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Broadview’s Black Business Expo Highlights Area Entrepreneurs
Vol. IX No. 7
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The annual event showcases local artisans, other small businesses seeking exposure By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor
Around 32 vendors setup shop at the Beverly Community Center, 3065 S. 25th Ave. in Broadview, on Feb. 10 for the Broadview Park District’s Third Annual Black Business Expo. Myisha Owens, the park district’s events manager, said this year’s Expo was hosted in partnership with the Grassroots Community Collaboration (GCC), a new organization created to enhance Black History Month programming and initiatives in Proviso Township. “These vendors don’t have storefronts, so this event gives them an opportunity to sell their products and market themselves,” See BUSINESS EXPO on page 1
NEWSPAPER CLIPPING
A clip from a March 24, 1974 Chicago Tribune article shows an exuberant Proviso East Pirates basketball team after beating Bloom to win the IHSA Class AA basketball championship. The team endured a loss at the start of the season and a tough, come-from-behind playoff win to clinch the title that year.
From ‘Overlooked And Underrated’ To Champs
MICHAEL ROMAIN
Vendor Bernardine Sims holds up a t-shirt she was selling during Saturday’s Black Business Expo. Sims, who lives in La Grange, owns a business called Talent Zone.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Proviso East boy’s basketball’s seemingly unlikely 1974 state championship By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor
Nothing about the start of the 1973-74 boy’s varsity basketball season foreshadowed a state championship for the Proviso East Pirates, newspaper reporting from that period shows. The team lost its first game to Willowbrook 48-37, scoring only two points after the first quarter and 15 points at the half. See PROVISO EAST on page 7