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29th Ward’s participatory budgeting confronts COVID Voting, idea submission happening virtually

By IGOR STUDENKOV Contributing Reporter

This year, 29th Ward residents will once again get a chance to have their say in how $1 million in “aldermanic menu” money will be spent, even if the process will look somewhat different due to COVID-19.

Every year, each alderman gets $1.4 million in funds to spend on infrastructure-related project, which, in practice, means anything from fixing up sidewalks to painting murals. Ald. Chris Taliaferro (29th) is the only West Side alderman to allow residents to suggest ideas and vote on how that money will be spent through the process known as participatory budgeting.

This year, much of what would normally happen in person is happening virtually.

Taliaferro is currently collecting ideas and recruiting volunteers online. It is not currently clear how the voting will look like, or when it will take place, but it is expected to be some combination of in-person and online voting.

When Taliaferro originally ran for office in 2015, he promised to bring participatory budgeting to 29th Ward if elected. He didn’t do it during his first year in office, saying that there was a backlog of street resurfacing needs that had to be taken care of as soon as possible. But he introduced participatory budgeting for a portion of the menu funding the following year, and, with some modifications, the process has happened See PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING on page 5

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TRIBUTE TO ELIJAH SIMS: Friends and family members of Elijah Sims, the 16-year-old who was murdered in Austin in 2016, hold balloons in honor of the teen during a tribute to him on Aug. 30. Read the story on page 3.

Austin-born artist aims to uplift Black women, inspire youth Tyesha “Tye” Moores commissioned by Obama Foundation for project highlighting community activism

By IGOR STUDENKOV Contributing Reporter

For photographer and artist Tyesha “Tye” Moores, who was recently commissioned by the Obama Foundation for a project highlight community activism, the shooting of Jacob Blake hit

home in more ways than one.

As a Black artist who grew up in Austin in currently lives in Belmont-Cragin, she always tried to use her art to uplift and empower. She has been passionate about civil rights and defunding the police, and the events of the past summer have only made her more passionate. And Kenosha

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West Side Mutual Aid seeking donations

Group also pushing for residents to fill out the census

By PASCAL SABINO Block Club Chicago

West Side Mutual Aid is collecting donations of food, household items and toiletries to give to residents in need.

The mutual aid group is partnering with youth-led organization Chicago Communities United, which is working to improve census participation in hard-to-count areas that are often predominantly Black and Latino.

The groups are accepting donations through Cashapp via the handle $CCULUZ “Everything is running scarce now, and people have been laid off of their jobs,” said Avery Sims, Chicago Communities United organizer.

The supplies will be given out over several days. The first giveaway happened last Friday at the Humboldt Park Boathouse. More giveaways are planned for the fall in other West Side neighborhoods, including Austin and Garfield Park.

Giving out the supplies will provide organizers a way to help hard-hit communities while encouraging residents to complete the census. The free food and supplies will be

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said Destiny Harris, an organizer with West Side Mutual Aid. “We all know at the end of the day we keep us safe … but doing the census could bring more funding to our communities.”

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Mourning slain teenager, community calls for justice In Austin, a remembrance for Elijah Sims doubles as call to action

By ZACH CUNNING AustinTalks

A couple dozen people gathered at Columbus Park on Aug. 30, to remember Elijah Sims and to call for stronger witness protection.

Elijah was shot in the head about 10 p.m. Aug. 29, 2016, in the 5500 block of West Quincy Street, two days before his 17th birthday. He died in the arms of his mother, Sherita Galloway, the next day.

Anthony Clark, a teacher at Oak Park River Forest High School, where Elijah was a student, remembered seeing Sims just hours before he was shot.

Clark was grocery shopping at Pete’s Fresh Market in Oak Park, where Elijah worked. The teen told Clark to talk to him the next day about removing some scuffs on Clark’s car.

“We hugged and departed,” he said.

“Fast forward to the next day. And I distinctly remember thinking to myself as I began class, I didn’t see Elijah.

Elijah’s smile didn’t greet me.”

Ten minutes later, he learned Elijah had been killed.

