South Suburban Citizen 10-28-2020

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Citizen The Citizen: Serving The Black Community For 55 Years Week of Oct. 28, 2020

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Ten-Year-Old Wins 2020 Kidventor Challenge Page 4

Women’s Health And Men’s Health Announce Nationwide Virtual Turkey Trot To Benefit Feeding America

Joe Biden – Vice President Joe Biden is the Democratic candidate for President of the United States. Photo from Wikimedia commons

Kamala Harris – Kamala Harris is a Senator from California who is running for Vice President of the United States of America, with Democratic candidate for President Joe Biden. Photo from Wikimedia commons

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Three Things Travelers Should Know About COVID-19 Testing and Travel Insurance

Kim Foxx – Kim Foxx is the Cook County State’s Attorney. Photo courtesy of Kim Foxx.

Thaddeus Jones – Thaddeus Jones is the Illinois State Representative for the 29th District. Photo courtesy of Thaddeus Jones.

GET OUT AND VOTE!

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Political Endorsements: National and Local Races. PAGE 5

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NEWS briefly EDUCATION SXU WELCOMES LARGEST FRESHMAN CLASS IN ITS HISTORY Saint Xavier University (SXU) has achieved an enrollment milestone in welcoming its largest freshman class in the institution’s history, despite challenges posed by COVID-19. 2020 follows 2018 and 2019, the previous two greatest enrollment years, culminating in the three largest classes on record. The Admission team identified ways to convey the college visit experience in a virtual setting through Zoom, recorded presentations and video tours. The marketing team created a greater sense of student life on social media with Instagram stickers, infographics and interactive posts.

“Saint Xavier is consistently ranked among U.S. News & World Report’s Best Value regional universities in the Midwest because of our combination of a transformational educational experience at an affordable cost – according to College Navigator, we are the most affordable Catholic college in Illinois,” said Brian Hotzfield, assistant vice president for enrollment management, student development and student success. “We invest in the success of our students through generous financial assistance, which all incoming freshmen receive.”

HEALTH

GOODWILL RECEIVES SNAP E&T NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP GRANT FROM USDA The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently announced that Goodwill Industries International, the largest nonprofit workforce provider in North America, is one of four national nonprofits that will receive a new grant to strengthen Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Employment and Training programs (SNAP E&T). This grant will significantly increase the reach and capabilities of these programs, which help SNAP participants build economic self-sufficiency.

The USDA is providing more than $6.7 million in SNAP E&T national partnership grants to four leading nonprofit organizations — Goodwill Industries International, the National Association of Workforce Boards, the American Public Human Services Association and the Roberts Enterprise Development Fund — to help enlarge program capacity to serve SNAP participants.

Grantees will use the funds to develop materials, train subject matter experts, and work with member or affiliate organizations to expand SNAP E&T. For more information or to find a Goodwill location near you, visit goodwill.org, or call (800) GOODWILL.

LAW & POLITICS

NEW HIGHER HEIGHTS NATIONAL POLL: BLACK WOMEN MORE MOTIVATED TO VOTE THAN EVER BEFORE Black women are more motivated to vote in the 2020 election than ever before, according to a new #BlackWomenVote 2020 nationwide poll released by Higher Heights. The poll’s findings also suggest that a majority of Black women believe that their turnout at the polls will make the biggest difference in this year’s election results.

“Black women are aware that we can be the deciding factor this election,” said Glynda C. Carr, president and CEO of Higher Heights Leadership Fund (Higher Heights). “We understand that this is the most consequential election of our time, for our communities, and for our country, and we know that we must vote as though our lives depended on it – because they do.”

Top factors energizing Black women to vote include protecting democracy and racial justice, with the majority of respondents attributing racism as the one main issue keeping them up at night.

Black women also prioritized addressing the coronavirus crisis, affordable healthcare, and the economy as important issues to their demographic and to the overall Black community as they prepare to cast their ballots. These findings are based on a survey of 506 likely 2020 Black women voters nationwide conducted between September 30 and October 4, 2020.

Read the full report of the poll results by visiting, https:// blackwomenvote.com/blackwomenvote-national-poll/

Congresswoman Robin Kelly co-chairs the Coalition on Black Women and Girls, which led to the introduction of H.R. 8196, the Protect Black Women and Girls Act of 2020. Photo courtesy of Congresswoman Robin Kelly

Legislation introduced to Protect Black Women and Girls

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The Congressional Caucus on Black Women and Girls was established in 2016, with the mission to advance issues and legislation focused on women and girls of African descent.

Congresswoman Robin Kelly, D. Dist.

2, is a co-chair of the caucus.

With that mission in mind, legislation has been introduced, H.R. 8196, the Protect Black Women and Girls Act of 2020. The Act would establish an Interagency Task Force to examine education, economic development, healthcare, labor and employment, housing, justice and civil rights, and look for community-based methods to mitigate and address harm, as well as ensure accountability and study the societal impact of the conditions and experiences.

“We’ve been all over the country hearing about different issues for three or four years now. This is something we wanted to see happen. Plus, the Commission for Black Men and Boys was passed, so we only thought it was right that there would be something

for Black women,” Kelly said.

She added the Act is about examining the experiences of Black women and the cost of those experiences on our society. “The Caucus on Black Women and Girls—we wanted to explore certain things and we didn’t want to just talk about the negative things.

We wanted to talk about where we were victorious also,” she added.

