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Loretto workers threaten to strike
Around 180 Loretto Hospital workers could walk off job July 20 if wage, staffing demands not met By PASCAL SABINO Block Club Chicago
Essential workers at Loretto Hospital announced July 9 that they would strike if their demands for higher pay and better staffing are not met by the hospital. About 180 workers represented by SEIU Healthcare Illinois have been bargaining with Loretto since December, but say the hospital has not made efforts in good faith to meet their demands for better compensation and workplace rights. The union voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike that would begin July 20 if no progress is made. Union organizers said the collective action dubbed #StrikeForBlackLives would push the hospital to address the safety and wellbeing of both patients and workers at the hospital. Loretto’s frontline essential workers and the community served by the hospital are both predominantly Black and have long suffered from a lack of equity that has left them vulnerable to poverty, COVID-19 and other underlying illnesses union representatives said. “At Loretto, we see a lot of people whose health and lives are on the line because of accidents or shootings—but we see even more people whose lives are at risk because of poverty and stress,” said ER Tech Wellington Thomas. Some communities served by Loretto HosSee LORETTO on page 6
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IN FULL BLOOM: On July 11, members of the Austin/Adams Block Club organized volunteers to plant rose bushes and flowers at several corners along Austin Boulevard. Even Mayor Lori Lightfoot stopped by. See more photos on page 7.
Austin pastor affected by ‘trifold pandemic’ Rev. Ira Acree has contracted COVID-19, protested after George Floyd and buried a 13-year-old — all in less than three months By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor
On June 7, Rev. Ira Acree, the pastor of Greater St. John Bible Church, 1256 N. Waller Ave., walked to the pulpit of his
Austin church for the first time in several weeks. “Millions didn’t make it, but I am one of the ones who did,” Acree told a gathering of about a dozen masked and socially distant parishioners during a service that was streaming to a larger body of believers online. Acree had cause to rejoice. He and his wife had both contracted COVID-19 and lived to talk about the experience. Many Blacks across the country did not — including Adrew Betts, the chairman of Greater St. John’s deacon board. Betts died in early April. At the time, Acree stated that Betts’ death
“has left a great void in the leadership helm of our church and community.” Weeks later, while preaching on one Sunday in May, Acree began coughing. “I was feeling some kind of way up to Mother’s Day weekend,” Acree said during a phone interview on July 12. “I was in the pulpit doing virtual service with about seven or eight people in the building. My wife didn’t feel well that Sunday and had been recovering. At that point she thought it was the flu. And in the middle of my sermon, I started coughing. In this context, in this environment, when you cough or sneeze, everybody starts looking at you. I
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Austin teens turning liquor store into popup food market
The project aims to address the lack of healthy food options on the West Side, which is considered a food desert.
mie Ave. and turn the spot into a neighborhood food resource. Some of the pro athletes contributing to the cause included Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews, Bears quarterback Mitch Trubisky, White Sox pitcher Lucas Giolito, Cubs outfielder Jason Heyward and St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Paul Goldschmidt. Meanwhile, By the Hand worked with architects and placemaking firms to help the kids to figure out what the project would By PASCAL SABINO Block Club Chicago look like. The youth decided they would turn the A West Side liquor store is being trans- liquor store into a pop-up food market that formed into a pop-up food market after Aus- will sell fresh fruits, veggies and flowers. tin teens were given the chance to come up They are developing a curriculum for the with solutions to their neighborhood’s chal- pop-up in partnership with the Hatchery lenges. Chicago so the young Much of Austin people who run the is considered to be market can learn ena food desert. The trepreneurship and pop-up market will business skills like be opened at 423 N. licensing and cusLaramie Ave., and tomer service. The within a half-mile Hatchery will also radius around that create a culinary site there are 12 lipathways program quor stores but only so the project can Provided two markets where help young folks enpeople can buy fresh AN OASIS: A group of teens and athletes vision careers in the food. food industry. is turning this liquor store into a food The youth-led “We would have market pop-up. project got its start fresh fruits and vegwhen By the Hand etables, but it would Club for Kids held listening circles after the also be a place where people feel safe and George Floyd protests against police vio- want to hang out,” Travis said. “We could lence. Young people got to voice their feel- have some music and maybe we can do ings around the inequity that led to the lack some healthy cooking and nutrition demonof resources in their neighborhoods. They strations and education, because not everysaid they were frustrated the few grocery one knows or appreciates nutrition.” stores in the area had to shut their doors The partners on the project held a pilot temporarily after being looted. pop-up market at the liquor store to give “What I heard coming out of that was that the kids a chance to show the community students wanted to take all those raw and what their vision is. The young people were powerful emotions and turn them into some- joined by Chicago athletes, NFL Commisthing good and do something from a social sioner Roger Goodell, Ald. Emma Mitts justice standpoint,” said Donnita Travis, ex- (37th) and Mayor Lori Lightfoot, all of them ecutive director of the group. armed with sledgehammers as they kicked When presented with the chance to trans- off the process of tearing down the building. form one of the looted stores into a resource The building is set to be fully demolished for the community, “the kids took the idea in two weeks, and Travis hopes the pop-ups and ran with it,” Travis said. will begin running in August. The youth The project was also joined by local ath- will work at the pop-up market a few days letes, including the NFL’s Sam Acho, who a week and they will be paid for their work. wanted to help realize the young people’s “This is a real entrepreneurship opporvision for their neighborhood. tunity for them, but also an opportunity for “People care. It’s a time for people to show them to bring food justice to our neighborup. I think our world has changed,” Acho hood,” Travis said. said. “So for us to be able to come together Pascal Sabino is a Report for America and say we’re going to lead that change, it corps member covering Austin, North Lawnmeans something.” dale and Garfield Park for Block Club ChiAcho and the other athletes raised $500,000 cago. to tear down the liquor store at 423 N. Lara- CONTACT: pascal@blockclubchi.org
