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5 facts for understanding ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’

Some things you should know to contextualize the Hollywood depiction of Fred Hampton’s life By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

The life and legacy of slain Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, who was assassinated while sleeping inside of his West Side apartment on Dec. 4, 1969, has garnered renewed interest from the public since the release of the movie “Judas and the Black Messiah.” The film stars Daniel Kaluuya, who plays Hampton, and LaKeith Stanfield, who plays William O’Neal, the FBI informant who betrays Hampton in many ways, not least by sharing the floor plan of Hampton’s apartment with the law enforcement officials who would murder him in an unauthorized raid. Here are five facts that may help you understand the historical and social context of the world in which Hampton lived and illuminate some aspects of the film, which is currently streaming on HBO and HBO Max. The information is based on books, primary government documents and interviews Austin Weekly News has conducted in the past with those who knew Fred. The FBI believed a Black ‘messiah’ threatened domestic security and was determined to take him out before he could do so. In August 1967, the FBI launched a covert program called COINTELPRO designed to “disrupt and ‘neutralize’ organizations which the Bureau characterized as ‘Black Nationalist Hate See JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH on page 4

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A GRAND OPENING: The staff of Butter and Brown Bistro on Feb. 12. The establishment is on Austin Boulevard, near the border of Austin and Oak Park.

The beginnings of Butter and Brown All-day breakfast bistro on Austin Boulevard serves up traditional and unexpected offerings By MELISSA ELSMO Oak Park Eats

After spending 17 months converting a retail space into a restaurant and navigating a pandemic, Lanell and Tiffany Brown

have proudly opened Butter and Brown Bistro, 420 Austin Blvd., in the heart of the Lake and Austin business district. “It is nice to see this corner coming to life,” said Lanell Brown. “We are happy to join Chef Daddy, Church’s Chicken and One Lake Brewing in the area. And we do a lot of business with our neighbor, Blue Ribbon Meats.” The Brown family has resided in Austin for a decade and built Butter and Brown Bistro to be a hands-on, family-run enterprise. Customers should expect to find daughter Brittany behind the counter

taking orders, accommodating special requests, and bringing friendly energy to every customer interaction. The welcoming eatery offers all-day breakfast, but the expansive menu covers lunch and dinner as well. Full of fun touches, the menu, is designed to appeal to the masses and provides niche selections found on few, if any, local menus. Thankfully, Shaqueta Hinke, head chef, knows how to maneuver through all types of dishes and has familiarity with volume See BUTTER AND BROWN on page 2

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BROWN AND BUTTER Savory delights from page 1 menus. Every menu item is cooked to order at Butter and Brown. A sign clearly states customers should expect to wait 15-20 minutes to receive their order to allow for proper cooking time. “My wife and I are foodies, and we can tell when a restaurant starts cutting corners,” said Brown. “There are ways to get things done faster, but we won’t do it. Our food takes a little longer, but you can taste the difference time makes.” Expect to find a vast array of classic breakfast fare like biscuits and gravy, chicken and waffles, and egg dishes to appeal to breakfast purists. Butter and Brown’s “Back that Thang Up” omelet comes brimming with bacon, sausage, ham, sauteed peppers and cheese while more innovative offerings like sweet potato infused waffles spiked with coconut, cinnamon and vanilla and an assortment of “OMG Buss it Baby Butter Sandwiches” keep things creative in the diminutive restaurant. Both children and adults will appreciate the customizable sandwiches featuring a choice of meat and come on a unique jamfilled bread making the offering an unexpected sweet and savory delight. Most breakfast dishes come with a side of Butter and Brown’s signature “pimpin’ potatoes” and grits. The fresh spuds are cube cut and cooked with onions, red and green peppers, and are topped with cheddar, while the well-seasoned grits are served plain or with cheese in generous portions. Customers clearly clamor for Butter and Brown’s grits making them popular at breakfast and at other times of the day. Shrimp and grits have proven to be the single most popular offering on the broad menu. Study the menu long enough and you’ll find tempura-fried alligator, a massive tomahawk steak, and fried brussels sprouts with sweet and spicy drizzle included among the offerings. Brown was raised by a competent home

cook. His mother cultivated his love for cooking by putting a hot meal on the table every day and reserving fast food as a rare treat, but his time in the Navy taught him about large scale cooking and batch production. “I entered the Navy just like any regular person. I had no idea what I was doing,” laughed Brown. “But I found my way to the kitchen and became a cook. Before long I was

