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Area’s Black lawmakers ready for a fight

Historic opening seen for passing equitable laws with teeth

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

In 1989, the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with Disabilities Act, or BEP, was adopted into law in Illinois. The act intended to eliminate the barriers that had been blocking small businesses owned by historically disadvantaged minorities from receiving state contracts.

“That’s a state law, but you wouldn’t know it,” said Illinois Senate Majority Leader Kimberly Lightford (4th), who represents parts of the West Side. “These are some of the things that have blown my mind.”

Lightford and members of the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus, which she chairs, believe they are governing in a uniquely unprecedented moment — when laws and policies that are as monumental as the historic challenges they seek to remedy stand a good chance of passing.

Before George Floyd’s death in May prompted a national racial reckoning, laws like the BEP Act were par for the course — big in name only, Lightford said.

Some two decades after that law passed, the percentage of the state budget spent with Blackowned businesses is one-tenth of 1 percent, according to data in a 2018 Fair Practices in Contracting Task Force report.

Even the creation of the task force, which former Gov. Bruce Rauner formed in 2016 with no power to enforce the lofty goals in the BEP Act, was largely symbolic, Lightford argues. In 2018, as Rauner was running for re-election, the senator blasted the former governor’s motivations for See LAWMAKERS on page 5

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Community policing expanding on South, West sides

Program entails officers interacting more with residents and sharing their phone numbers and emails so they can deal with non-emergency issues.

By KELLY BAUER Block Club Chicago

The Police Department is expanding its neighborhood policing program to three more parts of Chicago.

The program focuses on appointing district coordination officers who meet face-to-face with residents and give

them their emails and phone numbers.

Residents can contact the officers about non-emergency issues instead of calling 911.

The program was piloted in the 25th District on the Northwest Side and will soon start in the 9th, 10th and 11th districts on the South and West sides, Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Police Supt.

David Brown announced Thursday.

Training for officers and supervisors will begin in September and they’ll start their work in the fall.

“This is what policing is and should be,” Brown said at a press conference.

“Community policing is perhaps the most

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A house in Austin

A resident shares her memories of living on the West Side

By JACQUELYN DORTCH Contributor

One day my grandmother, Dorothy Faye Holley, came home and called a family meeting. I was 9 when she informed the family that she had been successful in purchasing a three-flat, and we would be moving.

There were eight of us living in a one-bedroom apartment, so we were thrilled. I remember us screaming and dancing at this news. We had so much fun packing and getting prepared for our new space. There we would have our own apartment and our own bedrooms.

I remember being in the car with my grandmother. We were headed over to see the new place – in Austin. When we pulled up to this big green house, I felt my eyes widen. It was unbelievable. We had a back yard, neighbors, a porch – it was amazing.

The green house would serve as the family hub. A place where my grandmother, my family, my aunt (Betty) and her children and other extended family would come to reside.

My brothers and I could not wait to complete our chores so we could go outside in the back yard. My brothers had a basketball rim. We had a driveway, where I could jump double-dutch. In the wintertime, we had a basement where we could gather and play.

There are so many stories to be told about our time here in this home. I will share some of my favorites. At one point, every adult was working the night shift. My grandmother, my great aunt, my mom and dad were all working overnight.

That meant we would be home alone. Me and all the boys, my two brothers and two first cousins, would be home alone at least five nights each week. We were all anywhere from 8 to 13 years of age.

We would pretend to be asleep when our parents were leaving for work. After making sure they were gone, we would get up to watch TV, eat cereal, and our favorite pastime was playing hide and seek all over the building.

One night we were playing hide and seek. I hid behind the sofa and happened to peer out of the window. I noticed my grandmother, mom, and aunt were walking back toward the house.

I started to run and shout, “They are coming back; they are walking; something is wrong.” I ran to get back into the bed. My brothers thought I was kidding. But then they could see I was serious. We narrowly escaped getting caught.

I remember Sunday mornings getting

She knew everyone’s financial situation, so she made rent affordable. To meet the obligations of the building mortgage and utilities, my grandmother often worked double shifts.

She worked as a nursing assistant making just $3.35 an hour. I vividly remember because I would cash her paycheck at the currency exchange and secure money orders to pay her bills. At times, she would only have $20 left after paying bills, buying groceries, paying tithes and buying a bus card.

