January 18 - 24, 2021

January 18 - 24, 2021 Vol. 29 No. 03

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We are replacing our usual calendar with virtual events and recommendations from StreetWise vendors, readers and staff to keep you entertained at home!

What the Chicago Bears and the NFL look like in 2021.

Cover Story: love fridges

Love Fridges have been decorated and filled all over Chicago to offer food on an honor system: take what you need, give what you can.

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From the Streets

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Inside StreetWise

Lyric Opera, WTTW and WFMT host “Roll Call,” a virtual conversation with two Chicago Police Department veterans, on the CPD’s evolving relationship with the Black community. The chat was inspired by the postponed opera “Blue,” about an African American couple that includes a police officer, a “Black man in Blue,” whose teenage son is killed by a white police officer.

Vendor A. Allen thanks Love Fridge creator Ash Godfrey.

The Playground ON THE COVER: Dirt Farms Love Fridge is located with 24/7 alley access behind Humboldt's Used Books between Humboldt Park and Logan Square.

(Kathleen Hinkel photo, with additional art by Dave Hamilton.)

THIS PAGE: Ali Mae Miller helped bring a Love Fridge to her Logan Square neighborhood.

The fridge has 24/7 access outside of the Carniceria La Mejor market.

(Kathleen Hinkel photo.)

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ARTS & (HOME) ENTERTAINMENT RECOMMENDATIONS Since being stuck inside, which shows have you been watching? Which movies? Have you read any good books lately? Any new music releases have you dancing in your living room? StreetWise vendors, readers and staff are sharing what is occupying their attention during this unprecedented time.

To be featured in a future edition, send your recommendations of things to do at home and why you love them to: Creative Director / Publisher Dave Hamilton at dhamilton@streetwise.org

Cuban Music!

(HOME) ENTERTAINMENT

HotHouse Meets Havana HotHouse has been awarded the exclusive rights to stream the Cuban jazz festival “Jazz Plaza” January 21-24 on its recently launched HotHouseGlobal platform. The two-hour nightly programs will also be televised in Cuba. The arrangement with the Institute of Cuban Music, part of Cuba’s Ministry of Culture, marks the first time that “Jazz Plaza” will be available to an international audience.

Marguerite Horberg, executive director of the award-winning, Chicagobased HotHouse, said that “HotHouse Meets Havana” will feature the top Latin Jazz musicians based in Cuba, and some of the most acclaimed talents working in Chicago today: Tomeka Reid with bassist Junius Paul; Roscoe Mitchell, integrating influences from world music, funk, rock, classical; James Sanders, a global performer who stays true to his Caribbean roots, with Gold Record Awardee Leandro Varady; Coco Elysses, a featured musician in FOX TV’s “Empire” with Alexis Lombre, who recently released “Southside Sounds” and Ivan Taylor; Ben La Mar Gay, South Side native and renowned collaborator; percussionist Hamid Drake; saxophonist Ari Brown with Yosef Ben Israel and Charles Heath.

HotHouse will also host a panel on Afro-descendant musical traditions and bridge building between the two countries. The free event will feature Grammy award-winning composer Arturo O’Farrill, veteran band leader Michele Rosewoman, and musicians James Sanders and Jean LeRoy. The concerts are a benefit for the non-profit 501(c)(3) HotHouse. Tickets are $25 per night or $75 for all four at hothouse.net. Programs will be streamed nightly at 7 p.m. CT, and will be available for 24 hours. The location of the program streams will be emailed in advance to ticket holders.

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Test Your Trivia Skills!

Virtual Trivia Night at Illinois Holocaust Museum W hat do you and your friends know about pop culture icons who have made a positive impact in our world? Flex your knowledge, attend a virtual happy hour with young professionals – and help local restaurants affected by COVID-19.

Ten percent of proceeds in this Illinois Holocaust Museum event will also support virtual field trips and educational programming for low-income students.

