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Invest South/ West finalists led by Blackowned firms

Ascent West Humboldt and The Ave, both teams vying to redevelop West Humboldt Park property, include organizations with West Side connections

By IGOR STUDENKOV Contributing Reporter

Both of the finalists vying for a chance to redevelop the West Humboldt Park property at 3601-25 W. Chicago Ave., as part of the city’s Invest South/West initiative, are led by Blackowned firms and organizations with West Side connections.

The two development teams that are finalists — Ascent West Humboldt and The Ave — shared their proposals during a virtual meeting on Sept. 23, where attendees had a chance to ask questions and share their concerns.

The Ascent West Humboldt development team is proposing a seven-story building with 37 condos, retail on the first two floors, on-site co-working spaces and a maker studio.

Five out of the six companies and organizations that are part of the planning side of the Ascent West Humboldt team are headed by African-Americans. VS Creative Consulting is run by Austin artist and community activist Vanessa Stokes while the Root2Fruit youth mentoring, founded by West Side activist Aisha Oliver, is based in Austin.

Two out of the three lead developers on the Ave team are Black-owned and one of those developers, Humboldt Park-based KMW Communities, is owned by West Humboldt Park native See INVEST on page 3

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Terry Dean in the newsroom of what was then Wednesday Journal Inc. (now Growing Community Media), the parent entity of Austin Weekly News. Dean died last week.

Terry Dean, former Austin Weekly News editor, dies Dean edited the West Side paper from 2005 to 2015

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

Terry Dean, the former editor of Austin Weekly News and Wednesday Journal’s education reporter, died Monday morn-

ing. He was 47. Dean’s sister, Yvette Dean, confirmed his death. She said the cause was cancer, a disease that Dean had been dealing with for several years.

Dean came to Wednesday Journal Inc. (which has since become the nonprofit

Growing Community Media) in 2005, after having served as managing editor for the North Lawndale Community News.

“He brought excellence to journalism,” See DEAN on page 8

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Arts and tech nonprofit looking to recruit more West Siders The Chicago Center for Arts and Technology is seeking more North Lawndale residents for its after school classes and job programs

By IGOR STUDENKOV Contributing Reporter

The Chicago Center for Arts and Technology (CHICAT), a nonprofit based on the Near West Side that offers after school arts classes for the young people and job certification programs for adults, is looking to recruit more students from the West Side, particularly North Lawndale.

Located at 1701 W. 13th St., the center enrolls students from across the city, but they put special emphasis on students from the neighboring Pilsen, Little Village and North Lawndale, because of the proximity and because they felt these areas were where they could make the most impact.

Currently, around 29 percent of all youth and 4 percent of all adults enrolled in their programs live in North Lawndale, and the center wants to get those numbers even higher.

Lisa Moultrie, CHICAT’s executive director, said that West Side neighborhoods don’t have as many after school and career development opportunities as many other parts of the city. The nonprofit’s programs help fill that gap.

Founded in 2017, the center takes its cues from Pittsburghbased Manchester Bidwell Corporation, whose art education New three 10X6 Austin Weeklythat OP COVID Testing ad Sep14-B.pdf is based on principals: a safe, respectful environment encourages positive behavior; that anyone has potential

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to succeed if they have the right tools; and that creativity encourages entrepreneurship.

“CHICAT is focused on engaging individuals who don’t have the greatest access to a range of enriching educational activities centered on arts and technology due to their racial, ethnic or economic identity,” she said.

Moultrie said that they currently have 72 North Lawndale teens in their programs.

“Increasing engagement and participation in our programs among North Lawndale residents is a priority for us and we work hard to do so,” she said.

The programs are free and CHICAT pays for student course materials. For adult students, CHICAT covers the cost of the 1 9/14/21 3:56 PM certification exams.

The center currently offers classes for middle-schoolers and

high-schoolers. According to CHICAT’s website, middle school classes teach them how to design characters in two-dimensional and three-dimensional media.

High school programs include a class on how to make augmented reality filters for smartphones, a fashion photography class, and a general art class. While the middle school classes have already started, high school classes will start on Oct. 12.

“Our youth arts curriculum integrates art and technology as key tools to teach students how to design their own futures,” Moultrie said. “The arts provide a methodology to design, create, and iterate, while technology provides tools for creation and engagement.”

For adults, the center offers workforce development programs for students trying to get certification in health information technology, mechanical maintenance and food quality control.