MOUTH-WATERING: Clockwise, from top right: The Back That Thang Up Omelette with a side of cheesy grits; grits and toast; an order of apple cinnamon pancakes. ALEX ROGALS/Staff Photographer

cooking for 1,500 people at a time.” After departing the Navy is 1996, Brown went on to a career in the car business, but never strayed far from the kitchen. The Brown family owns several properties they rent out on Airbnb and additionally rented

out a duo of rooms in their family home through the platform. Relying on his love for cooking and his mother’s legacy, Brown frequently cooked breakfast and brunch for his guests.

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“Everyone who stayed with us would tell me I should open a restaurant,” said Brown. “One day my wife and I were stuck in traffic at the corner of Austin and Lake. When I saw this property, I asked Tiffany how she would feel about opening a restaurant. We had no idea what it would entail or that we’d be opening in a pandemic, but by the grace of God we are here.” Since opening, the Browns learned from locals that 30 years ago the very same store front operated as a neighborhood restaurant. Now, in addition to welcoming first-time patrons, Butter and Brown Bistro is serving up a sense of nostalgia to longtime residents with every meal. “It has been awesome being open. The neighborhood has been nothing by receptive. We hope to give people a place to listen to good music, read a newspaper and enjoy breakfast, lunch and or dinner.”

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On starting the program at such a young age I was in a youth entrepreneurship program at Michele Clark High School in Austin and I had learned how to write grants. I had a mentor, Sandra Graham, from the Prevention Force Family Center on the West Side, who taught me how to write grants, start a budget, start a 501(c)(3), things like that. The first grant was for like $3,500.

Michael Willis, 29, coach of West Side Pop Warner football champs

On making the league work

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

Last week, I spoke to Michael Willis, the founder of the Chicago Chargers Youth Next Level Athletic football teams, which compete in Pop Warner football. The program, which is for young people ages 8 to 14 years old, draws young athletes from all over the city. Last year, one team involved in the program won a national championship, perhaps the first time a West Side team has won a Pop Warner championship, Willis said.

This year, Willis said, the pandemic uprooted the young men from their home base at Austin’s Columbus Park; instead, they traveled to Indiana, where COVID-19 restrictions weren’t as tight, to practice and compete. Last year, the Chargers at the 14-year-old

level won the Pop Warner National Championship, held Dec. 3 through Dec. 12, in Orlando, Fla. The Chargers won 16 consecutive games against teams from across the country en route to the National Championship. In addition, two other Chargers teams qualified for the 2020 Championships by winning first place in Pop Warner’s State and Midwest/Southwest Regional Championships. The Chargers’ 8 and under team placed second in the National Division I bracket while the 10 and under team placed third in the National Division II bracket.

I work a full-time job in security right now, but running the league is also full-time even though I don’t get paid for doing it. It’s me and 20 other coaches throughout the state. We all volunteer. It’s our way of giving back. We’re able to maintain through various partnerships with people like Bernard Clay from Introspect Youth Services, aldermen and parents. We’re growing rapidly to the point where we don’t just consider ourselves West Side anymore. We’re all over the state. We have kids at the college level now who are being recruited by Division I Power Five schools like Michigan, Michigan State and Arizona.

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We’ve been operating since 2006. I started the program at 14 years old. Since then, we’ve branched out all over the city and the state. We even have kids in the program from Indiana. We have 180 kids. We don’t charge a registration fee, but we do fundraisers to help cover our kids and we pride ourselves on being a travel organization, so we give kids different experiences when it comes to traveling in different states and dealing with our alumni at the high school level.

