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Black Lives Matter takes new approach
By J. Coyden Palmer During the summer of 2014, Black Lives Matter was established in response to the killing of Black men by police. The organization has now grown into a more diverse tool to address many of today’s most pivotal social issues. With sudden success and growth comes challenges, in particular, controlling the image of
BLM; promoting the organization’s original values; protecting it from infiltrators; and remaining a part of the public conversation while not drawing the ire of an overzealous federal government that has historically sought to destroy African-American liberation groups. One of the most important philosophies of BLM is there is no leadership structure. It is something that was done purposely, according
to Kofi Ademola, one of the few people in the BLM movement that gives official statements to members of the media. Ademola said BLM has learned from past mistakes made by Civil Rights organizations: having leaders, who can be assassinated, corrupted or “lose their way.” During a sit-down meeting with the Crusader staff last month, Ademola said BLM does most of its organizing via social media and decisions
on what issues to tackle and which ones to leave alone are done horizontally and democratically. He also said BLM is spending more time debunking falsehoods about the organization, shutting down rogue BLM chapters and organizing grassroots campaigns to address issues that affect the most vulnerable members of society. (Continued on page 19)
Student saves his grandmother’s life with CPR By Patrick Forrest There’s probably not a day that goes by without a report of someone dying from cardiac arrest in the news or in our personal lives. More than 350,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests happen each year in the United States with 70 percent occurring in homes. Although Cynthia Luckett’s heart attack occurred at home, she did not join the 90 percent of those people who die because of her grandson, Adam McKinney. Divine intervention is what Nicole McKinney called the actions that her son, Adam, took to save his grandmother, Cynthia Luckett’s life with CPR on Nov. 10. She had fallen into cardiac arrest, actions that he was recognized for by the Chicago Fire Department at a ceremony at
Percy Julian High School on Dec. 6. He was recognized by B.A.M. (Becoming A Man) counselor Troy Withers, who is seen as a mentor for Adam by his family. “I put a lot of it on Divine intervention.” Nicole said, “I believe in God and everything that I have and do or happens is guided by God (Continued on page 2)
INSIDE THIS ISSUE ADAM McKINNEY HOLDS his CPR Certification plaque as he poses with his family and Counselor Troy Withers at the Percy Julian High School awards ceremony where he was honored. McKinney is credited for the quick actions, performing CPR, that saved his grandmother’s life. Both his grandmother, Cynthia Luckett (center), and his mother, Nicole McKinney (far left), say Divine intervention played a key role. Had Adam’s sister Destiny (2nd from left) not heard her grandmother struggling for breath and alerted her mother immediately, Adam’s efforts would have been in vain.
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Foxx announces plans for handling police misconduct New Cook County State’s Attorney looking to regain public trust by using special prosecutors By J. Coyden Palmer Walking into her office as the new Cook County State’s Attorney last week, Kim Foxx jumped right into revamping the office that has lost all credibility within the Black community because of former State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez. Foxx earlier this week held a press conference to announce some of the sweeping changes she is making within the first week. They include plans to reduce case
backloads, hiring ethic officers, streamlining the office’s resources to serve taxpayers and confronting the long-known racial disparities within the Cook County judicial system. Perhaps her biggest announcement was how she will handle officers accused of crimes and police involved shootings. “We really want to change the culture of the office…that means it has to start with me putting changes in motion, with the help of my team,” Foxx told members of the press at her office Dec. 5. “While cost is a factor, I think we have paid a higher cost in the credibility of our criminal justice system — the fact that the neigh-
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borhoods that need us the most trust us the least.” Foxx said she still has to do some homework on the subject of bringing in special prosecutors for high-profile cases in which police officers are the defendants. She needs to find out the cost and does she have to go to a judge and ask permission first. Her theory for doing so though is because her office works closely with local officers, it can put both parties in an awkward position and it does not look good in the eyes of the public. She mentioned some of the problems that the Baltimore County State’s Attorney Marilyn
Mosby had when trying to prosecute the officers in the Freddie Gray case earlier this year. Mosby confessed the defendants’ fellow officers would not cooperate with her investigators or some just outright refused to give statements. All of the officers in the Freddie Gray case were either found not guilty or had their cases dismissed for lack of evidence. But Foxx did promise faster probes into police misconduct and faster decisions in whether or not to charge an officer. She said the murders of Rekiah Boyd and LaQuan McDonald by Chicago police officers has torn the city (Continued on page 3)
Student saves his grandmother’s life with CPR (Continued from page 1) and that night he was sitting in the corner to give us all the right things to do.” “It takes a special person to stay calm and be able to keep your wits about you and perform that,” Nicole said of her son. Nov. 10 would have been Luckett’s 47th wedding anniversary to her
“[Destiny] would usually sleep [upstairs] in my room,” Adam said. “But that day for some reason she decided to stay down in her room and that’s the only reason we knew, if not for that, we would have just found my grandmother on her bed, dead.” Nicole initially thought her mother was having a cramp in her leg so she
A CPR CERTIFICATION is a big deal because it says you can be trusted with peoples’ lives in an emergency. Young teen Adam McKinney (left) accepts his CPR certification award from Counselor Troy Withers (right) on December 6 at a Percy Julian High School awards ceremony. McKinney remained cool, calm, and collected as he performed CPR on his grandmother, Cynthia Luckett, who was in cardiac arrest on November 10. He learned CPR this summer in an American Red Cross Advanced Lifeguard class at the Kroc Center on 119th street in Chicago. now late husband, who died earlier in began gently massaging her leg as she the year. “We lost my father earlier tried to ask her if everything was okay. this year,” Nicole explained. “He Immediately she realized the mother passed on April 21 of this year.” was not responding so she began callAnd while Adam is receiving the ac- ing out for help asking her daughter colades, the entire family played a role to call 911. in saving Luckett’s life. “It was a con“If anybody knows me, I’m like certed effort by the whole family, I ‘who you telling to shut up and move, can not even describe the feeling in I can get this’ God moved me where I those first few minutes.” Nicole said. needed to be, quickly. He shut my “I panicked.” dramatic sister up, quickly. And let Destiny, Adam’s sister, heard a him do his thing.” Nicole said. “I saw strange gasping noise coming from a different side to ‘silly Adam,’ he bethe grandmother’s bedroom, which came a man that night in my eyes.” was directly across the hall. The noise When her son, Adam, entered the was concerning to the granddaughter room he shoved his mother out of the who called out to her mother who way while telling her she was doing it was in a downstairs bedroom. wrong. He began mouth to mouth 2
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and chest compressions correctly until the ambulance arrived 5 minutes later and paramedics took over. “All while he was doing the compressions he just kept saying ‘not my grandma, not my grandma’.” Nicole said. “That’s all he could say, all he could do.” But even in that moment Adam had confidence that he knew what to do, the senior football team captain fell back on his experience in clutch moments on the field to know he could get it done. “I just kept telling myself that she’s
going to be okay,” Adam said. “That she’s going to be okay and I’m just going to keep doing this.” The reason Adam knew CPR is because his grandmother wanted him to be a Lifeguard. American Red Cross Advanced Lifeguard classes were being offered at the Kroc Center on 119th Street in Chicago so he tried to get out of it by saying he didn’t have carfare to get there everyday. “I told him ‘you’re not going to sit around all summer doing nothing, get the training and the certificate as
a lifeguard whether you get a job out of it or not,” Luckett explained. “Part of that was the CPR training, and little did I know that that assistance would save my life here. That was Divine Providence.” Luckett was taken to Little Company of Mary Hospital where she was treated and released. “Ever since he’s been an infant I’ve been calling [Adam] ‘the king’,” Luckett explained “So when I came to and learned what happened I just said ‘thank God for the king, thank God for my king.’”
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Lynn Norment Scholarship Fund launched by NABJ Chicago Chicago’s journalism community will lose a treasure at year’s end, when renowned former EBONY writer/editor Lynn Norment, longtime supporter of the National Association of Black Journalists’ mission to increase the ranks of African Americans in newsrooms nationwide, leaves the Windy City for Sweet Home Memphis. The longtime Chicagoan, who spent three decades with the iconic Johnson Publishing Co. publication before launching one of the city’s top public relations firms, Lynn Norment Media, will be honored Dec. 13 by NABJ, to which she has devoted decades of service on the national and local levels. NABJ Chicago Chapter has launched the Lynn Norment Scholarship Fund in honor of its three-term former president, three-term national NABJ Board officer, and accomplished inductee of NABJ’s Hall of Fame. This addition to NABJ Chicago’s tuition assistance offerings for talented students studying journalism at Chicago-area colleges and universities will be inaugurated at its annual scholarships fundraiser/toy drive, taking place from 5:30-10 p.m. Dec. 13 at Bar Louie’s Dearborn Station, 47 W. Polk St. “NABJ Chicago will miss Lynn dearly,” NABJ Chicago President Kathy Chaney says. “We are most appreciative of her many decades’ contribution of time, effort, and leadership, and her personal financial support, in furtherance of the NABJ mission. There is no better way to honor Lynn than with this fund that will assist future generations striving to enter an ever-changing, yet ever-rewarding field where the need for diverse voices is greater than ever.” Norment’s life and career has been documented in the archives of The HistoryMakers.
Lynn Norment CEO of LNMedia, a media marketing firm offering a fresh approach to brand building and awareness, Norment is a native of Tennessee, graduating magna cum laude from Memphis State University (now University of Memphis) with a Bachelor of Arts in journalism. She was honored with the university’s 2009 Distinguished Alumna Award. She began her career at The Commercial Appeal newspaper in Memphis, where she won awards for her investigative journalism. While in Memphis, she wrote an exclusive article for EBONY bringing to national attention that legendary entertainer Al Green was “born again,” and had founded a church in Memphis. Snagged by EBONY, Norment would begin a career with the magazine that would take her to the position of managing editor, helping the now 67-year-old magazine maintain a fresh voice and embrace new media,
while establishing her as a leader in the industry. Norment’s lauded cover stories on celebrities, politicians, corporate executives and community leaders included profiles on some of the nation’s hottest newsmakers. Among them: President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Beyoncé Knowles, Queen Latifah, Denzel Washington, Jennifer Hudson, Whitney Houston, Alicia Keys, Tom Joyner, Steve Harvey, Will Smith, Janet Jackson, Vanessa L. Williams, Tina Turner, B.B. King, Al Green, Mariah Carey, Michael Jordan, etc. Prior to launching LNMedia, she was with Carol H. Williams Advertising, the nation’s largest African-American, and female-owned, full-service advertising agency. A longtime educator and philanthropist, she taught journalism courses at Columbia College Chicago for many years. Recently appointed to the Advisory Board of
Foxx announces plans . . . apart. She said the public lost faith in the system when former Detective Dante Servin was found not guilty by a judge because he was charged with second degree murder instead of first degree by Alvarez’s office. She added the entire world looked down on Chicago after the LaQuan McDonald video went public 14 months after city officials and prosecutors first knew of its existence. “For the morale of the force, for the morale of the community, for the morale of the family whose loved one may have been killed, we cannot drag our feet,” she said. “We cannot be afraid to make decisions in these cases.” When Foxx speaks of diversity and racial disparities within the www.chicagocrusader.com
(Continued from page 2) county judicial system she is speaking about her own office as well. She said of the 800 attorneys who work in the office, only two African American men are in leadership positions within the office, although African American men are the most prosecuted offenders within the office. She will be hiring a diversity officer to advise her on how best to change the racial culture and make-up within the office. By doing so she realizes she will be creating some foes. “This might be a situation where some people who are here now may not want to stay because they don’t believe in the vision I have for the office,” she bluntly confessed.
Dr. Willie Wilson is leading the charge to help ease overcrowding at the county jail as well. He and members of the mental health community say too many people in county jail are there for either non-violent offenses in which they cannot pay their bail or they are mental health patients who know they can get the medical treatment they need if they are in jail. Foxx said she will be looking at a number of ways to use tools in the prosecutor’s office to help keep first time offenders out of jail. During the campaign she also spoke about the need for more restorative justice programs at city schools to help lower the juvenile crime rate.
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the college’s Columbia Link’s journalism program for high school students, she continues to mentor young journalists. A board member of Habilitative Systems Inc. — a social service agency serving the needy in impoverished West Side communities — Norment was responsible for launching its annual “Jazz With Pizzazz” fundraiser that has raised hundreds of thousands of unrestricted dollars for the agency. In 2009, Norment, who served on NABJ’S National Board of Directors for six years, was inducted into its Hall of Fame, in “recognition of her accomplishments and contributions to journalism.” She currently chairs the NABJ Development Committee; cochairs the NABJ Hall of Fame Committee; and is a member of the NABJ Founders Task Force. She also cochaired the NABJ Hall of Fame Reception and Induction Ceremony at Washington D.C.’s prestigious Newseum in 2011 and NABJ’s 25th Anniversary Celebration in 2000; chaired the successful NABJ Chicago
Convention in 1997; and served as vice-chair of the NABJ Arts & Entertainment Task Force, which presented her its Legacy Award in 2000. “Lynn has led a distinguished career, and many young journalists owe their opportunities to her work in sustaining the mission of NABJ, and to her strong mentoring of students on both local and national levels,” NABJ Vice President/Broadcast Dorothy Tucker, an NABJ Chicago board member, said. “We invite Chicago to come out on Dec. 13 for a party with a purpose, to help us honor this devoted servant with a scholarship fund supporting young minority journalists who strive to follow in her footsteps.” The public is invited to bring a toy for Envision, Unlimited, a Chicago nonprofit providing foster care, autism and community integration programs for disabled children and adults, 92 percent of whom are lowincome. Scholarship contributions should be sent to the NABJ Chicago Scholarship Fund at NABJ Chicago, P.O. Box 81228, Chicago, IL 60681.
