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Vol. IV No. 24 8.46-mile walk honors George Floyd, PAGE 2

A peaceful protest for George Floyd in Melrose Park

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‘I’m tired of taking crumbs!’

In Maywood, black elected officials demand $1 billion investment for black communities

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At a bus stop on Butterfield and Cermak in Westchester, five young people held signs that read: “I can’t breathe officer” and “Black Lives Matter.”

On Chicago’s West Side, Maywood resident and Senate Majority Leader Kimberly Lightford spoke about her African American and Puerto Rican niece See MELROSE PARK on page 3

After looting, Broadview businesses clean up, PAGE 3

DON’T SHOOT: Taisha Goff, Deputy Police Chief Mark Borkovec, Omari Pate and Kingery Pate stand outside of Mayfair Park before roughly 100 people marched to Westchester’s village hall on June 6.

Across Chicago, suburbs Proviso residents marched, spoke out, held signs supporting Black lives

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By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

An array of elected officials from across the state gathered in Maywood on Sunday to make a series of demands as Gov. J.B. Pritzker stood mere feet away. All of those gathered stood underneath the shadow

of Maywood native son Fred Hampton, whose bronze bust was the focal point of the June 7 gathering in front of the Fred Hampton Aquatic Center, 300 Fred Hampton Way. “I’m tired of taking crumbs,” said state Sen. Kimberly Lightford (4th), who lives in Maywood. “Governor, we need

a slice!”

State Rep. Emanuel “Chris” Welch (7th), a Westchester resident who was born and raised in Maywood, said that slice includes “real police accountability” and for $1 billion to be invested “in every black community.”

Sunday’s gathering was

organized by Welch, Lightford and First District Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson, with a few dozen other black elected officials in attendance, including Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough, who also lives in Maywood, and Cook County Board President See MAYWOOD on page 5

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WALK FOR JUSTICE: On June 6, at least 30 people walked for 8.46 miles through Maywood, Broadview and Bellwood to honor the memory of George Floyd, the Minnesota man who died on May 25 at the hands of Minneapolis police.

Officer Derek Chauvin had his knee on Floyd’s neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds.

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“This was my friend Sherri Dean’s idea,” said Shawn Peppers. “She said if they can hold him down for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, we can walk for 8.46 miles.”

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North Riverside mall delays reopening plan

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Delay result of widespread looting last week

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North Riverside Park Mall, 7501 Cermak Road, is delaying its plan to reopen the shopping centers doors to walk-in customers on Friday, June 5 after looters smashed their way into several stores on May 31.

In a press release on Monday, mall officials announced that the shopping center would now open sometime between June 10 and June 17.

“In light of the current uncertainty and unrest in local communities, North Riverside Park Mall announced today that the mall’s reopening has been postponed for the safety of its customers and tenants,” the press release stated.

When the shopping center does reopen, it will do so under protocols very similar to those that were in place until the mall closed in late March due to the governor’s stay-at-home order in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

With the state moving into Phase 3 of the governor’s Restore Illinois plan on May 29, mall officials are cautiously reopening by imposing shorter operating hours, limiting the number of customers

allowed in stores at one time, prohibiting entertainment business – such as Round One and Classic Cinemas – from opening their doors and mandating takeout service only from the mall food court.

The mall stores will be open Monday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and on Sundays from noon to 6. Doors to the mall common area will open one hour before stores open.

Sears reopened on May 29 before it was forced to shut down May 31. It remained closed on Monday, June 1 as the entire mall property remained off limits to the public.

When it reopens again, according to the store’s page on Sears’ website, the North Riverside Sears will be open Friday through Monday. It will open when the rest of the mall opens on those days, but it will close each day at 6 p.m.

According to Harvey Ahitow, North Riverside Park Mall’s general manager, J.C. Penney is also planning to reopen its location there. Later this week, the company is expected to identify the 242 store locations it is permanently closing as part of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing.