There were times when we didn’t see our grandmother. She was gone when we left for school and still working by the time we got home. If she did come home in between shifts, she was sleeping, and we had to be quiet. It hurt to see her working so hard, but that is who she was; she would do anything to keep the green house.

I recall one time, when things were particularly rough. My dad had been laid off from his job. My mom was working part-time while going to nursing school, and my aunt was not employed. We were just about out of food.

We were waiting for Mama to come home from work and cash her check so that we could get some groceries. We had syrup sandwiches for breakfast. For those who don’t know, that consists of bread and syrup.

My grandmother was going to stay at work because it had snowed so much that by the time she navigated the bus to come home, it would be time for her to go back. We were in a quandary because we needed her money for groceries.

She suggested we ride the bus to her job to get the money, but that would take too long.

She then suggested we borrow money from a neighbor. My mother and aunt decided to do something different. We went on a manhunt for loose Provided change in the house.

We looked in old purses JACQUI DORTCH’S WEST SIDE: Top left, the author, Jacqui and in couch seat cushions.

Dortch, at 9 years old. Top right, Dorothy Faye Holley, We emptied our piggy

ready for church. My grandmother would cook bacon, rice and toast. There is nothing special about this breakfast, but no one could cook white rice like Mama. It was fluffy, buttery and just good! There would be gospel music playing all through the house; we sang and danced as we prepared for church.

Family holidays were the best. We lived on the first floor, while my grandmother and aunt lived on the second floor. A good family friend resided on the third floor. During holidays you could smell food coming from each apartment.

We were up and down the stairs taking ingredients to the cooks.

Being the only girl in the house, I had to help cook. I would always protest. I told them I didn’t need to learn to cook because I was going to have a maid. We would listen to music while chopping, seasoning and cooking. These were some of the best times with the matriarchs in my family, my grandmother, mom and Aunt Betty.

My grandmother was the owner and proprietor of this family dynasty. The threeflat was divided into three apartments; however, the heating system was just one unit. That meant my grandmother carried the cost of heating the building. She charged below-market rent because we were family.

Dortch’s grandmother. Below, some of Dortch’s relatives.

banks. Slowly but surely, we were adding up money. I have always been resourceful and frugal. I had earned some money babysitting for my cousin, braiding hair and cleaning garages.

I had at least $40, but I could not let them know this. I went into my secret stash and got $15.

I strategically placed the money where others could find it so that it appeared to come from this hunt for money.

We scraped together roughly $30.

My aunt, my cousin and I walked a mile to the grocery store. We purchased a few cans of salmon croquettes, rice, biscuits, cookies, chips and soda. That turned out to be one of my most memorable times with my mother and aunt.

We ate heartily as we laid on the living room floor watching Family Classics, a television series designed for family viewing. Later that day, when the snow stopped, we took the bus to meet my grandmother at work and to take her some food. We sat in the visitor’s lounge and had dinner with my grandmother.

These times were priceless.

My brother got married at the green house, my mother used to have church there, my grandmother sold candy from the house, and we babysat neighborhood kids there.

What may seem like just bricks and mortar was more than a foundation for the frame of the house. It was the foundation where our character, spiritual integrity and moral convictions were built and cultivated.

We spent countless hours sitting on the porch entertaining company. Our porch was never empty. People would drive by and see someone outside, and they would stop. This was the hub for family, friends and fun.

Jacquelyn (Jacqui) Dortch was born on the West Side of Chicago in historical K-town.

When she was 9, her family moved to Austin to pursue better schools and a safer environment in which to raise their children. Jacqui remained in Austin until she purchased her own home in the western suburbs. She has committed her life and career to work and advocate for the people of color who reside in disenfranchised communities. For more about Jacqui’s life, read her story at http://www. maryjomama.com.

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RAISING AWARENESS: Congressman Davis’ Aug. 15 Education & Census Caravan featured cars, trucks, buses, motorcycles and more vehicles recessing through the West Side in order to raise awareness about the upcoming 2020 Census. Participants got free face masks, books, computers and school supplies.

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Community focus from page 1 important tool” police can implement.