New funding increases CeaseFire’s presence in communities Infusion of funding puts more than 100 CeaseFire workers in 19 communities to quell shootings Nearly 120 CeaseFire workers are hitting the streets as part of an effort to reduce the epidemic of violence currently gripping Chicago. Thanks to stopgap funding from the state of Illinois, CeaseFire has re-established operations in 19 communities on Chicago’s South, West and North sides for the first time since a funding cut in March 2015. Working in partnership with nine Chicago community organizations, CeaseFire Illinois has received more than $4 million from the state to put specially trained public health workers to work in the communities where the majority of this year’s 728 homicides and 3,397 shootings have occurred. CeaseFire workers complete a 40-hour training program before going into the community to put the program’s methods of local violence interruption and community behavior change to work. The interrupters and other outreach personnel work out of established community groups and are connected to the city’s network of hospital trauma services. In the past, CeaseFire was active in the communities it is now returning to. Third party evaluations of the program have demonstrated its effectiveness, with evaluations showing violence reductions of up to 70 percent in some communities. Since the March 2015 cut in state funding, CeaseFire’s operations were reduced from 14 communities to one, a period in which shootings and killings dramatically increased. Chicago has already had more homi-
cides in 2016 than in any full year over the last decade. CeaseFire staff are hopeful that the work of the newly deployed workers will help curtail this dramatic rise in violence quickly. CeaseFire workers recruited are from the same communities they serve. Because of their knowledge and relationships in the areas of immediate need they are credible messengers who can mediate critical situations between would-be shooters and potential victims. CeaseFire’s violence interrupters utilize their insights, relation- ships, and specialized training to recruit others to also help stop violence in their own neighborhoods. CeaseFire Program Director LeVon Stone, Sr., explained that CeaseFire workers exert a strong influence over their clients: “These young men and women come into our program and talk with people who have been living a changed life.” CeaseFire workers have therefore recently established an ongoing presence in the following communities: Auburn Gresham, Englewood, Humboldt Park, Grand Crossing/Chatham, Humboldt Park, Hemosa, Little Village, Rogers Park, Uptown, Altgeld Gardens, Roseland, South Chicago, South Shore, Woodlawn, Chicago Lawn, Westlawn and North Lawndale. The nine community-based organizations for the recruitment, training, hiring and monitoring processes are: Target Area Development Corporation, Alliance of Local Services Organization, ENLACE, Organizing Neighborhoods for Equality, Lilydale Outreach Workers for a Better Community, Claretian Associates, Southwest Organizing Project, LaVillita and UCAN.
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CRIMINAL “JUST-US” IN AMERICA Last year in North Charleston, South Carolina former police officer Michael Slager was shown on video shooting a fleeing, unarmed Black man, Walter Scott, who not once turned to face him or threaten him in any way. The video was circulated widely on social media and in television news programs. Recently, Slager was tried for murder, but the trial ended in a hung jury. Eleven of the jurors were white, and one was Black. Interestingly, in a move that was very unusual, the judge in the case, Judge Newman, read a letter written by the lone dissenter (before the verdict) that stated “I still cannot, without a reasonable doubt, convict the defendant. At the same time, my heart does not want to have to tell the Scott family that the man who killed their son, brother and father is innocent. But with the choices, I cannot and will not change my mind.” Judge Newman rejected the hung jury and ordered further deliberation to take place on Monday, December 12. Slager fired five shots into the fleeing Walter Scott alleging that he was acting in “self-defense” because Scott grabbed his Taser. This was later shown to be false, and it is very clear that Scott had nothing in his hands as he frantically fled from Slager. The shooting was recorded by a bystander on his cell phone, Feidin Santana. Initially, Santana was reluctant to release the video because of fear of reprisal, which happened recently in another killing of a Black man by the police. That person ended up being sentenced to prison after a period of harassment. Santana’s video revealed a number of lies told by the police, including one report that said that Slager attempted to resuscitate Scott. The video disputed this claim. Santana eventually released the video and an outcry for Slager’s arrest ensued. If Slager is eventually found guilty he would be charged with either manslaughter or murder. It would be manslaughter if it was determined that he acted out of passion which impaired his thinking. Murder would be the judgement if Slager had malice toward Scott. Whichever way that you look at it, Slager shot to death an unarmed fleeing man, who had not done anything to him. By this very action it is clear that there was some kind of animosity toward Scott, someone Slager had never met. It is quite plausible to call this MURDER due to racism, something all too common in America’s criminal justice (just us) system. The fact that a mistrial occurred points to something being very wrong. Apparently, someone’s perception was impaired (the lone holdout). How can you see a video that shows a clearly frightened and fleeing man being shot 5 times, see evidence that the police report clearly lied, which means there was an attempted cover up, and refuse to see the obvious? Based on the mistrial, it is clear that the lone holdout has impaired judgement. It is also clear that the South Carolina Police Department seems to support the outright murder of a Black man, something that is becoming all too common in America. By now, it is clear that certain segments of America’s law enforcement community have neglected, to a very great extent, to enforce the law, and have taken upon the task of actually skirting the law in order to unjustly murder and imprison people of color, and especially Black men. Sadly, it becomes necessary to conclude that America has officially become a Police State. When you can’t trust those who are charged with serving and protecting you, you can conclude that they have become the enemy. Of course, we know that all policemen do not fit this mold, but it seems true that a great number of them do, and they seem to have the upper hand, judging from the paltry numbers of them who actually end up convicted of wrongdoing. What can be done about the maltreatment and outright murder of Black people by the law enforcement establishment in America? The one thing that can serve as a powerful deterrent to this behavior is that of strategically spending our money with ourselves and, while doing so, withholding support from a justice system that refuses to be just. We must wield our collective economic and social power in such a manner that the system is forced to change. A luta continua.
It seems we can’t go a week in Chicago without getting some distressing information about what is going on with CPS. None of the responsible parties, i.e. the mayor or the superintendent, or any board members seem to want to accept that the district is in the pits – financially and in just about every other way. Of course it is not anything new that the district is all screwed up, but how it continues to wallow in instability and lack of credibility is worth discussing. A few years ago when the mayor opted to close 47 schools at once he offered that there would be a number of financial efficiencies thanks to the closings. He also promised he had an ironclad plan that would result in most of the shuttered schools being purchased by the private sector. How many have actually been sold? Two? Three? Making the situation worse is that the district’s debt continues to rise, in no small part thanks to the borrowing the district is doing to build new schools. It is painfully clear no one associated with the district has a hint of a plan to get the district’s finances in order. Now, they are socking it to taxpayers by issuing bonds, no differ-
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Time for the city to get out of the school business Dear Editor:
ent than borrowing money, for unnamed projects. It is beyond me how a public sector institution financed by tax dollars can ask for money without first disclosing what it will be used for. No one associated with such a decision seems to understand that what the district is doing is the equivalent of taking a payday loan. They are paying astronomical interest rates for shortterm benefits. What else is mind-boggling is the district is planning on closing three schools because of small enrollment numbers. It seems when officials were identifying closures a few years back, these three would have been included. It is beyond painfully clear the city needs to get out of the school business. The mayor hires a superintendent who turns out to be an upscale thief. He replaces her with someone with no experience in public education. The result of that is showing every day as more reports of the district’s shortcomings are revealed. They are shortcomings that probably would not exist if we had a board and superintendent who were responsible to the citizenry and not the mayor. Chicagoans have a right to, and deserve much better than we are receiving on the education front. Delivering education that truly prepares our children for a productive future is not a guessing game or one for unqualified cronies. Grace Lawson
Did we overlook our local successes? Dear Editor: I have to wonder if we as Black people are paying way too much attention to what Donald Trump is doing and not enough to what we are doing locally. The level of (Continued on page 17)
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We fought the Good Fight and Won! Beyond the Rhetoric By Harry C. Alford December 1, 2016 was the 46th anniversary of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. It started with a “whisper” by the embattled President Richard Nixon. He saw it as a tactical diversion from the uproar over the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement. Prior to that it was a bureau within the Department of Interior. It was clear to most Americans that our air was not pristine and our water quality could use significant improvement. In reflection, a tremendous amount of improvement has been made. I can attest having grown up in the Los Angeles area which sits in a basin and receives poor quality air from Asia by way of the great westerly jet stream Our environment has come a long way and without little disruption to our industry sector. However, along the way a movement was started. A movement that exceeded President Nixon’s imagination. Nixon’s EPA started turning into a political monster during the 1980’s. By the time, William Jefferson Clinton was elected President in 1992 the proponents of Environmental Justice and Global Warming were growing into an “army.” The leading “general” was none other than Vice President Al Gore. The newly appointed Administrator of EPA was Carol Browner, a very close friend of the Vice President.
Also, the Sierra Club was the leading advocate for cleaner air and fighting the effects of Global Warming. Not only were groups like Green Peace, Sierra Club and others becoming stronger through the funding by various billionaires. The Democratic Party joined in the mantra. Global Warming was put on the Democratic Platform and has never left. The Global Warming Movement had one main strategy. Force environmental laws through regulation. They started putting American Industry up against the “Wall.” Onerous regulations and rule changes started effectively hurting our free market system. Mining, auto manufacturing, and industry in general absorbed or passed on increasing costs to the American consumer. Business associations became the natural enemy to environmental groups. One tool was to claim racism – good old American racism (whites against Blacks). There were claims that corporate leaders had a strategy of guiding the pollutants they produced to Black neighborhoods. It was like evil business leaders would sit in board rooms plotting the “final solutions” to ending the Black race – a form of genocide. They were even recruiting Black activists to consider it the new civil rights struggle. Now, Black conservatives had enough of this fraud. We organized to fight this dogma. The National Black Chamber of Com-
Harry C. Alford merce became a leader in the fight against this propaganda. Through the years there were hearings after hearings; speeches by the thousands; routine congressional testimony to fight off this movement (filled with unintended consequences). Due to the onslaught of costly changes coming out of the halls of the Environmental Protection Agency, over the last four decades we have lost trillions of dollars and millions of jobs have been killed due to this cancerous movement. Please don’t get me wrong! There has been great improvement in our environment espe-
cially due to the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act. The problem is the fanaticism that grew along with it. We, free enterprise groups, were starting to check the whole army of fanatics during the Bush Administrations. Then something appeared like an artillery attack on our legislative process. Barack Hussein Obama became President. He, himself, appeared to be an environmental fanatic. During his two administrations, Executive Orders and Rule Changes etc. were being used to skirt around real legislation as Congress would have defeated these extreme proposals. I am talking changes by the thousands. The economic damage was historic. Announcing things like, “I am going to kill coal;” “I will make gasoline so expensive people will stop using it.” It was scary because he was truly serious. He introduced the Cap and Trade Initiative. We defeated it through Congressional Testimony. Recently, he tried to deliver on his “Kill coal” promise. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia stopped this in its tracks (Clean Power Plan). One week later Jus-
tice Scalia suddenly died. The best thing we did was to educate the American People on the tyranny that was taking place. Our message finally got through. So, when Hillary Clinton promised if she were elected the environmental aggression would remain the same, the people fought back. It was not surprising the coal producing states – Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Michigan, Wisconsin, etc. rebuked her at the voting polls. President Elect Donald Trump will be sworn in on January 21, 2017. His transition leader for the EPA is Myron Ebell (whom the environmental extremists call a “climate criminal”) will turn the EPA upside down. We have finally done it! The tyranny will start to subside and a vibrant, competitive, and strong America will start to return. Mr. Alford is the co-founder, President/CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce®. Website: www.nationalbcc.org Email: halford@nationalbcc.org
Bill seeks financial justice for defrauded Wells Fargo victims By Charlene Crowell A series of developments following the Wells Fargo scandal has now led to the introduction of legislation designed to bring financial justice to the millions of consumers affected by fees and fraudulent accounts they never authorized, nor opened. On December 1, Ohio U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, introduced a bill that would grant Wells Fargo victims their own day in court – even if they signed contracts that included arbitration for legitimately-opened accounts with the bank. Entitled the Justice for Victims of Fraud Act of 2016, the bill would work hand-in-hand with provisions of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s proposed oversight rule. While CFPB’s rule would apply to credit contracts signed after the rule took effect, Brown’s legislation would apply only to cases of fraud like those affected by the Wells Fargo scandal that preceded the record $185 million CFPB fine. A companion bill was also filed in
Charlene Crowell the House of Representatives by California Congressman Brad Sherman. “I want to thank Senate Banking Committee ranking member Sherrod Brown for working with me to introduce the Justice for Victims of Fraud Act of 2016. This bill will
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give defrauded Wells Fargo customers the opportunity for their day in court,” said Sherman. “If customers never authorized the opening of a phony credit card or checking account, there is no reason they should be bound by the arbitration agreement they were forced to sign when they set up their legitimate account.” “Forced arbitration is shielding Wells Fargo from being held accountable for tanking customers’ credit scores and charging them fraudulent fines,” said Sen. Brown. “Wells Fargo’s customers never intended to sign away their right to fight back against fraud and deceit. We need to give customers back their ability to seek justice in court so they can be made whole again.” The legislative initiative follows earlier congressional testimony by John Stumpf, the former CEO of Wells Fargo who said that the bank would continue its practice of forced arbitration, despite Sen. Brown pressing for clear answers as to how cheated customers with damaged credit scores would be treated.
