Longtime Harris Supporters Explain Enthusiasm
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VP dropped 1st presidential bid before primaries but won loyal support in Illinois
By HANNAH MEISEL Capitol News Illinois
CHICAGO – On a cold morning in late 2019, Illinois state Sen. Mattie Hunter, D-Chicago, boarded a bus bound for Iowa to knock on doors for thenU.S. Sen. Kamala Harris in her presidential bid. At one particular door – one of many she visited in “mostly white middle-class communities” – Hunter met a couple with mixed political allegiances. While the wife was excited about Harris, the husband expressed he was a Trump supporter. “The man was like, blocking the door, and then his wife was in the background jumping up on her tiptoes saying, ‘Kamala, Kamala!’” Hunter said, recalling that the woman whispered the candidate’s name. “It was the funniest thing. And then when they closed the door, you could hear them arguing, having a verbal discussion.”
Balloons fall on delegates seated in the Illinois section of the Democratic National Convention. The DNC was held Aug. 19 through Aug. 22 in Chicago, the first time the city had hosted the convention since 1996.
DNC Brought Thousands Of Protestors To Chicago
More than 50 arrested during clash with police on Aug. 20, other demonstrations mostly peaceful
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By ANDREW ADAMS Capitol News Illinois
CHICAGO – Protestors in Chicago last week shut down streets, broke through security fencing, clashed with police, and interrupted events associated with the Democratic National Convention.
Rallies and marches focused mainly on the war in Gaza and reproductive health care. Most protestors remained peaceful, but a protest on the evening of Aug. 2o ended in a clash with law enforcement. A group of protestors with the self-de-
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DNC PROTESTS
Demanding ‘a better world’
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scribed “militant anti-imperialist movement” known as Behind Enemy Lines gathered outside the Israeli consulate, making pro-Palestinian demands.
Police at that event – which, unlike other protests, did not have a permit – arrested more than 50 people, including three journalists, according to Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling.
Otherwise, the largely peaceful protests were minimally disruptive to the convention. Smaller demonstrations interrupted events welcoming delegates earlier in the convention week. Some protestors even unfurled a banner inside the United Center during President Joe Biden’s speech on Aug. 19.
During that keynote address, Biden mentioned the protestors who had gathered mostly peacefully up to that point.
“Those protesters out in the street, they have a point,” Biden, who has been heavily criticized by pro-Palestinian activists, said on Aug. 19. “A lot of innocent people are being killed on both sides.”
Pro-Palestine protests were, at times, met with smaller pro-Israel counter-protests.
Demonstrations began on Aug. 18, with the first permitted march heading down Chicago’s famous Michigan Avenue. The crowd of thousands remained largely peaceful as it marched
from the Chicago River to the south end of Grant Park.
Marchers there demanded politicians protect abortion access and reduce racial and ethnic disparities in maternal and child health. The group’s online manifesto also argues that “Palestinian liberation is reproductive justice.”
A march on Aug. 19, the first official day of the DNC, drew about 3,500 people, according to Chicago police, far short of the group’s goal of having tens of thousands of marchers and smaller than some other pro-Palestinian protests that occurred in Chicago over the past year.
Kobi Guillory, a science teacher in Chicago, co-chaired the coalition that organized protests on Aug. 19.
“We have to fight for a better world because these politicians will never, ever give us anything out of the goodness of their hearts,” he said during an Aug. 19 rally.
While marchers and demonstrators came from across the country, many of the groups involved in the protests are either based in or primarily work in Chicago.
“When I was a young boy immigrating to the U.S., I was told if I worked hard enough I can achieve the American dream. Who here still believes that? I don’t!” Glo Choi said onstage at the rally. “The same forces that divided my home, Korea, are the same ones occupying Palestine.”
Choi is an organizer at the HANA Center, a community organization on Chicago’s North Side that provides classes and counseling to recent immigrants from Korea and other Asian countries.