Kelly said that those experiences would include stories about personal achievements and how Black women and girls were able to turn lemons into lemonade. She said the Caucus wants to learn about both the positives and the negatives—examine where discrimination and other barriers exist and determine what can be done about it.

The Caucus looked at women in tech, missing girls and sex trafficking. With sex trafficking, it brought government law enforcement agencies together to figure out how to deal with the issue.

Kelly added a seminar addressing how Black women could advance in their jobs and earn more money also received a very positive response.

“People are realizing what Black

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women and Black men, Black boys and Black girls have gone through, what the challenges have been,” Kelly said. “I just think there is a raised consciousness,” she continued. “I hope that we have positive consequences. It will help us direct what programs need to be developed or scaled up.”

This bi-partisan legislation was co-sponsored by Congressman Will Hurd, a Republican from Texas.

“We must ensure black women and girls growing up in America today are treated equally and have the same opportunities as all Americans. Ensuring equal treatment across education, health care, economic development and more is something that should already happen, but because it does not, Rep. Robin Kelly and I are calling for a task force to study the treatment and experiences of black women and girls across all sectors of our daily lives. I hope this brings needed accountability and positive change,” said Congressman Hurd in a news release. “I am the proud brother of a strong, successful sister and the uncle of vibrant, intelligent nieces. They matter.”

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$5 Million Settlement With Community Health Systems For Data Breach

The Citizens Utility Board (CUB), a nonprofit utility watchdog in Illinois, is urging consumers who are having difficulty paying their utility bills to contact their utility companies to take advantage of unprecedented consumer protections.

CUB to Consumers Struggling with Their Bills: Contact Your Utility The Citizens Utility Board (CUB) is urging Illinois consumers who are having difficulty paying their utility bills during the pandemic to contact their utility companies to take advantage of unprecedented consumer protections available to them.

“Anybody struggling to pay their bills during the pandemic should immediately contact their utility to find out what protections are available, and to set up a plan to prevent disconnection,” CUB Executive Director David Kolata said. “These protections are available for a limited time, and only for customers who call their utility and say they are experiencing financial hardship because of the pandemic.”

In June, the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) approved landmark consumer protections negotiated by a coalition of consumer advocates and these major utilities: Ameren Illinois, Aqua Illinois, ComEd, Illinois American, Nicor Gas, North Shore Gas, Peoples Gas and Utilities Inc. Kolata stressed that the following protections are available only to customers who call and state they are experiencing hardship due to the pandemic: A moratorium on disconnections. The utilities have agreed to extend the moratorium through March 31, 2021 for all consumers who qualify for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) OR those who call the utility and say they are financially impacted by COVID-19. (Note: For most utilities, this is not a blanket moratorium. It will only be given to individuals who call.)

Waiving deposits. Until Dec. 26, utilities must waive deposits connected to late payment or non-payment, arrearages, or credit-related issues for customers experiencing financial hardship. Also, utilities will not report late payments

and nonpayment for active customers to credit bureaus and reporting agencies.

Consumer-friendly payment plans. Until Dec. 26, utilities are required to offer longer Deferred Payment Arrangements (DPAs)—plans that help people pay off debt with a utility.

DPAs for customers who are LIHEAP-eligible or express financial hardship will not require a down payment and will be extended to 24 months.

Reminder: No documented proof of hardship is required to qualify for these consumer protections. But people must call their utilities and state they are experiencing hardship.

The utilities also have set up a Bill Payment Assistance Program that offers a certain amount of debt forgiveness for eligible utility customers who apply.

Each utility’s program will differ in terms of available funding, the amount allotted to each customer and the way it is administered. CUB urged consumers to ask their utility companies about the Bill Payment Assistance Program.

Contact numbers for the major utilities offering these consumer protections: l Ameren Illinois – 1-800-755-5000 l Aqua Illinois – 1-877-987-2782 l ComEd – 1-800-334-7661 l Illinois American Water – 1-800-422-2782 l Nicor Gas – 1-888-642-6748 l North Shore Gas – 1-866-556-6004 l Peoples Gas – 1-866-556-6001 l Utilities Inc. – 1-800-831-2359 To read a fact sheet on the consumer protections available to consumers, go to CUBHelpCenter.com. www.citizennewspapergroup.com

Attorney General Kwame Raoul recently announced a $5 million settlement with Community Health Systems Inc. (CHS) resulting from a 2014 data breach that impacted approximately 6.1 million patients nationwide.

Attorney General Raoul, along with Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery III and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, led a bipartisan coalition of 28 states that reached the settlement with CHS and its subsidiary, CHSPSC LLC. In 2014, CHS confirmed that its computer network was the target of an external cyber attack that allowed hackers to gain access to patient names, birthdates, Social Security numbers, phone numbers and addresses.

More than 339,000 impacted patients were Illinois residents.

Raoul recently filed a lawsuit and a settlement requiring CHS to pay states $5 million, more than $611,000 of which will go to Illinois.

CHS has also agreed to implement and maintain a comprehensive information security program to safeguard personal information and implement policies to quickly identify and address future breaches.

“When patients provide sensitive personal information such as Social Security numbers and birthdates, they are trusting that it will be kept safe and confidential,” Raoul said. “This settlement requires CHS to enact procedures to better protect patients’ information, and to develop plans to react quickly if another breach occurs. I will continue working to hold companies responsible for not doing enough to protect consumers’ personal information from data breaches.”