For many West Siders, July 4 was just a day
‘I celebrate June 19,’ one resident said By ZACH CUNNING AustinTalks
For many Austin residents, celebrating the Fourth of July means fireworks, lighting up the grill and time with family and friends, but not a celebration of independence. “I’m just celebrating because I got the day off,” said Khiana. She was sitting in a chair in the yard of her apartment building grilling ribs. “Independence Day, to be honest with you, isn’t really for Blacks … Black folks, you know, we celebrate it because it’s half our freedom, but it’s really not all of our freedom.” In front of Leamington Foods on Madison Street, James Vessel said “the Fourth of July is celebrating our independence from the British.” But that’s all. The Declaration of Independence, which officially severed ties between the 13 original colonies and the British Empire, was formally adopted by representatives from the 13 colonies on July 4, 1776. At least 34 of the 47 men who signed it owned slaves. “Juneteenth is Independence Day for African Americans,” Khiana said. June 19, 1865, was the day news of the Emancipation Proclamation reached Galveston, Texas, one of the most remote parts of the Confederacy. Also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day and Emancipation Day, the holiday celebrates the emancipation of those who were enslaved in the United States. On the sidewalk outside Columbus Park, Arthur Stevenson was selling T-shirts emblazoned with “Black Lives Matter,” “Say their names,” and “I can’t breathe” from a pop-up tent. He said he wasn’t celebrating July 4th in any way. “I celebrated June 19. That was my holi-
day that I celebrated,” he said. This year Juneteenth was widely celebrated across the U.S., just weeks after the killing of George Floyd by a now former Minnesota policeman. But while some West Side residents interviewed by AustinTalks view Juneteenth differently from the Fourth of July, at least one said July 4 is a time to spend with family. Rochelle Darden had two grills going on the sidewalk with a tent and benches set up on the edge of the street, so that anyone who wanted “to eat they can stop by and get them a plate,” she said. When her grandson tried to tell her that they weren’t celebrating the Fourth of July this year, she said “let me tell you one thing. Excuse my expression, but hell. I been celebrating the Fourth of July since I’ve known the Fourth of July, now you telling me I ain’t supposed to celebrate the Fourth of July? “Get real. You been celebrating the Fourth of July ever since you been in this world,” she said. To Darden, the point of celebrating the Fourth of July is getting to bring together family. “Every day should be a Fourth of July; it should be a gathering with your family, ’cause you here today and gone tomorrow,” she said. CONTACT: austintalks.org@gmail.com
INDEPENDENCE DAY?: An area resident soaks up some shade on July 4 in Austin. Bottom left, Arthur Stevens sells T-shirts at Columbus Park. AustinTalks
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Church launches community pop-up pantry
Third Unitarian Church partners with local institutions on pantry they plan to hold each Saturday this summer By MATEUSZ JANIK AustinTalks
About a month ago, members from Third Unitarian Church were thinking of ways to help other West Side residents during the COVID-19 pandemic and then they knew what they could do: starting a community pantry. “There’s a lot of desire to work on things right now,” said Carley Mostar, the church’s pantry coordinator. “We’re just trying to work with some of the people who are already doing it and just following their lead.” Within just a few weeks, Third Unitarian
talked over the idea of a community popup pantry within the church, including the Mayfield Community Garden team, People of Color Caucus and Social Action committee. Along with help from Praise Temple of Restoration, which distributed flyers and provided volunteers, and Thankful for Chicago, a nonprofit that provided supplies and guidance from their own experience with pop-up pantries, they were able to do a trial run on June 27. “It was just a couple of conversations and then some quick fundraising,” Mostar said. “That was a trial run, and we were hoping to go through at least August every Saturday.” During the trial run, Third Unitarian gave away food, household items, masks and hand sanitizers to about 40 residents. On Saturday, Third Unitarian Church, 301 N. Mayfield Ave., will officially launch the outdoor pop-up from 10 a.m to 12 p.m., with the goal of being in operation every Saturday this summer. “Everybody who came to set up is gonna
tell their neighbor and tell other people,” Mostar said. “We’ve kind of assumed that’s how word would spread and how people will hear about us, so we’re anticipating more people in the weeks to come.” The pantry will distribute non-perishables, such as canned goods and possibly fresh produce. There will also be household items available, including cleaning supplies, toilet paper, diapers, hand sanitizer and face masks. Mostar said there are no limits on how much residents take, and there are designated stations for residents to stay at a social distance while volunteers bag their items. “I believe that the church should be serving the community and helping the community to the best of our ability, because the church is really a spiritual hospital,” said Minister Larry Lawrence, senior pastor at Praise Temple of Restoration. Made up of about 120 members from across the Chicago area, Praise Temple of Restoration has been using space at Third Unitarian Church since before the COVID-19 closures.
