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News for and servinq: Grand Boulevard (Bronzeville), JournaDoualas. Oakland. Kenwood, Woodlawn, Washington Parkl. Hyd e Park, Near South, Gap, Fuller Park, Armour Sauare >olume3.NumberB October 316,1996 The End of the Hole
Washington Park - As Cabrini-Green HUD to Taylor Homes Residents:"Plan Your future or it will be done for you" certificates drive was based on a oTaylon the West Side receiverd the masHomes Mid-South Organizatios onn Questio Scheduln CHA's Placement aned Jobfos for Residentr Demolitios survey where the majority of residentns medi11 ;__t-a: attentio^ __ r»__in . forA _redevelopment /~I_L • • r~* : I II IPV A. _ "I" .1 II _ P\ _" _ • I ^ HI-kl x t r •. ••• • • #• •• ._ the demolition of eight Cabrini-Green residents are involved in the process, and tactics for moving the residents voice their concerns to move. The Hole - a given name to three buildings and the rehabilitation of the But at a general meeting on October and producing jobs varies from Some residents questioned if i.t buildings of the Robert Taylor area for mixed-income families. 1, attended by Chicago Housing Au- community residents to • public represented the true wishes of the Homes, 5322 S. State, 5323 S. Federal While Taylor was created in the thorjty (CHA) director Joseph housing residents. Shuldiner said residents. "If you were asked to move & 5326 S. State, consider the most early 1960's, the concern has always Shuldiner, the concern by members of CHA as they did in the after promises and promises were notorious public housing since the late been challenged for a commitment to the MSPDC stress to Shuldiner "not Kenwood/Oakland community. 15% made you would want to move as sixties is close to a formal decision to involve residents in the revitalization all of them in our neighborhood." and of the residents will be coming back well." voiced Ms. Betty Scott a resi be demolish by 1998 under the De of their community. A position that want is needed before 'moving the to the community. The rest we will dent of Taylor for over 20 years. partment of Housing and Urban De the Mid-South Planning and residents are jobs." Annette Carter ask have to see. "Residents will suffer serious fi velopment (HUD) Hope VI project. Development Commission (MSPDC) Shuldiner"Where are you going to put Taylor B Local Advisory Council nancial losses if section 8 combined The similar program that is guiding stress to HUD in a letter to make sure the people". As the actual strategies (LAC) and the CHA Division of Resi- with the push to cut out public aid by SSJ Photo by Owen dent Programs has been meeting for 1998 the same time HUD proposed to m0nths focusin on the 400 fami,ies demolish the buildings." Scott re Mildred Dennis " '" S minded the residents and HUD. ' President of Taylor that oceuPy the three buildi"gs- "It's got to be more than moving B Homes standing, Plan? without residents involved people out on Section 8. Jobs, and on a chair stress have started to the Point of the involvement of including two additional building to education is the key. If the govern residents in the be demolish, 5001 and 5041 south, ment provide education with jobs we decision to Federal. wouldn't be in the position we are in demolish or rehab Emphasis are steadily been placed now." There has to be a holistic ap Taylor Homes last -on the well being on the residents, proach than moving people out and summer. Where A steering committee was to guide demolishing the buildings. she sad their the redevelopment of the area and As HUD has allocated serval thou actions will guide moving the residents out with sand Section 8 certificate for the plan, hers, section 8 certificates. The Section 8 Continue on page 6
O'Mally wins Here Comes (The Judge-ment) Democratic Leaders Wards —JA Wlid South Area getting a lot of at Ward - 10- 10,738 JDouglas(Bronzeville)-- annual Housing Tour oi the Convention and Tourism 13- 16,764 jHaroId Lucas has been promot- historic homes in the area. Council, which has acquired the 14- 9,486 fing Black Metropolitan for over Other initiatives still Supreme Life building on 35th Challenge the Irish Machine Jten years, which includes pending by Lucas is to and King Drive to be a business 18 - 14,671 1 Bronzeville. To this date many promote the Mayor of and convention tourism center. Control States Attorney's 19 - 20,917' | initiatives has started. The Mid- Bronzeville, a mock and Many news stories were Just as the city's Democratic Party leadership 23- 18,044 South Planning and notable concept conceived by written by major newspapers. double cross Cecil Partee and Patrick James 30- 10,547 the Chicago Defender in the One recently in the Chicago O'Connor, the same will happen to Richard 32 - 13,296 30's and 40's. Lucas is now Sun-Times on Ray Mason, Devine, according to Professor Robert Starks, 33- 8,441 I heading the Black Metropolis Continue on page 5 Chairman of the Black Task Force for Black 36 - 17,043 Development Commission has Political Empowerment (BTFBPE). In analyzing adopteThd e thMayor'e slogasn Blu"Restorine Ribbog n 38 - 16,460 |Bronzeville and sponsors an the past Cook County State's Attorney elections | Committee members and their the democratic party leading committeemen 29 - 11,312 I association and subcommittee wards supported the Republican Party over their 40 - 9,363 assignments are as follows: own candidate. 41 - 22,442 I Partnership Committee "R. Eugene Pincham, will be coming on as the 43 - 22,822 |Eddie Forte, President dragon slayer to break up the second powerful 44 - 21,196 (Cler Inc. 6445 S. State St. position in the Chicagoland area ran by Irish 45 - 18,881 |Frances Minor/8201 S. Rhodes politicians." According to Starks. "It is a most jJLeRoy Kennedy, Assoc. V.P. 46 - 11.626 extremely powerful position. The next most I Illinois Institute of Tech.32nd State 47 - 13,040 powerful position other than the. mayor." said |Ester Barnett, 35 E. 35th St. 48 - 10,674 Starks. "And the Irish has ran that post for years SSJ File Photo Leonard Taylor, General Partner from Chicago to Washington D.C. The Illinois R. Eugene Pincham, 49 - 8,497 jTaylor & Assoc. 3532 S Calumet the Justice Party 50 - 10,894 jJim O'Neal, Admin, Asst. States Attorney, U.S. and the F.B.I: ran by the candidate of Cook *Chairman Hines (Griffin Funeral Home 33rd King Dr. Continue on page 7 County States Attorney. |Jim Shirley, President, |Drexe1 National Bank 34th King Dr. I Larry Huggins, President, JRiteway Const. 258 E: 115th Edward Wimp, Owner/Operator, |McDonald's 35th and Wabash Bishop C.Davis,Indiana Pentecostal iChurch 32hd Indiana (William Goodall, President jJMcKenzie Cook Corp. 1701 E 53rd |Dr. Peter McCauly, Presi.Gap {Community Org.31 & Prairie Ave. |Dr. Leon Dingle,P.O.Box 12405 [Chicago,!!. 60612 (Barbara Jones-Green, President, jjonette Inc. 601 E. 32nd St. Derrick Stinson,President (Matthew House 3610 S. Giles |Susan Campbell, V.P., Wendall Campbell & Assoc. 13th Michigan Dempsey Travis,Sivart Realty 840 E. 87th Street Robin Price, 35th King Drive Etta Moten Barnett.Patron of the SSJ Photo by Duane Lee Arts 3619 S. King Drive Bronzeville, the area commonly known to cover between 22nd and 39th street, from early 1900's to the mid-50's. Photo by Willy Schmidt Jim Balcer, Dir. Comm. of Human These young workers cleaned the parkway and vacant lot at 37th & Michigan Ave. as part Is getting a rebirth the art works that includes a 15 foot Rel.Veterans Affairs 510 N. of Mayor Daley's summer Jobs program. The Department of Streets and Sanitation has bronze male figure by Alison Saar. Continue on page 5 been assigned 500 seasonal workers to complete similar work throughout the city.
South Street ^ournafs 3rd (Anniversary and €)ffice Warming new address 46£S <3o. liiichigan Uve., Saturday 7CQV. 2nd, Page 2 SOUth Street Journal October 3 - October 16, 1996
Cpi-uuiimlr/ j^j/lalk; MEETINGS and EYEN1S v, I Collaboration of Community Groups Submit Proposal to CHA October A grant was submitted to the Chicago Housing Authority 1 On-Gooooing for crisis intervention and response recreation (weight I The Chicago Theatre Company launches its 1996-97 lifting, basketball, leadership training, and employment | season with : The death of the Black Jesus, The play connections, arts and crafts and trips. Organizations examines both the heated dynamics of African- submitting the proposal were Williams Youth Services, the American politics, as well as the 90s accelerated Slick Boys, Abraham Lincoln Center, Mid-South Planning growth and exploitation of the TV talk-show format, and Development Commission, the Youth Consortium, through November 3. CTC performances are at Youth Net/Youth As Resources, Operation Sunbeam and Parkway Playhouse, 500 E. 67th Street. Show times Centers for New Horizons. are 8 pm; Ticket prices are $15, with discounts for Chicago Urban League & University of seniors and students. Call 493-5360. Chicago Hospitals had the Ribbon Cutting cere J "They Sought Freedom: The Underground Railroad mony of the Healthy Start Family Center at 3424 S. State from Illinois to Canada, an exhibition developed by the Street, providing healthcare and social services for the DuSable Museum Curatorial Department is now open entire family The University of Chicago Hospitals'will through January 30, 1997, at the museum, 740 provide medical services such as primary health care ser iE.56th Place. vices, with OB. Gynecologists, Pediatrician and Nurse j I Grammy award nominee Joshua Redman will headline Practitioners, Home Visiting Nurses, mental health ser the Fall return of the "Miller genuine Draft Taste of vices, entrepreneurial training, nutrition counseling, free Jazz an Blues Series" at the DuSable Museum of pregnancy tests and breast-feeding resource room. African-American History at 7 and 10 pm. The Social Services include case management, job training / j museum is located at 740 East 56th PI. readiness and car seat lending programs, parenting, male /1 City of Chicago Community Development Advisory female responsibility and G.E.D. preparation classes, WIC I Committee (CDAC) is seeking nominations for referrals, episodic day care, child play room, toy lending membership for the term of January 1, 1997 to library and developmental screenings. For more informa December 31 1997. If your organization wishes to tion call 326-4485. nominate a person to represent you contact Ms. Matthew House to receive grant, providing Carolyn De Loatch, 121 N. LaSalle, room 1003. transitional housing for homeless men they will be among I Sat. 5, homeless shelters to receive part of a $40 million in federal I Crusaders For Justice meets every Saturday at 12 funds to help get the homeless off city streets. The funds I noon, at Holiness Temple Church 56th and Indiana are expected to be forwarded to the several non profit every Saturday. agencies and groups by November or December. Ujamaa Food Market Mass meeting every Saturday to Push and Rainbow Join as One. As the PUSH formulate the food Co-op at 54th and Wentworth at the Grand blvd. Shopping Center where the meeting Photo by Peter Schulz Sterling Silver Anniversary Conference got on the way j will be held, at 1 2 pm. doors open at 2.For Friends, family and co-workers gathered last month to dedicate a tree celebrating 25 years, the Civil rights organization based in I in memory of Streets & Sanitation Deputy Commissioner Leo Clark, the Kenwood community, joined together Operation PUSH I information call 667-4160. who died last spring after a 38-year public service career that put him and Rainbow Coalition merging as one. Sun. 6 in charge of snow operations, street sweeping and other important programs. Joining in the ceremony were (I to R) Aid. Dorothy Crusaders of Justice Targets Construc VanderCook College of Music will host Dr. Dennis Tillman, (3), Mrs. Wilma Clark and Commissioner Eileen Carey. tion Companies. Based