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New West Side restaurant is ‘Foodie U.’ Cocoa Chili, which recently opened at the Hatchery, serves patrons an education with their meals

By PASCAL SABINO Block Club Chicago

An Afro-Caribbean soul food restaurant has opened on the West Side and is bringing more than local food options to the table.

At Cocoa Chili, the spicy-sweet flavors on the menu are an entryway for foodies to share conversations about improving their lives and their communities. The restaurant hosts webinars and roundtables to educate eaters about food issues, community resources and personal improvement topics such as wellness, entrepreneurship and personal finance.

“Food is a universal language and a great connector,” said Niquenya Collins, owner and head chef. “I view it as an opportunity to bring more people together and connect them to resources that they need to improve the quality of their lives, while also feeding them delicious meals.”

Collins opened Cocoa Chili at the Hatchery, a food business incubator at 135 N. Kedzie Ave. She’d spent 25 years as a business coach finding resources to support entrepreneurs. Inspired by her multicultural family — with roots from Nigeria to Jamaica to Louisiana — Collins opened the restaurant to build on the work she’d already been doing: connecting people with the opportunities they need to be successful.

“On the West Side, people are suffering from exclusion. They’re cut off from resources, they’re cut off from access and knowledge about different opportunities that might be available to them,” said Collins, who lives in Humboldt Park.

Cocoa Chili’s menu includes items like See COCOA CHILI on page 4

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UNDER DEVELOPMENT: Vacant lots at Roosevelt and Kostner in North Lawndale, where a six-story high illegal dump once stood.

West Siders can help decide fate of Silver Shovel dumps Six development groups pitched plans for the site last week, city will now evaluate proposals, taking into account resident feedback

By PASCAL SABINO Block Club Chicago

North Lawndale residents can help shape the future of the old Silver Shovel site by giving feedback on the projects vying to redevelop the vacant land.

Six teams of developers are compet-

ing to build a project that balances industrial use and community benefits on the 20.8-acres of vacant land. The lots at Roosevelt Road and Kostner Avenue were home to an environmental justice disaster in the ’90s, when it was an illegal dumping ground for hazardous waste that caused health issues for residents.

Three projects were presented to the public Feb. 25, including developments by: McCaffery, A Safe Haven and KMA Development; Matanky Realty, Safeway Construction and WBS Equities; and RK5 Development.

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Businessman hopes to inject flair into Austin’s ‘Soul City’ West Side native Marseil Jackson planning Soul City Studios at 5849-51 W. Chicago Ave.

vacant building at 5849-51 W. Chicago Ave., which he is turning into Soul City Studios.

Jackson said the vacant building has been “an eyesore” for years, and his “goal is to light that corner up.”

The two-story building will undergo a complete renovation. One of the two storefronts on the ground floor will be developed into an art gallery, the other into a wellness lounge.

By ZACH CUNNING Jackson said the wellness lounge will offer a AustinTalks space where residents can congregate and enAn Austin native will be opening an art joy themselves, while also accessing healthy gallery, wellness lounge and recording stu- food and some types of preventive care.

During the evenings, he said, they will dio along a stretch of Chicago Avenue being be offering classes on general wellness and developed as the Soul City Corridor.

Marseil Jackson recently purchased a healthy eating.

Malcolm Crawford, executive director of the Austin African American Business Networking Association, said he’s excited to see a facility focused on preventive wellness coming to the Soul City Corridor.

The current attitude is, “It’s after you have diabetes, it’s after you have the mental health challenges, it’s after you have all of those things, how do we help you after that?” he said.

“It’s phenomenal” that there will soon be a place for people to access Provided preventative services, Crawford said.

The second floor of the building SOULFUL DEVELOPMENT: A rendering of Soul City will become Soul City Media, a fully Studios, which businessman Marseil Jackson is equipped radio station and recording

planning for the West Side.

People on the move

Freedman Seating promotes Christy Nunes and Sam Cardone to COO positions

By FREEDMAN SEATING Freedman Seating announced on Feb. 18 the promotion of Christy Nunes and Sam Cardone to chief operations officers, effective immediately. Nunes previously held the position of director of business operations and Cardone the position of director of strategy.

“Over the years, Christy and Sam have both grown in responsibility and authority at Freedman Seating and Freedman Mobility Seating (FMS),” said Dan Cohen, the company’s president. “Because of their leadership, business acumen, and management skills, we have grown and weathered some tough storms. They have shown themselves to be exemplary and capable leaders.”