Most important, support the Museum’s mission to fight hate with education. #TAKEASTAND virtual trivia night will be at 7 p.m. Thursday, January 21. #TAKEASTAND trivia is partnering with Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises to offer dinner and cocktail packages from Chicago culinary favorites Tallboy Taco, Bub City, Sushi San, Il Porcellino and Ben Pao. Packages for two to four people range from $39.99 to $120. You can make the evening a “happy hour” with one of their signature drink add-ons: sake bombs, margaritas, palomas, mai tais, stirred whiskey and more. Pickups are available in both city and suburbs. Details are available at ilholocaustmuseum.org Media partners include ChiTribe and Inside the Skev, a radio show/podcast airing at 10 a.m. Sundays on WCGO 95.9 FM hosted by Museum YPC member Aaron Masliansky. For more information on how to get involved with the Young Professional Committee, please email ypc@ilhmec.org or call 847.967.4850. .

Artists' Impact!

Collective Communities Weinberg/Newton Gallery, a non-commercial gallery dedicated to promoting the work of social justice causes, will host “Collective Communities,” a new virtual exhibition presented in collaboration with Earthjustice, a non-profit public interest environmental law organization. Running January 21 through March 27, the exhibition explores ecologies in crisis and the impact of artist collectives on the environmental justice movement. Presented virtually at weinbergnewtongallery.com, “Collective Communities” will feature new work by Deep Time Chicago artist collective and Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, among others.

Recognizing artist collectives that have made their group work visible from the outset, “Collective Communities” explores how these models of collaboration, collectivization and cooperation offer blueprints for future social and environmental justice movements. The exhibition will also showcase diverse forms of direct action produced by artist collectives, including in-depth research, protest and propaganda.

A related virtual programming series will introduce Earthjustice’s legal work in communities across the Midwest. The series will feature its attorneys, public interest partners, and community leaders in conversation about how they are working together to fight for the health and safety of frontline communities. Both the exhibition and related programming series will be free and accessible to the public.

Virtual Play!

'Other People' "Other People" tells the story of Stephen, a struggling playwright and website movie critic who invites his ex-boyfriend, Mark, to spend Christmas with him and his roommate, Petra, a poet and stripper. Mark, who’s recently completed making an independent film and is fresh out of rehab, begins his life back in the real world by becoming friends with Tan, a street hustler. In the crucible of a tiny East Village apartment, Stephen, Mark, and Petra struggle with questions of art, sex, and each other as the impending New Year forces them to define how they want to live and love in a dark and confusing world. January 19 at 7 p.m., $10 at pridearts.org or by calling 773-857-0222.

Free Concert!

Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Enjoy free weekly classical concerts from the comfort of your own home broadcast live from the Chicago Cultural Center.

Watch on January 20 at 12:15 p.m. for violinist Rannveig Marta Sarc and pianist Victor Asunción, in music by Lili Boulanger, Cécile Chaminade and Maurice Ravel. Concerts can be viewed at imfchicago.org, as well as 98.7 WFMT.

A Year in Review!

CAC Live: Hindsight 2020: Chicago Design and Development in a Turbulent Year Don’t miss this special year-in-review program with CAC President and CEO Lynn Osmond. Hear how local architects, planners and developers pushed ahead with key projects and initiatives during a most challenging 2020. In addition to highlighting exciting, impactful new design and development ranging from skyscrapers to open spaces, this presentation will examine new and ongoing efforts to address equity and economic vitality in the neighborhoods. It will also explore the necessary reinvention of downtown Chicago as a more dynamic and increasingly residential community. With the reckoning brought by the coronavirus pandemic, 2020 was a time for architects and local leaders to respond forcefully to crisis and opportunity. W hat role will design play in getting our city back on track in 2021 and beyond? January 21, 5:30 p.m.; $8 (FREE for Chicago Architecture Center members) at architecture.org .

-Compiled by Dave Hamilton & Suzanne Hanney

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Vendors Russ Adams, John Hagan and Donald Morris chat about the world of sports with Executive Assistant Patrick Edwards.

