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Austin residents voice concerns about proposed eatery Taneka Daniels says she isn’t sure if she’ll pursue an alcohol license for her proposed TNT Restaurant, which she wants to open at 5405-11 W. Madison St.

By IGOR STUDENKOV Contributing Reporter

Taneka Daniels, of Blue Island, said that there is broad community support for her plans to build a restaurant with a rooftop patio at 5405-11 W. Madison St. in Austin.

During a May 21 virtual meeting of the Chicago Zoning Board of Appeals, she said that she wants to invest in the community her family hails from and create job opportunities. Daniels said that she’s gotten support from local businesses, as well as from the South Austin Neighborhood Association (SANA).

But members of SANA disputed that claim, saying they were not aware of Daniels’s plans until the zoning board meeting. Members of the group said they were concerned about customers parking in the neighborhood, the noise level from music potentially playing on the rooftop and that the establishment, which would be called TNT Restaurant, might serve alcohol.

During the zoning board meeting, Daniels said that alcohol will be served inside the restaurant, only to walk back her statement during a follow-up interview, saying that she was still trying to decide whether she would serve alcohol and that she hasn’t applied for a liquor license.

Ald. Chris Taliaferro (29th), whose ward includes the restaurant, said that Daniels never told him TNT Restaurant might serve alcohol and emphasized that he would bring any liquor license application for community review before it gets approved.

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Black History trolley tour offers taste of West Side soul food Launched June 5, Chi-Soul trolley tours feature tastes from Austin restaurants and stops at West Side historical sites.

By PASCAL SABINO Block Club Chicago

A new tour is helping people experience the West Side’s history and culture through food.

The Chi-Town Soul trolley tour series, which launched Saturday, takes visitors for a ride to historical sites and Blackowned restaurants that speak to the oftforgotten heritage of the West Side.

The tours are 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 5, July 17 and Aug. 21. Tick-

ets for the trolley food tours, which are $45 and include transportation, food samples, a t-shirt, discounts and a tote bag, can be purchased online.

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Juneteenth celebration coming to Austin June 18-20

Juneteenth Fest West will take place at Columbus Park, 500 S. Central Ave.

By IGOR STUDENKOV Contributing Reporter

A group of West Side community organizations are teaming up to put on a 3-day Juneteenth celebration in Columbus Park, 500 S. Central Ave., June 18 through June 20, noon to 9 p.m. each day.

With the COVID-19 cases dropping and vaccinations increasing, they wanted to do something that would celebrate the community’s resilience, bring the community together and help those who haven’t gotten vaccinated yet get their shots.

The Juneteenth West Fest will feature food, games and local organizations sharing resources and information. On June 18, organizers will focus on the youth while on June 19 they’ll focus on families and on June 20, on fathers.

The festival is spearheaded by Introspect Youth Services, an Austin community organization located at 430 N. Cicero Ave. Introspect provides educational and job placement services for West Side youth. Bernard Clay,

the nonprofit’s chair, said that Introspect and other West Side organizations, such as the Austin African American Business Networking Association, the Westside Health Authority and the Chicago West Side branch of the NAACP have talked about putting together a Juneteenth festival for many years.

“This year, when we saw the city opening up, we thought it would be an opportune time to organize it,” Clay said. Other organizations that are helping to plan the Juneteenth

West Fest include the Austin Chamber of Commerce, Habilitative Systems, Fathers Who Care, the Westside Small Businesses Development Corporation, the Bobby Wright Comprehensive Behavioral Health Center, the Austin People’s Action Center and the Academy of Scholastic Achievement charter school.

Clay said that the organizations are still finalizing many programming details, but that there will be ample opportunity for par-

ticipants to get information about services and resources in the area. Loretto Hospital officials will be in attendance to give out information about the hospital’s vaccination program.

Clay also said that the festival will feature “nationally known” gospel and hip-pop acts, but didn’t elaborate any further. Tina Augustus, the executive director of the Austin Chamber of Commerce, said that there will be appliance giveaways and “reading circles” for kids.

“They’re going to learn about Juneteenth and the history of how African-Americans made this country the success that it is and show different things that came about because of our sacrifices,” she said.