However, Ahitow said J.C. Penney is not planning to liquidate the North Riverside

location in this wave of closures.

According to a statement posted on the mall’s website on May 28, anyone entering the shopping center – both customers and employees – will be required to wear face coverings.

Capacity inside each store will be limited to 50 percent or five customers per 1,000 square feet of retail space. All tables and chairs will be removed from the food court at this time to enforce the ban on indoor dining at the mall.

Food court customers will, however, be allowed to order food at the food court counters or order it ahead for curbside service. Mall security will enforce social distancing.

In addition to seating in the food court, seating in other common areas in the mall will be removed at this time, and the lower-level children’s play area will be closed.

As the mall did before the stay-athome order was enacted, there will be additional signage reminding shoppers of social distancing and health and safety guidelines, and the mall will bump up its efforts to keep surfaces, especially hightouch surfaces, sanitized.

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After looting, Broadview businesses clean up Roosevelt Road shops band together on June 2

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

Robert Walker was up early on June 2 cleaning shards of glass in front of his business, Gold Elite Jewelers, 1824 Roosevelt Rd. in Broadview.

The night before, someone threw a brick at the store, shattering two windows.

By around 9:30 a.m., he was nearly done sweeping, helped along by entrepreneurs who own Hildebrand Sporting Goods and the independently owned True Value Hardware across the street.

“We small business gotta support each other,” Walker said.

“When I found out [about Gold Elite], I went with my broom and things,” said Siraj Bhanpuri, the owner of True Value. “I didn’t sell it to him. I said, ‘Here you go, man.’ Hey, it could be me. It could be anybody.”

Both Bhanpuri and Walker added that COVID-19 and the unrest following George Floyd’s death have only underscored the necessity of small businesses.

On Tuesday, Bhanpuri said that there are advantages to shopping for essential items

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March for black lives from page 1 in order to illustrate the racial diversity in her own family.

And in Melrose Park, peaceful protesters — mostly Latinx people — held a nineminute moment of silence before marching through a heavily Italian American neighborhood in the village as a show of solidarity and support with the plight of African Americans.

The demonstrations, which all took place on Thursday afternoon, come as tensions between African Americans and Latinx people reach a fever pitch in Cicero and threaten to heighten already fraught tensions between the two minority groups in other places.

Since Saturday’s demonstration in Chicago’s Loop, held to protest the death of George Floyd, looting and vandalism have spread to the city’s neighborhoods and suburbs. Many elected officials and authorities have reported that those doing the looting and vandalism are not connected to the protests, which have been largely peaceful.

The protests started on Mayh 26, a day after Floyd died. He was handcuffed as Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin had his knee on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes as three other officers looked on. Chauvin has since been arrested and

have the cleaning products. Well, we have them here.”

He said that his business is also more advantageous for maintaining social distancing guidelines.

“In here, we never have more than four or five customers at a time, so the HOP LOCAL: Customers inside of True Value Hardware in Broadview most you’ll wait on June 2, a day after Gold Elite Jewelers was looted.

Michael Romain is maybe five minutes,” he said.

Walker said like medical masks, hand sanitizer and toilet that business had been thriving the week paper at the Broadview True Value. before his windows got busted.

“People go to Target and stand in long “We had been doing well,” he said. “We lines,” he said. “Some come here instead. But were open all throughout the [stay-home there are still a lot of people who don’t know order], because we’re came under financial we’re here and that we have these items. We services, which is considered an essential also have general cleaning items. People service. We loan small amounts of money to are still cleaning their basements because the community. So, we never closed and were of this month’s flooding and some don’t always doing well. Last week, in particular,

charged with second degree murder. The other three officers have been charged with aiding and abetting the crime, court records show.

During the June 4 protest in Melrose Park, a crowd of roughly 60 people sat in silence for nine minutes in Bulger Park before marching on Hirsch, 18th Street, Division Street, Bataan Park and back.