SPORTSWISE

The Chicago Bears

Russ: Fellas, glad to be here in 2021 with you all, so let’s get to it. Today, the topic is the NFL, with an emphasis on our Chicago Bears. Y’all dang well know it’s eating me up to allow you all first blow with this, because I have much to say on the subject. My opinions put on the shelf—for a moment—Don, how do you feel about things?

Donald: The Bears, in my opinion, were overmatched.

This just wasn’t the year for us. Although we do have a pretty good quarterback in Mitch Trubisky, we still have what I like to call our secret weapon: our backup quarterback Nick Foles. Playing against the New Orleans Saints was a daunting task, so I believed there was a strong possibility that Mitch would take a beating and we’d need to insert Foles. Fortunately, it never got to that as the Bears stayed in the game for the most part.

Patrick: I believed we would win this year. From day one, I’d spouted the whole Super Bowl re-shuffle—that we were more than capable to get back to the big game…

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and win it. Trubisky seemed to have discovered the self-esteem elixir, because he’d been out there appearing to be a “real” quarterback—what I’d expected to see from him.

Even though it would have been nearly a miracle run to get through the Saints and, then, the Green Bay Packers, I thought it certainly doable.

A turnover here or there, that missed-catch caught, a special teams’ touchdown or big play…and we could have been in there. John, what’re you thinking?

John: Thanks, Patrick. With the Bears having to eventually re-meet the Packers, I didn’t give them a good shot at winning this thing anyway.

Considering how weak the NFC was this year, with Seattle Seahawks, Washington Football Team, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and L.A. Rams all having exploitable flaws, the Bears could have been in the mix IF they didn’t have

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to meet the Packers. Unfortunately, we never got that opportunity, so next year it is.

Russ?

Russ: Pure and simple, the Bears were no good this year.

Many of you in here—and out there—already know, I am perhaps the biggest Chicago Bears fan who has ever lived, so you know it hurts me to utter those words. Of course, deep down, I’m always rooting for the Bears as if I get a paycheck from them…but I, honestly, never had faith that the Bears had what it took to even get one game during these playoffs. Every game, I tried to fully get behind the Bears, to open up and believe, believe, believe, but whenever I witnessed Trubisky jogging all over the field looking like a college quarterback, I just couldn’t do it.

Patrick: Russ, if it means anything, you’re not alone. Now, me with my Super Bowl aspirations, I was, perhaps, damn

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near alone in this belief… but I didn’t care. If the Bears had bust out with the magic, I wouldn’t have even said “I told you so”; I would’ve, simply, basked in the glory that I got to see three more games than, perhaps, the team should have seen. Shoot, we could say four considering the team backed into the playoffs.

It could’ve gotten interesting.

Predictions?

John: Kansas City Chiefs versus the Green Bay Packers— Chiefs win.

Donald: I have Packers over the Chiefs.

Russ: I have to go the Chiefs as well.

Patrick: Rooting for the Packers, but Patrick Mahomes is on the other side… which makes this tough. I’m going with the Packers—Final answer. So, Don, it’s you and me, my man.

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li Mae Miller had seen posts on Facebook about an initiative to offer Chicago residents 24/7 access to food and knew she wanted to help. The tagline, “Take what you need, give what you can,” immediately resonated with her, so she went to her landlord and asked if she could use his unoccupied refrigerator sitting in the garage. She painted the oncewhite refrigerator in shades of blue and yellow, added hearts and wrote “toda amor,” meaning “it’s all love,” because that was what she felt from many of the Spanish-speaking community members in Logan Square.

“You'll have this fridge in the garage, and most people might want to throw some beer in it or something like that to just have a fridge in their garage,” Miller said.

“But I was like, ‘Heck no, let's clean this thing up and let's get it out to the community – to people who really could use access to it.’”

