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Documentary about West Side rowing team screened in Austin “A Most Beautiful Thing” and subsequent online discussion also screened in Oak Park By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor
Last Friday, the One Earth Film Festival, the Parks Foundation and the Park District of Oak Park hosted a screening of the recently released documentary film, “A Most Beautiful Thing,” at the Kehrein Center of the Arts, 5628 W. Washington Blvd. in Austin. Another screening of the documentary was held simultaneously on the grounds of Cheney Mansion in Oak Park, where about 50 people sitting 6 feet apart took in the story of the first Black high school rowing team in the nation. Afterward, Reesheda Graham Washington, of RGW Consulting and Live Cafe & Creative Space, facilitated a virtual panel discussion that included Arshay Cooper, one of the film’s subjects and an author whose book serves as the basis for the film. The park district’s screening of “A Most Beautiful Thing” comes amid a years-long effort by the Park District of Oak Park and leading community members to build a new indoor recreation center in the village and as Grace and Peace Church and By The Hand Club for Kids prepare to break ground on the North Austin Community Center, which is set to open next year. The documentary works in the vein of Steve James — the longtime Oak Parker whose See SCREENING on page 9
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TELLING THEIR STORY: Jonathan Kelley and Chelsea Ridley are co-founders of the Lawndale Pop-Up Spot. Kelley said that the popup exhibit, called “Lawndale: A Living History” is about appreciating the community’s history while it’s here.
West Side elders honored in outdoor living history exhibit “It’s about appreciating history while it’s here,” said Jonathan Kelley, co-founder of the Lawndale Pop-Up Spot at 16th and Spaulding.
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A new exhibit at the Lawndale Pop-Up Spot taps into one of the most valuable resources the West Side has to offer: the wisdom of elders who spent much of their lives in the neighborhood.
The elders whose portraits are featured in the “Lawndale: A Living History” exhibit have seen the neighborhood undergo many transformations. Their collective memory is put on display at the pop-up gallery to educate younger generations on the neighborhood’s history.
“I never knew that Dr. King even spoke here, so I learned something new,” said DeJa Smith, who lives nearby the Spaulding Memorial Garden at 16th Street and Spaulding Avenue where the gallery is set up.
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SCALING UP: The leaders of five West Side organizations who were selected to receive funding from the Chicago Blackhawks Foundation and A Better Chicago discuss how they’ll spend the money during a Zoom press conference held Sept. 28.
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Blackhawks Foundation, A Better Chicago teamed on investment goes to childcare, healthcare, other initiatives By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor
Five West Side organizations are poised to receive significant funding from two Chicago philanthropies. During press conference held Sept. 28 over Zoom, the Chicago Blackhawks Foundation and A Better Chicago announced that they’ll invest at least $2 million over three years in an inaugural cohort of grantees that have a variety of pilot programs and initiatives they’ll develop with the money. The Austin Childcare Providers Network is seeking to develop a pilot curriculum to enhance the pre-K to kindergarten experience of young people on the West Side. The Bloc provides a positive outlet for young people through boxing, mentoring and academic coaching. West Side United’s Cluster of Care Community Hub will provide students and families with comprehensive services within se-
lected West Side schools. Firehouse Community Arts Center’s VIP Program will focus on providing skills training and employment opportunities for atrisk young adult men. And the MAAFA Redemption Project provides at-risk young adult men with comprehensive support — from leadership development and housing to employment opportunities. “Chicago has such a strong civic infrastructure made up of philanthropic, nonprofit, private and public sector leaders, and we hope this effort will inspire future collaboration across the sectors and other industries and spur more investments in leaders like our cohort of grantees.” Beth Swanson, the CEO of A Better Chicago — an organization the helps raise money through public donations and directs the funding to low-income, under-resourced communities — said she hopes the collaboration with the Black Hawks Foundation “will inspire future collaboration across sectors and industries, and spur more investments in leaders like our cohort of grantees.” “One West Side is about coming together to invest in those who know their communities best: leaders from the West Side, creating opportunity for the West Side,” stated Sara Guderyahn, the executive director of the Chicago Blackhawks Foundation and
vice president of Community for the Chicago Blackhawks. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said during Monday’s Zoom press conference that the collaboration will work to address some of the systemic issues that the COVID-19 pandemic have exacerbated. “Over these past few months, the COVID-19 crisis has exposed the deep, generation fissures in the fabric of our city, which impacts access to healthcare, jobs, education, childcare and so much more,” she said. Ruth Kimble, the executive director of the Austin Childcare Provider Network, said on Monday that the collaboration’s funding will allow her to develop her pilot initiative “across the city … and to have this as a model, because it’s needed.” Marshall Hatch, Jr., who heads up the MAAFA Redemption Project, said that his organization’s long-term vision is that “residents here and now are still here” and that “we see structural changes necessary in the city.” Ayesha Jaco, West Side United’s executive director, said that the funding will help her organization meet its goal of “decreasing the 14-year life expectancy gap that exists between Chicago’s Loop and 10 West Side communities.”