Having joined the company in 1996, Christy Nunes exemplifies internal growth and opportunity. Her introduction to manufacturing was that of many young adults at the time, simply a job. As she moved through

The Soul City Corridor encomstudio. passes Chicago Avenue from CiJackson, who co-hosts “The cero Avenue to Austin Boulevard.

Brunch Bunch” on Inspiration Crawford wanted a way to develop 1390 and iHeartRadio, said people a cultural and economic hub for will be able watch them broadAfrican Americans in Chicago casting live “like Times Square.”

While Chicago has Chinatown, Jackson said both the studio Greektown, Boystown and Ukraiand a state-of-the art recording nian Village, “there is no economstudio will be available for comic driver for African Americans,” munity members to rent. he said in an interview last year.

They’re partnering with some The strip of Chicago Avenue producers originally from the that comprises the Soul City CorWest Side but now based in LA ridor was selected as one of 12 priand Atlanta to make the studio ority business corridors to be rea spot where “some of our homevitalized under Mayor Lightfoot’s grown celebrity artists” can INVEST South/West initiative. come record, he said.

The city is currently selecting Doug Morrow, host of urban a developer to rehabilitate the commentary podcast “The No MARSEIL JACKSON Laramie State Bank building at 4Play Show,” will be recording his Chicago and Laramie avenues. podcast in the studio space.

Crawford said everybody in the commuMorrow said the podcast’s audience is growing and it’s time to upgrade to a “more profes- nity is going to benefit from the continued sional sound.” He wanted to start recording development of Soul City.

Jackson said his timeline for completing out of a studio while keeping ties with the the renovation is “ASAP.” neighborhood where he was born and raised.

While the final timeline comes down to “Anything I do is going to be tied to the the general contractor, he has funding lined Austin area,” he said.

Having professional studio space in Austin up and hopes to be open no more than 12 will give children who want to pursue any months from now.

“I want our project up and running,” he said. sort of media something to look up to, he said.

“When you see things like that in your community that gives people goals and aspirations.”

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promoted to director the company from of business operareceptionist to tions. customer cervice, Under her leadChristy realized the ership, Freedman long-term opporSeating and FMS tunities available would continue in manufacturing to grow in market despite its reputashare and product tion as being a maledevelopment. New dominated industry. solutions such as Over the next two passenger protecdecades, Christy beSAM CARDONE CHRISTY NUNES tive equipment have came one of the most shown the versatilrespected people in ity of Christy’s direction, and the ability to the bus world.

As Freedman’s director of customer ser- meet the industry’s evolving needs while vice, she continued to advance the company’s maintaining record sales year-over-year.

In her new role, Christy will oversee long history of impeccable service. In 2011, Freedman Seating purchased the assets of manufacturing, customer service, and supBraun Seating, a well-known company in ply chain operations including purchasing, Rochester, Ind. servicing the needs of the mo- sourcing, inventory, shipping and receiving.

In 2008, Sam Cardone joined Freedman bility van market. Christy was named managSeating’s engineering team ing director of the rebranded as an intern. After graduatFreedman Mobility Seating. ing from the University of IlUnder her leadership, FMS linois at Chicago with a B.S. developed a new line of luxury in Mechanical Engineering, seating products for the growing executive shuttle market.

Sam was offered a full-time If you’re a West Side Christy’s desire to learn position as Project Engineer. business that wants to existed on the job and in the His tenure in engineering celebrate its employees classroom. She completed her would see him as lead project who are on the move, B.S. in Business Administraengineer and eventually ensubmit your press tion and Management from gineering manager. In these releases to: michael@ Loyola University of Chicago roles, Sam notably executed austinweeklynews.com. in 2017. That year, Christy was product line cost saving ini-

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tiatives and led multiple projects on Federal Motor Safety Standards, enhanced existing products, and developed new solutions with cross-functional teams.

Sam was promoted to director of strategy in 2016, a company first. His focus on strategic planning and advancing key success metrics have resulted in measurable strategic objectives and standardized protocols throughout the production process.

In 2017, Sam earned his M.B.A. in General Management, Strategic Management and Finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. In his new role, Sam will oversee engineering, manufacturing engineering, metals production, quality control and testing/compliance, information technology, accounting, and maintenance.

Christy and Sam have worked in tandem as directors within production and are key players as the company looks ahead to further invest in advanced manufacturing and its greatest asset, people.

