Battle to save Bronzeville school heats up Walgreens

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Blacks Must Control Their Own Community
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To The Unconquerable Host of Africans Who Are Laying Their Sacrifices Upon The Editorial Altar For Their Race
VOLUME LXXV NUMBER 4—SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2016
PUBLISHED SINCE 1940
25 Cents and worth more
Battle to save Bronzeville school heats up
Hundreds of children impacted as concerns swell over future of gifted program at Gallery 37
Chicago Crusader staff report
A battle is brewing to keep the Bronzeville
Lighthouse Charter School (BZLCS) open as
Chicago Public Schools seek to close the
school for academic reasons.
The fight comes as concerns linger over the
future CPS Advanced Arts Program at Gallery
37, a widely celebrated magnet arts program
that could close by the end of the semester, de-
spite assurances from school officials it would
not.
BZLCS’s future is now in the hands of the
Illinois Board of Education, which must also
decide the fate of three other schools that were
all recommended for closure just two weeks after they were placed on the CPS’ newly created
academic warning list. The controversial decision last November was met with heavy criticism from parents who said CPS gave only 10
days for educators to turnaround Betty
Shabazz-Barbara A. Sizemore Academy, Larry
Hawkins High School, Amandla Charter
High School and BZLCS. Appeals to keep
open Betty Shabazz and Amandla Charter
Schools have been filed, but no hearing has
been set.
For BZLCS, The Illinois State Charter
School Commission will hold a public hearing at the school at 6 p.m. on February 16.
FIGHTING
FIGHTINGTO KEEP HIS JOB
JOB
The school is located at 8 W. Root St.
At the hearing, the commission will gather
information from the community that will
help them to decide whether to grant the
school’s appeal to renew its charter. Parents,
students, alumni, and community partners are
invited to speak on behalf of the school and to
share their personal stories about why BZLCS
is a valuable educational option worth saving.
“This hearing will have a powerful impact
on the State Charter School Commission’s decision because they really want to know what
the parents in this community want. There
will be official commissioners coming to listen
to the community. These are the actual decision makers so this is a really important opportunity for our parents,” said Phyllis Goodson,
Lighthouse Academies Regional Vice President for Illinois.
(Continued on page 3)
Walgreens slices
Reggio’s Pizza
out of its stores
By Chinta Strausberg
State Representative Ken Dunkin is facing heat from a rising newcomer
as he fights an image of being a sellout in the Black community
By Erick Johnson
He’s an articulate and stylish political veteran whose charisma has kept him in office
for over a decade.
Now, once again, State Rep. Ken Dunkin
(5th) needs voters to help him keep his job.
His opponent was once a little-known candidate hoping to take down a goliath in the
Black community. Suddenly, Juliana Strat-
ton is a big contender in a political race
that’s now among the hottest this election
season.
At first, Stratton was perhaps the cupcake
candidate in her bid to unseat Dunkin, a
political heavyweight who has served for 13
years. With growing opposition and a fast-
approaching March 15 election, this race
may be a difficult one for Dunkin to win
and a surprising one for a political newcomer.
When Stratton entered the race last year,
her chances of beating the veteran were
On the ninth day of Black History Month
and on “National Pizza Day,” Reggio’s Pizza
president/CEO John Clark Tuesday said he is
disappointed that Walgreens Boots Alliance,
Inc. has discontinued his product from their
stores, ending a 23-year business relationship.
“Reggio’s Pizza is a 44-year-old African American family business enterprise. Reggio’s happens
to be the only African American frozen pizza
manufacturer in the United States.
“The company is located in the West
Chatham community of Chicago where it employs a diverse workforce from the community
of African American and Hispanics and where
unemployment is extremely high, nearly 40
percent,” he said.
A strong supporter of Reggio’s Pizza, Saint
Sabina’s Father Michael L. Pfleger said, “As we
celebrate Black History Month, it is important
that we not only celebrate the great accomplishments of the past but support the African
American accomplishments of the present.
John Clark, owner of Reggio’s Pizza, is one of
these.”
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
CSU students and faculty
step up demands for funding
(See story on page 2)
Solar light makes
futures bright
for students
(See story on page 10)
NEWS
CSU students and faculty step up demands for funding
By J. Coyden Palmer
Chicago State students and faculty
took their demands for a state budget
to be passed downtown to the
Thompson Center Feb. 9 after the
school last week declared a financial
state of emergency. The 4,800 commuter university on the city’s South
Side has been plagued by financial
mismanagement, decades of underfunding from the state and alumni
who do not give back, which has led
to the current financial state of affairs.
But if the school does not get money
within the next three weeks, the university will be unable to meet its payroll and it will cause major operational
disruptions.
“Chicago State is my life. My mother works at Chicago State and so she
has to walk in every day not knowing
if she will have a job or not,” said CSU
student Charles Preston.
He was one of dozens of students
who marched around the Thompson
building and the surrounding streets.
The students and faculty at the rally
said everyone is on edge at the school.
They say it is unfair to the students
who are having a hard time concentrating on their studies because of all
the uncertainty surrounding the
school’s future.
“We want our voices to be heard
and let the world know we are here
and we count,” said student Daniel
Jones.
On January 29, several CSU students were given citations after two
dozen walked onto the Dan Ryan Expressway during the morning rush
hour and shut down traffic. The
protests have been growing louder
and more visible as CSU students say
they are the forgotten university in
town.
“We put out more African American college graduates in a year than
just about all of the other schools
combined. For the lawmakers to put
this school in this predicament is an
attack on the Black community at
large,” Jones said.
Critics of CSU, which include
many of its own alumni, claim the
school is a big part of the blame. They
say CSU students often miss out on a
true college experience and do not
connect with the school in an emotional way.
“I think most CSU students see the
school as a place to get their education
and be done. There is no sense of
community and there are not activities at the school that bind the students there together,” said alum
Ronald Johnson. “Plain and simple
with the amount of degrees people
have earned from there, money
should be the least of their worries if
each of us gave a hundred dollars a
wouldn’t have to beg so much. My
friends who attended HBCU’s would
die for their schools and when they
come across fellow alum they greet
each other with love because of a
shared experience. That’s not the case
with CSU. It’s like ‘oh you went
there? So did I,’ and that’s it.”
Illinois has now gone eight months
without a budget, the longest in the
state’s history. The stalemate is causing problems in day care, healthcare,
correctional institutions, and business, in addition to the state universities. Officials at Chicago State along
with Governors State in University
Park and Eastern Illinois in downstate
Charleston, have expressed serious
concerns about the future of their operations.
“Illinois needs a budget to fund
higher education,” said Paris Griffin,
CSU student government president.
“Without the state budget being
passed, higher education in the state
of Illinois is in danger.”
So far Illinois lawmakers have made
several proposals to address the problem at Chicago State but they have
yet to take a vote on anything. In the
meantime, the students say they will
continue their protests and keep the
issue in the media.
“If we don’t keep this problem at the
front of the public’s conscious we’re
just as good as gone,” Griffin said.
CHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITY students block traffic on the
Dan Ryan Expressway to demand more funding to prevent
their school from closing before the end of the semester.
(Photo by J. Coyden Palmer)
year. But usually when people gradu“Look while I’m not a rah rah ‘CSU
ate from CSU they are so angered by is the greatest,’ I also know without it
their experience, they are just happy to I would not be where I am in life,”
get out and move on to the next phase said Sandra Williams, a teacher from
of their life without a second the south suburbs. “The school has
thought.”
great academic programs and that is
Johnson’s sentiments are shared by what you are going to school for anymany other CSU alumni the Cru- way, not the ancillary stuff. But CSU
sader spoke with. But everyone also could do itself a favor by doing more
agrees losing the institution would be for its students in getting them to
bad for everyone involved.
bond with the University then they
Walgreens slices Reggio’s Pizza out of its stores
(Continued from page 1)
“We must make sure that we support him and allow him to continue
to be successful,” Pfleger stated.
When contacted, Jim Cohn, a
spokesperson for Walgreens, said,
“We have reached out to folks at Reggio’s to conduct an additional 60-day
test” but have not yet heard from
them.
Asked about this test Walgreens
conducted on Reggio’s Pizza, Cohn
said, “We continually review every
product category as far as their performance and demand. It is essential for
every supplier we do business with.
The test we conducted resulted in a
not strong demand.”
Cohn said the test was done over a
90-day period in 30 stores; however,
he did not know if those stores were
on the South or West Sides of Chicago.
“Everything is evaluated for performance,” Cohn said. “The test period
conducted reflected a not strong consumer demand.”
In reaction to Walgreens’ response,
Mr. Clark said, “Reggio’s showing
during the 90-day test Walgreens
made a net profit of nearly $100,000.
That was a strong showing of customer demand.
“We are just hearing today about
doing another 60-day test. No other
retailer in the country except Wal- A WALGREENS STORE in Woodlawn has a full stock of
greens requires us to take a test, which Reggio’s Pizza, but the chain say it will no longer carry the
is extremely burdensome. We have product because of low sales. (Photo by Erick johnson)
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SATURDAY, February 13, 2016
been in business for over 44 years,”
said Clark.
NAACP Chicago South Side Chapter President Attorney Rose Joshua
said, “Underperformance and the
questionable test of consumer demand is Walgreens’ rhetoric utilized
to undermine African American
businesses especially Reggio’s Pizza.”
Peter Kennedy, Food Spoke Committee co-chairperson for the Rainbow PUSH Coalition International
Trade Bureau, wasn’t pleased at all
with Cohn’s rationale for shutting out
Reggio’s Pizza after 23-years. “This
statement appears to be a standard
stick put off.”
“I completely agree with Mr. Clark
that doing another “test” after passing
the “30” thirty store citywide test is
an unfair burden,” said Kennedy.
“Walgreen’s needs to use a level
playing field where all vendors are
treated the same. What other vendors
are required after 23 years to ‘reprove’ their product’s value to be in
Walgreens stores?
“Reggio’s is not a start-up business
and Walgreens is treating them as if
they do not have a positive track
record and we doubt this is done to
other companies with the years of service in Walgreens like Reggio’s,” stated Kennedy.
“We at the RPC Trade Bureau are
very, very concerned about this grave
decision that Walgreens has made.
We do not agree with this treatment
of Reggio’s Pizza at all. And we want
Blacks Must control their own coMMunity
to meet with the CEO of Walgreens
about this to determine how our
community will treat Walgreens because of this mistreatment of one of
our valuable job creating community
members,” stated Kennedy. “This
decision must be reversed immediately.”
“It is sad that an institution such as
Reggio’s Pizza will be discontinued at
Walgreens because it does not seem
fit to honor diversity in manufacturing,” Kennedy stated.
“It is sad that we have to fight so
hard to get Walgreens to recognize
that Reggio’s Pizza is well liked and respected. We will not sit by idly and let
Walgreens believe that there will not
be a response to this outrage.”
Kennedy said he is reaching out to
Senator Durbin and wants Walgreens
Boots Alliance to meet with PUSH
officials and explain why this
“Switzerland-based company came
into the Black community and made
such a call as this.”
Walgreens is no stranger to public
outrage for in August 2014, Walgreens was threatening to move its
corporate office to Europe to reduce
its tax bill a process called tax inversion that back then President Barack
Obama called “unpatriotic” and U.S.
Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) then
threatened a boycott if Walgreens
moved. Reportedly, the store stayed
only because they felt the U.S. IRS
would never approve of the inversion
plan.
NEWS
Leaders dash to sign up voters before deadline
Voter registration drive to honor Harold Washington
The Mayor Harold Washington
Legacy Committee along with the
51st Street Business Association
Tuesday announced a voter registration drive which they hope will
add thousands to the voter rolls by
the February 16th registration
deadline for the March 15th primary.
“In the spirit of Mayor Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King.
Jr., we urge you to come out and
register to vote by the Feb. 16
deadline and come out to vote in
mass numbers on March 15.
Register to vote by February
16th,” the coalition said in a joint
statement.
“February 16, 2016 is the deadline to use a mail-in form or the
online system to register to vote –
or file a name or address change
for the March 15, 2016 primary
election,” according to the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners. You can use your Illinois
driver’s license or state ID card to
register to vote.
You may register to vote on line
through February 16th by clicking on: https://ova.elections.il.gov. However, online applications
for voter registration for the 2016
General Primary will no longer be
accepted as of February 16th at
11:59 p.m.
To be eligible to vote, you must:
be a U.S. citizen, be 17-years old
on or before the date of the Primary Election and turn 18 on or
before the date of the General
Election. You must live in your
election precinct at least 30-days
prior to Election Day. You cannot
be convicted and in jail. Those in
jail but not convicted are eligible
to vote, and people cannot claim
the right to vote anywhere else.
The Harold Washington Legacy
Committee and the 51st Street
Business Association are airing a
PSA on WVON and other radio
stations that says:
“16 shots and what do you got?
Feb. 16th what have you got?
The last day to register cause your
vote means a lot. 16 shots and
what do that mean. We’ve got to
make a change in 2016.
“In 1982, Congressman Harold
Washington said he would run
for office if 50,000 Blacks would
register new voters. A voter registration campaign took place resulting in 100,000 newly registered African American voters.
“We did the impossible. We
elected the first African American
mayor. That goes to show how
powerful our vote is. Tell 16 of
your friends to register by February 16th and then bring 16 people with you to the polls.”
“Bring back the dream by registering to vote by February 15th
and 16th at the 51st Street Business Association located at 220 E.
51st Street between 11 a.m. and
6:30 p.m. Monday, February
15th and Tuesday, February 16th.
After the deadline, those who
still have not registered to vote
may do so in person at selected
sites that are listed on chicagoelections.com
Mayor Harold Washington
Black firefighters renew calls to oust fire chief
Despite the recent promotion and
appointments of three Black firefighters, the African American Firefighters & Paramedics League of
Chicago (AAFFPL) still wants Mayor Rahm Emanuel to fire Chicago
Fire Department Commissioner
Jose Santiago.
Richard C. Ford III, from Deputy
Fire Commissioner Fire Prevention
Bureau to 1st Deputy Fire Commissioner; Arriel Gray Jr., from District
Chief Fire Prevention Bureau to
Deputy Fire Commissioner Fire
Prevention Bureau; Charles W.
Maes, from Battalion Chief Operations Relief, to Deputy District
Chief Operations Relief; and Mark
bers of the AAFFPL. “It is a step forward. But, as far as the League goes,
we still want the U.S. Justice Department to come in and look at the
hiring practices since 2006. We are
still saying that Commissioner Jose
Santiago has to go for the mismanagement of the fire department. We
want a moratorium on the hiring
until the U.S. Justice Department
can take a look at the way hiring has
been done.” Boggs said members do not believe
the new promotions can reform the
department and make things whole.
The AAFFPL’s demands, he said,
have not shifted since the January 7
press conference outside the Chicago Public Safety Building. At that
press event, firefighters called for
Santiago’s ouster, saying he has failed
to enforce the court consent decree
ordering the hiring and promotions
of Black firefighters, and he had allowed racism and favoritism to continue to run rampant in the department. Under the consent decree
from the AAFFPL’s successful lawsuit in 2011 (Lewis versus the City
of Chicago), the city was ordered to
hire 111 Black firefighters and pay
$30 million to about 6,000 applicants.
Battle to save Bronzeville school
JAMES WINBUSH, FOUNDER of the African American Firefighters & Paramedics League, believes Chicago Fire Department Commissioner Jose Santiago should be fired.
The organization said Santiago is L. Townsend, from Deputy District
incompetent and lacks integrity. In Chief Operations Relief, to District
addition, the AAFFPL say Santiago’s Chief Fire Prevention Bureau.
actions are too little, too late. They William C. Vogt, District Chief Spewant the U.S. Department of Justice cial Projects will be reassigned from
to expand its investigation to the fire District Chief Special Projects to
department to examine the depart- Deputy District Chief Operations
ment’s hiring practices, and they Relief.
want a moratorium on hiring until
“It is definitely a step in the right
the recommended Justice Depart- direction,” said Greg Boggs, presiment investigation is completed or dent of the AAFFPL. “We have not
reform occurs in the agency.
had any diversity at the top of the fire
The appointments made by Santi- department. We are very proud of
ago effective on February 16, 2016 those appointees, especially Ford,
are :
Gray and Townsend, who are memwww.chicagocrusader.com
BZLCS has served the Chicago
South Side community for over
nine years and has a college preparatory, arts-infused learning environment . Many young scholars have
been able to get into highly competitive selective enrollment academic
centers and high schools after their
preparation at BZLCS.
Jabari Brooks, a founding student
who entered BZLCS in the 38th
percentile as a third grader and left in
the 99th percentile. He is now a senior at Chicago’s prominent Whitney Young High School.
“Closing this school will destroy a
pivotal stepping stone for young
African Americans like myself to ascend to new heights,” Jabari said.