“The adult education programs we offer are informed by industry trends and focus on creating pathways to careers in high-demand fields that pay livable, sustainable wages,” Moultrie said. “We focus on technology to develop marketable skills and as a means of economic advancement.”

While CHICAT classes are happening in-person this fall, with all students required to wear masks, they offered remote courses during the pandemic.

“In the past four years, we’ve trained, certified and placed over 100 individuals in careers in manufacturing and health information technology,” she said. “Sixty percent of our students enter the program with zero income and go on to make an average starting salary of $42,000, plus benefits.”

For more information about CHICAT and its programs, visit https://chicat.org/.

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An architectural rendering of Ascent’s Invest South/West proposal.

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Minorities at the table from page 1 Bill Williams.

The Ave development team is proposing a four- to five-story building with 40 apartments, first-floor retail, a daycare center, a rooftop community garden and a gym. Unlike the Ascent proposal, the Ave proposal is part of a larger plan that includes another mixed-use building at 3401 W. Chicago and homes built on vacant lots between the two buildings.

As part of the Invest South/West initiative, the city invited developers to submit proposals for several sites along major South and West Side corridors. While most of them are on city-owned lots, the property at the southwest corner of Chicago and Central Park avenues is privately owned.

The city is looking for a mixed-income building with retail components, community amenities and a new space for Neigh-

Staff Photographer Alex Rogals Design/Production Manager Andrew Mead Editorial Design Manager Javier Govea

borhood Housing Services’ West Side office, which is currently located at 3601 W. Chicago Ave. The Ascent team said that at least 12 condo units will be affordable for residents earning 50 percent of the area median income (AMI). The developers said that they wanted to make the residential units condos to avert displacement.

“We wanted to create a stake in the community so people could create ownership,” Stokes said.

The team estimated that the project would create 178 construction jobs and between 90 and 110 permanent jobs, mostly through the retail components.

Rachel Vaas, founder of development team member company Sygyzy Cities, said that every retail tenant would have “an element of education or incubation” to support local businesses.

The Ave proposal would also feature a mix of one-bedroom, two-bedroom and threebedroom units. Unlike the Ascent proposal, all units would be affordable, with six units affordable to tenants earning 30 percent AMI and the rest affordable for tenants

earning between 60 and 80 percent AMI. In both proposals, the AMI is based on the average income of the entire Chicagoland area rather than Humboldt Park specifically.

The AMI is adjusted every year and the current 50 percent AMI ranges between $32,600 for a one-person household and $61,550 for an eight-person household.

According to the most recent American Community Survey estimates, 32 percent of Humboldt Park households have incomes of less than $25,000, while 29 percent have the income of between $25,000 and $49,999 and 15 percent earn between $50,000 and $74,999.

The infill housing the developers are planning would be 2-flats, which would give the owners the option to rent out one of the units to earn extra income.

Williams said that, since their proposal is a more long-term project, the construction jobs would last longer as workers shift from site to site. He also said that, overall, their proposal’s goal is to increase density.

Both developers were asked about how they would attract residents to the area known for higher crime rates.

Aisha Oliver, head of Root2Fruit, said that they plan to engage with local nonprofits and offer alternatives to gangs.

“This goes back to knowing the lay of the land,” she said. “When we started to discuss the project, what I brought to the table [was] that we understand that we’d be in the middle of a healthy drug area.”

Williams said that he believed that the building itself would change the environment.

“What it does is change the culture, and it’s the culture of appreciation instead of the culture of disrespect,” he said. “So it’s the culture that polices the community, and not the police.”

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Now that it’s over, West Siders debate merits of Riot Fest

Half of Douglass Park closes during music festival season, prompting frustration for some and gratitude for economic boost for others

By PASCAL SABINO Block Club Chicago

Riot Fest returned to Douglass Park earlier this month, delighting thousands of fans after being canceled last year because of the pandemic.

But for some West Side neighbors, the massive event means losing their neighborhood park as summery weather wanes.

With festival setup and now cleanup to break down stages and repair damage, the southern half of the park is off limits for weeks before and after the festival, forcing youth sports teams to find somewhere else to play. The northern half of the park — which has amenities like a pool, a mini-golf course, a lagoon and playgrounds — remains open.

Neighbors fed up with Riot Fest put up posters around Douglass Park to protest how the punk, rock and alternative music event takes over the neighborhood each year, roping off park space and bringing noise, rowdy crowds, clogged traffic and parking problems.