Other food pantries that serve Austin each week year-round include: • Pine Avenue United Church at 1015 N Pine Ave., which distributes food on Tuesdays from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. For more information, contact Maxine McGhee at (773) 287-4777. • Circle Urban Ministries at 118 N. Central Ave., which distributes food on Wednesdays from 9 to 11 a.m. For more information, contact Darriel S. Anderson at (773) 921-1446. • Fraternite Notre Dame at 502 N. Central Ave., which distributes food on Wednesdays from 3 to 5 p.m. For more information, contact Mother Marie Martha at (773) 261-0101.
• St Martin De Porres Church Food Pantry at 5112 W. Washington Blvd., which distributes food on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Residents need to live within the service area of Lake on the north, Roosevelt on the south, Cicero on the east and Central to the west. For more information, contact Leon Williams at (773) 287-0206. • Heritage International Christian Church at 5320 W. North Ave., which distributes food on Thursdays from 6 to 8 p.m. For more information, contact Shirley Smith at (773) 237-9600.
• Healing Temple C.O.G.I.C. at 4941 W. Chicago Ave., which distributes food on Fridays from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. For more information, contact: Elizabeth Lockhart at (773) 626-9454.
• Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church at 1511 N. Long Ave., which distributes food on Saturdays from 8 to 10 a.m. For more information, contact Rev. C.J. Wright at (773) 637-4800.
• Hope Community Church Food Pantry at 5900 W. Iowa St., which distributes food to residents living in the 60644 and 60651 zip codes on Fridays from 12 to 2 p.m. For more information, call (708) 415-6077.
• For those living in the 60624 or 60644 zip code, food is available at Marillac House Food Pantry at 2859 W. Jackson Blvd. on Mondays from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.; Wednesdays from 3 to 6 p.m.; and Fridays from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. For more information, call (773) 584-4539.
• Kingdom Baptist Church at 301 N. Central Ave., which distributes food on Fridays from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. For more information, contact Debra Taylor at (773) 378-1255.
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• There is also a mobile pantry on the second Thursday of each month, from 4 to 6 p.m. For more information, call (773) 927-2243.