The settlement requires CHS to take a number of steps to prevent future breaches, such as developing an incident plan so that the company will know what to do if a breach occurs.

The settlement also requires CHS to employ additional policies to protect sensitive patient information, such as: Developing and implementing a written information

security program.

Developing a plan to ensure that any needed software patches are detected and applied in a timely manner to avoid allowing security gaps.

Maintaining strict control over access to CHS’ accounts and network, and implementing measures such as multi-factor authentication to limit access only to authorized individuals.

Providing regular security and privacy training for all employees who handle or come into contact with sensitive patient data.

Developing and maintaining policies and procedures to encrypt sensitive data when appropriate.

Conducting an annual risk assessment of the CHS network, and developing a plan for addressing those risks and protecting data.

Requiring any third-party companies that provide services to CHS involving the handling or storage of sensitive patient data to agree to take certain precautions to protect the data.

Implementing and maintaining policies to track and protect all company computers, phones and other devices that have access to or transmit sensitive patient data.

Engaging a third-party assessor to evaluate CHS’ compliance with the terms of the judgment and the handling of sensitive patient data.

Privacy Unit Chief Matt Van Hise, Consumer Fraud Bureau Chief Beth Blackston, and Assistant Attorneys General Carolyn Friedman and Ronak Shah handled the settlement for Raoul’s Consumer Fraud Bureau.

Joining Attorneys General Raoul, Slatery and Paxton in the settlement are the attorneys general of Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont, Washington and West Virginia.

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BUSINESS

SHRM Research Shows Employers Offering Paid Leave Has Increased A voluntary, comprehensive, and uniform federal paid leave framework is necessary to meet the needs of a modern, 21st century workplace, SHRM (the Society for Human Resource Management) recently wrote in a response to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau Request for Information on paid leave.

The letter presents research from SHRM and Oxford Economics that found more employers are offering paid parental leave—including maternity leave, paternity leave, and adoption leave.

The report showed: * Over half of employers (55 percent) now offer paid maternity leave, 45 percent offer paid paternity leave, and 35 percent provide paid extended family care leave; * Offering paid leave tends to have strategic benefits, including their ability to attract talent (58 percent), retention (55 percent), employee health and wellness (61 percent), and employee engagement (60 percent); * Employers’ most commonly cited reason for not offering paid leave programs was cost. The cost of a comprehensive national paid leave program could range between $21.5 billion and $43.0 billion annually, depending on policy.

“As U.S. workplaces adapt, and respond to the pandemic, employers

Research from SHRM and Oxford Economics that found more employers are offering paid parental leave—including maternity leave, paternity leave, and adoption leave.

have called on their HR departments to re-examine and update leave policies amid significant labor market turmoil,” said Emily M. Dickens, SHRM corporate secretary, chief of staff, & head, government affairs. “Congress

should work towards a voluntary federal framework that gives employers the flexibility to offer a paid leave program that meets the unique needs of both employees and the business interests of the organization.”

BMO Announces Partnership with The Clearing House, Launches Global Pay for U.S. Business Customers BMO Financial Group has announced its partnership with The Clearing House Payments Company, LLC (TCH), allowing business customers in the U.S. to receive funds immediately from any sending participant bank in the RealTime Payments (RTP®) network, the real-time U.S. payment system developed and operated by TCH. “Our partnership in RTP speaks to our ongoing commitment to innovation within the emerging payments business, and we’re excited about providing our customers with access to this evolving payment system – the first new payments system in the U.S. in 40 years,” said Sharon HawardLaird, head, North American Treasury & Payment Solutions, BMO Financial Group. “Providing our customers with a way to accelerate collections and reconcile payments with remittance information is significant during this challenging environment.”

BMO business customers will have the ability to send payments via the Real-Time Payments network in 2021.

In partnership with Mastercard, BMO also recently launched BMO Global Pay in the U.S. Using Mastercard Cross-Border Services, BMO business customers have the ability to send payments to more than 30 countries efficiently, seamlessly and securely, according to a press release.

Customers can view the final exchange rate before sending the payment and track the status of the payment from the moment the payment has been approved, with some destinations experiencing close to real-time delivery. The service is already available to BMO customers in Canada.

“As a cross-border bank, we understand that managing cross-border business can be complex. BMO Global Pay provides our customers with a quick, simple and secure option for cross-border payments,” added Haward-Laird.

“In an increasingly global marketplace, BMO Global Pay provides our customers with a cost effective and transparent option to meet their financial needs.”

Ten-Year-Old Wins 2020 Kidventor Challenge Fat Brain Toys, one of the nation’s leading independent toy companies, recently announced the winner of their Kidventor Challenge for 2020. The Kidventor Challenge invites children ages six to thirteen to submit toy or game ideas for the chance to have their concept commercially produced and sold around the world.

The winner of this year’s Kidventor Challenge is ten-year-old Tristan for his invention of a game entitled Sew Fast. A unique game of speed and skill, Sew Fast challenges players to sew specific shapes into “sew boards” full of random holes. The first player to complete the randomly chosen pattern before the 90-second timer is up wins the round. The first to score 10 points wins the game.

“Now in its fourth year, Kidventor 2020 really brought out a number of outstanding toy and game concepts from some seriously creative kid inventors,” said Mark Carson, co-founder of Fat Brain Toys. “As challenging as it was to pick an overall winner, we applaud Tristan’s innovative new twist on sewing.”