Miller is one of the first people in Chicago to create an independent refrigerator for The Love Fridge. The Love Fridge Chicago, a mutual aid group with a goal to nourish communities while combating food waste and scarcity, was founded in July 2020 after Ash Godfrey saw a similar initiative in New York called Friendly Fridges. Similarly, the Friendly Fridges were a way for more residents in areas of New York like Brooklyn and Harlem to have access to food without judgment.

After asking friends of friends, she found someone who had already created an Instagram account and from there, they began to reach out to similar fridge initi-

A Love Fridge volunteer stocks the fridge at Moreno's in Little Village, which hosts a fridge with 24/7 access for the community at 3724 W. 26th St. (Kathleen Hinkel photo.)

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tives in California and New York for ideas on how to bring the idea to Chicago. “Our first goal was to find a host – we had to find electricity,” said Godfrey. “We emailed and talked to businesses and community members. And our first host site was actually one of our Love Fridge volunteers. He owned property and lives in Little Village.”

With a primary focus to support communities of color on the South and West sides of Chicago, The Love Fridge’s network now includes at least 19 refrigerators. The Greater Chicago Food Depository, the hub of a network of more than 700 food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters and other programs in Cook County, created a COVID-19 data map to help people understand which areas are being deeply impacted.

According to data on the map from the United Way United for ALICE project, 39 percent of households in Cook County could not afford all of their basic necessities such as housing, healthy food, childcare, health care and transportation.

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“Grocery stores are few and far between,” Godfrey said.

“And even the stores that are there, the foods are not fresh or super healthy – so super limited options. And then with the pandemic, even if there are grocery stores nearby or you can make it to one, it's hard; money is tight for I think everyone right now."

Because of statistics like this, The Love Fridge is seen as an outlet to assist minority groups to gain access to resources that they may normally lack. “Chicago was built in a way to keep the communities very segregated,” said Ian Gonzalez, host of a Love Fridge location and owner and founder of Last Lap Cornerstore. “I do not even think it is just as far as segregated in the sense of race, but also socioeconomic segregation because the poor whites did not really mix with the affluent whites as well. And even in our community, we have places where the affluent Black people live versus the middle-class Black people.”

In this way, The Love Fridge gives people an opportunity to remember each other, think about each other and affect each other in a tangible way, Gonzalez said.

Gonzalez’s shop, located in Boxville at 332 E 51st St., is a running specialty shop and he is used to having customers from different areas in Chicago. And because he grew up in the community, Gonzalez sees having the refrigerators in areas such as the South Side, where traditionally, food deserts may be more prevalent, as a way to bring more neighborhoods together.

“It would be way easier if there wasn't a pandemic that limits us,” Godfrey said. “Right now, we've done two [food] drives where the community can come and drop off food.

We haven't gotten to where we want to yet as far as involvement.”

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LEFT: Ali Mae Miller helpd bring a Love Fridge to her Logan Square neighborhood. The fridge has 24/7 access outside of the Carniceria La Mejor market.

Community members are also assisting with food distribution in some areas where the refrigerators are located. Take It Off My Plate, a campaign with the Black doula agency Chicago Birthworks, provided meals to mothers receiving “Love Packages,” but took the initiative one step further and reached out to women to see if they had any dietary restrictions and what were the best times to drop off meals to them. The love packages, care packages that included enough meals for the household and items like crayons, were created in response to the pandemic and social uprisings that began after the death of George Floyd to primarily support Black and Brown communities. Created by three Black women who happen to be mothers, Take It Off My Plate assisted in getting a Boxville Love Fridge location.

“This is our background – working in feeding the community,” said Zuri Thompson, Take It Off My Plate’s community connector. “And this is what we're currently doing. And we're on board for doing whatever we need to do to make it happen.”

The women of Take It Off My Plate have a personal connection to knowing what it means to exist during this time and having to navigate that, Thompson said. Because of this, Take It Off My Plate wanted to work with missions that are taking care of communities of color.