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The nation’s third largest bank by assets, Wells Fargo fraudulently created an estimated 2 million credit card and deposit accounts. Forced arbitration authorizes an arbitrator selected and paid by the bank, to settle customer disputes. It is also an approach that is usually hidden in the fine printed details of consumer credit agreements. If a consumer is dissatisfied with the decision of the arbitrator, he/she is denied the right to sue or further question the decision. Already, Brown’s bill has support of 14 Senate co-sponsors representing Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Virginia. Additionally, the measure is supported by a growing list of organizations that include the NAACP, California Reinvestment Coalition, Public Justice, the Franciscan Action Network, the Economic Policy Institute, National Consumer Law Center, and Americans for Financial Reform. Speaking on behalf of the Center
for Responsible Lending, another organizational supporter, Melissa Stegman, a Senior Policy Counsel said, “This legislation gives these defrauded customers the opportunity to seek justice in court and is a step in the right direction in bringing fairness to consumer finance. . . Opening fraudulent accounts is not the only abusive tactic Wells Fargo has committed – they are also notorious for manipulating transactions in order to charge excessive overdraft fees to their customers.” Defrauded consumers do not deserve to be financially victimized a second time. Instead of trying to minimize the costs Wells Fargo will accrue, both the bank’s long-term interests and its customers would be better served by fully acknowledging its actions, providing fair restitution, and enacting reforms to ensure that these kinds of illegal actions will not happen again. Charlene Crowell is communications deputy director with the Center for Responsible Lending. She can be reached at charlene.crowell@responsiblelending.org.
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WE MUST HONOR OUR CULTURE Dr. Conrad Worrill, Director/Professor, Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies (CCICS), located at 700 East Oakwood Blvd, Chicago, Illinois, 60653, 773268-7500, Fax: 773-268-3835. E-mail: c-worrill@neiu.edu, Website: www.neiu.edu/ccics, Twitter: @CCICS_Chicago.
Dr. Conrad Worrill Our late ancestor Dr. Asa G. Hilliard’s book, The Maroon Within Us, once again reminds us of a major problem that we, as African people in America, are besieged by. Dr. Hilliard described this problem as cultural surrender. In explaining the problem, Dr. Hilliard wrote, “African Americans remain one of
the very few groups in the United States who do not honor their own cultural traditions, sometimes even when they are honored by others.” Continuing on this point, Dr. Hilliard states that, “If there is a major illness among African American people it is that we unceasingly honor and utilize our culture less. All great nations and people do the opposite.” As Dr. Hilliard further explains, “Cultural surrender is more than a matter of rejecting one’s father and mother’s culture. It means that one accepts a new definition as a person. The culturally dependent person is a mere spectator, a receptacle for the creativities of others. To demand freedom from slavery only to use that freedom to commit one’s self to a voluntary cultural servitude is to lose the chance to be human.” The erosion of many of our African cultural traditions and foundations are most evidenced in our family and community life. Far too many African people in America are getting away from the essence of family life. The cultural tradition of African family life is that of the extended family that centers itself on the rearing of children and caring for the elders. Family life is the basis for which a people maintain their cultural tradi-
tions, traditions that are important to the survival of a people. The way we raise our children in the context of extended family life for African people was always connected to the overall development of the larger community. Dr. Hilliard writes, “There have always been Africans or Black people in America who have been both physically and mentally free. We have also had far too many of those who have yielded their bodies— and worse, their souls— to people and systems whose purpose was to exploit, to take all and give nothing.” It is in this context that Dr. Hilliard provides several reasons why this devastating trend of cultural surrender is taking place. He says, “…we have tended to accept certain false dichotomies,” such as the following: “1. We have tended to equate sophisticated technology with culture, believing that such technology is exclusively European and that to affirm African culture is to reject technology. 2. We have tended to equate modern with technology, and to value modern as if it were cultural progress. At the same time, we have seen the affirmation of African/African American culture as a mat-
ter of retrogression. Further, we have seen African/African-American culture as static rather than dynamic and adaptive. 3. We have tended to equate European culture with wealth and African/African American culture with poverty. 4. We have tended to associate education with the acquisition of all the cultural forms of Europeans, and find it hard to conceive of educated persons who live the African/African American culture. 5. We have tended to equate selfaffirmation with the hatred of others. 6. We have tended to equate religion with particular forms of European interpretations of Christianity and have not seen our people as religious or spiritual. 7. Generally we have failed to study ourselves and to know our culture.” The challenges that African people face in America, and throughout the world, as we enter the twenty-first-century is to create programs, strategies, and institutions that will reclaim and preserve our rich culture. One such program that has emerged as one approach to preserving our culture and traditions aimed at our youth is the growing
Rites of Passage Movement. This Movement seeks to place Africa and African people at the center of independently working with our young people. Children in Rites of Passage Programs are generally taught aspects of our history that included our literary accomplishments, our accomplishments in music, science and technology, and the spiritual concepts of African people that direct our moral and ethical behavior and treatment of others. As we look out and observe the African World Community, we can see a common set of problems that all African people face, as a result of hundred of years of exploitation by Europeans and others against African people. This exploitation has developed into a worldwide system of white supremacy and white domination aimed at wiping out African culture. We must resist and refuse any efforts to wipe out our culture. Finally, Dr. Hilliard writes, “Cultural surrender or cultural destruction leads inevitably to the loss of any possibility for a group to mobilize on its behalf. There can be no African/African American family in the absence of a cultural base.”
Technology and The Erosion Of Community By Julianne Malveaux Professor Deva Woodly teaches Political Science at the New School for Social Research in New York. During a recent talk, she shared that trust in our nation’s institutions is at an all time low. That is, perhaps, why that man who currently holds the title of Presidentelect was able to prevail over someone far more qualified in the November election. Using Gallup Poll data from June 2016, Professor Woodly notes that the military is our nation’s most trusted institution – 73 percent trust them, while our Congress is the least trusted with only seven percent support. Fifty-six percent of us trust the police, 41 percent trust the church, just 36 percent support the President, and only 23 percent trust organized labor or the criminal justice system. One in five trust television news or newspapers. In a nutshell, it does not appear that we trust anybody! This lack of trust results in a lack of involvement in civil society. If you don’t trust the church, how involved will you be in it? If you don’t trust your union, will you do much more than pay your dues? Only two in five trust the medical profession – do you believe your doctors? 6
Just one in four of us trust banks. If we don’t trust institutions, do we trust each other? And if we don’t trust each other, how do we come together to organize, to resist the corrosiveness of the callous, racist, misogynistic leadership that Mr. Trump offers our nation. The man has no regard for the truth, and he has pandered to our collective mistrust by describing everything as “rigged.” Now he is saying that he really won the popular vote because “millions” of people voted fraudulently. He has no proof of it, and he ought to be ashamed for lying, except for if he had any shame he never would have run for President. Between fake news and mistrust, there are those who believe him, which further erodes institutional trust. Our nation is on a downward spiral, and there is no soft landing unless we rediscover the ways we once connected, and revive them. Professor Woodly and I joined Michael Eric Dyson and Columbia University Professor and moderator Fred Harris in a New School-sponsored panel on Obama, Race and Politics. Anyone who has read Dyson or me would not be surprised at our analysis. Fred Harris, too, has written about the Obama presidency in his book, The Price of the Ticket:
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Dr. Julianne Malveaux Barack Obama and the Rise and Fall of Black Politics (Oxford University Press, 2012). Professor Woodly’s analysis stood out for me, though, because she talked about community distrust and ways it disconnects people from politics, the polls, and outcomes. Too many people thought that their actions had no consequences, and that whatever they did had no meaning. Their impressions may have been shaped by the smugness many of us saw coming from the Clinton campaign that behaved as if their victory was inevitable. Just 107,000 votes in Wisconsin, Michi-
gan, and Pennsylvania separated Hillary Clinton from victory. Recounts are not likely to sway the election, and the “if I coulda, woulda, shoulda” post-mortem around the resources that should have been used to energize the base makes no difference now. The fact is that Hillary Clinton should have won this election. She didn’t because the village she says it takes to save a child has been fractured. Instead of talking to each other, too many are texting each other. Instead of talking to voters, the Clinton campaign was spending millions on ads that vilified Trump instead of lifting up Clinton. The election is over. Recounts are important for the sake of accountability, but I’m not sure they will make a difference in the electoral outcome. I support the recounts, and also an electoral audit. I support reform that makes it easier, not harder for people to vote. I believe that there are things that can be done in the next two years to take our democracy back.
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I refuse to wring my hands and dry my eyes about Mr. Trump and his “victory” anymore. What must happen now is a return to community. I was heartened to see so many millennials at the New School panel, young people asking what to do next. The answer – we must rebuild community. We must organize, organize, organize, and agitate, agitate, agitate. The man who calls himself our President-elect is an unabashed liar who some say, “deserves a chance.” Give him a chance, if you will, but hold him accountable for his lies, his conflicts of interest, and his racist appointments of Steve Bannon and Senator Sessions (DAL). Our community, revived, can do no less. Julianne Malveaux is an author and economist. Her latest book “Are We Better Off? Race, Obama and Public Policy” is available via www.amazon.com for booking, wholesale inquiries or for more info visit www.juliannemalveaux.com.
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thought was worthless, but it is clear now that he meant he would drain the swamp and find the most worthless ones to keep. So far he’s batting a thousand!!! -ImaPICTURES SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS Ima found these two graphic illustrations that are priceless for the Trump/Pence duo and Ima could not figure out any better audience than the readers of The
pointed person in the United States that at the end of eight years she checked her pockets and her hands and she had little to show for having our first Black president. Oh, yes, we got the trickle-down effect of things that benefitted everybody, but we got that from even Ronald Reagan and George Bush. We are pleased that your sweet little girl, Sasha was the chief concern and reason you will stay in the Washington, DC area. I agree she need not have her whole school life disrupted by moving yet to another
OLD OUT AND NEW IN Kim Foxx was sworn in and has now taken her office as States Attorney. Word is some folks were able to hold their joy and blamed it on Christmas joy when they couldn’t contain themselves. Word is some holdovers are waiting to see if they will be retained, while some employees are hoping they will not be holdovers. Anita Alvarez seemed to surround herself with a bunch of not so nice people and caused the work atmosphere to be less than desirable. There are those there that feel that efficiency does not mean nasty. Here’s hoping when she gets an opportunity to evaluate what she
guess we should have. We can now say what we have been waiting eight years to say, your political career is over! Thank goodness!! We should have known at the first signal when the pastor that elevated you into local politics was thrown under the bus at the announcement of your candidacy in Springfield. And the gratitude you gave to the “Godfather,” who said you worked for DCP as a community organizer and you siccked the vicious Pitbull on him. You have treated Black members of the Press like those infected with the plague and it wasn’t just US in the Black Press. Stories are out there of those Black Reporters, etc. that are held in high esteem in Chicago and you would have pushed Michelle aside to get an interview with before
Governor Bruce Rauner bloom. It seems to Ima that two more than grown men are too stubborn to compromise. I believe it was important that we save our nuclear plants, but more importantly it is to save our youth!! There is no comparison. So, it don’t look so good for ComEd to get the victory they wanted and increase our electric bills, while the Governor won’t budge to do whatever is necessary to save our schools. I guess Ima can only sum it up that for ComEd the timing is not so good!!! But remember Bruce told us who he was before he was elected and just as we will probably pay a high price for not voting enough for our candidate by the election of Trump, we surely are paying for the election of Rauner. -Ima-
President Barack Obama you went to Washington. We couldn’t say it then, but we can say it now you wanted us Black folks to preserve your legacy and you got your answer when you hitched your wagon to Ima’s candidate Hillary Clinton. You ought to hear the answer to preserving your legacy, Mr. President. The answer is WHAT LEGACY???? So, Mr. President, if you have an ounce of decency left please keep two of your henchmen/women with you, we don’t need them in Chicago, violence is already high. Those two folks would be M.S. and V.J. Everybody knows who they are, Ima just wanted to add some humor for folks to pretend they had to figure it out.
Kim Foxx got, she will be able to weed out some of those who may not work in the interest of the new States Attorney. A word to the wise should be sufficient. By the way good luck Kim, Ima knows you can do it!!!
AT LEAST ONE CONSOLATION!! Dorothy Brown was sworn in on December 1st for her fifth term as
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TIMING NOT SO GOOD!!! locale. We knew however, it was doubtful that you would move -Imaback to Chicago anyway. But what we are beginning to see is that DON’T SEND BACK YOUR some of your lying behind posse is HENCHMEN/WOMEN, coming back here to serve on the MR. PRESIDENT!! Obama board. Ima didn’t know how much disdain and hatred you Ima is probably the most disap- had for us here in Chicago, but I
Chatterbox.” So, enjoy!!! DRAINING THE SWAMP Ima just found out what Donald Trump meant when he said he was going to “drain the swamp.” At first Ima thought he meant that he would drain the swamp and get rid of the folks he www.chicagocrusader.coM
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Governor Bruce Rauner is celebrating his non-veto of the energy bill this week, while he vetoed the bill for the Chicago Public Schools. Now I don’t know who is to blame completely, but it is hard to tell when the fight going on between Madigan and Rauner is in full
Clerk of the Court and at least we got to thumb our noses at the head of the Cook County Democratic Party (including the targeted for failure Mayor) that tried to defeat Dorothy. So, Ima wanted to end this column as she started it on a positive note. Congratulations Dorothy!!!