“We felt how long it took because you had nothing to think of but this tragedy,” said Samantha Palacios, 20, of Forest Park. “We sat here and 20 cars drove by, five planes flew overhead, entire life times can pass in nine minutes – as we know, George Floyd’s did.

We cannot forget, black lives matter.”

Palacios helped organize the march along with her friend Alitzel Arroyo, 20, of Melrose Park.

“It just feels so useless to stay at home,” said Arroyo a day before the march took place. “This is clearly an opportunity to go outside and do something. Each time I watch that video, I’m on the verge of tears.

Watching a grown man call out to his mother is so hard. No adult should experience that.”

Doug Stanford, a white man from Franklin Park, marched alongside the demonstrators.

“I’m here because I have a black grandson,” Stanford said. “I’m here for him. My knees were hurting as we knelt, so I can’t imagine being under someone’s knee for that long.

When I saw the video I was disheartened and hurt by it. It was totally unnecessary and things have to change.”

Gus Flores, 20, held a Mexican flag as the demonstrators made their way to Bataan

Park.

“We want to show that Melrose Park and the people around here actually care about what’s happening,” Flores said.

Darion Allen, a 39, stood outside of his Melrose Park home as the marchers passed through the neighborhood.

“People are catching on to the fact that this stuff ain’t right,” Allen said. “It’s only a matter of time before good people start sticking up for Black people. I’ve been telling my wife for the last five years that it’s going to probably end up being a civil war, because white people are not going to sit around and see the injustice of that.”

“Before it was like, ‘Oh, we don’t know what the guy did to do that.’ Now, it’s just blatant. And people are not going to stand for that. It’s starting to be other people who start sticking up for us Blacks and you’re already starting to see that happening. Now, it’s two different sides — the side that’s trying to keep people oppressed and the other side that’s saying, ‘Hey, wait a minute, we’re a nation of freedom.’”

Tony Williams and his wife Maggie also live in the neighborhood. They thought of their son, who joined the marchers as they passed by their home.

“We have a teen son who is growing up over here and we’re really concerned about him, too,” said Margie.

“He’s 6’3, 280 pounds and for the first time in his life, he said, ‘Dad, I’m kind of afraid,’” said Tony. “He’s gone to school with Blacks, whites and Hispanics. He loves all the people.

But this situation [has scared him].”

was phenomenal.”

Walker said that the windows will cost about $1,500 to repair, but he believes that his business was spared even more damage.

“They didn’t take anything,” Walker said.

“We knew we were targeted, so everything was up.”

Walker said that he’d gotten a text Sunday night from his store manager who shared the screen grab of a Facebook thread that those involved in the looting are allegedly using to communicate about which businesses to target and where.

“The thread said, ‘Jewelry store on 19th hasn’t been hit up,’” Walker said, reading the text from his phone.

On Sunday, when nothing happened, Walker felt relief, explaining that the wouldbe looters were alerted on the Facebook thread that Gold Elite is black-owned.

Walker said that his surveillance video shows one man throwing the brick into his store — someone who obviously didn’t get the memo.

“I don’t think that guy was a member of this Facebook thread,” he said. “I think he was just opportunistic.”

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SOLIDARITY: Demonstrators sat in silence for nine minutes in Bulger Park in Melrose Park on Thursday afternoon.

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The couple said that George Floyd’s death and the result national unrest opened their son’s eyes to a chilling American reality.

“We’ve got good cops here,” Tony said.

“They know me. They know my son. He’s worked for the village and knows a lot of the cops, but he’s afraid he might be in a different area that might have a problem and they may take him as a threat, because of his size and height. He’s the heavy weight wrestler and plays football for Walther Christian Academy. He’s a tough kid, but an officer with a gun scared the hell out of him.

He’s just seen prejudice. He had nothing of that, because he went to school with Blacks, whites and Hispanics. He loves all people.