Still, the program is coming amid national and local calls for police departments to be defunded and for cities to put fewer officers on the streets.

Police hope the program will lead to increased trust between officers and residents and fewer calls to 911 for nonurgent public safety issues.

When the program starts, the police districts will be broken down into groups of three police beats, with two officers assigned to each group. Community Policing Chief Angel Novalez said their goal is for officers to spend at least 80 percent of their time working in those beats.

The officers will talk with residents in person to build trust and share information, officials said. They’ll be given cellphones so residents can call and email them at any time instead of calling 911 for non-emergency matters.

The district coordination officers will work to solve those problems with the help of other police, the alderman, area businesses and city officials, Novalez said. The Police Department will also hold meetings to engage with residents.

Officers have to apply for the positions,

and the department will give extra consideration to officers who are applying to be a district coordination officer for an area they’re from, Novalez said.

During the trial in the 25th District, the program led to a drop in 911 calls, which means officers had more time to connect with the community and solve problems, Brown said.

The program could eventually be expanded across the city, Lightfoot said, but officials will first focus on getting resources to areas that have the “largest challenges.”

“It means more collaboration, more connection and more trust,” Lightfoot said. “All of which has given both residents and officers the basis to build authentic relationships, which is at the heart of community Courtesy Chicago Police Department policing.”

Lightfoot and Brown have EXPANDING EFFORTS: Police Supt. David Brown and Mayor Lori Lightfoot announce an expansion of pushed back on demands to community policing initiatives on August 20. defund police. Instead, the to a district’s community policing office “No single program will solve every mayor has said, the city should invest more in health and social services will go through the three-day training to problem or bridge every divide between and should make reforms within the Police learn about the history of the communities our police and community, issues that have in which they police and will meet local been brewing for years,” Lightfoot said. But, Department she said, the city needs to address issues One of those reforms is coming soon, leaders.

The academy was organized with local in a “forward-thinking, positive way” with Lightfoot said Thursday: A Community Training Academy is being tested in the 9th, organizations like the Metropolitan Peace stakeholders.

10th and 11th districts. Officers assigned Academy and will start as a pilot program.

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LAWMAKERS Equitable laws from page 1 signing an executive order similar to the one creating the task force.

“Records show that in January 2015, Gov. Rauner announced an executive order studying barriers in contracting for minority businesses,” Lightford’s office explained in a statement released that year.

“Then in November 2015, the Rauner administration secretly waived minority participation requirements for a $94 million state contract. … In 2016, we established the Fair Practices in Contracting Task Force. Here we are two years later, conveniently when the governor’s running for re-election, he signs another order to address the same disparities — I’m tired of the political games.”

Lightford may be at the peak of her powers heading into the November veto session, which marks a sudden turn of the tide. In May, not long after she narrowly lost a historic bid to become Senate President to Oak Park Sen. Don Harmon (38th), Lightford resigned as chairperson of the Black Caucus — only to be reinstated in July.

“Since I initially offered my resignation as chairman of the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus, the world has changed,” Lightford said at the time. “And here in Illinois we too have a historic opportunity before us to bring about change, but it will not last forever.”

“I think the George Floyd murder has brought the caucus, and Black people in general, together,” said state Rep. Emanuel “Chris” Welch (7th), who was influential in

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persuading Lightford to continue as chairperson of the caucus.

“I think Leader Lightford’s returning as our chair is an indication of that,” Welch added. “This is not a time to be divided. It’s a time to be united.”

In July, Lightford stated that the caucus was firmly united behind addressing “four pillars of issues where change is desperately needed: Criminal justice reform; violence reduction and police accountability; health care and human services; economic access, equity and opportunity; and education and workforce development.”

Last week, Lightford said the caucus is preparing to file the first of a series of bills meant to fundamentally address those issues. The bills will be heard in joint committee hearings in November, she said.

One of the most significant proposals the caucus is working on is the creation of an oversight body that can actually enforce legislation like the BEP Act, Lightford said.

“We’re in a moment in time where we can use our leverage to ensure we do everything we can to remove systemic racism and oppression,” she said. “There has been quite a bit of legislation, that the Black Caucus has pushed for, that has never been implemented. We have to have accountability and there has to be that hammer, that oversight, ensuring that if you don’t follow the law, this happens to you.”