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SHEDD HOLIDAY BREAKFASTS: It’s the most wonderful time of the year... Shedd’s holiday breakfast! Join them for breakfast and hot chocolate, a screening of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and THE POLAR EXPRESS™ 4-D Experiences, and a meet-and-greet with Santa. Afterward, you can explore Shedd’s children’s exhibit, Polar Play Zone, and finish your special day with reserved seats to the aquatic presentation, One World. Upcoming dates for the breakfasts are: Saturday, December 10; Sunday, December 11; and Saturday, December 17 at 8 a.m. Cost: $49.95 for adults; $39.95 for children (ages 3-10); Shedd Members: $44.95 for adults; $34.95 for children (ages 3-10); Children under the age of 3 are free! Ticket price includes admission to the aquarium. Connect with Shedd Aquarium online through Facebook; Twitter; YouTube; and Instagram. SEASON’S GREETINGS TO YOU AND YOURS FROM SBND! Come Celebrate with Small Business & Nonprofit Development Group (SBND) founded in 2011 by Strategic Solutions Network, Inc. (SSN). It has been a long year and they appreciate all the support you extended to small business and nonprofit community enterprises. Now it’s time to extend a thank you for your support, reflect on past endeavors and build platforms for longterm financial stability. On Saturday, December 17, 2016 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., join SBND for a holiday season thank you celebration that includes a sneak preview of Kathy Edwards’ financial restoration program. Previous dates announced for Kathy’s presentation are postponed and instead combined into one grand finale during the December 17th event at Hyatt Place Chicago-South, 5225 S. Harper Avenue, Chicago. Space is limited and you must pre-register to attend! This is a FREE SBND sponsored event and you are welcome to bring a friend or colleague. For more information, call: 773-614-7619; send email to: nmarchant@ssncandoit.com, or visit SBND Website:www.sbnd-biz-help.com; SSN Website:www.ssncandoit.com. CHICAGO READER TO HOST 4TH ANNUAL MADE IN CHICAGO MARKET SHOWCASING LOCAL SHOPS, FOOD, GOODS AND SERVICES: The Chicago Reader, the nationally renowned and award-winning alt weekly, will host its fourth annual Made in Chicago Market on Sunday, December 18th from 11 a.m. 6 p.m. at Local 130 Plumbers Union Hall (1340 W Washington Street). The market is free admission to all attendees. The Made in Chicago Market will be brought to life with 8
over 80 amazing local vendors including beauty, apparel, housewares, food and drink, jewelry and more! The Made in Chicago Market will provide a day of family friendly fun for all ages, and it’s perfect for last minute holiday shopping! The purpose of this event is to shine a light on local Chicago businesses and manufacturers. They want to continue to encourage Chicagoans to buy local with the goal of boosting the economic environment and showcasing what local businesses make up Chicagoland. Exclusive Activation: This year they’re proud to announce their partnership with One Strange Bird to allow guests of the market to create their very own terrarium ornaments. This activation will be first come, first serve and is free while supplies last! Don’t miss out. For more information about the event, visit chicagoreader.com/madeinchicago. CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD AND HOLIDAYS OF LIGHT: A holiday favorite also returns to MSI this winter, Christmas Around the World and Holidays of Light. It is ONGOING through January 8, 2017. Guests can celebrate festive traditions from around the globe with a forest of beautifully adorned trees, each one decorated by local volunteers from cultural organizations and Chicago’s diverse communities. Looking for the perfect family photo op? The trees encircle a miraculous floor-to-dome Grand Tree wrapped in 30,000 twinkling lights. Guests can also catch “snow” as it falls every 30 minutes inside the Museum’s Rotunda. New this year, and in conjunction with MSI’s Brick by Brick exhibit, guests can create their own holiday trinket to remember their visit—a LEGO® ornament! Santa Claus will also be stopping by MSI’s Holiday Lane to meet with families, snap photos and ask children what they’d like for Christmas. Both ornament making and Santa visits will be held on select weekend dates throughout the exhibit’s run. Also in Holiday Lane, guests can explore celebrations of light or enlightenment, such as Hanukkah and Kwanzaa, in the beautiful Holidays of Light digital display. Cultural performances including Japanese drumming and Irish dancing will also be held on select dates at the Museum’s Main Auditorium inside the West Pavilion. MSI is located at 5700 S. Lake Shore Drive in Chicago. For more information, contact Isabel Morales,773-947-6003, isabel.morales@msichicago.org.
GOVERNOR BRUCE RAUNER (at the podium) is joined by leaders from Illinois Black Chamber of Commerce, Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, Illinois Chamber of Commerce, Associated Builders and Contractors, and the National Federation of Independent Business as he discussed reforms to create jobs, lower property taxes and improve schools during Rauner’s town hall meeting with employees at African American-owned The Will Group Manufacturing Facility in Chicago. The Will Group has served as an innovator in the local lighting industry for 30 years. Chicago-based, The Will Group is committed to supporting the Chicago community and its residents. With fixtures and components assembled locally in The Will Group’s Austin-based facility, the company creates quality jobs and hires local residents. brary and Museum will celebrate the President George Washington and their favorite item in the exhibit. Andepth of the library’s collection by Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson; a other asks visitors to write about rare, highlighting items that rarely get a Howitzer shell representing Illinois precious items from their own lives; turn in the spotlight, from a docu- that was fired during President their answers will be posted for everyment signed by George Washington Kennedy’s funeral; a dress worn by one to see. “Rare and Rarely Seen” and Thomas Jefferson to a pair of Marilyn Monroe; and a letter from will be presented in the museum’s Illishoes from a Nazi concentration Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant ex- nois Gallery. The exhibit is free with camp. “Rare and Rarely Seen” is ON- pressing concern that he might be in- regular admission to the museum. GOING until January 29, 2017. dicted for treason. It includes Grant’s The museum is open seven days a Among the items on display in “Rare handwritten recommendation that week. The library portion of the and Rarely Seen” are: Wooden shoes Lee not be prosecuted. The exhibit al- ALPLM is open free of charge Monworn by a prisoner at the Dachau so includes two interactive features. day through Friday for research. For concentration camp; a commission One was inspired by the section on details, visit www.PresidentLincoln.naming a federal marshal, signed by politics and will let visitors vote on illinois.gov.
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Will Changing of Presidential Guard Impact Unemployment among African Americans in Chicago? The Chicago Urban League’s Workforce Development Director Andrew Wells recently issued the following statement in response to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) November, 2016 jobs report: “Over the past few months, we have become accustomed to the dwindling trend of the national unemployment rate which today dipped to 4.6%, the lowest in 9 years. Bravo! But not really. In wake of the recent Presidential election results and the overall racial climate in our country sparked by negative campaign rhetoric targeting minorities, I, and surely others, have pondered the employment outlook and economic stability of African-Americans, particularly in Chicago. Unemployment among Blacks in our city continues to escalate at a rate
that drastically outpaces the national average. Economic mobility has been a never-ending struggle for people of color. For many Blacks, economic well-being is primarily tied to a paycheck from an employer, and despite some progress, wage gaps persist. A recent study by the Pew Research Center showed that in 2015, Black and Hispanic men on average earned approximately 33% less than white men. Black and Hispanic women on average earned 29% less than their white counterparts. More disturbingly, the percentages don’t differ much with educational attainment. Blacks and Hispanics have made little progress in narrowing the wage gap with their white counterparts since the early 1980’s. According to a study authored by the Insti-
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tute for Policy Studies (IPS) and the Corporation For Economic Development (CFED), the average Black family would need 228 years to amass the wealth of a white family today. In the midst of this inequity comes the changing of the guard in the highest office in the country. Our economic stability, both as a people and a nation, greatly depends on our elected officials whom we elect to enact laws that level the playing field, giving all citizens access to economic opportunity. Situations already exist nationwide where Blacks are disproportionately represented on corporate boards, C-suites, ownership class and even in some blue-collar workforce environments. While the jury is still out on what is yet to come under the new
administration, we must play a visible and active role in ensuring a seat at the employment table for African Americans. This will be easier said than done. After 100 years in existence, the Chicago Urban League is here serving as a catalyst, voice and convener to address the problems of racial inequity so apparent in Chicago. Collaboration among non-profit organizations, government officials, the faith community, law enforcement, corporations, small business owners and citizens who truly want a better Chicago is necessary to ensure that African Americans have access to employment opportunities alongside all other Americans. Racial injustice and economic disenfranchisement don’t make America great. Elevating humanity does.”
CUL announces appointment of Board Members The Chicago Urban League announced the recent election of six new members recently and the appointment of two key leadership positions to the organization’s 35member Board of Directors. The Board sets strategic direction and policy to guide the League’s work of advancing economic, educational and social progress for African Americans. David Nichols, Principal, Advisory Services at Ernst & Young LLP, was appointed a Vice Chair of the Board, and Eric S. Smith, Market President, Chicago at Fifth Third Bank, was appointed Secretary of the Board. Six new members who joined the board for a two-year term bring extensive operational and financial experience to the League. The new members include: • Charles Matthews, President and Chief Executive Officer, Peoples Gas and North Shore Gas • Ina Stewart-Murray, Executive Vice President - Market Man-
Aletha C. Noonan
Debbie S. Roberts
Tyronne Stoudemire
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ager for Chicago Wisconsin Market, PNC Bank • Aletha C. Noonan, Vice President, Higher Education Sales, CDW Government • Debbie S. Roberts, President, East Zone - McDonald's USA, LLC • Tyronne Stoudemire, Vice
President of Global Diversity and Inclusion, Hyatt Hotel Corporation • Alex E. Washington, III, Managing Director, Wind Point Partners Continuing in their roles as officers of the Board of Directors are Maria C. Green, Chair; Joseph A. Gregoire, Vice Chair; Lester H. McKeever, Jr., Vice Chair; James Reynolds, Vice Chair; John W. Rogers, Jr., Vice Chair; Stacy Sharpe, Vice Chair; Steven J.
Sherman, Vice Chair; and Reginald C. Reed, Treasurer. "We are fortunate to have a board of directors whose diversity of experience and strength of leadership are commensurate with the Chicago Urban League’s standing as a leading voice for African Americans in the city,” said Shari Runner, President and CEO. “The Board’s thought partnership is invaluable to the League as we continue to grow our programs and implement our
new 10-year plan for creating a more equitable city.” Established in 1916, the Chicago Urban League works for economic, educational and social progress for African Americans and promotes strong sustainable communities through advocacy, collaboration and innovation. For more information, visit www.thechicagourbanleague.org. Find them on Facebook or follow them on Twitter.
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State Representative Camille Lilly, D-Chicago, will host a Job Fair in conjunction with Loretto Hospital on Saturday, December 17. The event will be held in the hospital’s 6th floor auditorium from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Loretto Hospital is located at 645 S. Central in Chicago. The job fair is open to the public. “In this tough economic climate, finding a good job is not only challenging but time consuming” Lilly said. “My goal is to help job seekers find employment opportunities, and assist companies in filling the openings they have as quickly as possible.” Questions about the job fair may be directed to Lilly’s constituent service office at (708) 613-5939 or StateRepCamilleYLilly@gmail.com.
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Kim Foxx Sworn in as Cook County State’s Attorney First African American woman to hold the powerful office Kim Foxx, newly elected as Cook County State’s Attorney in November, heads one of the largest prosecutor’s offices in the country, second only to Los Angeles. Her staff includes almost 900 attorneys and more than 1,500 employees. Foxx was sworn into office on Thursday, December 1, by the Chief Cook County Judge, the Honorable Timothy Evans. The state’s attorney’s office is responsible for prosecuting misdemeanor and felony crimes committed in Cook County. On December 5, Foxx detailed her plans for revamping the group that reviews potentially wrongful convictions. She also unveiled plans that include the creation of a gun crimes unit. Foxx is the first African American woman to hold one of the County’s most powerful offices. She indicated that she wants to tackle violent crime by focusing on the most dangerous criminals. She intends to improve communications among the office’s bureaus, including traffic and child support, placing additional pressure on criminal offenders. According to Foxx her office is also determining its authority to investi-
gate police shootings and not wait for the Independent Police Review Authority to complete its investigation. “We’re looking at our authority to go in immediately like with other cases, collect evidence, and do a par-
allel investigation so that we get results in a timelier fashion” she said. Foxx said that “waiting for second hand information to come after completion of an investigation by another agency, and then reviewing
their work months later, I don’t think necessarily gives us the best results.” Foxx defeated two term incumbent State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez in a three-way primary last spring.
KIM FOXX IS sworn in as Cook County State’s Attorney by Chief Judge Timothy Evans as her husband and daughters look on.
Alvarez failed to overcome the public outrage generated by the release of a video showing a white police officer shooting Laquan McDonald, a Black teenager, 16 times. Sworn in last Thursday, Foxx pledged a review of the unit that approves felony charges. She hopes to ensure her review will develop a unit that increases outcomes that are fair for all. “People should be held accountable for their actions, but the question becomes ‘what does justice look like in that case’?” she said. Additionally, Foxx pledged training for prosecutors to help root out “implicit bias.” She said she will create a chief data officer position to help fill in gaps in knowledge on how the office is handling cases. In office just a few weeks, Foxx has already formed her Transition Team, composed of legal minds, CEOs of service organizations, professors of law, and criminal justice advocates. At the center of Kim Foxx’s vision for the State’s Attorney’s Office is a core belief that public safety is best achieved by an Office that operates “with integrity, discretion, accountability, collaboration, and fairness.”
GUESTS ASSEMBLED FOR the official swearing in ceremony of Kim Foxx as Cook County State’s Attorney on Thursday, December 1.