As the grand prize winner, Tristan will receive a $2,500 scholarship, a license agreement that offers ongoing royalties, $500 in toys from Fat Brain Toys, as well as round-trip airfare and hotel accommodations for two to attend the 2021 American International Toy Fair in New York City (depending on potential COVID-19 restrictions) where his invention will be showcased before thousands of buyers from around the world.

This year’s panel of judges included Co-Host of NPR’s Wow In The World Podcast Mindy Thomas, President of the Parents’ Choice Foundation Claire Green, and Fat www.citizennewspapergroup.com

The winner of this year’s Kidventor Challenge is ten-yearold Tristan for his invention of a game entitled Sew Fast.

A unique game of speed and skill, Sew Fast challenges players to sew specific shapes into “sew boards” full of random holes. The first player to complete the randomly chosen pattern before the 90-second timer is up wins the round. The first to score 10 points wins the game.

Brain Toys Co-Founders Karen Carson and Mark Carson.

The runners-up for this year’s Kidventor Challenge were ten-year-old Gia for her invention of Breeze Blaster, a leaf-blower turned explore-and-experiment adventure, and six-year-old Grant for his invention of the Ball Launcher Challenge, a ball-run target game.

Fat Brain Toys’ products are available at leading retailers around the world, including on their own website, www.fatbraintoys.com.

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Political Endorsements: National and Local Races Continued from page 1 Voting has always been important, but this year, voting is VERY IMPORTANT. Participating in the Democratic process is how you get your voices heard. The ramifications of the Nov. 3 election will reverberate for years, if not decades to come.

Of course, the presidential election is important across the nation, but there are down ballot races that locally need attention as well.

Here are the candidates the Citizen Newspaper Group is endorsing:

Joe Biden – Vice President Joe Biden is the Democratic candidate for President of the United States. Photo from

Kamala Harris – Kamala Harris is a Senator from California who is running for Vice President of the United States of America, with Democratic candidate for President Joe Biden.

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President and Vice President, United States Joseph R. Biden and Kamala Harris: Biden was President Barack Obama’s Vice President. Harris has been a United States Senator since 2017.

Senator, United States Richard J. Durbin: Durbin is the incumbent in the race. He has been a United States Senator since 1996.

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Bobby Rush – Bobby Rush is the Congressman for the 1st District in Illinois. Photo courtesy of Bobby Rush.

United States Representative, 1st Congressional District Bobby L. Rush: Rush has been a Congressman representing the 1st District since 1993. Rush introduced H.R. 35, the Emmett Till Antilynching Bill.

Robin Kelly – Robin Kelly is the Congresswoman for the 2nd District in Illinois. Photo courtesy of Robin Kelly.

United States Representative, 2nd Congressional District Robin Kelly: Kelly has been a Congresswoman since 2013. Kelly introduced H.R. 8200, to improve the health of minority individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Women’s Health And Men’s Health Announce Nationwide Virtual Turkey Trot To Benefit Feeding America Women’s Health and Men’s Health, the most established wellness media brands published across six continents, recently announced a new nationwide virtual 5K event to raise funds and awareness for hunger relief in America.

Taking place on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 2020, the first-ever Women’s Health & Men’s Health Turkey Trot will benefit Feeding America®, the nation’s largest hunger-relief organization with a network of 200 food banks and 60,000 food pantries across the country.

Supporting the event are coanchors of the ABC News daytime program GMA3: What You Need to Know Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes, who will act as official hosts of the Women’s Health & Men’s Health Turkey Trot. Viewers and

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readers will have access to training plans, running content and tips for safely participating in virtual races this year across Men’s Health and Women’s Health platforms as well as on GMA3.

“I am grateful every day for the ability to move and run, so when I heard about the Women’s Health & Men’s Health Turkey Trot, I knew it was something I wanted to be a part of,” said Robach. “Raising awareness for hunger relief during a time of great need, plus hosting with my friend and colleague T.J., makes it even better.”

“Running with Robach - virtually, of course - and shining a light on Feeding America and their incredible work is the perfect way to start Thanksgiving,” added Holmes.

“I can’t wait to see everyone hitting the pavement.”

By registering for the free event at WHMHTurkeyTrot. com participants are invited to run or walk a 5K course of their choosing anywhere in the country on Thanksgiving Day, utilizing their favorite tracking app to log mileage and time. Upon registration, participants will be invited to make a donation to Feeding America, which provides food and groceries to more than 40 million people each year.

“Thanksgiving Day has grown to become the biggest running day of the year, with over one million Americans lacing up annually,” said Men’s Health Editor-in-Chief Rich Dorment. “We’re excited to provide a virtual event and content platform that will inspire safe, sociallydistanced fitness and philanthropy while shining a light on the growing problem of food insecurity in the United States.”

“Whether you run daily or once a year, there’s no better way to start Thanksgiving morning than

by breaking a sweat with your friends and family,” said Women’s Health Editor-in-Chief Liz Plosser. “As IRL races go virtual in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we wanted to offer our audiences a way to continue their holiday traditions, or create new ones, while giving back on a national scale. By joining us for a walk or a run this Thanksgiving, you’re not only doing good for your physical, mental and emotional health, but also for the community at-large.”

According to Feeding America, food banks across the country have reported an average 60% increase in need for food assistance since the start of the pandemic. It estimates that one in six people in the U.S. could face hunger this year as a result of coronavirus, up from one in nine in 2019.