“It’s true, we can’t go play in our park,” a cartoonish squirrel says in a poster glued to the ground outside the festival. Along the black perimeter fence surrounding festival site, a protester painted, “Where will the children play? No Riot Fest!”

“It’s not pretty, it’s not nice, and people are sick of it,” resident Rebecca Wolfram said at the Chicago Park District’s board meeting this month. “The cruelest part of this, in my opinion, is how vendors who work at sporting events at the park are forced out along with the sports, effectively losing their jobs.”

Riot Fest grew from three days in previous years to four days between Thursday and Sunday. Residents had no chance to give their input about the longer event.

The same area in the park hosted hip-hop festival Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash in August, also keeping much of Douglass Park cordoned off from families, children, sports teams and youth programs for a large chunk of the summer, residents say.

“We’re tired of what we see as the continued privatization of a park, that leaves it severely damaged and also limits its use for residents for months after the festival,” resident Rachel Azzarello said at the Park District’s meeting.

Ernie Alvarez, who coaches elementary and middle school soccer at Douglass Park, said the youth teams get displaced for up to three weeks per festival.

“We have to scramble around to find other parks that will give us permits to let us play,” Alvarez said. “The little kids, they play on the fields where the stages are at that get destroyed. That was the whole fall that we were not allowed to use the fields.”

A Riot Fest spokesperson declined to comment.

Ald. George Cardenas (12th) said several parks in the area have recently been renovated with fields for teams to use, which helps minimize impact on local teams and programs.

La Villita Park, about 3 miles south, opened in 2014 with two turf fields and four grass athletic fields. A turf field was built at the Kelly High School about 4 miles south in Brighton Park when it was renovated in 2015. McKinley Park, also about 4 miles away, has several soccer fields, Cardenas said.

The alderman’s office supports youth sports teams by helping them find places to practice and play games and by helping them pay for jerseys, trophies and fees, Cardenas said.

“We’ve added a tremendous amount of amenities throughout the communities for enjoyment,” Cardenas said.

Some signs protesting Riot Fest criticized Cardenas for greenlighting the festival and receiving tens of thousands in campaign donations from organizers. His support for the festival isn’t due to the donations, but because of the economic impact it has on the neighborhood, Cardenas said.

“We’re always going to have accusations about people giving me money,” Cardenas said. “I take the criticism. I understand it. But all these neighborhoods that have the events, they’re also for the benefit of the community so the community can be well and healthy.”

Cardenas said he has received positive feedback from some residents who feel the festival is a chance to “enjoy the parks in ways they haven’t done before,” he said.

Sao Alvarez and his family “look forward to it every year” because Riot Fest is a chance to bring excitement into the area, meet people and earn money selling food and drinks on the street. The festival can also help the Park District fund amenities and programs at Douglass Park, he said.

The practice of allowing private companies to profit by using public land has gotten the Park District in hot water elsewhere in the city. This summer, critics shredded the city’s plan to allow Amazon to install delivery lockers in over 100 public parks, including one blocking a narrow sidewalk. Amazon will pay the Park District at most $137,000 to place the lockers for the first year.

“It generates revenue for the city, which sometimes cuts down on our taxes. It’s a business,” Sao Alvarez said.

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We need more local journalists like Terry Dean

he legendary New York newspaperman Pete Hamill called Ted Poston, the first Black reporter at a mainstream daily newspaper — the New York Post — a “man of grace and generosity, particularly to those of us who were young.”

Poston retained his dignity despite going “over and over again” to the American South alone, “in the years when it wasn’t easy to be black and alone in that heartbreaking region with a notebook in your hand.”

“This is the best gahdamned business in the world,” Hamill recalled Poston telling him once. “We help more gahdamned people than any gahdamned government. So don’t you ever disgrace it, you hear me?”

I thought about this passage in Hamill’s 1998 meditation on the journalism industry, “News Is A Verb,” after learning of the death, Monday, of our former colleague, Terry Dean.

I got to know Terry well while working alongside him for about a month as I transitioned into the job he was leaving.

Terry couldn’t have been more gracious and patient and decent and kind. He didn’t have to be that way, but he was.

And it was partly because of Terry’s strength of character that I, like Hamill after hearing Poston’s terse demand, felt a strong sense of responsibility to the work I was inheriting.