THE FOXX FAMILY strikes a beautiful pose following Kim Foxx’s swearing in as Cook County State’s Attorney. Foxx will head the second largest state’s attorney’s office in the nation.
DON’T LET THE smile fool you. Kim Foxx, newly sworn in as Cook County State’s Attorney, plans on transforming the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office “into a fairer, more forward thinking agency focused on restoring the public trust.”
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Clerk Dorothy Brown is celebrated at Public Swearing-In Honorable Dorothy Brown, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, celebrated her historic re-election to a fifth term in office with a public swearing-in and commencement of duties ceremony before an audience of more than 300 guests on December 1, 2016 at the Richard J. Daley Center. “I am committed to serving Cook County citizens by continuing to shape the Clerk’s Office into a model of excellence in record keeping,” said Clerk Brown. “I am honored to serve the public in this capacity.” Clerk Brown’s inaugural address spoke of overcoming adversity and having faith and hope. She spoke of finding strength after a difficult year in her career. The challenges she faced, Brown said, “gave me the strength I need to continue to fight for that which is right and to be all that I have been called to be. The
strength I need to continue to be a role model of how hard work does pay off.” Earlier, Brown took the oath of office administered by Cook County Court Chief Judge Timothy Evans and witnessed by Judge Sharon Oden Johnson. All of the employees of the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court were also sworn-in. Dorothy Brown, the first AfricanAmerican Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, was first elected into office on November 7, 2000. Her unique qualifications and over 25 years of professional experience have enabled her to significantly reform the Clerk’s Office through focusing on technological advancements, employee training and financial accountability. Guest speakers included Dr. Janette Wilson, who spoke on behalf of Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr., President, Rainbow PUSH Coalition; Ms. Emma Loza-
A BEAMING DOROTHY BROWN accepted congratulations and best wishes for her fifth term and posed with Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans who swore her in, and Judge Sharon Oden Johnson. no, Director, Centro Sin Fronteras; Mr. Frank Spula, President, Polish National Alliance; Elder Jeffrey Hodges, Pastor King of Glory Tabernacle Church of God in Christ; Rev. Dr. Marshall Hatch, Senior Pastor, New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church; Dr. Benton Cook, III; and Rabbi Pinchus Eisenbach. Perri Small, host of “The Perri Small Show,” on WVON 1690 AM, served as the mistress of ceremonies. The celebration included special musical performances by Grammynominated Gospel Music Artist Jonathan McReynolds.
MORE THAN 300 city officials, family and friends filled the Daley Center as Dorothy Brown, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County was sworn in for a fifth term of office on December 1.
CLERK OF THE Circuit Court Dorothy Brown shared the joy of her Inaugural Celebration with her Chief of Staff, Wasiu Fashina. Fashina directs staff, oversees special projects, and develops strategic initiatives for the Clerk’s office.
ARMS RAISED IN a victory cheer, Clerk of the Circuit Court Dorothy Brown celebrates following her swearing in for a fifth term of office.
JONATHAN MCREYNOLDS PERFORMED a musical selecDOROTHY BROWN, CLERK of the Circuit Court of Cook tion during Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County County listens intently as Rabbi Pinchus Eisenbach delivers Dorothy Brown’s Inaugural Celebration. McReynolds is a Grammy nominated gospel music artist. the closing prayer at her Inaugural Celebration. www.chicagocrusader.com
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A S MI LIN G DOROT H Y BROWN points with pleasure to signage directing guests to her swearing in ceremony on December 1, at the Daley Center. Brown was sworn in for her fifth term as Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County.
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‘The Land’ shows urban teens going after dreams in the wrong way By Raymond Ward MAMA MAVIS: This past weekend, Washington, D.C. celebrated the 39th annual Kennedy Center Honors, which always kicks off the holiday season. The Honorees during the three-hour party, with The Late Show’s Stephen Colbert serving as M.C., included: actor Al Pacino, Argentine pianist Martha Argerich, rock and roll band The Eagles, musician James Taylor and Chicago’s own...very very own....Mavis Staples. The event also offered a very special goodbye to President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle, as this would be the last time the POTUS and FLOTUS would host this Honors tribute. The Kennedy Center’s sold-out audience cheered for several minutes as the president and first lady were introduced. Jack Schlossberg, son of Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, along with his sisters Tatiana and Rose (the three grandchildren of President John F. Kennedy) began the evening by stating, “We want to give a special thanks to President Obama for carrying on our Grandfather’s legacy into the new century and for showing us all that politics still can be a noble profession.” As has always been the tradition, the Honorees sat with the President and First Lady (with Mavis occupying the seat next to Michelle Obama) in the
Mavis Staples President’s Box, and as always the special celebrities who would be paying tribute to the Honorees was a closely guarded secret. Former President Bill Clinton kicked-off the tributes by saluting James Taylor, who he described as a close friend. Laurence Fishburne, Kevin Spacey and Sean Penn honored Academy Award-winner Al Pacino, while Placido Domingo, actor Jeff Goldblum, violinist Itzak Perlman and pianist Yuja Wang paid tribute to Martha Argerich. Ringo Starr, The Kings of Leon and Vince Gill did the honors for The Eagles, who were supposed to be part of last year’s event, but postponed their acceptance when band member Glenn Frey became ill. He died in January and his absence added a slightly sad and melancholy note to the event. But it was Mama Mavis who award-winning actor Don Cheadle celebrated for her continuous work on social issues by saying, “The message of truth, in pitch-perfect harmony, demonstrates the power of art to change.” Staples was praised as a genre-blurring artist who throughout her six-decade career has participated in collaborations with Prince, Chuck D., Van Morrison, Bruce Hornsby and Billy Preston to name a few. Country singer Elle King performed two of Mavis’ most popular songs, “Respect Yourself” and “I’ll Take You There,” followed by Bonnie Raitt and Audra Day who sang “We Shall Not Be Moved,” and “Freedom Highway.” “Mavis Staples is a revelation, it’s as simple as that,” said Bonnie Raitt. Mavis Staples is now 77 years of age and the youngest member of the legendary Staple Singers, the Chicago based group that became the unofficial voice of the Civil Rights Movement and in the 1970’s, an award-winning and highly popular mixture of soul, rhythm and blues music. It has been six decades since Mavis first came to national attention, with her soulful beyond-her-years voice elevating the family’s recording of “Uncloudy Day.” Now...she’s its last performing member. Cynthia, the youngest sister, committed suicide in 1973. The patriarch of the family Roebuck “Pops” Staples died in 2000, a year after the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Sister Cleotha, who lived in (Continued on page 17) 12
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Executive producer Nasir “Nas” Jones presents this vivid innercity saga set amid Cleveland’s hip-hop underground. Teenage buddies Cisco (Jorge Lendeborg Jr.), Junior (Moises Arias), Boobie (Ezri Walker), and Patty Cake (Rafi Gavron) shrug off school to
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THE FOUR TEENS in the Cleveland, Ohio, based movie “The Land” find themselves biting off more than they can chew, as they chase their dreams of becoming champion skateboarders. The movie is set to a urban hip-hop soundtrack featuring original songs by Nas and Erykah Badu. practice skateboarding, which they hope will be their ticket to a better life. In the meantime, they steal cars to finance their dream. But when they get mixed up in a drug deal and cross a ruthless crime queen-pin Momma, played by Linda Emond, they put their friendship–and lives–on the line. Set to a choice hip-hop soundtrack and featuring an impressive ensemble cast that includes “The Wire’s” Michael K. Williams, Erykah Badu, and rapper Machine Gun Kelly, “The Land” crackles with the energy and poetry of the EXECUTIVE PRODUCER NAS, Erykah Badu, and Machine Gun Kelly in a photo taken at the 2016 Sundance Film streets. “The Land” hit me unexpected- Festival. Photo by Marisa McGrod, courtesy of The Land ly, because I wasn’t prepared for Facebook page. the depth of trouble in which the they figure it out totally, Junior is story of many young men living four skateboarders find them- shot dead after hanging out with in the inner city–dreams that selves. As they advance from car- his mother and young sister can’t come fast enough and education that seems unnecessary– jacking motorists after catching watching fireworks. Badu plays an alcoholic who even though sage advice would them off guard while skating in the streets, they run across a drug hangs around the bar that Cisco’s say otherwise. Nas serves as executive producrunner who works for the drug stepfather runs, and Williams queen-pin. After beating the mo- plays Boobie’s father. I loved the er for a film that through and torist, they find a stash of pills, and addition of these two. Badu was through also shows the beauty they really don’t know what they are honing her acting chops, and and grit of Cleveland. “The Land” is available on doing. They begin selling the stash Williams is always a commanding in order to support their skateboard- actor in many roles that he has DVD or via streaming devices. ing competitions. They buy new had since “The Wire.” Emond Visit http://www.ifcfilms.com/fi gear; flaunt money around, until plays a female drug lord who is as lms/the-land for more informathey are identified by Momma’s sweet as a grandmother on the tion. Editor’s Note: This week’s goons. But not before they get in surface but who can be as tough death of Chicago boxer Ed so deep with selling the pills. They as nails when needed. The circumstances under which Brown made me think of this learn to package them and go to parties offering their wares—even the young men find themselves is movie. He had had dreams of to the point of partying with peo- unfortunate. They are merely try- becoming a boxing champion ing to chase their dreams of pro- for years. Reportedly, he has ple twice their age. Once they are identified, their fessional skateboarding, but they had obstacles thrown in his lives and the lives of their family haven’t completely worked the face time and time again. He (Continued on page 17) members are at peril. By the time kinks out. This story could be the Blacks Must control their own coMMunity
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Film producing trio ready to ‘Make Noise’ about domestic violence Indiegogo Campaign Launched to Support Film about Abusive Relationships on College Campuses A female filmmaking trio recently made their intentions known to ‘shut up the silence’ about domestic violence. Just in time for Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Noisemakers Entertainment has launched an Indiegogo campaign to fund a film highlighting the fall-out from abusive relationships on college campuses. “This is my story. I’ve lived this, and now I can’t hold it in any longer,� said Natasha Parker, awardwinning writer/director and one of the founding partners of Noisemakers Entertainment. The film, titled “Shut up Silence,� takes place in a university setting where the lead character finds herself in a relationship with her college sweetheart that seems impossible to walk away from. A rollercoaster of
thropist looks forward to the film “Shut Up Silence� becoming a reality and intends to add her creative touch. “Not only do we feel compelled to help Natasha tell her story, but we want to save lives too,� said Edwards. Pending the success of the Indiegogo campaign, filming is set to
further, Natasha strived for and earned the title of Location Manager joining the esteemed Director’s Guild of America. Her credits range from films such as Transformers 3, Empire, Man of Steel, Chiraq, as well as a multitude of television shows and commercials.
philanthropic efforts as founder of Triumphant Transitions, Inc. (www.triumphanttransitions.org) have been recognized by several media outlets, including CBS 2 News Chicago. The recipient of a B.S. Degree in Fashion Merchandising and Market-
THESE THREE LADIES are the produces of a film that will bring attention to domestic violence. The filmmaking trio consists of, l-r, LaTrice L. Edwards, Natasha Parker and Adrienne Swan. Gary, IN native, LaTrice L. Ed- ing from Ball State University, Edbegin in the spring of 2017. “We are looking for donations of wards’ industry experience started wards is also the creator/designer of all sizes,� added Parker. “Every con- in 2001 as a make-up artist. The Power Style Tees (a charitable emtribution gets us one step closer to I.A.T.S.E. Union members’ (Studio powerment t-shirt initiative of Trishutting up the silence about do- Mechanics Local 476) work has been umphant Transitions, Inc.) The Ball seen on several A-list films, TV shows State University Alumni Association mestic violence.� Noisemakers Entertainment’s pur- and celebrities. However, her tugg- honored Edwards in 2007 with the pose is to create and develop unique ing interest in film producing never Alumni Award of Achievement, in diverse stories through film that en- allowed her to let go of her business recognition of her professional accomtertain, empower and stir the hu- roots in corporate America. Edwards’ plishments and voluntary service. Edman spirit while providing creative outlets and platforms for industry talent.
wards is a 2011 life membership inductee of the Northwest Indiana Society of Innovators. She is now combining her passion, corporate and film experience for the greater good of creative arts with Noisemakers Entertainment. Chicago native, Adrienne Swan, is a consummate professional with 20 years of experience in Production Accounting. She is a member of the IATSE Union for Accountants both in Los Angeles and New York. Her experience is sought after by the industry on both the major studios and independent film level with over 30 credits in her filmography. Adrienne’s degree in Accountancy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, coupled with corporate experience, has more than prepared her for a successful career in the entertainment industry. In recent years, Adrienne has added Line Producer and Production Management to her industry experience. In addition to her commitment to social advocacy and youth empowerment, Adrienne is an active member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. To learn more about or contribute to the campaign, visit https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ shut-up-silence-love#/. For more information and updates about the film, visit Noisemakersentertainment.com and follow the Noisemakers on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram using the hashtag #ShutUpSilence.