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JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH

we said, ‘Let’s go, we’ll meet right there.’ “It wasn’t simplistic and about bravado … A lot of people see the leather jacket and the beret, but there’s an underbelly of what a revolutionary is. How do you deal with this climate? … Those in the valley … We went to the valley. The ground was literally still hot. The community was out there. And we had our dialogue. “That respect among each other … These are some things you can’t read in books. This is grit you got to feel and they came. They came.” Kaluuya described what he saw and felt during the visit to Chicago, which according to photos obtained by Austin Weekly News, also included a trip to the iconic Fred Hampton mural at 2746 W. Madison St. “I saw the memorial site of the shootings had been destroyed,” Kaluuya said. “I remember that. And Chairman Fred Jr. was explaining to me about how the police come and kind of wreck those places. For me it was a microcosm of what’s been done for centuries. It’s the destruction of necessary healing from the powers that be. And I saw that there.”

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Groups,’” according to a 1976 report released by the Church Senate Committee. The nearly 1,000-page document was released by a committee of the U.S. Senate that “dealt with the illegal and unconstitutional transgressions of the FBI, CIA, NSA, IRS, and the US military,” recalled Fred Hampton’s lawyer, Flint Taylor, in his 2019 book, “The Torture Machine.” “More than half the report covered FBI ‘black bag’ jobs, wiretaps, use of informants/agents provocateur, and COINTELPRO,” Taylor wrote. “One chapter studied the FBI’s plan to ‘neutralize’ Martin Luther King Jr. In the very next chapter came ‘The FBI’s Covert Action Program to Destroy the Black Panther Party.’” The Church report summarizes FBI memorandum that explained COINTELPRO’s purpose in even more detail, which was mainly to “prevent a coalition of militant black nationalist groups” and to “prevent the rise of a messiah who could unify and electrify the militant nationalist movement … Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael and Elijah Muhammad all aspire to this position.” In the summer of 1967, the Black Panthers weren’t yet on the FBI’s list of threats, although in September 1968, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover described the party as “the greatest threat to the internal security of the country.” By July 1969, the Church report explains, the Panthers “had become the primary focus of the program, and was ultimately the target of 233 of the total authorized ‘Black Nationalist’ COINTELPRO actions” that Taylor described in his book. Which may well have made Fred Hampton the FBI’s highest priority ‘would-be’ Black messiah and a main target of the agency’s illegal and unethical COINTELPRO efforts.

William O’Neal died by suicide in Maywood in 1990, and so did another man he’d been visiting before his death.

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The Jan. 18, 1990 Chicago Tribune article reporting the death of William O’Neal, the FBI informant who aided the government’s efforts to destroy the Black Panther Party. | Newspapers.com There’s a scene in the film in which Fred Hampton jokes about O’Neal’s prowess with a pool stick after a confrontation with the Blackstone Rangers inside of a pool hall nearly turns violent. Fred Hampton invents a nickname for

Fred Hampton Jr. insisted Daniel Kaluuya, who plays Fred Hampton in the film, visit the West Side as a ‘test’ of character. During an interview on HBO Max, Fred Hampton Jr., the chairman of the Black Panther Party Cubs, a successor organization to the Black Panther Party, said that he insisted Kaluuya visit an area of North Lawndale while Kaluuya was studying to play Hampton Jr.’s father. “There happened to be like 11 people, literally, who were just shot that night and

HISTORY: Top, the FBI memo warning about the rise of a “messiah” who might unit and “electrify” the “militant black nationalist movement.” Middle, Fred Hampton Jr. speaks to actors Daniel Kaluuya, second from left, and Dominique Fishback, middle, who plays Hampton’s partner, Akua Njeri (formerly known as Deborah Johnson), who is Hampton’s mother, during a trip to the West Side mural that honors Hampton Jr.’s father. Bottom, a Chicago Sun-Times newspaper clipping from 1990 that covered the suicide of William O’Neal.