“For people to feel they're entitled to have access to nice things, to be fed and to see a lot of care and consideration go into that; it's life-changing,” Thompson said. “It is really empowering for people.”

The refrigerators are not only a source of food but also a piece of art. Like Miller, community members are encouraged to paint their refrigerators. Either the refrigerators or the shelters for them may be shrouded in art. Some may have CENTER: The three founders of Take It Off My Plate assisted in securing a Love Fridge for Boxville. The mission of their organization is centered on feeding moms in need and collaborating with those working to help individuals, families and communities. Mothers themselves with experience working to provide food and support for other mothers, they are, from left, Mikesha Russell, Zuri Thompson and Clinetta Pinex.

colorful splatterings of paint while others may have sayings like “Live, Love, Eat” or “Free Food For Everyone” accompanied by intricate portraits.

From there, food is added to the refrigerator. The food usually comes from community donations, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) boxes, the distributor Imperfect Foods and the occasional restaurant donation. But the food is gone almost as quickly as people can fill up the fridges, and how often people visit them is not monitored. Gonzalez has seen people donating food in Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods bags. And while members of The Love Fridge may stock the fridges at first, Miller, Gonzalez and Thompson have seen community members, and even some from other parts of Chicago, donate to the refrigerators. Recommended foods for donation include: cheeses, sealed and packaged foods, fresh fruit and vegetables, cured meats in sealed containers, bread and pastry.

“The fridge never stays full,” Gonzalez said. “I speak to most people who are donating the food, who come and drop food off. There are so many different faces – Black, Hispanic, white and everything in between. They are delivering food, and it is not just cheap stuff.”

To make sure foods do not expire in the refrigerators, The Love Fridge ensures food safety by checking the refrigerators periodically through volunteer community members.

The members can sign up for daily time slots to check on and clean the refrigerators. The refrigerator hosts also have a responsibility to check the refrigerators. For prepared meals, The Love Fridge asks that people label everything with an expiration date, the date the food was made and a list of ingredients.

RIGHT: Ian Gonzalez, who owns Last Lap Cornerstore in Boxville, hosts a Love Fridge outside of his store and says the fridge gives people an opportunity to think about each other and affect each other in a tangible way.

The most pressing issue for The Love Fridge is not keeping the fridges stocked, but figuring out how the refrigerators will fare this winter. They began creating shelters for each unit after corresponding with a fridge initiative in Canada, but these refrigerators were not made for the outdoors. This way, they may have a “fighting chance.” The shelters are built to hold the refrigerator and have shelves situated next to the fridge for items that should not be refrigerated.

But they also plan to focus on shifting from offering fresh produce and canned goods to more household items such as laundry detergent, personal hygiene items and dry goods.

“I'm so nervous about it,” Godfrey said. “Because these fridges aren't meant to be outside, they're just not.”

YES :) • Sealed packaged goods • Cheeses • Fresh Fruit • Fresh Vegetables • Table sauces • Pastry • Bread • Unopened pasturized milk & yogurt • Unopened fruit juices • Fresh eggs (with a use-by date) • Cured meats (in a sealed container w/ use-by date) NO :( • Raw meat • Raw fish • Alcohol • Raw milk cheeses • Unlabelled foods • Multi-ingredient items • Half-eaten leftovers

(All photos by Kathleen Hinkel.)

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But problems revolving around Chicago’s weather are not restricted to just the winter. The Love Fridge had an incident over the summer where a refrigerator went out because of the heat and community members were concerned about what would happen to the food supply.

“It took two weeks to get another fridge, get it painted and get a shelter,” Godfrey said. “And as soon as the fridge was back, the community was so happy ... they had fallen in love with it.”

With communities growing attached to these refrigerators, people like Miller see the fridges as a way for more people to donate and give others more accessible food options. “I think that the more of these Love Fridges that pop up, how is it ever going to hurt,” Miller said. “The more these fridges that pop up, the more people are going to learn about The Love Fridge.