in the Washington Park com-j Northway, Organ Recital at Grace Episcopal Church, munity, Crusaders have been monitoring, construction 924 Lake St. in Oak Park. VanderCook is located at companies resurfacing streets, rehabbing properties and 3140 S. Federal, for info call 800-/448-2655 new construction, pointing out only a few and in most Hon. 7 cases, no blacks are being hired. The Hunter Alliance Friend of Howard Kenner State Representative of the Corp. working at 76th and Racine was monitor by the Cm-1 24th District are hosting a cocktail reception and saders and found the company discriminating against! M wo political organizers in the Mid-South area are reportedly' steppers set honoring Mr. Kenner at 118 E. 22nd (two m getting or got married. From the 3rd Ward, former aldermanic Black contractors as well as employees. Rev. Earl Sar-J M candidate Antoni Chappel, and from the 4 th ward, Al Kindel don, Crusaders president, said, "It seems the white con-J TTc£e?sWare «0 do9™'** ^ ^ ^ 8:°°^ ^ L-— staff person of Aid. Toni Preckwinkle is jumping over the broom. struction companies do not employ Black sub-contractors, ! and in most cases, no Black employees. Hispanics, they j Tue. 8 Is it true, Leroy Square, presi. of MSP DC has a contract with Henry have fulfilled their obligation of affirmative action. We ; Mid-South Planning and Development Commission Home?. While Mid-South is the wagon train of public housing. must insist on employment of the people from this com-j Committee meeting from 6 pm to 8 pm at the King Community organizations that's about doing some real, bottom up munity." Center, 4314 S. Cottage;Grove Ave. All are invited to organizing (the Empowerment Zone don't count) should contact the The City Encourages Community attend. Woods Foundation for funding. They are looking to fund those action Task Force for Black Pofitical Empowerment meets at organizations. Social Service stuff need not apply On that note Mid- Gardens to become involved in the Farmers Markets. Inner City Studies, 700 E. Oakwood every Tuesdays South congressman elect of the 7th district Commissioner Danny Inviting community based gardens to become involved in :at 7:00 p.m. Davis, his agenda upon becoming congressman will reportedly be next years Farmers Market program. The markets which I direct involved with low income resident concerns. This will be his first operate from June to October each. For the past two years, 1Wed . 9 time serving constituents of public housing. Cabrini Greens, operated by residents of CHA has offered | "nommo: The Power of the Word," the monthly poetry shoppes fresh produce. Community based gardeners inter-1 series of the DuSable Museum will kkick-of.f it's Fall Joe Tillman is now working with the Crusaders of Justice and looking ested in obtaining more information on how they can par-1 Series. The event will take in the small auditorium at pretty clean nowadays ....And the Crusaders alone with Washington ticipate in next years Farmers Market program should call |740 E. 56th Place. Admission $5. Park Community Coalition made some good head way ensuring the Department of Consumer Services at 744-9187 community people got jobs with the Black Circus in Washington. Sal. 12 The West Woodlawn Council of Block Club's Peggy Cotton, the community's mask maker is an extra in the movie the Missing; Have You Women's Auxiliary meets monthly on the 2nd "Hood", which was shooting on 24th and Michigan. If you are Seen Clint Kimble ^Saturday of each month at Parkway Community interested in being a movie extra, contact Peake Casting at 1212 S. Missing from the Kenwood [House, 500 E. 67th street; 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. All Michigan, #1002, Chgo. 60605. Provide a picture ofyouself community area, Clint C. Kimble women are invited. Morgan Carter, the conversation Starter, (distant slave cousin to SSJ 24, has a mental disability and is iWomfro Festival 96', a woman specific celebration publisher Ron Carter) will be the M.C for the 3rd Anniversary of SSJ^ in need of his medication. with an afrocentric point of view and universal appeal. November 2nd.... Ziz Sistrunk is unzipping the wrong zipper saying SSJ Kimble is easily recognized due iThe "fqst" will offer workshops on topics that speak was sold to Morgan Carter. We will sue you like Aid. Tillman sued SSJ. to his size 285 lbs., his chipped Ito women who want to transform their lives, families Kenwood resident, Wanda White formerly with CWED, is now front tooth, a pierced left ear, and land communities. It will be held at the Harris YWCA employed with CHA, also CHA hired a writer of the Chicago Defender a football tattoo on his upper left (6200 S. Drexel - Ebony Room at 1 2 Noon - 6PM: If to do its residents newspaper for $50,000 a year with an $80,000 arm that has the letters "CK" lyou are interested in presenting, vending or serving on Clint Kimble of 46th ithe Womfro Committee call Beverly Reed at 667- budget.CHA newspaper for the tenants, by the tenants, of the tenants. inside of it. and Lake Park But will it be for the present tenants? Clint Kimble may not know 4289. Walk for Literacy Programs with Firman Community Harold Lucas & company receiving the Supreme Building. Now the how to return home, or even where his home is as he iService. The 10k walk will begin at Daley Bicentennial soon to be social millionaire must secure funds for the Forum on disappeared without any identification. If you know Plaza 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM. For more information call 43rd Street. We won't UnZip what you said at the Mid-South where Clint is call the Chicago Police at 747-8385 or Ms. Elaine Norwood at 451-3410 Planning meeting in front of a lot of people, Harold.. Do Aid. Illinois State Police 1-800 U HELP ME. A $1,000 reward Tillman has veto power over the EZ funds as Haithcock says she is paid upon return of Clint. Thus. 17 does...On the aldermen, Bruce Crosrby of the Harold Washington 47th Street Merchant Association will hold their Bi Party isn't surprise Black democratic nldermen are satisfied supporting CAPS BEAT CALENDAR monthly. The meeting topics will address the plans for a non-partisan mayoral election (or making sure the tools are in place Beat 2nd Dist 5101 S. Wentworth 747-7801 47th Street from the city. For location and to block B.Rush, or R. Burris running.) Some may get a contract for 222 10/10 6:30 4314 S. Cottage information call Ron Carter at 924-0461 their staff as 19th Ward Rugi did for a side walks job on Western Ave. 232 10/3 7pm 5129 Indiana: 211 10/16 7pm 3647 S. State St. Sat. 19 J IIT of 3 Jst Street, Leroy Kennedy is now V.P. and Lew Collens, 212 10/17 7pm 3566 S. State St Minister Tony Hjohsno, Sr. of Stitach master- Global president has been elected presi. on the board of the Leadership 3rd District 7040 S. Cottage 747-7004 Ethnic Fashion Design Co. at Freedom Now Center Greater Chicago. An organization that creates a class of 30 leadership 313 10/3 7pm Harris YMCA 62nd Drexel Back on Schedule. Next issue: Oct. 31rst Deadline for fellows (gives money) from the city to spend a year studying Chicago 332 10/10 7pm District station material is Oct. 17th. SSJ will publish notices of communities. Does that include who the drugs are shipped by the CIA. 311 10/15 7 pm St. Edmond-61th & Mich. community meetings, events and programs. Any 21st District 300 F. 29th St. 747-2930 organization or person in the SSJ circulation area may •, 3 i UP!:. 2123 10/8 6:45 4434 S. Lake Park submit material. We willprint.,others as it relate to the 2111 10/10 6:15 2353 S. Wentworth I UnZipers area. Send material one week in advance to South UnZip information is 2132 10/10 7 pm 4904 S. Lake Park compiled by community must leave Street Journal, 213 E. 55th Street Chgo, III 60637. 10/16 6:30 2847 S. Indiana residents. If you have any name and 2112 We reserve the right to refuse and edit material. call 924-0064 or Fax at telephone. 2131 10/17 7 pm 5480 S. Kenwood South Street Journal October 3 - October 16, 1996 Page 3 Shareef said, "There remains a great winkle 4th) and the Department of need to monitor all City, County and Planning created a pollack that read Community and Civil Organizations formStat e contracts." in part, "for every house that was to "This coalition will shut do*vn be constructed there would be three every job site in the African-Ameri (3) people hired from the area. The Coalition for Construction Jobs can community that is not in com policy was approved by the North pliance with 100% African Ameri Kenwood ^Community Conservation jOakland/Kenwood - The Kenwood form the "1,000 Walking Strong the city. can contracts and employment in the Council." fOakland Community Organization Coalition". The one major action was a rally African American Community." "The community has been over j(KOCO) along with the African Organizers said the coalition was at City Hall protesting Mayor Da Said Shareef, "Until we reach 55% whelmed with outsiders working (American Contractors Association formed to address the African ley's policies towards small and mid goal of contractors and jobs city here, with few or no community |(AACA) has joined with several American community not having sized African American contractors wide, our demands remain". workers. Enough is enough!" Icommunity and civil organizations to access to contracts and jobs around and workers. AACA president Omar Bob Lucas, director of KOCO lead One development Lucas pointed the focus of the coalition on the out was of Wade Enterprises & community construction work. Associates, Inc. constructing five "There is a housing boom taking houses at 46th St. and Lake Park place in North Kenwood-Oakland Ave. Lucas said that, there were and the residents are not getting the seven men working: Five Hisp'anics jobs that result from the construc and two Whites. Because there were tion. Before housing construction not any community workers nor was initiated in the conservation African Americans on the job, KOCO area, the Alderman (Toni Preck- Continue on page 10 PEOPLE! ELECT I ON DRY IS NERR
jCenter Omar Shareef (center) President of the African American Contractors Association and Doris Parport of (Operation PUSH lead the close down at a Daley Center construction site with other coalition members. NOW THAT BOTH CONVENTIONS ARE Mid-South_City Council Updnti OVER, & DEBATES HAVE STARTED THE FOCUS IS ON Empowerment Zone Proposals to City Council Lou Rawls Center Approved for Funding VOTING IN By Doug Kelly NOVEMBER. On September It the City' Council CHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE IS voted to fund the first LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS TO HELP group of the Federal Empowerment Zone GET OUT THE VOTE. grants. In Mid South WE NEED PEOPLE TO GO DOOR-TO-DOOR area the following REGISTERING PEOPLE TO VOTE included: AND PASSING OUT FLYERS. Proposal 348 To WE HAVE TARGETED CERTAIN PRECINCTS IN THE bacco Road 4535 S. The Rev. Richard Tolliver, t>f St. Edmund, housing program is GRAND BOULEVARD COMMUNITY WITH LOW VOTER King^ Dr. Amount scheduled to receive a EZ grant TURNOUT FOR AN ALL OUT GET OUT THE VOTE approved was Tobacco Road, spearheaded by Alderman Dorothy Tillman (3). of $1,500,000.00 to rehab 57th, EFFORT. $1,000,000, total 59th, and 6rst & Michigan. St. has been approved for $1,000,000, for the Lou Rawls Cultural projection cost Edmund was featued in Business and Entertainment Center on 47th and King Drive. The total ALL-IMPORTANT CAUSE $7,651,101 for the projection cost reported is $7,651,101 FOR MORE INFORMATION, tourism center to feature computer gram Director from the Youth & Lou Rawls Cultural and Entertainment PLEASE CONTACT and telecomferencing capability and a Family Resource Center, located at Center, Spearheaded by Alderman JONATHAN WILLIAMS AT 451-3557 commercial and a retail store, and part 4434 S. Lake Park .stated that their Dorothy Tillman (3). 