“The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on both the health and economic wellbeing of millions of people in this country,” said Feeding America Chief Marketing and Communication Officer Catherine Davis. “The virtual Turkey Trot is a great opportunity to give back, get active and get involved in your local community. We are excited to partner with Women’s Health and Men’s Health on this initiative and help people turning to food banks for help.”

Premium wearable technology manufacturer Garmin, whose products have revolutionized life for runners, cyclists, swimmers and athletes of all levels and abilities, has also joined on as a program sponsor.

To promote the event and encourage participation, Women’s Health and Men’s Health will be packaging race bibs in 10,000 subscriber copies for each of their December 2020 issues, arriving in subscriber mailboxes midNovember ahead of the holiday.

Participants who register will also be able to download and print their own bibs to wear as they race on November 26.

Additionally, the first 500 registrants for the Women’s Health & Men’s Health Turkey Trot 2020 will receive a special “Race in a Box” kit to commemorate the event.

For more information or to register today, visit WHMHTurkeyTrot.com.

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Pappas: See your property tax bill grow over 20 years at cookcountytreasurer.com Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas today released an unprecedented study of property taxes that shows the county’s tax bills virtually doubling over 20 years, an increase that is nearly triple the rise in the cost of living index.

“The Pappas Study” is a painstaking examination of tax bills on Cook County’s 1.7 million parcels of property that shows the increase of total taxes over the past 20 years, and allows taxpayers to see the increases in bills on their homes, businesses and land.

The study is posted on cookcountytreasurer.com with a research tool allowing owners to see “how local governments taxed property and people have paid the tax bill” over two decades, Pappas said.

“This website tool gives taxpayers a sobering reminder of what they

“BECAUSE THE STUDY LETS US SEE WHAT GOVERNMENT HAS DONE IN THE PAST, WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO CHART A BETTER, LESS COSTLY FUTURE. GOVERNMENT CANNOT JUST RAISE TAXES AND HOPE FOR THE BEST.” Maria Pappas Cook County Treasurer

have paid every year going back 20 years,” she said. “In the midst of the pandemic and a recession, local governments should take their foot off the gas pedal and stop raising property taxes.”

While the cost of living has risen just 36 percent over 20 years, the findings of the Pappas Study include: • In all of Cook County, total taxes billed increased 99 percent, from $7.85 billion to $15.58 billion • In Chicago, total taxes on resi-

dential properties skyrocketed 164 percent, from $1.33 billion to $3.51 billion • In Chicago, total taxes on commercial properties rose 81 percent, from $1.92 billion to $3.48 billion • In suburban Cook County, total taxes on residential properties jumped 116 percent, from $2.45 billion to $5.29 billion • In suburban Cook County, total taxes on commercial properties rose 53 percent, from $2.15 billion to $3.30 billion

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“Because the study lets us see what government has done in the past, we might be able to chart a better, less costly future,” Pappas said. “Government cannot just raise taxes and hope for the best.”

Cook County has 2,200 local government agencies, such as school districts, townships, parks, libraries, public health and safety agencies. The study analyzes total property taxes billed in the county’s 135 cities and villages by those 2,200 agencies.

Pappas: 20-year tax history search adds to cookcountytreasurer.com To see your property tax payment history over 20 years, visit cookcountytreasurer.com and follow these steps: • Select the purple box labeled “Your Property Tax Overview” • Enter your address or Property Index Number (PIN) • Select the tab on the left that says “20-Year Tax Bill History” • See an interactive map that shows how property taxes billed have increased in Chicago wards and suburbs since 2001 “Has it been worth it?” Pappas said. “There’s no longer any ignoring that question in a pandemic, not from homeowners who pay the taxes and not from the local officials who raise the taxes.”

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Get out and vote! Political Endorsements: National and Local Races Continued from page 5 United States Representative, 3rd Congressional District Marie Newman: Newman is the president of Marie Newman & Associates, a marketing and advertising agency.

Illinois State Representative, 27th District Justin Q. Slaughter; Slaughter has been a State Representative since 2017.

Illinois State Representative, 28th District Robert “Bob” Rita: Rita has been a State Representative since 2003.

sentative since 2010.

Illinois State Representative, 80th District Anthony DeLuca: DeLuca has been a State Representative since 2009.

Judge, 2nd Cook County Subcircuit Sondra Nicole Denmark Judge, 7th Cook County Subcircuit (Vacancy of Fleming) Pamela Reaves-Harris

United States Representative, 4th District Jesus “Chuy” Garcia: Garcia has been a Congressman since 2019. Garcia introduced H.R.7402, to protect renters from evictions and fees.

Kimberly Neely Dubuclet – Kimberly Neely Dubuclet is the Commissioner for the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District. Photo courtesy of Thaddeus Jones – Thaddeus Jones is the Illinois State Representative for the 29th District. Photo courtesy of Thaddeus Jones.

Danny Davis – Danny Davis is the Congressman for the 7th District in Illinois. Photo courtesy of Danny Davis.

United State Representative, 7th District Danny K. Davis: Davis has been a Congressman since 1997. Davis sponsored H. R. 6460, to provide funding for needed child and adult care so that essential workers can report to work during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Illinois State Senator, 13th District Robert Peters: Peters has been a State Senator since 2018.