Founded in 1894, Freedman Seating is a family-owned and operated company. As North America’s leader in transportation seating and safety solutions, FSC designs, engineers, and manufactures products for many different markets, including small bus, mid-size coach, heavy-duty transit, rail, marine, delivery truck, and paratransit.

Freedman Seating is an ISO 9001 registered company.

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SAFETY WITHOUT COPS: A Chicago Police officer.

West Siders are looking to achieve school safety without policing.

news Editor Michael Romain

Senior Editor Bob Uphues

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Contributing Reporters Bonni McKeown, Igor Studenkov Reporting Partners Block Club, Austin Talks Columnist Arlene Jones Staff Photographer Alex Rogals Design/Production Manager Andrew Mead

West Siders seek to achieve school safety without police During Feb. 16 online workshop, community members brainstormed on alternatives

By IGOR STUDENKOV Contributing Reporter

Chicago Public Schools officials are currently working with Local School Councils, area nonprofits and community members on identifying alternatives to School Resource Officers (SRO) in schools ahead of the release of a public safety plan sometime later this year.

West Side community members attended a virtual workshop on Feb. 16 to air their skepticism about the ability of police to keep students and teachers safe in schools and to explore better ways of achieving public safety.

So far, 55 CPS schools have SRO programs.

Last year, several aldermen and members of the Chicago school board tried to end the program altogether. The board made several changes to the contract and Local School Councils were allowed to decide the fate of the SRO programs in their respective schools.

Chicago Public Schools officials are currently working with several area nonprofits to suggest alternatives to the program. One of the nonprofits involved is Austin-based BUILD Chicago, 5100 W. Harrison St. Throughout the month of February, the nonprofits held several community workshops to get resident input, with BUILD holding workshops on Feb. 16 and Feb. 24.

Steering committees established during the process will grapple with the public feedback

from these meetings, with LSC’s expected to consider a draft safety plan sometime before the school board adopts its 2022 budget at the end of the summer.

Jamey Makowski, the director of core programs at BUILD, said while “physical safety is a very important part” of the process, it’s only one aspect of the process.

“It’s easy for our minds to default to physical safety,” she said. “But we also need to consider the other parts of that safety. In order to make it whole for the students and the staff and the community, we need to think about the relational trust, how we can create a nurturing and trusting environment, and also emotional safety, which I would argue is the most important area of safety for anyone in the building.”

BUILD and other organizations will use the information they got from the focus groups to come up with five to 10 recommendations for what a safety plan should look like. Chicago Public Schools officials will then share those recommendations with LSC’s, which will be responsible for finalizing the safety plans.

Eleven people tuned into the virtual meeting on Feb. 16, including Donovan Robinson, the director of restorative justice at Michele Clark Academy High School, 5101 W. Harrison St. Robinson said in order to achieve safety, students need to have a say in the process and need to feel comfortable sharing their thoughts.

“Teenagers want to feel like they can trust you,” he said. “In a lot of instances, they don’t feel comfortable having those conversations with people in the building. If they don’t have that safe space, that person they’re able to talk to, to implement things, we’re going to be going around in circles, because they don’t trust you.”

Roberto Menjivar, one of the parent representatives at the Local School Council for Jones College Prep said that police officers have no place in schools.

“In my view, policing is a way to contain and repress people, and I don’t think they should have a role in the school,” he said.

Catherine Stapleton, a community ambassador for BUILD, echoed those thoughts, saying that, even if the students didn’t have negative experiences with the police firsthand, chances are high that they’ve seen police officers mistreat someone else or have experienced the trauma of police arresting their loved ones.

“Walking into the building, seeing the police, that’s going to shut them down,” she said. “Having a principal or a teacher greet them at the door with a hug and a smile goes a long way.”

Keith Kelley, a restorative justice coordinator at Marshall High School, 3520 W. Adams St., reflected that he was “conditioned, as a Black man in America” not to look at anyone in the police uniform unless he absolutely had to do so.

“You walk into a school building and you have a different vibe if you hear teachers and students having positive interactions, as opposed to hearing someone being cussed at,” Kelley said. “Positive energy is contagious and the more positive energy you shower visitors with, the more positive energy you’re going to attract. At least that’s what I hope.”

Robinson also suggested that many incidents could be avoided if teachers take the first five minutes of their class time to check in with the students and see if anything is bothering them, in or outside school.

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MacArthur’s back open for business

Iconic Austin restaurant among others now offering indoor dining after state lifts restrictions

ever is less, McKennie is hopeful the restaurant will begin to feel more normal.

