a multi-family residence. The successful purchaser is entitled to possession of the property only.

The purchaser may only obtain possession of units within the multi-unit property occupied by individuals named in the order of possession.. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.

For information: Visit our website at

Saturday, May 16, 2009

http://service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only. Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602.

Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 0819898.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I178592

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION AURORA LOAN SERVICES, LLC, Plaintiff, vs.

CLARENCE WILLIAMS; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR 1ST ADVANTAGE MORTGAGE LLC, Defendants, 08 CH 36014 NOTICE OF SALE

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause on March 9, 2009 Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 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. 20-26-104-017.

Commonly known as 7145 S. Dobson Ave., Chicago, IL 60619.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours.

No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection For information call William E. Dutton, Jr./Barbara J. Dutton at Plaintiff's Attorney, DUTTON & DUTTON, P.C., 10325 West Lincoln Highway, Frankfort, Illinois 60423. (815) 806-8200.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I178664 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS, SERVICING LP Plaintiff, -v.WILLIAM FRANZ A/K/A WILLIAM S. FRANZ, et al Defendant 08 CH 31144 NOTICE OF SALE

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on February 20, 2009, an agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation will at 10:30 AM on June 2, 2009, at the office of 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 851 EAST 63RD PLACE UNIT 3, CHICAGO, IL 60637 Property Index No. 20-23-101-011-0000, 20-23-101-012-0000 The real estate is improved with a condominium.

The judgment amount was $251,379.23.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; the balance, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. 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 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. For information: Visit our website at http:\\service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5 pm. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES, Plaintiffʼs Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300, CHICAGO, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 4765500. Please refer to file number PA0817777.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE I177948

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, N.A. AS SUCCESSOR TO JPMORGAN CHASE BANK N.A. AS TRUSTEE FOR RAMP 2005RS9 Plaintiff, -v.ROOSEVELT HARRIS, JR., et al Defendant 08 CH 41918 NOTICE OF SALE

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on February 24, 2009, an agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation will at 10:30 AM on June 12, 2009, at the 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 7351 S. CHAMPLAIN AVENUE, Chicago, IL 60619 Property Index No. 20-27-221-019 The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $216,561.97.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; the balance, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. 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.

If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgageeʼs attorney.

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 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. For information, contact Plaintiffʼs attorney: The Sale Clerk, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 between the hours of 1 and 3 PM only and ask for the sales department. Please refer to file number 14-08-29579.

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.

NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiffʼs attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I181618

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION WACHOVIA BANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE, ASSIGNEE OF INTERBAY FUNDING CORPORATION Plaintiff, -v.LAWRENCE SIMMONS, AMERICAN BUSINESS CREDIT, INC., UNDER MORTGAGE RE-RECORDED JULY 2, 2002 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 0020733075, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, UNDER FEDERAL INCOME TAX LIENS, RECORDED NOVEMBER 25, 1991 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 91618723 AND FEBRUARY 5, 2003 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 0030176063, MARIE SIMMONS, DONALD E. SIMMONS, MINNIE SIMMONS, CHICAGO TITLE LAND TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE UNDER TRUST AGREEMENT DATED JULY 27, 1978 AND UNDER LAND TRUST NUMBER 10-3426109 SUCCESSOR TO EXCHANGE NATIONAL BANK OF CHICAGO, AS TRUSTEE UNDER TRUST NO. 34261, CITY OF CHICAGO, UNDER LIEN RECORDED MAY 31, 2005 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 0515120070, NON-

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RECORD CLAIMANTS, UNKNOWN TENANTS AND UNKNOWN OWNERS Defendant 04 CH 19591 NOTICE OF SALE

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on March 9, 2009, an agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation will at 10:30 AM on June 10, 2009, at the 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 6331 SOUTH LOWE AVENUE, Chicago, IL 60621 Property Index No. 20-21-104-028 The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $769,287.24.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; the balance, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. 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 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. For information, contact Plaintiffʼs attorney: LAW OFFICES OF IRA T. NEVEL , 175 N. Franklin Street, Suite 201, CHICAGO, IL 60606, (312) 357-1125 Please refer calls to the sales department.

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.

NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiffʼs 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 LASALLE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF BEAR STEARNS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES I LLC, ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-EC1 Plaintiff, vs.

ARTURO MACIAS, MARIA MACIAS; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 08 CH 42848

PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on 3/6/2009, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, June 9, 2009, at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: P.I.N. 20-15-410-002-0000.