Illinois State Representative, 29th District Thaddeus Jones: Jones has been a State Representative since 2011.

Kimberly Neely Dubuclet.

Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Commissioner Kimberly Neely Dubuclet M Cameron “Cam” Davis Eira L. Corral Sepulveda

Illinois State Representative, 30th District William “Will” Davis: Davis has been a State Representative since 2003.

Illinois State Representative, 32nd District Andre Thapedi: Thapedia has been a State Representative since 2009.

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx

Illinois State Representative, 5th District Lamont J. Robinson: Robinson has been a State Representative since 2019.

Clerk of Circuit Court, Cook County Iris Y. Martinez: Martinez is currently a member of the Illinois Senate, where she has served since 2003.

Illinois State Representative, 6th District Sonya Marie Harper: Harper has been a State Representative since 2015.

Judge, Illinois Supreme Court (Vacancy of Freeman) P. Scott Neville, Jr.

Illinois State Representative, 7th District Emanuel “Chris” Welch: Welch has been a State Representative since 2013.

Illinois State Representative, 8th District LaShawn K. Ford: Ford has been a State Representative since 2007.

Illinois State Representative, 25th District Curtis J. Tarver II: Tarver has been a State Representative since 2019.

Illinois State Representative, 26th District Kam Buckner: Buckner has been a State Representative since 2019.

Marcus Evans, Jr. – Marcus Evans, Jr. is the Illinois State Representative for the 33rd District.

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Illinois State Representative, 33rd District Marcus C. Evans, Jr.: Evans has been a State Representative since 2012.

Illinois State Representative, 34th District Nicholas “Nick” Smith: Smith has been a State Representative since 2018.

Illinois State Representative, 38th District Debbie Meyers-Martin: Meyers-Martin has been a State Representative since 2019.

Illinois State Representative, 78th District Camille Lilly: Lilly has been a State Repre-

Judge, Cook County Judicial Circuit (Retention) Cynthia Y. Cobbs

- “In creating its city-wide plan for continued growth and sustainability, should the city of Chicago place equal focus on the goals of resiliency, equity, and diversity?”

Yes Kim Foxx – Kim Foxx is the Cook County State’s Attorney. Photo courtesy of Kim Foxx.

Illinois State Senator, 19th District Michael E. Hastings: Hastings has been a State Senator since 2013.

Cynthia Cobbs.

There also are public questions on the ballot to voters of the city of Chicago - “Should the city of Chicago act to ensure that all the city’s community areas have access to broadband internet?”

Yes

Illinois State Representative, 31st District Mary E. Flowers: Flowers has been a State Representative since 2003.

Illinois State Senator, 16th District Jacqueline “Jacqui” Collins: Collins has been a State Senator since 2003.

Cynthia Cobbs – Cynthia Cobbs is the Cook County Circuit Court Judge. Photo courtesy of

Judge, Illinois Appellate Court, 1st District (Vacancy of Neville, Jr.) Sharon O. Johnson Judge, 1st Cook County Subcircuit (Vacancy of Crawford) Tyria B. Walton Judge, Cook County Judicial Circuit (Vacancy of Funderburk) Celestia L. Mays Judge, Cook County Judicial Circuit (Vacancy of Murphy Gorman) Sheree Desiree Henry

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- “Should the state of Illinois restrict the sale or possession of firearms that have been defined as assault weapons or of magazines that can hold more than a certain number of rounds of ammunition?”

Yes The question on the Ballot about the Proposed Amendment to the 1970 Illinois Constitution, also known as the Fair tax Amendment, has been discussed on television advertisements, as well as on our own Conversations with the Citizen, featuring State Representative Marcus Evans, Jr. Here’s what we know: The amendment of Section 3 of Article IX (9) of the Illinois Constitution grants the authority to impose a higher income tax rates on higher income levels.

The amendment would remove the portion of the article of the Illinois Constitution referred as the “flat tax,” which requires all taxes on income to be the same rate.

Those with higher income levels would have a higher tax rate imposed on them. Those with a middle and lower income levels would have a lower income tax rate imposed on them.

For the proposed amendment of Section 3 of Article IX of the Illinois Constitution.

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Three Things Travelers Should Know About COVID-19 Testing and Travel Insurance Some airlines and airports now offer rapid COVID-19 testing to accommodate travelers required to show a negative test at their destination.

But what happens if a traveler tests positive before a trip? Travel insurance comparison site, Squaremouth, breaks down three things travelers need to know about COVID-19 testing and travel insurance.

Not All Policies Include Cancellation Coverage for Contracting Coronavirus Select travel insurance policies include trip cancellation coverage in the event a traveler, or their family, contracts coronavirus before departure and cannot travel. This benefit can reimburse travelers who must cancel their trip.

As of October 15th, there were 38 policies available on Squaremouth. com that included this cancellation coverage.

Positive COVID-19 Test Result May Not Immediately Trigger Cancellation Benefits Many travel insurance policies require documentation from a doctor advising against travel in order for benefits to apply. In this case, a positive coronavirus test result alone may not be enough to

trigger coverage.

Travelers that test positive should contact a doctor as soon as possible, prior to canceling their trip.

The doctor can provide documentation that will be required when travelers file a claim.

Cost of COVID-19 Testing Not an Insurable Expense Most travel insurance policies will not cover the cost of COVID-19 testing before departure, even if their destination requires a negative COVID-19 test result for entry.