80 of restoring Bronzeville Program, proposal will augment it's Youth Net Y E A J* S OF Proposal #13 St. Edmonds lo- Five townhouses part of the Supreme program which is sponsored by the CHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE POSITIVE CHANGE cated at 6103 S. Michigan. Ljfe Buiiding have been restored and Chicago Dept. of Human Services. 4510 S. MICHIGAN AVENUE CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Amount approved-$ 1,000,500.00, sold (5) total projection cost- Proposal 137 Tom Gladden, Pro- Continue on page 16 60653-3898 312/285-5800 Fax 312/285-7772 $6,550,400.00. President and CEO, Rev. Richard Tolliver explained that St. Edmund proposed to rehab six multi-family buildings in the Wash ington Park Community totaling 65 units. All building are on Michigan AVe. two at 57th block, 3 in the 59th . and one on 61st street which contains a grocery store that will also be re- habed. St. Edmond has already rehabed 5 buildings in the area, including 2 at ILL 57th and Michigan: Over 250 Randolph/Wabash Madison/Wabash Featured in the August 19, issue of Adams/Wabash Business Week, the four page article Roosevelt/Wabash on St. Edmond was headlined "Bringing Hope back to the Hood: Does Chicago provide a model for 35-Bronzeville-HT urban renewal? The article credited Indiana St. Edmund with pioneering the tech Frequent, 43rd nique of combining public and private 47th funds to redevelopment urban areas. 51st Proposal 343 the Black Metropo Garfield lis Convention and Tourism Court- Trams Daily cil. Executive director Harold Lucas said that the organization plans to use funding resulting from their proposal for the acquisition and restoration of TRANSIT' CHICAGO the Supreme Life Building at 35th and © Free Rail Connection King Drive. They are expected to <3 Closed nights/Sundays/Holidays receive $100,000. The proposal calls for a visitor and For Green Line Information call: 836-7000 Page 4 South Street Journal October 3 - October 16, 1996 "SHALL THE SALE AT RETAIL OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR BE PROHIBITED Public Aids's Kenwood Office 61ST STREET TO 75TH STREET, STATE ST. TO DORCHESTER" mm e ,0 Cha 9 WeKare f,°By Everlovce McCulloghJ" ? rollsT becaus.e they found employ Residents Prepare to Vote Area Dry ByA sEverlovce the Near McCulloeh North Healt h Service mentrolls . because thev found emt) ov- State to Dorch # Corporation (NNHSC) sponsored a "My goal is to help more AFDC ester "Dry" of \ Businesses/Residents Meet city-wide community forum entitled clients obtain employment," said selling alcohol. "Welfare Reform: Have You Heard Kenwood Administrator Obadiah Part of the 47th Street Target the Latest?" on June 20, at Malcolm Clay brook. "Toward that goal, the residents X College Auditorium, community Kenwood staff has been planning a taking part -of for Voting it Dry residents from West Town, Hum community job fair. I urge all busi the drive is the The 3rd Ward, 30th precinct: boldt Park, Near North, Cabrini- nesses and community groups to get Consumer :47th Street, Between Vincennes and Green, Kenwood and Oakland had an involved and help make Work Pays Task Force \ St. Lawrence opportunity to discuss the current a continuing success." based in the [ Grand Blvd.-Community residents and status of welfare reform and the Work Pays also has served as a 20th ward. members of the 47th Street Merchant changes in the Medicare/Medicaid strong base upon which, more state Lead by Ida ; Association met to discuss the condi- system. Representatives such as Han welfare reforms have been built. Fulton, the jtion of the area nah Rosenthal, U.S. Department of The changes include: group has been related with Health & Human Services; Jim Rush, A Self-Sufficiency Plan, which targeting stores liquor sales on Illinois Department of Public Aid: requires all AFDC clients and new on 63rd Street ^August 15, at the Nelson Soltman, Legal Assistance applicants to complete individual Strip with poor • Harris Bank. Foundation: Marion Stamps-Benton, plans that detail the steps they in consumer ser ^Residents fed up Winfield Moody Health Center and tend to take to get a job. Failure to vices and vio i with beer and others participate in the discussion. produce a plan could lead to loss of lations. I wine bottles In the focus to address the benefits for the entire family. \ discarded in the Ms. Fulton Mary Jordan individual needs, the Kenwood office SSJ Photo by Owen Lawson yards and along Targeted Work Initiative, which Rev. Ernest Peterson tells community residents at Harris stress while her of the Illinois Department of Public affects families whose youngest YMCA how to vote their precinct dry. group has been 47th Street organized their displeasure Aid has been changing welfare to by petitioning the area to vote it dry for child is 13 years of age or older. All Wood lawn — Rev Ernest Peterson addressing emphasize work and personal the Nov. 4 general election. AFDC parents will be required to for over 15 years has led a drive to liquor stores for some time now, said responsibility. Stressing their concerns to the Mer hold a job or face the loss of AFDC dry up many communities of Chicago its time to get the ministers more in Work Pays, introduced two years chants Association, "residents feel that benefits in 24 months. from liquor stores. His charge now is volved. ago, has been the keystone to change 'these products are sold and bought Family Accountability, which to work with the residents of the 3rd One of their victories was the in this community and across the along 47th Street between Vincennes states that no additional AFDC ben police district area who are fed up demolition on the vacant stores off state. The program has served as a jand St. Lawrence, which causes a efits will be paid to a family that has with drugs, gangs and liquor stores. 63rd and King Drive, where they financial incentive for more welfare a child while on welfare. j maintenance problem in the area." Rev. Peterson met with residents-of stood vacant for over 10 years. families to find and accept jobs. The Teen Parent Requirement, I Mary Jordan, owner of the Bonanza the 20th ward this past summer at Residents have been challenging Work Pays allows an AFDC client which states that unmarried AFDC I Lounge and president of the 47th Street Harris YMCA to organize voting the stores themselves mostly with little to keep two thirds of their income parents under age 18 must live with j Merchants Association acknowledges area bound from • 61st to 75th Streets, results. The mission of the meeting from a job while receiving an AFDC a parent or guardian to receive ben lead by Rev. Peterson is, "following (that the situation exists. But cautions grant, child care, medical coverage efits. President to make further changes in the guide lines of the city". The jthe residents voting the entire area dry. food stamps plus the benefits of the The School Attendance Require the welfare system that will add to group must have at least 25% (40% "There is a bigger picture at stake here federal Earned Income Tax Credit. ment, which says parents under 18 the positives momentum that's been for single address proposition) of the than voting the area dry" stated Jordan. The goal of Work Pays is to help years of age who have not received created by the thousands of public registered voters in the precincts, j "We disagree with the proposal of how families hold jobs, eventually move a high school degree or a GED aid clients who want the opportunity (reportedly filed with the City Clerk {to eliminate the problem. The restora- off welfare and become independent, diploma must enroll in school or a to move from welfare to work. on August 7, 90 days prior to the jtion of Bronzeville and the revitaliza- self-supporting citizens who pay GED program. AFDC clients interested in learning {November 5th general election to put jtion of Grand Boulevard in general, taxes and make their communities These reforms and others have put more about the changes or attending jthe referendum on the ballot to de-{mandates 47th Street night life as an stronger. Illinois squarely on the front line to Work Pays Orientation sessions jtermine whether the sale of alcohol j intricate part of the economic and so-1 Since the introduction of Work help clients realize the benefits of a should contact their caseworkers. (should be prohibited with the |cial stability of the^ community It is! Pays in November 1993, more than system that promotes work over Clients who do not know their precincts to be voted dry. jmore important than voting all liquor j 40,000 AFDC clients and their fami welfare. caseworker can call me (Everloyce A liquor licensee or any five regis- 1 establishments dry. 1 \ lies statewide have left the welfare We now look to Congress and the McCullogh) at 312-538-8853. Continue on page 5 Continue on page I8\
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We need Whites first, if you do A Nunse? legislation to ensure 1. not remind them of the (Safe patient care by a That Rocks s good quality health care being "first-come first- professionally trained nurse or doctor. 2. sacrificed on the alter of money? Some served" priority. White Protection for nurses who speak out against The Flag nurses say yes. According to Revolution people —most of them— do unsafe patient care. * omen redefined and Magazine 74% have had their job cut. not understand that we all At the University of Chicago, the person changed their roles as Some hospitals say the nurse is resistant suffer from the'same ills responsible according to published news reports mothers of humanity and to change, to reengineering. You be the which will eventually cause for the needle stick of a baby was a patient care changed the world. * judgeI. Who does what to you when you are America's downfall unless technician-not a trained nurse or laboratory We have been shifted to a sick? If you or your loved one has been in we really become "color '^^tf phlebotomist. Who are these people being "topsy-turvy" existence, the hospital in the past year or two, have blind:" and unite as a nation, advancing: irresponsibility- hired to replace? Nurses at a much lower W "one"nation.... As we so you noticed poor service? Are you being . salary, of course. If you're paying more and male abuse, disrespecting women / discharged earlier? Are you being taught often place our hands over getting less because nurses are not there, insecurity-male dependency on how to take care of yourself? Did you or our hearts and pledge to the where is the savings? Is it given back to you women / Unemployment-(and on , your loved one have to return to the hospital symbol of our country. as credit? The people who are being and on, and on). soon after discharge? Are hospitals being What is wrong with that hired are not trained in physiology or Where will it end? 