“The generation of teachers at
BZLCS has raised a new one that
will not complacently sit by while
the select few wreak havoc on the
many.”
BZLCS was well into their renewal
process when they were abruptly notified less than 24 hours before their
scheduled renewal site visit that
Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool would be recommending the school for nonrenewal and
that their site visit was canceled. 14
days later, the Chicago Public
Schools Board of Education voted to
not renew their charter. BZLCS is
the first charter school in the history
of CPS that has been denied the due
process of a full renewal process detailed in the charter agreement with
CPS. CPS attorneys said it was because they did not have the money.
Now, the educational options of
the 450 students currently enrolled
at BZLCS are at risk of disruption
and the community will face yet another setback following the closure
of 50 CPS schools in 2013. The
school has received multiple grants
this year to fund an edible garden
and to install a bee hive as well as to
conduct additional professional development for teachers. Parents say
these plans and opportunities will
be lost if the school closes.
At Gallery 37, concerns about the
school’s future have been ongoing
since January 22, when 227 employees were laid off. CPS officials
said the layoffs were a cost cutting
measure, but the move fueled worries that the move was the beginning of the end for program. Some
150 gifted students-many of them
Black- are enrolled in the AAP at
Gallery 37. They take honors and
Advanced Placement classes ranging from drawing and painting to
video production to culinary arts to
jazz performance. Enrollment is
capped at 250; currently, about 150
students are enrolled. The courses
make up an after-school program
but separate from After School
Matters, the popular program
founded by Maggie Daley, the late
wife of former Mayor Richard M.
Daley.
CPS officials say they are looking
into “potential modifications” to
the Advanced Arts program that
would allow a larger number of students to benefit from this unique
program. So far, no decisions have
been made to modify the program.
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EDITORIAL
EDITORIAL
PRESIDENTS’ DAY,
VICTIMHOOD AND
BLACK ACHIEVEMENT
Presidents’ Day 2016 is here and the time has come when it can
have a different meaning for Black people. This is because an African
American is president of the United States! President Barack Obama’s great achievement can send a very important message to the
Black community if it can be correctly deciphered. There is a familiar
saying in popular contemporary culture – “What you see is what you
get.” Though some people easily identify with the truth of this assertion, the more esoteric aspects of it escapes most. If that were not the
case, Black people wouldn’t continue to focus on weaknesses in the
community and in themselves. President Barack Obama, however, is
someone who focused on achievement rather than victimhood.
When we look at the history of Black people in America and
around the world, it becomes painfully obvious that bigotry is alive
and well. It is also understood that there are those who deliberately
do things to thwart the efforts of Black people when it comes to social and economic parity. Because of this, it is understandable that
Blacks would develop a victimhood worldview. But what has this
gotten the community?
If we as a people are helpless in the face of misfortune and oppression, then we might as well get angry with Nature, because Black
people are not only victims of others outside of the community, but
also victims of Black on Black angst, as well as being disproportionately victimized by biological maladies. It seems as though every time
a new disease is discovered, the Black community suffers more from
it than others. And why is this so? The answer most likely lies in a total embracement of a philosophy of victimhood, a MINDSET!
What you see is what you get! The Law of Attraction ensures that
people who view the world from a position of inevitable defeat will
manifest that condition.
It is time that we adopt a new paradigm; that we begin to understand the world in a different way. To continue to ignore the fact that
we CAN impact our destiny in spite of mega-oppressive forces is
something that we need to consider. The world is in the dark ages
when it comes to dealing with new realities like the incredible power
of intention-based thought. At one time people were convinced that
the world was flat. Actually, today there are still people who stubbornly hold onto that viewpoint, but most of us know that the world
is not flat. Also, recent discoveries in the world of science are pointing
to new dimensions regarding so-called “reality.” The Heisenberg
Principle, for one, has shown that the observer actually alters and influences what is observed, yet we still hold onto the old mechanical
model of reality as described by Sir Isaac Newton several centuries
ago.
The actual fact is that we have not yet cracked the code of the human mind. Like the flat-earthers that live among us today, we have
refused to advance in an understanding of consciousness and the
power of thought. People have not included consciousness in life’s
equations to a satisfactory degree, EXCEPT those who know that we
can create our world based on what we anticipate and on where we
focus our attention. When looked at in this light, it is the height of
folly for Black people to continue to focus on victimization because it
has just resulted in more victimization; we have enthusiastically
forged a rut that is getting deeper and deeper entrapping us to such
an extent that it will be difficult to escape.
We must never forget that we can create our own destiny because
we have the power of MIND. Mind, linked with LOVE and UNITY, are the powerful weapons that we have that can combat a victimhood consciousness. President Obama has faced many, many obstacles, but he has prevailed, and he is an excellent role model in this
regard. We must take that example to change the focus from victimhood to Black familyhood. The unity of collective Black WILL
(power) can change our condition for the better. The time is now! A
luta continua.
I know that sometimes you allow readers to write letters about
the same topic, and I hope this is
one of those times. I have seen on
this page suggestions and ideas
for getting rid of Mayor Rahm
Emanuel. I also am familiar with
the recent push to get him to resign now. That seems to have lost
its thunder. It is pretty clear that
the mayor is not going to leave
before his time is up.
If that is an accurate guess, then
I think every Black person in
Chicago who is old enough to
vote should begin contributing to
what I call the Rahm Retirement
Fund. No money would go to
him but it would go to a candidate, or even two candidates
Black folks feel can defeat Rahm
in the 2019 election. Whoever
sets out to run against him will
need a very sizeable war chest. Instead of waiting until the candidates announce, those of us with
no interest in seeking public office can contribute maybe $1 or
$2 per week until the campaign
season starts. By that time an organization, and rules to dispense
the dollars can be established.
This kind of process could easily
mean millions of dollars to one or
two candidates. They don’t necessarily have to raise more money
than Emanuel but they do need
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Time to plan
Rahm’s exit
Dear Editor:
enough to make sure they can
have a capable staff, do all of the
research and communications
necessary, as well as market and
advertise their campaign.
One of the daily newspapers
took a poll that showed Emanuel
had a very low approval rating in
the Black community, and the
city in general. We really need to
capitalize on that sentiment and
put everything necessary in place
now to get him out of office in the
next election.
I am not advocating for the best
Black candidate, but the best candidate period. We have to get mature about politics in this city and
learn how to do some horse-trading with other communities and
other interests to help the West
Side and the South Side advance.
Politics, especially effective politics is about give and take. We will
need a variety of voters to accomplish the goal of getting Emanuel
out of office. That should be the
focus-our common goal, not our
differences.
Hopefully there will be more
about this idea in the very near future.
Willie Mae Ernest
Black Chicago
needs to come
together for CSU
Dear Editor:
If ever there was a time for Black
Chicagoans to come together for a
cause, that time is now. The cause
we need to unite for is preserving
Chicago State University. The
very real possibility that people
who have put four, five or six
years into their studies may not
graduate should be alarming to
everyone. The governor’s refusal
to allocate dollars to keep the
school open past next month
smacks of the Jim Crow South
when it was super difficult for
Black people to get an education.
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COMMENTARY
The “Shining Star” has left us
Beyond the Rhetoric
By Harry C. Alford
On February 3 my oldest daughter sent me a text saying: “Daddy,
Maurice White died this morning.”
I conveyed the sad news to my wife
and realized that Maurice was like
family to most of us. His songs and
live performances brought joy to
our nation and even the world.
There is just no big band act that
could perform and be appreciated
by all races like “Earth, Wind and
Fire.” That was his baby.
He was born in Memphis and
started loving music by the time he
was walking. He would soon work
professionally under Stax Records.
After visiting his mother in Chicago
a few times he decided to move to
the Windy City. He joined up with
the historical Chess Records. There
he became friends and eventually a
business partner with the famous pianist Ramsey Lewis.
The first time I saw Maurice he
was playing with the Ramsey Lewis
Trio. They did a show at the University of Wisconsin, 1968. He was
beating the drums. Also, there was
another instrument he entertained
us with. It was a Kalimba, which is
an African hand instrument that
Harry C.
C. Alford
Alford
Harry
sounds like a flute. No other musician can work that instrument like
Maurice. The entire hall enjoyed his
solos.
In 1969, he decided to become entrepreneurial with his talent. Maurice joined with his two brothers,
Verdine and Fred and a host of familiar musicians that he met along the
way. Thus, the genesis of Earth,
Wind and Fire began. I was working
for Procter and Gamble in 1970, dri-
ving the company car on a rural
route of my territory – pushing soap
at every grocery store along the way.
What saved me from boredom
while driving in this farm country
was my car’s AM radio. I picked up
this soul station sponsored by Michigan State University. The DJ gave
notice that he had discovered this
great new group. “Their name is
Earth, Wind and Fire. How creative
naming themselves after the elements. If you like this group let us
know I want to bring them on campus.”
I was impressed. However, I did
not hear any of their sounds again
until 1973. I was now a 2nd Lieutenant in the Army traveling to Rock
Island, Illinois to participate in a race
relations conference. Racial tensions
were heating up in the military due
to the Draft. Blacks were disproportionately being drafted into the
Army. 30 percent of us were going
off to Vietnam and even a higher
percentage were being killed or
wounded. Every military base soon
had a Race Relations Officer to detect bias and settle disputes. I represented Dugway Proving Grounds,
Utah.
There were about 60 of us at this
session. As always any group of Black
officers in uniform would work
small town sisters into a frenzy. One
evening we decided to paint the
town and ended up in a predominantly Black nightclub. As we sat at
tables drinking the women would
walk over and start hitting on us.
One very shapely lady came to me
and stated: “It is too busy in here.
Let’s go to my apartment and listen
to music. That’s all!” She showed me
a brand new album and started
playing it on her LP record player. I
looked at the album jacket and stated: Earth, Wind and Fire I know
about them. It was a white cover,
band members where dressed in
white. One lady was in the group –
Jessica Cleaves formerly with the
Friends of Distinction (Going in
Circles). I fell in love with this album and played “Head to the Sky”
about six straight times. I became a
fan of EWF for the rest of my life.
After the Army, the company sent
me to Detroit. EWF was the top talent loved by all. They would come
to Pine Knob outdoor theater once
or twice a year. Every song Maurice
would write became a number one
hit on all Black radio stations and
many white stations. Maurice became a master of melodic soul. We
would go to house parties and sev-
enty percent of the music played
would be EWF.
He was a great discoverer of new
talent. Besides Jessica Cleaves he
brought Deniece Williams and the
Emotions into prominence and success. He would study a singer’s voice
and write songs that were custom
made to that style. The hits would
keep rolling.
Then life has many curves and
Maurice got hit with a Biggy. He
became plagued with progressive
Parkinson’s disease. By 1992, he
could no longer work a stage. I
last saw him slowly walking
through DC’s Reagan Airport
about ten years ago. Last week he
died in his sleep. He has left us
physically but his music will last
forever. His name will remain in
the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
His 20 Grammy nominations
and 7 Grammies is a testament to
his work and contribution to our
culture.
Rest in Peace our Brother.
Mr. Alford is the President/-CEO
of the National Black Chamber of
Commerce®. Website: www. nationalbcc.org Email: [email protected] .
Black Quarterbacks are Still Held to a Different Standard
By George E. Curry
George Curry
Media Columnist
Despite Cam Newton leading
the Carolina Panthers to a 15-1
record during the regular season
and two playoff victories en route
to his being selected the NFL’s
Most Valuable Player and six Black
QBs playing in the Super Bowl,
Black quarterbacks are still routinely subjected to a double-standard
by fans and the media.
In a game, an error-filled game in
which neither star quarterback
played particularly well, Newton’s
team lost Sunday to the Denver
Broncos 24-10. Even so, he had a
stellar season by all accounts:
throwing for 3,837 yards, including a league-high of 35 touchdowns, and running 636 yards, accounting for 10 more TDs. He was
selected as a first-team All-Pro and
received 48 of the 50 votes cast for
league MVP.
The undisputed leader of his
team was clearly having fun on the
field all year — at least until Sunday — and wasn’t shy about showing it. And that’s a breath of fresh
air in the NFL - which some say
stands for No Fun League. Not only does Newton have at least five
different dances, he races to end
zone stands after scoring and flips
the ball to a smiling, grateful kid.
Similar criticism is never leveled
at quarterback Aaron Rodgers who
performs the Lambeau Leap in the
George E. Curry
end zone stands after scoring a touchdown. While other teams are penalized for excessive celebrating, the
NFL exempts Green Bay players
from being disciplined for jumping
in the stands after scoring.
But officials are quick to penalize
Black players.
Although African Americans comprise 65 percent of the NFL, they receive 91 percent of the unsportsmanlike conduct penalties assessed after
touchdowns, according to a 2012
study titled, “The Hubris Penalty: Biased Responses to ‘Celebration’ Dis-
www.chicagocrusader.coM
plays of Black Football Players.”
The authors, Robert Livingston
and Erika V. Hall, noted of the celebrations, “This challenges whites’
perceptions that they are and should
be in charge. These perceptions and
feelings often operate at an implicit
or subconscious level. However, it is
the Black player who ends up getting blamed, rather than whites’ implicit bias.
“What is clear, however, both in
our data and in many real-world scenarios, is that it’s perfectly fine for
white males to show a lack of humility. People not only tolerate it, they
often celebrate it.”
Green Bay Packers quarterback
Aaron Rodgers is a case in point.
Rodger’s patented post-touchdown championship belt celebration is not only tolerated, it has allowed him to laugh all the way to
the bank when he films commercials for State Farm Insurance featuring the Discount Double Check.
Whites’ implicit bias may also account for Black quarterbacks being
roughly twice as likely as White QBs
to be benched, according to a study
by Brian Volz, an economist at Assumption College.
The abstract of the study provides
this summary:
“This study examines data from
the 2001 to 2009 National Football
League (NFL) seasons to determine
whether Black quarterbacks face discrimination. When controlling for
injury, age, experience, performance, team investment, backup quality,
Blacks Must control their owcoMMunity
and bye weeks, Black quarterbacks
are found to be 1.98-2.46 times
more likely to be benched...
When White quarterbacks are
benched, the team improves by more
than when Black quarterbacks are
benched.”
Because the effervescent Newton
seems to be having so much fun on
the field, many underestimate how
hard he has worked to reach the top
of his profession.
“Cam Newton didn’t just stumble
into becoming the NFL’s best player,” Associated Press sports writer
Steve Reed observed. “Sure, he has all
the physical attributes any quarterback could ask for - he’s 6-foot-5 and
250 pounds of muscle with a strong
arm and wide receiver speed. He
even has a million-dollar smile and
the confidence of a player who has always been a winner. “
But those in the Panthers organization say what people don’t see is what
Newton has done behind the scenes
to improve as a pro quarterback.
“‘People see him smiling, giving
footballs away and dancing, but what
they don’t see is that throughout the
workweek the guy is just a machine,’
center Ryan Kalil said. “‘He’s incredible with the time he puts in.’”
The off-field behavior of Newton
and other Black quarterbacks is, like
so many other things, viewed
through different lenses.
According to a story on ESPN.com,
“On Dec. 30, Cam announced the
birth of his first child, the boy he
named Chosen. The mother, Kia
Proctor, was described by Newton as
his ‘longtime girlfriend.’ The announcement, made six days after the
boy was born, hit the front page of
the local papers (of course) and occasioned another finger-wagging letter
to The Charlotte Observer (of
course.) Patricia Broderick of
Mooresville expressed her disappointment in Newton and suggested he
marry the mother of his child. ‘Congratulations would be in order,’ she
wrote, ‘if he had been man enough to
marry the mother of his child and
make a home.’
“Well, of course she said that. Tom
Brady can have a child out of wedlock - and leave the actress/mother
for a supermodel before the baby was
born - and not be blamed for the systemic deterioration of the American
family and the scourge of fatherless
households. For Newton, it was yet
another lens through which to view
him, as if maturity, greed and race
weren’t enough.”
George E. Curry is President and
CEO of George Curry Media, LLC.
He is the former editor-in-chief of
Emerge magazine and the National
Newspaper Publishers Association
News Service (NNPA). He is a keynote speaker, moderator, and media
coach. Curry can be reached through
his Web site, georgecurry.com. You
can also follow him at twitter.com
/currygeorge,George E. Curry Fan
Page on Facebook, and Periscope. See
previous columns at http://www.georgecurry.com/columns.
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COMMENTARY
THE IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING EGYPT IS IN AFRICA
Dr. Conrad Worrill, Director/Professor, Carruthers Center for
Inner City Studies (CCICS), located at 700 East Oakwood Blvd,
Chicago, Illinois, 60653, 773268-7500, Fax: 773-268-3835.
E-mail: [email protected], Website: www.neiu.edu/ccics, Twitter:
@CCICS_Chicago.