No arrests have been made in Elijah’s killing, which falls under the jurisdiction of the Chicago Police Department.

It “is extremely hard to heal is because we still don’t have justice,” Clark said.

The Rev. Ira Acree of Greater St. John Bible Church said it’s frustrating that no arrests have been made because “we know that people know. They’ve talked to us. They know who shot, took the life of Elijah, but they are afraid to speak up.”

In late July, Acree led a group of local ministers and activists to the office of Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx to deliver a letter calling for stronger witness protections. (Here’s what was proposed.)

On Sunday, Acree said, “It’s vitally important that we have a witness protection program that people can trust, one that’s viable when a person takes the risk of speaking up, turning in these cold-blooded killers.”

Galloway said she needs justice for her son.

“The person who shot and killed my son, they need to wake up every day like I have to do, but they need to wake up behind bars.

“They probably out here still doing the same thing. Who knows how many more people they have killed since they

killed my son.”

At the end of the event, attendees released more than a dozen heartshaped balloons.

Galloway said this was the last year they will do a balloon release, in the interest of being environmentally friendly.

She said a community member has donated a tree in memory of her son.

She has not decided where it will be planted but is hoping somewhere in Columbus Park, since that’s where Sims spent a lot of his time.

Galloway said she plans to hold future remembrances around the tree.

As the balloons were released, she called out, “Happy birthday, baby boy.”

Elijah Sims would have been 21.

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Fire forces West Side business to close

Sept. 3 fire temporarily shutters Uncle Remus Fried Chicken & Guilty Pleasurez Bakery

By PASCAL SABINO Contributing Reporter

A fire tore through Uncle Remus Fried Chicken & Guilty Pleasurez Bakery on the West Side on the morning of Sept. 3.

Chicago Fire Department Spokesman Larry Langford said crews responded to a blaze at the restaurant at 4731 W. Madison St. It was a small fire but it caused significant damage, Langford said.

The Uncle Remus location just west at 5611 W. Madison St. remains open.

Restaurant rep Akisha Williams Hunt said the fire started from coals in the barbecue pit as workers were preparing rib tips for the day. The flames spread throughout the room in seconds after a worker stepped away, she said.

“It actually happened in a blink of an eye,” Williams Hunt said.

No workers were hurt. One police officer was hospitalized for minor smoke

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CLOSED FOR NOW: Uncle Remus Fried Chicken and Guilty Pleasurez Bakery is temporarily closed after a fire that happened on Sept. 3. inhalation, Langford said.

The damage from the fire will force the location to close for three to six weeks,

Williams Hunt said. The other locations of the fried chicken franchise will continue to operate.

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“They’re coming back better than ever remodeled,” Williams Hunt said.

Uncle Remus is a quintessential chicken shop in Chicago and one of the best known restaurants to come out of the West Side. The shop is famous for its signature mild sauce, and is thought to be one of the originators of the smoky, spicy and sweet condiment Thursday’s accident at the original Uncle Remus location isn’t the only time the chicken shop has had a fire. Another location suffered a fire years ago, but the business bounced back, the family said.

Orlando Mattox, a family member who works for the store, said the fire won’t stop owners from expanding to a new store on Taylor Street and opening another shop in Georgia.

“It’s just a small setback for something even better, because you know, we’re growing as a business,” Mattox said. “I think it’s a new beginning.”

Charmaine Rickette, president of Uncle Remus Saucy Fried Chicken, said the 4731 W. Madison St. Uncle Remus location is not affiliated with the stores she owns. Her brother owns the location where the fire broke out, she said.

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PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING Still on

from page 1 every year since then.

In the past, the 29th Ward hosted idea collection workshops, and residents and community organizations were welcome to submit their ideas to the ward office. The committee of volunteer community representatives then met to decide which projects should go on the ballot. The ward staff then looked at whether there was enough menu money to cover the costs of those projects, and whether there are any legal or jurisdictional issues that would need to be addressed.

Once the ballot was finalized, residents had to vote on two items: how much of the money would go toward street resurfacing and which non-street resurfacing projects the money should be spent on. Residents could vote for up to three projects. Any 29th Ward resident who is at least 14 years and old can vote.