If a traveler is medically required to take a COVID-19 test while traveling, this cost may be reimbursed depending on the policy.

Squaremouth.com created the Coronavirus Pandemic Current Event Center which is updated daily with available travel insurance coverage and answers to FAQs as the COVID-19 pandemic evolves.

SQUAREMOUTH compares travel insurance policies from every major travel insurance provider in the United States. Using Squaremouth’s comparison engine and third-party customer reviews, travelers can research and compare travel insurance policies side-by-side. More information can be found at www.squaremouth.com.

Travel insurance comparison site, Squaremouth, breaks down three things travelers need to know about COVID-19 testing and travel insurance.

New Kwanzaa Stamp Now Available The U.S. Postal Service is celebrating Kwanzaa, which honors the values and beliefs around African American heritage, by ded- icating a new Kwanzaa stamp. News of this Forever stamp is being shared with the hashtag #KwanzaaStamps. The stamp is available nationwide.

“This new Kwanzaa stamp captures the essence of the African American cultural celebration.

The stamp depicts the profile of a reflective woman with a kinara, or candleholder, with seven lit candles in front of her,” said USPS Regional Processing Operations Eastern Vice President Dane Coleman, the dedicating official. “The stamp, which was hand-sketched and digitally colored, evokes a sense of inner peace with its cool tones and vibrant design elements to give a festive feel to the celebration of Kwanzaa.”

Kwanzaa takes place over seven days annually from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1, bringing family, community and culture together for many.

Each year, millions of African Americans gather with friends and family throughout Kwanzaa week to honor the Pan-African holiday’s seven founding principles including: * unity (umoja)

* self-determination (kujichagulia) * collective work and responsibility (ujima) * cooperative economics (ujamaa) * purpose (nia) * creativity (kuumba) and * faith (imani) Each day of Kwanzaa is dedicated to one of these seven principles, collectively known as the Nguzo Saba.

Kwanzaa was created in 1966, drawing on a variety of African traditions, deriving its name from the Swahili phrase “matunda ya kwanza,” meaning “first fruits.”

Kwanzaa is a festive time for rejoicing in the prospect of health, prosperity and good luck in the coming year.

It is also a time for contemplation and recollection of past hardships, faced by individuals and communities, and the ways history can inform and impact future happiness.

Art director Antonio Alcala designed the stamp, and Andrea Pippins was the illustrator.

The Kwanzaa stamp is being issued as a Forever stamp in a pane of 20. Forever stamps will always be equal in value to the current FirstClass Mail 1-ounce price.

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ENTERTAINMENT Chicago-based artist Ayanah Moor’s work on display at DePaul Art Museum In a new site-specific billboard exhibition at DePaul Art Museum viewable from the Chicago Transit Authority’s Fullerton ‘L’ platform, Chicago-based artist Ayanah Moor asks audiences to question our personal and national progress, intentions and methods of change surrounding issues of equity and inclusion.

“Ayanah Moor’s text-based works are incredibly powerful,” said Laura-Caroline de Lara, interim director of DePaul Art Museum and the exhibition’s curator. “Moor’s site-specific designs for the museum and their placement on our building set in a university campus are a pertinent and crucial reminder that we as a city and as a university community have much work to do around these issues.”

The artist’s text-based paintings started years before the current moment of protest poster aesthetics and neighborhood storefronts announcing their alliances with Black, brown and LGBTQ+ groups through window displays, said de Lara. For her DePaul Art Museum exhibition, Moor challenges audiences to ask whether their personal alliances are swift and superficial, or deeply rooted and ready for hard-fought change.

Four separate billboards combine to make up Moor’s exhibition called “for you,” with each text-based piece displaying a reconfiguration of the same phrase “This blackness is just for you,” asking audiences to consider how the meaning of the phrase changes as each word and its emphasis are rearranged.

“In my artwork, text-as-image can affirm, complicate or challenge the viewer’s thinking, and I’m most drawn to messages that allow the viewer to participate in making meaning,” says Moor.

Her hope is that audiences rethink and unlearn their relationships to the issues of race, politics and progress through

the act of wordplay and the power of individual words in her artwork. She invites audiences to read the work through their personal histories, perspectives and observations and to question their own, as well as the artist’s, motives and relationships to the concept of Blackness, race and color theory in social and art historical contexts. Moor asks, what is in a name, a label or a color; how does the power of words change with our inflection of tone as we perform and pronounce them; and how can changing one word or the order of one segment of a phrase completely reimagine its meaning.

An investigation into her own experiences in academia — specifically in relationship to diversity initiatives in university settings — Moor’s work wrestles with the problematics for people of color in accepting invitations to participate in environments and systems not historically built for or in consideration of them. She engages with how these settings and their intentions can both help and harm communities of color.

At DePaul Art Museum, Moor’s text-based works are positioned in a transitional location: both physically on and off a university campus, at and outside of a museum, and for audiences literally in-between places on the ‘L’ platform.

Posing her tongue-in-cheek phrases in this specific locale, the artist asks audiences to consider what the process of change really looks like within their institutional systems and how their physical and historical environments influence their reading, understanding and engagement with certain visual cues.

“Certainly, the artist’s pieces are timely, given our current sociopolitical situations, but the subject matter is by no means

InForm Press Announces Release of “Out of the Shadows: The Henson Festivals and Their Impact on Contemporary Puppet Theater” What is the first name that comes to mind when you hear the word puppet?