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Educators, include children who have matters, Chicago high schools do not Vallas called probation a Mid-South Area Raymond parents, politicians and learning problems which teach Reading, they offer English long - needed "call to Elementary Schools Ross students all have a vested are primarily the result of courses for credit. These same action". In each of these On Probation Sherwood interest in what happens environmental, cultural or schools are candidates for academic schools, 85 percent or Attucks Terrell with in the school economic disadvantages:, probation, which would lead to the more of the students Bass J. Ward, classroom between however oftentimes these removal of a principal and staff. failed to score at Beasley Williams September and next June. are precisely the children So what conclusions can be drawn national averages on Politicians made By Hannibal who have been included from ringing school bells across the reading tests (Iowa Test receive paychecks only if they were campaign speeches Tims Afrik in special education. city? Will this^compulsory of Basic Skills or the high school picked up by other schools or worked indicating that Meanwhile, here in Educational attendance year become a Trick or version of that test, called the Tests of as substitute teachers. And even local educational reform would Chicago, the educational Treat for Chicago's students, Achievement and Proficiency (TAP). school councils face scrutiny. Columnist be a top priority yet, in bureaucracy continues its comprised of majority African "It's game time," Vallas said. "This Probation also can lead to the even actuality, the reverse occurred. For "smoke and mirrors" charade. Over Americans? What guarantees will be is it. Probation says while the schools more severe sanction of example, since 1983, illiteracy has the summer, nearly 2,000 eighth given to our children that the public may be making progress, the schools reconstitutiion, in which an entire increased from 23 million to 50 graders were retained based on school system will strive to educate have got to get better and we are school staff can be given the pink slip million and it is still climbing in results from mandatory summer them to their maximum potential? going to use the resources and and local school councils can be 1996. Even after high school school tests. This represented 7.2% African American parents, authority at our disposal to make sure replaced. graduation, over 25% lacked even of all eighth graders. However, educators and community leaders they do." For academic status use to place partial mastery of grade level 1,200 others were promoted even must establish an agenda for Under probation, school staffers schools on probation, see Sun Times reading skills. though they failed the same exit test education liberation. We can no can be removed from their jobs - in Homepage. The whole category of special this summer because they would be longer allow mediocrity, apathy and December and in June - and would HTTP:\\WWW.Suntimes.com education is controversial in age 15 by December 1 st. hopelessness to paralyze our creative academic circles. Many students in Summer school was required for genius and cultural birthright to this classification fail to become the 5,513 students who scored control those institutions within the "decertified" or mainstreamed into below 6.8 on the April Iowa Test of community. "Education is our Technclcgy fcp the Hccri general education. An overwhelming Basic Skills for eighth grade. passport to freedom; tomorrow Ron Carroll has a vision. After and Tourism Council is working with number of learning disabled (LD) Despite the accolades given this belongs to those who prepare for it over a decade working with com Ron Carroll as a member of the children are African American males summer to the 2,422 students who today" Malcolm X. puters, Ron has become an expert in Communications Technology information systems development committee to create new opportuni include having and outstanding and management. Ron sees ties for Bronzeville area residents Rachel Johnson Excels in academic record throughout high computers becoming an increasingly while planning to become a self- school, being endorsed and important part of everyday life in sustaining enterprise and leading National Merit Scholarship Program recommended by the high school communities, businesses and at partner in the Empowerment Zone Morgan Park Academy (MPA) entered the 1997 merit program as principal,' and submitting SAT home. effort. If you would like to kno\ senior Rachel Johnson, a Hyde Park juniors by taking the 1995 scores. NSMC will announce the Ron wants to prepare an army of more about CACI or become a par resident was named a semi - finalist Preliminary SAT / National Merit names of the merit scholarship young people, organizations and ticipant, collaborator or sponsor, call in the National Merit Scholarship Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT winners next April. small businesses for tomorrow. He Mr. Carroll at 465-7179. View the Program, as . announced by the / NMSQT). Using this qualifying Rachel, daughter of Martin and calls his vision CACI for Community BMC&TC Web National Merit Scholarship test as an initial screen of program Margaret Johnson. She joins three access Centers, Inc. Page:http: wwww.interman.net/Bronz Corporation (NMSC). entrants, the highest scorers in each other MPA students: David Blake, The Black Metropolis Convention eville This academically talented high state were designated semi Leah Concannon and Amanda Davis school senior has an opportunity to finalists, in numbers representing - Aitken in being named a semi - Robert Morris College Grants $471,000 continue in the competition for about one - half of one percent of finalist. approximately 7,000 merit the state's high school graduating Morgan Park Academy is a private, in Scholarships This Fall scholarship awards, worth about $27 class. Before they can be considered coeducational, college - preparatory Annual Grants and Awards: $5.5 Million million, to be offered next spring. for merit scholarship awards, semi - day school for students from Rachel is one of more than 1.1 finalists must advance to the finalist kindergarten through twelfth grades. million students in 20,000 high level of competition by fulfilling The Academy is located in Chicago's schools in the United States who additional requirements. These Beverry / Morgan Park neighborhood. DE LA SALLE INSTITUTE Nominate a Teacher in AND Grades Pre-K-5 for a TOLTQN ADULT GOLDEN APPLE EDUCATION CENTER AWARD offers a literacy program which provides Nominations are now open for the the following services without fee: 12th Annual Golden Apple Awards, honoring 10 Chicago-area teachers *Pre-literacy'/literacy educaton each year for excellence in classroom *Basic Skills instruction teaching. Winners receive: *Pre=GED ihstructon * $2,500 *GED preparation * Paid sabbatical to study tuition- free at Northwestern University ^Family Literacy Programs * Personal computer from IBM 4910 Martin L. King Dr. * Induction into the Golden Apple (312) 268-4007 Academy of educators, an active Kimberly Williams, a transfer student from School Suburban College organization that designs, programs received a $5,000 President's Scholarship Award from Robert Morris for teacher recognition, recruitment, College (RMC) to complete requirements for a Bachelor of Business renewal and reform. Administration degree. Williams qualified as the transferee from Kennedy The Hyde Park Winning teachers are awarded King college to RMC this year. Pictured here from left: Richard Pickett, Golden Apples in May 1997 on a RMC chancellor, Williams, Kathie House, Kennedy King Transfer Coordinator Kung-Fu Academy and Michael Viollt, RMC president. For Young People ages 4 to 17 prime-time special produced and broadcast by WTTW/Channel 11. The annual back to school trek just Kimberly Williams, a transfer student Every Friday at 6:30 pm got a little easier for 168 students en from Kennedy King College. $25 per month To be eligible, nominees must currently be teaching full-time in tering or transferring to Robert Morris Williams, who is enrolled in RMC's Tai Chi Ch'uam St Kung-Fu college. Bachelor of Business Administration Confidence* Discipline* Excellence grades Pre-K-5 at any public or non public school. Anyone may nominate This fall, Robert Morris College degree program, was awarded a The Hyde Park a teacher, including fellow educators, awarded 168 scholarships totaling $5,000 President's award as the top Kung-Fu/Tai Chi Club principals, current and former stu more than $471,000 to new students transferee from Kennedy King College Adult Classes dents, parents and other community enrolled at the downtown and Orland this year. Every Sunday at 6:30 pm members. To obtain a nomination Park campuses of the college. Overall Robert Morris College awards the Instructor pauul Hanah M.D. form, call 312-407-0006 or write the the college awards more than $5.5 Bachelor of Business Administration under the guidance of Dr. David M. Berry Golden Apple Foundation, 8 S. million in student scholarships and (BBA) degree with concentration in Tai Chi*Pa«Kua*Kung-Fu* Women's Self-Defense* Michigan Ave., Suite 700, Chicago, grants each year. Management, Accounting, computer 4945 S. Dorchester Enter on 50th IL. 60603-3318. Nominations closed Among those receiving scholar Information Systems and Healthcare Call 312-842-3759 December 2, 1996. ships for academic achievement was Management. Page 10 South Street Journal October 3-16, 1996 Word count 1,430 someplace. Once they get By Toure Muhammad involved and they see some • Final Call reporter/Free Lance writer to South Street Journal success, that motivates them Larry Hoover. To some, like President Clinton, U.S. States I to work. We are a people Attorney James Burns and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley he's the next I that need things tangible. Al Capone, and a key reason behind the drugs and violence in Black FC: Those indicted with Chicago as leader of the Gangster Disciple street organization. He 1 you, what is their association served 23 years in prison after being convicted of murder and to you? sentenced to 150 to 200 years. According to government officials, Mr. - LH: Inside^my wife's Hoover, from behind bars, has successfully ran a drug ring "grossing office (the police) took a file in excess of $100 million a year." He was indicted on federal drug that had locations of all charges last April and awaits & trial in October, organizations that was a part But many community activists say age has changed Larry Hoover of the peace process; ... (The and they give him credit for helping curb gang violence, while former police) put it in the paper and said it was a drug chart. I hope they do leaders of rival street organizations, who served time with him, give bring that to the trial because ^everyone (street organization leaders) Mr. Hoover credit for helping to turn their lives around. Larry Hoover, within the city had a chart like that so they would know who to call in says is no longer a Gangster Disciple, but now heads the Growth and :: time of trouble. Development Nation and wants Black youths youth to raise their FC: Is there any animosity between you and Chief Malik (Jeff Fort) '"educational, economical, political, and social awareness." An 1 and the El Rukns? interviewed of Mr. Hoover to learn how he sees himself. LH: No. There is definitely no animosity or friction. At one point in Final Call (FC): Are you the same today as you were 23 years ago? the 60s before we matured, before we knew any better. Once you mature* Larry Hoover (LH): I'm a much different person than I was 23 •you realize what you fight is against. Your fight is against ignorance. years ago. I was a young man without direction relegated to a certain The only thing that keeps the friction between these kids up is ignorance, sphere in life. I've broadened my views on life. they don't know no better. They scared to know each other because this FC: What about the accusations from President*Clinton and Chicago man got one ideology and the other got another ideology. Mayor Daley that you are the ring leader of criminal activity? FC: What is your ideology? LH: 1 believe the reason for the attacks is because I have the capacity LH: You should treat each man the way you want to be treated. There . to galvanize the youth, and get them involved in the democratic is no difference between us. We are all Black people. When we get in {process. By educating them and bringing them into the political front of this judge he don't ask you if you are a Gangster Disciple, Black process, that represents a voting block that could change the tide of Disciples, Vice Lord or El Rukn. He don't say because you a Vice Lord j any local election. They don't want us to become a part of the system. you get two years and a Gangster Disciple get 10 years. Both of you are ; Them kids, when they was involved with the political process, they . Black men and you'll get 10 years.. It shows that we're all one people and i had more problems from the police on election days than any time thev if we don't come together with each other then we all going to perish. had when they was on the corner selling crack and shooting. They was' FC: What did you think about the Million Man March? putting them in jail, beating them up, harassing them, trying to deter • LH: I thought the Million Man March was the most beautiful thing them from making a change in their life up under the guise th%t that has happened in the late 20th century. It was time to bring about because they was gang members or ex-gang members they wasn't some unity. There hasn't been no movement since the 60s. Black youth supposed to be involved. I think it's racism that Black gangs cannot had no alternative, nothing to look to nothing to feel good about evolve into something better. Everybody else has done it, Irish, themselves and the Million Man March brought about that feeling of Italians and (Mayor) Daley's father did it. To say that we can't evolve well being. | is racist. , . • • , .