95th & State St Initial TOD Development and Ideas and Visions

95th and State Street - Transit Oriented Development

Your Ideas and Visions Wanted

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!!! YOUR VISIONS ARE WANTED !!!

This is a plan view of the 95th and State Street area. It is not to scale.

The new 95th Street Terminal is in Blue. ( ) The Terminal will be on the North and South

sides of 95th Street.

The light grey area represents the the initial Transit Oriented Development site that will be

in West Chesterfield after the terminal is built.

Note: Future development on 95th Street could run from

Halsted St. to Woodlawn in some manner or another.

For now, we only want ideas for areas above.

Draw, pen in or write in what would you like to see BUILT on these sites and any other

areas on this plan view to make the community better?

Email or fax your ideas to Michael LaFargue 866-399-6996 or email wcca1956@gmail.com

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HARLAN HIGH SCHOOL

Get Smart Event

The West Chesterfield Community Association
invites you to their meeting with:



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HE HISTORIC CHICAGO BUNGALOW ASSOCIATION

Presentation by Sylvia Jones, Community Liaison, HCBA Mary Ellen Guest, Executive Director, HCBA




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ISTORIC CHICAGO BUNGALOW ASSOCIATION



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Saturday, April 5, 2014 Saturday, 2014

10:00 am10:am


West Chesterfield Community CenterWest Center

9351 S Michigan Ave.

Chicago, IL 60619Chicago, 60619

WCCA Community Meeting - 10:00 a.m. Saturday - April 5, 2014

The Committee

Claudia Harris

– Play Chairperson

Michael E. LaFargue Jenny LaFargue Loretta Turner

Phyllis Johnson Sharon Banks Pincham Beulah Pressley

P.O. Box 19323 • Chicago • IL • 60619 • Phone 773.821.8928 • Fax

773.821.8929

SPECIAL INVITATION FROM THE

West Chesterfield Community Association

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At 7:00 p.m.

SUNDAY MAY 4, 2014

The

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THEATER,

7558 S. CHICAGO AVE.

TO SEE THE PLAY

"Saviour?"

by Esther Armah

Intelligent Dialogue!

A white client hires a black attorney to represent him in a reverse discrimination

case. They both need to win for desperately different reasons.

Emotionally charged!

TICKET DONATION: $30 Two Tickets for $50 Call: 773.785.2458

Please Support Our Community • Donations or Sponsorship Welcome

Financial Aid Workshop @ St. Mark UMC

Financial Aid Workshop @ St. Mark UMC Entire Church Group at St. Mark United Methodist Church Message from: Owinda Marchbanks St. Mark UMC Higher Education Ministry Presents Financial Aid Workshop: Is your Family Financially 'Fit' for College? Parents come out and learn how to fiscally prepare for college from a leading expert. Topics will include how to: 1. Assess your “financial fitness” to pay for college and receive aid. 2. Compare college costs and awards. 3. Identify Different types of scholarships that can make you “financially fit” to meet college financial needs. 4. Be a consumer savvy decision maker in the college selection process. When: Saturday, April 5, 2014 Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm Where: St. Mark United Methodist Church 8441 South St. Lawrence Ave., Chicago, IL 60619 Presenter: Gloria L. Purifoy, College and Career Specialist Contact: stmarkhighered@aol.com Attachments Financial Aid.workshop.pdf flyer_workshop.docx This message is from St. Mark United Methodist Church. St. Mark United Methodist Church treats your personal information with the utmost care. To report abuse related to this email, please contact our office at (773) 846-2992.

Rip-off alert in Chicago

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MAYOR HAROLD WASHINGTON, A LEGACY CELEBRATED

MAYOR HAROLD WASHINGTON, A LEGACY CELEBRATED

The Mayor Harold Washington Legacy Committee, headed by Ms. Josie Childs, is hosting “A Legacy Celebrated” 7 p.m., Tuesday, April 29, 2014, at the Harold Washington Cultural Center, 4701 So. Dr. Martin Luther King Drive.

The reception kicks off at 6 p.m. followed by the presentation at 7 p.m.

Some of those being honored include the late Civil Rights activist Bill Berry, former executive director of the Chicago Urban League who Mayor Washington often referred to as “truly a giant.”

The Chicago Community’s 150-voice choir will debut a premier performance of a musical presentation in honor of Mayor Washington.