But he’s realized now that, ‘Man, this world ain’t what I thought it was.’”

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Peaceful protesters march in Westchester Roughly 100 people walked from Mayfair Park to village hall on Saturday

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

On Saturday afternoon, roughly 100 people gathered at Mayfair Park, 10835 Wakefield St. in Westchester, to march for black lives — just one among many demonstrations taking place across the country in the wake of the May 25 death of George Floyd.

Not long after starting the march, as the protestors walked peacefully along Mayfair Avenue toward Cermak, a white man hollered as he stood in front of his home: “What about white lives?!”

Oscar Guerrero, the Westchester resident who helped organize the demonstration, had already prepared for an incident like it.

“On our path, we’re going to find people who agree with us. Wave. We’re going to find people who disagree with us. Wave,” Geurrero told demonstrators while they were still staging the march at Mayfair Park. “That’s it. Send love and kisses. Do not go down to their level. If they show you the finger. Somebody already showed me the finger. Just wave.”

For the most of the demonstration, which began at Mayfair and ended up in front of the Westchester Village Hall, 10300 Roosevelt Rd., non-participants honked and waved and yelled out in support.

A group of roughly six Dominican sisters stood on the grass on Cermak holding signs that read “Black Lives Matter.”

Before the march began, Westchester Mayor Paul Gattuso gave his blessings. Even though the marchers walked mostly on the sidewalk, village police officers ordered traffic and cleared lanes to ensure the demonstrators’ safety.

For many of the participants, Saturday’s demonstration was the first they’d witnessed in the village, which is roughly 65 percent white.

Kate Dolan, 69, said she moved to Westchester from Oak Park four years ago.

Although the village is not Oak Park, a town nationally known for its racial diversity, the western suburb is nonetheless more diverse than it was 20 years ago.

“Everybody is not working-class Italian white and Irish,” Dolan said. “It’s different.”

Dolan marched alongside her wife, Chris Abbeduto, 59. Abbeduto said that the couple has many friends who share their views on race.

“Most of our friends are supportive, but there’s always one person in every group,” Abbeduto said. “But, for the most part, I think people who support this tend to hang together.”

“Listen, we climbed to where we got on top of [African Americans],” Dolan said. “Don’t think I don’t see it.”

For Nia Abdullah, a District 209 administrator and Westchester resident, the march was personal.

BLACK LIVES MATTER: Oscar Guerrero, top left, leads a march from Mayfair Park on June 6. Before they left the park, Karina Guerreiro, 8, of Westchester, created a Black Lives Matter sign, which she showed to Westchester Mayor Paul Gattuso.

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“I love that we have a very diverse crowd and that we are peacefully standing up for what is right,” said Abdullah. “As an African American mother of a black son, I fear for his life every time he walks out of the house and so I am relieved to see others recognizing the danger that African American men have to face in their everyday lives.”

Michael Salviati, 35, marched with his

young son, his girlfriend and her young son.

He was within earshot of the white man who yelled out asking about white lives.

“I think that’s unfortunate,” Salviati said.

“It’s a misunderstanding of what everyone is trying to do. There’s a lack of education about what people are trying to do.”

Salviati said that he hopes the march helps generate a dialogue and start a “polite

conversation about the differences people have.”

Kingery Pate, one of the youngest marchers in the demonstration, spoke about living as a black boy in America.

“People do not understand what it takes to be black,” said Pate, 10, before leading the crowd in a chant has become all too familiar nowadays: “Don’t shoot! Don’t shoot! Don’t shoot!”

As the demonstration was ending in front of Westchester Village Hall, Guerrero offered a bracing metaphor in response to the question the protestors heard earlier in the day (“what about white lives?”).

“People say, ‘blue lives matter,’ people say ‘all lives matter,’ people say ‘white lives matter.’ We’re not saying they don’t. We are not discriminating against anybody else,” Geurrero explained, before sharing the metaphor, which he said he saw on social media.