The projects that are selected are based on both the number of votes and how much money the majority of residents chose to spend on non-street resurfacing needs, so the more money that goes toward street resurfacing, the less money is available for everything else.

Byron Watson, Taliaferro’s staff assistant, explained that, because of the pandemic, the idea collection is happening virtually.

Residents have until Sept. 19 to submit ideas using online forms at https://forms.gle/LPr6HWYGNt3zgKnV6 (with a Spanish-language version available at https://forms.gle/ qYGL43GY3QJWCb1z7).

The forms also let residents sign up to volunteer. The ward office held a virtual community meeting on Aug. 19 to discuss idea collection, which volunteers will work in what areas and when the vote will take place.

Even before the pandemic, the participation has been an ongoing issue. While the number of voters has increased over the years, it’s still a small portion of the ward population.

Watson said that they intend to rely on Participatory Budgeting Team Leaders – volunteer community stakeholders – to help get the word out about the process and encourage residents to be involved. They also intend to promote participatory budgeting at ward events, and tell anyone who visits the ward office about it.

Watson said that they still haven’t decided on when the vote would take place, but he expects it to be some combination of online and in-person voting.

“After finalizing which projects make the ballot then we have to engage our neighbors to vote,” he said. “We did online voting last year so, I would imagine we will do both in-person and online voting.”

Progress on Last Year’s Projects Last year, 330 residents voted to spend $600,000 out of $1 million on street resurfacing. The winning projects included light pole community markers along Central Avenue and Austin Boulevard; Columbus Park tennis court flood lights; adding a pedestrian island and pedestrian crossing bump-outs on the portion of North Avenue, mid-way between Natchez and Nagle avenues; and improvements to Rutherford Sayre Park, Harambee and Austin Green Team community gardens.

Watson explained those projects are still works in progress.

The ward has been working with the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events on the specifics of where the light pole signs will go, and Watson said that he expects them to be installed in the first quarter of 2021.

But the timeline for the Columbus Park flood lights is less certain, because the negotiations with the Chicago Park District are still ongoing, and North Avenue improvements won’t go ahead at all because Illinois Department of Transportation, which has jurisdiction over it because it’s a state highway, “said no” to the project.

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Legislative Black Caucus unveils anti-racism agenda Caucus released plan at West Side Justice Center

By RAYMON TRONCOSO Capitol News Illinois

The Illinois Legislative Black Caucus released its agenda of “sweeping reforms” meant to address systemic racism in the state at a news conference on Sept. 1.

The agenda is focused on four pillars of policy: Criminal justice reform, violence and police accountability; education and workforce development; economic access, equity and opportunity; and health care and human services.

State Senate Majority Leader and ILBC Chair Kimberly Lightford opened her remarks at the news conference by noting, “This is the moment that I have dreamed of, that I have prayed for, that I have worked towards my entire life.”

“This is a time when I stand on my parents’ shoulders, and their parents’ shoulders, and their parents’ shoulders and their parent’s shoulders,” she said. “We’re finally here … today as the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus, to present to you our agenda to end systemic racism that has oppressed our people for as long as we’ve ever known.”

The news conference focused on the first pillar as the ILBC emphasized a need for ending mass incarceration, enacting police reform and strategically investing and redirecting state funding to reduce violence in Illinois communities.

“We respect, admire and honor our officers. But legislatively, we must address bad actors and racism in law enforcement,” Rep. Justin Slaughter, D-Chicago, said.

“Here in [Chicago], Blacks make up 75 percent of the CPD shootings, 30 percent of the population — come on now.”

The news conference was held at the Westside Justice Center, a Chicago-based legal-aid clinic that provides legal assistance to low-income and underserved communities in the city. Three speakers from the Center shared testimony of systemic racism in Illinois.

Brendan Shiller, civil rights attorney and founder of the Justice Center, was one of those speakers.

“This city had more than 500 murders before September… We have a flood of pain coming to our communities over the next several months and couple years,” he said. “We know how to stop the flood, we know how to stop crime and violence. It’s education, it’s health care, it’s housing, it’s mental health, it’s jobs, it’s youth recreation — this ain’t a secret!”