Commonly known as 6111 SOUTH EBERHART AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60637.

The improvement on the property consists of a multi-family residence. The successful purchaser is entitled to possession of the property only.

The purchaser may only obtain possession of units within the multi-unit property occupied by individuals named in the order of possession.. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.

For information: Visit our website at http://service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only. Pierce &

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Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602.

Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 0827699.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I178639

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION CHASE HOME FINANCE LLC Plaintiff, vs.

ANTONIE JONES A/K/A ANTIONE JONES; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF ANTOINE JONES, IF ANY; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 08 CH 32540

PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on 2/25/2009, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, June 2, 2009, at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: P.I.N. 20-17-424-028-0000.

Commonly known as 6236 SOUTH MAY STREET, CHICAGO, IL 60621.

The improvement on the property consists of a multi-family residence. The successful purchaser is entitled to possession of the property only.

The purchaser may only obtain possession of units within the multi-unit property occupied by individuals named in the order of possession.. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.

For information: Visit our website at http://service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only. Pierce & Associates, Plaintiffʼs Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602.

Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 0820294.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I176535

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR MORGAN STANLEY ABS CAPITAL I INC. Plaintiff, TRUST 2007-HE7 vs.

BETTY WALTON; JEFFERY MUSTAFA; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR NEW CENTURY MORTGAGE CORPORATION; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF BETTY WALTON, IF ANY; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF JEFFERY MUSTAFA, IF ANY; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 08 CH 18842 PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on 11/21/2008, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, June 11, 2009, at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: P.I.N. 20-27-231-012.

Commonly known as 7433 S. Evans Avenue, Chicago, IL 60619.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence with a 1 1/2 car garage. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.

For information: Visit our website at http://service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only. Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602.

Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 0811141.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I178737

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE OF AMERIQUEST MORTGAGE SECURITIES, INC. ASSET BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-R4CGM UNDER THE POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT DATED AS OF MAY 1, 2005,

WITHOUT RECOURSE, ASSIGNEE OF AMERIQUIST MORTGAGE COMPANY; Plaintiff, vs.

KIM TATES; CITY OF CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF WATER MANAGEMENT UNDER LIEN RECORDED AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 0610102084; CITY OF CHICAGO; UNDER JUDGMENT RECORDED AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 0720126221; Defendants, 07 CH 34265 NOTICE OF SALE

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause on March 24, 2008 Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Wednesday, June 3, 2009 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. 20-16-116-016.

Commonly known as 5704 South Normal Avenue, Chicago, IL 60621.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence.

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 Clerk at Law Offices of Ira T. Nevel, 175 North Franklin Street, Chicago, Illinois 60606. (312) 357-1125.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION SUTTON FUNDING LLC Plaintiff, -v.PATRICK GAUL, et al Defendant 08 CH 33389 NOTICE OF SALE

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on February 25, 2009, an agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation will at 10:30 AM on May 27, 2009, at the office of 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 5942 S. KING DRIVE UNIT #2S, Chicago, IL 60637 Property Index No. 20-15-305-035-1014, Property Index No. (20-15-305-028 UNDERLYING) The real estate is improved with a condominium.

The judgment amount was $257,139.69.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; the balance, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. 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.

If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgageeʼs attorney.

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 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. For information, contact Plaintiffʼs attorney: The Sale Clerk, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 between the hours of 1 and 3 PM only and ask for the sales department. Please refer to file number 14-08-23298.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiffʼs 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 MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC AS NOMINEE FOR AND AS AUTHORIZED BY DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE SUCCESSOR TO FINANCE AMERICA, LLC Plaintiff, vs.

BETTY TATE FKA BETTY WASHINGTON; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants, 07 CH 37999 NOTICE OF SALE

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause on March 6, 2008 Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, June 4, 2009 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. 20-17-224-013. Commonly known as: 5810 S. May, Chicago, IL 60621.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence.

This information is considered reliable but is not warranted.

Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. This sale is subject to unpaid real estate taxes, assessments, covenants, conditions, easements and restrictions of record.

The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

This pleading is a communication for the purpose of collecting the mortgage debt, under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. If you fail to dispute, in writing, the validity of this debt within thirty days, it will be assumed to be valid. Finally, any information you provide will be used for the purpose of collection.

Upon payment, of each portion of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Receipt of Sale. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the mortgaged real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection, except by the arrangement and agreement of the current owner or occupant.