“If your house is on fire, the fire department comes in and is trying to put the fire out. Your neighbors come out and say, ‘Hey, all houses matter! Not only that one.

All houses matter!’ But the other houses are not on fire. That’s how the black community feels right now. The house is one fire. And it’s not just their house. It’s our house … Black lives matter, because black lives are the ones who are taken away by the people who are supposed to protect us.”

A young African American woman who spoke moments before Geurrero put it even more succinctly.

“All lives will not matter until black lives matter,” she said. “No justice, no peace!”

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More than crumbs from page 1 Toni Preckwinkle. Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton was also in attendance.

The Maywood gathering was one of at least four different gatherings of black elected officials in black communities across the Chicago area. The demonstrations come a few weeks after the death of George Floyd on May 25. Floyd’s death at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers have prompted a national wave of peaceful protests and a separate wave of opportunistic looting and vandalism (largely unrelated to the organized protests).

“The Black Lives Matter movement is centering once again the thing that we know to be true,” said Maywood Mayor Edwenna Perkins, who stood alongside her African American counterparts, including: Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson, Bellwood Mayor Andre Harvey and Forest Park Mayor Rory Hoskins (all black and/or black woman firsts).

“Racism has destroyed or compromised the vitality of so many of our young people and the criminal justice system is just one of many mechanisms that have been used to undermine the black community,” Perkins said.

Lightford, the first African American female Senate Majority Leader in state

MAKING DEMANDS: Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton speaks during a gathering of elected officials in Maywood on June 7. The officials demanded $1 billion investments in black communities.

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history, was brought to tears talking about how her political career started as a 27-yearold Maywood trustee whose fight to rehab the Fred Hampton Pool got her labeled “the angry black woman, because I was fighting for what was right for my community,” she said. “And I have been that angry black woman for 21 years and I’m not going to stop!”

Lt. Gov. Stratton channeled the suffering of George Floyd while she outlined the centuries-old battle for equality among blacks.

“Every single system in this country has been built with racism at its core,” Stratton said, adding that blacks don’t want any more “knees on our neck” and “we deserve to breathe.”

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Gov. Pritzker called for a 10-second moment of silence during his remarks.

“We’re here on Fred Hampton way because he was a hero to so many, but think about all of the unsung killed at the hands of murderous police officers,” he said. “I want to take a moment of silence for those whose names aren’t being spoken here today.”

Pritzker said that there is “no justice without police accountability,” criminal justice reform and “without reversing the disinvestment and instead making significant investments in our black communities.”

Johnson told those gathered “don’t end your protests, don’t end your rage,” before saying that Pritzker and Stratton has made a commitment to black elected officials from across the state to have listening sessions “so that we can develop policies that will transform lives.”

Raymond Smith, an 82-year-old Maywood man, was among at least 100 onlookers out during Sunday’s demonstration. Smith said that he’s been living in Maywood for more a half-century and is a former Black Panther who knew Hampton personally.

He said that he was cautiously optimistic about the promises made in the park, primarily because he’s noticed that many whites are beginning to take action.

“It looks like we’ve got some help, so we’ll see,” Smith said.

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Proviso East 2020 Graduates Ivet Flores