Mayor Washington was quoted in the Chicago Tribune as saying; “Bill Berry was a man for all seasons. He was truly a marvelous friend and ultimately responsible for my victory as mayor of Chicago.” Mr. Berry headed Mayor Washington’s steering committee for his first campaign.

The honorary co-chairs for the event are former Judge Leslie South, daughter of the late WVON radio’s co-founder Wesley South, Betsy Berry, widow of Bill Berry and Thomas Coffey, chairman of the Haymarket Group.

General admission tickets are $35, $25 for group sales of 10 or more and $125 for the reception and admission.

For further information, please contact Ms. Josie Childs, chairman of the Mayor Harold Washington Legacy Committee at 773.643.4828.

“Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals,” said Mayor Harold Washington – 1922-1987.

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Jesse Jackson: Big money for college sports, nothing for players

Big money for college sports, nothing for players

BY JESSE JACKSON
March 31, 2014

“It cannot be said that the employed scholarship players are ‘primarily students.’” With that statement, a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board last week accepted a petition by Northwestern football players that they were employees under the NLRB and could organize and form a union. His reasoning was simple and compelling. The players faced all the demands of a job — in the hours the players worked, 40-50 hours a week during the football season, the control the coaches exerted, and the athletic scholarships that are a form of pay. The players said they wanted a union largely to negotiate about health care and practice hours.

Many who love college sports can’t bear to think of it as polluted by money. But here’s the reality: it already is. Big-time college athletics — particularly Division 1 football and basketball — is a profitable, professionalized industry. The TV rights for the new college football playoffs total $7.3 billion — with a “b” — over 10 years. The TV rights for March Madness, the basketball playoffs, total $10.8 billion over 14 years. College football and basketball alone generates an estimated $6 billion a year, more than the National Basketball Association. The University of Texas football team generated $71 million in profit in 2011.

Everyone is making money, except for the players whose play generates the revenue. Famed coaches in public universities are often the highest paid employees in the state. Urban Meyer of Ohio State will be paid $24 million over 6 years. As Joe Nocera of the New York Times reports, the 15 highest football coaches in 2011 made $53.4 million. The 13,877 Division 1 players got $0.00.

They do receive scholarships that, by the NCAA’s own figures, average about $3,000 short of the cost of attending college. The NCAA is making millions peddling the images and jerseys of players, even after they graduate, yet they don’t get a dime. Many come from poor families and can’t even afford a trip home or a spring break. And if they accept help from a fan, they can lose their eligibility or their scholarship. As the Nation’s Dave Zirin concludes, “the population that is most desperate for an escape out of poverty is the population that has gotten the rawest possible deal from the NCAA.”

This has, as Taylor Branch has written, more than “the whiff of the plantation.” On the cotton plantation, everyone got paid — the land owner, the overseer, the wholesaler, everyone except the slaves who actually picked the cotton. They were chattel, had no rights that a white owner was legally bound to respect. They benefitted, it was claimed, from the paternal care of the plantation owner, providing them with room and sustenance.

Similarly, everyone gets paid in big-time college athletics except the players who actually risk their bodies to provide the show. The NCAA dubs them “student-athletes,” using the claim of “amateurism” to deprive them of any remuneration. But big-time college sports aren’t like the amateur sports of a Division III school. The demands on the players aren’t voluntary; they are mandatory and consuming. The injuries they risk aren’t minor; they can be career- or even life-threatening.

It wasn’t a good idea for the South to base its economy on slave labor. And it isn’t a good idea for universities to be the producers of professionalized, big money sports entertainment. It surely conflicts with the stated educational mission of the university.

But however regrettable, that is what has developed. And that reality renders the claim of “amateurism” an utterly cynical smokescreen. The argument that athletes should not share in the money that they are producing because it will remove them from their role as students is simply preposterous from programs that are require commitment of 50 hours a week to the sport.

Led by Ed O’Bannon, former athletes have sued the NCAA for profiting from the use of their likenesses without permission or contract. The courage of the young men from Northwestern University will encourage others to act. Some of the players will testify before Congress this week. These young men produce an entertainment that literally hundreds of millions across the world pay to watch and cheer. They generate literally billions in revenue. It is simply inconceivable in a free market economy that they should be treated as chattel with no rights of contract. From picking cotton balls to now passing footballs and basketballs, it is still all sweat and no equity, all work and no reward. Workers should be paid for the profits they help to generate. That is as true for the stars of stage and screen, for the skilled workers in steel plants as for the gifted athletes in college athletics.