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ComEd Honors Diverse Suppliers During Inaugural Award Ceremony
Biden Stumps in Chicago for Quinn By Larissa M. Tyler
Anticipation. Appreciation. Excitement. Those three words perfectly describe the atmosphere during ComEd’s 1st Inaugural Supplier Diversity Awards ceremony held Monday at the Bridgeport Art Center located at 1200 W. 35th Street in Chicago. The extremely well attended event that opened with a lively networking reception followed by a lavish lunch buffet, showcased successful minority, veteran and women-owned suppliers who are helping to drive community and economic development across Northern Illinois. > Page 6
Anne Pramaggiore, President/CEO, ComEd (left) poses with Deborah M. Sawyer, CEO/Founder of Environmental Design International, Inc., who received the Community Partnership award during ComEd’s 1st Inaugural Supplier Diversity Awards event held on April 4, 2016 at the Bridgeport Art Center located at 1200 W. 35th Street in Chicago. Photo credit: Larissa M. Tyler
Rallying support for Governor Pat Quinn as well as other Democratic candidates, Vice President Joe Biden fired up a crowd addressing union members, public officials and others. (Photo by Wendell A. LaGrand)
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by Wendell A. LaGrand Vice President Joe Biden was in Chicago last week campaigning for Illino Pat Quinn. During a “Putting Illinois to Work (PIW) Rally,” Biden told sev union workers at the Chicago Journeyman Plumbers Local 130 that, “The By Larissa M. This Tyleris for all the marbles King delivered the they last speech of his well wh playing for keeps. man... did pretty Forty eight on April 4, life, now known as the "I've Been to the us suffered,” heyears said,ago, in blasting Republicans. 1968, the world was forever changed
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Related story inside Community Focus > Page with the news that Dr. Martin Luther 8cerpt from that speech follows:
“Well, I don't know what will hapKing, Jr. had been assassinated. It was hard for many to believe, accept or pen now. We've got some difficult nBut it really CORNER doesn't matBILL’S conceptualize…that King’s life had days ahead. ter with me now, because I've been to ended so tragically on that balcony of the mountaintop. And I don't mind. the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. It Like anybody, I would like to live - a was a period of shock. It was a period of long life; longevity has its place. But national and international mourning. I'm not concerned about that now. I King was in Memphis in support of just want to do God's will. And He's striking African American city sanita- allowed me to go up to the moun> staged P16a tain. And I've looked over. And I've tion workers. The workers had walkout to protest unequal wages and seen the Promised Land. I may not working conditions imposed by then- get there with you. But I want you to www.thechicagocitizen.com • 45 years of serving the Black know tonight,community that we, as a people, mayor Henry Loeb. will get to the Promised Land. So This was King’s life’s work since the I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., (center), Rev. Jesse Jackson (right) and Ralph Abernathy mid-1950’s…helping to secure the civil about anything. I'm not fearing any (left) return to the Lorraine Motel in Memphis to strategize for the second Sanitation rights of others. man. Mine eyes have seen the glory Worker's march led by King in this April 3, 1968 file photo. King was shot dead on the On April 3, 1968 while in Memphis, of the coming of the Lord.”
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