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Surviving breast cancer while Black –an Austin woman’s journey

‘A lot of them don’t trust the doctors,’ Ann Caple of Austin said of Black cancer patients. But that can change

By JESSICA MORDACQ Staff Reporter

Austin resident Ann Caple, 62, was diagnosed with earlystage breast cancer in 2009. She’d scheduled a routine mammogram and waited for a letter in the mail to tell her the results were negative for breast cancer, as they had been since she started having mammograms at age 40. Instead, she received a phone call.

“They told me they’d seen something in my breast like rings of sugar,” Caple said. That March, her doctor scheduled her for an ultrasound and MRI, then a biopsy of That April, she got another call from the doctor, who told her she had early-stage breast cancer

“I screamed in the phone. I was nervous, I was scared, I was home alone,” Caple said.

“Standing in my dining room, I will never forget, I said, ‘God, if it’s meant for me to be here, you will let me be here. If it’s meant for me to go, then I’ll go. But I know you got me.’”

The American Cancer Society projects that more than 2 million new cancer cases will be diagnosed this year, an estimated 78,200 of which will be in Illinois. In 2024, 310,720 females are expected to get breast cancer, and 42,250 of them are predicted to die from it

West Suburban, Loyola University Medical Center, and River Forest’s breast imaging center. Over the last two-and-a-half decades, Terry has seen hundreds of cancer patients

At Caple’s first appointment in 2009 at Oak Park’s West Suburban Hospital Medical Center, she told her doctor she didn’t want radiation or chemo. After discussing her options of a silicone re placement or an implant using her own skin grafts, Caple chose to remove her left breast and get a silicone re placement.

But before meeting with a plastic surgeon to talk through her surgery, Caple spoke on the phone with the mother of her daughter’s friend. She also had breast cancer and told Caple she had reconstruction surgery – a procedure that rebuilds the breast using her own tissue rather than an implant – an option that was never presented to Caple.

Breast cancer is the most diagnosed cancer among Black women, according to the American Cancer Society. Black people are statistically more likely to die from cancer, and to live shorter after a cancer diagnosis, than any other race or ethnic group because of structural inequities and systemic racism.

Lori Terry, an ultrasound technologist in Chicago’s western suburbs for 26 years, attributes this to a scarcity of cancer awareness among Black communities.

“We are really at the bottom of the totem pole, as far as being equipped with knowing, or even searching out, how to take care of ourselves,” Terry said.

After patients get mammograms, Terry marks abnor malities and, under an ultrasound, analyzes which determine a closer look by the doctor. She’s also helped with biopsies at

“I never was offered that,” Caple said. When she met with lastic surgeon, she brought up reconstruction surgery. esponded, “‘Oh, that costs a lot of money.’ My heart dropped in my stomach,” Caple added.

Part of the reason Black Americans die at higher rates from cancer than other people is because they often have less access to high-quality facilities and medical professionals that detect and treat cancer, largely because of inadequate health insurance.

Terry often hears from Black patients, “‘This is all about money. They just want my insurance,’” Terry said. “And I always say ‘No, we are here to take care of you.’”

“They don’t always tell us, Black African Americans, everything that other people, Caucasian women, get because they feel like we can’t afford it,” Caple said of some medical professionals. “But that’s their own judgment. Find out what I can afford by still presenting it to me. Let it be my option.”

At the time of her diagnosis, Caple worked in career services for the Chicago Public School system, which she said provided her with quality medical insurance. Though the cost of her breast reconstruction surgery was $98,000, she only paid $150.

After the surgery, Caple did decide to take a form of chemotherapy. Now, after an intensive 27-week healing process, and chemotherapy pills for 10 years, Caple goes to the doctor every three months and gets a yearly MRI to ensure she remains breast cancer free. She attends a cancer support group at West Suburban Medical Center to share her experience with women experiencing cancer

for their mammograms and they get called back,” Terry said about increasing discussion around cancer so that patients feel more comfortable and safer in accessing healthcare.

“First and foremost, I treat every patient with care and compassion,” Terry said. In addition to making sure they have a support system and giving themselves grace, “I try to talk about things that they’re interested in, that makes them happy, that makes them feel fulfilled, and just to take their mind off of what we’re doing at that present time.”

“Just having a mammogram is frightful for a lot of women,” Terry added. “They don’t get mammograms until it’s almost too late for some of them because they ‘heard that it hurt.’”

Caple speaks at churches and shares her experience with people in her day-to-day life to open up the conversation around cancer. Although she acknowledges it took her a minute to trust her physicians, she added, “I think it’s all in how you approach the doctor. I’m an advocate for myself.”