In the last several months, Welch has introduced a flurry of proposals designed to push the state to take more seriously its ostensible goals of addressing systemic racism.

Earlier this month, he wrote an open letter to Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, urging him to take enforcement action

MAKING DEMANDS: State Sen. Kimberly. Lightford speaks at a Juneteenth rally in Broadview earlier this year. Lightford, Welch (pictured in the Black Lives Matter t-shirt) and other members of the Black Caucus say they’re going to November’s veto session in Springfield prepared to fight for a range of equity-related proposals. against Medicaid providers that fail to meet contracting goals for minority- and womenowned business.

Welch sent the letter to Raul a month after he sent Gov. J.B. Pritzker an open letter, “imploring the governor’s administration to prevent social equity licenses from being awarded to companies with straw ownership schemes,” according to a statement Welch’s office released in July.

Welch referenced a Cincinnati Enquirer report showing that the state of Ohio had busted a number of straw ownership schemes in which companies posed as Blackowned businesses to try to secure marijuana dispensary licenses.

Welch has also been vocal about racial inequities in the banking industries and college athletics. Earlier this month, he sent letters to executives at some of the largest banks in the Chicago area, urging them to release data on their contracts with Blackowned businesses. And last year, he sponsored a bill that would allow student-athletes in Illinois, many of whom are Black, to earn compensation from the use of their name, image or likeness.

Last week, Welch said that Blacks are “just being left out across the board,” adding that a recent retreat of Black Caucus members “recognized what our power is.”

“They’re going to learn very quickly that things won’t make it out of committee if the dollars aren’t flowing into our communities,”

he said. “They can doubt us if they want to, but we’re more invigorated than ever.”

State Representatives La Shawn K. Ford (8th) and Camille Y. Lilly (78th), both of whom are also members of the Black Caucus, struck a similar note of resolve during a press conference, Aug. 12, in the wake of the looting that broke out on the Magnificent Mile on Aug. 10.

“Our social polices don’t take into account human rights,” Lilly said. “Those issues are not being taken into account, which our young people are looking at. … We have failed generations for decades.”

“After that last round of looting last week in Chicago, I believe now more than ever that Black people are hurting and we need to help,” Ford said, before calling for more resources in Black communities to deal with issues like mental health, behavioral health and substance abuse disorder.

Last week, Lightford was not understated in describing just how monumental an opportunity Black lawmakers have in the months ahead.

“This chance we have, everybody is watching,” she said. “This is biblical. This is it. I saw every nationality on those [marches] with signs saying ‘Black Lives Matter’ or ‘Enough is Enough’ or ‘I can’t breathe’ or no ‘Justice, No Peace’. … We have a charge.

We have to develop a strong pathway toward transforming our community.”

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‘Moving’ alone is never the solution

have been watching the Tyler Perry production, “The Haves and the Have Nots” (THHN) on Hulu. I am only on season 3, which means that the original episode that fascinated me probably aired initially around 2015.

So the portion of the plot I want to discuss today is only eligible to be labeled “spoiler alert” only if someone has never seen the series at all. So if you’re one of those folks, stop reading now or accept the fact you are going to learn something very minor about one of the series’ plots.

The protagonist in THHN is a beautiful young African-American character named Candace Young. After successfully blackmailing a character for over 7 million dollars, she immediately moves to an upscale part of town where she buys a gorgeous home. She has an antagonist in a Karen-type neighbor who has been fixated on watching Candace’s every move since she arrived in the neighborhood.

That neighbor has been monitoring

all the comings and goings of those who entered Candace’s house. And truthfully, some of the characters from the hood do visit Candace which allows that nosy neighbor to be a complication when a situation occurs within Candace’s home. In a scene where the “Karen” neighbor speaks to one of Candace’s friends, the neighbor tells the friend they (the neighborhood) don’t want that kind of activity (even though she doesn’t really know what’s going on) in the neighborhood. I immediately became fixated on that because far too often in the black community, we believe that moving away from the problem solves it.

That scene brought to mind a similar situation that is currently ongoing here in the Chicagoland area.

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Terrace Wallace wants to move 25 boys that are under his care via his InZone Project who come from most likely trouble backgrounds, into a Barrington Hills mansion. The suburb has been fighting that move by delaying authorization for it to happen. Right now charges of racism have been bandied about.