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HELPING HANDS: Left to right: Ashley Lu, of Thankful For Chicago, Lily Walls, of Third Unitarian Church, and Shakeesta Richardson, of Praise Temple, help distribute food at the new pop-up pantry at Third Unitarian Church. Lawrence said when he heard about the pop-up pantry, he realized it would be a good way to get members from Praise Temple of Restoration involved. “We brought supplies from our ministry as well as volunteers to help pass out flyers in the area and neighborhood,” Lawrence said. “It’s good for the community to see the church concerned about them and their needs.” Austin Coming Together will continue distributing food on Thursday, July 16, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at By The Hand Club for Kids, 415 N. Laramie Ave. Working alongside the Greater Chicago Food Depository, Austin Coming Together will be offering food boxes of meat, grains and fresh produce on a first-come, firstserved basis while supplies last. “Austin has needed more support since even before the pandemic. That’s why we’re currently in discussions with the city and Greater Chicago Food Depository on how to continue addressing the increased need for food access,” said Darnell Shields, executive director of Austin Coming Together. “Whether through more pop-up pantries or by helping to strengthen the capacity and reach of existing Austin food pantries, ACT will continue doing our best to bring resources to our community.” CONTACT: austintalks.org@gmail.com
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By ARLENE JONES Contributor
What is normalcy? For far too many young Black people, gunshots, bullets and death is their daily reality and their normalcy. They talk about it like it’s no big deal. Even those of us who are older have come to accept the weekend and now daily shooting victims’ count and death toll without even blinking an eye. Because it has become so common and accepted, that is the reason that I advocate that the mayor bring in the National Guard. It is time for a lockdown against the criminal element that is creating corridors of terror throughout the city. From babies in the womb, to babies in their car seat, to babies who think they’re safe in the confines of their homes, the wildly shot bullet has caught and killed them. It has become so common, that a lot of people don’t know what it’s like to have a weekend without murder(s). That is
another reason why I advocate bringing out the National Guard. We need to correct the mindset that believes murder has to be a part of everyday life. It will start with a day without a murder. Then two days. Then three days and then a week and even months. Soon it will be normal to not hear gunshots. Then, normal will be children able to go outside and play, free from the barrage of wildly shot bullets by individuals who pass out the death penalty, but don’t want it placed upon themselves. Then, it will be normal not to hear of someone dying because of a bullet. Then, death can return to what it should be. The natural end of life after a long life lived! To accomplish such an idealistic goal will require the kind of visionary leadership that rarely is displayed in the Black community. Why is that? I never hear of anybody Black running for office on a law-and-order platform? We keep empowering the criminal element
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by constantly coming up with excuses for them. And they reward us by finding even more havoc to wreak. Lastly, the havoc the ninjas wreaked by looting all over the city of Chicago, including the very first Walmart in the city, now has that store closed until the end of the year. In the days following the looting, many were quick to backhandedly defend the actions by talking about “N’surance.” The notion being that all the looted items the people got and the destruction that they generated was going to be covered by some magnificent “N’surance” that would give tons of money to the businesses to replace all that was stolen.
Not! Insurance is about taking risks. But the insurance companies don’t take risks that they haven’t analyzed to the nth degree. Therefore, riots are not covered in those policies. So once and for all, please stop the notion that insurance is going to replace the loss. The goods that were stolen will have to be covered by the businesses. Many of them may not recover. And even though Walmart is one of the richest companies in the world, it only operates on about a 4 percent profit margin. Yes, 4 percent! May not seem like a lot until you’re looking at billions being sold.
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In eye of storms from page 1 was embarrassed.” After his wife tested positive for COVID-19, Acree said he immediately assumed he also had the disease, as well. But the pastor said it took some coaxing from his mother for him to get tested, which he did three days after his wife’s diagnosis. “For my wife, it was almost like a piece of cake,” Acree said. “She had, like, two to three days that were bad before she was 95 percent recovered. I had breathing challenges. I did a lot of coughing, I had diarrhea, couldn’t keep anything on my stomach and lost a lot of weight. But I feel fortunate that I didn’t break down. I was shaken, but not shattered.” After recovering and emerging from quarantine, Acree confronted yet another world-historic crisis. In late May and early June, after peaceful demonstrations swelled in cities across the country to protest the May 25 death of George Floyd, a wave of opportunistic looting and vandalism followed. Many West Side businesses, including grocery stores and pharmacies, closed as a result. Greater St. John opened its doors several days a week after the looting to allow area residents to get food. The George Floyd demonstrations continued. One group of West Side pastors and community leaders planned a protest march on Sunday, June 7, from City of David Church, 5624 W. Division St., to the Chicago Police Department’s 15th District headquarters, 5701 W. Madison St. A West Side protest march, however, would not be the same without Acree, who had made up his mind that he would cut back on his physical activity for his own wellbeing and for the wellbeing of his followers. “For one, I wasn’t physically as strong as I needed to be,” he said. “Second, I have influence. As a leader, some people