Dr. Conrad Worrill
Until recently, there had been a
scholarly debate among European
intellectuals, as well as some Blacks,
on what they referred to as the peopling of ancient Egypt. What this
question really posed was, “Who
were the ancient Egyptians?” Were
they Black, white, mulatto, etc.?
This issue has been at the core of
European history, or better yet, European historiography (the science
of how history is written) for more
than two hundred years. This framework of European hegemony over
the history of the world has had a
devastating impact on African people and the African mind.
It is in this context that we understand the intellectual devastation of
the European conceptualization of
the world order. We should understand this in relation to our movement for an African centered education aimed at helping our people
come out from beneath this European intellectual assault.
Let me use renowned African deep
thinker, scholar, and ancestor, Dr. Jacob H. Carruthers’ paper he wrote
entitled, “Race of Ancient Egyptians” in helping clarify this subject.
This paper gives us the insights we
need to understand in this regard
Dr. Carruthers observes, “The
doctrine of white supremacy was
launched by philosophers like David
Hume who asserted in 1749 ‘I am
apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the whites.’ This
position was expressed in a different
context by Montesquieu about the
same time.”
We are guided by Dr. Carruthers
when he explains, “In the Spirit of
the Laws, Montesquieu asserted, ‘it
is impossible for us to suppose these
creatures to be men, because allowing them to be men, a suspicion
would follow that we ourselves are
not Christians.’ Montesquieu was
justifying the enslavement of
Africans that was one of the major
reasons for inventing the doctrine
of white supremacy.”
Upon further examination, Dr.
Carruthers reveals “Obviously the
emerging doctrine could not gain
credibility among those who were
familiar with the traditional wisdom among Europeans that the ancient Africans of Egypt had achieved a very high level of civilization
and had transmitted to the ancient
Greeks many of the major ideas
considered a part of Greek civilization.”
Dr. Carruthers explains, “Several
decades after the founding of the
concept of white supremacy Georg
Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel supplied
the solution of this latter difficulty
when at the beginning of the 19th
century, he asserted that Africa was
‘not a historical part of the world.’”
Finally, Dr. Carruthers quotes
Hegel to demonstrate the ultimate
in European intellectual arrogance,
Hegel states, “Historical movement
in it that is its northern part belongs to the Asiatic or European
world… Egypt will be considered
in reference to its western phase, but
it does not belong to the African
spirit.”
Through this conceptualization
Dr. Carruthers reveals, “Thus Hegel took Egypt out of Africa and
Africans out of Egypt. He also removed Africans from history.”
As an outgrowth of this kind of
thinking by European scholars, the
field of Egyptology began to emerge. Egyptology as a field of study is
the creation of the European mentality that seeks to gather evidence
(artifacts and antiquities) that supports the idea of the European origin of civilization.
Egyptologists have literally attempted to remove Egypt from the
geographical confines of Africa and
reposited it within the geographical
domain of Asia.
The removal of Egypt from Africa
serves a twofold purpose. First, it
leads to the obvious idea that Egypt
is not a part of Africa; therefore, its
population could not have been
Black. Secondly, it serves the purpose of implying that civilization
did not begin with the Black race.
Fortunately, we have always had
Black scholars among us, who did
not get trapped in the European
conception of the world. It started
with men like Hosea Easton, Henry
Highland Garnett, and Martin R.
Delany who “took the biblical
myth of Ham and used it to estab-
lish Blacks as the authors of the
great Nile Valley civilizations.”
Also, “They… used ancient European works such as Herodotus,
Diodorus and whatever modern
works they could find. This tradition has been an honorable endeavor and has taught us much.” The
old scrappers, according to Dr. Carruthers, “are still among us slugging
it out as per our beloved Professor
John G. Jackson.”
Through the work of Senegalese
scholar Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop, Dr.
Théophile Obenga, Dr. Yosef ben
Jochannan, and Chancellor Williams the origin of the ancient Egyptians should never ever be a question for African people. This question has been resolved. We should
be clear that the ancient Egyptians
(or more properly called, Kemetic
people) were Black.
Diop points out that Herodotus
“after relating his eyewitness account informing us that the Egyptians were Black, demonstrated,
with rare honesty (for a Greek), that
Greece borrowed from Egypt all elements of her civilization even the
cult of gods, and that Egypt was the
cradle of civilization.”
Our scholars, thinkers, and researchers should never again raise
the questions of who the Egyptians
were. Clearly, they were Black people. This question has been resolved!
IN IT TO WIN IT – HEAD HILLARY, HEART BERNIE
By Julianne Malveaux
NNPA Columnist
I am looking forward to November 8, 2016, and to voting
for Hillary Rodham Clinton to
lead these United States. I am so
extremely excited that a woman
of character, experience, and
discernment can lead our nation. Even as I look forward to
the November vote, I am fully
enjoying the path to November.
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has provided tone and texture to this race. He has forced
Senator Clinton to hone her positions on health care, Wall
Street and income inequality.
He came so amazingly close to
toppling her in Iowa that it gave
me Post Dramatic Stress Syndrome. She didn’t make my drama hers, though. She has managed, with stoic dignity, to stake
her claim for this presidency.
My head is with Secretary
Hillary Clinton, but my heart is
with Senator Bernie Sanders. I
realize that he has promised
everything and hasn’t shared
how he might pay for much of it
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— free tuition, universal health
care, or Wall Street reform. Still,
his energetic bluster has been a
galvanizing factor in a race that
might otherwise have been seen
as a cakewalk or a coronation.
Hillary needs to be pushed as
hard as Senator Sanders can push
her. And even though Sanders
says he does not care about her
“damn emails,” the email conversation has to remind Senator
Clinton that she has to figure out
ways to restore trust among
those who support her positions
but look askance at the ways she
has been too frequently presented.
There is an element of sexism
in this. Hillary Clinton has been
on the national stage for several
decades, from the time when her
husband, was elected governor of
Arkansas in the 1980s. As First
Lady, she had to juggle her
smarts and her secondary role,
blundering as she tried to offer
clarity around health care, soaring as she provided rhetorical
leadership on women and children’s issues. And since the Clintons left the White House, she
Dr. Julianne Malveaux
has been nimble and focused as a
Senator, managing to make
friends in both political parties,
and managing to provide solid
international leadership as Secretary of State. Were she a man,
would she be judged as harshly
because some find her “unlikeable”? Would her every facial expression be parsed? Would opponents feel free to comment on her
marital business? Thrice-married
Donald Trump has spoken of Bill
Clinton’s fidelity, but it is documented that he was a big time
philanderer. Carly Fiorina says
she would have left her husband
if he’d cheated like Bill, but we
don’t know that, do we? What we
know is that Hillary’s gender is a
double-edged sword. I cringe
whenever she says, “I am woman,”
or “the only woman,” or some reference to her clear self-evident
gender. But I also cringe when the
gender-bashers seem incapable of
interpreting her words and her
work fairly.
That’s not why I’ll vote for
Hillary, though. I’ll vote for her
because she is a center-left moderate (Bernie Sanders is not in
charge of who gets to be a progressive, and I really don’t care as
much about labels as about outcomes) who will pragmatically
work toward social and economic
justice. She isn’t perfect and may,
indeed, be fundamentally flawed
(as most politicians are), but she
has been a consistent advocate for
the least and the left out – for
children and for elders. Is she
weak on Wall Street reform? Absolutely. But as Bernie Sanders
pushes her, she gets stronger.
A year ago, many predicted
this race as a dynastic smack
down, with Jeb Bush and Hillary
Clinton winning primaries toeto-toe. Who would have thought
that an unhinged demagogue,
Donald Trump, would suck
much of the air out of the Republican space, leaving babbling
bumblers to confuse ad hominem ignorance with issues? The
collective performance of the
Republican team could not
equal that of either Sanders or
Clinton, but those R’s keep slogging on. To what end? Do we really want a President who will
trash talk Putin, Mexico and the
United Nations? Do we want
sons of immigrants who do vilely disrespect their ancestors that
they’d offer punitive possibilities
for citizenship?
I’m not really torn between my
head and my heart. I’m simply
enjoying the excitement of Bernie Sanders, and the way he has
galvanized young people, especially, to become politically engaged. I am hoping that his
GOSSIPTARY
By Ima Gontellit
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not be considered as fact but rather as
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reading!
supposed to be leading in the polls
for reelection in March. Lawd knows
Ima can’t figure out why? Kim Foxx
is being endorsed for the same office
by some heavy hitters like Toni
Preckwinkle, Congressman Danny
Davis, the SEIU Local and more.
Even folks from the Hispanic side
like Luis Gutierrez is for Kim Foxx.
But one thing is for sure Alvarez is an
’M IN ILLINOIS YA’LL
President Barack Obama ain’t said a
word about war torn Chicago with
its abundance of police brutality, but
he decided he could at least come to
the state . . . try Springfield!! Who decides to come to Illinois and their
destination is Springfield??? Forget
about the fact that he used to be in
the state legislature, where his only
major accomplishment was cameras
THE BOWLER
GOT CASH!!!
-Ima-
The bowler wearing little man in
Springfield, also known as Ken
Dunkin, planted a story in the Unsunny Times that he got a half a million dollars (the same as $500,000) it
just sounds better and like it is more.
And then he set about meeting with
Black folks dangling the money carrot in front of their needy eyes. He
held a meeting at the Offender,
money will get it every time. If you
don’t believe it ask Rahm. He was
talking about tourism dollars, which
ain’t been seen in the Black community in many a moon and believe me
he ain’t just been put over this committee in Springfield and maybe we
should look and see if tourism mon-
IS THERE A BEAUTICIAN
IN THE HOUSE??
Ima was watching television last
night and Hillary Clinton was looking lik the cats had licked her hair. As
a matter of fact it looked lik it was the
Rahm Emanuel
ey was used to pay for his trip to the
tennis tournament when that important vote was being taken. Now
he’s in hot water ‘cause he took money and became a Rauner Republican. I sure hope a half a million dollars is going to be enough ‘cause Ima
wants to get her share to tie one on
with Killer. Haven’t you heard
White Lightnin’ has gone up???
Kim Foxx
-Ima-
ornery cuss, maybe the ornery cuss
constituency is bigger than Ima
thought. Voters thought she would
be fair to all, especially Blacks and
other minorities. What they didn’t
know is, she thinks she’s Caucasian.
Will somebody tell her what nationality Alvarez comes from? Ima hears
that there will be the biggest doggone
party in the history of the States Attorney’s office when she’s gone. I
guess I gotta get out there for Kim
cause Ima loves a party!!!
MEN AND WOMEN OF
MEDIOCRITY
Folks in the hood are talking about
the used to be daily now weekly
(very weakly) event dey calls Men of
Excellence and Women of Excellence. Deys do 50 at a whop, and the
problem is now they are repeating
some of them. Ima guess dey are
running out of excellence folks. Ima
got an idea for dem, rebrand it and
call it “Men and Women of Medioc-
Ken Dunkin
-ImaHOT RACES IN
THE OL’ TOWN!!
Barack Obama
in police cars and forget about the
fact that he made his announcement
to run for president and where he
told Rev. Jeremiah Wright that he
was disinvited to pray at the announcement.
For sure he won’t be returning to
Chicago when his second term is up
next year ‘cause the hot seat his pal
Rahm Emanuel is sitting in may still
be too warm. But what Ima really
finds ironic is that he is going to
Springfield to try to settle the odds
between the Democrats and the
Gubner. You know talking about
peace in the valley and stuff. The
ironic part is he hasn’t been able to
bring any accord between the Democrats, himself and the Republican
party the whole eight years he has
been in Washington. Okay Mr. President, we’ll mark you present for being in Illinois.
rity,” den they will be in sync with
their product.
-Ima-
A hot race that is almost to the boiling point in the last few weeks of the
election is that of Christian Mitchell
and Jay Travis? She almost scared the
pjesus out of Christian last time, so
Las Vegas, et al is betting on the outcome of this race. Lisa Madigan, the
no nonsense Attorney General is
supporting Christian and Karen
Lewis and the Chicago Teachers
Union is backing Jay, now all he has
to do is try to meet his constituents
and it may turn into votes. Next
time try a little sooner Christian and
remember that Ima is sexist. She always pulls for the gurls.
Hillary Clnton
same cat that licks my hair everyday.
Now Ima is a Hillary fan, but she
ain’t gonna do well if her staff don’t
take care of her looks. First of all she
looked like she had been up all night
doing poll dancing, the bags were so
deep and den her hair needed fixing,
yall!! Now I know dey must have a
beautician traveling wid her and if
dey don’t, HIRE ONE. And if dey
do, FIRE HIM/HER!! Jut a word to
the wise!!
William S. Wojcik, Ltd.
Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County
Vote Democratic
Punch 226
-ImaIS IT GOING TO BE
PARTY TIME???
States Attorney Anita Alvarez is
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Jay Travis
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CABARET: Step back in time to
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W. Monroe Street, February 9 February 21, 2016. The runtime
is 2 hours 30 minutes with one intermission. Come hear some of the
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A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM: Rome is flipped upside
down when a quick-thinking slave
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that sparks a vaudevillian romp of
Grecian slaves, soldiers, and whores! Turning the ancient comedies
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take place February 12 – 28, 2016
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THE ORCHID SHOW AT
THE CHICAGO BOTANIC
GARDEN: With more than
10,000 orchids, all blooming at
once, the Orchid Show is a welcome sight for winter-sore eyes—
and the only show of its kind in
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study in contrasts, wonderful and
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flowers elegant & bizarre, fragrances
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8
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This highly acclaimed Brunch tour
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For one price, guests receive a fascinating walking tour inside Chicago’s heated Pedway and a scrumptious breakfast buffet at American
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After building up a hearty appetite
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CHICAGO 2015 PRESENTS
DC 2016 DANCES FROM THE
HEART: Dance Chicago 2015 presents Pas de Duex for Those in
Twos on Saturday, February 13, 8
p.m., at the Athenaeum Main
Stage, 2936 N. Southport Avenue,
Lobby level, Chicago, IL 60657.
(Lincoln, Wellington and Southport; CTA Bus #9, Brown Line
Wellington Stop). All seats are assigned. The Performance lasts two
hours with one 15-minute intermission. These dances range from warm
to hot, conveying the romance and
high emotion of Valentine’s Day.
This will be a special Valentine’s Day
performance featuring 13 dynamic
acts including the best of Dance
EVERGREEN PARK AREA chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. - Phi Kappa Omega
Chapter sponsors Deputy Registrar Training on Jan. 30. The Deputy Registrar Training was
held at AKArama Foundation Community Service Center in conjunction with several Chicago
area chapters of the 108-year-old organization. Individuals who serve as deputy registrars play a
vital role in the democratic process by registering people to vote. The group charges the community to BE A VOICE and exercise the right to vote. Phi Kappa Omega Chapter is based in
Evergreen Park, Ill. and is the first AKA chapter chartered in the new millennium. For more information, visit www.akaphikappaomega.org.
Chicago 2015 and newly curated
acts, presenting an amazing array of
dance styles such as: aerial, tap, urban fusion, jazz, contemporary, stepping, Irish, Mexican folkloric, hiphop, urban/performance art and
more! It is curated by John L.
Schmitz. If you need assistance placing your order, call the Athenaeum
Theatre Box Office at 773-9356875 Monday-Wednesday, noon till
6 p.m. or Thursday-Sunday, noon
till final showtime.
BROOKFIELD ZOO VALENTINE’S DAY BRUNCH: Are you
looking for a unique way to celebrate Valentine’s Day? Join Brookfield Zoo’s Discovery Center for an
extraordinary Valentine’s Brunch! It
will take place on Sunday, February
14, 11 a.m. seating. Here you will enjoy an elaborate array of delicious food
including made to order omelets,
carving station, seafood delights, luscious desserts and so much more!
Afterwards, take a romantic stroll
throughout the zoo and visit the animals with your loved one at your side.
Seating is limited and reservations are
required. Cost: Adult: $45; Child:
$35; Under 3: no charge. Brookfield
Zoo is located just 14 miles west of
downtown Chicago at First Avenue
and 31st Street in Brookfield, Illinois.
Contact the zoo by mail at Chicago
Zoological Society, Brookfield Zoo,
3300 Golf Road, Brookfield, IL
60513. For more information, call
708-688-8000.
INSURANCE CENTER
BUSINESS
More than 40 years after fair credit laws, racial discrimination continues
Toyota Motor Credit to pay $21.9 million for discriminatory practices
By Charlene Crowell
NNPA Columnist
Each year observances and
events offered in recognition of
Black History Month offer opportunities for people of all colors
and locales to reflect on the
unique experiences of Blacks both
past and present. Many of the annual observances chronicle progress since the passage of laws
adopted years ago to ensure that
Black citizens and others of color
would enjoy all freedoms and
benefits that come with citizenship.
Yet in recent months, too many
headlines have illustrated how
multiple forms of injustice still
plague Black America. Whether
from Ferguson to Flint or Chicago to Cleveland, the barrage of assaults remind us how far our journey towards justice has yet to go.