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Natasha Parker events, including ignored abuse, lead to a critical choice she must make between freedom and love. “There are so many young women and girls who are in abusive relationships and either don’t realize it or need help confronting their circumstances,� said Parker. “This film will help them see that it’s time to get out or their life may depend on it.� Indiegogo is an online fundraising tool that allows filmmakers to develop a customized campaign designed to create buzz, build support and secure donations for film projects. Over the next three months, the women have set a fundraising goal of $250,000. “Making a quality film takes money, and we thought Indiegogo was a great route to go,� said Adrienne Swan, fellow Noisemaker and accountant. “It’s my job to make sure the numbers are right and that we approach every project in a manner that is fiscally sound.� Noisemaker partner LaTrice Edwards couldn’t agree more. Edwards, a celebrity makeup artist and philan-
Natasha Parker is a writer, director and producer raised on the West Side of Chicago. Parker graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a B.A. in Speech Communications, with a minor in AfricanAmerican Studies. Working various corporate jobs after graduation, her true passion guided her towards filmmaking. With continued studies at the Independent Screenwriters Group, she began a career in the entertainment industry in 2004. In 2009, Natasha created Noisemakers Entertainment and cofounded the company. Writing, directing and producing two shorts in three days, “The Package� and “The Lost One,� she garnered the attention of the Library of Congress, competed in the Martha’s Vineyard HBO short film series, Urban World, Pan African Film Festival, Black Harvest and was a nominee for an African Movie Academy Award in Nigeria. Balancing the dual hats as an independent filmmaker and studio craftsman, Natasha learned the skilled professions of wardrobe, props and coordinating for various departments, becoming a proud member of IATSE 476. Reaching
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Griffin Theatre Company presents ‘Winterset’ Griffin Theatre Company recently launched its 2016-17 Season as an exploration of the American Dream with a rare revival of Maxwell Anderson’s 1930s drama “Winterset,” directed by Ensemble Member Jonathan Berry (Pocatello, Balm in Gilead). The production is playing now through December 23, 2016 at The Den Theatre’s Upstairs Main Stage, 1333 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood. “Winterset” is a rare revival in keeping with Griffin’s work to explore lost plays like London Wall and Men Should Weep. Inspired by the infamous murder case of the 1920s when the Italian anarchists and immigrants, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were arrested, convicted and electrocuted despite the insubstantial evidence against them. Anderson’s 1935 poetic verse play follows a young man’s quest to prove his father’s innocence years after he was executed for a murder he may not have committed. Winner of the first New York Drama Critic’s Circle Award for Best Play. The Director, Jonathan Berry, is an ensemble member at Griffin Theatre where his credits include Pocatello,
Balm in Gilead, Golden Boy, Spring Awakening, Punk Rock, Port and On the Shore of the Wide World. He is an Artistic Producer at Steppenwolf and a director and teacher in Chicago. His Steppenwolf credits include Gary and A Separate Peace for Steppenwolf for Young Adults. Jonathan is also an ensemble member at Steep Theatre, where credits include Posh, If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet, The Knowledge, Festen and Moment. He pursued his MFA in directing from Northwestern University. He has taught at University of Michigan, Northwestern University, University of Chicago, Columbia College and The School at Steppenwolf. The production of “Winterset” features Maurice Demus as Mio and Kiayla Jackson as Miriamne with Chris Acevedo, Larry Baldacci, Johnny Moran, Josh Odor, Matt Rockwood, Skylar Schrempp, Londen Shannon, Bradford Stevens and Norm Woodel. “Winterset” is playing at the Griffin Theatre with regular Curtain Times on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.; Sundays at 3 p.m. There will be added performances on Saturday,
KIAYLA JACKSON AND Maurice Demus in Griffin Theatre Company’s production of “Winterset” by Maxwell Anderson and directed by Jonathan Berry. December 17 at 3 p.m., Tuesday, De- adults by building bridges of under- Award nominations for theater excelcember 20 at 7:30 p.m. and Wednes- standing between generations that in- lence in Chicago. The Griffin was the still in its audience an appreciation of repeat winner of the 2016 Jeff Award day, December 21 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for “Winterset” are available the performing arts. Through artistic for “Best Production of a Play” for at www.griffintheatre.com or by call- collaboration the Griffin Theatre London Wall having won the same ing (866) 811-4111. The costs for Company produces literary adapta- award in 2015 for its production of tickets are: Previews $28. Regular run tions, original work and classic plays Men Should Weep. $36. Students, seniors & veterans $31 that challenge and inspire, with wit, The Griffin Theatre is partially sup($20 previews). Group discount are style and compassion for the audi- ported by a CityArts Grant from the ence. available for groups of ten or more. City of Chicago Department of CulThe Griffin Theatre Company is tural Affairs & Special Events; and the The Griffin Theatre’s 2016/2017 Premiere Season Sponsor is Brenda the recipient of 105 Joseph Jefferson Illinois Arts Council, a state agency. and James Grusecki with additional season sponsor support from Jeff Graves Realtor @properties, Kassie Davis & Bruce Beatus, Claire Conley & Joan Mazzonelli. The Griffin Theatre Company is a Blue Star Theater and is proud to support the military enlisted and veterans. About Griffin Theatre Company
IN THE PLAY “Winterset,” which is set in 1935, Kiayla Jackson (left), who plays Miriamne is concerned about actor Maurice Demus’ character, Mio’s obsession with proving his father’s innocence.
Established in 1988 and celebrating its 29th season, the mission of the Griffin Theatre Company is to create extraordinary and meaningful theatrical experiences for both children and
CHRIS ACEVEDO (LEFT) and Kiayla Jackson in Griffin Theatre Company’s production of “Winterset” playing now through December 23. (Photos by Michael Brosilow)
Muntu Dance Theatre’s fall concert to feature Nunufatima Celebrated International Dance Company Stronger Than Ever After 44 Years The dynamic and always colorful Muntu Dance Theatre of Chicago will present its fall concert series “Manifest,” a collection of new and classic choreographic works performed in collaboration with sister company Nunufatima Dance Company and other guest artists. Radio personality Matt McGill of The Matt McGill Morning Show on WVON will serve as the guest emcee. Manifest is the synergy that projects power, love, submission and the celebration of a life force by bringing people together in the spirit of harmonious interaction. The 14
reception dinner and concert will be held Saturday, December 10, at the Reva & David Logan Center for the Arts, 915 E. 60th Street. Reception dinner is at 5:00 p.m.; performance starts at 7:00 p.m. A matinee concert was scheduled December 9 and Sunday, December 11, at 3:00 p.m. Known for its innovative repertory, Muntu Dance Theatre of Chicago has been performing authentic and progressive interpretations of contemporary and ancient African and African-American dance, music and folklore since 1972. The company preserves traditional African dance while creating new works that build on African, Caribbean and African-American cultural traditions.
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MUNTU DANCE THEATRE (Photo/graphic credits: Sekou Conde and Marc Monoghan) Muntu’s core programs include community arts programs, classes is the nation’s longest operating professional performances both at for the public, and professional African dance company. For more inhome and abroad, comprehensive training for emerging new artists. It formation, visit www.muntu.com. Blacks Must control their own coMMunity
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A Moment to Super Size Your Thinking By Effie Rolfe Looking for a Miracle is Good—Being a Miracle is Best. Be the Miracle that you desire. I believe that you can be such a blessing in someone’s life. I further believe you may just be the answer to someone’s prayer. The Clark Sisters recorded “Expect Your Miracle!” The lyrics were ‘I’m looking for a miracle, I expect the impossible, I feel the intangible, I see the invisible…just believe and receive it God can perform it today.” How wonderful it would be to allow God to use you to be the miracle in someone’s life. It’s somewhat similar to the mindset of not just praying for your needs, but rather be the response or answer to that need. What a beautiful world this would be when our lives becomes love in manifestation. Mother Teresa reminds us to ‘Become the change that we desired.’ Jesus said to do unto others, as we would have them do unto us
Effie Rolfe (Matthew 7:12). Therefore pray for others as fervently as you pray for yourself or would want others
praying for you. This means saying YES Lord. I hear you. Although, uncomfortable or inconvenient—will you say yes? Recently, I received a video about a story of a young man that attended a bible study and learned about hearing God’s voice. After committing his life to the Lord he prayed for obedience to the Living Word. Feeling naïve’ because he really didn’t know how God would sound or what it meant to hear God’s voice, he cried, “Lord Help me!” As he was driving home, there was a strong urge to get a gallon of milk. He thought about it and said ok… maybe I should stop by the store to purchase the milk. Then instead of going his regular route, he hesitantly took an alternate route on the risky part of town. As he kept driving, he kept hearing “turn down 7th street.” Reluctantly he stopped, purchased the milk and drove down 7th street, just in case he was hearing the voice of God. At the next exit as
he turned into the driveway of a particular home, the questions kicked in…‘where am I? Where is this neighborhood? Everyone seems to be asleep.’ As if someone was guiding his thoughts, Jack decided to take the milk to that house. He opened the door, but closed it and thought—ok God, I am going to look crazy, the lights are out and I don’t know these people. Well, if I’m gonna’ look crazy, I’d rather be safe than sorry, if it means being obedient to God. Then he knocked on the door. He heard someone walking and saying ‘who is it?’ A man opened the door and Jack said, hi, I brought you some milk. The man took the milk and went inside the house. Immediately someone walked in the kitchen and prepared it for the baby. The man then rushed back to the door and said thank you! We were having bill problems and didn’t have money to buy milk for our baby. I was just praying that God would provide a way to get some milk. Jack began to cry as he
thought, God, you used me to be a blessing to someone that I didn’t even know. What is God asking you to do that may seem strange? Is he asking you to render service or an act of kindness to a total stranger? Does it seem crazy or weird? Let’s pray and practice hearing God. His instructions to you may be the answer that someone is waiting for and needs. Also, as we approach the holiday season, instead of asking for a blessing, gift or miracle—ask God to be the blessing, gift or miracle to someone’s prayer. Will you be someone’s miracle today…? © Effie Rolfe is an Author of “Supersize Your Thinking,” Media Personality and Motivational Speaker. You can contact her on twitter.com/effiedrolfe. Listen to her show daily on urbanpraiseradio.org (2015 Stellar Award Winner for Best Internet Radio Station)
The Crusader Gospel Corner Congratulations to Chicago’s Marcia Cody, the creator and mastermind behind the upcoming CD release of Take a “Faith Break”! Inspirational Album of Scripture Laden Affirmations and Prayers by Various Artists.” Cody’s company entitled Temple Under Construction Ministries is responsible for creating the project. In these perilous, changing times life can be full of negativity and doubt. The nurse turned businesswoman shared the inspiration behind the project, “This album, with scripture laden ‘golden nuggets’ creates an OASIS of peace and possibility for the listener. Hearing the Word of God builds FAITH (Rom. 10:17), promoting healthy mind, body & spirit. (3 John 2).” She continued, “These faith growing short tracks can be pulled up on any device, anywhere at any time, to hear something inspiring from GOD’s WORD. These ‘songs’, can be assigned as the ‘sound’ for alarms and set to go off throughout the day for little ‘faith breaks’ throughout the day.” Talent on the CD includes Radio Personalities such as Stellar Award Winner Angela Martin, Effie Rolfe of Moody Radio’s Urban Praise and Sonya Blakey as well as celebrity sounding actor Boise Holmes, Minister Jocelyn Richard and Everyday People. “Faith Comes by Hearing the WORD of GOD Volume 1,” a compilation of SHORT, scripture laden affirmations and prayers, inwww.chicagocrusader.com
cluding, “Wake Up This is GOD,” premier single released September 7th that wakes the listener with energizing blessings from GOD, when set as an alarm “sound” on their smart phone. This entire album of the spoken Word of God is
com. *** Gospel mega-star Kirk Franklin celebrated a win in the category of Best Gospel/Inspirational Song for his #1 hit “123 Victory” at this year’s Soul Train Awards, which recently aired on BET and CENTRIC. Marking his sixth Soul Train Award win, “123 Victory” is Franklin’s buoyant hit anthem from his chart-topping album LOSING MY RELIGION, which also features the smash single “Wanna Be Happy?” Franklin also released another version of the acclaimed anthem early this fall, topping the Gospel charts again with the creation of “123 Victory Remix” (feat. Pharrell Williams). LOSING MY RELIGION also returns to #1 on the current Gospel Albums chart this week.
Karew Records marks the rise of “Hang On” (feat. Kierra Sheard) on the charts, with the single hitting #10 on Billboard’s gospel airplay chart this week. The lead radio single from the hit album GEI LIVE, “Hang On” provides encouragement and comfort to inspire the spirit with the impassioned performance of GRAMMY®-nominee Kierra Sheard and the choir’s vocals. A new music video for “Hang On” will debut soon, which was recently filmed in Detroit and features the choir with Kierra Sheard. *** Recorded within the walls of Bishop J. Drew Sheard and Karen Clark Sheard’s Greater Emmanuel Institu-
Angela Martin an innovative way to spend more time with GOD by listening to scripture while multi-tasking. Also included are inspiring reminders to exercise, drink water and to take medicine and more to help keep the listener organized. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the WORD of GOD (Romans 10:17). The project will officially be released on Tuesday, December 13th. The project is available on iTunes, Amazon and wherever music is sold. For more information email: Marcia@ListenToGODsWORD.com. Or visit ListenToGODsWORD.-
Karen Clark Sheard bration for God’s blessings available to everyone. Backed by the GEI Mass Choir, the GEI LIVE album experience includes “Press On” (feat. Bishop J. Drew Sheard),” “I Owe You Praise” (feat. Karen Clark Sheard), “Look To the Hills” (feat. The Clark Sisters), an original hymn “I’m In His Arms” (feat. Dorinda Clark Cole), “My God Is Real” and more.