• FC: What do you think about Minister Farrakhan? HH FC: You mentioned the harassment, but can you give another > LH: I respect him. There is no other leader who has the respect" of so example of police preventing you from entering the political process*! many different segments of our community, including the youth. LH: When we tried to put together a peace process, we brought in 1 Nobody else could have put that call out there forthe Million Man street organizations from all around the country with a legitimate effort March and got that kind of response. He's perpetuating the movement foi I to stop the violence in the community (in 1993). Instead of the (mayor)w Black people to get beyond where they are today. supporting our peace efforts he spoke out against it. If he had the FC: Is there anything else you'd like to say to The Final Call readers? J legitimate concern for what's going on in the Black community, what LH: If I didn't do nothing to reach out for them kids, I would feel like he should have said was, 'I'm done them a disservice, with the reverence and respect these kids show skeptical about the outcome of r me. I've got to give them some direction. We are a sleeping giant and all this peace process, but if it : we have to do is be saves one life in the Black • conscious enough to rise, but ....until (Black clergy, community then I'm for it.' But process into action a couple years ago, there was a dramatic decline in the until (Black clergy, politicians, politicians, and he antagonized the effort that was violence in communities like Englewood, which had the number one and business men) get involved put together by pushing for the murder rate in the country, with street organizations, ain't business men) get dissenters, agitators and renegades to nothing going to change. They involved with street keep up the violence that was Cabrini-Green, Altgeld Gardens; these communities had drops in violence. alienate the Black youth to the spurring in our community. FC: Are you involved in criminal activity? point where they oppose them organizations, ain 7 FC: Are you saying that Mayor LH: No and right now they fear the Daley has helped in the death, FC: Well, I've experienced myself, just yesterday, somebody attempting Black youth, but men of nothing going to destruction and drugs in the to do criminal activity and claiming to do it in your name. Can you conscience are going to have to change. They alienate community? explain? - - put aside their fear and try to LH: Yes. The peace process LH: That's a probiem. It's both a blessing and a curse that these kids have work and redirect that energy. It the Black youth to the throws their system out of whack. enough respect for me to carry my name for such a long time. A lot of can be done. They have Peace in the community would clear times its not just kids, its older guys, because my name carries stretch and progressive thinkers within point where they oppose up the court system and empty the influence. They use the name and abuse the name. I've matured. these organizations that want to them and right now jails. Once you get peace and start FC: Is that also a big problem; moving the organization to maturity? work with the community, but getting involved with the political LH: It is definitely a problem, nothing is going to happen spontaneously, the community has got to they fear the Black process and you develop (self- it's going to take time. Though Growth and Development we have been embrace them. determination), then they are going involved in the peace and political process, gave large gatherings, concerts FC: Thank you. youth,.... to lose jobs. When we put the peace and community clean ups. All these are just starts, but you got to start Q JP" lfl rpj^e g00k "The Blueprint: From Gangster Disciple to Growth and Development," By Toure Muhammad The book reads: "Over the last decade our organization, Growth financially. Drugs ended the positive direction of our organizations CHICAGO-A group of incarcerated Black men recently wrote a and Development has been undergoing a major change. It is more movement. book intended to direct Black men away from "premature death, than merely changing the name from 'Gangster Disciples' to 'Growth Mr. Hoover,Who continues to be involved with the gang truces, incarceration and recidivism" and lead them towards a "new concept" and Development.' Rather, it is a change from evil to good; from marches on city hall, political action issues, and voter registration of growth and development. secret to open; from illiterate to literate; and from the 'old concept' to accuses Mayor Daley of using the same tactics today: "It's all right for The book titled, "77?e Blueprint: From Gangster Disciple to Growth the New Concept." them kids to stand on the corner and sell bags (drugs) and drive by and Development," was written by Rod Emery who credits the alleged His belief also may lie in the groups beginning. The book outlines and shoot, but when I said I was going to get them involved with the leader of the Gangster Disciples Larry Hoover as providing the the history of street organizations in Chicago revisiting past political process, then I became a threat to the system," he said. Them "guidance, instruction, and the central, theme of the book." activities and the initial purpose of the organizations. kids, when they was involved with the political process, they had The book details the future vision of peace, economic and political "The two leaders of then-Black Gangster Disciple Nation, Larry more problems from the police on election days being election judges power that Mr. Hoover, and the leadership of the new Growth and Hoover and David Barksdale ran free lunch programs to feed needy than anytime they had when they was on the corner selling crack and Development Nation desire. children, and got involved with Jesse Jackson. (In PUSH shooting." Mr. Hoover said that maturity has shown him the need to heal the headquarters today, a picture showing the operational unity of the US. States Attorney James Burns accused Mr. Hoover of political problem of gang violence within our community by "bringing together three major street organizations together is displayed). activitism to launder money and put a an art of repectability to a concerted effort which constitutes of the black clergy, black They marched with Dr. Martin Luther King in Marquette during the civil convince the parole board of his.reformation. businessmen, black activist and the progressive thinkers within the rights movement and became known as grassroot organizations that fought Although Mr. Hoover request parole every year, he seems to have given street organizations." He admits that it is a difficult task, "but if you're racism, inequity, segregation and unemployment, said the author. up on ever seeing the outside, but that doesn't stop him from his activism. committed, then 1 believe some changes can be made. I believe it can It was a that point, said Mr. Emery, that members began receiving offers "My life is behind me, but I'm obligated to give back. I don't want to see mj be done and it's got to be done," said Mr. Hoover with a slight stutter to get involve with the selling of narcotics from forces outside the kids and my kids kids go what I went through,"he said. during a telephone interview with The Final Call. community. Drugs were intorduced to shut us up politically and apease us South Street Journal October 3 • October 16, 1996 Page 11 Editorial The War on (C.I.A.) Drugs ET ! I ^ TV and others media control a conditioning process tha H„^P t represent the values of our youth. They profit from proven to be effective in.combatting the I B commercialism of our youth. A steady increasing web the indication of habit forming substances. Although it has aired of M^ increasing anxiety spread throughout society. on WVON radio at least twice, and reported in the Chicago Similarity, in the movie of 1971, The Godfather set in the 40's, Defender, the major(white) media has not use their resources to tjie Godfather said, Sell it to the n s. Just don't sell to my make this plant known to the public. children, cause it will destroy a people. The minute you sell it to So the U.S. government and elected officials seem to be more our children the war of the families are on again. In 1969, the set interest in setting on this information building the stock market on Sonrtt in the movie Panther, the Drug King said to the FBI, You want my the privation of jails. And cutting 180,000 drug addicts and help to get rid of the Panthers. Drugs. Let me have free alcoholics of their Supplemental Security Income excess in the Black community and it will destroy not only subsidies the first of the year. the Panthers but the communities in which they serve. You The poorest, working hard in crime to pay for their will never have to worrying about them again. drug habit. They often commit crimes to get what they The media has a direct impact on how we view our own* have been conditioned to need. 3 issues. Even the TV series Mission Impossible portrayed • While politicians speak of the war on drugs, more The Klu Klux Klan/Central Intellegence their team as infiltrators, taking over smaller governments police, more jails and "Just Say No". Mayor Daley Agency is hiring simple minded, no self" and directing the course its people. Mission Impossible idea of community outreach is a marketing campaign esteem, no self respect, money hugry, low appeals not only to be possible but highly provable in ~ pon Carter of $11 million marketing the fight against crime. classs, drug dealing, prostitutes for there light of the recent allegations of the CIA importing Publisher & Editor (But no ad for SSJ where it can do some good). The- summer JOB program. If you consider drugs in the Black community. As an example drug public is increasing confined to this claim. As 70% yourself a Thug 4 life, Menace II Society, trafficker Ollie Ndrth. He was enough to question the U.S. part in of the persons are in jail is due to drug related crimes. It is Killer or Gangster, you may qualiy. drug trafficking. Instead was made an America hero and ran for obvious the real issue is drugs. Not crime. *» No ID. or License is necessary all you need political office. Most Blacks were not surprise at North's drug Honestly I am not up on Tupac Shakur culture or the is I. Lack of Knowledge of self. 2. No faith in activities or the news that the CIA is importing drugs in the Black madness of our youth wiliness to kill one another or to die God. 3. A nine millimeter. 