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Vacant lots in Austin transformed
Spaces on Latrobe Avenue being transformed with help of architecture students By ZACH CUNNING AustinTalks
When they started, the garden was a literal dump. Seven years ago, Patricia Hart and her husband, Robert, moved into their house in Austin. The vacant space across the street, three lots at 645, 649 and 651 N. Latrobe Ave., was being used as a dumping ground for tires and home remodeling waste. Hart said she got in touch with Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation and asked: “Could they come in, move the stuff, and they did and people kept dumping.” Four years ago, she discovered Cook County owned the land, so Hart started the paperwork to buy the lots. After nearly three years that included her being required to survey the land and resolving a dispute with a neighbor who initially refused to remove an encroaching fence, Hart and her husband got ownership
of the land and started working to turn it into a garden last year. Between herself, her husband and her sons, Hart said they cleared the area of the neighbor’s fence and some 13 trees. The trees became wood chips for the garden. After clearing the land, Hart decided she needed a pergola for the garden. She reached
out to Human Scale, who she had worked with in Englewood’s Veteran Garden, for help in designing and executing the project. Human Scale was formed in 2017 by four architecture students who were studying at the University of Illinois at Chicago. They realized their architecture could be used as a tool for social change, said Aylen Pacheco, Human Scale’s project manager for Hart Peace Community Garden and one of the founding members. When Human Scale started working on Hart’s garden, it quickly grew from the original plan for a small shade structure into a much larger endeavor, Pacheco said. The project was split into two phases. The first phase, completed this summer, included building paver stone pathways between the garden’s storage container as well as ADA-accessible raised planter beds and a 460-square-foot pergola.
The raised, accessible beds and paved pathways were vital to getting people in the community to come and use the garden because so many on the block are seniors who walk with walkers or canes, Hart said. Phase two, happening next year, will involve turning half the pergola into a greenhouse, and the other half into a workshop where the Harts can host events and classes about gardening and healthy eating, Pacheco said. Hart said it’s important to teach people about healthy eating because, “diabetes and heart disease run so rampant in the Black and brown community.” Hart said she wants to bring something positive to her neighborhood. “I just want people to eat healthy and exercise so they can live a little bit longer.”
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Leaders debate police de-funding during virtual forum Tanya Woods, of Westside Justice Center, tells CPD leader that city needs to abolish police at City Treasurer’s Sept. 30 forum By IGOR STUDENKOV Contributing Reporter
Chicago City Treasurer Melissa ConyearsErvin held what she called an Urgent Call For Justice online forum on Sept. 30, in order to discuss how “we can make a difference in the laws and policies that have oppressed people of color for centuries.” The conversation centered on policing and chronic disinvestment in Black communities, how the two relate and what can be done to improve the situation. But the panelists had different ideas about how to accomplish that. First Deputy Superintendent Eric Carter argued that the Chicago Police Department could do its part by truly engaging with the community and bridging the divide. Tanya Woods, the executive director of the East Garfield Park-based Westside Justice Center, 601 S. California Ave., said that police in Chicago and the United States are beyond reform and should be dismantled, with resources going toward restorative justice and community institutions, such as schools and mental health clinics. Dr. Jonathan Jackson, the national spokesperson for the Rainbow/PUSH coalition, denounced police abuses of power and argued that the movement to defund police and redirect the funding obscures the deeper reality — that schools and other social insti-