But just like in THHN, all moving did was to bring the problem to the area. So the question is: Is moving the solution?

It is a complicated question and an even more complicated response. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air series showed that a troubled youth can move to a new environment and adapt. But that troubled youth had a family that could support him as he made the adjustments in his lifestyle. I don’t fault the Inzone Project for wanting to offer better opportunities to those 25 young males. But is it fair to question how many of those 25 want to change or will simply just bring their problems with them? And that’s not a popular or politically correct

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viewpoint. For those that want to denigrate me for asking this, just look at the situation with Oprah Winfrey and her “adopted” son.

She spent a plethora of money and gave him opportunity after opportunity, but the lure of the hood and his family’s non-supportive ways hindered his opportunity for change.

I remember reading a news story over 40 years ago about a young lady from a rough area of New York. She was offered the opportunity to attend a prestigious boarding school, but couldn’t deal with the quietness of that environment. She missed the environment of the streets that she had been accustomed to. And that’s the devil in the room that we all have to face when we move to a “better” environment. We must address whether we want to leave behind the activities and cultures that have not served us well in some regards, to assimilate into the new environment. But simply moving without addressing the issues head on will not solve the problem.

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Siblings raise more than $53K to help area small businesses Charles and Mercedes Pickett’s grassroots grant campaign reaches Oak Park

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

In June, as businesses across the Chicago area reeled from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and civil unrest following the death of George Floyd, two West Side siblings took matters into their own hands and started a GoFundMe campaign.

A couple months and more than 700 donors later, the campaign created by Charles Pickett and his sister, Mercedes Pickett, has generated more than $53,000, which the siblings distributed to 26 small businesses in the Chicago area -- including one in Oak Park.

The Picketts gave small businesses operating within the city $1,700 each and $500 each to small businesses outside of Chicago, such as Dream Body LLC, a licensed massage therapy company located at 816 S. Oak Park Ave. in Oak Park, according to its website.

The owners of the company could not be contacted for comment on Monday.

Eleven businesses in Austin and 15 businesses in the Garfield Park and Humboldt Park communities received $1,700 grants, the Picketts said.

“We were pushing so hard and requesting donations to make sure that every business that sought help was able to get a grant, and we also followed up with each business and

gave them a mini brochure of available resources,” said Charles, 25.

“Save the West Side started on June 1 with the GoFundMe campaign, but it hasn’t ended,” said Mercedes, 28.

“We received so much support in and out of the city.”

The Picketts said that their movement differs from other government and private assistance initiatives in that what they’re doing is powered by grassroots organizations and community members who “are on the ground not just leading the charge, but doing the work … We want to be a bridge to connect organizations that Courtesy Charles Pickett/Facebook are doing the work with the Mercedes Pickett, far left , and her brother Charles (pictured in the Nike T-shirt), pose with ENTERPRISING: people seeking help.”

The Picketts, who live volunteers after a West Side cleanup. The siblings have raised thousands of dollars to give to small businesses. in the Garfield Park/Humboldt Park area, aren’t new to doing the that’s in a state of emergency and to bridge for the West Side.

And on Aug. 30, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., at 4281 W. work. In 2016, Mercedes founded Earth’s the gap between low-income communities Remedies, an organization that shares free like Austin and relatively affluent commu- Washington Blvd. in Chicago, Earth’s Remedies will give out free book bags, school supeducation, career, health, financial and con- nities like Oak Park.

In addition to giving out grants to small plies, baby supplies and groceries. flict de-escalation resources to marginalized Masks and temperature checks are rebusinesses, the siblings also lent a hand, communities on the West Side.

Mercedes is the organization’s chief archi- literally, going around to area businesses to quired at both events. For more information tect while Charles serves as vice president clean up in the wake of the looting and van- on either the upcoming events or Earth’s Remedies in general, email to remedies. dalism that happened in June. and chief business development director. earth@gmail.com.

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Anthony Travis, 66, the ‘Tax Doctor’

On his self-education

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

In 2018, North Lawndale native Anthony Travis, 66, found himself paying more in property twice as much in property taxes than he should have been paying due to the value of his home. The experience, he said, inspired him to research the source of his plight. Two years later, Travis, who currently resides in the suburbs, is called the “Tax Doctor” for his homegrown expertise.