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Advocate Trinity President named to Crain’s 40 Under 40 Advocate Trinity Hospital President Terika Richardson, MPH, FACHE, has been named to the 2016 class of Crain’s Chicago Business 40 Under 40 feature. The highly anticipated list appeared in the Dec. 5, 2016 issue of Crain’s, now in its 27th year, spotlights 40 Chicagoans from a cross section of industries who have achieved extraordinary success before the age of 40. Richardson, 38, joined as Advocate Trinity’s president in June after having served as chief executive officer (CEO) at Retreat Doctors’ Hospital, HCA, in Richmond, Virginia. “I’m humbled by this incredible honor, but it is truly a reflection on all the great people who have influenced my life,” said Richardson. “That includes the Advocate Trinity Hospital community and in particular the dedicated physicians, nurses and associates who each and every day do remarkable work for our health care ministry.” In her first six months at Trinity, Richardson has focused on cementing the hospital’s position as the premiere destination for health care on Chicago’s Southeast Side. Richardson created and leads a strategy committee of hospital and community stakeholders charged with expanding key service lines and promoting physi-
cian and associate engagement. She believes building partnerships with providers, as well as throughout the broader community, will help attract physicians to advance Advocate’s mission to deliver the highest quality of care to the patients Trinity serves. “In just a few short months on the job, Terika’s positive contributions have been felt across our health system,” said Bill Santulli, chief operating officer of Advocate Health Care. “We could not be more proud of her for achieving this prestigious recognition and look forward to her leadership at Advocate for years to come.” While at Retreat, Richardson guided the 227-bed hospital to positive earnings within the first two quarters of her tenure at the helm. By her second anniversary, she had implemented a robotic surgery program and grown outpatient surgery by 48 percent. Prior to her role there, Richardson served as chief operating officer at Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center, HCA, in Virginia. From 2013-14, Richardson served as the medical center’s interim CEO. Richardson holds a Master of Public Health degree and Bachelor of Arts degree in biopsychology and cognitive science from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She is board certified in
Advocate Trinity President, Terika Richardson, MPH, FACHE health care management as a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. Since 1989, Crain’s has honored more than 1,100 people, many of whom have since achieved national acclaim. Past honorees include Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Rahm Emanuel, Lisa Madigan and J.B. Pritzker. About Advocate Health Care Advocate Health Care is the largest health system in Illinois
and one of the largest health care providers in the Midwest. A national leader in population health management, Advocate is one of the largest Accountable Care Organizations in the country. Advocate operates more than 450 sites of care and 12 hospitals, including two of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals, the state’s largest integrated children’s network, five Level I trauma centers (the state’s highest designation in trauma care), three Level II trauma centers, one of the area’s largest home
health and hospice companies and one of the region’s largest medical groups. Advocate Health Care trains more primary care physicians and residents at its four teaching hospitals than any other health system in the state. As a notfor-profit, mission-based health system affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the United Church of Christ, Advocate contributed $686 million in charitable care and services to communities across Chicagoland and Central Illinois in 2015.
HUD’s plan to make public housing smokefree Respiratory Health Association (RHA) applauds Secretary Castro and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for releasing the final rule establishing smoke-free protections in all public housing across the U.S. Announced today, November 30, 2016, the smokefree public housing rule will require all local public housing agencies to prohibit the use of all lit tobacco products indoors and within 25 feet of buildings within 18 months of the rule’s effective date. “As local leaders in smoke-free housing, we congratulate HUD and Secretary Castro for bringing this critical, life-saving initiative to fruition,” said Joel Africk, President and Chief Executive Officer of Respiratory Health Association. “We urge Congress and the President to fully support the implementation of this rule because all people deserve to breathe clean air in their home.” HUD’s “Smoke-free Public Housing Rule” will have immediate health and economic benefits. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), smoke-free public housing will protect the lives of over 16
FAMILIES THAT LIVE in public housing will soon enjoy smokefree buildings. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development recently announced all HUD properties would become 100 percent smokefree. 2,000,000 individuals, including ondhand smoke exposure is re- smoking, the other residents can 760,000 children, and will save sponsible for 49,000 deaths in the carry the consequences. nearly $153 million per year in U.S. each year. Children, African In Illinois, 13 public housing health care and maintenance costs. Americans, persons living below agencies have already chosen to go As stated by the U.S. Surgeon the poverty level, and people rent- smoke-free, including the HousGeneral, there is no risk-free level ing their home are exposed to sec- ing Authority of Cook County, of exposure to secondhand smoke. ondhand smoke at double, and in Lake County, and all newly develConsequences can include heart some cases nearly triple, the rate of oped Chicago Housing Authority and lung disease, sudden infant the general population. In multi- properties. “A federal smoke-free death syndrome (SIDS), respirato- unit housing, up to 65 percent of housing rule would provide offiry and ear infections, more severe the air is shared between units and cial endorsement of this already asthma, and premature death. Sec- common areas; if one person is popular housing trend,” said
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Africk. A leader in smoke-free housing for the last decade, RHA was a recipient of the 2010 CDC “Communities Putting Prevention to Work” tobacco control grant, a large component of which was promoting smoke-free multi-unit housing in Chicago in collaboration with the Chicago Housing Authority and others. Currently, RHA is engaged with the Cook County Department of Public Health on the 2014 CDC “Partnerships to Improve Community Health” initiative to promote smoke-free multi-unit housing in suburban Cook County. To date, the collective work of RHA and its partners has resulted in the establishment of more than 6,000 units of smoke-free housing, benefiting thousands of families across Illinois. Respiratory Health Association has been a local public health leader since 1906. Today, the association addresses asthma, COPD, lung cancer, tobacco control and air quality with a comprehensive approach involving research, education and advocacy activities. For more information, visit www.lungchicago.org. www.chicagocrusader.com
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (Continued from page 4) coverage the new Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx received in her historic role was very, very disappointing. I so wish we would not so quickly fall in line with what mainstream media is reporting and instead take a look at the important news taking place in our community. Right now, we really don’t know what Donald Trump will mean for Black folks here. No matter how much has been reported about Foxx’s background this past year, it still was worth extensive coverage that she is the first Black woman to ever hold that position. The decisions she makes in her new job will have a huge impact on life in the AfricanAmerican community when it comes to the criminal justice process. For a change, we actually have a chance at some justice. Foxx will be able
to set a new tone on how people who come through the county court system not only about how they are prosecuted, but treated before they even show up in court. Hopefully she will work with Sheriff Tom Dart and get a policy in place that makes sure people are not locked up for months only because they can’t afford the bail sought by prosecutors and granted by judges. Foxx knows all too well the story of poor people being incarcerated. There is no doubt that she will emerge to be an ongoing national story because of that job. Another person that should get a flurry of national coverage is Cook County Clerk Dorothy Brown. Not only was she sworn in last week to a record fifth term she had to overcome some huge obstacles to keep that job. It’s interesting, at least to me, that Brown is roundly
(Continued from page 12) overcame the death of his mother in the E2 nightclub tragedy in 2003 and went on to become a professional boxer—only to
have his life snuffed out by the violence in Chicago’s streets. Prayers to his family and good health to his sister, who was also shot during this drive by.
PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE INVITATION TO BID TO METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO Sealed proposals, endorsed as below, will be deposited in the sealed bid depository located in the lobby of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Administration Building, 100 East Erie Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611, from the date of the Invitation to Bid, up to 11:00 A.M. on the bid opening date, and will be opened publicly by the Director of Procurement and Materials Management or her designee at 11:00 A.M. on the stated bid opening date below for: CONTRACT 16-125-4F MCCOOK RESERVOIR EXPANDED STAGE 2 SLOPE STABILIZATION AND RETAINING WALLS, SSA, COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS Document Fee: $100.00 (Non refundable, in the form of cashier's check, certified check or money order payable to the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District) Estimated Cost: $11,200,000.00 Bid Deposit: $448,000.00 Mandatory Pre-Bid Site Walk-Through:
Tuesday, December 13, 2016 9:00 a.m. Chicago Time
Mandatory Technical Pre-Bid Conference:
Tuesday, December 13, 2016 11:00 a.m. Chicago Time Lawndale Avenue Solids Management Area (LASMA) Visitor Center, 7601 S. LaGrange Road Willow Springs, Illinois 60480
criticized on a regular basis for how she runs that office, yet she keeps getting re-elected. It makes me think her critics are the ones who don’t really know how the clerk’s office should function. Anyone who stays in office as long as Brown has undoubtedly generated some detractors, if not flat out enemies. So, no one should be surprised if not soon, there are those folks trying to derail Brown and slow her work. The community needs to battle those naysayers quickly and efficiently. It seems we don’t have an overabundance of qualified Black candidates for several offices right now, so we really need to protect
(Continued from page 12) the same building as Mavis died in 2013 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. Older brother Pervis is 80 years old and lives across town while Yvonne, who has been in ill health for years lives only two blocks away. Mavis makes it her duty to constantly check-in and “see about” her remaining siblings on a continuous basis. Mavis and her family provided the gospel soundtrack to the Civil Rights Movement, often opening for Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., when he spoke at rallies. Stevie Wonder often had dinner at their house and they knew Al Green before he was tired of being alone. Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash were close friends with the family and Prince gave Mavis a newfound entertainment lease-on-life when he produced an album for her which helped resurrect her career. At almost 80 years of age, Mavis still does almost 100 shows a year and has absolutely no intentions of stopping. Although Mavis had both of her knees replaced two years ago, she’s no DIVA! She still does the cooking, shopping and cleaning for the condo she’s lived in for the last 46 years. It’s not elaborate...but it’s her ‘lived-in” sanctuary! The Kennedy Center Honors has finally recognized Mavis Staples and it is very fitting that the honor came during the tenure of fellow Chicagoan President Barack Obama. The 39th Kennedy Center Honors Ceremony was broadcast on December 2nd at 8:00 PM on CBS television.
Group A: Stickney Service Area Monday, December 5, 2016, 7:30 .a.m. Chicago Time Stickney Water Reclamation Plant, 6001 W. Pershing Road, Stickney, IL 60804 400 E. 100th Street, Chicago, IL 60628 Group C: North Side Service Area Wednesday, December 7, 2016, 7:30 am. Chicago Time O’Brien Water Reclamation Plant 3500 W. Howard Street, Skokie, IL 60076 100 E. Erie Street, Chicago, IL 60611
Pre-Bid Site Visits:
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$18,800.00 $10,400.00 $14,500.00 $4,300.00 TOTAL $48,000.00
Group B: Calumet Service Area Tuesday, December 6, 2016, 7:30 a.m. Chicago Time Calumet Water Reclamation Plant
Group D: Main Office Building Complex Tuesday, December 6, 2016, 10:30 a.m. Main Office Building Complex
Mandatory Technical Pre-Bid Conference: Wednesday, December 14, 2016, 10:30 a.m. Chicago Time OSS Building Conference Room A266 Stickney Water Reclamation Plant, 6001 West Pershing Road, Stickney, IL 60802 Bid Opening: December 20, 2016 Compliance with the District's Affirmative Action Ordinance Revised Appendix D, Appendix C, and the Multi-Project Labor Agreement are required on this Contract. ******************************************************************************************************* The above is an abbreviated version of the Notice- Invitation to Bid. A full version which includes a brief description of the project and/or service can be found on the District’s website, www.mwrd.org; Click the Contracts and Proposal quick link on the District’s Home page. Go to Contracts Currently Being Advertised and click for further information. Specifications, proposal forms and/or plans may be obtained from the Department of Procurement & Materials Management, Room 508, 100 East Erie Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611, Monday - Friday, between 8:45 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. Documents, unless stated above to the contrary, will be mailed in response to a fax request (#312/751-3042). The vendor may also download specifications, proposal forms
and/or plans online from the District’s website, www.mwrd.org. No fee is required for the contract documents unless stated above. All Contracts for the Construction of Public Works are subject to the Illinois Prevailing Wage Act (820 ILCS 130/1-et.seq.), where it is stated in the Invitation to Bid Page. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago reserves the right to reject any or all Proposals if deemed in the public’s best interest. Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago By Darlene A. LoCascio Director of Procurement and Materials Management Chicago, Illinois November 30, 2016
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LEGAL NOTICE STATE OF INDIANA COUNTY OF LAKE
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IN THE LAKE SUPERIOR COURT JUVENILE DIVISON CROWN POINT, INDIANA ) CAUSE NO: 45D06-1606-JC-000701 ) ) ) SUMMONS FOR SERVICE BY ) PUBLICATION & NOTICE OF ) CHILD IN NEED OF SERVICES ) HEARING )
TO: Jesus Palomino and Any Unknown Alleged Father NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to Jesus Palomino, whose whereabouts are unknown, and who is alleged to be the parent of Skylar Rosa Howard (3/19/09), as well as Any Unknown Alleged Father whose whereabouts are also unknown, that the Indiana Department of Child Services has filed its Verified Petition Alleging the Child to be in Need of Services, in accordance with Indiana Code 31-34-9-3, and that an adjudication hearing has been scheduled with the Court. THE ADJUDICATION HEARING at which Jesus Palomino and Any Unknown Alleged Father must appear is scheduled for February 1, 2017 at 8:30 a.m., at the JUVENILE JUSTICE COMPLEX, 3000 W. 93rd Avenue, Crown Point, Indiana 46307. At said hearing, the court will consider the Petition and evidence thereon and will render its decision as to whether the above named minor child is a child in need of services and shall enter adjudication accordingly. Your failure to appear after lawful notice will be deemed as your default and waiver to be present at said hearing. UPON ENTRY OF SAID ADJUDICATION, A DISPOSITIONAL HEARING will be held in which the Court will consider (1) Alternatives for the care, treatment, or rehabilitation for the child; (2) The necessity, nature, and extent of your participation in the program of care, treatment, or rehabilitation for the child; and (3) Your financial responsibility for any services provided for the parent, guardian or custodian of the child including child support. YOU MUST RESPOND by appearing in person or by an attorney within thirty (30) days after the last publication of this notice, and in the event you fail to do so, an adjudication on said petition and a dispositional decree may be entered against you without further notice. THE ATTORNEY REPRESENTING THE INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF CHILD SERVICES is Uzma T. Satti, Attorney No. 29745-64, 661 Broadway, Gary, Indiana 46402, (219) 881-5877. Dated this November 9, 2016
