FREE SUNLAYAWAY FOR BACK CLEARANCE TO SCHOOL Noticiero Bilingüe Travel Tips When Visiting www.lawndalenews.com Countries news with Zika Virus Pg. 10 Thursday July 21, 2016 V. 76 No. 29 5533 W. 25TH STREET • CICERO, IL 60804 (708) 656-6400 FAX (708) 656-2433 ESTABLISHED 1940 Prepárense para el Taste de Latinoamérica Foodies Get Ready for Taste of Latin America Page 2-LAWNDALE Bilingual News-Thursday, July 21, 2016 Foodies Get Ready for Taste of Latin America Caption by Ashmar Mandou Brace yourself to be in awe this weekend when Taste of Latin America kicks off for the fourth straight year in the Humboldt Park neighborhood where foodies will get to dine on everything Latin. Cuisine hailing from Spain, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Dominic Republic, Guatemala and then some, will be on the menu ready for food lovers to chomp on while listening to live music. The Taste of Latin America will take place on Saturday, July 23rd and Sunday, July 24th on Division Street between California Avenue and Rockwell Street. Prepárense para el Taste de Latinoamérica Ashmar Mandou Prepárese este fin de semana para disfrutar el Taste of Latinoamérica en su cuarto año consecutivo en el barrio de Humboldt Park, donde los amantes de la comida pueden probar todo tipo de comida latina. Cocina de España, Cuba, Puerto Rico, México, la República Dominicana, Guatemala y algunos otros que estarán en el menú listas para deleitar a los amantes de la comida mientras disfrutan de música en vivo. El Taste de Latinoamérica tendrá lugar el sábado, 23 de julio y el domingo, 24 de julio en la Calle Division, entre la Ave. California y la Calle Rockwell. LAWNDALE Bilingual News -Thursday, July 21, 2016-Page 3 By: Ashmar Mandou step forward, and I look City Moves Forward with Old Post Office Building forward to continuing our On Wednesday afternoon, women-owned business progress.” The old Post City Council came to an participation in the work Office was designed by agreement with the new to redevelop the facility. Graham, Anderson, Probst owner of the old Chicago “Developing the Old Post & White and built in phases Post Office that will create Office will bring thousands from 1921 to 1932. Listed economic boost in the of jobs for Chicagoans on the National Register South Loop. Under the and renew a building that of Historic Places, it has court-approved agreement, has been neglected for been vacant since the city’s 601 W Companies LLC decades,” Ald. Daniel will begin renovating and main post office operations Solis (25th) said. “This relocated in 1995. restoring the building, agreement is a significant expecting to take five years. “Today is a bright deadlines throughout 2016, three-phase renovation day for the near West Side 2017, and 2018 for 601 W plan will comprehensively and all of Chicago,” Mayor to overhaul the structure’s rehabilitate the building Emanuel said. “After the four sides; replace the as offices. Amenities old Post Office has sat for roof; install new high- will include a three-acre vacant for decades, we speed elevators; restore rooftop park complex and can now begin the work historic lobby; and install a landscaped riverwalk that to transform this iconic new electrical, plumbing, will be open to the public. gateway to the city of heating, and ventilation An estimated 12,000 Chicago into the economic systems. In March people could work in the driver it was designed to 601W announced its building when fully-leased. be.” intention to purchase the The rehabilitation project is In the agreement, property from International projected to generate more deadlines were established Property Developers than 1,500 construction throughout the Post North America, which jobs. The agreement also Office’s rehabilitation. had owned the property includes requirements The agreement established since 2009. 