tutions have been losing funding and resources for decades and the focus should be on trying to get those resources back. Over the course of the summer, Conyears-Ervin, who lives on the West Side, held several forums around the theme of making Chicago more equitable. As she noted during the Sept. 30 forum, her job involves handling taxpayer funds and she wanted to do her part to achieve that goal, which included getting input from the officials and the community. “We have to address some lingering concerns that are, unfortunately, systemic, and we all have our parts to play,” she said on Sept. 30. “I felt [that], as a Black woman raising a young, Black daughter who I really hope will inherit a SPEAKING OF POLICING: Panelists who were featured during an online forum on policing hosted by better world, and also as a city Chicago Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin, bottom right, included (clockwise from top right): Jonaofficial, I’m charged with mak- than Jackson, Conyears-Ervin, First Deputy Supt. Eric Carter and Tanya Woods. ing a better life.” A day earlier, Mayor Lori “Most of the crime that happens in our sized that reform is insufficient. Lightfoot unveiled the Comprehensive Vio- neighborhoods [has to do] with economics,” “We need to abolish not only law enforcelence Reduction Plan, which includes both Carter reflected. “Although it’s not in our ment, but the carceral institutions as they investment in social services. The plan also purview, we’re aware of it.” exist today,” she said. “We tried decades calls for “increasing police legitimacy in Carter said that he didn’t think that “the [with] body-cams, and retraining. This is communities where trust has eroded by ac- society can function without a function- a moment now where citizens tried it that knowledging past harms by the Chicago Po- ing police force,” but he argued that police way. It doesn’t work. People are still dying, lice Department” and implementing reforms does need to change and that police training there’s still gun violence. We still see the unoutlined in a federal consent decree. employment, the lack of education and the shouldn’t be a one-time thing. Carter told the forum that it includes hav“You need a lot of constant training, re- marginalizing.” ing officers do some kind of community ser- training,” Carter said. “If we don’t reinforce Putting those funds back into schools, vice in the districts they serve once a week, training, over time, officers lose sight of Woods argued, would be more useful. as well as launching “art classes” and “cul- what’s important.” “Imagine if millions of dollars were retural classes” for local youth, in addition to Woods said that “it’s not responsible of us directed into Black and Brown schools, existing police-led youth sports teams that to ignore racial capacities when it comes to instead of closing them and shutting them got sidelined due to COVID-19. policing in our communities” and empha- down,” she said.
High-ranking Black cop, former W. Side commander to retire Barbara West started her career in Austin’s 15th District before becoming its first female commander By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor
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RETIRING: Barbara West announced that she’s retiring after a long, historic career with the Chicago Police Department.
Deputy Superintendent Barbara West, who made history earlier this year as the highest-ranking Black woman in Chicago Police Department history, has announced that she plans to retire from the department after 26 years of service. West served as commander in the West Side’s Harrison 11th and Austin 15th districts before she was promoted to her current position in order to help the department comply with a federal consent decree. In a statement released on Sept. 30, CPD Superintendent David O. Brown lauded West’s leadership. “Chicago born and bred, Deputy Superintendent West brought a wealth of operational and organizational experi-
ence to the newly created Office of Constitutional Policing and Reform,” Brown said. “Under her leadership, our Department has made significant strides toward implementing meaningful and sustainable reform, and helped establish the framework that will carry our vision for reform into the future.” In 2012, West was appointed the first female commander of the 15th District before she was reappointed to the 11th District in 2015. West started her career in Austin’s 15th as a rookie cop patrolling Beat 1523, according to a previous Austin Weekly News report. West could not be immediately reached for comment on Oct. 2.
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W. Siders seek more resources after fatal stabbing
Mother accused of fatally stabbing 5-year-old daughter By PASCAL SABINO Block Club Chicago
Neighbors gathered Tuesday night to mourn the death of Serenity Arrington, 5, who was allegedly murdered by her own mother in front of the child’s 8-year-old sister. The vigil also served as a call to end the stigma around seeking help for mental health issues some said could have been a factor in the killing. “It’s very heartbreaking,” said Kenisha Turner, a friend of Serenity’s grandfather. “We all came together as a whole for him.” Serenity, her sister, and her mother Simone Austin had just moved into the grandfather’s apartment weeks before the incident, prosecutors said in court earlier this week. After the attack, Austin began apologizing to neighbors and first responders, saying she shouldn’t have hurt the girl, prosecutors said.