SURVIVORS: Rev. Ira Acree and his wife returned to church in early June after both recovered from COVID-19. Acree has witnessed upclose the devastation of the coronavirus pandemic, the uprising over George Floyd and the gun violence that has wreaked havoc on Austin in the wake of calls for police reform. Shanel Romain
will follow you to hell and back, because they believe in you. I didn’t want to take advantage of those people. I thought it would be reckless to bring people out and make them feel compelled to come, as if it was this righteous thing they had to do.” But then, Acree said, he had what he calls a revelation. “That Saturday before the march, I couldn’t sleep,” he said. “A revelation came to mind that I hadn’t even thought of and it was simply this: You will not march for the civil rights issue of your day and time? Police reform? This is on your watch and your reason for not doing it is because you don’t want to put other people’s life or health at risk. “But with every civil rights issue, there have been people who cared and advocated and risked their health and even their life — whether Harriet Tubman or Nat Turner or those who were attacked by dogs and sprayed by water hoses. People’s safety, health and lives were at risk.” And so, on June 7, Acree — joined by Congressman Danny K. Davis and other local clergy, elected officials and community leaders — marched from City of David to the police station. Two weeks later, on Father’s Day, Acree stood at the corner of Central and Ohio avenues to speak out at against the murder of 3-year-old Mekhi James, who was fatally shot on the Austin block where Acree stood the day before. The toddler was shot in the back by someone in a blue Honda who had allegedly been aiming for James’ 27-year-old father, according to Chicago Police. At the June 21 press conference, Acree and other members of the Leaders Network, the ecumenical faith-based organization he co-chairs with Rev. Marshall Hatch, to announce a $5,000 reward for any information leading to the toddler’s murderer. “We say his name! Mekhi James! His life matters, as well,” said Hatch, who lost his sister and his best friend to COVID-19. “None of us can go forward with a simple Father’s Day dinner without coming to this corner
on the block where this baby lost his life in what really is a scandalous crime.” On July 3, Acree opened his church for the funeral of Amaria Jones, the 13-year-old girl who was killed by a stray bullet while showing her mother dance moves inside of their Austin home. Acree said that while the family doesn’t attend his church, he allowed them to have the funeral at Greater St. John, anyway — something that wasn’t easy given social distancing requirements. Acree said that he’s gotten six more
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funeral requests, but his church simply doesn’t have the bandwidth to comply with the constant cleaning and regular social distance monitoring, among other critical rituals that constitute mourning in a pandemic. On July 12, Acree said that he’s really been living through a “trifold pandemic,” which he added later could be called a “four-way pandemic,” when the crisis of gun violence is added to the tripartite threat of COVID-19, systemic racism and economic pain. On the first Sunday in June, when he returned to the pulpit for the first time since recovering from COVID-19, Acree said that he’d been given a second chance at life, another opportunity to talk about the much deeper pain affecting African Americans — something his congregants attested to, as well. “We’ve been going through this for quite some time, but I think this pandemic made things different,” said Jonathan Todd, a political activist in Austin who attends Greater St. John. “People were stuck in the house and they couldn’t escape what they had normally been escaping, because seeing Laquan McDonald get shot 16 times is no different than George Floyd getting a knee on his neck. The difference is that now people had to see it. But what actions are we going to take to keep us from resorting back to [that pre-pandemic complacency]?” “We talk about COVID-19,” said Acree, “but we’ve been in a pandemic since 1619.” CONTACT: michael@austinweeklynews.com
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North Lawndale to get $7M development
Ogden Commons to include affordable housing, restaurants, retail and ambulatory surgery care center run by Sinai Health System By PASCAL SABINO Block Club Chicago
When COVID-19 swept across the city, it fell especially hard on Black communities on the South and West Sides. But those health inequalities were always there — the pandemic simply amplified them. Now the city is attempting to address the lack of access to clinical care that has caused an abundance of chronic health conditions that made Black people particularly vulnerable to developing severe complications related to COVID-19. On the West Side, the city has directed $7 million in CARES Act funding towards the Ogden Commons development, which was driven by local residents and organizations as part of the North Lawndale Quality of Life Plan. Ogden Commons will be built on mostly vacant land on the 2600-2700 blocks of West Ogden Avenue and include affordable housing, restaurants and retail space anchored by an ambulatory surgery center run by Sinai Health System. The center would aim to increase health access by expanding outpatient care as well