Clay said that the festival is still taking some COVID-19 precautions. The volunteers will check temperatures of anyone coming in and social distancing will be maintained.

Clay said he hopes many attendees will be able to get vaccinated by the time the festival starts.

The organizers hope that the Juneteenth West Fest will become a staple event in an effort to promote harmony in the area.

“We hope that it will bring community unity and help eliminate some of the violence in the community,” Clay said.

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NO FATALITIES: Chicago Police Sgt. Jermaine Harris reporting via Zoom that there were no shooting deaths in Austin this Memorial Day weekend.

Memorial Day weekend passes with no Austin gunshot victims Chicago Police Sgt. Jermaine Harris thanked ministers, faith leaders

By SUZANNE McBRIDE AustinTalks

Faith-based leaders and local residents are quietly celebrating an unusual milestone: No one died at the hands of a gun in Austin over Memorial Day weekend.

Sgt. Jermaine Harris of the Chicago Police Department’s 15th District shared the news Tuesday at the monthly meeting of West Side faith-based leaders: “No lives were lost to gun violence in Austin.”

Harris thanked ministers and other faith leaders for being out in the community over the three-day weekend, noting, “It does make a difference, us being present.”

Citywide, four killings and 33 shootings were reported, compared to last year when 10 people were killed and 39 others were wounded, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

“That is a good way to start the summer – on a downward trend for vio-

lence,” Harris said, adding people have to maintain a presence in the community all summer long. “We have to get out there, it’s game time … You are making a difference.”

Rev. Steve Epting, senior pastor at Hope Community Church, agreed that ministers and residents “definitely can’t sit on our laurels.”

But “this lets us know that what we’re doing is right, this lets us know that this is the model that we have to keep increasing,” Epting said, referring to the mobilization efforts many churches and community groups have been employing throughout Austin to tamp down violent crime.

“This is what it’s going to take to bring violence down and bring neighborhoods up. We have to do even more, we have to get more partners, more boots on the ground … and we have to challenge each other to love each other.”

The key, Epting said, is to create spaces for people to be human again, to socialize, to gather.

Some new places to gather will be available later this month, with outside seating coming to MacArthur’s Restaurant, 5412 W. Madison St., and Coleman’s, 5754 W. Chicago Ave., said Tina Augustus, who’s with the Austin Chamber of Commerce.

And “we’re creating arts and cultural spaces,” Augustus said, adding there will be “beautifully painted” planters made by Austin Artist in Resident Antonio Rupert and her team.

Events also are being planned at MacArthur’s, Coleman’s and in the 5900 block of West Chicago Avenue, now known as the Soul City Corridor.

“We’re working to create activities in different parts of the community so that we can bring more attention to the community,” Augustus said.

A kickoff event featuring the Austin Children’s Choir was held outside MacArthur’s on June 5 before a prayer walk through the Soul City Corridor.

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Tulsa’s Chicago connection and what we’ll never know

“I came not to Tulsa as many uck Franklin must have came, lured by the dream of sat in astonishment as he making money and bettering assisted the men and wommyself in the financial world, en of Tulsa’s all-Black but because of the wonderful Greenwood District, who co-operation I observed among had been escorted, at gunpoint, our people,” Parrish wrote. into a makeshift concentration Parrish had been in Greencamp. wood only a short time before As White Tulsans continued it was decimated. Had she to loot and burn property in and Franklin been there long Greenwood, the focus of the enough to sense the white repeople in charge had been on sentment that lay just beneath rounding up and interning the surface of this awesome Black people, instead of halting Commentary display of Black brilliance? and arresting the criminals In less than 24 hours, 35 who, in an orchestrated act of square blocks were destroyed, terror, were still laying siege including over 1,200 Black-owned homes, to Black-owned homes and businesses.

12 churches, a hospital, public library, During the brutal rampage, more than 300 people lost their lives and many more were school, and countless Black businesses.

