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Galva ILLINOIS BICENTENNIAL divided Waters’ by fatal shooting TOM LOEWY The Register-Mail

GALVA (AP) — Sherry’s Cafe is a singular, classic joint located in the downtown of this Henry County city of 2,600. Breakfast is served all day. A short stack of pancakes and a bottomless unsweetened tea comes to $5.48 with tax. The weekly LEGACYEditor’s note: The atmosphere is friendly and Illinois Bicentennial series is open. brought to you by the Illinois Asked to name the best item on Associated Press Media Editors the menu, a waitress named Sue and Illinois Press Association. sang out “Everything, of course” More than 20 newspapers and titled her head to emphasis are creating stories about the the utter outsiderness of the state’s history, places and key question. moments in advance of the Asked about the state of Galva Bicentennial on Dec. 3, 2018. in the wake of the June 19 fatal Stories published up to this date shooting of a 19-year-old named can be found at 200illinois.com. Xavier Hartman, Sue’s smile faded and she offered, “Hang on JEFF JOHNSON a second.” Chicago Sun-Times Moments later Deb Massingill emerged from the kitchen to ex- ince June 2017, Muddy plain. Waters’ image has “You have to understand some- beamed down from a thing right off the bat,” Sherry’s 10-story mural at 17 N. cook for the last six years said. State St. in Chicago. “This town is pretty divided over SBut the king bee of Chicago what happened. blues looms even larger over “And I don’t think a lot of the city with his outsized mu- people want to talk about what sical and cultural legacy. happen. First, they don’t want The Mississippi Delta na- to been seen as taking sides in tive, born McKinley Mor- this. Second, there are so many ganfield in 1913, followed the rumors around now that people Great Migration to Chicago in don’t know what to think. 1943, where he found stardom “I’ve heard so many stories. I with his groundbreaking elec- just hope all us can know exactly tric gui- what happened that night. I think tar sound that might help a lot of people.” and clas- What is alleged is James E. sic bands. Love shot Hartman in his left He died thigh during an altercation June at age 70 in 1983, See SHOOTING, Page A2 but new genera- tions of artists often cite the influ- Visa suit ence of the six-time Grammy winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, and Waters’ songs names RI such as “I’m Your ” and “Rollin’ gun auction Stone” are used frequently by filmmakers and advertisers. International tourists visit owner Chicago to bathe in Waters THOMAS GEYER lore, and many visit his long- Lee News Network time home at 4339 S. Lake Park. There’s not much to ROCK ISLAND — The owner see, though, because the house of a Rock Island gun auction is that Tim Samuelson, Chica- CHICAGO SUN-TIMES Photos being sued by a Chinese national go’s cultural historian, has A 10-story mural of blues music legend by artist Eduardo Kobra was completed in who gave him $550,000 to gain called Chicago’s most historic 2017 at the corner of State and Washington streets in Chicago. U.S. residency. home has stood vacant and in Patrick Hogan, owner of Rock a state of disrepair for many Island Auction Co. at 819 42nd St. years. Plans are stalled to con- Down-home downstate W., Rock Island, also owns several vert the Kenwood two-flat into businesses that connect foreign a museum or other attraction. As Chicago celebrates its impressive blues history, fans through- investors with real estate devel- Waters’ bluesman son Larry out Illinois are building legacies of their own. Among the more opers who need funding for proj- “Mud” Morganfield, who like active blues organizations downstate are the Illinois Central Blues ects. In exchange for their invest- his dad is a singer-songwrit- Club in Springfi eld (www.icbluesclub.com), the Prairie Crossroads ments, the foreign nationals are er-guitarist, spent time at Blues Society in Champaign-Urbana (www.prairiecrossroadsblues. eligible for permanent residency. the house, but he never lived org) and the Decatur Blues Society (www.decaturblues.org). In The program, called the EB-5 there. But he quickly rattles addition, Murphysboro and Peoria host blues festivals annually, visa program, was created by off the names of blues stars and for Quad-Cities fans, the Mississippi Valley Blues Society the Immigration Act of 1990 as a who did. (www.mvbs.org) throws one of the Midwest’s best blues bashes way to support economic devel- “, Pinetop each summer in Davenport. The C-U Folk & Roots Festival (folkan- opment and create jobs. Perkins, Otis Spann and Little droots.org), which takes place in November in downtown Urbana, Kewu Zhan was one of 900 Walter all stayed there, and ev- Muddy Waters found stardom has several blues-oriented acts in its deep lineup. people who gave Hogan $550,000 eryone from Paul Butterfield with his groundbreaking each, according to Zahn’s law- to Keith Richards went there,” electric guitar sound and sword from a career stand- But I have other people come yer, Douglas Litowitz. That $450 Morganfield said. “I don’t care classic bands. point. up and tell me, ‘I had a lump in million fund was used by a devel- to have that house. What I care “It’s both a curse and a my throat because you remind oper to renovate Century Plaza, about is the house standing man’s legacy alive.” blessing,” he said. “You have me so much of your daddy.’ ” in Los Angeles, according to the and representing Chicago as Morganfield admitted that people who say, ‘He sounds lawsuit. the real house of the blues. being the son of a blues im- like his dad, but he ain’t But Zhan claims Hogan and ... Chicago needs to keep this mortal can be a double-edged Muddy.’ Of course I’m not. See WATERS, Page A2 the businesses, which operate as See OWNER, Page A2

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