“This will have a positive impact on Austin because it will allow residents to finally gather and bring some normalcy to the com-

munity.”

Malcolm Crawford, executive director of the Austin African American Business Networking Association, said he doesn’t feel comfortable eating in a restaurant just yet.

By SHELBY E. HAWKINS AustinTalks

MacArthur’s is one of the many restaurants still adjusting to the ever-evolving COVID-19 regulations.

“Business was terrible,” said Sharon McKennie, manager and chef at MacArthur’s, referring to the first few months of the pandemic. “We could only do curbside or carryout, so it was an adjustment. We’ve been here since 1997, and we’ve never seen anything like this.”

When indoor dining was allowed to increase to a maximum of 25 people in the restaurant at a time, McKennie said MacArthur’s was seating about five to six people an hour.

Now that Illinois has expanded indoor occupancy to 40 percent or 5o people, which-

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THEY’RE BACK: A patron shows off food from MacArthur’s Restaurant in Austin.

COCOA CHILI Teach and eat from page 1

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Cocoa Chili’s owner and head chef, Niquenya Collins, far right, sprinkles garnish on a jerk chicken meal at Cocoa Chili.

Caribbean curry chicken, Jamaican jerk chicken and Senegalese poulet yassa.

For many West Siders, these dishes can be a point of connection to their ancestry and “expand their palate and open their minds to new experiences” across the African diaspora, Collins said.

The restaurant’s Table Talk series similarly uses food as an avenue to introduce people to valuable resources and challenge them to think critically about their own personal development.

The talks are “sustainably sourced educational foodie experiences that raise awareness of opportunities to improve the quality of people’s lives,” Collins said.

Collins wants the series to grow into a hub for people to learn about resources like the Farm on Ogden in North Lawndale, which is an affordable place to buy fresh produce that also offers free boxes of food through its VeggieRx program.

Table Talk launched in February alongside the restaurant as a monthly series, but as Cocoa Chili gets its footing, Collins expects to host the event much more frequently. The talks are virtual due to the pandemic, but they will be offered as in-person events when it is safe.

The February Table Talk was a

He still supports Austin’s local restaurants by ordering delivery or carryout.

However, he said most of Austin’s eateries are not sit-down restaurants anyway, so the increased indoor capacity doesn’t affect the neighborhood as much as other parts of the city.

“One of the things we’re fighting right now is the lack of opportunities to sit down in a restaurant, and most of our money goes to Oak Park because of that issue,” Crawford said.

Crawford said about 80 percent of Austin’s disposable income goes to Oak Park – about $150 to $180 million each year. Because people can go socialize and sit down to eat in Oak Park, Austin residents are spending their money there.

He noted you can get Uncle Remus and Coleman’s online. “Be very intentional where you spend your money,” he said.

This month, the sixth annual Chicago Black Restaurant Week is being held. Partnering with Uber Eats, people can participate at home. Restaurant week is actually two weeks, ending Feb. 21.

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webinar teaching about grocery staples everybody should have in their kitchens that are flexible enough to be used for many meals.

The webinar also addressed food access and waste by discussing “how to use leftovers and how to elevate your leftovers so that you’re not only saving money by reusing foods that you already have, but you’re also changing up what you eat so you’re not being bored with food,” Collins said.

The restaurant has another program that improves food access in the area.

The Feeding the Community Initiative allows customers who buy meals from Cocoa Chili to help the restaurant provide free food to anybody that needs it. Donations are used to stock the Love Fridges, which are set up in several neighborhoods and allow anybody to get fresh food at any time.

Collins is raising money to build the Table Talk series through an IFundWomen campaign. To join the next Table Talk event, go to Cocoa Chili’s website and sign up for its newsletter.

Foodies can also support Cocoa Chili by buying bottles of Collins’ jerk sauce or her signature Cocoa Chili

seasoning. The seasoning is the secret behind several of her menu items, including her chili con carne.

“That cocoa is that bold, rich flavor, and it kind of elevates the spice. And then, of course, you have that warm heat,” Collins said. “It has that sweet warmth to it.”

Cocoa Chili is serving meals for delivery and pick up at the Hatchery.

To make an order, go to Cocoa Chili’s website.

Pascal Sabino is a Report for America corps member covering Austin, North Lawndale and Garfield Park for Block Club Chicago.

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West Side students release Black History Month album

Youth participants at Marillac St. Vincent Family Services recorded the album in lieu of their annual Black History Month community performances

By PASCAL SABINO Block Club Chicago

Young people on the West Side commemorated Black History Month by recording an album to celebrate their Black heritage through poetry and music.