Because believe it or not, there are still quite a few people out there that passed by on the street or even neighbors of mine and they don't even know that there's a fridge there that you can take or leave what you have.”

For more information on who to contact for larger donations or on what to donate, please visit: thelovefridge.com or email thelovefridgechicago@gmail.com.

Dyana Daniels is a Columbia College Chicago student majoring in multimedia journalism with a concentration in magazine writing. This piece was written for a Solutions Journalism course where students found a problem – and the people who could fix it.

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1. Honey Love 24/7 Access 3361 N. Elston Ave. Located behind Honey Butter Fried Chicken

South Shore 24/7 Access 2465 E. 74th St.

2. Star Farm 24/7 Access 5155 S. Wolcott Ave. 3. Port Ministries 24/7 Access 5017 S. Hermitage Ave. 4. The Fridge on Marz 24/7 Access 3630 S. Iron St.

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5. Oasis de Yum at La Roca 24/7 Access 2959 W. Pershing Road 6. Behind Last Lap Corner Store at Boxville 24/7 Access 332 E 51st St. 7. Dirt Farms 24/7 Access 3419 W. North Ave. Alley behind Humboldt's Used Books

True Love Fridge at Takorea Cocina Tuesday - Sunday 11 a.m. - 9 p.m.

1022 N. Western Ave. El Refri de la Vida Monday - Friday 7 a.m. - 2 p.m. & 5 - 8 p.m.

Saturday 8 a.m. - noon Sunday 9 a.m. - noon 4215 W. 59th St. Good Neighbor Love Fridge 24/7 Access 6601 S. Pulaski Road Bidi Bidi Bam Bam at Hangry’s 24/7 Access 5000 W. Fullerton Ave. Sacred Keepers Thursday & Friday 12 - 4 p.m.

4445 S. King Drive The Kindness Korner 24/7 Access 11201 S. Ave G

8. Moreno's 24/7 Access 3724 W. 26th St.

Getting Grown Collective 24/7 Access 6344 S. Morgan St.

9. The Love Shack 24/7 Access 2751 W. 21st St.

The Dill’s Chiller At the Dill Pickle Food Co-op 8 a.m. - 9 p.m. or during store hours (subject to change for holidays or as necessary) 2746 N. Milwaukee Ave.

10. Toda Amor Carniceria La Mejor 24/7 Access 2915 N. Milwaukee Ave. 11. Blnk [Food] Bank 24/7 Access 3206 W. Armitage Ave. 12. Comida Para el Pueblo 24/7 Access 1855 S. Blue Island Ave.

Stone Temple Fridge 24/7 Access 3622 W. Douglas Blvd.

For more information on who to contact for larger donations or on what to donate, please visit thelovefridge.com or email thelovefridgechicago@gmail.com.

The Love Fridge instructions posted on the Last Lap location in Boxville. (All photos by Kathleen Hinkel.)

Discussion about CPD and the black community inspired by lyric's 'Blue'

by Suzanne Hanney

“Roll Call: Policing in Chicago’s Black Community, Then and Now,’” was a virtual conversation on the evolving relationship between the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and Chicago’s Black community. Chicago Tribune reporter and the Field Foundation’s Lolly Bowean led a discussion with Howard Saffold, retired CPD officer and founding member of the African American Patrolmen’s League and Sgt. Jermaine Harris of CPD’s Community Policing Division.

There was undisguised prejudice when Saffold joined CPD in November 1965 after serving in the U.S. Army, but it paid a few thousand dollars more than driving a CTA bus. Working in a predominantly white district for 2½ years, he saw police do good work in the community they came from, but elsewhere, “so much stuff that made me sick to my stomach. Some officers were so individually hateful.”

No one wanted to work with him, so he had a different partner every day. Late night phone calls to his wife, telling her he was dead, had him on the verge of quitting when formation of the AAPL gave him the spirit to fight, he said.