Austin Weekly News, February 24, 2021 conversations prompted Abernathy to commit $1,000 to a nascent foundation for young people with the same ambitions. Under Bill’s guidance, roughly 200 scholarships had been given out since then. Quincy Johnson, a close friend of Bill’s, lauded the Hampton family’s efforts, led by Bill, to burnish Fred’s memory, particularly by keeping up the scholarship fund. Fred Hampton Jr. alleged the FBI tapped his father’s phone when Hampton Sr. was just a kid. During Bill’s funeral in 2018, Hampton Jr. said “the FBI placed a tap on my grandma’s phone when Fred was 14 years old.”

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SCHOLARSHIP: The late Bill Hampton, Fred’s older brother, during one of his Fred Hampton Scholarship Fund ceremonies he held each year in Maywood, outside of the swimming pool named for his brother. Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton, below center, pictured in a yearbook at his alma mater, Proviso East High School in Maywood. Black Panther Party. | Newspapers.com There’s a scene in the film in which Fred Hampton jokes about O’Neal’s prowess with a pool stick after a confrontation with the Blackstone Rangers inside of a pool hall nearly turns violent. Fred Hampton invents a nickname for O’Neal, calling him “Wild Bill.” Hampton then asks O’Neal if he’d ever been called that in Maywood, one of the film’s few explicit references to the village where Hampton was raised. In fact, O’Neal had a very strong connection to Maywood. On a Sunday night in January 1990, O’Neal, 40, went to the Maywood apartment of his uncle, Ben Heard, who told Chicago Tribune reporters at the time that O’Neal “kept going to the washroom … He stayed there for a long time. The last time he came out he tried to go out the window. I pulled him back, but he broke loose and ran toward the expressway.” O’Neal “ran down the embankment near 5th Avenue, crossed the eastbound lanes, and was struck by a car in the westbound lanes.” The Tribune reported that, according to Heard, that “was the second time his nephew had run onto the highway … In September, O’Neal was struck by a car but not

injured, Heard said.” In an eerie twist of fate, the Tribune reported, the day after O’Neal’s death, “a second man who lived in the same apartment complex where O’Neal had been visiting before his death, apparently committed suicide by running onto the Eisenhower and was struck by a truck in virtually the same place as O’Neal.”

Although the claim is hard to substantiate, it’s not too hard to believe, given what we now know about the FBI from government records and about Fred’s early life of activism in his hometown of Maywood. Delores Robinson, who attended Proviso East High School in Maywood with Hampton in the mid1960s, recalled in 2017 how Fred would lead her and her fellow African American classmates out of the school’s clock tower entrance down Warren Avenue after classes let out. “There weren’t many blacks at Proviso back then,” Robinson re-

called. “When we would leave school at the end of the day, the blacks would walk out of that door and Fred would always have this song that went, ‘The more you give, the more God gives to you; you can’t beat God giving.’ We’d all walk down the street singing that.” The late Don Williams, who served as the second Black mayor of Maywood in the 1990s and led the local NAACP at the time of Hampton’s ascendancy, recalled in 2017 how he helped recruit Hampton to become the leader of the West Suburban NAACP’s Youth Council — a position that would become a launching pad for the young leader’s rise in the world of social activism. “There was some turbulence at Proviso East and it seemed that the African American students were being short-changed,” Williams recalled. “We didn’t have anyone in the NAACP at that time we could offer who was young. There was a basketball player, Al Nuness, who was very well-known in the community and we thought we would solicit him.” Williams said that Nuness was too busy with other commitments. The popular basketball player, however, recommended that the NAACP recruit Hampton. “Nuness said, ‘You want Fred Hampton,’” Williams recalled. “He said he’s very active in the school and very well-known among the young people. You want Fred. So [we] recruited Fred Hampton. The rest is history.”