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Jumpword subhed from page 1 pital face a life expectancy 16 years shorter than in wealthier white communities like Streeterville. Union members said Loretto’s low wages contribute to the social circumstances that lead to these health disparities. “Investing in Black lives and Black communities like Austin isn’t just about investing in medical supplies and or in operating budgets,” said Greg Kelley, head of SEIU Healthcare Illinois. “It’s also about investing in a workforce so that folks who provide care can also take care of themselves and their families. It means paying decent enough wages.” Kelley said the strike would be a last resort, and that the union hopes it does not come to that. Beyond wage increases, employees are demanding more staffing to alleviate shortages that have left them overworked and underpaid. “A human body can only take working so
as wraparound services like childcare, access to nutritious foods, banking and transit options that make it easier to prioritize medical needs. The ambulatory and surgical center would be a one-stop-shop for community members to take care of all their health needs without having to be hospitalized. According to the hospital’s COO Airica Steed, the focus on convenience and outpatient services makes clinical care much more accessible to patients. That also makes them much more likely to prioritize wellness and preventative care, which can reduce the prevalence of chronic illness. “Our ultimate goal is to prevent unnecessary hospitalization, focus on prevention and wellness, and to afford access to convenient care and services right there and in the communities,” Steed said. Responsive to the needs of community members who developed Ogden Commons in partnership, the ambulatory center will include a multi-specialty outpatient surgery center, a renal dialysis center and a program for digestive health. The center will also have a concierge nursing service to help patients navigate their healthcare journey. The concierge service will help with transportation, emotional support, financial counseling and nutrition guidance. Ogden Commons is designed to incorporate affordable housing, public art, restaurants and retail space, which Steed said will help tackle the social determinants of health disparities. “This entire project addresses the holistic person. Not just the healthcare needs, but the mental and psychological needs and the
quality of life as a whole,” Steed said. Access to clinical care alone does not explain the tremendous gap in health outcomes between Black communities on the West Side and more affluent white communities. Employment, quality education, access to food, walkability, greening and other factors play a big role in health, according to a study by the Department of Population Health at the NYU School of Medicine. The study found life expectancy for residents living in parts of the West Side is a staggering 16 years shorter than those living in Streeterville. That “death gap” translated into poor health outcomes for West Side pa-
tients infected with COVID-19. Across Chicago and Illinois, the mortality rate for COVID-19 patients is around 4.5 percent. But according to hospital data, the communities served by Sinai had mortality rates of 17 percent. “This is simply unacceptable,” said Sinai’s President and CEO Karen Teitelbaum. “The heavier burden of illness in our communities of color must be addressed, and has been Sinai’s mission for a century.” Pascal Sabino is a Report for America corps member covering Austin, North Lawndale and Garfield Park for Block Club Chicago. CONTACT: pascal@blockclubchi.org
many hours without rest. Can only take so much stress, can only take so much work. And if you don’t get paid enough for the work you do, you have to work more than one job,” Thomas said. “If you’re always short staffed, you have to do the work of more than one person.” Thomas said being overworked, juggling multiple jobs and the anxiety of struggling
to makes ends meet has contributed to high blood pressure and other chronic illness that makes him and other staffers more vulnerable to COVID-19. Hospital representatives said they have made every effort to meet the demands of workers. But as a safety net hospital, Loretto has limited resources and can’t afford across-the-board wage increases at the level
requested by the union. Instead the hospital has offered performance-based annual raises. “We feel we have offered them favorable terms especially in light of what is going on in the economic environment,” said Mark Walker, the hospital’s director of community relations. According to Walker the hospital has been proactive in making sure that no layoffs occurred during the pandemic, whereas many other hospitals did furlough employees. Frontline workers fighting COVID were also given hazard pay. Walker said the hospital hopes to avoid any disruption in services to the community because of the strike, especially since the West Side has been disproportionately affected by the pandemic. “We are doing everything in our power to negotiating in good faith,” Walker said. “Our basic mission is to remain open to serve this community and we hope to be able to do so and not have to limit any services or go on bypass because of the strike.” 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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COMING SOON: A rendering shows what the Ogden Commons project could look like.
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CLOSE TO WALKING OUT: SEIU Healthcare Illinois President Greg Kelley announces the strike authorization at Loretto Hospital.
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AROUND TOWN: Tina Augustus, a longtime Austin resident and president of the Austin/ Adams Block Club, gives Mayor Lori Lightfoot a tour of the group’s beautification efforts on July 11. Augustus formed the club last year with Cardean Jenkins, her best friend and next door neighbor. Jenkins is the club’s vice president. Alex Rogals/Staff Photographer
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Four Austin businesses awarded city grants Total of $717,320 awarded to Avery and Pryor Construction, DLV Printing Service, L. May Creations and T&C Fitness Club By ZACH CUNNING AustinTalks