We’re not in the 1960s and the West Side is not the American South, but being a Black journalist is still a lonely job, wherever we may be assigned.

We’re either the relatively voiceless or powerless few in mainstream newsrooms dominated by whiteness or we are newsrooms of one, struggling (financially, emotionally, physically) to cover communities we love.

Terry, it turns out, was both: a Black reporter covering Oak Park schools in Wednesday Journal’s overwhelmingly white newsroom and, as the sole editor and lead reporter for Austin Weekly News, essentially a newsroom of one.

Like all of us in local journalism, he was overworked and underpaid. And yet, as a testament to the minor miracle that was then Wednesday Journal Inc. and is now Growing Community Media, Terry was empowered to imprint his vision on the paper and to publish a product that his neighbors and loved ones in Austin respected and revered, which is not a simple feat.

In her new book, News for the Rich, White, and Blue: How Place and Power Distort American Journalism, Nikki Usher helped me understand why.

Usher argues that the idea of local journalism many Americans have cultivated is actually “deeply problematic and somewhat ahistoric.”

For one, the term “local” is conceptually ambiguous. It can mean a metropolitan region as populous and geographically expansive as Cook County, a city of several million, a census block or just about anywhere in the country not Washington, New York or Los Angeles.

In our current age of digital networks and globalization, local is often thought of as anywhere associated with a fixed place, more often than not a place you want to leave.

Indeed, the term local can be a pejorative, used for anyone or anything that’s the opposite of cosmopolitan or worldly.

To be local is to be basic, simple … stuck.

In another sense, to be local is to be rooted, stable, home — notions most appreciated in the context of growing

older, having children and paying property taxes.

Secondly, the kind of accountability journalism that we often associate with local news “is largely a boutique form of journalism” practiced in the wake of Watergate by large metro papers like the Chicago Tribune, which had the resources to hire their own Bob Woodwards and Carl Bernsteins.

“The romantic myth of the informed American citizen where every town had its own newspaper is missing an important detail: the United States was founded and existed for close to a century without a robust tradition of local news, and most of the news in these plentiful local newspapers was reprinted from other outlets,” Usher writes.

“For much of American history, local news was associated with either salacious scandal or boosterism (or both), and most newspapers were low on original news content,” she adds.

What’s more, Usher argues, most early newspapers existed not to speak truth to power; on the contrary, they were tools of the powerful.

“This booster journalism was meant to build up a ‘place,’ to make a place somewhere that people wanted to invest in and move to; critical local journalism was scant,” she writes.

“Boosterism” is a precursor “to what we now think of as local news, and local news in many places across the United States still serves as a site for community promotion rather than community critique. Frontiersmen ‘founded’ new towns and newspapers often at the same time, and many of today’s newspapers bear the mark of largerthan-life figures trying to ‘settle’ the West.

“These settlers were also participants in Native American genocide, either directly or indirectly; to have a newspaper was to civilize and to fulfill manifest destiny. Men like Col. Alden Blethen of the Seattle Times used their power at the helm of a newspaper to create their cities.”

Even now, when people in Austin complain about our coverage, the criticism is often rooted in this collective desire for booster journalism.

The sentiment is this: With all the social forces working against Austin, the last thing she needs is her own newspaper working against her and painting her in a bad light.

There’s another dynamic at work.

Local newspapers everywhere are often “part and parcel of the establishment power structure and have a vested interest in its continuation” — if only because they’re financially dependent on those who can spend money on advertising or can dole out donations. To an extent, that’s also the case in Austin.

And yet, even though the boosterism origins of local news have been obscured by this hyper-focus on accountability journalism, we local journalists still take the post-Watergate commitment to speaking truth to power seriously.

This is an extremely difficult balancing act for a metro paper, let alone one man, but such was Terry’s task as editor of Austin Weekly News and that he did it so well for so long will be his legacy.

Quality journalism, journalism that creates a sense of place, is increasingly becoming a luxury commodity available only to people who live in places wealthy enough to pay for it — places like the coasts and big cities (places

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that, in Usher’s parlance, are typically rich, white and blue).

“Some places simply get more compassionate, consistent, humanizing coverage, while others, home to people of color, remain ‘unknowns,’ places of statistics rather than of lives that matter,” Usher writes.

Terry Dean made Austin known in the minds of people who otherwise would not have ventured beyond Austin Boulevard often enough or long enough or seen it deeply enough to discover its texture and its richness. And he made Austinites known to each other.