And when it comes to credit
and financing, racial disparities
remain despite a 42-year-old federal law guaranteeing fair treatment in lending. Four decades
ought to be long enough for businesses and corporations to accept
and comply with the law of the
land.
The Equal Credit Opportunity
Act (ECOA) of 1974 requires financial institutions to ‘‘make
credit equally available to all creditworthy customers without re-
gard to sex or marital status.’’ It is
illegal for ‘‘any creditor to discriminate against any applicant
with respect to any aspect of a
credit transaction on the basis of
race, color, religion, national origin, sex or marital status, or age.”
The above language seems clear
and yet, just a few days ago another financing arm of a major auto
manufacturer reached a multimillion dollar settlement with the
Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau CFPB) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) for its failure to treat consumers of color
fairly.
Toyota Motor Credit agreed to
pay $21.9 million in restitution to
thousands of Black, Asian-Americans and Pacific Islander borrowers. These borrowers paid higher
interest rates than White borrowers for their auto loans due to the
lender allowing dealers to mark
up a borrower’s interest rate for
compensation. Toyota Credit also
agreed to change its pricing and
compensation system to significantly reduce the dealer’s ability to
manipulate the interest rate.
“No consumer should be forced
to pay more money for a loan because of their race or national origin,” said U.S. Attorney Eileen
M. Decker of the Central District
of California. “This settlement resolves our claims by providing
compensation for affected con-
Charlene Crowell
sumers and seeking to ensure that
future loans funded by Toyota reflect equal terms.”
Toyota is only the latest perpetrator, extending a series of actions by law enforcement to address discrimination in auto
lending.
Last May, Evergreen Bank
Group, based in Oak Brook, IL
settled charges that it violated the
ECOA by charging Latino and
Black borrowers higher interest
rates on motorcycle financing.
The bank settled the claim by
paying $395,000.
Months later in July, Honda Finance Corporation agreed to pay
$24 million on similar violations.
In September, Ohio-based Fifth
Third Bank agreed to pay $18
million and cooperate with an independent administrator appointed to identify affected borrowers
and distribute restitution.
The largest of the recent cases
came two years earlier when in
2013 Ally Bank agreed to pay $98
million in civil penalties and restitution. This enforcement action
found that approximately 100,000
Black borrowers, 125,000 Latino borrowers, and 10,000 Asian/Pacific Islander borrowers paid higher rates
for their auto loans than similarly
situated white borrowers. Even
more troubling, just one year later
Ally paid an additional $38 million to borrowers for discrimination that occurred after the initial
settlement.
Despite progress resulting from
these recent enforcement actions,
discrimination in the market remains, says Chris Kukla, a senior
vice president with the Center for
Responsible Lending (CRL).
“The terms of the settlement
continue to move in the right direction,” noted Kukla. “However,
dealer discretion to mark up interest rates remains an unfair and
hidden practice with continued
potential for discrimination. The
only effective way to completely
eliminate the discriminatory impact and the unfairness of hidden
dealer interest rate markups is to
end the practice altogether.”
At $1 trillion, auto lending is the
third-largest source of consumer
debt, behind that of mortgages
and student loans. CRL has also
determined through survey research that even though Black and
Latino consumers make more of
an effort to negotiate auto interest
rates than others, they still wind
up paying higher rates.
“Law enforcement must continue to vigilantly and swiftly act
when they uncover discriminatory or unfair lending as they have
done with other enforcement actions,” continued Kukla. “The recent news that Ally paid an additional $38 million in restitution
to compensate borrowers harmed
after Ally’s settlement with the
Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau and the Department of
Justice shows that the issue of discrimination due to car dealer interest rate markup is real and
needs to end.”
Here’s hoping this Black History
Month fair-minded people of all
races and ethnicities will better
understand that the struggle for
justice must continue.
Charlene Crowell is a communications manager with the Center for
Responsible Lending. She can be
reached at [email protected].
Rev. Jackson says Engaging Wall Street is the next step in the struggle
By Glenn Reedus
Independent Journalist
While the phrase “the struggle
continues” is a familiar one, the
Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. sees the struggle as an evolutionary process that
now must be taken to Wall Street
and the financial markets.
Jackson, founder of the civil rights
organization, Rainbow/PUSH, said
the struggle is in its fourth stage. He
explained the thrust today is closing the economic disparity that
exists between Wall Street and the
MLK avenues around the country.
His organization, along with the
Citizenship Education Fund set a
program in motion January 15,
1997 to eliminate the multi-billion-dollar trade deficit between
Wall Street and minority communities.
The initiative, tagged The Wall
Street Project will have its 19th
annual summit in New York City,
N.Y. February 16-19. A major
objective of the project is to “increase the hiring of minorities,
the appointment of more minorities corporate boards, and the allocation of capital to minority
companies,” Jackson noted.
Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr.
He also refers to this mission as
the four fundamental stages of the
struggle, and the latest is the
fourth stage. The preceding stages
involved the abolition of slavery,
followed by ending “legal apartheid’ or segregation and the third
was the right to vote.
“But the fourth stage, beyond
freedom is equality. That means
access to capital and access to technology. I meet so many people
who are so brilliant. They are inventors, scientists and technicians,
but they cannot get start-up capital.
They cannot get lenders to deem
them creditworthy.
The long-time civil rights leader
related the story of a former AT&T
employee who had 20 years of experience with the company. “She had
the tech background and wanted to
strike out on her own but couldn’t
get the capital needed to do that.”
Jackson recalled.
“The Wall Street Project is about
access to banks and financial institutions,” the one-time aide to Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. noted.
He compared minority access to
capital and opportunities at tech
companies to the recent ruckus
about the absence of Black nomi-
nees at the recent Academy
Awards nomination. “The Oscars
is typical where you have a college
of ‘choosers’ who can’t even choose
the greatest African-American actors. The same is true with Silicon
Valley. We can do the work, but
can’t get the jobs,” he emphasized.
Rainbow/PUSH’s decision several
years ago to buy stock in the major tech firms gave Jackson and
supporters opportunities to speak
at the companies’ annual meetings. Additionally, they received
the usual information stockholders get, including details about
performance, profits and diversity.
He offered that during a meeting with Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO,
Cook discussed that prior to the
Wall Street Project, “we (tech
firms) have not been challenged to
do better with minority, particularly African-American hiring.’
Jackson said “he who will be free
must strike the first blow. We
struck that blow.”
Jackson compared the executives
of tech companies to the staunch
segregationists of the old South
noting that the tech execs we0re
the exact opposite. “They were
somewhat embarrassed for their
brands and didn’t take old hardlines stances.”
Silicon Valley companies are
shortchanging non-tech minority
companies too, according to Jackson. He said Black-owned law
firms, ad agencies, marketing and
public relations companies, as well
as a number of other small businesses show up in the zero column
when the tech companies’ totals in
those areas are added.
“We must be persistent. It is not a
talent deficit we are looking at. It is
a deficit of opportunity. We have
young whites who come out of
Stanford and can get hired right
away,” adding experienced Black
applicants, if hired will likely end
up reporting to the recent grad.
“This is a great frontier we must
conquer,” Jackson opined.
Black people “have economic
leverage, and we have to use it scientifically,” Jackson said. He noted that means strong negotiating
and one of the factors must be educating inner city youth to do
jobs and be hired by the tech
companies, rather than those
companies importing workers
from other countries.
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EDUCATION
Solar light makes futures bright for students
Graduates shine at ComEd’s
new Solar Spotlight program
By Erick Johnson
It was graduation day Saturday,
February 6 at W.R. Harper High
School in Englewood. This wasn’t
an ordinary graduation. There were
no caps and gowns and pomp and
pageantry. Instead, the ceremony
was held in one of the school’s hallways, where straight tube fluorescent bulbs shined on some 34 students who one day may replace
them with instruments that produce solar light, converted energy
that comes from the sun.
It’s a process that in the past two
weeks captured the imagination of
future scientists and engineers from
various minority neighborhoods on
Chicago’s South Side. For four
hours, they teamed up with mentors and learned about solar energy
and its impact on America’s future.
Sponsored by ComEd, the program, called Solar Spotlight, pulled
students out of bed on the weekends to teach them an alternative
and more efficient way of supplying
GRADUATES IN COMED’s Solar Spotlight program smile as they show their certificate during a ceremony on Saturday,
February 6 at W.R. Harper High School in Englewood. (Photo by Erick Johnson)
students to successful Black profeslearning about new things.”
During the program, students sionals in STEM fields, Brookins
were taught by a diverse group of hopes the program will inspire
young engineers who are also em- many Black students to follow in
ployees of ComEd. Students also their footsteps.
“Solar power is becoming an imlearned how to apply principles
from math and science in calculat- portant source of energy and green
technology continues to grow. We
ing solar energy.
Students in the Solar Spotlight want to ensure African American
program were in 9th through 12th youth will be prepared to pursue
grades at various local high and succeed in these areas,” he said.
Brookins said this is the first year
schools. To participate in the Solar
Spotlight program, applicants of the Solar Spotlight program, but
were nominated by Syncere, more are planned. He said during
PUSH Excel and George Westing- Women’s History Month last spring,
house College Prep, said Kevin ComEd sponsored a program
Brookins Sr, vice president of the where high school girls created six
Strategy and the Administration. go-karts out of refrigerators and
Brookins, who has worked for rode them around the Field MuseComEd for 32 years, is the high- um. One of the go-karts was feaest-ranking Black executive at the tured in last year’s Bud Billiken Parade in Bronzeville. He said that
company.
project inspired ComEd to create
About
three
of
the
program’s
STUDENTS IN ComEd’s Solar Spotlight program enjoy interacting with mentors as they learn
mentors were Black. By exposing the Solar Spotlight program.
the mysteries of solar energy. (Photo Courtesy of ComEd)
light to buildings, roadways and
homes.
In addition to live solar demonstrations, students also learned
about prominent Black trailblazers
in STEM-related careers (Science,
Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). They also constructed their
own solar-powered cells. They showcased their solar panels at the Lighting Dedication Ceremony at Harper
High School and Firehouse Community Arts Center in Lawndale.
Another crop of students participated in a similar program at Auburn
High School in Rockford.
The program culminated Saturday, with a “graduation ceremony,”
where each graduate was awarded
a $250 college scholarship. In all ComEd awarded more than $10,000
10
in scholarships to the program’s participants. Proud parents smiled and
cameras flashed as the students
beamed with excitement after learning the mysteries of solar energy.
“Before I thought it wasn’t a big
deal, but now with global warming
I see a need for it,” said 18-year-old
Jonathan Paredes, referring to a climate shift that’s causing above normal temperatures and rising sea levels around the world.
Another participant, Tajohanae
Ashcroft, 15, a junior at Proviso
West High School, said she wasn’t
initially excited about spending her
Saturday mornings learning about
solar energy. Once the class started,
Tajohanae said she was hooked.
“They made it so much fun,” she
said. “You have to be open to new
A MENTOR FROM ComEd helps students in the Solar Spotlight program during class. (Photo
Courtesy of ComEd)
COMMUNITY
The Bronzeville Children’s Museum celebrates Black History Month
18 years of Preserving
Our Children’s Future
While much of the activism and
protesting today is centered on protecting and promoting teens, Peggy
Montes, the founder and president
of the Bronzeville Children’s Museum says there should be more attention given to the young children, if we really want to change
their future. “That’s why I started
the museum so that we can lay the
proper foundation for our children
ages 3-9,” Montes said. It is the first
and only African-American children’s museum in the country.
On Saturday, Feb. 20, in conjunction with Black History Month, the
Bronzeville Children’s Museum will
present “Preserving Our Children’s
Futures” as they celebrate 18 years
of educating young children on the
accomplishments and contributions African Americans have made
to society. In addition to the museum’s exhibit children will enjoy
crafts, face painting, music and storytelling. This event is open to the
public from 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. at the
museum, 9301 South Stony Island
Ave., in Chicago. The admission is
$5.00 per person except for members, who can attend at no cost.
In keeping with its theme, the
Bronzeville Children’s Museum will
feature three unique hands-on exhibits that focus on African American inventors, S.T.E.M. and health.
The first exhibit is called “African
American Inventors Changing People Lives!” This exhibit focuses on
the contributions that African
Americans have made in the food
products industry, medical and
technology inventions. Children
and adults will learn about inventors like Lonnie Johnson, who invented the super soaker water gun.
Johnson, along with Madame C. J.
Walker, George W. Carver, Donna
Augusta and Granville Woods are
just a few of the many African
American inventors the children
become aware of when they visit
the museum.
S.T.E.M., which is an acronym
for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, is the basis
for the newest exhibit, “S.T.E.M.
Rocks.” Montes said they wanted
the little children exposed to the
whole concept of S.T.E.M. so they
can understand how S.T.E.M. impacts every part of their lives. Then,
as these children mature they will
think about the importance of
mathematics and science in terms
CHILDREN ARE ENCOURAGED to bring their parents to the Bronzeville Children’s Museum
on Saturday, February 20 to join in two celebrations––Black History Month and the 18th anniversary of the museum. The event will feature access to the museum’s interactive hands on exhibits as well as arts and crafts.
of where the jobs are and where tance of being physical. There are move to its own building at 93rd
they are going to be in the future.
little treadmills, walkers and a tram- and Stony Island, the Bronzeville
The last exhibit is “You Are What poline. They also learn about Children’s Museum’s success has
You Eat.” This exhibit is patterned African Americans in the food in- continued. Scheduled tours during
the week from schools all over the
after First Lady Michelle Obama’s dustry.
healthy initiative and about moveAccording to Peggy Montes, “The region have become the norm, as
ment. The focus is to teach children exhibits really open the minds of the museum serves children from a
how to have a healthy and active children and adults in terms of what variety of economic, social and
cultural backgrounds. This year’s
lifestyle. Not only do they learn we have been doing all these years.”
about making healthy choices in
Since opening their doors on Feb- Black History Month is completetheir diet, they also learn the impor- ruary 21, 1998 and its subsequent ly booked.
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ENTERTAINMENT
By Raymond Ward
Collaboration to present ‘Olympic
Pride, American Prejudice’
The DuSable Museum of African American History and Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center (IHMEC) will host the Exclusive VIP
Chicago Work In Progress Screenings of “Olympic Pride, American Prejudice” on Thursday, February 25 & Friday, February 26 at the DuSable
Museum, and Sunday, February 28 at IHMEC.
“Olympic Pride, American Prejudice” is a feature length documentary,
narrated by award-winning actor Blair Underwood and set in the strained
and turbulent atmosphere of a racially divided 1930’s America, torn between boycotting Hitler’s Olympics or participating in the Third Reich’s
By Elaine Hegwood Bowen, MSJ
‘Last Day of Freedom’ is riveting story of the
loss of a Black vet to PTSD and mental illness
When Bill Babbitt realizes his
brother Manny has committed a
crime, he agonizes over his decision–should he call the police?
“Last Day of Freedom” is a richly
animated personal narrative that
tells the story of Bill’s decision to
stand by his brother in the face of
war, crime and capital punishment.
This film is a portrait of a man
Manuel Pina Babbit sustained injuries that limited him physically
and mentally. At 17, he enlisted in
the military although he had been
a slow learner in school. He had
previously dropped out, but he
was able to serve two tours of duty. Bill was upset when he found
out that his younger brother had
enlisted. Afterward and after two
failed marriages, Bill said his
to what Bill says was “blood on
the hands” of all involved.
The film is part of a “shorts”
slate presented by ShortsHD™,
the only short film channel, in
association with Magnolia Pictures, which is premiering at
theatres across the country. It is
also streaming on Netflix.
“For viewers, short film offers
an abundance of dynamic sto-
grandest affair. The film follows 16 men and two women before, during and
after their heroic turn at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin. The
athletes represented a country that considered them second-class citizens
THE ARCHIVAL PHOTO above is taken from the film “Olympic
Pride, American Prejudice” by writer/director Deborah Riley
Draper, which will be presented at the DuSable Museum in conjunction with the museum’s newest exhibit “Freedom, Resistance and the
Journey Toward Equality.” (Photo Credit: Coffee Bluff Pictures)
and competed in a country that rolled out the red carpet in spite of an undercurrent of Aryan superiority and antisemitism.