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here is obviously someone in City Hall who has the job of coordinating traffic movement via traffic-light operations, but isn’t doing it. Or, they’re doing an excellent job of making sure traffic doesn’t move. I traverse Cicero Avenue quite a bit. The worst traffic movement on it is from North Avenue going south to the Eisenhower Expressway and vice versa. Instead of the traffic lights allowing for the smooth flow of traffic, we go from one red light to another, creating a very aggravating traffic slowdown. Is it a coincidence or is it a purposeful lack of coordination for traffic movement so that those red-light cameras can generate revenue from drivers who are only trying to get from point A to point B? It is also at the point where Cicero Avenue is at its narrowest. And it is being slowed down in some of the roughest areas as if to make us drivers sitting ducks. Why? Chicago Avenue is pretty much two lanes here on the West Side. But for some reason that I cannot even begin to fathom, they’ve decided to take one of those lanes and turn it into a bus-only lane. Now if Chicago Avenue had multiple buses as it meanders its way through our side of town, I could

understand. But there’s only one number 66 bus. There is no reason to cause hundreds of drivers to have to go in a single-file lane just so they can have an open bus lane for a bus that comes every 15 minutes. It’s not as if Chicago Avenue had a plethora of people standing at the bus stop, all waiting to traverse on it. Meanwhile, all the cars that need to be utilizing that street, which have paid their $100-plus city sticker fee, do not even get the right to use the city streets as they should be used. I need somebody to explain to me why we need these bus lanes? Westsiders should be irate! Lastly, this is one of the first traffic changes that made me realize how much those traffic people seem to want to make us sitting ducks. For years, there was a left-turn arrow at Laramie and the Eisenhower. But you could also turn left on the green when headed southbound. Now, if you don’t make the left-turn arrow, you have to sit there and wait even when there is no northbound traffic coming. Yet another asinine decision we shouldn’t be tolerating. It’s as if the people who direct traffic movement on our side of town do everything they can to make us miserable.

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City to set up temporary vaccination site in Lawndale

Vaccines available to all North Lawndale adults at Lawndale Christian Health Center By IGOR STUDENKOV Contributing Reporter

The City of Chicago has teamed up with Lawndale Christian Health Center to set up a pop-up COVID-19 vaccine clinic at Homan Square Community Center, 3517 W. Arthington St. The site is open to all adults. The vaccination site is part of Protect Chicago Plus initiative, which was created to make sure that 15 communities that have been especially hard-hit by COVID-19 have a chance to get vaccinated. The list includes North Lawndale, Austin and Humboldt Park, but not West Garfield Park and East Garfield Park. While most vaccination sites restrict the vaccines in accordance to Phase 1b guidelines, which excludes most adults who aren’t seniors or essential workers, this site will be open to all neighborhood residents. The temporary site was announced during the North Lawndale Community Vaccination Conversation on Feb. 15. The online forum was organized by the North Lawndale Com-

munity Coordinating Council (NLCCC). Since then, the city has been tightlipped about the details, promising to reveal more during the Feb. 20 online forum scheduled for 1 p.m. Protect Chicago Plus plans to set up similar temporary vaccine sites in Austin in early March and in Humboldt Park in late March. Protect Chicago Plus was established amid the growing concerns that more vaccinations are happening in majority-white neighborhoods than in majority-Black and majority-Brown neighborhoods that have seen higher rates of COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths. According to data presented by the Sinai Urban Health Institute, there are significant vaccination disparities in West Side vaccination zip codes. As of Feb. 15, around 8 percent of all Chicagoans received at least one vaccine dose.

In zip code 60608, which includes portions of North Lawndale east of California Avenue and portions of Little Village and the Near West Side further south and west, 7.5 percent of residents got vaccinated. At zip code 60612, which includes portions of East Garfield Park east of Kenzie Avenue and parts of North Lawndale north of Roosevelt Road, 9.3 percent of residents got vaccinated. By contrast, at zip code 60623, which includes the remaining portions of North Lawndale south of Roosevelt Road and most of Little Village, 4.6 percent of residents got vaccinated. At zip code 60624, which includes West Garfield Park and the rest of East Garfield Park and North Lawndale, 3.9 percent of the residents got vaccinated. Protect Chicago Plus’ vaccination site falls within that zip code. During the Feb. 15 forum, Sybil Madison, the city’s deputy mayor for education and human services, said that the 15 communi-