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Bid Opening: February 14, 2017 Compliance with the District's Affirmative Action Ordinance Revised Appendix D, Appendix C, Appendix K, and the Multi-Project Labor Agreement are required on this Contract. CONTRACT 17-614-11 ELEVATOR MAINTENANCE AT VARIOUS SERVICE AREAS Estimated Cost, Group A: Stickney Service Area: $376,118.40 Estimated Cost, Group B: Calumet Service Area: $207,842.70 Estimated Cost, Group C: North Side Service Area: $289,989.00 Estimated Cost, Group D: Main Office Building Complex: $84,733.50 TOTAL $958,683.60
the ones who are already in place. Both of these Black women deserve a huge amount of favorable media coverage and community support-regardless of one’s political persuasion. They are at polar opposites of their respective careers. Both, however, have
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK ILLINOIS COUNTY, DEPARTMENT COUNTY DIVISION CHANCERY NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC P l a i n t i f f , . s v JOANNE JOHNSON; THE LAW OF OFFICES CHRISTOPHER D. EDMONDS, LTD.; COUNTY, COOK ILLINOIS; SPRINGLEAF FINANCE FKA A M E R I C A N CAVALRY FINANCE; GENERAL SERVICES, PORTFOLIO LLC; MIDLAND FUNDING LLC; P A L I S A D E S ACQUISITION XVI, LLC; CAPITAL ONE (USA), BANK N.A., SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO ONE CAPITAL Defendants, BANK 5438 CH 16 SALE OF NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Monday, January 9, 2017 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 estate: real Commonly known as 7944 South Hermitage Avenue, Chicago, IL 60620. 20-31-204-028-0000. P.I.N. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Act. Property Condominium Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be inspection for open For information call Sales Department at Deas Manley Plaintiff's Attorney, Kochalski, LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (614) 220-5611. F2 16-008649 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES C O R P O R A T I O N (312) 444-1122 Selling Officer, I709310
estate: Commonly known as 8018 South Harvard Avenue, Chicago, IL 60620. P.I.N. 20-33-208-030-0000. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection For information call Sales Department at Plaintiff's Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (614) 220-5611. 15-032373 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES C O R P O R A T I O N Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I709288 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION NEIGHBORHOOD LENDING SERVICES, INC. P l a i n t i f f , v s . JOSEPHINE HAMPTON; NEIGHBORHOOD LENDING SERVICES, INC.; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants, 14 CH 11585 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Monday, January 9, 2017 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: Commonly known as 8531 South Loomis Boulevard, Chicago, IL 60620. P.I.N. 20-32-319-012-0000. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection For information call Sales Department at Plaintiff's Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (614) 220-5611. 13-039604 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES C O R P O R A T I O N Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I709261
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR ARGENT SECURITIES INC., ASSETBACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-M2; Plaintiff, v s . OTIS W. BOWDEN, JR., CURRENT SPOUSE OR CIVIL UNION PARTNER, IF ANY, OF OTIS W. BOWDEN, JR. UNKNOWN OWNERS, GENERALLY AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 11 CH 30519 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Monday, January 9, 2017 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 21-31-107-016-0000. Commonly known as 7941 South Manistee Avenue, Chicago, IL 60617. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection For information call the Sales Clerk at Plaintiff's Attorney, The Wirbicki Law Group, 33 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603. (312) 360-9455 W15-0326. INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES C O R P O R A T I O N Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I709251
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE STRUCTURED ASSET INVESTMENT LOAN TRUST MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH C E R T I F I C A T E S , SERIES 2005-9; Plaintiff, v s . JUDY KNOX-CARTER; D e f e n d a n t s , 15 CH 16270 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Monday, January 9, 2017 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: C Chicago, IL 60620. DECEMBER SATURDAY, P 20-33-208-030-0000. T a single family residence. If the s
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I N T C D E IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. P l a i n t i f f , v . LAURA FOLDS, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD C L A I M A N T S D e f e n d a n t s 16 CH 007214 8227 S. BISHOP STREET CHICAGO, IL 60620 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on October 6, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on January 9, 2017, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 8227 S. BISHOP STREET, CHICAGO, IL 60620 Property Index No. 20-32-127-008-0000. The real estate is improved with a residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in \"AS IS\" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver's license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-16-05808. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-16-05808 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 16 CH 007214 TJSC#: 36-12266 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. I708532
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v . DANIEL J. CAMPOS AKA DANIEL C. CAMPOS, YASMINA CAMPOS, STATE FARM BANK, FSB, CITY OF CHICAGO, ALLY FINANCIAL, INC. D e f e n d a n t s 14 CH 04533 2941 E. 96th St. Chicago, IL 60617 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 9, 2015, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on January 9, 2017, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate:Commonly known as 2941 E. 96th St., Chicago, IL 60617 Property Index No. 26-07-120-001-0000. The real estate is improved with a multi unit building containing two to six apartments. The judgment amount was $85,754.04. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in \"AS IS\" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver's license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC, 111 East Main Street, DECATUR, IL 62523, (217) 422-1719 If the sale is not confirmed for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the purchase price paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney. 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. HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC 111 East Main Street DECATUR, IL 62523 (217) 422-1719 Fax #: (217) 422-1754 CookPleadings@hsbattys.com Attorney Code. 40387 Case Number: 14 CH 04533 TJSC#: 36-13077 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. I708337
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO LASALLE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR BEAR STEARNS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES I TRUST 2005-TC2, ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES,
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1, 2006 MASTR SECURITIES TRUST MORTGAGE CERTIFICATES, 2006-HE3 P l a i n t i f f , v . KIYOKO TOEFIELD, AS INDEPENDENT EXECUTOR OF THE ESTATE OF TYRONE X. TOEFIELD, DECEASED, KIYOKO TOEFIELD, AMERIFIRST HOME IMPROVEMENT FINANCE CO., UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS D e f e n d a n t s 15 CH 000158 7759 S. DAMEN AVENUE CHICAGO, IL 6 0 6 2 0 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on May 31, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on December 22, 2016, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 7759 S. DAMEN AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60620 Property Index No. 20-30-420-020-0000. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in \"AS IS\" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver's license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-14-12312. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-14-12312 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 15 CH 000158 TJSC#: 36-13323 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. I708297 A 2 P
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE UNDER POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT DATED AS OF AUGUST 1, 2006 MASTR IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK ASSET-BACKED SECURITIES TRUST COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION 2006-HE3 MORTGAGE ILLINOIS-SERVICE FEDERAL SAVINGS PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF SERIES 2006-HE3 H I C A G O P l a i n t i f f , P l a i n own t i cfoMMunity f , Must control their v . Blacks v . K F UNKNOWN OWNERS AND DECEASED, N K TOEFIELD, AMERIFIRST CH 7148 H 7 OWNERS AND N CLAIMANTS GIVEN that pursuant to a D f e n d a n t s J 1 CH 000158 an 7 a 0 6 2 0 at N T Corporation, One that pursuant to a S Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, J C IL, 60606, sell at public May 31, 2016, an a set forth a b estate: C known as 7827-29 SOUTH L 60620 Property Index Judicial Sales Corporation, One N estate S Drive - 24th Floor,
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LOAN ASSOCIATION OF C H I C A G O P l a i n t i f f , v . FELICIA S. ERVIN A/K/A FELICIA ERVIN OWENS, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 16 CH 7148 7827-29 SOUTH LOWE Chicago, IL 60620 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 19, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on December 27, 2016, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 7827-29 SOUTH LOWE, Chicago, IL 60620 Property Index No. 20-28-324-022-0000. The real estate is improved with a multi-family residence. The judgment amount was $156,881.98. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in \"AS IS\" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver's license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: CHUHAK & TECSON, P.C., 30 S. WACKER DRIVE, STE. 2600, CHICAGO, IL 60606, (312) 444-9300 Please refer to file number 25207-60137. 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. CHUHAK & TECSON, P.C. 30 S. WACKER DRIVE, STE. 2600 CHICAGO, IL 60606 (312) 444-9300 Attorney File No. 25207-60137 Attorney Code. 70693 Case Number: 16 CH 7148 TJSC#: 36-10225 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. I708248
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EQUITY SOLUTIONS, FORMERLY KNOWN AS FINANCIAL HOME ACCESS, INC. a i n t i f f , v . ANY, JULIE REPRESENTATIVE OF DECEASED MORTGAGOR, AUSTIN, GLORIA A/K/A GLORIA AUSTIN,
DEVELOPMENT, UNITED S UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD C L A I M A N T S D e f e n d a n t s 11 CH 41907 647 WEST 60TH STREET CHICAGO, IL 6 0 6 2 1 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on September 14, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on December 27, 2016, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 647 WEST 60TH STREET, CHICAGO, IL 60621 Property Index No. 20-16-309-006-0000. The real estate is improved with a white with vinyl siding two story single family home with a two car detached garage. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in \"AS IS\" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver's license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5 pm. McCalla Raymer Pierce, LLC, Plaintiff's Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300, CHICAGO, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 476-5500. Please refer to file number 8007. 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. McCalla Raymer Pierce, LLC One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300 CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 476-5500 E-Mail: pleadings@pierceservices.com Attorney File No. 8007 Attorney Code. 60489 Case Number: 11 CH 41907 TJSC#: 36-12278 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. I708296
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION LIBERTY HOME EQUITY SOLUTIONS, INC., FORMERLY KNOWN AS GENWORTH FINANCIAL HOME EQUITY ACCESS, INC. P l a i n t i f f , v . UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF COLUMBUS AUSTIN, IF ANY, JULIE FOX, SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DECEASED MORTGAGOR, COLUMBUS AUSTIN, GLORIA RANDLE A/K/A GLORIA AUSTIN, SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD C L A I M A N T S www.chicagocrusader. D e f e n d a n t s 1 CH 41907 6 0 6 2 1 N NOTICE IS H GIVEN that pursuant to a J
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Black Lives Matter takes new approach (Continued from page 1) “People who were already doing orAlthough a protest may not be sponganizing in Chicago went down to sored by BLM, the public will see variFerguson and they met Patrice and ous groups carrying Black Lives Matter some of the national founders and signs at practically every police violence, asked what BLM would look like if civil rights, LGBQT, immigration, disthey started a chapter in Chicago,” ability, and Fight for $15 march in Ademola said. Chicago and across the nation. “There are over 40 official BLM “We are very strategic in what we chapters around the world. The Chica- do, and we’re actually getting away go chapter is comprised of people from from a lot of the public protesting and a variety of different backgrounds and doing more behind the scenes meanmembers range in age from teens to se- ingful work,” Ademola said. nior citizens. Ademola said many peoIntra-communal violence is an issue ple claiming they are members of BLM BLM is currently tackling. Ademola are fronting. He also said the media in- said the term “Black on Black viocorrectly reports many events involving lence” is not one BLM uses because it protests as BLM sponsored when they is a falsehood based on years of social are not. science research. He said research has If you were to ask the average person shown that most crime is done by who they thought was behind a protest, people who live in the same commuthey probably would say BLM. At nity as the victims. However, he adnearly every march—regardless of the mits in Chicago, intra-communal viunderlying reason for the protest— olence is out of control. there are BLM signs carried at nearly “We have a branch within BLM every march. called Justice for Families. It was origiThe reality is that while many social nally established to support families of justice organizations and activists seek police violence. But now, we extend it to raise awareness for their cause to families who have suffered from inthrough public protests and civil dis- tra-communal violence,” stated Adeobedience, they also want to support ef- mola. forts to stop the killing of Blacks by law Some of the services they offer famienforcement. lies are helping to connect them with
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psychological counseling and fundraising to help deal with the funeral costs of loved ones. They also help refer people to ethical attorneys and teaching family members how to deal with the media after tragic events. “The bigger goal is to help educate them however, to the larger politics at play and let them know that this systemic violence Black people suffer from all around the country is not by accident,” Ademola said. “A lot of it comes from unfair political, social and economic policies that create these
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large patches of depressed communities that always seem to contain the Black and Brown people in America.” He said BLM philosophies are derived from many past human rights organizations from around the world. It focuses on economic, psychological, humanistic, and political philosophies. He also said BLM does not support any particular political party or politicians, but will align themselves with certain policies it believes is helpful to the community. “We don’t want civil rights, we want
human rights. We want control over our bodies, resources and lands,” Ademola said. “We do work with other organizations that are also doing work similar to ours.” As BLM continues to evolve, they have a number of short- and longterm goals. Right now in Chicago, BLM is delving into police misconduct, what is happening in DCFS and Chicago’s problem with providing mental health. Ademola said many of these issues overlap one another. He said they are also looking into decriminalizing certain drugs and sex workers, who are often victims of sexual violence and being forced to work on the streets by men who prey on them as pimps and customers. BLM is gaining a foothold in Bronzeville and Roseland and is meeting with a variety of community groups to spread their message. Ademola said BLM is also looking into targeting certain politicians who are doing things that are hurting the community. While they did not endorse Kim Foxx for State’s Attorney, they did speak out strongly against Anita Alvarez. Ademola said that is about the extent the organization is willing to go as far as politics is considered.
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