They carried the weight of a race on their shoulders and stood tall in the
middle of a political firestorm as Black America debated what role these
Black athletes should have in the highly charged Boycott debate. They
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BILL BABBITT IS in agony discussing his younger brother’s life of struggle and eventual date
with the death penalty. Illustration courtesy of Last Day of Freedom.
at the nexus of the most pressing brother was diagnosed with schiz- ries, which are told in ways that
social issues of our day–veterans’ ophrenia, and he watched as they cannot be or are not being
care, mental health access and Manny “chased shadows of imagi- told in feature film, including
criminal justice. And while there nary soldiers.”
films that may be uniquely relehas been much furor over the lack
After drifting off from reality vant to their cultures. As the
of Blacks in this year’s Oscar line- and some mental health services, short film genre continues to
up, “Last Day of Freedom” has Manny is charged with killing a pick up in popularity and combeen nominated as Best Docu- 78-year-old woman in Sacramen- petitiveness, with it comes an
mentary Short Subject. It covers to, California. He is only accused increase in the quality of prothe tragic story of Black Veteran after news accounts of the death duction and diversity of voices,”
Manny Babbitt and his downward and the circumstances and evi- said Carter Pilcher, Chief Execspiral after serving time in Viet- dence pointed to him. Bill turned utive at ShortsHD™.
nam.
For more information and a
his brother in, thinking that he
The brilliance of the documen- was going to get medical help for trailer about “Last Day of Freetary is that it has been created his posttraumatic stress disorder. dom,” visit http://www.lastdayfrom more than 32,000 hand- But this was not the case. On his offreedom.net/
drawn images and has garnered last day of freedom, his older
First time filmmakers Dee Hiinternational film attention, win- brother lured him out of the bbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman
ning numerous awards since its house and into the eager arms of have been working together
premiere at Full Frame Film Fes- waiting police officers by promis- since 2004, collaborating on art,
tival in April 2015. The fact that ing him that he would teach him film and interactive projects that
it is in illustrated form doesn’t how to shoot pool.
look at the ways power structures
make it any less chilling and
Manuel Pina Babbitt was even- and politics impact everyday
provocative. Bill tells the story of tually sentenced to death by lethal lives. Dee is originally from the
his brother, beginning with their injection, which was carried out United Kingdom and is an Assochildhood and detailing how on May 4, 1999. “Last Day of ciate Professor of Art and New
Manny became disillusioned with Freedom” is a harrowing account Media at UC Santa Cruz; Nomi
life after serving his country.
of a brother’s love and how this was born in Israel and is a freeDuring a car accident at age 12, love ultimately manifests itself in- lance editor and animator.
COMMUNITY
Theresa Fambro Hooks – an iconic columnist leaves her mark
Her last column ended with a -30mark, an editing symbol that notes
the end of news copy. On Sunday,
January 31, Theresa “TeeSee” Fambro left her final mark as the legendary columnist for the Chicago
Defender. Her story was about life.
It took 80 years to complete and it’s a
masterpiece that everyone around
town is still talking about as thousands say farewell to this great
woman.
TeeSee’s life may have ended, but
her story will be told by many generations to come. Her column would
long be remembered as her personal
history book of Black life in Chicago.
About her column. There’s that
saying “To Know Him (Her) is to
Love Him (Her).” But to know
“TeeSee,” you had to know her column. She wrote it for the Chicago
Defender beginning in 1961. She always had lots of people to visit,
places to see and words to say. This
enterprising journalist brought a
“Who’s Who” and a “What’s What”
TeeSee in earlier times
to Black Chicago. If your event or
name appeared in that column you
had arrived. Often carrying a bag
including a camera TeeSee’s Town,
TeeSee’s style and zest for life was
part of her brand that touched
many lives.
In the Chicago Crusader archives, there are photos of her being
everywhere and with everyone.
Even modern day celebrities and
artists such as Common and Jaime
Theresa Fambro Hooks
Foxx found themselves in photos
with TeeSee. She was always in her
finest threads at functions, charity
events and grand affairs. Who can
forget that one-piece vintage dress
she wore in 1973 at an event at McCormick Place. Even during a fitness class she took in Washington
Park in 1976, TeeSee’s nails were polished, her hair beautifully made up
and her cute short set dazzling. Her
social graces charmed many. Her
style turned heads.
As a journalist, TeeSee always had
her camera everywhere she went.
She was the master of her craft and
stay ahead of her competitors.
Whether in the Black press or
mainstream media, newspapers
don’t produce many society columnists like TeeSee anymore. You just
don’t see TeeSee’s anymore. TeeSee
retired in April 2015.
TeeSee’s life began in Chicago on
May 5, 1935. She graduated from
then Parker High School (It’s now
Robeson High School). She attended the University of Illinois, Roosevelt University and the School of
the Art Institute of Chicago in their
fashion Design Department.
She has earned countless awards
and was a member of numerous social organizations. Just a few of those
organizations were: the Metropolitan Clusters, Drifters, Dozens, Mannequins, the Moles and the Carousels. Her biggest and favorite organization of them all was the Black
community. She earned awards including the Black Woman’s Expo
Phenomenal Woman Award, the
Black Public Relations Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the Russ
Ewing Legacy Award of Excellence
and NABJ’s Outstanding Journalist
Award.
Jeffrey Osborne and TeeSee at a Coors Beer event.
Early in her career she worked for
Parker House Sausage Company,
special assistant to the president of
Olive Harvey College and for
Philco-Ford’s Chicago Residential
Manpower Center and Coors
Brewing Company. Some of her
public relations clients included
ETA Creative Art Foundation, the
Abraham Lincoln Center and The
Woodlawn Organization.
Dorothy R. Leavell, publisher of
the Chicago Crusader said she had
worked with TeeSee in 1980 to organize and carry out the plan for the
1980 National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) convention, held in Chicago. Mrs. Leavell
said, “TeeSee was a tireless worker
and knew everyone that we reached
out to make the convention one of
the most memorable in NNPA’s
history. She will be missed as one of
Chicago’s most colorful citizens.”
TeeSee’s affiliations included such
notable organizations as the Girl
Scouts, YWCA, Adoption Information Services, Midwest Sickle Cell
Association, and the West Chesterfield Garden Club. She also served
as president of the National Association of Media Women and as chair
of the Chicago chapter.
Services were held on Thursday,
February 11, 2015 at Trinity United Church of Christ, where she was
a longtime member and a choir
member. A wake was held on
Wednesday evening at the Leak and
Sons Funeral Home, who were entrusted with her services. Interment
was at Burr Oak Cemetery.
Common and Tee See
FOUNDER’S DAY 2016 – A Salute To Those Who Paved The Way
“Blessed Are Those Who
Forge The Way First For
Others’’ Taken From Sayings
Of The Messenger
On February 21 at 5:30 p.m. people from all walks of life will gather
on the Southwest Side of Chicago
to pay tribute to three men; Munir
Muhammad (Business Manager),
Halif Muhammad (Secretary) and
Shahid Muslim (Director). This
trio 29 years ago founded C.R.O.E.
(Coalition for the Remembrance of
Elijah Muhammad) an archival library and information center dedicated to the Nation of Islam Leader,
the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
The organization’s primary mission
is to make sure the name, accomplishments, and ideas are remembered. Since his physical passing or
departure in 1975, many scholars,
historians, and intellectuals have attempted to omit, slander or downplay the tremendous role and impact the man known by his
followers and the Black community during his time among us as the
Messenger had on society. C.R.O.E.
uses historical data from Muhammad Speaks newspaper, periodicals,
speeches, interviews, photographs
and other memorabilia to refute any
misinformation pertaining to the
Hon. Elijah Muhammad.
In 1994, the organization launched C.R.O.E. TV, a vehicle used to
further educate the community
about their beloved leader and
teacher. In 1998, the organization
renovated a tavern once known as
Fuzzy’s Den into a state of the art
television studio, where C.R.O.E.
TV’s flagship shows “Muhammad
and Friends” and “The Munir
Muhammad Show” are taped.
Hosted by Business Manager Munir Muhammad, C.R.O.E. TV has
been at the forefront of providing
vital information and substantive
news on the issues that effect the
Black community and the general
public.
Recently, following the release of
video footage of the killing of 17year-old Laquan McDonald, ABC
7 Political Reporter Charles
Thomas, Cook County States Attorney Anita Alvarez, her current
opponent Kimberly Foxx, and
Mayor Rahm Emmanuel sat down
to discuss the incident.
Programming produced today by
C.R.O.E TV can be seen in major
cities throughout America including Atlanta, New York, Charlotte
NC, Superior, WI; Prince Georges
County, MD; and worldwide via
USTREAM on the internet every
Sunday at 2:30 p.m.
Hon. Elijah Muhammad
Founder’s Day is C.R.O.E.’s only
fundraising event of the year and
provides a chance for the community to show their appreciation
while helping to preserve this
unique institution. For ticket information or to make a donation contact C.R.O.E. at 773-925-1600
or www.croe.org.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Lyric Opera presents timeless ‘Romeo and Juliet’
Lyric Opera of Chicago continues
its 61st season with “Romeo and Juliet” in a new-to-Chicago production
created by Tony Award-winning director Bartlett Sher, running from
Monday, February 22, through Saturday, March 29 (nine performances).
This is the eighth and final mainstage
opera production of the widely acclaimed 2015-16 season.
Gounod’s 19th-century interpretation of Shakespeare’s immortal
classic young-love tragedy will be
sung in French with projected English texts. Lyric’s production stars
two ardent Romeos, Joseph Calleja
(six performances, Feb. 22-March
8) and Eric Cutler (three performances, March 11-19), wooing the
fair Juliet, portrayed by Susanna
Phillips. Joshua Hopkins is Romeo’s
irreverent best pal Mercutio and
Christian Van Horn portrays the
well-intentioned Friar Laurence,
who makes a terrible mess of trying
to mend the feud between the Capulets and Montagues.
Lyric’s production also features
Marianne Crebassa/Stephano (Lyric
debut), Deborah Nansteel/Juliet’s
nurse Gertrude (Lyric debut), Philip
Horst/Capulet, Jason Slayden/Juliet’s
hotheaded cousin Tybalt (Lyric debut), David Govertsen/Duke of Vernona, Mingje Lei/Benvolio, TakaoshiOnishi/Paris and Anthony Clark
Evans/Gregorio.
Emmanuel Villaume conducts and
Bartlett Sher (Lyric debut) directs the
production designed by Michael Yeargan (sets), Catherine Zuber (costumes) and Jennifer Tipton (lighting). Michael Black is chorus master.
IN A SCENE from Shakespeare’s famed love story Romeo and Juliet members of the two warring families Montague and Capulet
fight. (Photo credit: Matthias Baus/Salzburg Festival)
Choreographer Chase Brock and leg- son’s “Nabucco” and our “Sound of our previous production while still in tion, Julie and Roger Baskes, Mr.
and Mrs. W. James Farrell, and Powendary fight director B. H. Barry are Music” production. This romantic the ensemble.”
Of special note, Freud adds, is the erShares QQQ. Production owned
making their Lyric debuts.
French opera is a wonderful piece
“Bartlett Sher will be at Lyric to di- for all audiences, and it’s a work we Lyric debut of the distinguished fight by The Metropolitan Opera.
Shakespeare 400 Chicago is a yearrect this fantastic production, which I haven’t done since 2006-07. We are director B. H. Barry, whose work has
originally saw in Salzburg and which all very excited to be presenting it at been seen in more than three dozen long international arts festival comBroadway productions, at the Met- memorating the quadricentennial of
was then presented with great success Lyric.”
at La Scala,” says Anthony Freud,
Freud notes that “Joseph Calleja ropolitan Opera, London’s Royal William Shakespeare’s death. Several
Lyric’s general director. “We have and Eric Cutler have each had great Opera House and Royal Shakespeare cultural organizations are presenting
beautiful, lavish period costumes by successes internationally and at Company, and in numerous films. more than 800 performances, exhiCatherine Zuber, who also designed Lyric. Susanna Phillips has been do- Barry has served as fight director for bitions, and other events celebrating
the marvelous costumes for our pro- ing fantastic work in Europe and the Romeo and Juliet nearly 60 times, Shakespeare throughout the year.
For ticket information, visit www.duction of “The Barber of Seville,” as United States since she left Lyric’s for stage and screen productions.
Lyric Opera presentation of Goun- lyricopera.org. For more informawell as last season’s “Carousel.” The sets Ryan Opera Center – and she actuby Michael Yeargan are handsomely ar- ally made her role debut when she od’s “Romeo and Juliet” generously tion about the festival, go to www.chitectural – he also designed this sea- went on as Juliet on short notice in made possible by the NIB Founda- Shakespeare400Chicago.com
Bassist Christian McBride brings Mack Avenue Superband to Symphony Center
Chicago Piano Man Willie
Pickens And His Trio Featured
In Opening Set
Jazz bassist Christian McBride returns to the Symphony Center Presents (SCP) Jazz series as bandleader
of the Mack Avenue Superband on
Friday, February 19, at 8 p.m. The
all-star sextet is composed of the
Christian McBride Trio, along with
jazz legend Gary Burton, multi-talented saxophonist Tia Fuller, and
trumpet virtuoso Sean Jones. The
Willie Pickens Trio (Willie Pickens,
piano; Larry Gray, bass; Greg Artry,
drums) opens the concert.
The Mack Avenue Superband
originally formed in 2012 as a gathering of top jazz musicians recording
under Detroit’s iconic Mack Avenue
label and performed together for the
first time at the Detroit Jazz Festival.
Each year brings a new, all-star roster
for the group, but for the first time
this year it is on tour under the leadership of veteran jazz bassist Christian McBride. Completing the group
are McBride’s other trio members,
Christian Sands (piano) and Carl
Allen (drums), as well as Mack Avenue recording artists Gary Burton
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(vibraphone), Tia Fuller (saxophone), and Sean Jones (trumpet).
Representing an array of aesthetic
interests and musical styles, the Superband performs a number of their
own original tunes, penned by
members of the band. McBride
leads the group fresh from recording
his Trio’s recent, critically acclaimed
Mack Avenue release “Out There.”
Celebrated Chicago jazz pianist
Willie Pickens, who will celebrate
his 85th birthday in April, continues to perform frequently, having
appeared at the Chicago Jazz Festival on numerous occasions, and recently closing the 2015 Hyde Park
Jazz Festival. Pickens has also toured
and recorded with a host of jazz
greats including Elvin Jones, Joe
Henderson, Clark Terry, Eddie Harris, Wynton Marsalis, Quincy Jones,
Louis Bellson, Bunky Green, and
Red Holloway. He and his Trio,
comprising Pickens on Piano, Larry
Gray (bass) and Greg Artry
(drums), have recorded multiple albums together. Pickens is also an accomplished arranger and an experienced educator, having spent many
years teaching in the Chicago Public
Schools and mentoring young mu-
Fuller and Sean Jones: A Mack Avenue Records Super Band and Willie
Pickens Trio on Friday, February 19,
8 p.m. are $24-$78.
Christian McBride
sicians.
Tickets for all SCP Jazz series concerts can be purchased by phone at
800-223-7114 or 312-294-3000;
online at cso.org, or at the Symphony Center box office: 220 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60604. For
group rates, call 312-294-3040.
These performances are made
possible by a generous gift from
Joseph and Madeleine Glossberg.
The Symphony Center Presents
Jazz Series is sponsored by Exelon.
Artists, programs and prices are
subject to change.
Tickets for the Symphony Center
Presents Jazz performance featuring
the Christian McBride Trio with
Special Guests Gary Burton, Tia
The Chicago Symphony
Orchestra
Founded in 1891, the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra is consistently
hailed as one of the greatest orchestras in the world. Since 2010, the
preeminent conductor Riccardo
Muti has served as its 10th music director. Yo-Yo Ma is the CSO’s Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant, and Samuel Adams and
Elizabeth Ogonek are its Mead
Composers-in-Residence.
From baroque through contemporary music, the CSO commands a
vast repertoire. Its renowned musicians annually perform more than
150 concerts, most at Symphony
Center in Chicago and, each summer, at the suburban Ravinia Festival. They regularly tour nationally
and internationally. Since 1892, the
CSO has made 58 international
tours, performing in 29 countries on
five continents.
People around the globe listen to
weekly radio broadcasts of CSO
Willie Pickens
concerts and recordings on the
WFMT radio network and online at
cso.org/radio. Recordings by the
CSO have earned 62 Grammy
Awards, including two in 2011 for
Muti’s recording with the CSO and
Chorus of Verdi’s Messa da Requiem
(Muti’s first of four releases with the
CSO to date). Find details on these
and many other CSO recordings at
www.cso.org/resound.
The CSO is part of the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra Association,
which also includes the Chicago
Symphony Chorus (Duain Wolfe,
Director and Conductor) and the
Civic Orchestra of Chicago, a training ensemble for emerging profes(Continued on page 16)
SPIRITUALLY SPEAKING
A Moment to Super Size Your Thinking
it’s imperative not to forget.