601W’s for minority- and Page 4-LAWNDALE Bilingual News-Thursday, July 21, 2016 Ald. Raymond Lopez Responds to Another Gang-Related Shooting in 15th Ward Ald. Raymond Lopez help stem this violence and for gangs to hang out. Let’s (15) issued the following stop the flow of weapons make it an inconvenient statement following the into our neighborhoods. area for their operations. news that another in a I’ve been joined by Let’s make them pick up string of gang-related leaders of our community and move out of here. I shooting in the 15th organizations, block clubs will continue to advocate Ward occured on Sunday and local school councils. for increased investment in afternoon: “Together, we have the social service agencies “Summer should be a time stepped up efforts to and after-school programs serious effort to deal with investment in resources for address the root causes of for fun, picnics, sprinklers combat problem houses that have suffered because the proliferation of guns, our community, we won’t this violence.” and swimming. But for known as centers of gang of Gov. Rauner’s drastic and without meaningful much of our city’s South activity, asking landlords budget cuts, I requested and Southwest Sides, this to shut them down. My increased bike patrols and summer has been marked office has identified 21 community awareness El Concejal Raymond López Responde a Otra Balacera by two things: gun problem buildings in the meetings, all to restore Relacionada con Pandillas en el Distrito 15 violence and neighbors 15th Ward. We are working neighborhood morale and grieving and marching for with police commanders, help gather information El Concejal Raymond retirarse de aquí. an end to the shootings. the Building Department, about gang activity. López (15) expidió la Continuaré abogando We’re facing a public and the courts in order to “Finally, and perhaps most siguiente declaración tras por incrementar la health emergency due to shut these buildings down. cricially, I have made a saber de otra balacera inversión en agencias intensifying gang conflict The building involved in particular request to the relacionada con pandillas de servicio social in the 9th Chicago Police Sunday’s shooting was one Superintendent that the en el distrito 15 el domingo y programas para District, in the 15th Ward of those houses. CPD stop half all transfers por la tarde. después de la escuela as much as anywhere. “The 9th Police District out of the 9th District, que han sufrido por “The latest shooting took is now in the third week and any other high-crime “El verano debería ser los drásticos cortes at a known ‘gang house’ of an expanded Anti- district in Chicago, as long época de diversión, picnics, de presupuesto del located in the Brighton Violence Initiative. I urge as we remain in this crisis rociadores y natación. Gobernador Rauner. Park neighborhood on Police Superintendent period. Pero para muchos de los Sunday. A 16-year-old Eddie Johnson to provide “I have faith in our Sectores Sur y Sudoeste “Juntos hemos unido Pedí un aumento de young man and a 33-year- assurance that the officers; however, it is clear de la ciudad, este verano esfuerzos para combatir patrullas en bicicleta y old man were shot in the increase in officers will to me and my constituents ha estado marcado por un problema conocido juntas comunitarias de 2400 block of West 45th be accompanied by new that the CPD’s current dos cosas: la violencia como actividad de centros concientización, para Street. Neighbors reported and more aggressive law engagement tactics are not de armas y vecinos de pandillas, pidiendo a restaurar la moral del hearing between 15 and 20 enforcement tactics aimed deterring gang members que lloran y marchan los dueños de casas que barrio y ayudar a reunir shots fired. at getting weapons off the and drug dealers. Without pidiendo un fin a estas les disparen. Mi oficina información sobre la “I’ve been calling for a streets. a dedicated effort, specific balaceras. Enfrentamos ha identificado 21 edificios actividad pandillera. serious, concentrated task “Let’s make the 15th and responsive to the needs una emergencia de con problemas en el Distrito “Finalmente, y tal vez force of law enforcement to Ward an undesirable area of these neighborhoods, a salud pública debido a 15. Estamos trabajando lo más importante, Hice la intensificación de las con comandantes de la una petición particular al peleas de pandillas en el policía, el Departamento de Superintendente de CPD Distrito 9 de Policía de Edificios y las cortes, para para que detenga todas las Chicago, en el Distrito 15 poder cerrar estos edificios. transferencias del Distrito y en muchas partes más. El edificio involucrado en 9 y cualquier otro distrito “La última balacera ocurrió en una conocida la balacera del domingo era con alta criminalidad en ‘casa de pandillas’ una de esas casas. Chicago, mientras sigamos localizada en el barrio “El Distrito 9º de Policía en este período de crisis. de Brighton Park, el está ahora en su tercera “Tengo fé en nuestros domingo. 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