“People are suffering and don’t know how to get help. So we need more help to help people with mental issues, depression,” Turner said. The vigil was organized with help from Breakthrough Urban Ministries, a social PASCAL SABINO/Block Club Chicago service organization serving Garfield MOURNING: Neighbors put together a small memorial for Serenity Arrington who was killed by her mother. Park. Street outreach workers joined the “People only going to see trauma when “[There could be so] much going on with vigil to encourage those struggling with someone that you’ll never know. …The there’s danger is involved. But it’s overmental health to seek professional help and people in the community that’s not being whelmingly more than what we see. It’s alcommunity support. seen— those are the people that really need ways there,” Wallace said. It’s hard to know when somebody is on the help,” Jefferson said. “As an outreach Pascal Sabino is a Report for America corps the brink of a mental health crisis because worker, that’s why we go from door to door.” member covering Austin, North Lawndale Outreach worker Antonio Wallace said and Garfield Park for Block Club Chicago. of the stigma around talking about those issues, outreach worker Robert Jefferson said. the tragic killing is a manifestation of the He said people should be patient and listen deep-seated community trauma that im- CONTACT: pascal@blockclubchi.org to their neighbors because you never know pacts many Black neighborhoods.
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West Side businesses can now apply for city grants
Applications for Small Business Improvement Fund grants due Oct. 30 By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor
The city of Chicago announced last week that it’s accepting applications from West Side small businesses for its Small Business Improvement Fund grant program, which is facilitated by the Department of Planning and Development and Somercor, a small business lender. Applications from businesses and organizations located in TIF districts in Austin, the Near West Side, Humboldt Park and South Lawndale will be accepted now until 5 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 30. The grant program utilizes revenue from the city’s TIF districts to help owners of commercial and industrial properties repair or remodel those facilities either for their
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own businesses or for tenants, city officials explained in a statement released Sept. 23. Applicants can potentially receive grants that offset between 25 percent and 75 percent of project costs, with up to $100,000 for commercial properties and up to $150,000 for industrial properties. The grants don’t have to be repaid. Residential projects are not eligible for the program, city officials explained. The Department of Planning and Development and Somercor have been hosting webinars this year to allow applicants opportunities to review the program requirements and get familiar with the application process. The next webinars are scheduled for Oct. 7, Nov. 4 and Dec. 2. All at 1 p.m. For more information on the Small Business Improvement Fund grant program, visit: https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/
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LIVING HISTORY Telling it themselves from page 1 The Rev. Martin Luther King lived in North Lawndale during a campaign to end redlining in Chicago amid the Black Freedom Movement. Smith said King’s legacy and the memory of the thriving Black community needs to be preserved. “We need the older generation to help guide us and help us understand what was here before all of the chaos had been created. We need to know the history of this neighborhood,” Smith said. The exhibit was curated by Jay Simon, a photographer from Lawndale whose work explores the balance between vulnerability and power in the lives of Black people in their own natural environments. Rather than historians and scholars, the best voices to tell the history of Lawndale are everyday residents who know the many different faces of the neighborhood through their own experiences living there each day, Simon said. “Their stories are often not heard, unless we capture them and tell them. We wanted people who don’t normally … get exposure, and we wanted them to tell their story,” Simon said. Younger people can learn from the older adults who have been fighting for decades to build a safe and beautiful neighborhood, he said. To that end, the portraits and stories featured in the exhibit are intended to evoke a sense of “generational wisdom, and leaving a legacy, and passing down the stories of our elders and ancestors.” Though the exhibit focuses on the images and stories of older Lawndalians, it was curated as a two-way conversation between older and younger generations. Organizers recruited young people from the neighborhood to help design the project, which gives older residents a chance to connect directly with local youth, said Chelsea Ridley, a cofounder of the Lawndale Pop-Up Spot.