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“I remember being asked what does citizenship, what does legalization mean to me?” Choi said. “It doesn’t mean being part of this unjust system, it means demanding more each and every day.”
The Monday evening protest drew a smaller counter-protest of a few dozen people who carried Israeli flags and marched around the park where pro-Palestinian activists were rallying. That group was made up mostly of Christians and Jewish people who said they wanted to represent a different view than those at the main protest.
“We know that there was going to be a lot of people here supporting what Hamas is doing in the Middle East,” said counter-protestor Margaret Fernandez. “So we’re just here to show
that Christians do stand with Israel and there are more people that stand with us in this issue, in this country.”
Police response
Protests are common at national party conventions and Chicago is no stranger to large demonstrations. In the lead-up to this week, many compared this year’s convention to the 1968 DNC, where police beat protestors while being filmed. Activists at that convention chanted, “The whole world is watching.”
Protestors have echoed that chant this week during arguments with police.
At an Aug. 18 protest, tensions rose between police and protestors near the Hilton Chicago, the site of a violent brawl between police and
protestors in 1968. March organizers and police quickly de-escalated the situation.
According to the city, two people were arrested Sunday in a separate incident and charged with misdemeanor property damage and resisting arrest.
On Aug. 19, however, tensions rose further. After the march arrived at the small park designated for protests of the DNC, a small group of protestors knocked down part of the outer perimeter of DNC security fencing.
Following that, police began making arrests, and protestors returned to Union Park, where the march began.
There, some people erected about a half dozen tents to form an encampment. After protestors initially refused to leave, Chicago police
issued two “dispersal orders” as they called in dozens of officers in riot gear and hundreds more uniformed officers. The protestors quickly took down the tents and left the scene.
Throughout Monday’s protests, police arrested 13 people on charges ranging from trespass to aggravated battery of a peace officer, according to the city.
Guillory, who was in another section of the park cleaning up material from the rally hours earlier as riot police arrived, said that while he would never condemn “protesting for what is just,” his group was separate from whoever constructed the tents.
“The coalition doesn’t have the capacity to do the sort of tactics that other people are doing,” Guillory said. “We planned a familyfriendly march, and that’s what we executed.”
At a news conference Tuesday, Chicago police representatives and other city officials condemned violence but encouraged those interested to peacefully protest.
“We want people to protest and protest peacefully. We welcome that and we invite that,” Chicago Deputy Mayor Garien Gatewood said at the news conference Tuesday. “But what we won’t have is people who violate that, people who bring violence and people who create terror. We won’t allow that, we’ve never allowed that and we won’t start today.”
Hours later, the Behind Enemy Lines protest would yield dozens of arrests.
The Chicago Police Department on Aug. 21 said 56 people were arrested on Aug. 20. Snelling said earlier in the day that at least 22 were out of state.
ANDREW ADAMS/CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS Kobi Guillory, who co-chaired the coalition that planned two protests during the Democratic National Convention, delivers remarks at a rally on Aug. 19.
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A demonstrator climbs a tree to hoist a tarp as part of an encampment after a rally and march on Aug. 19 that was broken up by police shortly after the tent was raised.
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Dozens of riot police and hundreds of uniformed officers were called to disperse a group of protestors Monday in Chicago’s Union Park.
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Palestinian flags are pictured at a protest on Aug. 19 outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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Democratic lawmakers watch President Joe Biden sign a proclamation on Aug. 16 to designate the Springfield 1908 Race Riot National Monument.
Biden Designates Springfield 1908 Race Riot Monument
‘The race riot led to the creation of the NAACP,’ House Speaker Welch said
BY JERRY NOWICKI & ANDREW ADAMS Capitol News Illinois
President Joe Biden signed a proclamation on Aug. 16 to designate the “Springfield 1908 Race Riot National Monument” on the 116th anniversary of the deadly riot in the state capital.
“We’re allowing history to be written – what happened – so our children, our grandchildren, everybody understands what happened and what could still happen,” Biden said at an Oval Office ceremony to designate the monument.
Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch – the first Black man to hold that position in Illinois – said he became emotional while attending the White House ceremony upon an invite from Biden’s staff.
“That race riot led to the creation of the NAACP, which led to Thurgood Marshall, which led to Brown versus Board of Education, and so many big victories in this country when it comes to race relations,” Welch said in a phone interview. “You have to say that it was this that led to the creation of opportunities for people like me to become the first Black speaker.”
In August 1908, a white mob lynched two Black men, Scott Burton and William K. Donnegan, and burned down homes and businesses in the city’s Black community. The riots were spurred by the mob seeking to lynch two men held in the Sangamon County Jail, Joe James and George Richardson. James had been accused and was later convicted in the county of murdering a white man, while Richardson was accused of sexually assaulting a white woman who later signed a statement saying she had falsified the allegation.
Biden’s proclamation said the deadly event was “emblematic of the racism, intimidation, violence, and lynchings that Black Americans experienced in communities across the country in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.”
The monument will be located between N. 9th and 11th streets, and between E. Mason and E. Madison streets.
Welch said it’s important to emphasize history to avoid repeating it, and he mentioned the July 6 killing of Sonya Massey, a Black woman, by a white police officer.
“We have a party in this country right now that would love to erase history. They want us to forget a lot of the things that make America, America,” he said. “And I think it’s important that we continue to recognize the significance of these events and make sure folks remember what occurred in this country.”
HARRIS SUPPORTERS
Recall their earlier support
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Hunter, who’s spent more than two decades representing neighborhoods on the South Side of Chicago in the General Assembly, was one of 15 Democratic officials named to Harris’ “Illinois Leadership Council” in 2019, eight months into the then-U.S. senator’s presidential campaign. U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Chicago, had already been tapped as Harris’ Illinois campaign chair.
Before then, Hunter had only met Harris once, at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, when Harris was in her second term as San Francisco district attorney. The two didn’t stay in contact, but Hunter said she “watched her quietly” as Harris was elected California’s attorney general and eventually the state’s first Black U.S. senator.
“I just knew then that she was going somewhere, and I wanted to be a part of helping her become successful,” Hunter said, citing Harris’ approach to speaking to people with “no phoniness, no BS.” Plus, she noted that Harris’s membership in Alpha Kappa Alpha, a major Black sorority that boasts lifelong involvement from many of its members, made them sisters.
However, Hunter’s involvement with Harris’ 2019 campaign was ultimately short-lived; Harris pulled the plug on her candidacy in December of that year before the first votes were cast in the 2020 primary election cycle.
Five years later, Hunter last week watched as her party chose Harris as its first Black woman nominee for president of the United States at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago – the same city where Harold Washington’s 1983 campaign for mayor sparked a political hopefulness in Hunter that she hadn’t felt since – until now.
“This is how I felt back in ‘83 when Harold was running,” Hunter said of Harris’ candidacy. “This is exactly what I felt.” Hunter and other “OGs for Harris” who supported the vice president in 2019 reunited for a celebratory brunch last week
outside of official DNC programming.
Among Harris’ early supporters in 2019 were state Sen. Ram Villivalam, D-Chicago, and state Rep. Bob Morgan, DDeerfield, who were both freshman state legislators when the Harris campaign’s Illinois council tapped them to help with outreach to South Asian and Jewish voters, respectively.
Villivalam, both the first Asian and first Indian American member of the Illinois Senate, emphasized that his support for Harris stemmed from “the body of her work” and not just because of her ethnic background as half Indian. But Villivalam said he also believes Harris’ personal story of being raised by her immigrant mother will resonate with many voters –particularly Asian Americans.
“I strongly believe the Asian American community will be activated because of who she is, because of what she stands for, and what she represents,” he said. “That common thread of coming to this country with the minimum amount in your pocket, making minimum wage, working your way up ... to the middle class – that’s something that people can relate to. That’s something that people understand.”