And that’s a powerful thing.

It would be a tragedy, however, if we didn’t find some way to systematically and equitably cultivate more local journalists like Terry, people who are so rooted in a place that they can authoritatively communicate its culture and values to others.

Perhaps this is a topic that can be broached when the state’s newly created Local Journalism Task Force starts to convene. Perhaps local business and nonprofit leaders in the west suburbs and on the West Side can convene to figure out how to fund such an endeavor.

To do so would be a fitting tribute to someone I believe fit the description that Pete Hammil had for Ted Poston: “He was a serious man. He wanted to help people. He felt he was doing more good than any gahdamned government.”

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Patients can now get free transportation services to any appointment within the health system

By PASCAL SABINO Block Club Chicago

A West Side hospital is giving free rides for patients to get to and from any medical appointment, eliminating a major obstacle stopping many Black and Latino Chicagoans from getting critical medical care.

All residents in Sinai Chicago’s service area who need to get to any of the medical system’s hospitals, clinics or offices for any procedure, check-up or health appointments can now get free, door-to-door transportation services. Patients can book a ride by calling (630) 903-2949.

The program is aimed at reducing health inequities that leave residents in parts of the West Side with a life expectancy 16 years shorter than those who live in affluent neighborhoods like Streeterville, according to a 2015 Virginia Commonwealth University report.

“Every single day, we see the end result of how transportation barriers impact people’s lives and livelihoods. Ultimately it translates into not having the same life expectancy of those living less than 10 miles away downtown,” said Airica Steed, chief operating officer for Sinai Chicago.

Sinai Chicago developed the transportation program after taking stock of the top

reasons why patients in the communities they serve delay, cancel or miss vital health appointments. The hospital conducted outreach and organized focus groups to hear from patients and “drill down why the patient population was not showing up” to appointments, said Denise Walker, vice president for ambulatory a hospitality services for Sinai Chicago.

The health system’s outreach found that up to 17 percent had missed appointments due to transportation issues, which turned out to be among the top three impediments to getting the care they need.

Research from the American Hospital Association shows over 3.6 million people nationwide don’t obtain proper medical care each year due to transportation issues. The burden is especially hard on communities of color, making transportation a contributing cause of health inequities, Steed said.

“That’s further compounded in the most vulnerable communities for a variety of reasons including not having access to vehicles, not having the proper infrastructure, or being too far away from their healthcare providers, and the cost of transportation,” Steed said.

When people forego basic preventative health services and routine check-ups due to transportation barriers, the consequences can be serious, Steed said. When people are forced to put off a health issue until it’s too big to ignore, the treatments they often end up needing a higher level of care, Steed said.

“It exacerbates conditions that could otherwise be treated. Those patients later inadvertently end up in our emergency depart-

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The onus is on us

bony/Jet were print media designed to keep Black people abreast of what was going on with Black people. Ebony was the Black version of a Life magazine, focusing the majority of the time on the positive aspects of Black life. Jet was a news recap that we could read to keep up with what was going on with Black people all over the world.

The Chicago Defender was the local newspaper that kept us informed on a daily basis of the news that was of interest to Black people.

As all of these entities waned, older Black people knew of their importance, yet our voices and concerns were overpowered by younger Black people, who pointed to social media as the wave of the future.

Commentaries like, “get with it!” and “Nobody wants to be carrying around a piece of paper when I can see the same thing on my phone” were often mouthed by the savvier generation. Plus the illusion that the news was going to be free over the internet also played a major role. Why pay for something when the internet was going to provide it at no cost?

However, one of the major things that got overlooked in all of this is the old saying that, “We can’t do what they do.” The verb “do” can be replaced with a number of other verbs to form derivatives of that statement that can be applied to any situation involving Black people.

I was thinking about both things as I watched several news reports regarding

missing Black people. Out of anger and frustration, the relatives of those who are missing were quick to point out how the Gabby Petito case generated nationwide news stories, but their missing loved ones’ stories barely became a blip on the news radar. And of course, the race factor became a major subset of the commentaries.

Personally I can’t deny that race is a factor. But there’s also the laziness of journalists who were able to search Gabby’s social media accounts and come up with different angles on the case. Gabby also had a huge following who involved themselves in the search as amateur detectives.

Knowing that Black people can’t get the reporting out of the media that others do, and that our Black media was allowed and even encouraged to become a wayside, what can we do now to get the nowhere-tobe-found stories of our missing Black people out?