“Intergenerational storytelling is super important,” Ridley said. “It gives youth a little sense of history of what their area used to be before… and it gives them a sense to imagine what it could be in the future.” To make the pop-up more engaging, the team worked with StoryCorps to produce audio recordings of the older residents featured in the portrait series telling their stories. Each portrait has a QR code that can be scanned with any
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REFURBISHED: The Lawndale: A Living History portraits are posted on the walls of a shipping container-turned art gallery. Portraits of older residents anchor the exhibit. smartphone, which then allows viewers to listen to the oral histories. You can also see the portraits and hear the oral histories on the Lawndale Pop-Up Spot’s website. Other partners in bringing the stories of local elders were the North Lawndale Historical and Cultural Society, Chicago Public Library Douglass Branch, Chicago History Museum, Gardeneers and Men Making a Difference. The site of the mini-museum was once a vacant lot that was transformed into a community garden several years ago. The Lawndale Pop-Up Spot was developed in a shipping container to “activate these places with culture, with art, with education,” said co-founder Jonathan Kelley. The exhibit is designed to be a living art installation, so new portraits and oral histories are planned to be put up in other areas of Lawndale. As more portraits are installed, the project will grow as “a community art exhibit where you could go from one to the other and learn as you go,” Kelley said. “It’s about appreciating history while it’s here,” Kelley said. “Lawndale: A Living History” is open 9 a.m.-noon Thursdays through Oct. 31 and noon-3 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. Many of the portraits are visible outside the shipping box anytime, and the portraits will remain through the winter. Pascal Sabino is a Report for America corps member covering Austin, North Lawndale and Garfield Park for Block Club Chicago.
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wenty years ago, I undertook the biggest remodeling situation I will ever encounter. From the moment I bought my house in 1989, all I talked about was getting a second story addition. I dreamed about it. I envisioned it. And finally it happened. They took the entire roof off my house, and began the process of building on a second story with a new attic and roof. All those years of attending the Parade of Homes and getting ideas was paying off. I got almost everything I dreamed about from seeing those homes: A master bedroom with vaulted ceilings. A master bathroom and a walk-in closet. I even saved money by agreeing to do a lot of the finishing work myself. I laid the parquet floors. I installed all the wood trim. I stained the new oak stairs and banisters. I even included a fancy wood medallion as part of the landing. It was I who installed the handrails so that the lower rail matches the dark wood of the kitchen while the upper rail is lighter like the stairs. I’ve always been very particular and meticulous about my house. So even though I was awarded the opportunity to get a new free roof from the city, I’ve created my first setback by turning it down. I’ve always gotten what I wanted and the notion of having to accept what they wanted to give me, didn’t sit well. So the money I thought I would be saving not having to pay for my
own roof is now back on the table. But guess what? I will get exactly what I want and the roofers will do it the way I want it done. Had I been able to get a free roof, the money that I would have saved was going to go for a new furnace. And yes, I know the city offers a program for that as well. But everything that is free is not necessarily good. One of my elderly neighbors years back got new windows and screens. She was one of the best caretakers of a house I’ve seen. So when those screens literally fell out of the window one day, it was proof of the shoddy work to begin with. That was also at the back of my mind as I chose not to continue on for the free roof. When my addition was done, all my front windows were made by Pella. As the years went by, those windows began to rot. Apparently the wood used to encase them was of poor quality. A lawsuit was filed against Pella and those of us with the windows put in all the paperwork to get the windows repaired/replaced. I did all the paperwork and was hoping I would be included in the settlement. But I got a letter saying that my claim was rejected. So now, the cost of replacing five wood windows is on me. Another setback, but I guarantee you the new windows will not be Pella! I will roll with all the issues that are going to hit me financially because setbacks are just another part of life.
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Justice denied again for Black people in America
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September 23, 2020 - No justice for Breonna Taylor. After 194 days of “investigating” Breonna’s murder committed by three Louisville, Kentucky police officers - Brett Hankison, Jonathan Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove - only Hankison faces minor charges. Mattingly and Cosgrove are not charged. All three of them have escaped murder or manslaughter charges for killing Breonna Taylor, an innocent 26 year-old Black woman and Emergency Medical Technician who was working two jobs in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. September 23, 1955 - No justice for Emmett Till. Just 26 days after Chicago teenager Emmett Till was murdered, an all-white male jury in Mississippi takes just 67 minutes to acquit Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam. The jury said they would have returned their verdict even faster if they hadn’t stopped their “deliberations” to get some soda pop. The trial featured a sheriff greeting Black spectators with “hello niggers” and jury members drank beer in the courtroom. After their acquittals, Bryant and Milam sold their stories to Look Magazine, wherein they bragged about how they murdered 14 year-old Emmett. Two miscarriages of justice, 65 years apart. Just as Bryant and Milam celebrated after their acquittals, Hankinson, Mattingly and Cosgrove are celebrating how they got away with murder. “Wanton endangerment” for bullets fired into a neighbor’s apartment but no criminal charges for the bullets which killed Breonna? This is outrageous beyond words. Black people and other protesters are rightfully outraged for the cumulative number of victims of racist violence committed by slave owners, the Ku Klux Klan, police officers and self-proclaimed vigilantes for 401 years since 1619, usually with no one held accountable by the criminal justice system. Slaveowners routinely raped and murdered our ancestors with impunity. In addition to 14 year-old Emmett Till, no one went to prison for murdering other Black children, such as 10-year-old Clifford Glover, 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones, 17-year-old