There was looting, with reports that injured, as a mob of brazen armed white vehicles were backed up to Black people’s men, many of them deputized, roamed the homes from which white women jumped district on a killing spree. out to put clothes, jewelry and On the ground providing household items in bags, before disaster relief, the Red Cross the white men went in and immediately disputed the low hauled out the furniture and fatality numbers put forth other heavy items, like pianos. by town officials. Thousands In addition to the heavy of Black people were left shooting on the ground, homeless and the Red Cross including setting off a maindicated that many of them chine gun, there was an aerial spent months and even a year assault. Airplanes in the sky in tents. In the internment were “raining bullets” down camps, Blacks were issued and, according to Franklin’s identification cards and were eye-witness account of the unable to leave without a massacre, dropping incendiary white person’s approval. devices. He captured the scene A brilliant lawyer, Franklin BUCK FRANKLIN in his manuscript, which is in was new to Greenwood. He Tulsa attorney the possession of the Smithhad come with dreams of sonian’s National Museum of professional success that had African American History and lured many other Blacks to Culture. the District. Tulsa’s attractive“The side-walks were literally covered ness also lay in the cohesiveness of the with burning turpentine balls. I knew all community. too well where they came from, and I knew Mary E. Jones Parrish, a successful enall too well why every burning building trepreneur, educator and eyewitness to the first caught from the top,” Franklin reporttragedy who, in 1923, published, “Events ed. Some of the finest Americans lost their of the Tulsa Disaster,” a long-form jourlives during that horror. nalistic account of the massacre, wrote Dr. A.C. Jackson, acclaimed as one of the about that solidarity.

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SECRET SAUCE: Two Sisters Catering founder Veah Larde and the caramel apple cheesecake, her signature dessert.

Catering company brings sweet, savory soul to corridor

Two Sisters Catering opens grab-and-go restaurant in Soul City Corridor

By PASCAL SABINO Block Club Chicago

The Soul City Corridor coming to life on the West Side is home to a new Southern-inspired grab-and-go restaurant.

Two Sisters Catering made a name for itself in 2012 by serving sweet and savory soul food at West Side farmers markets, pop-ups and private events.

But after hearing from customers who wanted more of Two Sisters’ wraps, salads, drinks and desserts, founder Veah Larde has opened a brick-and-mortar restaurant at 4800 W. Chicago Ave., Suite 1.

“I can give people something that we don’t have on this strip,” Larde said. “We don’t have this kind of food. That makes me very proud.”

Larde grew up just blocks from her restaurant, which opened last month. She saw the area go through a decline as businesses and residents left Austin. As Chicago Avenue once again becomes part of Austin’s commercial backbone with several new businesses, including Two Sisters Catering, Larde is reminded of the vibrant community she lived in as a child.

“I know what this area used to look like,” Larde said. “I know what was here and how vibrant it was. To see it starting to take shape, that is so heartwarming.”

The revival of Chicago Avenue is led by Austin African American Business Networking Association Inc. It wants to rebrand the street as Soul City Corridor. The initiative would make the area a hub for Black culture and history on the West Side, Executive Director Malcolm Crawford said.

Crawford has worked for years to attract investment to Chicago Avenue and bring the Soul City Corridor to life. Those efforts are now bearing fruit, with several Black-owned businesses opening, including Soul City Stu-

dios, Forty Acres Fresh Market and Two Sisters Catering.

“I can tell that things are changing, and that the opportunity is now,” Crawford said.

Soul City Corridor will eventually be “a cultural enclave where people in the community and people outside the community can come and relax, eat the food, hear the music, walk safe streets and be excited about Chicago in the way others are excited about their community,” Crawford said.

Opening a brick-and-mortar restaurant wasn’t even on Larde’s radar, she said. But Rosie Dawson of the West Side Health Authority, a neighborhood group that owns several properties in the area, offered an opportunity.

“I tried some of her food, which was delicious,” Dawson said. “I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to get her feet wet.”

By bringing a restaurant to the area, Dawson hopes to increase foot traffic for local businesses and give residents more convenient options to enjoy themselves locally.

“We should not have to leave our neighborhoods to go to other places when we could be in our own neighborhood, enjoying what’s here,” Dawson said. “That’s the main goal, to make sure we have things in this community.”

The restaurant will have a hot food section with Southern staples such as chicken, greens and cornbread, as well as a cold section with sandwiches, wraps and salads. The drink menu will include Southern-style teas and lemonades infused with seasonal fruits like peach, cranberry and blackberry.

Larde is most passionate about baking, and her desserts — especially her caramel apple cheesecake — have been her bestsellers at farmers markets and pop-ups, she said.