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ties were chosen because they have large numbers of residents who face higher risk of getting infected due to either their jobs, their existing health issues or who aren’t connected to a healthcare provider. “Protect Chicago Plus ensures that we’re getting vaccines and city resources to communities that experienced high burdens of COVID,” Madison said. “In those communities, we’re partnering with communitybased organizations, leaders and trusted members of the community to bring the vaccine to those communities.” Madison said that the vaccine sites “are designed for those who live in the community,” but she didn’t share any further details about the vaccination site, including how to sign up and how long the site will be open, saying that more information will be presented during the Feb. 20 forum. The Chicago Department of Public Health didn’t respond to a request for comment by deadline. To register for the Feb. 20 town hall, visit https://bit.ly/2NveYk8. For more information about Protect Chicago Plus, visit https://www.chicago.gov/ city/en/sites/covid-19/home/protect-chicago.html.

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How do COVID-19 eviction bans work?

A guide to your rights as a Chicago renter during a pandemic. By WOOJAE JULIA SONG City Bureau

The Housing Cliff is a special series about the COVID-19 housing crisis produced by City Bureau, a civic journalism lab based in Chicago. Access the full series online at citybureau.org. If you’re worried about missing rent as the pandemic continues in Chicago, you’re not alone. National, state and local eviction moratoriums still protect many renters who’ve been affected by COVID-19. But they require renters to take specific steps to be protected from eviction. To access this story online with links to all necessary forms, visit citybureau.org/evictionban.

Which eviction moratoriums apply to me? Federal eviction moratorium | In January, President Joe Biden extended the national eviction moratorium until March 31. The order requires eligible renters to sign a form and share it with their landlord, confirming that they can’t pay full rent because they are experiencing financial hardship and that they meet several conditions. (These rules apply anywhere in the U.S. where there is not an active state or local moratorium that is more protective.) State eviction moratorium | The extended Illinois Eviction Filing Moratorium temporarily protects qualifying residents from

evictions until March 6. It stops both eviction filings and enforcement, except in cases where a landlord can prove that a renter “poses a direct threat to the health and safety of other tenants or an immediate and severe risk to property.” Any renter who meets the requirements can seek protection through this statewide order, regardless of immigration status and including those with non-written or month-to-month leases, according to a statement from the Illinois Housing Development Authority. To qualify, every adult renter in the unit must sign and submit to their landlord a Tenant Declaration Form (which is also available in Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Tagalog and Polish) stating that they meet these four conditions: 1. One of the following: a. Made $99,000 or less in 2020 (or less than $198,000 if they file a joint tax return) b. Did not have to report their income for tax purposes in 2019 c. Received a $1,200 stimulus check from the federal government last year 2. Can’t pay rent for COVID-19 related reasons, like income loss or health costs 3. Is making best efforts to pay partial rent, considering other essential costs like food, utilities, health care and cold weather necessities 4. Would likely become houseless, have to double up or move into a crowded home or shared living setting if they get evicted

A landlord must give their tenant a copy of the declaration form before they can issue a five-day eviction notice to begin the eviction process. Without a signed declaration form,

landlords can begin the eviction process.

City eviction moratorium | After the statewide eviction moratorium expires, the city will extend the eviction ban for 60 more days. Once the city’s eviction ban ends, landlords will be able to issue five-day eviction notices to renters again. But the city law gives tenants who owe rent 12 days to negotiate instead of the usual five. The law also requires landlords to give tenants at least two months to pay back each month of missed rent and to give tenants a know-your-rights document. To qualify, tenants who receive an eviction notice must give their landlord written notice that they couldn’t pay rent due to COVID-19. Then, the landlord must work with the tenant over the 12-day period to try to reach an agreement that avoids eviction. Emails, letters or text messages count as written notice. Phone calls and in-person conversations don’t count. Chicago.gov has more details in several languages.