Since the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks on Israel, Morgan has been extremely vocal about his support for the Jewish state and has been pleased about Harris’ commitments to Israel. In her Thursday evening acceptance speech, Harris called for both the release of Israeli hostages and a ceasefire in Gaza, navigating a topic that had led to several
Kamala Harris accepts the Democratic nomination for president of the United States.
pro-Palestinian protests outside of the DNC.
But Morgan also worked with Harris after the July 4, 2022, mass shooting at the Highland Park Independence Day parade. Morgan, who went on to become a lead sponsor of Illinois’ 2023 assault weapons ban, said he was impressed by Harris’ compassion for the victims and survivors of mass shootings that preceded Highland Park – and those that didn’t make the news.
“I’d been a supporter of Kamala Harris before but to see the way the vice president personally spent a lot of her energy and time around that initiative inspired me and so many people who’ve been impacted by gun violence,” Morgan said of Harris’ role overseeing the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention that was created last year.
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State Rep. Bob Morgan (D-Deerfield) shouts during a speech by President Joe Biden at the 2024 Democratic National Convention.
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U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Chicago) appears at an Illinois delegation breakfast during the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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INSIDE THE 2024 DNC CONVENTION
U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, of New Jersey, hopped off the stage before speaking to Illinois Democrats so he could deliver the beginning of his remarks from a chair in the middle of the downtown Chicago ballroom hosting the Illinois delegation.
Still introducing himself to a national audience, vice-presidential candidate and governor of Minnesota Tim Walz speaks on the second to last day of the DNC. Walz is pictured on the United Center’s jumbotron as people crowd a hallway to get a better view.
As balloons fall from the ceiling of the United Center and some began to leave, a volunteer waves an American flag.
Historian Shermann “Dilla” Thomas, known by his social media handle @6figga_dilla, speaks to Illinois Democrats. Through his tour company and social media, he often deploys the phrase “everything dope about America comes from Chicago.”
The Chicago Bulls’ Pack Drumline performs on stage at the Democratic National Convention.
Former President Bill Clinton speaks at the DNC.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson addresses the Illinois delegation at their daily breakfast during the Democratic National Convention.
Illinois Rep. Kam Buckner, D-Chicago, is pictured waiting for evening programming.
U.S. Sen. Rafael Warnock, of Georgia, who's election helped flip control of the Senate to Democrats, speaks to Illinois Democrats at a delegation breakfast.
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Obama Legacy Continued With Harris Nomination, DNC Speech in Chicago
On second day of DNC, former president hailed successor to his successor
By PETER HANCOCK Capitol News Illinois
CHICAGO – Former President Barack Obama returned to his hometown on Aug. 20 to help launch the presidential campaign of Kamala Harris, and to mark the continuation of his own political legacy.
In a moment unique in American history, Obama stood at the podium of the Democratic National Convention to endorse the nomination of the woman who has served as vice president to the man who once served as vice president to him.
“It’s been 16 years since I had the honor of accepting this party’s nomination for president,” Obama said, sporting his now-gray hair while joking that he had “not aged a bit” since that time. “And looking back, I can say without question that my first big decision as your nominee turned out to be one of my best, and that was asking Joe Biden to serve by my side as vice president.”
Obama appeared 20 years after he emerged on the national stage by giving a keynote address at the Democratic convention in Boston. He was an Illinois state senator at the time, representing a district in Chicago, and had just won the Democratic primary to run for U.S. Senate.
That speech focused on a theme he often spoke of in his career, “the politics of hope,” specifically “the hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too.”
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agreed in July to drop out of the race and endorsed Harris for the nomination.
“Her story represents the best American story,” Biden told the convention Monday, quipping that “like many of our best presidents, she was also vice president.”
On Tuesday night, Obama left no doubt that he had full confidence in Harris’s ability to lead the nation.
“Kamala Harris is ready for the job,” he said. “This is a person who has spent her life fighting on behalf of people who need a voice and a champion.”