“We don’t get a lot of stuff that we need to get because it’s not discussed,” Caple said. Although several of her family members have died from cancer, she didn’t know they had it until after they’d died.

“My grandmother, my mother, they never discussed cancer.” But now, her aunt-in-law and cousin-in-law, who both have breast cancer, are also sharing their stories with people “because they watched me,” Caple said.

While Terry said she encourages people to get yearly mammograms, “no matter how much you talk, no matter how much you inform, it’s still a personal decision,” Terry said. “There needs to be more education upon what we eat, our environment, all of those things because they play a big factor in cancer in African Americans as well.”

COURTESY LORI TERRY

Cancer surv ivor, Lori Terr y

COURTESY ANN CAPLE

Cancer surv ivor, Ann Caple

Referendum designed to help homelessness ruled invalid

A judge ruled that Bring Chicago Home should be taken o the March ballot

By JESSICA MORDACQ Staff Reporter

A referendum to restructure the real estate transfer tax to fund af fordable housing construction, subsidize rentals and provide other services for homeless people throughout the city was on the ballot for the March 19 primary, but the measure was blocked Friday by the Circuit Court of Cook County

The City of Chicago and Board of Elections can appeal the ruling. Because ballots have already been printed, the referendum will remain on the ballot while the appeal of the ruling makes its way through the court system.

While real estate and development groups who opposed the referendum won big, the decision was another strike against Mayor Brandon Johnson, who supported the referendum. It had been a last-ditch effort to try to get the idea to move forward after aldermen couldn’t get enough votes to get it before City Council.

Board of the Southland Black Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in a statement. “We also believed that the proposed ordinance would hurt both the business climate and rental market for obvious reasons.”

“State law doesn’t allow for taxes to be lowered via a referendum,” Darden told the Austin Weekly News. Other plaintiffs include the Building Owners & Managers Association of Chicago, the Chicagoland Apartment Association, and the Neighborhood Building Owners Alliance.

“If you are buying a million-dollar proper ty, you can a ord to pay a tax that will address homelessness or prevent homelessness, versus the working families that have had the tax burden on them for decades.”

The Southland Black Chamber of Commerce and Industry and other industry groups filed a lawsuit with the Circuit Court of Cook County last month to strike the referendum from the ballot. On Friday, the circuit court ruled that the referendum violated Illinois law that prohibits log-rolling or combining a favorable proposal with an unpopular one so that both pass

CRYS TA L GARDNER

Deputy political director at SEIU Local 73

Today, anyone who buys a property in Chicago has to pay a real estate transfer tax of 0.75%. The referendum, called Bring Chicago Home, would have changed it so properties sold for $1 million to $1.5 million have a 2% tax, and those sold for more than $1.5 million have a 3% tax. The real estate transfer tax would also have decreased to 0.6% for all properties sold for under $1 million.

The restructuring was estimated to bring in at least $100 million for housing and other services for the unhoused community, which would be managed by an advisory board created by the ordinance.

According to Bring Chicago Home, about 93% of properties sold yearly would have a decreased real estate transfer tax.

The restructuring would have affected individual homebuyers and corporations buying properties over $1 million. Plus, the transfer tax would have pushed the cost to customers and renters, Darden said.

“When you increase the transfer tax, it’s going to make it harder for that owner to sell the business,” Darden said. “Then someone that buys it, they’re going to raise rent because now the cost of buying the building went up.” The same goes for businesses who raise the cost for customers.

Despite the lawsuit, those for Bring Chicago Home have campaigned for the referendum to gain traction. Gardner, who’s lived in Austin for 38 years, and her mother, Mary Russell Gardner, are founding members of the 290 IPO, an inde pendent political organization that organizes weekly canvassing ef forts for Bring Chicago Home on Chicago’s West Side.

“Many of the working families, especially on the West Side and throughout Black Chicago, are experiencing potential displacement and risk of homelessness, thanks to corporate real estate interest and their behaviors,” Gardner said. “They are the history of disinvestment. They are the history of displacement.”

“The victory was something that we expected and anticipated as the ballot question had several issues, namely the log-rolling issue,” said Cornel Darden Jr., chairman of the

“If you are buying a million-dollar property, you can afford to pay a tax that will address homelessness or prevent homelessness, versus the working families that have had the tax burden on them for decades,” said Crystal Gardner, deputy political director at SEIU Local 73, which represents over 30,000 workers in the public sector throughout Illinois. The union endorsed Bring Chicago Home

Bring Chicago Home’s definition of homelessness includes the more than 68,000 people living on the street, but also those who have housing instability, which includes fleeing gender-based violence, living doubled up or having recently been released from prison. Over another 1,000 individuals were estimated to be living on the street in suburban Cook County last year.