Avery and Pryor Construction, DLV Printing Service, L. May Creations and T&C Fitness Club will be receiving grants from the Chicago’s Neighborhood Opportunity Fund. A total of $5.4 million will be distributed to 32 businesses across the city to support commercial corridors in Chicago’s underserved neighborhoods. Business and property owners may apply for grant funding “to pay for the construction or rehabilitation of real estate and projects that support new or expanding businesses or cultural assets.” The four Austin businesses are being awarded a total of $717,320. The opportunity fund was started in 2016 under Mayor Rahm Emanuel to encourage development in specific economic and priority areas on the West, Southwest and South Sides. DLV Printing Service, 5825 W. Corcoran Place, will be receiving $67,320. They will be using the money to make upgrades to their building. “We have an area here that is basically in the raw in the back, so we’re going to renovate it and make it useful space now,” President and cofounder Vernita Johnson said. Johnson said DLV – which shut down March 17 due to the pandemic and reopened May 18 – had to make a shift away from their usual projects, such as T-shirts for family gatherings and baseball team uniforms, to banners. Everyone needs “banners to say we’re open now and (have) curbside pickup; we just switched over,” she said. DLV also received a $10,000 grant from West Side United to buy a machine to make banners. Latrusia May, the owner of private event space L. May Creations, 5936 W. Chicago Ave., plans to open an upscale soul food restaurant next door to L. May Creations, along the Soul City Corridor. May said she has a name for the restaurant but is keeping it under wraps. L. May Creations – which was awarded $250,000 to develop the building that will house the restaurant – has been closed during the pandemic. But thanks to her building’s large patio, May said she should be able to start doing events again in the next week. The only other aid she applied for during the pandemic was a loan through the federal Paycheck Protection Program, but May said she “wasn’t able to get that for some reason.” Malcolm Crawford, executive director for the Austin African American Business Association, noted in May that only a few businesses that are part of AAABNA were able to get loans through the PPP. Latrusia May is a member of AAABNA’s board. Cornelius Coe and Katrina Ferrell are opening T&C Fitness Club at 5906-10 W. Chicago Ave. They were awarded $150,000 to acquire the building and renovate it into an “updated and modern version of a good fitness center where our hardworking community people and youth can be able to go and utilize,” Coe said. He envisions a small version of an XSport or LA Fitness with up-to-date treadmills and equipment, as well as a small sauna and showers. Coe’s smoothie business, C2 Smoothies, would also be incorporated into the gym. Businesses are required to finalize plans and construction budgets and get contractor bids before the city disperses their funds. A complete list of all 32 of this year’s awardees, as well as those who received funding in past years, is available here: https:// neighborhoodopportunityfund.com/awardees/. CONTACT: austintalks.org@gmail.com
Garfield Park Conservatory reopens gradually
West Garfield Park institution reopens outdoor gardens to non-members July 15 By IGOR STUDENKOV Contributing Reporter
Monze Martinez, of Clearing, and Enrique Frores, of Logan Square, came to the Garfield Park Conservatory last Sunday afternoon, hoping to get into its iconic greenhouses, only to discover that all the indoor spaces were closed. The outdoor gardens were open, so they ended up on the west end of the City Garden, the largest of the outdoor gardens, where they got a good view of the vast green lawn. “This kind of makes up for the closed greenhouses,” said Martinez while she painted the surrounding landscape. “It’s a nice place to relax and enjoy the view,” Flores added. On July 15, the Garfield Park Conservatory’s outdoor gardens will reopen to the public, albeit with restrictions. The gardens opened to members on July 8. To ensure that the gardens don’t become too crowded, the conservatory requires visitors to make a reservation ahead of time. Conservatory officials explained it may be a while before the institution’s indoor spaces reopen. The date for reopening the interior spaces hasn’t been set, but once that happens, visitors will need to reserve their spots as well, and they won’t be able to
stay for more than 90 minutes. Like other Chicago Park District indoor facilities, the conservatory has been closed since Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s stay-at home order took effect in March. On July 1, the conservatory started mailing out Neighbor Pass postcards to all households living within half a mile of it. Anyone who presented the postcards could visit all outdoor gardens except the Play and Grow children’s play area. When the conservatory building reopens to the public, visitors will have to make reservations, according to the organization’s website. In addition, visitors will only be able to stay for up to 90 minutes and they won’t be able to reserve a spot after 5:30 p.m. The conservatory will be open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and it will be closed on Mondays and Tuesdays for staff days. The foundation and the park district already canceled all in-person activities and events through the end of 2020. On July 12, around 10 to 12 people at any given time walked around and looked at the plants, while others relaxed. Some, like Martinez and Flores, came to paint. Shannon Burch, of Lincoln Park, said that she is no stranger to the outdoor gardens, but it was her first time painting here. She recently started painting landscapes and thought a visit to the conservatory would provide some artistic inspiration. “It’s great to have something natural in the city and see people enjoying nature,” Burch said. She said she was looking forward to when the greenhouses reopen. CONTACT: igorst3@hotmail.com
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OPENING AGAIN SOON: The Garfield Park Conservatory before it closed earlier this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The West Side institution is gradually reopening to the public.