The appearances of Biden and Obama at the convention and the scheduled appearance Wednesday of former President Bill Clinton stand in stark contrast to last month’s Republican National Convention. Neither former President George W. Bush nor former Sen. Mitt Romney – the only two living previous nominees – took part in the convention in Milwaukee.
Obama’s impact on Illinois politics was seen on the convention floor, where some people following in his footsteps now served as delegates. They included Attorney General Kwame Raoul, who succeeded Obama in the Illinois Senate after Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate, and U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, who now holds the seat Obama occupied before being elected president.
Duckworth spoke briefly to the convention Tuesday night but confined her remarks to criticizing the Republican nominee, former President Donald Trump, for his record opposing abortion rights and appointing U.S. Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Biden spoke to the convention on the first night in a farewell address to the party and the nation after a political career spanning over 50 years.
Biden had been a candidate for reelection and was the party’s presumptive nominee after sweeping primary races in which he ran without significant opposition.
However, a poor debate performance in June led many party leaders – reportedly including Obama – to question whether the 81-year-old president was physically and mentally fit for another term or capable of winning the election.
Biden resisted that pressure for weeks but eventually
An Army veteran who lost her legs when her helicopter was shot down during combat in Iraq, Duckworth said she struggled with infertility for 10 years before undergoing in vitro fertilization, or IVF, which enabled her to have two daughters.
“My struggle with infertility was more painful than any wound I earned on the battlefield,” she said. “So how dare a convicted felon like Donald Trump treat women seeking health care like they’re the ones breaking the law?”
Obama and his wife Michelle, who also spoke Tuesday, now make their home in the Washington, D.C., area, but they maintain strong ties to Chicago. The Obama Presidential Center –a planned museum, library, and education project currently under construction on Chicago’s south side, is scheduled to open in 2026.
President Barack Obama delivers the keynote address Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention.
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U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth delivers a speech at the Democratic National Convention.
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HOW THE PARTY WAS WON
Since the 1930s, Black people have played central roles in the long effort to diversify and expand the base of the Democratic Party — often from the outside looking in
FDR accepts the nomination for the Presidency in speech at Franklin Field, Philadelphia, PA. June 27, 1936.
Black voters began overwhelmingly voting for the Democratic Party after Franklin D. Roosevelt implemented his New Deal policies.
The Democratic National Convention of 1932, held in Chicago, nominated New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt as the party’s presidential candidate. Roosevelt won that election but only received 21% of the African American vote—the last time Black voters would overwhelmingly vote Republican.
From “African Americans and the Democratic Party,” by Sue Pennington:
“In the Presidential election of 1936, African Americans voted overwhelmingly for the Democratic Party, and, in particular, for President Franklin D. Roosevelt. However, at the time, their vote was not necessarily seen as a vote for the Democrats but rather as a vote in support of Roosevelt himself and the policies of the New Deal.
Although Roosevelt did not move to reverse the legal segregation at the time, he invited several African-American leaders to serve as advisors to the administration. He also
ensured that African Americans had access to relief during the worst days of the Depression. Because of Roosevelt’s willingness to engage African Americans as Americans, he won their votes for the Democratic Party for decades.
The movement of African-American voters away from the Republican Party was part of a nationwide shift that had arisen in the creation of the so-called Roosevelt Coalition. This national shift would make the Democrats the majority party for the next several decades.”
Mississippi freedom fighter Fannie Lou Hamer helped integrate the Democratic Party in 1964.
The 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago was four years after Mississippi activist Fannie Lou Hamer delivered her riveting televised testimony before the Credentials Committee at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Many of the Vietnam War protestors whom Chicago Police officers infamously beat at the 1968 Convention were deeply in-
spired and influenced by Hamer and other Black Mississippi activists who were fighting for the right to vote.