“It is succulent, and it has my grandmother written all over it because it’s her caramel that I use,” she said. “The apples are soaked in … brandy to help wake up the flavors.”

Pascal Sabino is a Report for America corps member covering Austin, North Lawndale and Garfield Park for Block Club Chicago.

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Black leadership needs to take a stance

s one who has lived through the major historic moments of the 20th century, including the Jim Crow chapter of the Civil Rights Era, my hopes and aspirations for black people have been those of the words of Martin Luther King Jr. I, too, want us to be judged by the content of our character and not the color of our skin.

But in recent weeks, the actions of young black people going downtown and acting completely ignorant has made it hard to not look at the color of their skin because of the content of their character!

Traveling in packs, attacking innocent people who are walking down the street, pepper spraying people to rob them, attempting to carjack by either bumping rear bumpers or simply threatening them with and without weapons, fighting among themselves, and worst of all, a group of females twerking on top of a police vehicle.

How I wish I could sit those females down and show them all the indignations their grandmothers and great-grandmothers went through not to be viewed as sexual objects, only to have them to turn around and behave in an undignified manner that set many of the accomplishments we have achieved back several paces.

One would think with the black political leadership we have in the state, there would be a task force created to address the root causes of a lot of this behavior.

We have a Black lieutenant governor, a Black attorney general, a Black Cook County board president, a Black mayor, a Black police superintendent, a Black

head of CPS, but instead of focusing on how Black folks can achieve further, we have a certain segment of the community that seems hell-bent on continuing to become part of the criminal Justice system — as inmates!

What is even more disturbing is that Black political leadership is so quiet on the issue, as if their silence were itself a solution. Why is that?

At some point there’s going to be a breaking point and when it happens, I sure don’t want to see the parents on TV professing how good their children are. Even religious leadership has been silent. I think back to Rev. Meeks going out of his way to make Roseland a dry community, and it still hasn’t solved the issue. Where is Rev. Meeks today? Quieter than the church mouse!

Where is the leadership with solutions? Even if “A” doesn’t work, what about B, C or D? As I drive around the city, I see nothing but Help Wanted signs.

So the excuse of the past that lack of jobs was part of the problem, cannot be the truth because there are a plethora of jobs available.

Then there are the news reports about those who have previously been charged with a gun crime, let out on bail, and now they’re back in court with another case. When do we take seriously gun crimes, and use the power of everything we have to rain it down on these criminals?

Why are we tolerating bad behavior as if tolerance is going to change the spots on that leopard?

It is time our Black leadership band together to become the Black law and order group. Because until we take a stance against this wave of criminal activity, it is a mass that will only grow bigger.

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“It is time for Black leadership to band together to become the Black law and order group.”

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RESTAURANT Residents react from page 1 Daniel has worked as an accountant and a real estate agent and has some prior restaurant experience, she said. She purchased the building in October 2019 and went before the zoning board because a rooftop patio requires a special use permit.

“I wanted to purchase in the Austin area, because my family grew up there,” Daniels told the zoning board. “I wanted to kind of restore the community and hire some employees right within the community to bring back beauty to the Austin community.”

Daniels said that she wanted to bring a more formal dining experience to Austin.

While she said she didn’t want to share too many details, because she wanted it to be a surprise for the community, she said that the menu will include “some healthy options.”

“I don’t eat meat, so there will be some plant-based options,” Daniels added.

During the zoning board meeting, Daniels said that TNT restaurant will be open from 11 a.m. to midnight, Sunday through Wednesday, and from 11 a.m. to 2 a.m., Thursday through Sunday. The patio will close an hour earlier. She said that there will be music inside the restaurant and that she was planning to apply for permits to al-

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The proposed site of TNT Restaurant in Austin. low her to play music on the patio.

During the zoning board meeting, Daniels said she had support from nearby businesses and from SANA, which runs the Veteran Peace Garden directly west of the restaurant, at 5413 W. Madison St. She said that that she “spoke to the ladies that maintained the lot and they were excited that I

purchased [the building].”