“We have paid half of our earnings to real estate corporations through rent, and nothing has stopped them from raising rent on our working families,” Gardner said. “This is an opportunity that we have to demand the shift.”

FLOODS

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Feb. 21 to call on the mayor to find $25 million to $50 million to help clean up hundreds of residents’ mold damage and debris, plus fund humidifiers and replace water heaters and furnaces that were destroyed by the stor ms that hit Chicago last June 29 and July 2.

Although some residents have received assistance from FEMA and the City of Chicago, more than 200 of those affected in Austin are seniors who still have damage to their homes, the group said.

“We still have hundreds, if not thousands of people, who don’t have water heaters, who don’t have furnaces, who still have mold in their basement,” said Jitu Brown, an Austin resident and national director for the Jour ney for Justice Alliance.

His numbers come from West Side LongTerm Recovery Group’s database of about 600 people, which they created as they gave out cleaning supplies after the flooding and hosted weekly meetings at the Christian Community Center.

Ald. Emma Mitts of the 37th Ward called on various other officials to assist, as well.

“When I say I’m not through talking, that goes for every level of government in the state of Illinois. I’m talking to the [Cook County] Board of Review, I’m talking to the [Cook County] Assessor, Fritz Kaegi. You want to raise our taxes? What about the flood?” Mitts said. “I’m talking to the water

department. Where is the money to help us with the flood?”

Community organizer Princess Shaw invited four elders who live in Austin to the press conference to speak about the destruction that the flood left on their homes.

“They are our pioneers,” Shaw said of these elders. “They have paved the way, and they should be able to enjoy their last days and what they built from the ground up.”

“I lost a lot. I thought I had it all covered,” said Queen Jackson, 83, an Austin resident. “I talk to a lot of people in the area every day. They’re constantly telling me, ‘I need this’ or ‘They’re not doing this.’

I understand it takes time for things to be re generated, but as a whole, now we need for our mayor to put his ef fort into showing us he’s interested in us, not to put us on the back bur ner.”

Mary Buchanan was raised in Austin

around a year ago, when ho was friends with Jackson, died. Buchanan inherited her mother’s property that she had owned for the last 56 by the flood. had insurance, but it wasn’t we weren’ t covered,” Buchanan said. “Everything [was] lost in the basement. Everything. Mold everywater up past my knees.”

the press conference also olunteers to help mediate the lood. T hey thanked coners and g eneral contracConstruction, that from their day jobs to help the homes affected

“Just because you drive down that street and it looks fine, and it looks clean, and you do any debris on the street, you don’t know what’s going on the inside. And it’s been that way for quite some time,” Shaw said. “The social services, the social justice, we deserve it.” She added, “This is turmoil. This is modern day, urban day traumatization.”

Those who have been affected by the flood and need assistance can go to https:// www.westsideltrg.com/ or call 773-909-8502.

JESSICA MOR DACQ

Ald. Emma Mitts of the 37th Ward speaks, standing next to Jitu Brown. Sitting, from le to right, Queen Jackson, Mary Buchanan, and Princess Shaw

Ald. Emma Mitts of the 37th Ward and Jitu Brown.

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e Repair Cafe came through!

Ihave never underestimated the reach of a small neighborhood newspaper. Back on Dec. 4, I wrote an article about the Repair Cafe. Held on the first Saturday of every month at the Fox Recreation Center in the 600 block of South Oak Park Avenue, it is a magnificent concept that keeps repairable items out of landfills

I had lamented in that column about my vintage Black Angus rotisserie oven. To this day, I can still remember being over at a friend’s house while we were in high school and she cooked a steak in one of those ovens. I still remember how good that steak was. The charflavor was reminiscent of steak from a steakhouse. So when I had the opportunity to buy such an oven via eBay over 20 years ago, I jumped at the chance. And it has served me faithfully ever since.

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plug on my oven. But truthfully, the entire thing needed to be rewired for safety. When you live in a 100-year-plus bungalow like I do, fire is always a concern. A couple of days after I wrote the column about my situation, I got a phone call and someone told me if I dropped it of f at the January Re pair Cafe, they would have it ready for me by the February session. I was overjoyed. So I did just that. When I got the oven back, she was ready to cook. The two-prong plug that looked like it belonged on a lamp, was re placed with a heavy-duty three-prong one. I cooked in it and my steak was excellent. The timer now works cor rectly and even the little button to indicate the oven is on was glowing a beautiful red. Big shout-out and thanks to the Oak Park Re pair Cafe!