The album was recorded by participants of Marillac St. Vincent Family Services’ youth programs. The digital album will be released Friday. To get a recording of the Black His-

tory Month Album, go to Marillac St. Vincent’s website.

The album honors the music pioneered

by Black artists like Nat King Cole, DJ Mr. Fingers and Muddy Waters across several genres, including Chicago blues, Motown, jazz and hip hop. The songs were chosen by the youths.

The album also has contemporary songs and mashups that pay homage to historical figures and the achievements of Black people. One track is a Martin Luther King Jr. speech mixed with live drum beats. Other songs recorded by the students include covers from the soundtrack to the “Harriet” film biopic about Harriet Tubman, the enslaved person who became an abolitionist, spy and conductor for the Underground Railroad.

Cortasia Butler, 12, recorded “Goodbye Song” for the album, which was originally performed by Terence Blanchard and Cynthia Erivo for the “Harriet” soundtrack. The song is an emotional spiritual about escap-

Congressman Davis to facilitate online resource forum

Congressman Danny K. Davis will facilitate an online forum for nonprofits, church-

es, arts venues and small businesses on Saturday, March 6, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

The forum, hosted by Nonprofit Utopia, will be live-streamed on the organization’s Facebook and YouTube channels.

Speakers will include Daryl Newell, the president of Seaway Bank; Ronald Milsap, vice president of Mission Deposits at Providence Bank; Lupita Guerrero, business banking officer for US Bank; and Christyn Freemon, founder of Project Forward.

The forum will cover updates on the COVID-19 stimulus, a panel of bankers will discuss application strategies; there will be a presentation from the U.S. Small Business Administration on the Paycheck Protection Program and other issues; and organizers will host a live chat Q and A.

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the organization’s music ing from slavery. As Butstudio in lieu of performing ler sang the song, she felt live. Participants recorded connected to Tubman and imagined herself walking the music and poetry across alongside the abolitionist, February with the help of she said.

BandWith Chicago, a music “I usually close my eyes education organization. when I sing. But my eyes Young people working on were open, and I felt like the album got to experiment I was there when she was with ways of making music helping slaves to reach freeand worked with a profesdom,” Butler said. sional sound engineer. The Typically, young people experience aimed to repliparticipating in Marillac cate the pride and connection St. Vincent’s programs put young people feel when they on an annual Black History showcase their skills to their month show for the commuloved ones, said Annie Palonity. Due to the pandemic, mino, of BandWith Chicago.

Provided the community assembly “The kids get to come in had to be canceled. and lay down tracks … . It’s a SOUNDING OFF: Marillac “Because we can’t be tolot of fun for them,” PalomiSt. Vincent participants gether doesn’t mean we no said. “It achieves someshouldn’t still be celebrat- recorded an album for Black thing similar to standing ing that issue that is so im- History Month. up and singing into a microportant in this country phone to your community. we have all the contributions of African You feel that what you’re doing is important American music and poetry and art,” said and that you’re being heard.”

Deanna Halligan, program manager for the nonprofit’s Hope Jr. program.

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If you want delivery, make it easier on us

echnology is wonderful. You lie in bed, and you can order almost anything in the world off the internet. And if you order through one of the biggest suppliers of products in the world, you can literally get what you ordered the same day or the next day.

Now packages don’t miraculously just show up on your doorstep. Especially big boxes.

You know you ordered something large, and the company has told you when the package was coming. So why the hell aren’t you folks at home or making plans for someone to receive it?

I deliver a lot of those packages and when I got the opportunity on Saturday night to make some extra money, I went for it. But I’m not going to lie. When I saw the delivery locations, there was no smile on my face. South Austin, West and East Garfield Park. Everything south of Madison Street. Everything in some of the most perceived and realized dangerous areas of the city in the West Side.

Now I know folks in those areas deserve the same sort of services everybody else gets, so I put on my big girl panties and went out to deliver. But I’m not going to lie.

It was scary as f***. Dark streets filled with even darker homes. Phone calls to people went unanswered. Lots of lovely voice messages telling me God bless, but you know the packages are coming, so be there for them!

Even worse were the number of buildings where the doorbells don’t work and the people aren’t answering their phones or responding to text messages. If you can order everything in the world off the internet, order a damn doorbell! They have batteryoperated ones which are wireless, so other than just being trifling, there’s just no damn excuse!