For information: JAROS, TITTLE & OʼTOOLE, LIMITED, Plaintiffʼs Attorney, 20 North Clark Street, Suite 510, Chicago, Illinois 60602, (312) 750-1000. Phone calls will be taken only between the hours of 9:00 thru 11:00 A.M. When calling, please refer to file number 07-32135.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I176645

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION CHASE HOME FINANCE LLC Plaintiff, -v.RONALD L. JACKSON A/K/A RONALD J. JACKSON, et al Defendant 08 CH 30741 NOTICE OF SALE

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on February 27, 2009, an agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation will at 10:30 AM on May 29, 2009, at the office of 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 658 WEST 62ND STREET, CHICAGO, IL 60621 Property Index No. 20-16-318-062-0000 The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $61,624.39.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; the balance, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. 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).

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(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. For information: Visit our website at http:\\service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5 pm. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES, Plaintiffʼs Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300, CHICAGO, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 4765500. Please refer to file number PA0818845.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE I177615

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION FLAGSTAR BANK, F.S.B. Plaintiff, vs.

JOSEPH KARIKARI; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR AFFINITY MORTGAGE, USA; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF JOSEPH KARIKARI, IF ANY; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 08 CH 39192

PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on 2/24/2009, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Monday, June 1, 2009, at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: P.I.N. 20-16-405-009-0000, 20-16-405010-0000.

Commonly known as 5919 SOUTH LASALLE STREET, CHICAGO, IL 60621.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds.

No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.

For information: Visit our website at http://service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only. Pierce & Associates, Plaintiffʼs Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602.

Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 0823714.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I176477 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT, CHANCERY DIVISION JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff V. JOSEPH R. SHIFFER, III A/K/A JOSEPH R. SHIFFER A/K/A JOE SHIFFER; CITY OF CHICAGO, AN ILLINOIS MUNICIPAL CORPORATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants 08 CH 41727

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE Fisher and Shapiro file # 08-13189 (It is advised that interested parties consult with their own attorneys before bidding at mortgage foreclosure sales.)

PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered on March 4, 2009, Kallen Realty Services, Inc., as Selling Official will at 12:30 p.m. on June 15, 2009, at 205 W. Randolph Street, Suite 1020, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real property: Commonly known as 743 West 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60621 Permanent Index No.: 20-16-307-006 The mortgaged real estate is improved with a dwelling. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

The judgment amount was $347,483.10.

Sale terms: 10% of successful bid immediately at conclusion of auction, balance by 12:30 p.m. the next business day, both by cashierʼs checks; and no refunds.

The sale shall be subject to general real estate taxes, special taxes, special assessments, special taxes levied, and superior liens, if any. The property is offered “as is,” with no express or implied warranties and without any representation as to the quality of title or recourse to Plaintiff. Prospective bidders are admonished to review the court file to verify all information.

For information: Sale Clerk, Fisher and Shapiro, 4201 Lake Cook Rd., 1st floor, Northbrook, Illinois 60062, (847) 4989990, between 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. weekdays only.

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SPORTS Mount Carmel honors ’79 Graduate Craig Robinson The Head Men’s Basketball Coach of Oregon State University is named to the Mount Carmel High School Alumni Hall of Fame Mount Carmel High School honored 1979 alumnus and Oregon State University Head Men’s Basketball Coach Craig Robinson on Friday, May 1 to recognize his success over the past 30 years since he graduated from Mount Carmel. A resolution granted by the City of Chicago officially named May 1, 2009 Craig Robinson Day. Robinson addressed a crowd of almost 1,000 students, alumni, friends and local community leaders, including State Senator Kwame Raoul and Bishop Joseph Perry, with the sound message that to achieve their dreams, students needed to challenge themselves in the classroom.

“My parents constantly challenged me to achieve more, take more difficult classes, and earn the best grades possible,” said Robinson. He credits his current successes to the support of his parents and the start he got at Mount Carmel. “Mount Carmel gave me work ethic, discipline, and structure.”

Robinson, who was an Honors student at Mount Carmel and played an integral role on the Caravan’s basketball team, knows all about hard work. After graduating from Mount Carmel he went on to become a two-time Ivy League Player of the Year at Princeton University and earned his degree in four years. He then earned an MBA from the University of Chicago and enjoyed a successful career as a businessman prior to making the permanent switch to coaching.