When the tiny lamp-type vintage cord gave out, my first thought was to get it re paired over throwing it out. I had been reaching out to different repair locations, but the response I got was lacking. I even gave some thought to trying to rewire it myself. If all else failed, I could again go on eBay and look to buy a re placement. I actually did buy a replacement oven, but that oven’s timer knob was so hard to turn that the oven wouldn’t come on. So I returned it.

The December Re pair Cafe put a new

Since I have another of those rotisserie ovens, I’m going to bring it to the March Re pair Cafe. After having gotten the first one fixed, the identical second one will be a piece of cake. Hopefully others will look around their houses and find things that they don’t want to throw away and bring it in to see if it can be fixed.

The Re pair Cafe limits each person to one item, but you can just plan on bringing something else the following month. I already have something ready for the April cafe.

REPARATIONS

Re ect and celebrate

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Re pair in Evanston, Roderick Sawyer, former alderman of the 6th Ward in Chicago and a proponent of re parations, LaKisha T. David, a professor and g enealogist at the University of Urbana Champaign, Marvin Slaughter, Chairperson for the Illinois African Descent-Citizens Re parations Commission, and Miranda Alexandria, acting as co-chair of the NCOBRA Chicago Chapter

The celebration showcased a range of offerings, including food, live music, giveaways and captivating performances by DJ Phantom, Beyonce Foxx, Blaq Ice and the South Shore Drill Team.

Austin resident Angela Simmons brought her two children, who said they also enjoyed the music.

“My children are having fun and I am thrilled how Re parations United and the Conrad Wor rill Community Re parations Commission were able to set this whole

event up. As a Black woman, having events like these really helps me to lear n and reflect on our progress and celebrate at the same time,” Simmons said.

In addition to the celebration, the first 100 attendees who re gistered for the event were given VIP tickets to participate in the Re parations Awareness movie screening at the Chatham Emagine Theatre.

Austin Lewis, a resident of Austin, expressed his delight in attending the event.

“Reflecting on our identity during Black History Month serves as both a celebration of our heritage and a reco gnition of the resilience and contributions of Black individuals throughout history. It’s a powerful reminder of our collective journey, our ongoing struggles, and our unwavering determination to shape a better future,” Lewis said.

For med in 2020, the Conrad Wor rill Community Re parations Commission aims to sustain ef for ts in raising awareness about re parations and mobilize community ef for ts towards for mulating reparative plans as well as provide counsel to elected re presentatives re garding the implementation and financing of re paratory initiatives.

POLICE REFORM

Building relationships

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His work as a community engagement specialist for New York University’s Policing Project and also community engagement work for the police district council. Rutues is busy helping to make communities better.

Although it’s not necessarily the mantra he lives by, he said he ag rees with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s quote: “The time is always right to do what is right.”

“Before I got into the work I do now, I did a lot of research on the people who came before me and how it was important for them to lead and then for a person like myself to pick up the mantle.”

Rutues said he f eels c ommunity eng agement wo rk is of the highest level of impor tanc e.

With that kind of mindset, you have to wonder whether people like Rutues are cut from a different cloth than everyone else.

“It’s an interesting question,” re plied Rutues, who has a doctorate in psychology. “I will say, yes and no. We all have an amount of time in which we’re going to be here on earth and then within that time we’re given opportunities to do things that are above us or we could do things that are below us and that depends on which direction you choose to live your life.”

His decision to spend part of his life giving back to the community stems from his own personal experience.

“I was adopted and it was not traditional,” he explained. “It was that my mom needed help and one of the individuals she was dating at the time–his mother–decided she wanted to help my mom and that’s what she did, and the community took care of me. So, I’ve really decided in my adulthood, to give back.”

It was 2012 when social justice activism sparked for Rutues. He was among others who took the streets in protest following the death of Trayvon Martin, a teenager who was profiled, shot and killed by a white man working as a neighborhood watchman in an apar tment complex. Martin was on his way home from a convenience store.

For African Americans, racial profiling can occur anytime while carrying out daily activities, walking, shopping, and while driving.

According to the Chicago Urban League’s State of Black Chicago Re port, 2023, the Chicago Police Department reported 106,950 investigatory stops (involuntary contact with police) between January 1, 2021 and June 30, 2022. Black men and women were disproportionately represented in those stops.