4. The IQ. equal community. Just as the majority of America (mainly whites and themselves. The impact of slavery to divide and conquer must to that of a fruit fly. those Blacks conformable with), looking at Rodney King and the be still with us. No other people suffer such ordeal. This program is proven to be successful, O.J. Simpson verdict as non-racism. Their eyes are close to the However, my generation must be accountable for whatever even before the summer has arrived. Many C.I. A. being part of putting drugs on 37th, 43rd, 47th 51st, 61, and the CIA or the FBI has cause in our community because we young black men began working in the month 63rd Streets. left. Letting drugs be the simple medication for broken hearts of march. Remember 5 young black males WVON talk show host Cliff Kelly has always use the term CIA and broken sprites instead of any mission possible. where killed in one day on the South side of for Cocaine Import Agency. Recent charge by Rev. Ben Chavis The one message of today is yes;-the government is aware of Chicago. So hurry and sign up now & don't for a class action suit against the CIA is a step in the right direction the drug source and its channels. If anyone has use any form of miss out on this wonderful opportunity to sell for the U.S. government to pay for the destruction eayse by the drugs (President Clinton) one always knows how to get it. And out your race. drugs in the community. we must be insured that the mission impossible of the War on For more informtion On: Again the media is plays a role in the direction that this war of Drugs is not the mission impossibility, of the war on us. How to Escape Satans Clustches of Death drugs take. For instance, there is a plant that grows in Africa call 483-9608 Letters to the Editor Notice to The General Voice of The Poor is seeking the Public: help of residents who believe our voices should be heard. If you O From Visions of Lake Meadows CHA & HUD know you have a right to make Magicians decisions about your life granted CIO, Local 399. Abandoning public housing by voting privileges, then giveme ar 399 Letter to Lake 2,3,4, Political Failures a call. 538-7952 another ploy to trample upon the Dear Editor; poor, and without a solution to B. Hamb. Meadows Residents Dear LM Residents: One look at the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Wards reveal in ceep low income housing Ida B. Wells We are writing to make you aware of the a cybersecond the failure of their elected officials. ivailable. EZ Residents, The rebuilding and renovations of boulevards, Privatizing would be fine if the decision-making your landlord, Draper & Kramer, Homeowners, Landlords has instituted. For over forty years our members, streets, finanical institutions and housing structures Dverall cost would remain in tact. are all being done by persons who do not live in Why are our political reps, so > Want to Know! as skilled tradesmen, have proudly served the LM Apts. in a professional manner. They have used our community or the city. The politicians in these jager to force the poor into Dear Editor; ward (local, state relieving this is the best solution What commitments will be made every ounce of their skill, and federal) have i for better housing? If the.federal to Empowerment Zone ignored what is guidelines can become contractual communities from Utility training and experience to happening to their is they (were) for the security of Companies? Peoplesgas and other people. :he less fortunate then it would be utility companies consume safely provide you comfort in It is time for i blessing. approximately 40 percent of EZ those of us who At this time it is quite evident resident income, this is a major all seasons. The relationship the have heart and hat some plans are in place due to cause of housing abandonment vision for the he convention that came to town, and homelessness in our engineers and tenants have had future of our md the need to impress tourist, community. community to ^eople effected and persons aware We recommend that: is now in jeopardy. On step forward and >f the developers of community 1 Peoples Gas, Common-wealth assume our estoration need to come together Edison and Ameritech reduce the June 14, Draper & Kramer laid rightful roles as or a final assessment. Why now is daily cost of usage to EZ residents. leaders of the here such a desperate move to 2. That the EZ be designated as a off the skilled, trained and experienced stationary engineers, and dream. srivatize? Will someone answer Buyers Club and shall purchase it's Lake Meadows Visions ruthfully? natural gas through the made it the building janitors responsibility to Wells, King Drive, Extensions, Neighborhood Technology Center operate and maintain the boilers (gas fired Bronzeville Statue )arrow Homes, Madden Park, Program. The program would pressurized steam boilers for heat and hot water. Taylor Homes, Stateway. All reduce the cost of natural gas by The janitors, without the mandated city of Chicago subtle Insult >ersons, agencies, churches in 20% and help to raise the status of Stationary Engineers License, will operate and maintain your heating system. The janitors, Dear Editor; upport of keeping public housing living for EZ Residents. One look at the statue at 25th and Dr. Martin iffordable for low income people. Remember, we are charged with without any working experience, training, or knowledge of heating systems, will be relied upon Luther King Drive, and it is hard to determine if it the responsibility of alleviating is not a clever and sophisticated put down of the poverty, building sustainable to make sure your family is safe this winter from frigid temperatures, carbon monoxide poisoning, African-American southern immigrants who communities and providing for migrate north in the 1930's 1940's, 1950's and self-sufficiency. boiler explosions, and other, safety hazards. We have enclosed various articles, which outline the 1960's and the present African-American residents Vour immediate attention in this of the community. The Bronze handy Andy statue matter would be greatly dangers of operating steam pressurized boilers with untrained employees: is not majestic in posture of features. In fact one appreciated. observer said that if you look at it from the rear, it (15 people killed and over 113 injured around the Christine Perkins appears to be passing gas on the community. Inner City Youth Foundation country). Lake Meadows Visiom International Union of Operating Engineers, AFL- Jr.,Contributors/Writers: Doug Address all correspondence to: South LETTERS TO THE EDITOR South Street Journal Kelly, Atty. Karen Brazil-Brashears, Street Journal 4655 S Michigan Ave. Letters to the Editor are welcome and encouraged. October 3 - October 16,1996 Michael Brownstein, Eddie S. Read, Chicago, Illinois 60653, Telephone: Mail them to SSJ, 4655 S Michigan Ave. Chicago Vok3No.l3 Harold Lucas, Bernetta Pearson, [312] 924-0064 Fax [312] 924-9536 Illinois 60635. They can be telephoned in by calling A 1996 Cherrel Communications All unsolicited materials submitted to Sout Bobbie Warren. Photographers; (312) 924-0461. 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FDIC both new and long-time residents, as well as EQUAL HOUSING others, stay abreast of the rapidly evolving LENDER Abandoned Building Program Razes Building At 60th and King m #HA !i_iii 765 EAST G9TH PLACE (312) 493-SOOO SERVICE AT THE SAME LOCATION FOR OVER aO YEARS IN THE MID SOUTH COMMUNITY OF CHICAGO FULL SERVICE WINDOW TREATMENT -^—-rt^^==r:^"*'' J ""i^.(rv. WIDE VARIETY OF COLORS & STYLES WINDOW SHADES MINI, VERTICAL, VENETIAN As the Washington Park community is fast becoming vacant lots of land, an abandoned courtyard located at 6036 S. Martin Luther King Dr. was demolished early summer as part BLINDS of Mayor Daley's Abandoned Building Program. The building was dangerous, vacant and (Horizontal Blinds in varied widths, posed a serious threat to surrounding residents. metals and woods) Washington Park — The Washington Park Buildings works closely with the Chicago & DRAPERIES community seem to be on fast track Police Department and concerned citizens in demolistion as many building are coming order to identify hazardous abandoned down in the area bound 51st Street to 61st buildings. Street, Michigan Ave. to King Drive. Once buildings are identified as vacant and CLEANING & REPAIRS Althougth fast track is based on a harzardous open, they are placed in demolition court. condition many are from court order. Once there, a judge works with all parties w Please call 6036 King Dr. was demolished early this who have a legal interest in the property to summer as part of Mayor Daley's Abandoned determine if the building should be Building Program. "The City of Chicago is demolished. committed to demolishing dangerous aban Building Commissioner Cherryl T. Thomas (or quotations. We carry a doned buildings that are a blight on the com stated, "The Department of Buildings relies wide range of window munity," said Mayor Richard M. Daley. "It is on the assistance of community members in coverings. Our services our hope that the demolition of buildings order to identify dangerous abandoned includes Designs for any such as these will result in neighborhoods buildings." setting; Installations to meet that are safer and brighter for all Chicagoans Chicagoans can contact the City at 744- any codes or standards; to enjoy." 5000 in order to report an abandoned or Under the program, the Department of dangerous building. FAST DELIVERY Competitive pricing. Do you have a housing story needs to be profiled? Guaranteed satisfaction. Submit it to: South Street Journal's new office CONTRACT: COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL & 4655 South Michigan Ave. Chicago, Illinois 60643 RESIDENTIAL SERVICE Stop by, mail or call us at 312.924-0461 Fax 312.924-712 3 —* South Street Journal October 3 - October 16, 1996 Page 13 The Eyes are Watching: An Overview Grand Boulevard (Bronzeville), Douglas, Oakland, Kenwood, Woodlawn, Washington Park, Hyde Park, Near South, Gap, Fuller Park, Armory Square Re-Establishing a Once & Future Communities on Chicago's South Side by A. L. Smith. those public and private-sector entities who The Mayor and the city administration, spect must be the order of the day. Should this If you are African American, raised on the recognized the vision. attempting to leverage responsiveness to not occur, the political fallout could be detri south side of Chicago, you have roots here. The fate of being in the right place at a constituent demands while respecting ward mental to the entire, community. And that's Your eyes need to watch a major housing re time when the spotlight of development shine boundaries and local aldermanic control, is, something none of us should be willing to set naissance that has begun in the historic Black on inner-city communities with close proxim simultaneously cheered and derided by nu tle for. Then there is also the possibility that Metropolis or Mid South communities of ity to the downtown and the lake. The future merous competing interests, all who claim to while this polite standoff simmers, others will Chicago. ..from the viability of the "Gap", to the success and/or failure will most probably have -"the plan" which will make the com step into the void to take control is very real. . stately mansions along King Drive, from the parallel that of other Chicago neighborhoods munities of Mid-South work. In fact, the future, and who will control the State street corridor which houses public which have suffered persistent dis-investment Preservation activists and community orga future directions and potential changes to this housing to the somewhat run-down 63rd Street and neglect for over generations: the near west nizers are squeezed into the politically correct up-and-coming area, situated smack in the Woodlawn, the moderately