Likely, it is Jim Henson. Many books and thousands of pages have been written about the beloved American icon’s life and work. Out of the Shadows is the first to focus solely on his love of, and impact on, puppetry as a vital contemporary art form, an important and previously unexplored aspect of the Henson legacy.

The Jim Henson Foundation’s International Puppet Festivals brought puppet theater into mainstream American theater. This year, 2020, marks the 20th Anniversary of the last Henson Festival and the 30th Anniversary of Jim Henson’s death.

Taking this timely opportunity for reflection and drawing from a wealth of first-hand experience, in Out of the Shadows Asch presents a visually rich narrative of the festivals and their continued legacy, including a comprehensive look at the contemporary puppet theater landscape.

To realize Jim Henson’s vision for a puppetry festival in New York, Leslee Asch served as producing director, working with Jim’s daughter Cheryl, who served as executive producer, to present five award-winning festivals that would equal European festivals and put U.S. puppet artists on the international stage. Between 1992 and 2000, the Jim Henson Foundation hosted the International Festivals of Puppet Theater in New York City, and developed a national touring program.

Many prominent New York theaters participated in the festivals, including: The Public Theater, La Mama E.T.C., HERE Arts Center, P.S.122 and The New Victory Theater.

The breadth of notable participating artists included Robert LePage, director of Wagner’s Ring

“Woyzeck on the Highveld,” by Handspring Puppet Company of South Africa. Directed and with animations by William Kentridge. Photo (c) Ruphin Coudyzer FPPSA

Cycle at the Metropolitan Opera; Julie Taymor, the creator of Disney’s The Lion King; and worldrenowned artist William Kentridge, featured in a major MoMA exhibition.

Author Leslee Asch worked for Jim Henson and The Jim Henson Company for over twenty years. She is a recognized expert in the field and has published articles and catalogs on the subject, including The Art of Contemporary Puppet Theater, for the Katonah Museum of Art. For Holiday Gift Lists: The 248-page, hardbound book has a dust jacket and includes 156 photos (129 in color), many full-page and is available for $45 on InForm Press at https://inform-press.com and on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Out-Shadows-FestivalsContemporary-Theater/dp/0578665344

new. As a museum, our aim is to raise timeless questions for our community and ourselves, in hopes of provoking possible answers, solutions and change,” said de Lara.

Moor lives and works in Chicago, and has participated in numerous exhibitions around the world, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago; The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh; ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives — University of Southern California Libraries in Los Angeles; Proyecto ‘ace in Buenos Aires; Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids, Michigan; daadgalerie in Berlin; and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.

Her work is featured in “Incite: Journal of Experimental Media, Sports Issue (2017),” by Astria Suparak and Brett Kashmere; “Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness (2011),” by Nicole Fleetwood; and “What is Contemporary Art? (2009),” by Terry E. Smith.

The site-specific installation is currently on view and runs through Dec. 28. Each billboard is also available for viewing online at http://bit.ly/for-you-dpam.

“For you” is one of two outdoor installations viewable at DePaul Art Museum through the end of the calendar year. The museum’s front windows located on Fullerton Avenue are dedicated to Kathryn Andrews’ work about women presidential candidates and features the names of 87 women who have run for the highest office in the United States. More information about that window exhibition is available at http://depaulne.ws/andrewsDPAM. Additional information about DePaul Art Museum is at http:// artmuseum.depaul.edu or by calling 773-325-7506.

School Updates Curriculum to Feature More Music Created by Black Artists School of Rock, which provides students of all ages with the opportunity to take guitar, drum, bass, keyboard and singing lessons is enhancing its proprietary curriculum to feature more music created by Black artists. The goal is to further educate students on the Black community’s history and central contributions to the development of Rock and Roll.

Founded as a single school in Philadelphia, PA in 1998, School of Rock has become a rapidly growing international franchise with 280 schools open and in development across nine global markets.

“We teach musical proficiency through rock because contemporary songs offer an effective toolkit, particularly in group performance. Just as importantly, popular music opens a door to history. We have an obligation to honor those Black artists without whom there would be no Rock and Roll, and by extension no School of Rock,” said Rob Price, CEO of School of Rock.

To start, School of Rock has added new feature shows to its performancebased curriculum. Each of these programs encompass 20-25 songs from Black artists. As part of the curriculum, students will learn to perform these songs and discover important lessons about the complex experience of marginalized communities. New shows include “Roots of the British Invasion,”

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“The Music of Memphis,” and “The Music of New Orleans.”

Additionally, utilizing the collective knowledge of the talented instructors across the School of Rock system, the company has published on its website a series of articles and interactive content on the historical contribution of Black artists to Rock and Roll. Early Rock artists featured include Etta James, Ray Charles, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, in addition to more recent innovators like Prince, Tracy Chapman, and Gary Clary, Jr. “This project has been energizing, and it inspires us to better understand and teach the stories of other groups’ contributions to the art form,” continues Price. “We also hope that by better understanding our musical past, we can contribute to a more harmonious future.”

Drawing from all styles of rock and roll, School of Rock students learn theory and techniques via songs from legendary artists such as Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Wonder, and Frank Zappa.

Because of the school’s performancebased approach, students around the world have gained instrumental skills and confidence on the big stage, with some moving on to record deals and larger platforms such as American Idol, The Voice and Broadway.

For more information on School of Rock, please visit www.SchoolofRock. com.

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