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Displaced tenants finding homes Edgebrook Manor renters get assistance from city, property manager By KATIE DAHLSTROM kdahlstrom@shawme DeKALB – Jordan Lanum felt relieved Monday knowing he wouldn’t be homeless when he started classes at Northern Illinois University. More than 10 DeKalb residents have been searching for housing since city of DeKalb officials condemned Edgebrook Manor apartments Friday
after uncovering what they said were dangerous and unsanitary conditions. “It’s crazy to move in on the 15th and then be told you have to leave,” the 24-year-old senior said. “But I guess I’m not homeless anymore, so I can breathe a little easier.” On Friday, residents of the 47-unit building located at 912 Edgebrook Drive were told they had to leave within 24 hours, although they were
allowed to keep their belongings in their apartments. Since Friday, city officials and staff with Townsend Property Management, the leasing agent for the building, have been working with tenants to find them other places to live. Lanum leased a new apartment Monday afternoon after staying on friends’ couches over the weekend. Tenants were able to sign lease
Mourners urge black Americans to speak up
He had some concerns, however, that residents would not be able to find an apartment for the same price they were paying at Edgebrook Manor, at $505 or less a month for a one-bedroom or efficiency apartment. He said DeKalb has a shortage of one-bedroom units, and two-bedrooms generally start at $700.
See RENTERS, page A7
Return to the roost More 25- to 34-year-olds move back in with parents
By JIM SUHR The Associated Press ST. LOUIS – The mourners filled an enormous church to remember Michael Brown – recalling him as a “gentle giant,” aspiring rapper and recent high school graduate on his way to a technical college. But the funeral that unfolded Monday was about much more than the black 18-year-old who lay in the closed casket after being shot to death by a white police officer. The emotional service sought to consecrate Brown’s death as another in the long history of the civil rights movement and implored black Americans to change their protest chants into legislation and law. “Show up at the voting booths. Let your voices be heard, and let everyone know that we have had enough of all of this,” said Eric Davis, one of Brown’s cousins. The Rev. Al Sharpton called for a movement to clean up police forces and the communities they serve. “We’re not anti-police. We respect police. But those police that are wrong need to be dealt with just like those in our community that are wrong need to be dealt with,” Sharpton said. Two uncles remembered how Brown had once predicted someday the whole world would know his name. “He did not know he was offering up a divine prophecy,” Bernard Ewing said. More than 4,500 mourners filled Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church in St. Louis for the service, which at times seemed like a cross between a gospel revival and a rock concert. It began with upbeat music punctuated by clapping. Some people danced in place. The crowd included the parents of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed 17-year-old African-American fatally shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Florida, along with a cousin of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old murdered by several white men while visiting Mississippi in 1955. Till’s killing galvanized the civil rights movement. Also in attendance were several White House aides, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, moviemaker Spike Lee, entertainer Sean Combs and some children of the Rev. Martin Luther King. The Rev. Charles Ewing, the uncle who delivered the eulogy, said Brown “prophetically spoke his demise.” And now his blood is “crying from the ground. Crying for vengeance. Crying for justice.” Poster-size photos of Brown, wearing headphones, were on each
termination papers at Townsend’s office Monday, with the guarantee from property owner Pat Bragg that she would refund their security deposits, as well as prorated rent from August, within a day. Tom Townsend, co-owner of the property management firm, said he spoke to a handful of tenants over the weekend about finding new apartments.
Photos by Monica Maschak – mmaschak@shawmedia.com
Jenna Olson (right), 19, and Jake Olson (left), 21, help their mom, Lori Olson, prepare dinner Monday at the family’s Sycamore home. Jenna and Jake moved back in with their parents when they moved in January from South Dakota to Sycamore. TOP: Jenna Olson holds Shia, the family dog, on Monday at her family’s Sycamore home. Jenna hopes to take online classes at Kishwaukee College.
By ANDREA AZZO aazzo@shawmedia.com SYCAMORE – Since 21-year-old Jake Olson can’t afford to live on his own as he used to, he has moved back in with his parents in Sycamore. Olson spent two years living independently in a dormitory and later in an apartment in North Dakota while studying first at North Dakota State University his freshman year and at University of North Dakota his sophomore year. When his parents moved from North Dakota to Sycamore in January, he packed his bags, too. He is now taking online courses in botany at the University of Phoenix while working at Blumen Gardens in Sycamore. “I’m saving money for school, life,” he said. “I’m trying to get out [of my parents’ house]. I’ll move out once I’m back at school this spring, hopefully.”
Olson may become part of a growing trend of boomerang kids, or young adults who return to live with their parents after college. The number of people ages 25 to 34 living at home increased to 18.1 percent in 2012, double the amount in 1980, according to a recent report from the Pew Research Center. Another Pew report on boomerang kids finds 78 percent of them do not have enough money to live the kind of life they would like compared to 55 percent of their same-aged peers who did not live with their parents. The popularity of boomerang kids caught the attention of American Realty, 519 W. State St., Sycamore. The business posted signs reading, “Boomerang kids need space too,” about two weeks ago because Jake Olson’s mother, Lori, works there as a marketing consultant.
See ROOST, page A7
By the numbers Percentage of Americans ages 25 to 34 living in multigenerational households 1940: 27.7 1950: 21.1 1960: 14.1 1970: 11.6 1980: 11 1990: 15.2 2000: 15.8 2010: 21.6
Source: Pew Research Center
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