Terry Redmond, SANA’s treasurer, who watched the meeting livestream, said in a follow-up interview that, while Daniels did speak to SANA president Cassandra Norman shortly after buying the property, she didn’t share any information about her plans. Redmond said she became aware of

the proposed restaurant after reading a letter Daniels sent out to nearby property owners as part of the special use application process.

Norman confirmed that Daniels spoke to her and Liz Abunaw, founder of Forty Acres Fresh Market, during the Oct. 4, 2019 pop-up event the market held at the garden, but she said could not recall Daniels mentioning any detailed plans for her business.

“A lot of neighbors are concerned with people double-parking,” Redmond said, adding that she was concerned that, if TNT Restaurant does end up serving liquor, customers “would start using the alley for … stuff.”

Daniels confirmed that she didn’t do any outreach to residents beyond sending out the required letters.

The Redmonds argued that Daniels could have done more. “[Daniels] never talked to the residents, never had a sit-down,” Terry Redmond said.

Tina Augustus, the current head of Austin Chamber of Commerce, said that Daniels never reached out to the chamber and that she was unaware of Daniels’ plan until contacted by Austin Weekly News. Daniels said she only reached out to neighboring businesses.

The zoning board unanimously approved Daniels’ special use application. She said that she hopes to have TNT Restaurant open no later than winter.

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Garfield Park Conservatory’s outdoor gardens now open The outdoor gardens opened to public on May 26, timed visits now available

By COMMUNITY EDITOR The Chicago Park District announced on May 27 that the Garfield Park Conservatory outdoor gardens are now open to the public.

The gardens opened on May 26, park district officials said in a statement released last month.

The reopening comes as the state moves deeper into the “Bridge” phase of reopening, which allows for higher capacity limits and longer business operating times.

The timed reservations that the Conservatory instituted earlier in the year will extend to its 10-acre outdoor campus, park district officials said.

“Visitors will now have access to the indoor global plant collection and the 10-acre outdoor gardens, which include the City Garden, Demonstration Garden, Bluestone Terrace and Sensory Garden,” officials explained.

“Reservations are added each day at 10 a.m., Wednesday through Sunday. Timed-entry will be available during the new hours of

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“Reservation blocks will increase from 60 minutes to 90 minutes to accommodate the expanded access to the outdoor garden space.

Online registration will be available at garfieldconservatory.org/visit.”

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Residents want to see library branch in redeveloped building Community members pushing for city to open library in West Homboldt Park’s Pioneer Bank building amid Invest South/West redevelopment

By IGOR STUDENKOV Contributing Reporter

As the city plans to redevelop West Humboldt Park’s Pioneer Bank, 4000 W. North Ave., the Nobel Neighbors community organization is pushing developers to include space for a new, larger North Pulaski branch library.

While the name reflects its original location near the North Avenue and Pulaski Road intersection, where the bank is located, it has moved twice since then. The current location is a few blocks west, at 4300 W. North Ave. Nobel Neighbors argue that, at 6,000 square feet, there isn’t enough room to accommodate the needs of families and students.

The Pioneer Bank is one of the properties the city is trying to redevelop as part of the Invest South/West initiative, inviting developers to submit proposals. As part of the process, developers got a list of recommended uses, which includes a new library branch. During the May 18 virtual meeting for the Chicago Public Library Board of Directors, library Commissioner Chris Brown said that he was open to the idea.

The city released a request for proposals for interested developers in late April, with the bids due on Aug. 31. In the meantime, Pioneer Bank, which sits at the northwest corner of the North/Pulaski intersection, opened in 2005 and continued operating as a bank under several different owners until closing in 2008. Jefferson Park-based Pulaski Investments, which purchased the building in 2015, struggled to attract development.

Under the Invest South/West initiative, the city has been trying to attract development to vacant, usually city-owned sites on major South and West side commercial corridors. With

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Residents want a new branch library inside of the Pioneer Bank building once it’s redeveloped. each project, the city creates an outline for what it would want to see at the site based on existing plans and feedback from residents, businesses and other stakeholders.

The Pioneer Bank RFP stated that bids should include “some or all” features from the list that included a new branch library, a community theater and/or other cultural space, a business incubator for entrepreneurs, an “empowerment center for youth and families with computer labs,” office space and local retail, among other features. Some of the features, such as meeting and study areas, could potentially be included in the branch library.