From The American Yawp Reader:
“Civil rights activists struggled against the repressive violence of Mississippi’s racial regime. State NAACP head Medger Evers was murdered in 1963. Freedom Summer activists tried to register black voters in 1964. Three disappeared and were found murdered. The Mississippi Democratic Party continued to disfranchise the state’s African American voters. Civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer co-founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) and traveled to the Democratic National Convention in 1964 to demand that the MFDP’s delegates, rather than the all-white Mississippi Democratic Party delegates, be seated in the convention. Although unsuccessful, her moving testimony was broadcast on national television and drew further attention to the plight of African Americans in the South.”
An excerpt from Hamer’s moving 1964 DNC speech:
“The second Negro began to beat and I began to work my feet, and the State Highway Patrolman ordered the first Negro who had beat to set on my feet to keep me from working my feet. I began to scream and one white man got up and began to beat me my head
and told me to hush. One white man—my dress had worked up high, he walked over and pulled my dress down—and he pulled my dress back, back up.
“I was in jail when Medgar Evers was murdered.
“All of this is on account we want to register, to become first-class citizens, and if the freedom Democratic Party is not seated now, I question America, is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave where we have to sleep with our telephones off of the hooks because our lives be threatened daily because we want to live as decent human beings, in America?”
Shirley Chisholm was the first Black woman to be elected to the United States Congress, the first Black candidate for a major-party nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination.
From a Chisholm biography by Debra Michals on the National Women’s History Museum website:
“In 1964, Chisholm ran for and became the second African American in the New York State Legislature. After court-ordered redis-
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tricting created a new, heavily Democratic, district in her neighborhood, in 1968 Chisholm sought—and won—a seat in Congress. There, “Fighting Shirley” introduced more than 50 pieces of legislation and championed racial and gender equality, the plight of the poor, and ending the Vietnam War. She was a co-founder of the National Women’s Political Caucus in 1971, and in 1977 became the first Black woman and second woman ever to serve on the powerful House Rules Committee. That year she married Arthur Hardwick Jr., a New York State legislator.
“Discrimination followed Chisholm’s quest for the 1972 Democratic Party presidential nomination. She was blocked from participating in televised primary debates, and after taking legal action, was permitted to make just one speech. Still, students, women, and minorities followed the “Chisholm Trail.” She entered 12 primaries and garnered 152 of the delegates’ votes (10% of the total)—despite an under-financed campaign and contentiousness from the predominantly male Congressional Black Caucus.”
Congresswoman Barbara Jordan was the first Black person elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction, the first Southern Black woman elected to the United States House of Representatives, and one of the first two Blacks elected to the U.S. House from the former Confederacy since 1901, alongside Andrew Young of Georgia. In 1976, she became the first Black and the first woman to deliver a keynote address at a Democratic National Convention.
An excerpt from Jordan’s 1974 DNC keynote address:
“We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community. We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present, unemployment, inflation, but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. We are attempting to fulfill our national purpose, to create and sustain a society in which all of us are equal.”
At the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the party honored Rev. Jesse Jackson’s contributions by allowing him a place on the stage during the convention’s opening day. On Aug. 18, the Sunday before the DNC opened, The Nation magazine and Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition partnered to host a celebration of the famous civil rights leader and his ambitious presidential campaigns in 1984 and 1988 during the Rainbow/PUSH National Convention, which opened on Aug. 15.
1988 campaign
Native Americans, students, environmentalists, and peace activists. He showed that it was a real path toward beating the far right and winning progress.
“The right-wing Dems who controlled the party at the time relied on their ‘superdelegates’ and winner-take-all primary voting systems to control the agenda of the party and prevent progressive insurgencies. Jackson and the Rainbow movement shattered their power.
From “Remembering the Rainbow: How Jesse Jackson’s 1980s campaigns shaped today’s Democratic Party,” by Chauncey K. Robinson and C.J. Atkins for People’s World:
“Today’s Democratic Party is largely Jesse Jackson’s Democratic Party,” Rev. Al Sharpton told the crowd [at the Aug. 18 event], saying that the Reverend’s impact is still felt in both Democratic strategy and its election rules.