Robinson coached at the University of Chicago Lab School, Northwestern University under Bill Carmody, and Brown University where he won more games (30) in his first two years than any other coach in the school’s history. In April of 2008, he was named head coach of Oregon State.

At the end of his address, Robinson made time to take questions from students, answering everything from who would win in a one-on-one game between Robinson and his brotherin-law, President Barack Obama, to what advice he has for students as they prepare to enter college.

As for the first question, Robinson easily answered that he would be the one to bring home the win, saying with a big smile, “I’m really good.”

Regarding the latter, Robinson advised students to identify what The Chicago Crusader

it is they are passionate about and find a way to make that their work. It was his own passion for basketball, teaching and mentoring that brought him out of his successful business career to a life in coaching. “If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.”

Prior to Robinson’s address, Mount Carmel surprised him with a letter from his sister, First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama, who congratulated Robinson on his accomplishments. “Growing up, I was always known as ‘Craig Robinson’s little sister,’ and I was proud of it” remarked the First Lady. “I have learned so much from him – to work hard, to study hard, to treat people right, and to believe that all things are possible.”

Obama also had a message for Mount Carmel students. “With enough hard work and an unyielding belief that your dreams can become a reality, this can happen for all of you, too,” she wrote referring to the professional, academic, and athletic successes that earned Robinson a place in the Hall of Fame.

Robinson’s former coach at Mount Carmel, Ed McQuillan returned to the school for Craig Robinson Day to join current Caravan varsity basketball coach Mike Flaherty in presenting Robinson with a framed jersey sporting No. 32, Robinson’s old Caravan number.

To further celebrate Craig Robinson Day Mount Carmel renamed its annual scholar athlete award after Robinson. The Craig Robinson award was presented to Mount Carmel senior Shane Sullivan, of Beverly, who is a member of the Caravan football and Rugby teams and currently has a 4.52 grade point average on a 4 point scale. Sullivan will attend the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Fall of 2009.

Later in the evening, Robinson was again recognized for his achievements during Mount Carmel’s Annual Alumni Banquet. In addition to Robinson, the following men were also named to Mount Carmel’s Hall of Fame: Donal Barry ’63, Jim Finn (Honorary alumnus), Stephen Lawson ’67, Tom Mitchell ’59, Jim McHugh ’71, Lane Schnotala ’59. Other honors presented at the banquet included the Man of the Year award to Tom Gibbs ’64, the Humanitarian of the Year award to Fr. Tracy O’Sullivan, O. Carm. ‘54, and honorary degrees presented to CBS news correspondent Dean Reynolds, Armando De La Osa, John Dramisino, and Fr. Peter McGarry, O. Carm.

1979 MOUNT CARMEL High School graduate Craig Robinson takes time to meet with students following the school's Craig Robinson Day assembly. Robinson advised students to identify what it is they are passionate about and find a way to make that their work.

Mount Carmel High School is Chicago’s premier Catholic college preparatory school for young men. Located on the city’s Southside in the Woodlawn neighborhood, just south of the

Museum of Science and Industry, Mount Carmel attracts students from all across the Chicagoland area. Over a century after Mount Carmel’s founding in 1900, the school continues to fulfill its mis-

sion of preparing these young men for college and life by providing a rigorous and well-rounded curriculum that builds character for a lifetime.

CRAIG ROBINSON’S FORMER coach at Mount Carmel High School, Ed McQuillan presents the 1979 graduate with a framed jersey sporting No. 32, Robinson’s old Caravan varsity basketball number, during Mount Carmel's Craig Robinson Day celebration.

Golf outing drives for CSU athletic scholarships Duffers and scratch players alike will be welcome at Chicago State University’s “Putting for Scholarships” Golf Outing on Monday, June 1, at the University Club and Conference Center in University Park, Il. Registration begins at 8 a.m., the shotgun start is scheduled for 11 a.m., and the day will conclude with dinner at

5 p.m.

Proceeds from “Putting for Scholarships” will fund athletic scholarships at Chicago State. Individual entries are $125, and foursomes are $500; corporate entries start at $250 for hole sponsorships, and $750 for foursomes. Dinner is $25.

Members of the CSU men’s and

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women’s golf teams will be on hand to greet participants. The event is sponsored by the Chicago State University Foundation with the expectation of increasing the number of scholarships for student athletes. For more information or to register to play, contact the Foundation at (773) 995-3839, or by e-mail at friends@csu.edu.

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