Harris grew up on the West Side with good memories of police and after serving in the Marine Corps, joined CPD in 2002 during a hiring push for Black officers. It was a “unique gift being part of the community I serve,” he said. The same relationship Safford saw between white cops and their communities is missing and “We gotta get it back,” he said. Harris is passionate about working with youth and was officer of the month after he raised $15,000 for his Little League Baseball program. Street outreach, he said, is key to preventing violence and improving the community.

How did their military experience inform their police work?

Bowean asked.

Saffold recalled a domestic disturbance where a young, white, Vietnam veteran, his eyes glaring, turned over a grill in his backyard and wielded a poker in front of his wife and babies. “I

Harris recalled Marine leadership lessons and the need to be courageous – “to see something that needs to be done, to go against something unpopular. Who’s willing to sacrifice themselves for the benefit of others? The role of a police officer – that’s the core root of it.”

The African American Police League’s early work included training open to all CPD members on law enforcement with sensitivity and without bias. Founded as the Afro-American Patrolmen’s League, it was previously known as the Afro-American Police League. Its archives – annual reports, court files, correspondence, police brutality reports – are at the Chicago History Museum.

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Founded in 1968 after Mayor Richard J. Daley’s “shoot to kill” order regarding looters in the wake of riots after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, the AAPL documented and investigated police brutality on behalf of community members.

hadn’t had a conversation about how to deal with a man with a mental disturbance. All I said was, ‘What’s the matter, man?

This is your kids, your wife. You see how frightened they are.

Don’t make me hurt you in front of the kids.’ I had the compassion for what I saw.”

Sponsored by Lyric Opera of Chicago, WFMT and WTTW, the December 8 “Roll Call” conversation was inspired by the opera “Blue,” by composer Jeanine Tesori and librettist Tazewell Thompson. The opera tells the story of a Black family living in 21st century America whose teenaged son is killed by a white police officer. The mother and father, a “Black man in Blue,” (police officer) turn to their church and their community when their deepest fear comes true. Due to the ongoing public health crisis, performances of “Blue” have been postponed. You can still view the "Roll Call" video at https://www.facebook.com/ lyricopera/videos/401678477618509.

"Blue" production photo by Karli Cadel/The Glimmerglass Festival, provided by Lyric Opera.

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StreetWise vendor A. Allen is inspired by Ash godfrey

INSIDE STREETWISE

A Love Fridge at the blnk [food] bank in Logan Square with 24/7 access located at 3206 W. Armitage. (Kathleen Hinkel photo.)

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When I think of Ash Godfrey’s idea of the Love Fridges – “take what you need, give what you can” – and saw how she painted once-white refrigerators shades of blue and yellow and added hearts with the words “toda amor,” meaning, “it’s all love,” I couldn’t help but immediately think of another familiar phrase, “Black Lives Matter.” But also, “A friend in need is a friend indeed,” and “one hand washes the other.”

Her efforts say a lot about the gap of the haves and havenots; they say a lot about team effort and are a great means of giving back to the less fortunate. This is perfect timing to ease racial tension and is also a blessing to help people eat better during this COVID-19 epidemic.

I look forward to seeing more of this type of program and would be willing to help. Thank you, Ash Godfrey. We at StreetWise bid you Godspeed.

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How StreetWise Works

Our Mission

Orientation Participants complete a monthlong orientation, focusing on customer service skills, financial literacy and time management to become a badged vendor.

Financial Literacy Vendors buy StreetWise for $0.90, and sell it for $2. The profit of $1.10 goes directly to the licensed vendor for them to earn a living.

Supportive Services StreetWise provides referrals, advocacy and other support to assist participants in meeting their basic needs and getting out of crisis.

S.T.E.P. Program StreetWise’s S.T.E.P. Program provides job readiness training and ongoing direct service support to ensure participants’ success in entering the traditional workforce.

THE PLAYGROUND

To empower the entrepreneurial spirit through the dignity of self-employment by providing Chicagoans facing homelessness with a combination of supportive social services, workforce development resources and immediate access to gainful employment.

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