I place the job of coming up with the solution to that dilemma at the feet of the younger generation. They need to build a comprehensive online presence that we can turn to in order to address the serious issues others ignore.

Too much emphasis of the internet has been placed on the fun aspect, with little consideration to the serious issues at hand.

The solution to our stories getting overlooked is simple. Rather than lament on what “they” don’t do, let’s focus on what “we” can do.

ment … for reasons that otherwise could have been avoided,” Steed said.

The transportation services are provided

by Superior Ambulance Service, which has worked with Sinai for at least 20 years.

Superior will provide a “fleet of dedicated vehicles and dedicated drivers specifically meant to pick up patients at home addresses coming in for diagnostic testing, outpatient, doctor appointments, any sort of visits that they have historically had difficulty in arranging for transportation,” said Mary Franco, vice president of Superior AirGround Ambulance Service.

Sinai’s transportation service “blankets the entire operation,” so there are practically no restrictions for which patients can

use it and what programs, locations and services they can get a ride to. All patients 18 and older who live in the South and West Side communities served by the hospital can access the program, Walker said.

“It’s innovative because no one else is doing this for their entire enterprise. Other places, they have it smaller scale or just for one smaller subset of patients,” Walker said.

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”As all of these entities waned, older Black people knew of their importance, yet our voices and concerns were overpowered by younger Black people, who pointed to social media as the wave of the future.”

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Proud dad from page 1 said Rev. Ira Acree, an activist and the pastor of Greater St. John Bible Church in Austin. “He gave the community a voice.

He was fair. He had his ear to the ground.”

La Risa Lynch, who freelanced for Austin Weekly News when Dean was editor, lauded his work.

“He was a good editor, very understanding,” she said. “He knew Austin well. If you were stuck on trying to figure out who to go to about an issue, he probably had a phone number for you.”

Jonathan Todd, a West Side activist, echoed Acree, explaining that Dean “gave a voice to the voiceless.”

“When people started seeing his reporting and what was going on — the good, bad and the ugly — they paid attention,” Todd said. “He gave us a voice. He was very knowledgeable about events and what it

took within the community and the knowledge he brought and his personality made it very easy to communicate with him.”

Suzanne McBride, the founder of AustinTalks, a digital news site for Austin, and the dean of the School of Graduate Studies at Columbia College Chicago, said she knew Dean in a variety of roles.

“I knew Terry in a few different ways,” she said. “He was a wonderful collaborator when he was editor of Austin Weekly News, when I was just launching AustinTalks 11 years ago. He was just a wonderful partner in terms of understanding and helping us get off the ground and providing a voice on the West Side.”

After Dean left Wednesday Journal Inc. to attend graduate school at Columbia, McBride said she then got to know Dean within academia.

“He had a good soul,” she said. “He cared about telling people’s stories and he’ll be greatly missed.”

But for all of the accolades and respect Dean amassed during his career in journalism, Yvette said his greatest accomplishment was his role as the father of his

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daughter, Amiri, who has cerebral palsy.

“When I think of my brother, I think of a loving and devoted father,” Yvette said.

“He took care of her, all the way up to the end.”

Yvette said her “hear was warmed” when she contacted the facility where Amiri, 21, lives and heard faculty lauding Dean.

“They were praising my brother, because they saw how much he loved her,” Yvette said. “They said they never met such a devoted father. He loved his daughter.”

In 2006, Dean wrote a column in honor of his daughter.

“What can I say about my Buttercup?

That’s what I call Amiri (pronounced Ameer-ree). I’ve called her that since she was born in 2000,” Dean wrote, before recalling the first time he’d seen his daughter.

“The toughest thing early on, for about the first year after she was born, was that she didn’t smile. Never,” Dean wrote.

“Finally, when the family got together for Amiri’s first birthday in July 2001, suddenly here was a laughing, giggling, and smiling baby. Who was this kid? This

Services for Terry Dean Services for Terry Dean will be held Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 at Johnson Funeral Home, 5838 W. Division, Chicago. Visitation will be Sept. 30 from 2:30 to 6:30 p.m. A wake and funeral service will be Oct. 1 from 12:30 to 2:30. More details can be found at smithandthomas.com.