Earlier this month, he spoke about his experience, his personal education and his ideas for reform.

On his situation with his home What happened to me was my mortgage company decided they would put the property up for auction and I went downtown to the sale and they put the house up for sale for $24,000. There were no takers, so the property went back to the mortgage company.

Even though the property was worth

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DOING HIS HOMEWORK: Anthony Travis, second from left, is known as the “Tax Doctor.” $24,000, they taxed it as if it was worth $60,000or $70,000-something dollars and I had to live with that. To show you how corrupt the system is, if you didn’t have a major law firm like Michael Madigan and them guys, you’re not going to get the type of help you think you need. Whereas they were giving some people a 1 percent or maybe 2 percent reduction, those folk [represented by well-connected lawyers] were getting big time help, because they were paying people who had the inside track. And, in turn, those people turned and around kicked millions to [former Cook

County Assessor Joe Berrios] campaign and that was the pay-to-play system, but if we got rid of property taxes altogether, we wouldn’t have to worry about that.

So, you’re on the state’s Property Tax Relief Task Force?

Yes, a coalition I’m part of was appointed

by Rep. Mary Flowers. We were at initial hearings downtown and we spoke at the hearing and Mary was so impressed that she tapped us to join her sub-committee and we put the best report that Springfield ever seen.

Once I started going through this madness with Berrios and the [Cook County] Board of Review, and I saw how they played games with taxpayers I got fed up and I started doing my research and I became known as the “Tax Doctor.”

I pride myself on that. I learned one thing and that’s you have to study. You have to study. So that you can analyze this stuff. I was interviewed about maybe three or four weeks ago by a student from DePaul University. She took a class in school finance and she sent me an email and a text saying that her teacher, the professor, was so impressed by me that she would like for me to come and speak at some of her classes.

On a growing political apparatus I’m in communication with different women who have organizations and I’ve asked them let’s put together a woman’s movement against property taxes, so a lot of these folks got this report, they’re reading it and a lot are agreeing with what’s in the report.

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What are we to do?

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or a few hours last week, the political circus that is the party of Donald Trump and Fox News took their show to the West Side and bastardized the very notion of Black liberation.

During a “Back the Blue” rally in North Lawndale, a group of Republican Party political candidates converged on a vacant lot to unwittingly broadcast their racism to those who cared to witness the spectacle.

The lot was across the street from the Chicago Police Department’s notorious Homan Square facility, where Black and Brown residents were tortured during interrogations, according to a 2015 report by the Guardian newspaper. The police denied the allegation, but a year after the report, community activists converged on the vacant lot to protest police abuses — both alleged and quite apparent.

For 41 days in 2016, a year after the Laquan McDonald tape rocked Chicago, the activists transformed the space into what they called Freedom Square. They setup a makeshift kitchen for cooking and a small free library space for reading. Young children, yearning for direction, wandered in and out of the lot.

Freedom Square was a demonstration of the sane libertarianism and anarchosyndicalism practiced by people like Noam Chomsky, who in a 2013 interview described anarchism primarily as “a tendency that is suspicious and skeptical of domination, authority, and hierarchy. It seeks structures of hierarchy and domination in human life over the whole range, extending from, say, patriarchal families, to, say, imperial systems, and it asks whether those systems are justified. Their authority is not self-justifying.”

Last week, those Republican politicians, most of whom came from the suburbs or other parts of the city, blasted Democratic elected officials like Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, blaming them for the recent civil unrest. The Republicans didn’t seem to understand their gathering’s underlying cruelty and fetid indifference to human suffering. They confused the anarchy of Freedom Square with the inherent chaos that is just a projection of their nihilistic political philosophy.

Theresa Raborn, a Republican running for Congress, told an Austin Weekly News reporter that “we need to back the police” because they’re the “thin blue line between the civilized society and total anarchy,” as if Donald Trump did not exist.

Yesoe Yoon, a Skokie Republican running for a seat in the Illinois House, told Austin Weekly News that Blacks needed “a little education” and that “we have to give them

a better value system, so they aren’t influenced by Marxist ideas.”