thriving business side near the United Center, and the near north middle of the road, fighting to retain a sem middle of one of Chicago's federal empower districts of 47th that bisect the Grand Boule side 'gold coast' area where Cabcini-Green blance of control while seeking not to offend ment zone districts is currently the source of vard, one fact is undeniable: today, change is in now sits. The anyone in either the vigorous debate as well as both outward and the air and more changes are a comin' in supreme challenge public or private behind-the scenes maneuvering by various the future. for all of these sector and turn forces within and outside of the community. The unmistakable signs are there, every communities is a them into an Neighborhood old-timers and newcomers where you look. Everyone, from potential difficult, yet poten adversary whom alike have strong opinions about what all the homebuyers.and small and large businesses, to tially feasible one: they may need as an changes mean, and discussions on who will be the City of Chicago, real estate development How to successfully ally in the near fu most affected and how the community will companies and four new banks in five years are integrate often op ture when the dust handle the changes looming on the economic, has taken a long hard look at the Mid-South posing interests of settles, so to speak. political and social horizons are growing more area. Housing prices are steadily rising to meet community revital- On the one hand, focused and intense, and the topics vary de the Hyde Park area, and available low-cost ization while main P| they must convince pending on who you talk to. And make no vacant land is growing scarcer or are on hold taining an economi the city, and devel mistake - - -everybody's talking. Just as the by elected officials. Building permit sighs are cally and socially opers to invest in elderly men did in a circle in Washington Park sprouting on abandoned and nearly-abandoned diverse balance of the community for during the sixties. buildings like weeds. people from various it to be successful, In the final analysis, the communities of the Architects and construction workers have educational and while being careful Mid-South area must move quickly and deci become recognizable fixtures (While KOCO of income levels, to not to price out sively to create a culture of substantive change, Kenwood/Oakland and others protest creating create a cohesive, those elderly, and while the interest level remains high and the new jobs mostly for folks outside of the area) at stable community? low-to-moderate money to effect change is available. No party new construction sites and on rehab projects There are no easy income residents lasts forever, even a long-overdue party like the around the neighborhood. Gracious and elegant answers, and few successful blueprints to who have been the backbone of the current re-building of Mid-South, and as the turn-of-the-century gray and browjistones are follow. community during the lonely and frustrating wise elders of the community often point out, it being painstakingly restored to their former On the other side of the elegant wrought years when it was still considered a danger makes sense to make hay while the sun shines. glory by newly transplanted and returning pio iron fences, a series of politically sensitive ous, untouchable ghetto. The Mid-South community's challenge? neering professional singles and families. landmines await. Real estate developers and Today's residents have to confront a host To move beyond often fractious and self-serv An explosion of historical landmark desig others interested in the abundance of buildable of urban ills which plague many Chicago ing rhetoric, political posturing and arguing nation applications, housing improvements, land argue that market-rate housing is the way communities and deter revitalization efforts - - over which "plan" for the community is best, or and the determined sweat equity of new and to go. Public housing residents sing the now - crime, drugs, joblessness and high unem which blue-ribbon commission can generate the long-time homeowners boosting both neigh familiar 'land grab' refrain, while HUD and ployment, teen pregnancy and illiteracy levels, most effective public-private sector partnership. borhood pride and home values throughout the the CHA offer Section 8 certificates designed and an uneven business district, to name a We must join together from Taylor Homes to Mid-South community. to 'encourage residential choice' for those few. Lake Meadows to begin walking along the road Much of the credit for the resurgent interest now living in Ida B. Wells, Robert Taylor and Given these and other concerns, perhaps the to re-establishing the communities of Mid- in Mid South communities must be given to the Stateway Gardens. The CHA is also faced most important issue facing the community South to the jewels of the south side it once fervent preservation efforts of a wide range of with the task of convincing those who have activists Is that they must endeavor to reach were. Remember - - - the eyes of the South over 200 community organizations, community rehabbed homes upwards into the $200,000 common ground and develop a meaningful Street Journal, the community, the future gen activists, political leaders and just plain old, plus range that scattered site housing is feasi dialogue with the local elected officials to eration (40 and under) and the entire city are everyday neighborhood residents who shared a ble in the community, and will not necessarily wards a common goal: a strong and viable watching. Let's give them something glorious common vision and love for the community lower property values. It's an increasingly community. Consid*er a range of options and to see! , . and its history. Kudos must also be given to hard sell. everyone should understand that mutual re-"' H • OODLAWN COMMONS CONDOMINIUMS T O W HO M MODELS OPEN Own A New Home For Le lured by offers of big money which § suggest that the done deal is still done." | Metropolitan Community A.C.T.S. Hold on for Land stress Father Thomas Frayne, pastor of ¥ St. James. Church Installs New Minister Development on 29th Street The land, originally owned by the I Grand Blvd.-On July Archdiocese of Chicago, fell into the I 7, 1996 Metropolitan For the past year a group retail development and recre hands of the city for about $ 10 around | Community Church of eleven churches called ational development for the 1960. When St. James Catholic Church, celebrated the the Alliance of Congrega community to serve the Dearborn which has been situated at 29th and j installation of pastor. tions Transforming the Homes and South Commons Wabash for 140 years, sought to acquire Rev. Leon Perry III in Southside (ACTS) have neighborhood. some of this land last August for a it's sanctuary at 4100 been trying . to influence During the summer public gymnasium for its school children, South Martin Luther how a vacant square block meetings were held at St. James Father Frayne said it was told by | King Drive. of city-owned land on Catholic Church on 29th and alderman Madeline Haithcock that the | "We are delighted Wabash Avenue from 29th Wabash to inform the commu land was "promised"' to another party. celebrating Rev. to 28th street will be devel nity support. "Thus began a year-long saga which is Perry's.installation as Father Thomas oped. Specifically, ACTS "The city needs to hear the cry now coming to a climax." said Father j the fourth Pastor to Frayne, of has been seeking needed of the community and not be Frayne. "First, ACTS sought to undo a serve in the 76-year St. James done deal. Then, ACTS, got the city to | history of the church," issue a Request for Proposals (REP) on j THE PROPOSALS ARE IN FOR THE WABASH AVENUE says Bernice Reed, the vacant land." Installation Committee Metropolitan Community Church The RFP was issued on Feb. 25 1996. Representative. PROPOSRL #1 PROPOSRL#2 newly installed pastor, Proposals were due on June 25th, 1996. | The installation Rev. Leon Perry 111 EAST LAKE MANAGEMENT ACTS PARTNERSHIP ACTS knew that four months would not j sermon was delivered & ROGERS PONTIC A be enough time for them to put together | by Bishop T. Garrott Benjamin. Jr., pastor of the Light of The a complete proposal, but the city would I World Christian Church of Indianapolis, Indiana. not give additional time, Rev. Leon Perry, III, 36 years of age is a native of Chicago. He LAND BID: $10 On June 25th, two proposals were answered the call into Christian ministry at an early age and was (EXACTLY WHAT THE CITY PAID FOR IT submitted and read. One proposal by I licensed to preach in 1979 under the pastorate of Dr. Dorothy LAND BID: $840,000 + SEVERAL DECADES AGO) Rogers Pontiac and East Lake Man- 1 Sutton Branch. agement bid approximately $850,000 With lots of energy and vision he served in Commonwealth PROPOSED USE: PROPOSED USE: for the land and calls for an expansion j Community church as a youth leader, Sunday school teacher, youth PHASE 1 OF MULTI-PHASE BUILD AN EXPANSION OF of Rogers Pontiac and an Office Build choir founder and director, official board member and Pastor of ROGERS PONITIAC AND AN PLAN TO MEET NEEDS OF ing with some community services by I Commonwealth Community Junior Church. OFFICE BUILDING THE COMMUNITY East Lake Management. ACTS, in part- f The ministry of evangelism has allowed him to travel a great deal PROPOSAL ~! PROPOSRL#2 nership with Matanky Realty Group and I participating in youth rallies, revivals, workshops, retreats and BIG$ - NO COMMUNITY VOICE WITH FINALLY AN OPPORTUNITY FOR D.R.C. Development Group bid $10 fori special day guest speakers assignments within the local community EAST LAKE MANAGEMENT & THE COMMUNITY TO HAVE A SAY the land and proposes to build afford-1 and throughout the United States. ROGERS PONITAC IN HOW ITS NEEDS ARE MET WITH able housing and a recreational facility I He graduated from North Park College of Theological Seminary j ACTS PARTNERSHIP for the community and for the children 1 receiving a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Religious Studies and is now j Prepared by ACTS organizing committee of St. James School. a full-time divinity student of McCormick Theological Seminary. j «.