“Dibs” was still in effect, so finding a place to park even temporarily became difficult. Block a street and folks will have a “honking” fit. Pull in their parking spaces and who knows what can happen.

I decided to call people to let them know I was on the way. One woman had her service number attached to the kid’s phone. As I explained that I didn’t want to be driving down the street slowly looking for an address (we know in the ’hood that is the precursor to a drive-by shooting), I wanted her to be at the doorway with the lights on. Her response was that her address showed.

That’s not the problem! There is no law saying the address has to be in a certain place.

The problem is I don’t want to be looking for the address! It’s late. It’s dark. Every crackhead, fool, moron and who knows what was out. The weather was warmer than it had been in weeks. It was a full moon and the werewolf effect was in full effect.

Another woman I spoke with agreed to be at the door. But when I pulled up, she was peering from behind her locked security door and steel interior door. Amazing how folks want stuff delivered, but they’re scared to come out!

Even delivering to a local business was an experience. Why do we permit folks to hang out in parking lots? Why do we permit folks to hang out at the intersection of major streets and side streets? We are 21 years into the 21st century. We know better, and it’s incumbent upon us to do and demand better.

My car was filled with big boxes and tons of other packages. Every time I had to open the door, I felt like I was a potential target for robbery or carjacking. It was more than I could take. I took everything back. The risk to me was not worth the price I would have to pay should something occur.

The black community has historically been the recipient of not getting the service that it deserves. However, in today’s technology-filled world, the black community has a responsibility to present a safe, welllit, and conducive environment for service.

It is long overdue for us to clean up the ’hood.

ARLENE JONES

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My take on the Roosevelt and Kostner development proposals

By VALERIE LEONARD Contributor

The last time I wrote a letter to the editor regarding development on the Roosevelt and Kostner site, I shared an analysis of the mixed use, industrial and commercial development proposed by Clarius Partners, including the pros and cons.

I didn’t get the sense from their team that they were willing to make any concessions in providing real community benefit beyond the jobs outlined in their Public Benefit Agreement with the City of Chicago.

Even though the jobs would have been located in North Lawndale, there was no guarantee that a significant number of jobs would have been offered to North Lawndale residents.

I had an opportunity to engage with the Clarius development team a couple times and felt a certain level of coolness from them as I asked specific questions about community engagement and benefits, given the hefty tax breaks they would be getting when the development achieved 50 percent occupancy. Perhaps I was asking too many

Even so, I would like to have seen broader questions. As it turned out, Clarius decided community representation in the develnot to develop the site. oper presentations. It seemed that most Fast forward to Wednesday, Feb. 24. I had presentations with community partners the opportunity to witness three presentaincluded organizations affilitions from developers interated with the North Lawndale ested in developing the site.

Community Coordinating The developers seemed more Council (NLCCC). That is not open and respectful of coma bad thing, in and of itself. munity. While I left the meetIt speaks to organization and ing with some of my posted capacity of the combined questions unanswered, my partnership, as well as longoverall impression was posistanding relationships with tive on balance. one another and the City of I commend Mayor Lori Chicago.

Lightfoot, Department of However, we have over 150 Planning Commissioner Maucommunity-based organizarice Cox and the Department tions, over 100 churches and of Planning and Development 25 schools (or maybe less team for creating the INVEST now) in North Lawndale.

South/West initiative, which Development needs to be apparently allows for more more inclusive than the few community engagement than VALERIE LEONARD partnering organizations I we have seen from recent past observed. Plans should also Chicago mayors. I also comspeak to the harsh new realities of the ravmend the North Lawndale Neighborhood ages of COVID-19 and ways the community Roundtable for asking questions surroundmay emerge stronger than we were when ing jobs and minority contracting.

the pandemic started.

I know it’s unrealistic to directly partner with every organization, but we need to see a greater effort to include more rank-andfile residents and organizations. If capacity is an issue, then there needs to be a concerted effort to improve the capacity of local organizations to partner in a significant way.

Organizations don’t necessarily need to be developers, but they could be subject matter experts in programming the space they will be using. They could be offered free work space or incubator space or a community center. There should be alignment of school curriculum to take advantage of new jobs; a skills center for youth and adults to work in these new spaces; an arts venue with classes and programming; a technology center — something substantive that will truly make an impact. This is best achieved through a one-to-many approach versus concentrating resources in a small area or among a specific group.