How come evictions haven’t stopped? Despite these moratoriums, Chicago landlords have filed over 1,500 residential evictions since April 2020. The moratoriums don’t cover non-pandemic related cases, cases that began before the pandemic or commercial evictions. They also allow landlords to claim exemptions for health and safety threats. Last July, Cook County eviction court hearings resumed over Zoom for cases like these. But some cases that cite a health or safety threat don’t seem to warrant eviction, says Michelle Gilbert, legal director at the Lawyers’ Committee for Better Housing—she knew of one landlord who filed an eviction after management found a joint of marijuana in the unit. And although judges should dismiss cases that are protected by the moratorium, landlords can still file for any reason, she says. The courts recently closed some loopholes in the process. In December 2020, the Illinois Supreme Court adopted a rule that requires landlords who file an eviction case to certify that they are following the moratorium rules. In January, Cook County courts also began requiring confirmation that a case was filed for valid reasons. Gilbert says some renters who don’t have legal documentation are less likely to engage in the court process itself, out of fear that they may end up on Immigra-

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tion and Customs Enforcement’s radar. If renters don’t show up in court, they can’t defend their case or negotiate. Even if an eviction case gets dismissed, the filing itself becomes part of a person’s public record and impacts their future chances of renting. In a 2018 report, Housing Action Illinois noted that Cook County landlords often refuse to rent to people with eviction filings against them. Landlords have also attempted to evict tenants outside the courts by illegally changing house locks, threatening tenants or shutting off utilities.

What if I’m in a month-to-month situation or my lease ends soon? Chicago law requires landlords to give most tenants, including tenants with monthto-month agreements, 30 days of notice about lease changes like ending a lease and raising rent, or to resolve eviction cases for nonpayment. The Fair Notice ordinance passed in July 2020 requires landlords to give longtime tenants more time to act: 60 days of notice to tenants who’ve lived in the unit between six months and three years 120 days to tenants who’ve lived in the unit for three years or more

Where can I get support? The moratoriums don’t cancel rent. Once they end, people who owe rent will have to pay their landlords eventually. Gilbert says that many tenants only call a lawyer once they’ve been served with court documents. But she encourages tenants to communicate with their landlord and seek help early on—not after an emergency. Go to page 8 for a list of free resources for all Chicago renters, regardless of immigration status.

What happens when they expire? Data from the Eviction Lab shows that local eviction bans effectively decrease eviction filings by 77%. When they expire, however, filings will go back up. Local housing rights groups’ calls to cancel rents and mortgages have gained support, though no level of government has passed laws to do so. Chicago organizers have demanded more affordable housing, rent control laws and fairer distribution of community resources for years. Organizers are also pushing City Council to pass the Just Cause for Eviction ordinance, which would require landlords to provide a valid reason to evict a tenant. If passed, supporters say that the ordinance would protect residents from displacement. This report was produced by City Bureau, a civic journalism lab based in Chicago. Learn more and get involved at citybureau.org.

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Find financial aid, emergency shelter, legal help and tenant support in 2021. By JUSTIN AGRELO City Bureau

The Housing Cliff is a special series about the COVID-19 housing crisis produced by City Bureau, a civic journalism lab based in Chicago. Access the full series online at citybureau.org. Chicago residents are still reeling from the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic nearly a year after it began. The patchwork of government, nonprofit and mutual aid can be challenging to access. To help folks find much-needed resources, we’ve compiled a list of various housing- and food-related resources that you can access right now. (To access this full article with links online, go to citybureau.org/resources.)

Financial Assistance and Shelter City of Chicago New application for rental assistance expected to reopen by late February chi.gov/housinghelp Illinois Domestic Violence Helpline 24-hour hotline for temporary emergency shelter, counseling and other resources (877) 863-6338 or (877) 863-6339 (TTY) Amani House 24-hour hotline offering short-term housing for women, women with children and intact families (773) 874-8345

Brighton Park Neighborhood Council Assistance for rent, mortgage, lighting and gas bills in Brighton Park (773) 523-7110, M-F, 9a-4p

Legal Aid Lawyers’ Committee for Better Housing Free legal help for tenants facing eviction, utility shut-offs or other housing-related legal issues. (312) 347-7600, lcbh.org Legal Aid Chicago Free legal help in English and Spanish to Chicago and suburban Cook County residents with limited income; regarding unemployment insurance benefits, evictions and other civil legal issues (312) 341-1070, legalaidchicago.org Early Resolution Program, Cook County Legal Aid Free legal assistance, counseling, precourt mediation and case management for Cook County residents who are dealing with eviction, foreclosure and unresolved debt (855) 956-5763, Cookcountylegalaid.org