According to Shiller, after Chicago had 771 recorded murders in 2016 – the most since 1996 – a sizable investment into youth employment that created 40,000 more jobs in 2017 led to decreased crime the following three years.

Lightford also announced a series of hearings to discuss each pillar of the ILBC agenda that would continue until lawmakers return for the fall veto session.

The first such hearing took place shortly after the news conference Tuesday, with the Senate Criminal Law and Special Committee on Public Safety holding a joint hearing on police training and the use of force.

The hearing stretched beyond three hours and was at times contentious.

Discussion regarding punishment for officers who violate use-of-force standards and ending qualified immunity were tabled for later hearings so that training, hiring and accountability practices would remain the focus of the hearing.

Individuals from the American Civil Liberties Union

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GEARING UP FOR THE FALL: State Sen. Eglie Sims Jr., DChicago, delivers remarks during the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus’ unveiling of their agenda for the fall veto session. Also pictured are state Sen. Majority Leader Kimberly Lightford, D-Maywood, and state Rep. Sonya Harper, D-Chicago. and the University of Illinois at Chicago gave conflicting testimony to that of the International Association of Chiefs of Police in regard to appropriate use of force and racism and white supremacy infiltrating and affecting police departments.

They also disagreed on the degree to which the “Blue Wall” — an alleged phenomenon where officers will not report other officers who have broken the law or engaged in gross misconduct — is a problem in law enforcement.

All parties agreed on the need for more data, with many noting it is problematic that reporting on use-of-force varies for each department and jurisdiction. Both law enforcement representatives and police-reform activists requested that universal standards for reporting use-offorce be codified into law, as well as making enforcement data more accessible for study by public institutions and legislative bodies.

“We must prioritize transparency, and believe me folks, I have looked for the research, looked for the data. A lot of it simply is not there because we have not demanded and required that police departments throughout this state issue that data and submit those reports,” Slaughter said at the news conference prior to the hearing.

While none of the pillars of the agenda have been filed as legislation yet, Lightford said bills would be ready for the fall legislative session.

“We will have our legislative initiatives prepared for the veto session and we do intend on taking up all of veto session to address them,” she said.

The legislative leaders of the Democratic Party issued statements backing the ILBC. “The Black Caucus is showing us the path to a better Illinois. I look forward to being an ally and helping win approval of needed reforms,” Senate President Don Harmon said in a news release.

House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, issued a statement thanking the Black Caucus for advancing “difficult but necessary discussions” and pledging to work closely with the members of the caucus.

“We are at a turning point, and it’s past time to take action. We know there isn’t one single source that has contributed to issues of inequality in our country and our state,” Madigan said in the statement. “We must evaluate all of our institutions to finally bring about the change that will make a difference. We must revisit issues with our criminal justice system, policing tactics, education system, workforce and economic opportunities and access to healthcare, among others, to bring about equity in the lives of Black Illinoisans.”

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The fire this time

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

I fear for our country.

Last week, days after a group of angry young people vandalized Oak Park Mayor Anan Abu-Taleb’s home following the failure of a police defunding resolution, I spoke to Frank Brim, a 63-year-old West Side baseball coach and retired firefighter.

Brim said that he thinks the country is headed for a new civil war and not in the metaphorical sense. Brim, by the way, is no radical. Time and circumstances, however, change people. He says that recent events and his retirement have freed him to say things that, in the past, he may have kept to himself.

“In my baseball program, I’ve never talked about race with my kids, ever, until the last couple years,” said Brim.

“We’re having those conversations. This is what you should do when the police stop you.”

Like the young protesters who gathered at the mayor’s home, Brim was once himself young and angry. His anger started simmering in 1975, when he learned of a terrible

family tragedy.

“In 1945, my grandmother and grandfather were hung in Mississippi and I didn’t find out until my freshman or sophomore year of high school,” he said. “The Klan hung my grandmother and grandfather and they blamed it on my grandfather, saying he hung his wife and then he hung himself. With his hands tied behind his back, he hung himself.