That rally reflects today’s Republican Party — populated by kooks, conspiracy theorists, authoritarians, psychopaths and sycophants who are no longer the party’s fringe but its very nucleus.

But the Democratic Party, effectively the country’s last remaining governing party, is not a much better alternative for many Blacks who don’t feel included or well represented in the party’s governance.

Earlier this month, I interviewed Joshua Flynn, a Black Libertarian who lives in Austin.

Flynn is running against state Rep. Camille Y. Lilly (78th).

He believes government is bad and the free market is not free enough, apparently.

Flynn is a former Democrat who got fed up with the party’s corruption, pointing to Toni Preckwinkle’s soda tax (which he thinks was an undue burden on residents of the West Side) and Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan as some of the emblems of that corruption.

It’s unfortunate that so many Black leaders searching for political empowerment are so lacking in political education that might allow them to imagine more humane political alternatives to the current Red/ Blue dualism. Too many fall for the Okey Doke.

“I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement in the U.S. that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough,” Christopher Hitchens once said of American Libertarians.

The United States, Chomsky explains, is “off the spectrum of the main tradition in this respect: what’s called ‘libertarianism’ here is unbridled capitalism.”

Anthony Travis, who pays twice as much property tax on his South Suburban home because of a corrupt property tax assessment system run by Democrats, said the party’s corruption has also turned him

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Haway — but not toward another party. Not yet, at least.

He might best be considered an independent who is Democratically aligned. He’d like to see property taxes abolished in favor of a more equitable way of funding the government, which he doesn’t believe is fundamentally bad or fundamentally good.

Taxation is necessary in a modern society, but the process should be fair, he believes.

“The key is you have to shift the burden,” Travis told me. “If property taxes are destroying your community, does it make sense to have property taxes as a vehicle or do you make a shift in how you raise revenue?”

Travis, a former Comcast worker who says he was fired by the company for trying to unionize, is an organic intellectual, a natural leader searching for a constituency outside of his party.

Meanwhile, within the party, even the biggest Black powerbrokers are frustrated and believe that if change doesn’t happen now, it may never come.

Last week, Senate Majority Leader Kimberly Lightford vented about this year’s $34.5 billion budget passed by a Democratic House, a Democratic Senate and a Democratic governor.

“All you hear about is the $500 million we had to fight over to make sure that the human services needs [of Blacks] were addressed, but what about the other $34 billion that went out the door, that we’re constantly being denied,” she said. “There’s no equity in anything that deals with economics.”

Larry Ivory, chairman of the Illinois Black Chamber of Commerce, who was appointed by former Gov. Bruce Rauner to be a member of the state’s Fair Practices in Contracting Task Force, constantly laments that the percentage of the state’s budget spent on contracts with Black-owned businesses is one-tenth of 1 percent.

But this striking racial inequity won’t change without a fight. Economic racism is bipartisan and those benefitting from the status quo will be united across party lines to try and defeat whatever measures are

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designed to upset it.

A case in point is the late Maynard Jackson, Atlanta’s first Black mayor who was perhaps the nation’s most successful politician at radically recalibrating a government contracting system so that it tilts away from systemic racism and more toward equity.

In 1974, according to Black Enterprise, Jackson told the city’s business elite that he was “going to move forward with the expansion of Hartsfield Airport, transforming one of the nation’s busiest airports into an international hub. Then, he dropped the bombshell: 25 percent of all contracts would be set aside for minority firms.”

The blowback was swift, with some business people claiming that Jackson’s goal was illegal. Jackson, however, pushed back, telling the city’s white business establishment that it could have 75 percent of a $450 million expansion project or 100 percent of nothing, Black Enterprise reported.

“The result: Jackson increased the percentage of contracts to minorities from less than 1 percent in 1973 to roughly 39 percent five years later. In the process, he strengthened the black middle class [and] created scores of black millionaires.”

Jackson, an attorney by profession, was rewarded for his success by being blackballed once he left office. According to his New York Times obituary, “no local law firm offered him a job. Instead, he set up a local office as a bond lawyer for a Chicago firm.”