Tenant Rights Metropolitan Tenants Organization Mediates disputes between tenants and their landlords; tenant rights hotline is open

to English and Spanish speakers (773) 292-4988, M-F, 1p-5p Chicago Tenants Movement Helps renters facing housing issues like an illegal lockout, refers people to legal aid and offers info on how to form a tenants union in English and Spanish (773) 657-8700, W-Su, 10a-2p, 5p-9p Autonomous Tenants Union Offers resources in English and Spanish, from how to make a 3-1-1 call to templates of letters you can give your landlord autonomoustenantsunion.org/resources Rentervention Free immediate, step-by-step support with most housing-related issues (866) 773-6837, Rentervention.com, or text “hi” to 866-7RENTER

Mutual Aid Mutual aid groups are run by volunteers who collect, distribute and organize resources within a community, using the principle of “solidarity, not charity.” These informal groups both accept donations and offer resources, often with no questions asked. For full list, go to chicovid.org and search “mutual aid.”

Brave Space Alliance Crisis pantry program delivers free food to residents within city limits (872) 333-5199, bravespacealliance.org/covid-19 The Love Fridge Get free groceries at colorfully decorated refrigerators throughout the city thelovefridge.com/locations Bronzeville-Kenwood Mutual Aid Free food and supplies drop-offs and wellness checks for South Side residents bkmachicago.com 360 Nation’s Lil’ Miracles Project Free boxes of groceries, baby supplies, personal hygiene items and PPE every third Thursday at 4320 W. 5th Ave. from 4p-6p @360__nation on Instagram Humboldt Park Solidarity Network Free food, supplies, mental health support, wellness checks and more (312) 883-7526, @HPSolidarityNetwork on Instagram This report was produced by City Bureau, a civic journalism lab based in Chicago. Learn more and get involved at citybureau.org.

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Hospital screening uninsured patients for free to help eliminate health disparities faced by Black people on the West Side By PASCAL SABINO Block Club Chicago

A West Side hospital is offering free heart screenings for uninsured residents of the

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officer at Loretto Hospital. In some areas of the West Side, the average life expectancy is 16 years shorter than somebody living downtown, according to a report by Virginia Commonwealth University. Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said a leading contributor to the life expectancy gap facing Black people is cardiovascular disease. The hospital is offering the free screenings in recognition of American Heart Month. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death for all Americans, though death rates are higher among Black people.

In addition to the screenings, Loretto Hospital is giving free CT Calcium Score scans, which can detect calcium deposits on blood vessels in the heart that can increase the risk of a heart attack. “The Loretto Hospital wants people to become educated on how to better care for their hearts, so they can live healthier, stronger and longer lives,” Ahmed said. Pascal Sabino is a Report for America corps member covering Austin, North Lawndale and Garfield Park for Block Club Chicago.

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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.MORRIS CANNON, JR., DEBBIE CANNON, CITIZENS BANK, N.A., CITY OF CHICAGO, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 17 CH 001375 1553 S. MILLARD AVENUE CHICAGO, IL 60623 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 3, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 23, 2021, 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 follow-

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• In print • Online • Available 24 /7/365 REAL ESTATE FOR SALE CHICAGO, IL 60622 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 20, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 18, 2021, 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 1360 W. HUBBARD ST., UNIT# 3W, CHICAGO, IL 60622 Property Index No. 17-08-132-0621006 and 17-08-132-062-1010 The real estate is improved with a condominium. The judgment amount was $549,692.44. 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 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

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE 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. For information, JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125, Chicago, IL, 60606 (312) 541-9710. Please refer to file number 19-7001. 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. JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125 Chicago IL, 60606 312-541-9710 E-Mail: ilpleadings@johnsonblumberg.com Attorney File No. 19-7001 Attorney Code. 40342 Case Number: 2019 CH 02954 TJSC#: 41-182 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 02954 I3164310

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