Leah Hilliard

Corey Mason

Jason Pickens Jr

Dionte Stallings

Roberth Flores

Chardae Hilson

Kaii Mason

Jazlynn Pineda

Kamya Sutton

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Alexis McDonald

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Teijon Price

Tasia Thomas

Sevastian Garcia

Brianna James

Juan Mendez

Alexsus Pulido

Terrence Thomas

Kimberly Garcia-Ochoa

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Julissa Meraz

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Devin Lee

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Chardenay Leonard

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Andrea Arroyo

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Jonathan Ruiz Perez

Maria Villegas

Milly Gonzalez

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Kaela Delgado

Melanie Olvera

Kiara Russell

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Amaya Campbell

Alan Diaz

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Carlos Saavedra

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Yasmin Watkins

Aaliyah Griffin

Minaya Barker

Francisco Lozano

Jocelyn Carreras Robledo

Janay Edmonds

Yesenia Pala

Christopher Sanchez

Devin Welch

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Rashaud Barker

Miguel Luciano

Francisco Carrillo

Deviyon Edwards

Kurt Palmer

Christopher Rendon-Sanchez

Ashaunti Wells

Elizabeth Guerrero-Avila

Elijah Barksdale

Brian Macias

Giselle Carrillo

Aaliyah Enter

Lizeth Palomino Gomez

Robert Sanchez

Brittin Wheaton

Chantel Hairston

Ramses Barranco

Jairo Macias

Aldo Carrizales

Leslie Escobedo Mejia

Brianna Partee

Pedro Sanchez Rodriguez

Mactresea Wilbourn

William Hale

Eddie Barraza

Sara Magallanes

J’Veon Carter

Emmanuel Escutia

Julianna Partee

Jose Sanchez Sanchez

Edwin Wiley

Dartrell Halmon

Daisy Barrera-Mercado

Myles Mahon

Kailey Casado

Emmanuel Eskridge

Junior Paucar

Miguel Santoyo

Davionne Williams

Kimberly Halwenge

Amari Beasley

Deborah Mamboleo

Adriana Casillas

Sara Espiricueta

Lesly Payan

Declan Sibley

Jaylin Williams

Chanel Haney

Devin Belk

Kaitlyn Marroquin

Arabella Castro

Johanna Estefania

Christian Perez

Grace Sigaran

Daijah Williamson

Sherrod Haney

Fatima Bell-Bey

Malcolm Martin

Christofer Castro Sandoval

Carlos Estrada-Lopez

Ezequiel Perez

Deja Singleton

Elesha Winston

Justin Harris

Fernando Belmonte

Tanya Martin

Juan Castro-Reyes

Guadalupe Eurioles

Luis Perez

Diamond Smith

Aiyanna Yates

Kendra Hatley

Angie Beltran

Jose Martinez

Ernesto Cervantes

Devione Evans

Ulisses Perez

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April Chavez

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Jonathan Smith

Alana Young-Gowdy

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Nancy Martinez Morales

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Luis Perez-Ramirez

Terrance Smith

Alyssa Zuniga

Adriel Herrera

Karla Berumen

Rafael Martinez

Jordan Clay

Amari Finley

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Deonn Bland

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Erik Flores

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PMSA 2020 Graduates

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Evelyn Janette Guzman

Janiya Lasha Allen

Kenneth Calderone

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Melanie Hernandez

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Lauryn Sanaa Coleman

German Garcia

Isaac Herrera

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Karina Garcia

Robert P Hunter

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Kayla Garcia

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Yareli Ruby Godinez

Maher A Jaweed

Marco Antonio Becerra

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Gabriel Gonzalez-Torres

Don Cameron Johnson

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Jesus Lopez

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Fernando Ortiz

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

A sampling of the top dishes at Taste of Melrose Park, PAGE 8

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Three’s company As PMSA’s enrollment increases, D209 looks to replicate the school at East and West

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

If all goes according to an ambitious plan laid out by administrators last week, there will not be one Proviso Math and Science Academy in Proviso Township High Schools District 209 — there will essentially be three.

In a lengthy interview on Sept. 4, D209 Supt. Jesse Rodriguez explained that the district is seeking to open math and science academies at Proviso East and Proviso West that replicate PMSA’s academic curriculum while continuing to increase the student population at the selective enrollment school in Forest Park.

Rodriguez said that the expansion will benefit students in the district who have the capability of excelling in PMSA’s academically rigorous curriculum, which notably includes the International Baccalaureate Diploma program.