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Cleaning (and building) up from page 1 The other three projects — developed by Related Midwest and 548 Capital; Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives Group, East Lake Management and MK Asset Management; and Cubs Charities and Pritzker Realty — were presented to the community Feb. 23.

The redevelopment of the vacant land is part of the city’s Invest South/West initiative. The city wants to winning project to reactivate an industrial site to create jobs and wealth locally, planners said. It’s also important to the city that the project is a good neighbor and an asset to the community.

The city’s planning department will evaluate the proposals based on economic feasibility, professional competence of the developers and design and the ability for the project to generate wealth in the neighborhood.

Residents’ feedback will also help determine which project is selected. Community members can share their input on each plan for redeveloping the vacant land through an online survey.

Resident feedback will be compiled at the

end of March, and the planning department will host an engagement meeting to report the survey results and the top proposals for further evaluation. Once a project is selected, community feedback will continue to guide the development of the project, planners said.

force development program will train Lawndale residents with the skills to install the solar panels and pursue careers in solar, Patton said.

A 10,000-square-foot innovation center would be built at the facility that can be used however the community sees fit, Patton said. Developers have partnered with the North Lawndale Chamber of Commerce to design the innovation center to maximize its impact on the business environment in the neighborhood.

“We’re going to connect local business owners with each other … to get the dollar of North Lawndale to circulate longer within North Lawndale,” said Rodney Brown, executive director of the chamber.

Industrial facility, entrepreneur center and employment training program The Lawndale United proposal, a partnership between Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives Group, East Lake Management and MK Asset Management, would bring an industrial facility to the area that would offer reduced rent on 10 percent of the building to attract small businesses.

An entrepreneur support center would offer financial resources to businesses and entrepreneurs.

“Part of our lending is technical assistance. There’s never a borrower that just gets funds. We provide wraparound services,” said Ciera Boatright, a vice president at Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives Group.

The project would generate about 320

construction jobs and an estimated 255 permanent jobs at the site. Developers are also prioritizing minority-owned contractors, developers said.

About 4,000 square feet would be dedicated to an employment training program that would support local work readiness and create a talent pipeline to ensure tenants at the warehouse and distribution site, Boatright said.

“We’re able to hand them trained, readyto-go workforce that represents the community,” Boatright said.

One resident asked whether East Lake Management, a real estate company, would be a good partner for the community given the company’s track record. According to a report by the Chicago Reader, East Lake Management filed 247 evictions in 2018, the second-most in Cook County that year behind Pangea.

“Knowing that, how can East Lake Management be trusted to be a good neighbor in North Lawndale?” an anonymous person asked in the Zoom meeting.

Industrial warehouse, Cubs baseball academy for youth, locally-owned café Cubs Charities and Pritzker Realty aim to build an industrial warehouse and a Cubs Urban Youth Academy on the site.

The state-of-the-art training center would include an indoor baseball field for neighborhood youth. The center would have classrooms housing academic activities, tech resources for students, community meeting rooms and a locally-owned cafe.

The athletic facilities would include weight room, batting cages, bullpens, a turf field and outdoor and indoor baseball diamonds. The plan includes a rooftop community garden and a teaching kitchen to promote healthy eating.

“While it is baseball and softball, this is just a vehicle for youth development. This is what we are really striving for here,” said Alicia Gonzalez, executive director for Cubs Charities.

Industrial facility for tenant like Amazon and affordable housing

Industrial buildings with solar farm, training program and innovation center A project from Related Midwest and 548 Capital would build two industrial buildings for manufacturing, distribution and cold storage tenants. The 300,000-square-foot facilities would be powered by a solar farm installed on the roof. The project would create an estimated 500 jobs, developers said.

“This location will be a hub for economic development and small businesses to be empowered through freight logistics packaging and delivery,” said AJ Patton, managing partner of 548 Capital.

Developers pledged to prioritize minorityowned business in every level of the project, including “design, construction and professional services and finance,” Patton said.

The solar farm on the roof will be installed

by Millennium Solar. The company’s work-

The developer’s representative said they’d be happy to talk offline with the resident.

IDEAS GALORE: Top, Related Midwest and 548 Capital’s project to redevelop the Silver Shovel site would include an innovation center. Middle, Cubs Charities and Pritzker Realty aim to build an industrial warehouse and a Cubs Urban Youth Academy on the site. Bottom, A Lawndale United proposal, a partnership between Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives Group, East Lake Management and MK Asset Management, would bring an industrial facility to the area.