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As marijuana sales boom, minority applicants wait
State’s lead marijuana advisor says things may move by September for social equity applicants By JERRY NOWICKI Capitol News Illinois
SPRINGFIELD — One of the few things unaffected by the coronavirus pandemic’s presence in Illinois has been recreational marijuana sales. The $47.6 million spent on the product in June was the highest single-month amount since recreational marijuana use became legal at the beginning of the year, and sales have increased each month since February even amid strict stay-at-home orders. Still, while sales boom, the facets of the landmark legalization law that were put in place specifically to diversify the largely white male-dominated industry have not moved forward as planned. A round of dispensary licenses scheduled for release on May 1, as well as craft grower and other licenses scheduled to be granted July 1, have been indefinitely delayed. Toi Hutchinson, a former state senator and Gov. JB Pritzker’s lead cannabis policy advisor, said the state is doing all it can to expedite the licensing process but the pandemic created a “perfect storm.” That has led to the delays for application filers and a third-party grader that was enlisted to make sure nobody gets an undue leg up in the application process. “That’s one piece, but the other piece is that all government shut down,” Hutchinson said in a phone call July 8. “It didn’t stop the work but it’s slowed it… People had to
figure out how to do what it is we needed to do on almost hourly basis for a novel virus that we didn’t see coming.” As one of the strongest advocates for the law’s social equity measures while she served in the Senate, Hutchinson said she was acutely aware of the setbacks caused to the groups the legislation was designed to help enter the market. The social equity applicants — those whose majority ownership stakes include persons disproportionately impacted by the war on drugs — have been especially left in the lurch as their expenses mount and clarity as to when licenses will be released is lacking. On July 9, Hutchinson gave a ballpark date as to when the applicants might have that clarity. “Well, we know that by the date that we filed the permanent rule for the tiebreaker scenario…will be in place in September,” she said. “The minute those things are in place we can go to the tiebreaker phase.” She added, “We’re coming to the end part of the arc.” “I just really want people to stay as encouraged as possible because we know how hard this was, and we know how difficult it was and we know how much people really are watching to see how this... and it’s not just us here — the world is watching,” Hutchinson said. One of those social equity applicants that will be watching is R. Lawrence Hatchett, a physician in the southern Illinois town of Marion. He’s the lead investor of a social equity applicant group organized under the
name Cannabliss Supply Co. Hatchett’s diverse group of investors say they are dedicated to “creating new jobs for those long unable to access the American Dream and building up communities that have suffered from years of disinvestment.” The group submitted 10 applications for dispensaries, many in downstate Illinois and some in the suburbs of Chicago. The team also applied for two craft grow licenses, even though they can only be granted one in the first round of applications. But with the money the group has spent — Hatchett invested $200,000 of his own money into the project — and no resolution of licensing in sight, Hatchett said, a feeling of “anxiety” has pervaded the business endeavor. “And we’re sort of at the point of no return as a social equity applicant, meaning we now are like a plane that’s gone beyond — we can’t go back for fuel,” he said in a phone interview last week. Hatchett said stablished marijuana companies have the branding advantage, have been selling medicinally for years and had first crack at secondary site locations when the new law was passed. While Hutchinson said a goal was to make applications simple enough so that applicants didn’t incur major expenses – such as hiring experts – in order to file them, Hatchett said that’s not been the case for groups like his. There’s a $5,000 fee per each application submitted to the state, and Cannabliss Supply Co. also incurred legal fees, hired lobbyists and paid for some
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graphic design branding work. “You’d be surprised how much we have to spend. First of all the application process, to write it, and to the people that we had to hire,” he said. “And then the lobbyists, we had to make sure we did all the right things, that we didn’t fall on a sword right from beginning.” Hutchinson said that while the original bill was written so that new licenses would be granted on a staggered timeline — first dispensaries, then craft growers — that schedule “was obliterated with the delays.” “If you just look at the timeline for when the permanent rule goes into effect for the tiebreaker scenario on the dispensary, it’s gonna fall around the same time that the craft grow thing happens. So, I think what we’re gonna see is a lot of activity at one time,” she said. Hatchett said his group will likely need to hear good news in both categories to be able to compete with the existing players. “If I don’t get multiple locations, I may not be able to have pricing and economy of scale, so I’m gonna have to go maybe pay more than my competitors for the same product as some of these grow facilities until, hopefully, we will also win a cultivation craft license to grow our own,” he said. Hutchinson said capitalism in general favors those who already have greater means, and while one of the goals of the legalization law was to disrupt the existing industry, it’s going to take more than six months for it to come to fruition. “It is very difficult to compete in a world where you have some vertical operations and some independent operations,” she said. “That’s absolutely a fact. And moving forward, there may be things that the Legislature will try to enact. There may be certain areas that individual cities and counties will try to enact… None of us can afford to be naive about the fact that this industry had a 10-year head start before Illinois became the 11th state (to legalize marijuana) and tried to figure out how to disrupt it.” Two of the other social equity measures — mass expungements for nonviolent marijuana-related convictions and the R3 (Restore, Reinvest and Renew) fund to invest in disproportionately impacted communities — are on pace as planned, she said. “We have obviously collected a lot of tax revenue in the six months that this has been operational,” Hutchinson said. “And we have every intention of making sure that that money that’s supposed to go to the R3 program is targeted to the communities that have been hit the hardest by the war on drugs.” While courts were shut down or slowed by the pandemic, Hutchinson said the five-year timeline of addressing more than 700,000 convictions or arrest records was still on track. CONTACT: michael@austinweeklynews.com
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