“Rather than relying on white Southerners, political ‘moderates,’ and corporate donors, Jackson fought for the Rainbow Coalition strategy—building a party of workers, African Americans, Latinos, women, gays and lesbians, Arab and Asian Americans,
“The delegates his campaign elected forced through changes that took effect in 1992 [—changes that] banned the winner-reward systems that had given bonus delegates to candidates who won a state. Instead, all delegates had to be allocated proportionally among candidates who got at least 15% support.
‘“When he ran in ’88, he changed the game,’ Sharpton said. “The Rainbow Coalition got rid of winner-take-all and won proportional representation.”
“John Nichols, the Nation magazine commentator and moderator of the event, said many don’t remember how important this was:
Jesse Jackson in 1983.
“‘Without Jesse Jackson’s rule changes, Hillary Clinton would have been the nominee in 2008, not Barack Obama. Without Jesse’s rule changes, there would have been no Bernie Sanders campaign like we saw in 2016 and 2020. Without Jesse’s rule changes, Kamala Harris might not have been the vice-presidential candidate in 2020, and without those rules, she might not be the nominee right now.’”
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One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236SALE
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JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC
wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. (relief fee not required) The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a certificate of sale that will entitle the purch aser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.
The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property, prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to
verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by the Condominium property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9 (g)(l) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).
IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION
15-1701 (C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiffs attorney: Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC please refer to file number 1674389. Auction.com LLC 100 N LaSalle Suite 1400 Chicago, IL 60606 - 872-225-4985 You can also visit www.auction.com. Attorney File No. 1674389 Case Number: 23-CH-03024
NOTE: PURSUANT TO THE FAIR DEBT COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT, YOU ARE ADVISED THAT PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY IS DEEMED TO BE A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. I3247104
Notice is hereby given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: G24000353 on July 25, 2024 Under the Assumed Business Name of JEM LAW ADVOCATES, P.C. with the business located at: 2620 WELLINGTON AVENUE, WESTCHESTER, IL 60154. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: TISHAUNDA MCPHERSON 2620 WELLINGTON AVENUE WESTCHESTER, IL 60154. Published in August 21, 28, September 4, 2024
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENTCHANCERY DIVISION
DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE, IN TRUST FOR REGISTERED HOLDERS OF LONG BEACH MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2005-WL1, ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-WL1 Plaintiff, -v.-
RAFAEL RODRIGUEZ, RELIANT LOAN SERVICING, LLC, CITY OF NORTHLAKE, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Defendants 2023 CH 04546
553 N. WOLF ROAD
The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.
Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption.
The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.
If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).
IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION
30 N. LASALLE STREET, SUITE 3650 Chicago IL, 60602
312-541-9710
E-Mail: ilpleadings@johnsonblumberg. com
Attorney File No. 23 0326
Attorney Code. 40342
Case Number: 2023 CH 04546
TJSC#: 44-1696
NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.
Case # 2023 CH 04546
I3249603
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENTCHANCERY DIVISION CITIMORTGAGE, INC., Plaintiff, -v.-
ELIDIA R MARTINEZ AND RICARDO MARTINEZ, Defendants. 23-CH-03024
413 N. EAST END AVE, HILLSIDE, IL 60162
NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on 5/3/2024, an agent of Auction.com LLC will at 12:00 PM on September 25, 2024 located at Auction.com 100 N LaSalle
Suite 1400 Chicago, IL 60606, sell at public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate.
Commonly known as 413 N. EAST END AVE, HILLSIDE, IL 60162
Property Index No. 15-07-413-009-0000
The real estate is improved with a Single Family Residence. The judgment amount was $224,690.70 Sale Terms: 20% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to Auction.com LLC, No third party checks will be accepted. All registered bidders need to provide a photo ID in order to bid. The balance, in certified funds/or
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