According to the North and Pulaski Historical Society, the North Pulaski branch library was originally located at 1672 N. Pulaski Rd. The library was subsequently moved to 4041 W. North Ave., but the building burned down on Dec. 25, 1989. The current location opened on June 15, 1996. While the library primarily serves the West Humboldt Park and Hermosa neigh-

borhoods, it also gets patrons from parts of Austin.

Nobel Neighbors was part of the original stakeholder group.

Nobel Neighbors board member Mindy Blanco, who currently lives in suburban Norridge, said that their priority is to make sure they are advocating for something the residents actually want. Her organization released a survey that showed the new North Pulaski branch library was one of the major priorities for residents who responded.

William Smiljani -Pérez, a West Humboldt Park native who currently lives in Galewood but remains involved with Nobel Neighbors, said that patrons have several issues with the current branch.

“What I’m hearing is that it isn’t large enough for families and for high school students,” he said.

Blanco said that she would like the North Pulaski branch to get study rooms, which are available in some larger, newer branch libraries, but not at any of the West Side branch libraries. She would like to see sections for kids, teens and adults, and a “sensory room” for kids whose sensory processing issues make the regular library environment overwhelming.

Blanco said that Nobel Neighbors has been attending every project-related meeting to keep track of the decisions and reiterate their priorities. When the group heard that the library board was having a meeting on May 18, they organized an email writing campaign to urge the board to support the new branch location.

During the meeting, Commissioner Brown acknowledged the emails, and said that the library was open to that possibility, but he didn’t explicitly commit to it. “[The Chicago Public Library system] has also expressed interest in relocating the North Pulaski branch and shared that interest [with the Chicago Department of Planning and Development], and [that] the community expressed preference for the Pioneer Bank,” he said. “Should the developer express interest in opening the branch, we’re open to discussing that opportunity.”

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Austin resident launches another bid for Congress

Kina Collins, endorsed by Justice Democrats, enters Democratic primary race against longtime incumbent Danny K. Davis

By MICHAEL ROMAIN

Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib and IIhan Omar — all of whom won their respective Congressional races and have Austin activist Kina Collins now become known collectively launched another bid for Conas “the squad.” gress on Tuesday outside of the In the 2020 Democratic primashuttered Emmet Elementary ry, Justice Democrats endorsed School, 5500 W. Madison St. Clark, a well-known Oak Park Collins ran in the March 17, activist and teacher.

2020 Democratic primary for the Collins is also endorsed by the 7th District U.S. House seat that’s Women’s March Illinois and the been occupied by Danny K. Davis Illinois Youth Climate Movesince 1997. ment. Last year, she was hired Davis garnered 60 percent of as executive director of the nonthe vote in a four-person race. profit Gun Violence Prevention Collins finished in second-place Education Center and Illinois with roughly 14 percent of the Council Against Handgun Viovote, followed by candidates Anlence. thony Clark and Kristine SchanCollins said that she decided bacher, who each garnered 13 perto run again after witnessing cent of the vote. what happened at Loretto HosAs she gears up for another KINA COLLINS pital in Austin, where hospital run, Collins has already gained executives were giving vaccines some early headwind, having meant for West Siders to people then knew outside of the landed major endorsements and national media coverage.

“This time around, I’m coming with the Justice Demo- community.

“To see that residents in Austin weren’t given an equitable crats endorsement, so we’re uniting locally and nationally,” Collins said during an interview on May 31. “We’re rollout and that corruption played a really big role in who going to do some aggressive fundraising and we’ll build ag- was able to get life-saving vaccines was a turning point for gressive people power. Davis has never had a serious chal- me,” Collins said. “I was expecting leadership. I was expecting leaders like Davis to ask for executives to step down and lenger like me.”

Justice Democrats is a national progressive political ac- clean house and that wasn’t what happened.”

Collins said she also garnered resident input during a tion committee best known for endorsing in 2018 Alexandria Editor

roughly month-long exploratory process, which included conversations with constituents in the 7th District.

During her press conference on June 1, Collins reintroduced herself and her biography to voters.