Trayvon Martin, 12-year-old Tamir Rice or 17-year-old Quintonio Legrier. In addition to Breonna Taylor, no one spent any time behind bars for the deaths of Black adults Eric Garner, Rekia Boyd, Sandra Bland, Bettie Jones, Philando Castile, Alton Sterling, Oscar Grant, Jemel Roberson and so many others. The reason these killings continue to occur with impunity is because the county prosecutors, judges and juries who make up America’s criminal justice system refuse to hold racist killers accountable for murdering Black people. Even in the rare cases where we win a conviction, racist judges prove themselves to be a firewall in the quest for justice. Although a jury convicted former Chicago cop Jason Van Dyke of second degree murder and 16 counts of aggravated assault for the murder of 17 year-old Laquan McDonald, Cook County Judge Vincent Gaughan in 2019 sentenced Van Dyke to just 7 years in prison - with good behavior, Van Dyke walks out of prison in 2022. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has said it will be “very difficult” to convict the officers who murdered George Floyd – despite the fact that people all over the world saw this killing on cell phone video. Police officers and vigilantes don’t hesitate to use lethal force against Black people, because they fully expect to walk away from justice and enjoy the rest of their lives on generous pensions or receive crowd-funded financial support from fellow white supremacists. America’s disgraceful history and present on the issue of racial justice has supported this deadly violence without accountability for four centuries. A courageous new generation is on the streets with older activists in a fight for our lives. It’s a fight we must win if “liberty and justice for all” becomes more than what is now just empty words in our nation’s pledge of allegiance.
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INJUSTICE CELEBRATED: Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, the killers of Emmett Till pictured with their wives.
Experts offer domestic violence resources during online forum
11th District, Cook County State’s Attorney hosted Sept. 30 webinar with domestic violence experts By IGOR STUDENKOV Contributing Reporter
On Sept. 30, the Chicago Police Department’s 11th District, which includes West Garfield Park, West Humboldt Park and most of East Garfield Park, and the office of the Cook County State’s Attorney co-hosted an online webinar that focused on COVID-19 and domestic violence. Those who spoke during the webinar said that amid the pandemic, tempers are flaring in households, economic stresses are greater than ever and victims of domestic violence have fewer opportunities to leave the house. They said the pandemic is also making it harder to find shelters for abuse survivors, and, with nonprofits shifting their applications online, applying for help and support is harder as well. But during the course of the webinar, the speakers reassured residents that, in spite of all of those issues, help is available. Aniela Tyksinski is a community advocate at Sarah’s Inn, a Forest Parkbased organization that provides support for the survivors of the domestic violence, helping them safely leave an abusive situation and giving them access to housing and resources. She said the organization also provides classes that help perpetrators understand the harm they’ve done and take responsibility for it, teach them how to respond to stressful situations in better, “safer” ways and address their own issues. While most of the attendees of those classes are there because of court orders, Tyksinski said, the classes are open to anyone who wants to take them. The pandemic, Tyksinski explained, made the situation harder for Sarah’s Inn clients because people are facing more stress due to factors such as losing jobs, having to stay home and simply being around each other more. She said that contacting nonprofits like Sarah’s Inn is also harder, par-
ticularly in communities like the West Side, where households are less likely to have high-speed internet or a computer. “That’s been a huge barrier, as many programs and intake applications went digital [during the pandemic],” Tyksinski said. Sarah’s Inn and the State’s Attorney both launched texting-based and email based hotlines for residents who don’t have enough privacy to make phone calls. Tyksinski said residents’ problems are complicated by the fact that domestic violence shelters have to observe social distancing, so there is less space than ever, survivors with kids have to deal with limited daycare options, and the court system has slowed down, which means restraining orders and other legal processes take “Right now, we are providing [services] remotely, as well as in-person, on a case-by-case basis,” Tyksinski said. Yesenia Rodriguez, the 11th District’s domestic violence officer, explained that the district has a domestic violence subcommittee that meets once a month, even amid the pandemic. “We provide awareness, prevention and resources to combat domestic violence,”she said. Rodriguez said that the subcommittee has been doing workshops on subjects such as domestic violence in teenage relationships, what healthy relationships look like and how to discipline children without crossing the line into child abuse. She said that the subcommittee will host a Take a Stand Against Domestic Violence walk on Oct. 14, at 10:00 a.m. The walk will start and end at the Garfield Park Bandshell, which is located roughly in the middle of the section of the park, between Madison Street, Hamlin Avenue, Jackson Boulevard and Central Park Avenue. For more information about domestic violence resources available during the pandemic, visit https:// www.cookcountystatesattorney.org/ community-resources-covid-19 Survivors of domestic violence can file emergency orders of protection at the Domestic Violence Courthouse, 555 W. Harrison St., according to the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office.