Terry was preceded in death by his parents Thomas Dean, Sr. and Mary Lee Dean. He is survived by his daughter Amiri Dean and his siblings Yvette Dean (William), Thomas Dean, Jr., Talman Dean, Sr. (Celeste Dean), Letitia Noreiga and many nieces and nephews wasn’t the same little girl who just stared at you. She smiled, and she smiled just like me … That made my day, year and lifetime.”

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Austin lawmaker shares prostate cancer story

Rep. La Shawn Ford shared his story on Sept. 18

By JORDYN HARRISON AustinTalks

“You could have had prostate cancer for almost 10 years.”

That’s what doctors told state Rep. La Shawn K. Ford last fall when they diagnosed him with prostate cancer at the age of 48 — two years younger than the typical age it’s recommended men start getting tested.

On Sept. 18, Ford shared his journey to becoming cancer free and championed early detection at a prostate cancer screening event organized by West Suburban Medical Center.

“Diagnosed in October, never talked to anyone about it, had the surgery in January, and here I am,” Ford said, noting he ran a 5K race in February.

Ford stressed the importance of being proactive and told of how he requested a test from his primary physician.

“I had just happened to ask my doctor to have the prostate screening,” he said. “The word is that you really don’t need prostate cancer screenings til you’re 50 or 55, according to the science. But the science really correlates with white men more than black men.”

Nearly 100 people flowed through the Saturday event, where 30 PSA (prostate-specific antigen) blood tests were administered.

For some men at the event, it was their first time having a PSA test done. They

spoke of knowing older men who had gotten prostate cancer yet were surprised to hear about diagnoses being given to men in their 40s.

“I have friends and some relatives who have prostate cancer, so I was aware of it,” Elmwood Park resident Derrick Holiday said. “Usually, when you hear people, they say it’s when you’re 50 and above, but I had no idea that it could be as early as 40.”

Though Ford’s PSA level came back high – measuring at 13 instead of 2 (the upper limit for his age group) – his results didn’t come back conclusive. Additional testing, including a physical exam, MRI and ultimately a biopsy, confirmed he had prostate cancer.

“Doctor’s will tell you, men to be careful with PSA screenings because there are false positives,” Ford said. “But I would tell you that it’s OK to know that you’re a false positive because it starts the discussion about your prostate health, and you begin to have a record of your prostate health on file.”

While prostate cancer can be lethal — about 27,000 men in the U.S. die from the disease each year — it has a 99% cure rate if caught early.

Dr. Alan Sadah, director of urology at West Suburban Medical Center, explained that early detection and advancements in treatment surgery have resulted in quick recovery.

“The majority of surgeries done now are with a robot, about 85%,” Sadah said. “The patient can go back to work in as little as 2 weeks or so. I’ve had patients go within 7-10 days.”

State Rep. Camille Lilly spoke of the importance of creating a community of support for those who receive cancer diagno-

ses. “Today is about family,” she said. “Yes, an individual with a high PSA may be diagnosed with cancer, but it becomes a family issue.”

Lilly is currently caring for her own father, who is dealing with Stage 4 cancer.

Having support systems make all the difference. “I made a decision that I was going to be on my father’s team to make sure that he felt supported in his journey to recovery.”

West Suburban Medical Center plans to have future events to provide West Side residents with health resources and

screenings.

“I’m very happy that you [West Suburban] continue to serve the Austin community,” Ford said. “The Austin community needs this hospital to be a partner with the West Side of Chicago, so that we can eliminate some of the health disparities that are out there.”

Austin residents needing prostate cancer screening can get a free test at The Loretto Hospital through the end of September.

Call 833-TLH-LOVE to schedule an appointment.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR BANTAM FUNDING TRUST 2018-1 Plaintiff, -v.ANNIE COATS A/K/A ANNIE HOWARD, SANDRA DILLON, PENTAGON FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, STATE OF ILLINOIS, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, UNKNOWN OCCUPANTS Defendants 18 CH 10251 5006 WEST ADAMS STREET CHICAGO, IL 60644 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on February 26, 2021, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on October 19, 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 5006 WEST ADAMS STREET, CHICAGO, IL 60644 Property Index No. 16-16-204-0370000 The real estate is improved with a multi-family residence.

The judgment amount was $157,982.04.

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 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

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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

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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, The sales clerk, LOGS Legal Group LLP Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301, Bannockburn, IL, 60015 (847) 291-1717 For information call between the hours of 1pm 3pm.. Please refer to file number 17-085098.

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