—_-__. ^ has hosted While attending North Park College, he traveled to Alaska serving \ many villages as a student missionary. He recently traveled to Israel i Four Mid-South Churches part of luminaries including Paul Robeson, and Egypt as a part of his continued education program of the A.Philip Randolph and Eleanor University of Divinity Chicago. Roosevelt. Rev. Leon Perry III was duly ordained into the Christian ministry I Black Church Tours Buses for the Black Church Heritage by the International Council of Community Churches on the 22nd Tours will leave from Grace Episcopal day of May, 1993. His affiliation with the council has given him the j From the Underground Railroad to African - American History, the Church, 637 S. Dearborn Street. The opportunity to be elected president of the youth and young adult the Civil Rights Movement to the birth students have crafted tours that bring cost is $20.00 per person for members council and a member of the social concerns commission, and now a] of gospel blues, Chicago's African -• their church archives to life, pass on of Inspired Partnerships, $25.00 for newly elected trustee. American churches have played a oral histories of their church elders, non - members and $10.00 for students In 1980, 1984 and 1987 he was the recipient of the Outstanding pivotal role in the growth and and tell the stories of their Reservations are required. To make a Young Men of American Award. development of the city and beyond. neighborhoods through the church reservation, call 312-294-0077. For He has taught in the south suburban school districts; served as The Black Church Heritage Tours, experience. more information, call 312-409-3042. chaplain for the Glenwood School for Boys ; and elected board presented by Inspired Partnerships with The featured churches are: Quinn The Chicago Gospel Brunch will be member of the NAACP; board member of the Adoption Information support from The Chicago Community Chapel A.M.E. 24th & Wabash,(built held October 20 at 9:00 a.m. It will Center of Illinois and chairman of the Metropolitan Community Trust and the Richard H. Driehaus in 1891) Chicago's oldest Black begin with talks by two experts in the Foundation, Inc. Foundation^ celebrate the contributions Church built by and for African history of gospel music and the Black For the past eight years, he has served as the Associate Pastor of and rich history of six African - Americans, Pilgrim Baptist Church Church. The featured speakers are Metropolitan Community Church and Pastor of Metropolitan American churches. The Chicago on 33rd and Indiana, (built in 1890) Michael Harris, Ph.D., author of "The Community Junior Church. He is currently serving as Pastor of Gospel Brunch, a complement to the designed by Chicago's famous Adler Rise of Gospel Blues: The Music of Metropolitan Community Church. tours, examines the rise of gospel and Sullivan and home church of the Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban It is Reverend Perry's belief that we must be energized by God's music and includes a service at the late Thomas Dorsey - The "father and Church," and visiting professor of spirit, motivated by God's love, guided by God's hand, strengthen church home of the "father of gospel founder of Gospel music,"First African American Studies and History by God's power and saved by God's grace. music." Baptist Congregational Church on at Northwestern University; and Larry The Black Church Heritage Tours the westjside (1869), where every Murphy, Ph.D.senior researcher for the will be held October 12,19,26, American president from Abraham Religion in Urban America Project, November 2,9,16,23 and December 7, Lincoln to John F. Kennedy has University of Illinois 10:00 a.m. - noon. They will be led by spoken, Olivet Baptist Church, 31st Attendance at a worship service at high school students who attend the and King Drive (1875), once reputed Pilgrim Baptist, combined with spirited Each issue a pastor will be tributed, at the end of the year we will featured churches. Under the guidance to be the largest Protestants gospel music, is sure to uplift and select one of the pastors and give him/her the title of "Pastor of of Charles Branham, Ph.D., the Senior congregation the US, Progressive inspire. Brunch at the church will the Year. " If you know of a pastor who is doing community Historian of the DuSable Museum of Community Center, 48th and follow the service. service in your neighborhood please contact us. St. Paul Church of God in Rev. Herbert Martin, Pastor (Evening Qtar Quinn Chapel Christ will present it's annual Progressive Community Church African Methodist Episcopal baptist Church "Harvest Festival", Church 4235 South cottage Grove Ave. Songs of Inspiration and Praise, Sunday 2401 So., Wabash Ave. Chicago, Illinois 60653 October 6, 7:30 pm. at St. Paul Church of Chicago, III 60616 Rev O.C. Morgan Sr.;, Pastor God in Christ, 4526 S. Wabash. Vernon (312)791-1846 Fax 791-9418 Oliver Price, sate Soloist and other soloist from the St. Paul Church of God in Christ Radio and Young Adult Choirs. For additional info call 538-4526. Everybody's Church, 56 East 48th Street presents it's 1st Chicago, Illinois 60615 (312) 538-2677 (312) 538-2679 Fax Women's Retreat. Palms 133-1 Behold, how good, and how Theme: The Ideal Women, Saturday Order of Service pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in 9AM Church School Rev. P David Saunders, Minister October 26 at the Ramada Inn, Lakeshore, 10:45 AM Praise & Worship "Love conquers All" unity.' 8:00 am till, cost $25, Everybody's church 11:00 AM Services Sunday School 9:30 Order of Service is located at 5958 S. Wabash. For "Where there is no vision, the people"perish" Morning Worship 11:00 Sunday School-9:00 am information call Jewel Dickson at 363- Proverbs 29:18 Bible Study Wednesday 6:30 pm 1st Sunday - Communion 3:30 pm 1464. 2nd Sunday Choir's Musical 3:30 pm Saving Grace Ministries of the Himself in the Person of Jesus "Testimony," "Rejoice Greatly,' Page 18 South Street Journal October 3 - October 16, 1996 Starting a Business Resource for Business in the Mid-South Communities ^r# TL " Af "lesser" or "silent". City and Harris Bank Citibank to Open I MM0 J flifwjmS w OU Corporation - Your personal assets are Allow Low -Income jm* mm m^ shielded from lability (your property can't be used to pay for debt.). Corporations in Businesswomen to Branches in Mid-South Should Know Illinois can now be started with just one Accumulate Assets Hyde Park/Kenwood-4Joining ing affordable housing products. person rather than three. You can sell A unique savings account is Harris Bank on 47th Street in President of Citibank, Thomas W. and A void shares in order to raise funds. allowing low-income business opening branches in the area, Sission, said, "We are eager to l Bv Derek McNeal LLC (limited liability company) - a new women to save money for business Citibank recently announced plans serve the campus community and Woodlawn, like many communities in category where profits are taxed as if aexpansion , homeownership or to open two new branches in the its neighbors and look forward to |the Mid-South area, are interesting neigh partnership but with the limited liability education. Through the Individual Hyde Park/Kenwood area, includ developing new relationships with borhoods. The average (median) income that a corporation enjoys. Development Account (IDA) ing a site on the University of both in years to come." (for adults in the community is less than Register you business. To register with Demonstration Program, develop Chicago campus at 58th and Ellis "Citibanks growth will help ex j$14,000-which isn't much but attracts peo- the state, call the Illinois Dept. of Revenue ment by the Women Self-Em Ave. In addition, a new state-of- pand the range of convenient i pie from outside the neighborhood setting (800/732-8866) for an application for the ployment Project (WSEP) and the art Citibank branch will open in options available for everyone I up shop for the money we toss around so NUC 1. Get a general business license City of Chicago Treasurer's Office 1997 at 47th St. and Lake Park who is part of these \ freely. from the City of Chicago Dept. of Em in partnership with Harris Bank, Ave. in a new shopping center. communities," Sission added. We need Woodlawn residents to start ployment Security (793-4880) so that the money these women save each "We applaud this move by "We are very pleased to wel j businesses. It takes a lot of preparation and money can be taken out for your employ month is matched by Harris Bank Citibank to better serve the Ken come Citibank to our campus as [serious knowledge gathering in order to ees' unemployment compensation. Sole on a two to one basis. wood, Oakland, University of part of a program to provide bank ! develop a successful business. proprietors who plan to use a business Up to 60 low-income women Chicago and other South Side ing services to our entire I What a person must first do in consid name other than their receiving public assistance are communities," said Victor community," said William ering starting up a own should get aneligibl e for the program. They Knight, the director of the The Hogan, University Comptroller. business. - One Assumed Name regis agree to save and deposit up to $20 Fund for Community , "The two branches are a linked should examine his tration from the a month for two years into a Redevelopment and a Hyde Park development, showing the com or her motives and County Clerk's office standard Harris Business Saving resident. The Fund is themitmen t of both institutions to mindset. Are you (443-5652). Partner Account. (Monthly fee and mini developer for the new shopping these communities." willing to put in 15 ships and corporations mum balance are waived.) Based center. "Citibank's plans signal a Citibank, in Illinois is com or more hours a day HIHI have to get an FEIN upon how much is saved, Harris strong commitment to our area prised of 50 Chicago-area to get the business (Federal Employer Bank on a quarterly basis will and will make it easier for local branches with more than $3.5 off the ground? § • § • § t Identification deposit up to $120 in each residents to tap the bank's services billion in customers deposits, Many people who Number), (800/tax- account. and resources," he added. worldwide, Citibank has 1,200 are use to working •§•••§ form). The total money deposited so far Both branches, serving the Hyde branches in 42 countries, with 9-to-5 can't make Getting money. If is $4,600 of which $1,900 is Park, Kenwood, Oakland and over $250 billion in assets and that adjustment you don't have a nice matching deposits from Harris. Bronzeville ' communities, will more than 45 million customers. because they feel amount saved up, provide a range of services includ that they've already you'll have to think "worked hard" and about getting a loan. Continued from page 4 rangements with the association. Dan Ryan to at least Cottage want to go into busi Loaners would Since the meeting Ms. Jordan Grove. The date this cleaning ness for the pleasure probably ask for a 47th Street reported the following steps have will start has not been confirm, and prestige. business plan. That's been taken: The business asso However, signs will be posted. Go for customers. As a result of the meeting, fa ciation have had the vacant lots The possibility of spreading no big mystery - the cilitated by SoUth Street Journal Don't go into A easiest way is to write cleaned and have agreed to clean wood-clips on the vacant lots with L publisher Ron Carter, who is also business for down a brief de them once a month. "We respec the owners permission was also yourself. Instead, a coordinator for the business tively encourage each business discussed^and~~Trfc~Y*qu£st of scription of your association, said, "This is good, you should go into business for customers. to clean in front of their additional waste baskets be place business and your short - and long - range the residents are holding the as Think about who you want to buy from establishment at least twice a a lone 47th business strip. goals. The financial part can be dealt with sociation accountable. VVjp are you, then tailor your business to that ideal a loan application and write out all the day." Rob«i Brown of Alderman open and encourage residents to The matter was Bought to the Tillman's office was present at the customer. answers to the questions in paragraph take part in the discussion to ad Do what you like. Go into a business form. attention of the 3rd and 4th meeting stated the ald££»«rr dress this matter and others per wards Streets and Sanitation. vowed to work withtfie'Associa that you have a gift for, know inside - out. Learn about the bank by asking for the taining to 47th Street". If you love to sew, and _you're excellent Where they are have discussed tion, the concern residents of the bank's CRA (Community Reinvestment Residents holding fast to ad and sew for the joy of it ,.then you would Street Sweeping once a week, in area. But is against voting the Act) report. This report will tell you how dressing the problems on 47th probably succeed in a business sewing. the 3rd and 4th wards from the area dry. many loans the bank has made in it's lend Street worked out tentative ar You can make money by going into a "sure ing area, including information on loans to thing" like a grocery store, but to be truly small businesses. 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