The scripture reminds us in Psalm
103:2 to ‘Praise the Lord…and forget not all his benefits.’ When you
think of what God has done, it’s difficult not to have tears of joy and
sheer gratitude. The quickest way to
forget is when you fail to be grateful
for what has been signed, sealed and
delivered to your doorstep. The bottom line is nothing is insignificant. I
can’t iterate enough that everything
that you have and all that you are is
because God has blessed and allowed it to be so—period. Yes, you
have education but he gave you the
brains, connection, finances and
will to go. You received favor and
promotion on the job because of his
grace. Home, family, health, joy,
peace and determination—it’s all in
the category of blessings. Everything
that concerns you is significant be-
By Effie Rolfe
Think Him for the Insignificant Things—the things we so
often take for granted. Yes, I said
‘think Him’ because as an older
lady once said ‘every time I thank
on the Lord—I think Him.’ This
may sound grammatically incorrect
but it is indeed a powerful truth.
The phrase ‘every time I thank on
the Lord—I think Him’ is a classic
example of how your thoughts
and your praise are inevitably interwoven. It is imperative that we are
grateful each day. Thank God for
everything—because nothing is insignificant!! Think about all of the
blessings you have been given.
What can you do—what do you
have—who are the people in your
life? Whatever, however, whenever
or wherever it is—God did it and
Effie Rolfe
cause it’s the sum total of you.
Human nature dictates that we
tend to overlook or take for granted
those things that we have become
comfortable with. Why? Familiarity
breeds contempt. In other words,
when we become familiar with certain things or people, we often take
it or them for granted. We pray for a
job and in less than one year—we
complain about the work or the
boss. You knew he was the one. After three years of marriage—everything that was so right has now become so wrong. That new car and
house was the answer to your
prayer—now you rarely have time
to clean it. Likewise with a ton of
other blessings—what was once a
treasure is now being treated as a
step above trash.
So my point—don’t’ stop thinking about God’s goodness. When I
think about the Lord—I thank
Him. Not only is it a constant reminder of how abundantly blessed
you are. But also, thinking about
‘everything’ God has bestowed upon you is cause to pause for an automatic praise break. Remember
nothing is insignificant—big or
small—it’s all-good because it’s all
God.
Have you thanked God for the
‘insignificant things’in your life...?
What’s the value of your life…?
©Effie Rolfe is an Author of “Supersize Your Thinking,” Media Personality and Motivational Speaker.
You can contact her at effierolfe.com or on twitter.com/effie- drolfe.
Listen to her show on urbanpraiseradio.org (2015 Stellar Award Internet Station of the Year).
The Crusader Gospel Corner
At 90 years strong, the inimitable
Reverend Clay Evans, preacher,
traveling evangelist, noted civil
rights leader, founder and organizer
of the historic Fellowship Baptist
Church of Chicago is a witness to
the grace and mercy of God and
concurs with the psalmist in his daily confession; I will bless the Lord at
all times (Psalm 34:1), knowing
that my help comes from the Lord
(Psalm 121).
The Clay Evans Scholarship Fund
Chicago announced the imminent
release of the first Clay Evans Heritage Series. The series will highlight
vintage recordings celebrating over
60 years of the prolific preaching
and musical works of Reverend
Clay Evans and the renowned 200
voice Fellowship Choir, which anchored the “What a Fellowship”
hour heard via radio and television
across the country and abroad.
“Reverend Clay Evans is an icon,
not only in Chicago but all over the
world,” noted Michael Evans,
CESF Chicago Chairman. “Reverend Evans has touched the lives of
so many through the radio and television ministry of Fellowship along
with the numerous recordings and
travels of the Fellowship Choir. The
Clay Evans Heritage Series gives us
the opportunity to remember and
relive the glory days of Reverend
Evans and the Fellowship Choir
from the beginning.”
Produced by sons of Fellowship
Royal Mickey Warren, Curtis Fondren and Gospel sage Gregory Gay,
the first installment provides remastered music never before released
on CD along with a special unreleased track of Rev. Evans “Live at
the Ship” leading the congregation
in a rousing rendition of “Trust In
the Lord.” A special edited version
of the track heads to radio the week
Reverend Clay Evans
of February 11th, while a special extended version will be featured on
the CD scheduled for release in the
second quarter of 2016. “Trust in
the Lord is a jewel in the crown,”
said Royal Warren. “We were at the
end of his message one Sunday and
the tape was rolling, he started
singing and we went with him.
Amazingly, it got left on the cutting
room floor; and ended up going in
the vault for some 3 decades. We
found it, listened to it and immediately thought this needs to be heard.
While Reverend Evans made this
recording almost 35 years ago, the
message is timeless and certainly relevant for the situations that we face
today.”
Proceeds from the Clay Evans
Heritage Series will benefit the educational initiatives of the Clay Evans
Scholarship Fund. Later this
month, the Chicago Public Library
will unveil a special display of artifacts and memorabilia chronicling
the preacher’s 60 years in ministry
commemorating Black History
Month.
***
Chicago Pastor, activist and organizer, Rev. Paul L. Jakes, Jr. invites
everyone to attend the Haven of
Rest Missionary Baptist Church,
7925 South Chicago Avenue in
Chicago this Sunday, February 14
at 7:30 p.m. Jakes will be the featured Guest Speaker during the
church’s early morning service. “We
are in the Black History Month celebration and I’m honored to be the
speaker for the early morning service.” Although, Jakes ran for Mayor of the City of Chicago in 2003,
he shared, “I won’t bring any politics but rather a message to give
spiritual uplift and to encourage the
community in wake of so much
bloodshed in the city of Chicago.
In the words of Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jakes said we can ask, ‘Where
Rev. Paul L. Jakes, Jr.
do we go from here?’
“This may be a great fellowship to
start the year,” said the Senior Pastor
of The New Tabernacle of Faith
Baptist Church at 531 N. Kedzie in
Chicago for the past 23 years. Also,
currently, The Haven of Rest MBC
does not have a full time Pastor. The
interim Pastor is Rev. Frances Lewis.
***
Chicago Radio Personality and
Billboard Charting Artist Dana Divine launches “Chicago Sing-AGram” just in time for Valentine’s
Day, but available for any occasion,
Chicago Sing-A-Gram will deliver a
personal message in song to someone special. Serving the Chicagoland and Suburban areas, Chicago
Sing-A-Gram can further customize your telegram with chocolates and/or flowers. “Face-to-face
communication is becoming so rare
today,” shared Divine who continued, “Some millennials have never
heard of a singing telegram. I’ll
bring a personal touch and a smile
to any special occasion!” Also, according to Divine, “During World
War I, the telegram was a scary
thing because it meant you were being told you lost a loved one. To
convince people that telegram messages could be fun, George P. Oslin
created the durable art form, the
singing-telegram during the Depression year of 1933.” Chicago
Sing-A-Gram founder and song
music legend Dana Divine created
the character “Ms. Marvelous” after
delivering her first singing telegram
to radio legend Tom Joyner, over
twenty years ago. Dana Divine is
the overnight radio personality on
the #1 urban radio station in the
Chicago market, 107.5FM WGCI.
Divine is the CEO of record label
Tri-M Entertainment, and a versatile, multi-talented and proven songwriter and recording artist. A native
of Chicago, Illinois, Dana began
her music career working with industry superstars such as R. Kelly,
Will Smith, and Billy Ocean. Her
music is featured in movies, soundtracks, and stage productions across
the nation. For more information
log on to ChicagoSingagram.com
or email [email protected].
***
Lastly, our hearts are saddened by
the lost of another legendary gospel
singer and recording artist, Lady
Doris Sykes. Known for her angelic
voice, the Lyric soprano was a longtime member of the church and
was there since the inception of
the Christian Tabernacle Church,
where Pastor Maceo Woods presid ed for the past 56 years. Sykes was
also regarded as a Charter member
of the Christian Tabernacle Church
and Concert Choir. For years the
choir recorded countless albums
with Savoy Records and Sykes led
many of their most popular hit
songs including “The Name of Jesus, Just a Closer Walk With Thee,
Deliver Me” and a remake of Andre’
Crouch’s classic entitled “Through It
All.” According to DeAndre Patterson, recording artist and Pastor of
Destiny Worship Center and Miracle Revival Center in Maywood,
“The first group of singers that
started with Rev. Maceo Woods
was the Christian Tabernacle Ensemble, which included Doris
Sykes, Pearl McCombs, Eugene
Borden, Lawrence Ester and Melvin Smothers. Gospel Greats that
came through there like Maggie
Bell Childs (I’ll Trade A Lifetime),
who use to sing with the Thompson Community Singers, Gloria
Griffin of the Roberta Martin Singers and others including George
Jordan, who wrote the Sunday favorite, ‘Jesus Can Work It Out.’”
Patterson continued, “My Godfather—Pastor Maceo Woods made
hits and developed gospel all stars
and Doris Sykes was one of them.”
Additionally, each year fans loved
her voice and flocked to hear her
during the annual Gospel Supreme
presented by Christian Tabernacle
Concert Choir for the past 50 years
plus. Her legacy in gospel music
will be remembered as a lady with
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IN IT TO WIN IT
made the team, they traveled to Berlin, and they did the unexpected with grace and dignity. Their presence on the world
stage is a seminal precursor to the Civil Rights Movement.
The athletes experienced things that they were not expecting
– applause, warm welcomes, integrated Olympic villages and
the respect of their competitors. They were world heroes yet
returned home to a short-lived glory. This story is complicated. This story is triumphant but unheralded. This story of
young Black men and women finding their place in Jim Crow
America is as relevant today as it was almost 80 years ago.
Writer/Director Deborah Riley Draper is a marketing authority and award-winning filmmaker. Her debut film “Versailles ’73: American Runway Revolution” was heralded by
New York Times and Los Angeles Times film critics.
The schedule and prices for the Exclusive VIP Chicago Work
In Progress Screenings of “Olympic Pride, American Prejudice” is as follows:
Thursday, February 25, 2016 -6:00 PM
DuSable Museum of African American History
740 East 56th Place – Chicago, Illinois
$150 per person includes Reception and Post Screening talk with
Director Deborah Riley Draper and Narrator/Producer Blair
Underwood.
Friday, February 26, 2016 – 7:00 PM
DuSable Museum of African American History
740 East 56th Place – Chicago, Illinois
$15 General Admission/$10 DuSable Museum Members
Sunday, February 28, 2016 – 1:30 PM
Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center
9603 Woods Drive – Skokie, Illinois
$15 General Admission/$10 IHMEC Members
The Exclusive VIP Chicago Work In Progress Screenings of
“Olympic Pride, American Prejudice” at the DuSable
Museum are presented in conjunction with The DuSable
Museum’s newest exhibition, “Freedom, Resistance and the
Journey Toward Equality” and made possible by: The Magellan Corporation, Chicago Teachers Union Foundation,
The Irving Harris Foundation, Mr. Harry E. Griffin, and
United Airlines, the Official Airline of The DuSable Museum. The DuSable Museum of African American History
gratefully acknowledges the Chicago Park District’s generous support of the Museum and the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
The Exclusive VIP Chicago Work In Progress Screening of
“Olympic Pride, American Prejudice” at the Illinois Holocaust Museum is presented in conjunction with the special
exhibition, “The Nazi Olympics: Berlin,” 1936. The exhibition coincides with the 2016 Rio Olympics and the 80th
anniversary of the 1936 Games, when Hitler exploited the
Games to promote the Nazi ideal of racial supremacy on a
world stage. “Nazi Olympics” features athletes who were
barred because of their ethnic heritage, or who, like Jesse
Owens, competed and won, challenging Hitler’s “master race”
dogma.
commitment to the process is such that he will encourage his supporters to remain involved, even after
Hillary wins the Democratic
nomination. And I’m sad
that a woman who might
knock it out of the park can also be kicked to the curb if this
campaign becomes corrosive.
Congressman Stephanie
Tubbs Jones was a sorority
sister (Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority, of course), and a
fierce legislator. She stuck by
Hillary Clinton in 2008
even after then-Senator
Barack Obama entered the
Presidential race and earned
the endorsement and sup-
port of many “mainstream”
African Americans. Stephanie
and Hillary had “heart” with
each other. As a woman,
Hillary can’t out shout Bernie
without appearing shrill. She
can’t out-snide him without
appearing *itchy. But she can
out heart him if she channels
Stephanie’s energy. Step-hanie
Tubbs Jones was in it to win it.
Julianne Malveaux is an author, economist and Founder
of Economic Education. Her
latest book “Are We Better Off?
Race, Obama and Public Policy” is available for pre-order at
www.juliannemalveaux.com
The Crusader Gospel Corner
the voice of an angel, as well a.m. to 1 p.m.
as one of dignity, elegance For more information call
and class. The services will 773-548-2500.
begin on Friday, when she
will lie in state from 4 p.m. to
8 p.m. at Christian Tabernacle
Church, 4712 S. Prairie Avenue in Chicago. The celebration of life will be held on Saturday, February 13 from 10
Bassist Christian McBride
sionals. Through its presti- sic to create connections and
gious Symphony Center Pre- build community.
sents series, the CSOA preThe CSO is supported by
sents guest artists and thousands of patrons, volunensembles from a variety of teers and institutional and ingenres—classical, jazz, world, dividual donors. Bank of
and contemporary.
America is the Global Sponsor
The Negaunee Music Insti- of the CSO. The CSO’s music
tute at the CSO offers com- director position is endowed in
munity and education pro- perpetuity by a generous gift
grams that annually engage from the Zell Family Foundamore than 200,000 people of tion. The Negaunee Foundadiverse ages and backgrounds. tion provides generous supThrough the Institute and port in perpetuity for the work
other activities, including a free of the Negaunee Music Instiannual concert with Muti and tute. For more information
the CSO, the CSO is commit- visit: www.cso.org and www.ted to using the power of mu- csosoundsandstories.org.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
These young people aren’t
in a position to just leave
CSU and transfer their credits to another school and
still graduate on time. Even
if all of their credits would
transfer, this late in the academic season; there is no
guarantee financial aid will
be available if needed.
While Gov. Bruce Rauner
might not care about Black
people getting educated,
there are more than two
dozen Black elected officials
in Springfield who should.
Every Black state senator
and Black state representative should be joining with
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one another and devising a
plan to keep CSU open and
then make it whole.
There are probably some
legislators who are CSU
alums. The only voice coming out of the legislative
Black Caucus about saving
the school year is State. Sen.
Emil Jones III. HIs family
has strong ties to the school.
Surely other Black legislators understand how difficult it will be to get back on
track if the school has to
close - even for a week. Right
after taking office Rauner
appointed the Rev. James
Meeks to head the state
board of education. That
was obvious payback for the
preacher’s support. It is beyond disappointing to
watch Meeks pimp his own
people for an appointment.
Meeks has to understand
that CSU has played a vital
role in the Black community for all of the second half
of the 20th Century. As a
former legislator, he should
be able to suggest a loophole
to prevent CSU from closing while Rauner continues
his battle with Mike Madigan, speaker of the Illinois
House of Representatives.
Given that Meeks has
proven worthless in this
fight, we all need to repeat-
edly contact our state elected
officials right away and encourage them to find a way.
This issue can’t be as insurmountable as their collective
silence makes it appear to be.
Claude Goodwin
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C O R P O R A T I O N
Selling Officer,
(312) 444-1122
Dated:
February
5,
2016
I684402
HOUSES FOR SALE
COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION
WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. SUCCESSOR
BY MERGER TO WELLS FARGO HOME
MORTGAGE, INC. Plaintiff,
-v.ERVIN BANKS
Defendants
15 CH 011368
9330 S. MAY STREET CHICAGO, IL 60620
NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS
HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a
Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered
in the above cause on October 21, 2015, an
agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will
at 10:30 AM on March 11, 2016, at The
Judicial Sales Corporation, One South
Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL,
60606, sell at public auction to the highest
bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as
9330 S. MAY STREET, CHICAGO, IL 60620
Property Index No. 25-05-413-030. The real
estate is improved with a residence. Sale
terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to
The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned
Residential Property Municipality Relief
Fund, which is calculated on residential real
estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or
fraction thereof of the amount paid by the
purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified
funds/or wire transfer, is due within twentyfour (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the
mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by
any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other
lienor acquiring the residential real estate
whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes,
special assessments, or special taxes levied
against said real estate and is offered for sale
without any representation as to quality or
quantity of title and without recourse to
Plaintiff and in \”AS IS\” condition. The sale is
further subject to confirmation by the court.
that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the
real estate after confirmation of the sale. The
property will NOT be open for inspection and
plaintiff makes no representation as to the
condition of the property. Prospective bidders
are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the
foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee,
shall pay the assessments and the legal fees
required by The Condominium Property Act,
765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a
common interest community, the purchaser
of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a
mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act,
765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE
MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU
HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY
OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C)
OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency
(driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to
gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the
same identification for sales held at other
county venues where The Judicial Sales
Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For
information, examine the court file or contact
Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE
ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL
60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file
number 14-15-12058. THE JUDICIAL
SALES CORPORATION One South
Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The
Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com
for a 7 day status report of pending sales.
CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030
NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100
BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 EMail: [email protected] Attorney File
No. 14-15-12058 Attorney ARDC No.