“I was born and raised in the South Austin neighborhood,” she said. “I’m a granddaughter and a great-granddaughter of the Great Migration. My grandparents came from the South fleeing Jim Crow laws, moved to the North for better opportunities and just found more sophisticated discrimination and racism. On the West Side of Chicago.

That is the story of many Black Chicagoans.”

Collins’s race has already generated headlines in a variety of national outlets, including CNN, Fox News and Huffington Post.

She said she launched her campaign outside of Emmet to symbolize what her campaign is attempting to rectify — the corporate Democratic policies instituted by politicians like former mayor Rahm Emanuel, who closed 50 schools during his tenure.

“I am a CPS graduate,” Collins said. “To have lived through the largest public school shut down in history was not only heartbreaking, it stunted the ability of our young people to thrive. Folks are feeling left behind.”

On June 1, Collins pointed at Emmet, saying “this is failed leadership and failed public policy,” adding that Emanuel was emboldened to close the schools because of the prevalence of charter schools, wealthy donors and because “rich people are writing our laws.”

Narrowing in on Davis, she said during the Congressman’s two decades in office, minority communities “have been left behind.”

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New Black-centric tours from page 1 nized by Gone Again Travels, which is Chicago’s first and only Black-owned travel agency storefront, founder Crystal Dyer said. It’s the group’s first Black history tour to also focus on food and local restaurants, she said.

Participants will visit historical sites like Epiphany Center for the Arts on the Near West Side, which was once a meeting spot for Fred Hampton and the Black Panther Party.

Tour-goers will also stop at several restaurants, including Schweet Cheesecake, 5248 W. Chicago Ave., and Two Sisters Catering, a grab-and-go soul food restaurant at 4800 W. Chicago Ave., Suite 1, founded by Austin native Veah Larde.

At some stops, restaurant owners will board the trolley to offer food samples and tell the stories of their roots in Austin, their cuisine and their businesses.

Many of the food choices selected for the tour feature “that sweet-home Chicago soul food, yet it has a healthier twist,” Dyer said.

Dyer planned the trolley tours as a fun-

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Gone Again Travel in the Austin neighborhood on May 24, 2021. draiser for Gone Again’s sister nonprofit, Chicago Austin Youth Travel Adventures, to fund trips for local youth to visit West Africa and to “to help the youth see further than the block they lived on.”

One participant of the youth program,

Cedric Stewart, had “never thought about traveling until I got into the program,” he said. The opportunity to take trips to places in the city he’d never been to or even heard of, like the DuSable Museum, has given Stewart a fresh perspective, he said.

“I thought I was just going to always be around my neighborhood, like that’s all there was with life. But since this program, I go out and about and try to do any and everything,” Stewart said.

Dyer has operated Black history tours for years to empower residents to “recreate the narrative” around their neighborhoods by unveiling stories of events, people and places in the area that inspire pride in the community.

“They never realized that was right here in their community,” Dyer said. “There’s so many ultra-achievers that never left our community. When they learn those different facts on the tours, it makes a whole different narrative.”

Dyer hopes her newest tour will encourage visitors to come to Austin and “bring more money into the community.”

“I want the people in Austin who have not traveled Austin to discover the beauty within. A lot of times we go outside our neighborhood looking for things they don’t realize are here,” she said.

Pascal Sabino is a Report for America corps member covering Austin, North Lawndale and Garfield Park for Block Club Chicago.

CONTACT: pascal@blockclubchi.org

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SUCCESSOR

BY MERGER TO WELLS FARGO BANK MINNESOTA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE F/K/A NORWEST BANK MINNESOTA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR STRUCTURED ASSET INVESTMENT LOAN TRUST, 2003-BC4 Plaintiff, -v.LESLIE WOLFE, CITY OF CHICAGO, AN ILLINOIS MUNICIPAL CORPORATION, 1ST FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTCHESTER, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, UNKNOWN OCCUPANTS Defendants 20 CH 200 1839 SOUTH KEELER 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 March 18, 2021, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on July 13, 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 1839 SOUTH KEELER AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60623 Property Index No. 16-22-411-0390000 The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

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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.

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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.

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For information, The sales clerk, LOGS Legal Group LLP Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301, Bannockburn, IL, 60015 (847) 291-1717 For information call between the hours of 1pm 3pm.. Please refer to file number 19-092360.

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