“When I learned that, I wanted nothing to do with white people. I didn’t want any white teachers, I rebelled against the system. I said, ‘Look, if the white man is teaching it, I don’t want anything to do with that.’ I was really, really, really angry.

It affected me academically. It got to the point where I didn’t even want to be in the same room with white people.”

The knowledge, Brim said, “destroyed my father. It destroyed him and his brothers and sister. They moved up here to get away from that South and when my father got here, he was so paranoid.

“If we were going on a vacation or something, or going back down to Mississippi, he would put tape across the door to make sure nobody came into the house,” Brim

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recalled. “He would tell us, ‘You looking at that television. That television is looking at you.’ So, I started thinking my daddy was crazy, but no, he was responding to the issues of his past.”

Brim said his father eventually joined the Nation of Islam and became part of the security team for its leader, Elijah Muhammad, who taught his followers that white people are an “aggressive race of rulers” who descended from an “island-based tribe of white-skinned albinos,” according to an article in the Nation’s newspaper, The Final Call. The whites, Muhammad taught, would eventually get their comeuppance, though, and be destroyed.

The Nation, Brim said, gave his father “a sense of power” and a community — despite its anti-Semitism and racial conspiracy mongering. I guess the Nation decided that, if it cannot bring itself to believe in the American Dream (after all, Blacks were not welcome to the slumber party) it might as well create its own myth of progress. And white people have demanded that the Nation, now headed by Louis Farrakhan, account for the transgression ever since.

During last week’s protest outside of Mayor Abu-Taleb’s home, I sat down on the sidewalk and craned my neck to snap a photo of 16-year-old Makayla Pye, a member of the Revolutionary Oak Park Youth League —

the group of young activists who organized the protest that turned into vandalism.

While Makayla, hovering above me, spoke into a bullhorn on my right side, on my left side, someone’s cell phone, which was hooked up to the loudspeaker, played the village board’s proceedings on the police reform resolution that ROYAL supports and that was up for a vote at that night’s board meeting.

The effect was disorienting. I heard simultaneously two different planes of understanding; two frames of reference; two nations under God, divisible.

“We are a nation on the edge of an increasingly hot civil war, one in which white supremacists are invading American cities, fomenting violence, and the overtly racist president they support sees the violence as benefiting him politically,” David Atkins wrote in the Washington Monthly last week.

At last week’s protest in Oak Park, one of the youth organizers referenced the shooting of Jacob Blake and, perhaps having hastily interpreted his social media feeds, mistakenly announced that Blake had been murdered (he’s still alive).

In a recent New Yorker article, Robin Wright quoted Keith Mines, a career diplomat who has studied civil wars in places continued on next page

Let’s Remember this September, we matter and were counted!

By DONALD DEW

There is still time to be counted. But time is running out.

T

he U.S. Census Bureau recently announced a deadline of Sept.

30 to submit census data. That means the time is now for everyone to be counted.

We’ve all been heartbroken over the persistent and intractable racial inequity that exists in this country. But what can we do about it as individuals?

We should protest injustice. We should vote. And we should be counted.

Not many people equate the Census with racial equity. But Census data is used to allocate resources for education, childcare, workforce training and

health care. If we are undercounted, we lose resources that are rightfully ours. Hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake. Census data also draws political boundaries, which matters a lot to our representation in the halls of government. If we are undercounted, our state could lose congressional seats and more. All this matters a great deal.

Most of all, the census is our history. It is the record of who lived here, at this time and this place. It is the record of how diverse a nation we were. Please be a part of that record.

The reason why communities of color are undercounted in every census are varied. Some of it has to do with a distrust of government or a deep cynicism that anything will ever change. But no matter the reason,

we should not let it stop us from being counted. In fact, the historic undercount of Black and brown communities should make our commitment to being counted even stronger. It is our right and our obligation.

There are not many things we can do that take only ten minutes but will last for

centuries. But that’s what the census is; a small amount of effort to be counted in a ledger that is kept for all time.

If you have not filled out the 2020 Census, please do so today. Go to www.2020census.gov/ or call 844-3302020.