00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case
Number: 15 CH 011368 TJSC#: 36-1669
NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection
Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s
attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.
I684520
COUNTY, ILLINOIS
COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION
FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION
Plaintiff,
-v.KEVIN F. MCKINLEY, DEBRA C. MCKINLEY,
UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD
CLAIMANTS
Defendants
14 CH 06676
8024 SOUTH PHILLIPS AVENUE
CHICAGO, IL 60617
Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in
the above cause on October 14, 2015, an
bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate:
Commonly known as 8024 SOUTH
PHILLIPS AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60617
Property Index No. 21-31-108-035-0000.
The real estate is improved with a single family home with a detached car garage. Sale
fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified
OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s
license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry
into our building and the foreclosure sale
room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues
where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information: Visit
our website at service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5 pm. PIERCE &
ASSOCIATES, Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One
North Dearborn Street Suite 1300, CHICAGO, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 476-5500.
Please refer to file number PA1402773. 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. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES
One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300
CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 476-5500 E-Mail:
[email protected] Attorney File
No. PA1402773 Attorney Code. 91220 Case
Number: 14 CH 06676 TJSC#: 36-1559
I684287
COUNTY,
ILLINOIS
COUNTY
DEPARTMENT
CHANCERY
DIVISION
CHAMPION MORTGAGE COMPANY
P l a i n t i f f ,
v
s
.
UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF
L
U
C
I
L
L
E
SHEPARD;
ALICIA
POTTS;
SECRETARY
OF
HOUSING
AND
URBAN
DEVELOPMENT;
RICHARD
IRVIN
SPECIAL
REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE ESTATE
OF
LUCILLE
SHEPARD; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND
N O N - R E C O R D
C L A I M A N T S
13
CH
16747
NOTICE
OF
SALE
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that pursuant to a Judgment of
Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above
entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales
Corporation will on Monday, February 29,
2016 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at
120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A,
Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to
the highest bidder for cash, as set forth
below, the following described mortgaged
real
estate:
P.I.N.
25-05-410-034-0000.
Commonly known as 9246 South Peoria
Street,
Chicago,
IL
60620.
The mortgaged real estate is improved
with a single family residence. If the subject
mortgaged real estate is a unit of a
of
the
unit
other than a mortgagee shall pay the
assessments required by subsection (g-1)
o
f
Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property
A
c
t
.
Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds,
balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours.
No refunds. The property will NOT be
open
for
inspection
For information call The Sales Department
at Plaintiff's Attorney, Anselmo Lindberg
Oliver
LLC,
1771 West Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois
60563-1890.
(630)
453-6960.
For
Bidding
instructions
visit
www.fal-illinois.com 24 hours prior to sale.
F 1 3 0 1 0 5 2 6
INTERCOUNTY
JUDICIAL
SALES
Selling Officer,
(312) 444-1122
I682701
URBAN PARTNERSHIP BANK, AS ASSIGNEE OF THE FEDERAL DESPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION, AS RECEIVER OF SHOREBANK
Plaintiff,
-v.CHICAGO TITLE LAND TRUST COMPANY,
NOT PERSONALLY BUT AS TRUSTEE
U/T/A DATED MAY 9, 2005 AND KNOWN
AS TRUST NUMBER 134315, PIERRE OSCAR, DOMINIQUE BOURDEAU OSCAR,
CITY OF CHICAGO, UNKNOWN OWNERS
AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS
Defendants
15 CH 08100
5940 S. LASALLE ST. Chicago, IL 60621
the above cause on December 1, 2015, an
5940 S. LASALLE ST., Chicago, IL 60621
The real estate is improved with a commercial property. The judgment amount was
$290,277.77. Sale terms: 25% down of the
highest bid by certified funds at the close of
the sale payable to The Judicial Sales
Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial
sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property
Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated
on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for
each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount
paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in
certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within
twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid
by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale
or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or
other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real
estate arose prior to the sale. The subject
property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes
levied against said real estate and is offered
for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to
where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, contact Plaintiff’s attorney: JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC, 230 W.
Monroe Street, Suite #1125, Chicago, IL
number 15-0262. 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. JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC
230 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125 Chicago,
IL 60606 (312) 541-9710 E-Mail: [email protected] Attorney File
No. 15-0262 Attorney Code. 40342 Case
Number: 15 CH 08100 TJSC#: 36-823
attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information
obtained will be used for that purpose.
I682833
DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST
COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR MORGAN
STANLEY ABS CAPITAL I INC. TRUST
2002-HE3
Plaintiff,
-v.DAVID B. WILLIAMS A/K/A DAVID B.
WILLIAMS, JR., ELLA L. WILLIAMS, THE
CITY OF CHICAGO, A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS
Defendants
12 CH 021690
9053 S. CORNELL AVENUE CHICAGO, IL
60617
in the above cause on January 30, 2013, an
agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation,
will at 10:30 AM on February 24, 2016, at
The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South
9053 S. CORNELL AVENUE, CHICAGO,
IL 60617 Property Index No. 25-01-126045-0000. The real estate is improved with
a single family residence. Sale terms: 25%
down of the highest bid by certified funds at
the close of the sale payable to The Judicial
Sales Corporation. No third party checks
will be accepted. The balance, including the
Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential
Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is
calculated on residential real estate at the
rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not
to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire
transfer, is due within twenty-four (24)
hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate
pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by
whose rights in and to the residential real
property is subject to general real estate
taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as
to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in \”AS IS\” condition.
The sale is further subject to confirmation
by the court. Upon payment in full of the
amount bid, the purchaser will receive a
Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after
confirmation of the sale. Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to
that of the United States, the United States
shall have one year from the date of sale
within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or
the period allowable for redemption under
State law, whichever is longer, and in any
case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as
amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the
United States Code, the right to redeem
does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption. The property will NOT be open
for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property.
Prospective bidders are admonished to
check the court file to verify all information.
If this property is a condominium unit, the
purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure
sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the
assessments and the legal fees required by
The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS
605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a
condominium unit which is part of a com-
HOUSES FOR SALE
mon interest community, the purchaser of
the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a
OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo
identification issued by a government
agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in
order to gain entry into our building and the
foreclosure sale room in Cook County and
the same identification for sales held at
other county venues where The Judicial
Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure
sales. For information, examine the court
file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS
& ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH
FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR
RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please
refer to file number 14-15-09155. 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
pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES,
P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD,
SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630)
794-5300
E-Mail:
Number: 12 CH 021690 TJSC#: 36-690
NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt
Collection Practices Act, you are advised
that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a
debt collector attempting to collect a debt
and any information obtained will be used
for that purpose.
I682579
HSBC BANK USA, N.A., AS TRUSTEE
FOR THE HOLDERS OF DEUTSCHE
ALT-A SECURITIES MORTGAGE LOAN
TRUST, SERIES 2006-AR6 MORTGAGE
PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES, 2006-AR6
Plaintiff,
-v.UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF
JOHNNY SIMS, RAHEMA AZIZ, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION
SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR SILVER STATE FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC.
DBA SILVER STATE MORTGAGE, STATE
OF ILLINOIS, CITY OF CHICAGO,
WILLIAM P. BUTCHER, AS SPECIAL
REPRESENTATIVE FOR JOHNNY SIMS
(DECEASED), UNKNOWN OWNERSTENANTS
AND
NON-RECORD
CLAIMANTS
Defendants
12 CH 025358
8518 S. INGLESIDE AVENUE CHICAGO,
IL 60617
in the above cause on December 4, 2015,
an agent for The Judicial Sales
Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 8,
2016, at The Judicial Sales Corporation,
One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor,
CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction
to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the
following described real estate:Commonly
known as 8518 S. INGLESIDE AVENUE,
CHICAGO, IL 60617 Property Index No.
20-35-311-071. The real estate is improved
with a multi-family unit. Sale terms: 25%
Sales Corporation. No third party checks
will be accepted. The balance, including 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
whose rights in and to the residential real
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
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 AC-
CORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C)
OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo
identification issued by a government
agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in
order to gain entry into our building and the
foreclosure sale room in Cook County and
the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales
Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.
For information, examine the court file or
contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH
FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR
RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please
refer to file number 14-14-12762. 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
pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES,
P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD,
SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630)
794-5300
E-Mail:
[email protected] Attorney File No.
14-14-12762 Attorney ARDC No.
Number: 12 CH 025358 TJSC#: 35-18122
Practices Act, you are advised that
Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt
collector attempting to collect a debt and
any information obtained will be used for
that purpose.
I682573
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
Plaintiff,
-v.GUY C. FULLER, MARTHA A. FULLER, JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NA
Defendants
13 CH 022430
7604 S. WABASH AVENUE CHICAGO, IL
60619
7604 S. WABASH AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL
60619 Property Index No. 20-27-306-024.
The real estate is improved with a residence.
Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by
certified funds at the close of the sale payable
to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third
party checks will be accepted. The balance,
including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned
where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C.,
15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD,
SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630)
794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-1322284. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor,
Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE
You can also visit The Judicial Sales
Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH
FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR
RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail:
14-13-22284 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002
Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 13 CH
022430 TJSC#: 35-18121 NOTE: Pursuant
to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you
are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed
to be a debt collector attempting to collect a
debt and any information obtained will be
used for that purpose.
I682567
COUNTY, ILLINOIS
FIFTH THIRD MORTGAGE COMPANY
Plaintiff,
-v.ALBERT LOTT, VALERIE COBB-LOTT,
CITY OF CHICAGO, UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA - DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING
AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Defendants
15 CH 011793
8101 S. WOODLAWN AVENUE
CHICAGO, IL 60619
in the above cause on November 3, 2015, an
Commonly known as 8101 S. WOODLAWN
AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60619 Property
Index No. 20-35-216-001. The real estate is
improved with a residence. Sale terms: 25%
Sales Corporation. No third party checks will
be accepted. The balance, including the
rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof
of the amount paid by the purchaser not to
exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No
fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring
the residential real estate pursuant to its
credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee,
judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring
the residential real estate whose rights in and
to the residential real estate arose prior to the
sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments,
or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and
without recourse to Plaintiff and in \”AS IS\”
condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of
the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a
Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. Where a sale of real estate is
made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the
United States, the United States shall have
one year from the date of sale within which to
redeem, except that with respect to a lien
arising under the internal revenue laws the
period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law,
whichever is longer, and in any case in
which, under the provisions of section 505 of
the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12
U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section
3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the
right to redeem does not arise, there shall be
no right of redemption. The property will NOT
be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no
representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to
check the court file to verify all information. If
this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The
Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS
605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a
condominium unit which is part of a common
interest community, the purchaser of the unit
at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required
by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS
605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE
RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR
30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER
OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE
WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW.
You will need a photo identification issued by
a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook
County and the same identification for sales
held at other county venues where The
Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the
court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney:
CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030
NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100,
BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876
Please refer to file number 14-15-12645.
THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION
One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor,
Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE
You can also visit The Judicial Sales
Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH
FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR
RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail:
14-15-12645 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002
011793 TJSC#: 35-18119 NOTE: Pursuant
to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you
are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is
deemed to be a debt collector attempting to
collect a debt and any information obtained
will be used for that purpose.
I682544
COUNTY, ILLINOIS
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS
TRUSTEE
FOR RESIDENTIAL ASSET MORTGAGE
PRODUCTS, INC.,
MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASSTHROUGH
CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-EFC5
Plaintiff,
-v.D.C. HOLDER, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND
NONRECORD CLAIMANTS
Defendants
15 CH 009662
7834 S. DOBSON AVENUE
CHICAGO, IL 60619
in the above cause on November 10, 2015,
an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation,
will at 10:30 AM on March 8, 2016, at The
Commonly known as 7834 S. DOBSON AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60619 Property Index
No. 20-26-321-015-0000, Property Index No.
20-26-321-016-0000. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. Sale
fraction thereof of the amount paid by the
purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified
OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency
(driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to
gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same
identification for sales held at other county
venues where The Judicial Sales
Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For
information, examine the court file or contact
Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE
ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL
number 14-15-07751. THE JUDICIAL
SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker
Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650
(312) 236-SALE You can also visit The
Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com
for a 7 day status report of pending sales.
CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030
NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100
BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 EMail: [email protected] Attorney File
Number: 15 CH 009662 TJSC#: 35-16928
attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.
I682541
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s
.
LESLEY S. DANSBY; MERRILL L.
BURKE;
CHRISTIAN
DANSBY; THE UNITED STATES OF
A M E R I C A ,
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY;
THE
UNITED
STATES
OF AMERICA,
SECRETARY
OF
HOUSING
AND
URBAN
DEVELOPMENT; VALLEY NATIONAL
BANK,
FKA
THE
FIRST
SAVINGS
AND
LOAN
ASSOCIATION
OF
JERSEY
CITY, NJ; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND
N O N - R E C O R D
CLAIMANTS; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND
LEGATEES
OF
MERRILL DANSBY, AKA MERRILL L.
D
A
N
S
B
Y
,
DECEASED; JULIE FOX, AS SPECIAL
REPRESENTATIVE TO THE ESTATE
OF
MERRILL
DANSBY, AKA MERRILL L. DANSBY,
D E C E A S E D
14
CH
16914
NOTICE
OF
SALE
real
estate:
Commonly known as 552 East 87th Place,
Chicago,
IL
60619.
P.I.N.
25-03-201-046-0000.
with a single family residence. If the
subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a
of the unit other than a mortgagee shall
pay the assessments required by
subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the
Condominium
Property
Act.
open
for
inspection
For information call Sales Department at
Plaintiff's Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski,
LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago,
Illinois 60601. (614) 220-5611. 14-025620
N
O
S
INTERCOUNTY
JUDICIAL
SALES
Selling Officer,
(312) 444-1122
I682716
COUNTY,
ILLINOIS
COUNTY
DEPARTMENT
CHANCERY
DIVISION
P l a i n t i f f ,
v
s
.
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
SECRETARY
OF
HOUSING
AND
URBAN
DEVELOPMENT; UNKNOWN OWNERS
AND NON-RECORD
CLAIMANTS;
UNKNOWN
HEIRS
AND
LEGATEES OF GERALDINE COLE,
DECEASED;
VEDA
COLE, AKA VEDA BENTLEY; SANDRA
SMITH,
AKA
SANDRA
CHILDRESS;
CHARLES
COLE;
JULIE
FOX,
AS
SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
ESTATE
OF
GERALDINE COLE, DECEASED
14
CH
8242
NOTICE
OF
SALE
real
estate:
Commonly known as 8825 South Clyde
Avenue,
Chicago,
IL
60617.
P.I.N.
25-01-210-009-0000.
Condominium
Property
Act.
be
o
shall
assessments required by
18.5 of the
Property
Act.
open
for
inspection
Plaintiff's Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski,
LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago,
Illinois
60601.
(614) 220-5611. 14-003885 NOS
INTERCOUNTY
JUDICIAL
SALES
Selling Officer,
(312) 444-1122
I682709
COUNTY,
ILLINOIS
COUNTY
DEPARTMENT
CHANCERY
DIVISION
BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC A
D E L A W A R E
LIMITED
LIABILITY
COMPANY;
P l a i n t i f f ,
v
s
.
PATRICE
ARNOLD;
BANK
OF
AMERICA,
NA;
CITY
OF
CHICAGO; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND
LEGATEES
OF
PATRICE
ARNOLD,
IF
ANY;
UNKNOWN
OWNERS
AND
NONRECORD
CLAIMANTS;
15
CH
13868
NOTICE
OF
SALE
real
estate:
P.I.N.
20-30-318-070.
Commonly known as 2148 West 77th
Place,
Chicago,
IL
60620.
Condominium
Property
Act.
open
for
inspection
For information call the Sales Clerk at
Plaintiff's Attorney, The Wirbicki Law
G
r
o
u
p
,
33 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois
60603.
(312)
360-9455
W 1 5 - 1 4 5 5 .
INTERCOUNTY
JUDICIAL
SALES
Selling Officer,
(312) 444-1122
I682724
COUNTY,
ILLINOIS
COUNTY
DEPARTMENT
CHANCERY
DIVISION
BANK
OF
AMERICA,
N.A.;
P l a i n t i f f ,
v
s
.
MICHAEL S. WATSON AKA MICHAEL
WATSON;
THE
UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA,
DEPARTMENT
OF
HOUSING
AND
URBAN
DEVELOPMENT; COOK COUNTY,
ILLINOIS;
MARY
WATSON;
14
CH
5765
NOTICE
OF
SALE
Corporation will on Wednesday, March 2,
real
estate:
Commonly known as 1645 East 83rd
Street,
Chicago,
IL
60617.
P.I.N.
20-36-300-019-0000.