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Austin City Market extended after successful summer
The market saw three times the normal traffic over the summer By PASCAL SABINO Block Club Chicago
The Austin City Market has been extended through the end of October following one of the most successful seasons ever at the weekly farmers market. The market brings local produce farmers, prepared food vendors and grocery businesses each Thursday to help bring healthy food access to an area considered by many to be a food desert. The market at the Austin Town Hall Park, 5610 W. Lake St., is organized by the city’s cultural affairs office and is hosted by Forty Acres Fresh Market, a Black-owned grocery startup run by Austin resident Liz Abunaw. Abunaw brought together local vendors to help the market “grow by leaps and bounds,” according to director of the city market program Alisa Baum. The overwhelming success of the market over the summer thanks to Abunaw helped the city secure grants from the One Chicago Fund to extend the market into the fall, Baum said. “We have found that needs are greater because of COVID, and because of people losing their jobs,” Baum said. “So it’s been wonderful to have all of these community resources there to provide food … to be able to shop outside, they feel safer.” In past years, the Austin City Market was more of a small farm stand than a true market, Baum said. Many food businesses were previously wary of selling at the market because it can be a challenge getting enough customers in Austin compared to areas like Logan Square or Oak Park. But Abunaw flexed her network and com-
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The magic of the water from page 1 documentary films, which include “Hoop Dreams” and “America to Me,” don’t so much seek to resolve the multi-layered social problems that make up their core as much as unsettle established assumptions about those problems. “A Most Beautiful Thing” explores the unlikely bond forged by several classmates at Manley Career Academy High School on Chicago’s West Side after they’re lured by free pizza into joining a rowing team established by Ken Alpart, a brash white futures trader. Cooper and his teammates, now alums, recall Manley as one of the most violent
munity connections to bring several Blackowned food vendors to the table and build additional momentum behind the market, eventually building a strong following of customers, Baum said. She estimates at least three times more shoppers have come to the market this year, many of whom come to buy from one vendor but end up patronizing several businesses there. “It creates this really cool ecosystem right in Austin of small Black-owned healthy food businesses,” Abunaw said. “It’s an Austin market with businesses run by Austin residents.” Beyond the dozens of varieties of fruits and veggies sold by Forty Acres, shoppers can find produce and flowers grown from a local South Side farm at the Finding Justice food stand. Two Sisters Catering serves a robust menu of dinners and sides like turkey meatloaf, herb-baked chicken, mashed potatoes and collard greens. Q’s Pound Cakes is a new vendor serving desserts and baked goods. Danie’s Delicious Detox Drinks has a stand at the weekly market with a variety of cold-pressed fruit and vegetable juices. The market also has a food demonstration booth to help educate shoppers about the healthy and delicious recipes that can be cooked up using the produce purchased at the market. “You tie in the food education with the fact that you have food access,” Abunaw said. Abunaw welcomes other West Side food businesses interested in vending at the market to contact her at fortyacresfreshmarket@gmail.com. In the past, there were other city markets in Austin, including one at Columbus Park. The markets had to be consolidated due to a lack of interest from vendors and customers, and the city focused its efforts on the Austin City Market, Baum said.