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West Siders rally in Washington for justice, equity

Rev. Ira Acree among marchers who participated in Commitment March on Aug. 28

By SUZANNE McBRIDE AustinTalks

Rev. Ira Acree knew he had to be at last week’s march in Washington, D.C. There’s just too much at stake, the Austin pastor said as he recounted how he felt as he looked out on the National Mall Friday afternoon and saw more than 100,000 people gathered together to fight for racial justice and equity.

“I was blown away that things are so bad in this country – racism is on steroids to such a degree – that people risked their health to make a statement so that the generation that follows us doesn’t have to be back here 57 years later.”

Fifty-seven years to the day after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech during the 1963 March on Washington, Acree said he traveled to D.C.to represent people who couldn’t be there.

The Aug. 28 event – called the “Commitment March: Get Your Knee Off Our Necks” – was organized by the Rev. Al Sharpton, who announced the event in June while giving an eulogy at George Floyd’s funeral.

MARCHING FOR CHANGE: Rev. Ira Acree, far left, with other West Side residents who too a trip to Washington, D.C., last month to march for racial justice and equity.

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Acree said he was especially moved by the comments made by Jacob Blake’s sister, Letetra Wideman. Her 29-year-old brother remains hospitalized in Milwaukee after a Kenosha police officer shot him seven times in the back as he leaned into his SUV where three of his young sons sat, waiting for him.

“She left an indelible impact on me, and she wasn’t even scheduled to speak,” said Acree, who talked about Wideman’s speech during his sermon last Sunday at Greater St. John Bible Church. He said when Blake’s mother was unable to talk due to the hot weather, Wideman stepped to the podium and in just two minutes gave a powerful message, which included: “America, your reality is not real. Catering to your delusions is no longer an option We will not pretend, we will not be your docile slaves. We will not be a footstool to oppression, and most of all, we will not dress up this genocide and call it police brutality.

We will only pledge allegiance to the truth.

Black America, I hold you accountable. You must stand, you must fight, but not with violence and chaos – with self-love.”

Acree said “everything is at stake,” adding that President Trump continues to ignore police killing Black people and fanning the flames of racism.

“We’re in a civil war right now. We’re fighting for the soul of this nation,” Acree said.

For Jose Abonce, Friday’s march meant being part of a bigger movement that honored Dr. King but also “address the

moment we’re in.

“It emphasized the need for change and also celebrated MLK,” said Abonce, an organizer with Austin Coming Together who made the trip with his best friend.

Though not Black himself, Abonce said he felt solidarity because people were there for the same reasons: to fight inequity and injustice.

“Our peace and justice is tied to Black liberation. It’s not in silos … we liberate each other.”

After participating in Friday’s march, Abonce visited the King memorial.

“One thing that really spoke to me was this quote about the definition of peace (not being) the absence of tension, but it’s the fact that there’s justice.

“What does it mean to have justice? Having justice in Chicago to me isn’t that there’s an absence of tension between different parties, different groups … it’s actually there being justice, and that’s what leads people to peace.”

Abonce also was struck by how many of the issues raised by the speakers – who included family members of Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Trayvon Martin – are the same that King and others talked about six decades ago.

“The same things we’re really talking about right now are the same things we were talking about 50 years ago,” he said. “I don’t know how much things have changed.”

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THE FIRE THIS TIME Tensions rising from page 7 like Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia.

Mines told Wright that civil wars don’t have to involve “pitched battles from trenches along neat geographic front lines;” rather, Mines defines a civil war as “large-scale violence in constantly moving locales.”

Mines predicts that there’s a 65 percent chance of civil war in the U.S. within the next 10 to 15 years. He makes that prediction based on five conditions: “entrenched national polarization, with no obvious meeting place for resolution; increasingly divisive press coverage and information flows; weakened institutions, notably Congress and the judiciary; a sellout or abandonment of responsibility by political leadership; and the legitimization of violence as the ‘in’ way to either conduct discourse or solve disputes.”

At last week’s board meeting, which took place while the protestors gathered outside the mayor’s home, one trustee said, “It’s not fair to take national issues and bring them to Oak Park as if they’re universally applicable.”