The program allows high school students the opportunity to earn college credits and is considered by some education experts to See PMSA on page 5

NO STOPPING HIM: Tim Bannon, 14, was born without arms, but that hasn’t stopped him from competing in a triathlon and on the football field. The Hillside teenager wants to be the kicker for the freshman team.

SHANEL ROMAIN

Proviso West football player born with no arms lights up the field Tim Bannon, 14, wants to be the kicker on the freshman football team

By SHANEL ROMAIN Contributor

Tim Bannon, a 14-year-old Proviso West High School freshman, doesn’t want or need your sympathy or stares or sentimental

statements about how inspiring he is, although he knows that he’ll get those responses. And that’s OK. Tim’s going to do what he wants regardless of how people respond to him.

The Hillside teenager spent the latter part of his summer preparing for the Chicago Triathlon (that’s a roughly mile-long run, a 200-meter swim and around four miles of See TIM BANNON on page 6

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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR ARGENT SECURITIES INC., ASSET BACKED PASS THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2006-M2; Plaintiff, vs.

DARNELL M. FLETCHER; LISA D. FLETCHER; ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE; ILLINOIS HEALTHCARE AND FAMILY SERVICES; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF DARNELL M. FLETCHER, IF ANY; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF LISA D. FLETCHER, IF ANY UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 17 CH 11812 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, July 9, 2020 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 15-08-222-025-0000.

Commonly known as 212 46th Avenue, Bellwood, IL 60104.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call Law Clerk at Plaintiff’s Attorney, The Wirbicki Law Group, 33 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603. (312) 360-9455.

WA17-0355

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION intercountyjudicialsales.com I3151113

residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. 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.

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 FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

MCCALLA RAYMER LEIBERT PIERCE, LLC Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200, Chicago, IL, 60602. Tel No. (312) 346-9088.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION

One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

MCCALLA RAYMER LEIBERT PIERCE, LLC One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200 Chicago IL, 60602 312-346-9088 E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com Attorney File No. 271179 Attorney ARDC No. 61256 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 2019 CH 10682 TJSC#: 39-8091 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 # 2019 CH 10682 I3151356

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION DITECH FINANCIAL LLC Plaintiff, -v.JOSE G MARQUEZ A/K/A JOSE GUADALUPE MARQUEZ, A/K/A GUADALUPE MARQUEZ, LORENA MARQUEZ AKA LORENA GOMEZ AKA LORENA GOMEZ VERGARA AKA MARIA LORENA GOMEZ VERGARA, ILLINOIS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Defendants 2019 CH 10682 1737 NORTH 43RD AVENUE STONE PARK, IL 60165 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 18, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on July 21, 2020, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1737 NORTH 43RD AVENUE, STONE PARK, IL 60165 Property Index No. 15-05-225-0250000 The real estate is improved with a single family home with no garage.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours.

No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the

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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

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EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY

All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation or discrimination based on age, race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or intention to make any such preferences, limitations or discrimination.

The Illinois Human Rights Act prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental or advertising of real estate based on factors in addition to those protected under federal law.

This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis.

Restrictions or prohibitions of pets do not apply to service animals.

To complain of discrimination, call HUD toll free at: 1-800-669-9777.

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National

Illinois

Proviso

60.7%

65.7%

66.4%

For more information contact or to be a VOLUNTEER: Nathaniel George Booker Proviso Census 2020 Awareness & Education nathaniel@provisocensus2020.com "Funded by IDHS. The contents are solely the responsibility of the author"

Participation Rates as of June 7, 2020 1

Western Springs

83.6%

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Hillside

67.7%

2

Westchester

79.3%

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Northlake

66.5%

3

La Grange Park

77.0%

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Bellwood

65.2%

4

Brookfield

75.9%

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Forest Park

64.7%

5

North Riverside

73.4%

12

Maywood

56.0%

6

Berkeley

72.9%

13

Melrose Park

53.6%

7

Broadview

68.1%

14

Stone Park

46.4%