high schools in the city. As teenagers, they witnessed someone shot dead in front of the high school during a drive-by. The neighborhood is dominated by gangs and drugs and guns — terrain that young teenagers often must learn to navigate on their own. “We did not like each other, like we had no love for each other,” Cooper, referencing his rowing teammates, told Washington after Friday’s screening. “Every day going to school we had to be tough. And we had fear.” The boys were as fearful of the water as they were of the West Side until they “started pulling for each other and developing that magical rhythm,” Cooper said. “That’s when it became meditative … that water was completely life-changing.” The boys show flashes of brilliance as a rowing team, but they don’t end the season as champions. In fact, for years after the rowing team at Manley High folded, Alpart
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FRESH LOOKS: A resident shopping at the Austin City Market, which has been extended through the end of October following one of the most successful seasons ever at the weekly farmers market. The West Side has always lacked grocery stores and supermarkets, and Forty Acres was created by Abunaw to help fill those gaps. But “with the pandemic, especially for seniors, it’s been a tough time, financially and food access-wise,” Abunaw said. The outdoor market extension gives seniors and other residents another reliable place to shop for food, and vendors accept state Senior Farmers Market Coupons, Veggie Rx coupons, and produce perks. SNAP benefits can also be at used the market for double-dollars. Those benefits are especially important to make food easily accessible for seniors, Abunaw said, since older adults have struggled with food access due to the pandemic. The market is just across from a senior center and in a central location where residents
from all over Austin can easily travel to. And in a time of social distancing, the extended market will also continue to serve as a safe gathering place to help relieve some of the isolation people are feeling. “It’s very socially distant. But still very social. People are meeting local business owners and meeting their neighbors. It creates social cohesion in the neighborhood,” Abunaw said. “Social cohesion is one of the hallmarks of creating a safe neighborhood.” The Austin City Market runs Thursdays 1-6 p.m. through Oct. 29 at Austin Town Hall Park, 5610 W. Lake St. Pascal Sabino is a Report for America corps member covering Austin, North Lawndale and Garfield Park for Block Club Chicago.
was convinced it was a failure. The boys, seniors in high school, left Manley with no big wins on the water and no grand plans to go off to college. And then the boys became men, most of them entrepreneurs, and began telling people about how beneficial their experience on the rowing team, and Alpart’s mentorship, had been to their development. They had been baptized by the water’s tranquility and transformed. “I love basketball, I love football — I’d run all my life, I’d been chased, I had a lot of trauma,” Cooper told Washington. “So when I played basketball, it was a trash-talking sport and I wanted to fight. When I played football, the coach was always like, ‘Knock ‘em dead.’ So [those sports] triggered a lot of trauma. But when you’re part of a non-conflict, non-combative sport, it actually reduces all that trauma.” “I love that you are calling out this notion
that there are more athletic opportunities for young, Black boys than basketball and football,” Washington said. During their discussion, Washington asked Cooper to give some advice for leaders and stakeholders looking to build community in places like Oak Park and Austin. “Move your organizations, move your community with the Black voices who live there,” Cooper said. “You can’t measure success on how you think it should be. Ken said, “We weren’t winning and I thought it was a failure.’ But you have to understand that getting guys from different gangs together is a win. Culturally, overcoming the fear of water is a win.” For more info on the documentary, visit: https://www.amostbeautifulthing.com/.
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR STRUCTURED ASSET SECURITIES CORPORATION, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004SC1; Plaintiff, vs. LEE WATT; SHIRLEY WATT; CITY OF CHICAGO; Defendants, 16 CH 14732 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, October 26, 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. 16-09-227-028-0000. Commonly known as 418 North Lavergne Avenue, Chicago, IL 60644. 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. 16-029325 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION intercountyjudicialsales.com I3156249
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION CITY OF CHICAGO, A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION, Plaintiff, vs. TBI URBAN HOLDINGS LLC; METLIFE HOME LOANS; THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; LATISHA VEAL; WANKEE VEAL; CHASE HOME FINANCE, LLC; CURTIS GARRETT; DEMETRIOUS KELLY; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants, 11 M1 402682 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on February 18, 2020, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Monday, November 2, 2020, at the hour of 11 a.m. in its office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: P.I.N. 16-09-315-043-0000, 16-09315-044-0000, and 16-09-315-0450000. Commonly known as 125 North Pine Avenue, Units A, B, and C, Chicago, Illinois 60644. The property consists of vacant land. Sale terms: 10% of the purchase price will be required to bid at the sale. The balance of the purchase price required by 12:00 p.m. the following day. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale. For information call City of Chicago Department of Law/COAL, City Hall 121 North LaSalle Street, Suite 400, Chicago, Illinois 60602 (312) 7420007. INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 Dated: August 26, 2020 I3156690
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