I think she’s wrong. The civil unrest happening across the country has landed in Oak Park, whether we want to acknowledge this or not. James Baldwin’s fire next time is now. But we don’t have to just sit on our hands and let the flames overtake us.

Which brings me back to Frank Brim.

He said the intense anger he exhibited toward whites as a young man gradually subsided as he matured.

“Since 1975, what happens is, I had white teammates who became my brothers,” he said. “And it became, ‘Well, not all white people are bad. This dude is a ride-or-die friend.’ And then when I got in the fire department, I had some people who clearly didn’t want me there, but there were some white guys who were like family to me. We became real friends. And so, the idea that I don’t want to have anything to do with white people kind of diminished and it became, people are people.”

Frank dealt with his anger by building relationships with whites based on mutual respect and basic fairness -- relationships that opened the door to mutual understanding and healthy interdependence. He never became a Black Muslim.

And I suspect this may have been, at least partly, because civil society opened its doors to him and, however reluctantly, let him in.

No, the kids shouldn’t damage property. Full stop. Yes, they have every right to be angry. Full stop. With that said, Oak Park, they’re knocking at the door.

Let them in.

CONTACT: michael@austinweeklynews.com

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TYESHA MOORES Illuminating art from page 1 courage change.

Moores described herself as a photographer, a brand manager and a director – “basically, a jack of all trades.” Everything she does, she said, is to inspire and celebrate African-Americans, especially Black women, whose beauty and creative expression is often devalued and appropriated. And she likes to use bright, bold colors, something that she described as a reflection of her outgoing personality.

“I work in the realm of Black people, and making Black people looking good and bringing all the beauty we offer to the world to light,” Moores said. “I’m very vivacious, energetic, and I always try to bring it into my work, so I can see myself in my work in some way.”

Growing up in North Austin, Moores said she appreciated the sense of community, and she fondly recalled visits to the North Austin branch library, 5724 W. North Ave., and attending Ella Flagg Young elementary school, 1434 N. Parkside Ave. The neighborhood had beauty that many people don’t realize is there, she said.

“Learning how to ride my bike with my dad, and all of those things are the foundation of what I am,” she reflected. “Being from Chicago, born and bred, [gives you] a certain headstrong energy that I don’t see anywhere else.”

After spending her childhood surrounded by people who looked like her, moving to the “not predominantly Black” Kenosha was a cultural shock. But it was also a place where she discovered her interest in art. Moores attended Indian Trail High School and Academy, a public school where students are enrolled in one of the four “academies,” each with a different subject area focus. She enrolled in the Communications Academy, which focused on media, graphic design and photography.

“When you grow up in Chicago, in the hood, there’s not a lot of opportunities to do what you want to do as an artist, because you worry about violence,” Moores said, adding that her experiences in Austin and her experiences in Kenosha both formed equally important parts of who she is.

Since then, her art has led her to many opportunities. Most notably, earlier this summer, Obama Foundation reached out to her to work on the project highlighting several Black Chicago community leaders “who have risen up against racial injustice, channeled their anguish into action, and embodied what it means to lead in our hometown.”

“When they initially emailed me, I thought it was fake,” Moores recalled. “I was shocked, but I was also grateful, because I was trying to think of the ways to lift up the people that are doing the work in the community.”

She said that she appreciated that the Obama Foundation was flexible and allowed her full creative control, since there are

Provided

SELF-PORTRAITS: Tyesha Moores, an Austin native who was recently commissioned by the Obama Foundation says she works “in the realm of Black people” and wants to bring their beauty to light. many organizations who try to take advantage of artists.

And Moore wants to inspire the younger generation. For the past three years, she has been student mentor as part of the City Year Chicago program at the Chicago Academy High School in Belmont-Cragin, at 3400 N. Austin Ave. COVID-19 made the process more difficult for everyone involved, especially the students, but she is determined to do what she can.

“When I was growing up, I didn’t see black women like me who had colored hair, who were analogically themselves,” Moores said.

“I want them to know, to believe, that you can do anything. I want them to know that education is a powerful tool, and I will do whatever I can to see that they succeed in getting that.”