Driving while Black

Asked how he navig ates the city streets as a Black man, Rutues, who grew up on Chicago’s West Side, admitted the difficulties of navig ating the city as a Black man, adding that he’s been stopped by Chicago Police officers “a lot of times.”

“I mean there were ne gative instances growing up that if I ke pt down that path, I wouldn’t be who I am and what

I’m currently doing,” he explained. “When I consider my Blackness as a man, I’m a proud Black man. I walk in this skin every day and I know the difficulties of being a Black man. I’m not going to do anything to discredit my name. When I approach people or the police, I lead with respect.”

When it comes to policing and public safety, Rutues studied social psychology to understand stereotyping and prejudices and how all of those things come about.

As a psychologist, Rutues understands the mental makeup of humans, something that helps when connecting with people

“I’m not a therapist or a clinical psychologist; I’m business psychologist,” he said. “I apply psychologica principles to the business environment to improve processes and efficiencies and along those lines it’s also de veloping people.”

Improving processes and efficiencies also applies to the Chicago Police Department, which came by way of a fede ally mandated consent decree, an ef fort to bring refor ms in police training and policies.

Police reform

Where do things stand with the consent decree and wh role does the Police District Council play in making sure refor ms are met?

“As a city, we are definitely not hitting all of the marks on the consent decree, so it’s a work in progress,” Rutues said. “As a district council, we influence the understanding of the consent decree through the community at large and then we also influence the community commissioners and their ability to make sure the consent decree progress is actually reached.

Community commissioners are the ones who actually set the goals for the police superintendent.

“It’s helpful that they are the ones that will sa y, ‘Okay, if this superintendent doesn ’t really enforce these practices as d esigned by the c onsent decree, we c an then vote nonconfidence for that person and that person will go before the city c ouncil for a vote as to wh at they need to do.’ We ’re definitely behind where we need to be with the consent decree.”

Rutues said he has faith that police reform is something that can be achieved in Chicago. He holds that belief due to the work he’s done in that area.

“I’m employed by the New York University School of Law and the Policing Project was something that was developed so that we could focus on what they call ‘Frontend Accountability and Democratic Policing,’” Rutues explained. “That means giving community members more say in the way they’re policed in their community. So, while the Policing Project focused on policing technologies and policing legislation, community policing is a large part of it.”

Reform for the Policing Project, which Rutues has been part of since 2018, means reorienting the way police officers behave in communities.

“I’ve seen officers be successful in terms of developing relationships with the community while also being problem solvers that we need,” Rutues said. “We want them to be involved with the community in actually creating realistic partnerships where the community’s voice is elevated, versus the police telling us what’s good for us in our community.”

The Policing Project, the umbrella project of the Chicago Neighborhood Policing Initiative, is in effect in several Chicago districts.

While focusing on police refor ms is a major part of creating better communities, Rutues also is working to improve the West Side economically and civically by working with organizations such as Black Workers Matter and West Side Rising.

His stance on re parations for African Americans, he’s for it.

“Everybody else received re parations except for those that powered the economic engine that is America,” he said. “This country is great because our ancestors bled for it to be. We deserve respect, commendation and equal opportunity to enjoy the fruits of their labor...reparations are necessary.”

In his downtime, Rutues enjoys taking part in spoken word poetry, reading and immersing himself in the things his daughter is eng aged in such as swimming.

He’s been traveling a bit more recently and enjoys taking in the various architecture designs during his travels Musically, he’s an R&B fan and listens only to Hip Hop th at has a positive message.

He’s an inde p endent voter with b asketball as a favo ri te spor t.

PHOTO COURTESY OF DEONDRE RUTUES

Chicago Fi eenth Police District Councilman Deondre’ Rutues with his girlfriend, Wannea McDaniel and his daughter, Iyaela Legacy Rutues

S ELF CARE S UND AY IN THE CO LU MB US PARK REFEC TOR

Self Care Sunday at the Columbus Park Refectory on Sunday Feb, 25, 2024.

Participants at the Vision Board table at Self Care Sunday in the Columbus Park Refectory on Sunday Feb. 25, 2024.

Insurance Agent James Milton of Devoted Health Plans at his table at Self Care Sunday in the Columbus Park Refectory on Sunday Feb. 25, 2024.

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The Illinois Human Rights Act prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental or advertising of real estate based on factors in addition to those protected under federal law.

This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis.

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To complain of discrimination, call HUD toll free at: 1-800-669-9777.

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