McCaffery, A Safe Haven and KMA Development aim to build an industrial and commercial facility that would include affordable housing and greenspace. The project would be anchored by a 105,000-square-foot last-mile distribution center designed for large retail tenants like Amazon, Walmart and Target. The facilities would include cold storage and a light manufacturing warehouse.

The project will create 1,000 permanent jobs and more than 1,000 temporary construction jobs, developers said.

The plan includes commercial space along Roosevelt that would have two floors dedicated to supporting local entrepreneurs. The Lawndale Wealth Creation Engine will be an incubation and training community space at the site to help business owners grow, spearheaded by A Safe Haven and Bunker Labs.

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IDEAS GALORE: Renderings of the Mccaffery project, top; the RK5 project, middle; and the West Side Works project. that’s community-owned that has open access,” said Todd Connor of Bunker Labs.

Another warehouse would house a job training program, A Safe Haven’s landscaping business and the nonprofit’s welding skills program. These programs will work with warehouse tenants to hire and train locals to work skilled jobs at the warehouses.

The project will build 60 units of affordable rental housing intended to keep rents low and house workers. The landscaped open area would include a playground and amphitheater.

Industrial park with an incubator and auto training program The West Side Works project would include industrial park with an incubator that will house small growing businesses at the facility. The project — from Matanky Realty, Safeway Construction, and WBS Equities — will create up to 300 jobs at the industrial park in the transportation, distribution and logistics sector.

The Auto Mechanics Local 701 Union

would be based at the industrial park to create pathways for Lawndale residents to enter union careers through the site’s mechanic training facility. North Lawndale Employment Network is an equity partner on the project, and it will help train and place Lawndale residents at jobs at the industrial park.

“It is about jobs. Not just jobs, but good jobs.

Jobs that lead to middle-wage income,” said Brenda Palms-Barber, CEO of North Lawndale Employment Network.

Middle-wage employers already attached to the project as potential tenants include Testa Produce, Vantage Chemicals and Vienna Beef.

The types of jobs that will be available at the industrial park will be accessible to Lawndale residents who have barriers to getting employed, Barber said.

“This is a sector that is really friendly to individuals who have had a brush with the law. For me, it’s really important that if you’ve served your time, you’ve served your time,” Barber said.

Industrial warehouses with athletic fields, rec center RK5 Development, comprised by a team Black-and-Latino-led group of partners, includes McLaurin, JGMA, Beehyyve, McKenzie Management, BOWA, Art West Chicago, Nation Builders and Project Forward. They aim to build industrial warehouses and cold storage, as well as athletic facilities and space set aside for the community.

The redevelopment could generate 370 per-

manent jobs and more than 300 construction jobs. Developers would work with organizations like Sunshine Enterprises and LISC to support entrepreneurship, access to capital and local hiring.

A community courtyard and recreation center would house sports programs for the North Lawndale Athletic and Recreation Association.

“If we’re able to make this happen, it closes a lot of gaps and offers a lot of opportunities for young people to be involved in sports, recreation, arts, youth development programs and things of that nature,” said Claude Robinson, founder of the athletic association.

The center would have retail space for local businesses, a creative studio, an incubator and co-working spaces for artists and businesses. A cafe run by Momentum Coffee would be based at the center.

“It is about bringing arts to the community,” Robinson said. “There will be a significant mural project that engages local artists, and there will become a focal part of the project.”

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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.MORRIS CANNON, JR., DEBBIE CANNON, CITIZENS BANK, N.A., CITY OF CHICAGO, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 17 CH 001375 1553 S. MILLARD AVENUE CHICAGO, IL 60623 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 3, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 23, 2021, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1553 S. MILLARD AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60623 Property Index No. 16-23-129-0180000 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 the 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 resi-

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dential 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, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL, 60527 (630) 794-9876 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.

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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, JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125, Chicago, IL, 60606 (312) 541-9710. Please refer to file number 19-7001.

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.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE OF CVI CGS MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST I Plaintiff, -v.KRZYSTOF KARBOWSKI, INTERNATIONAL GRANITE & MARBLE CORP., HUBBARD POINT CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 2019 CH 02954 1360 W. HUBBARD ST., UNIT# 3W CHICAGO, IL 60622 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 20, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 18, 2021, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1360 W. HUBBARD ST., UNIT# 3W, CHICAGO, IL 60622 Property Index No. 17-08-132-0621006 and 17-08-132-062-1010 The real estate is improved with a condominium.

The judgment amount was $549,692.44.

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 the 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

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