Since the killing of George Floyd, she has become more determined than ever to do empower and uplift the community. When she heard about what happened with Blake, she was distraught and worried about her mom, who still lives in Kenosha.

“I feel like [Kenosha] was not safe for black people there,” she said. “It’s extremely unfortunate. But that’s the reason why I’m so passionate about defunding the police.”

The shooting, Moores said, was a clear illustration of racism in policing.

“There is no reason why anybody should be shot seven times in the back,” she said.

“Because I’ve seen videos of people who are

white, running after cops with guns in their hands.”

She explained that she didn’t necessarily want to get rid of law enforcement altogether, but anyone who provides public safety should be from the community they police, and they should be accountable directly to the community they police.

Moore added that she’s in favor of shifting more resources toward social services, especially schools and mental health clinics.

While she said she appreciates Mayor Lori Lightfoot investing more in the communities on the South and West sides, Moores said, that it’s not enough, and it doesn’t address some of the root causes of crime and

other social ills. Listening to what the community actually wants and needs, she said, is key.

“In the perfect world, I would love to see our mayor, as well the local officials like state representatives, and the aldermen, get together with community members who are leading the uprising right now, that are leading Black Lives Matter,” she said. “Sit them with them, hear what they’re saying, and ask them, honestly, ‘What do you guys think is the most important thing we should do?’”

For more information about Tye Moores and her work, visit http://www.photyegraphy.com/.

CONTACT: michael@austinweeklynews.com

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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE 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

PUBLIC NOTICE 18 CH 09239 1342 NORTH MASSASOIT 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 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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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. 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

N.A., LVNV FUNDING LLC, NEIGHBORHOOD LENDING SERVICES, ONEMAIN FINANCIAL OF ILLINOIS, INC., SUCCESSOR

BY MERGER TO AMERICAN GENERAL FINANCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS, INC., STATE OF ILLINOIS Defendants 2018 CH 13968 1645 SOUTH CHRISTIANA AVENUE CHICAGO, IL 60623 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 8, 2020, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on September 25, 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 1645 SOUTH CHRISTIANA AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60623 Property Index No. 16-23-405-0060000 The real estate is improved with a red brick, multi-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. 269731 Attorney ARDC No. 61256 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 2018 CH 13968 TJSC#: 40-362 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 # 2018 CH 13968 I3155007

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION MTGLQ INVESTORS, L.P. Plaintiff, -v.KEVIN ANDERSON, MARLA J SMITH ANDERSON, BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR

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SEPTEMBER IS SUICIDE PREVENTION AWARENESS MONTH

Oak Park and River Forest would like to take this opportunity to bring awareness to suicide prevention and mental health resources within the community. If you or someone you know is struggling please reach out.

SEPTEMBER IS SUICIDE PREVENTION AWARENESS MONTH

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Local and National Resources

Oak Park and River Forest would like to take this opportunity to bring awareness to suicide prevention and mental health resources within the community. If you or Student: someone you know is struggling please reach out.

of people say They're more open to talk "52% about mental health as of people say They're a result of COVID-19."*

more open to talk about mental health as a result of COVID-19."*

Tips on how to start a real conversation

Tips on how to start a real conversation 1. Listen attentively 2. Ask open ended questions 1. Listen attentively 3. Don't assume o make 2. Ask open ended questions judgement 3. Don't assume o make 4. Find ajudgement way to get help

Support4U Textline: 844.670.5838 TEXT: Local and National Resources D90: SAFE Student: D97: HOPE Support4U Textline: 844.670.5838 TEXT:CARE D200: D90: SAFE D97: HOPE Community: D200: CARE

Thrive Counseling Center Crisis Line 708.383.7500 x888 Community: Thrive Counseling Center Crisis Line 708.383.7500 x888 Find resources at the HUB:

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National Suicide Prevention Hotline 1-800-273-TALK (8255) Hotline National Suicide Prevention 1-800-273-TALK (8255)

4. Find a way to get help

*According to an American Foundation for Suicide Prevention survey *According to an American Foundation for Suicide Prevention survey