Jackson’s experience shows just how lonely it can get in the fight for substantive change, which is why coalitions and mature, disciplined political philosophies are so important. But when one of the major political parties is bat-shit insane and the other is chronically inadequate and always slow to respond to our most pressing, most substantial needs, what should Black people seeking systemic change through the political system do?

Any thoughts are welcome.

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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR GSAMP TRUST 2006-HE1 Plaintiff, -v.JERMAINE BEARD, CITY OF CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF WATER, HARRIS N.A., CITY OF CHICAGO, NHS REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND CLAIMANTS Defendants 18 CH 09518 1049 S. MAYFIELD AVENUE CHICAGO, IL 60644 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 16, 2020, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on September 3, 2020, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1049 S. MAYFIELD AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60644 Property Index No. 16-17-407-0160000 The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $250,909.08.

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 â&#x20AC;&#x153;AS ISâ&#x20AC;? condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

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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, Alexander Potestivo, POTESTIVO & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 223 WEST JACKSON BLVD, STE 610, Chicago, IL, 60606 (312) 263-0003.

Please refer to file number 111928.

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.

POTESTIVO & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 223 WEST JACKSON BLVD, STE 610 Chicago IL, 60606 312-263-0003 E-Mail: ilpleadings@potestivolaw. com Attorney File No. 111928 Attorney Code. 43932 Case Number: 18 CH 09518 TJSC#: 40-368 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 # 18 CH 09518 I3152201

0000 The real estate is improved with a single family home with no garage.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

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

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

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

MCCALLA RAYMER LEIBERT PIERCE, LLC One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200 Chicago IL, 60602 312-346-9088

E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com Attorney File No. 268864 Attorney ARDC No. 61256 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 2019 CH 03632 TJSC#: 40-713 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 03632 I3151929

tion to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 16-14-108-028-0000.

Commonly known as 3906 West Gladys Street, Chicago, IL 60624.

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

For information call Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (614) 220-5611. 19-042344 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION intercountyjudicialsales.com I3154213

CHICAGO, IL 60651 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on March 27, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on October 7, 2020, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1342 NORTH MASSASOIT, CHICAGO, IL 60651 Property Index No. 16-05-220-0180000 The real estate is improved with a brown brick, two story multi unit home with a detached two car garage.

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

subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identifica-

tion issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

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

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

MCCALLA RAYMER LEIBERT PIERCE, LLC One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200 Chicago IL, 60602 312-346-9088 E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com Attorney File No. 264856 Attorney ARDC No. 61256 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 18 CH 09239 TJSC#: 39-2183 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 # 18 CH 09239 I3153652

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC Plaintiff, -v.TERRANCE JONES, DEBRA JONES AS NEXT FRIEND OF T.J., A MINOR, DRMS, INC., UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF TERIE JONES, IF ANY, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, GERALD NORDGREN, SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DECEASED MORTGAGOR, TERIE JONES Defendants 2019 CH 03632 601 NORTH RIDGEWAY AVENUE CHICAGO, IL 60624 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 29, 2020, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on September 23, 2020, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 601 NORTH RIDGEWAY AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60624 Property Index No. 16-11-115-016-

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION SELECT PORTFOLIO SERVICING INC.; Plaintiff, vs.

CECILIA FRANCISCO AKA CECILIA N. FRANCISCO; FIRST AMERICAN BANK ILLINOIS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY AND OFELIA FRANCISCO; Defendants, 19 CH 8679 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, September 15, 2020 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 16-04-215-013-0000.

Commonly known as 4821 West Hirsch Street, Chicago, IL 60651.

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

For information call Mr. Matthew C. Abad at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Kluever Law Group, 225 West Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois 60606. (312) 236-0077. SPS000215-19FC1 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION intercountyjudicialsales.com I3153816 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION DITECH FINANCIAL LLC; Plaintiff, vs.

HAROLD T. ROBINSON; LIBERTY BANK AND TRUST COMPANY FKA COVENANT BANK; COOK COUNTY; THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, OFFICE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 17 CH 14629 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Monday, September 21, 2020 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auc-

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION CILICI, LLC Plaintiff, -v.TORAMY CAMPBELL, CAPITAL ONE BANK (USA), N.A., URBAN PARTNERSHIP BANK Defendants 18 CH 09239 1342 NORTH MASSASOIT

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