Condominium
Property
Act.
open
for
inspection
Plaintiff's Attorney,
Manley
Deas
Kochalski,
LLC,
One East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois
6
0
6
0
1
.
(614) 220-5611. 14-004475 NOS
INTERCOUNTY
JUDICIAL
SALES
Selling Officer,
(312) 444-1122
I682739
COUNTY,
ILLINOIS
COUNTY DEPARTMENT, CHANCERY
D I V I S I
O
N
RBS
CITIZENS,
N.A.,
P l a i n t i f
f
V
.
UNKNOWN
HEIRS
AND/OR
18
MARIETTA
0
(
I V I S I
O
N
R
CITIZENS,
N.A.,
P l a i n t i f
f
V
.
U
LEGATEES OF JAMES R. BIRCHFIELD
A/K/A
JAMES
BIRCHFIELD,
DECEASED; MARIETTA V. FLINN;
JAMES FLINN; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND
DEVISEES
OF
MARIETTA
BIRCHFIELD, DECEASED; BANKERS
TRUST COMPANY, AS CUSTODIAN;
UNKNOWN
OWNERS
AND
NON-RECORD
CLAIMANTS,
D e f e n d a n t s
06
CH
4628
Property Address: 2310 EAST 103RD
STREET CHICAGO, IL 60617
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE
Shapiro Kreisman & Assoc. file #
0 6 - 4 7 7
4
D
(It is advised that interested parties consult
with
their
own attorneys before bidding at mortgage
foreclosure
sales.)
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that
pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure
entered on June 18, 2015, Kallen Realty
Services, Inc., as Selling Official will at
12:30 p.m. on March 4, 2016, at 205 W.
Randolph Street, Suite 1020, Chicago,
Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest
bidder for cash, as set forth below, the
following described real property:
Commonly known as 2310 East 103rd
Street,
Chicago,
IL
60617
Permanent Index No.: 25-12-424-094
with a dwelling. The property will NOT be
open
for
inspection.
The judgment amount was $116,958.05.
Sale terms for non-parties: 10% of
successful bid immediately at conclusion
of auction, balance by 12:30 p.m. the next
business day, both by cashier's checks;
and no refunds. The sale shall be subject
to general real estate taxes, special taxes,
special assessments, special taxes levied,
and superior liens, if any. The property is
offered "as is," with no express or implied
warranties and without any representation
as to the quality of title or recourse to
Plaintiff.
Prospective bidders are
admonished to review the court file to verify
all information and to view auction rules at
ww w . k a l l e n r s . c o m .
For information: Sale Clerk, Shapiro
Kreisman & Associates, LLC, Attorney #
42168,
[email protected],
2121
Waukegan Road, Suite 301, Bannockburn,
Illinois 60015, (847) 291-1717, between
1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. weekdays only.
I682958
HOUSES FOR SALE
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION
URBAN FINANCIAL OF AMERICA, LLC
Plaintiff,
-v.SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN
DEVELOPMENT, UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA, ANTHONY HARVEY, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF
ELENORA TURNIPSEED A/K/A ELENORA
HARVEY TURNIPSEED MEEK, IF ANY, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD
CLAIMANTS, JULIE FOX, SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DECEASED
MORTGAGOR, ELENORA TURNIPSEED
A/K/A ELENORA HARVEY TURNIPSEED
MEEK
Defendants
15 CH 06747
9433 SOUTH BURNSIDE AVENUE CHICAGO, IL 60619
at 10:30 AM on March 8, 2016, at The Judicial
Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth
below, the following described real estate:
Commonly known as 9433 SOUTH BURNSIDE AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60619
Property Index No. 25-03-426-022-0000. The
real estate is improved with a red brick, two
story, single family home; no garage. Sale
The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party
checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned
Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund,
which is calculated on residential real estate
at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction
thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser
not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire
transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours.
No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its
credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee,
judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring
the residential real estate whose rights in and
to the residential real estate arose prior to the
sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or
special taxes levied against said real estate
and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without
recourse to Plaintiff and in \”AS IS\” condition.
The sale is further subject to confirmation by
the court. Upon payment in full of the amount
bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of
Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to
the real estate after confirmation of the sale.
Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy
a lien prior to that of the United States, the
United States shall have one year from the
date of sale within which to redeem, except
that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120
days or the period allowable for redemption
under State law, whichever is longer, and in
any case in which, under the provisions of
section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as
amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection
(d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United
States Code, the right to redeem does not
arise, there shall be no right of redemption.
The property will NOT be open for inspection
and plaintiff makes no representation as to
the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to
verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the
our website at service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5 pm. PIERCE &
60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also
CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 476-5500 E-Mail:
No. PA1501846 Attorney Code. 91220 Case
Number: 15 CH 06747 TJSC#: 35-17591
I682936
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
AS TRUSTEE FOR THE REGISTERED
HOLDERS OF
LSTAR COMMERCIAL MORTGAGE
TRUST 2011-1, COMMERCIAL MORTGAGE
PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES
2011-1,
Plaintiff,
-v.76TH & JEFFREY BLDG., LLC AN ILLINOIS
LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, PAUL
TSAKIRIS,
UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS
Defendants
14 CH 08959
7615-29 SOUTH JEFFERY
Chicago, IL 60649
the above cause on January 27, 2016, an
60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described
real estate:
Commonly known as 7615-29 SOUTH JEFFERY, Chicago, IL 60649 Property Index No.
20-25-408-029-0000, 20-25-408-035-0000,
20-25-408-002-0000, 20-25-408-003-0000.
The real estate is improved with a commercial
property. The judgment amount was
$4,760,235.61. Sale terms: 25% down of the
highest bid by certified funds at the close of
the sale payable to The Judicial Sales
Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial
sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property
Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated
on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for
each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount
paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in
certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within
twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid
by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or
by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other
B
C
where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, contact Plaintiff’s attorney: JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC, 230 W.
Monroe Street, Suite #1125, Chicago, IL
number 14-0071. THE JUDICIAL SALES
day status report of pending sales. JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC
230 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125 Chicago,
IL 60606 (312) 541-9710 E-Mail: [email protected] Attorney File
No. 14-0071 Attorney Code. 40342 Case
Number: 14 CH 08959 TJSC#: 36-1535
attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information
obtained will be used for that purpose.
I684285
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON,
F/K/A THE BANK OF NEW YORK, SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO JPMORGAN
CHASE BANK, N.A. AS TRUSTEE FOR
BEAR STEARNS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES TRUST 2005-SD3
Plaintiff,
-v.JERRY HAWKINS, BRENDA HAWKINS,
UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF
BESSIE MARIE HAWKINS, IF ANY,
THOMAS QUINN, SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DECEASED MORTGAGOR, BESSIE MARIE HAWKINS, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD
CLAIMANTS
Defendants
14 CH 16782
8008 SOUTH GREEN STREET CHICAGO,
IL 60620
8008 SOUTH GREEN STREET, CHICAGO,
IL 60620 Property Index No. 20-32-214-0200000. The real estate is improved with a 3
unit with a detached 2 car garage. Sale
our website at service.atty-pierce.com. be-
tween the hours of 3 and 5 pm. PIERCE &
60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also
CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 476-5500 E-Mail:
[email protected] Attorney
File No. PA1408374 Attorney Code. 91220
Case Number: 14 CH 16782 TJSC#: 3517605
I683552
COUNTY, ILLINOIS
CHRISTIANA TRUST, A DIVISION OF
WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY,
FSB, AS TRUSTEE FOR NORMANDY
MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST, SERIES 201313
Plaintiff,
-v.THEODORA
WILLIAMSON
A/K/A
THEODORA I WILLIAMSON
Defendants
15 CH 01922
5842 SOUTH SANGAMON STREET
CHICAGO, IL 60621
Commonly known as 5842 SOUTH SANGAMON STREET, CHICAGO, IL 60621
The real estate is improved with a red, brick,
two unit apartment; no garage. Sale terms:
25% down of the highest bid by certified
funds at the close of the sale payable to The
Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party
checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned
where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.
For information: Visit our website at
service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours
of 3 and 5 pm. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES,
Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn
Street Suite 1300, CHICAGO, IL 60602. Tel
No. (312) 476-5500. Please refer to file number PA1411418. THE JUDICIAL SALES
day status report of pending sales.
PIERCE & ASSOCIATES One North
Dearborn Street Suite 1300 CHICAGO, IL
60602
(312) 476-5500 E-Mail: [email protected] Attorney File No. PA1411418
01922 TJSC#: 35-18069
I684105
NEWS
Pastor wants churches to host students in the event of a strike
As the Chicago Teachers Union
drifts closer to strike, a Black pastor is proposing a unique alternative to keep thousands of students
off the streets if talks fail between
the union and Chicago Public
Schools (CPS).
Rev. Paul L. Jakes, Jr., pastor of
New Tabernacle of Faith Missionary Baptist Church, said Black
churches should open their doors
to students and offer classes, field
trips and other activities to help
weather a possible school crisis.
“The Black church has always
played a role in the community
and this could be one of them,”
said Jakes in an interview with the
Chicago Crusader.
This week, CPS added to the
city’s debt burden by borrowing
another $725 million at an interest rate of 8.5 percent. This bond
deal is on top of the $1 billion in
auction-rate securities CPS issued from 2003 - 2007.” Because
of the high interest rates, CPS
will pay an estimated $100 million more in today’s dollars than
it would have on traditional
fixed-rate bonds, over the life of
the deal.
In the latest battle, thousands of
teachers on February 4, demonstrated in downtown Chicago after CPS proposed to layoff 1,000
teachers. The proposal also includes taking 7 percent of the
CTU’s pay and putting it into
pensions.
The proposal came after CTU
President and the “Big Bargain-
Rev. Paul L. Jakes, Jr.
ing Team” rejected a contract offer
that would have prevented layoffs,
but would have required teachers
to make higher contributions to
their pensions. In addition, the
deal would have included raises of
2.75 percent in the next school
year and then 3 percent for each
of the next two years. More raises
were proposed through June
2019.
After the contract offer was rejected, CPS and the CTU entered
the final legal stage of negotiations that started a 105-day
countdown to a strike. Teachers
would have to wait until May to
walk off the job.
With no resolution in sight,
Jakes believes now is the time to
prepare for the worst. Jakes said
he is concerned that students left
on the streets would contribute to
Chicago’s high number of gun
shootings. According to the latest
figures, 312 people have been shot
this year in Chicago. The number
is higher than the number of
shootings that occurred around
this time last year.
With few options available,
Jakes believes the Black church
could fill a need in the Black community. He said he would look into bringing together pastors and
ask them to use their buildings
and services in the event of a
strike.
“This could be a serious problem for the Black community if a
teachers strike occurs,” Jakes said.
“What will happen to our youth?
Where are they going to go?”
FIGHTING TO KEEP HIS JOB
the Chicago Regional Council of
Carpenters lined Stratton’s coffers
with $51,000.
In all, Stratton has a total of
$389,287 in campaign contributions. The amount is likely to climb
as more organizations and Black leaders attempt to oust Dunkin with bigname endorsements.
Before she took the spotlight, Stratton had been a part of Cook County
Board President Toni Preckwinkle’s
inner circle, serving as a top aide and
director for the Center for Public Safety and Justice at UIC. She also serves
as executive director of the Cook
County Justice Advisory Council.
Stratton, a DePaul University Law
School graduate, ran her own firm
and worked as an administrative
judge for the city of Chicago before
joining the county. Despite her resume, Stratton has never held a public
so received endorsements from several
union organizations.
Sources say House Speaker Mike
Madigan also supports Stratton and
wants Dunkin out of his House.
Dunkin infuriated Madigan, numerous Democrats and many Black leaders in November, when he refused to
vote on a bill that would have reversed
Governor Bruce Rauner’s cuts to the
state’s Child Care Assistance program.
Responding to heavy criticism,
Dunkin said the bill was unnecessary
because he helped negotiate a compromise with Rauner.
In the Black community, Dunkin’s
move was viewed as an act of betrayal.
For months, Black lawmakers in
Springfield and Chicago have battled
Rauner’s proposed cuts that threatened to leave thousands of mothers
without money to help them pay for
critical daycare services while they
downtown and some of the poorest
neighborhoods on the South Side,
an area that heavily relies on social
programs.
Since Rauner’s childcare cuts,
health officials say 100 providers
closed their doors and about 5,000
parents lost their jobs because they
were unable to find affordable day
care for their children.
In a survey, 70 percent of parents
say the cuts affected their ability to
pay rent and buy food. An estimated
10,000 children who were eligible
before Rauner’s cuts, now remain
shut out of program. Dunkin
blames Madigan for the state’s budget impasse; Black leaders are angry
that Dunkin did not stick with Democrats to help reverse the cuts
when he had a chance.
On Feb. 7, healthcare leaders called
on Rauner and Dunkin to withdraw
slim, so were her campaign contributions, which initially drew several
$1,000 and $500 donations. The
amounts are considered small in the
era of Super PACS and bloated campaign war chests.
After he made several controversial
political moves, Dunkin is struggling
to shake an image of being a “sellout,”
who betrayed the Black community
by aligning himself with a Republican governor. Some of Dunkin’s past
donors have switched their support
to Stratton’s campaign. Her donations have not only increased in
numbers, but also in size. On Dec.
23, she received $25,000. Weeks later, the donations were in the six figures.
Dunkin responded on Feb. 1 with a
record setting $500,000 donation
from the Illinois for Growth and Opportunity, a Republican-backed organization. It’s an amount that could
have dimmed Stratton’s hopes for unseating the controversial lawmaker.
It did not.
Days after Dunkin made headlines
for his monstrous haul; dozens of
community organizations and prominent Black leaders have come to Stratton’s defense and fattened her campaign war chest. The outpouring of
support has set off an intense, high
stakes political race that is raising eyebrows in the Black community. The
donations have put Stratton within
striking distance—at least in contri- STATE REPRESENTATIVE KEN Dunkin is fighting to keep his job as he battles an image as a
butions—of her opponent. Political- sellout when he went against fellow Democrats during a critical vote on Governor Bruce
ly, she’s also making gains on her op- Rauner’s child care cuts last November.
office.
worked to put food on the table.
television advertisement paid for by
ponent.
On Feb. 4—the same day Stratton
As shocking as Dunkin’s move was, Illinoisans for Growth and OpportuThe biggest donor, AFSCME Illinois Council No. 31, gave Stratton snagged the $138,000 contribu- some Black lawmakers were not sur- nity—the same Republican organi$138,000 on Feb. 4, according to tion—she received endorsements prised. While Dunkin was portrayed zation that dropped $500,000 in
state campaign reports. A day earlier, from Preckwinkle; Secretary of State in the Black Press as a heroic inde- Dunkin’s war chest. Healthcare leadthe SEIU Healthcare Illinois Indiana Jesse White; Chicago Teachers Union pendent lawmaker, he has been ers accuse Dunkin and Rauner of
PAC gave $111,000, nearly 12 times President Karen Lewis; Father widely criticized as an elected official misrepresenting facts and ignoring
the $8,500 the organization gave to Michael Pfleger; and Aldermen Pat who marches to the beat of his own the state’s own figures showing
Dunkin when it was on good terms Dowell (3rd); Michelle Harris (8th) drum. His district includes some of 48,000 children in the programs.
In the television ad, Dunkin claims
with the lawmaker. On the same day, and Leslie Hairston (5th). Stratton al- the most affluent parts of Chicago’s
that he “restored childcare funding” to
100,000 children despite the cuts being in effect.
During his speech before lawmakers
in Springfield, President Barack Obama gave Dunkin a vote of confidence
when he praised him for working
with Rauner as a way to end partisan
bickering that has prolonged the budget crisis. Dunkin stood up and
clapped and yelled “Yes!”
Doubts about Dunkin still linger.
On Feb. 5–one day after Stratton
made news by bagging several highprofile endorsements from angry
Black leaders—Dunkin held a
packed meeting in the conference
room of the Chicago Defender’s office for members of the Black Press,
including the Chicago Crusader.Accompanying Dunkin was Cory Jobe,
director of the Illinois Office of
Tourism and another official.
Dunkin, who chairs the Illinois
House Tourism and Convention
Committee, promised to funnel
more state dollars for advertisements
in Black newspapers, but when it
came to details, Dunkin and Jobe
were unable to give specifics about
how much a piece of the pie was available and how Chicago’s Black Press
could reap state tourism dollars. Perhaps, the biggest problem—as one
press member pointed out—there is
no money available because of the
budget impasse.
To some, the spotty presentation
and unanswered questions were an
insult to a media that has often struggled for equality in obtaining advertising dollars.
With Dunkin’s image tanking in the
media and elections just over a month
away, some Blacks are left wondering
if this was another desperate attempt
by the veteran politician to buy favorable press coverage in the Black community. After all, when was the last
time Dunkin held a press conference
to try to steer tourism dollars to the
Black media?
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