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May 3, 2017
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Former Sears plant turned into apartments The former Sears printing plant in Homan Square will become the Lofts of Arthington By IGOR STUDENKOV Contributing Reporter
The former The Sears, Roebuck and Company printing plan, located at 3201 W. Arthington St., is getting a new lease on life as a 181unit affordable housing building. During Ald. Michael Scott’s (24th) April 27 community meeting, Todd Wollcott, the project developer for Mercy Housing, said that the company is putting finishing touches on the newly christened Lofts of Arthington. Woollcott said that they have already leased out 80 units and he actively encouraged any interested residents to stop by the leasing offices and get a tour of the property. And while the cheapest option in the building is $785 a month, Housing Choice Section 8 vouchers are accepted. In addition, 66 units are reserved for tenants who are on Chicago Housing Authority’s public housing wait lists. The former printing building is one of the buildings that were built as Sears, Roebuck and Company Complex, which served as the company headquarters until the Sears Tower was built in 1973. The building was originally used to print the company’s mail order catalogs, and it later became a product testing site. Like the rest of the complex, it was See APARTMENTS on page 6
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STOP THE VIOLENCE: George Bady, an Austin minister and founder of the Jehovah Jireh #1 Outreach Ministry, during an April 19 demonstration outside of Corcoran Grocery. On April 7, someone was murdered while walking out of the store.
Red stands for stop the bleeding
Austin minister George Bady and his Red Team work full-time at reducing neighborhood violence By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor
If there were a modern, West Side of Chicago equivalent to Adam’s book of generations, which is found in Genesis, Chapter
Five (“And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness,” named Seth who begat Enos who begat Cainan ...), it would be that of George Bady — a 49-year-old ordained minister who lives in Austin. “I had a little cousin who was killed in a robbery in 2008, then I had my own son get killed in 2010 because he was talking to someone who was into it with somebody else and the guys just came up and started shooting, and my nephew got killed in a robbery in 2012,” Bady said during a recent phone interview.
Bady, who everyone calls Jody, said that he had something of a revelation after his son, 20-year-old son, Jamar Moore, was murdered. “I didn’t want no other parents to go through what I had been through,” said Bady, who for the last several years has carved out a presence on the West and South Sides of Chicago with his Jehovah Jireh #1 Outreach Ministry. The organization has become ubiquitous for its lively gatherings at street corners throughout the city.
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See GEORGE BADY on page 8