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As Tent Cities Are Cleared, Unhoused Residents Ask Why It Took DNC For City To Offer Housing

Editorial Comments by Zelda Robinson, HLN - Founder

Over the years, the team at HigherLearningNetwork.org has been a constant resource for food delivery/clothing/resources to the unhoused community since 2015, when one of the Tent City Residents was murdered there. (www.chicagotribune.com/2019/02/19/man-shot-and-killed-at-tent-city-homeless-encampment-in-south-loop/)

Douglas Robinson was the little brother of Zelda Robinson, Founder of HLN, who made it her mission to continue to help residents there even after his death. Her years of working to help the residents there was a team effort, always trying to assist those in needs, despite her unsuccessful attempts to get the Alderman, to assist.

After years of servicing residents, the HLN Team still continues to service the remainder of individuals there.

If you would like to support their efforts, THANK YOU in advance for your kind contributions, via HigherLearningNetwork.org

Article below is

Courtesy of BookClubChicago.org

“I don’t know why it has to take the Democratic National Convention to come here from them to actually do something for the citizens already here,” a resident of the encampment near the Dan Ryan Expressway said.

SOUTH LOOP — Residents of highly visible tent cities near the upcoming Democratic National Convention say local officials have swiftly cleared their encampments and offered them shelter in former hotels through the summer.

That includes a small strip of land along the Dan Ryan Expressway at Roosevelt Road and South Desplaines Street, which has been home to unhoused Chicagoans for at least four decades.

The city plans to close and permanently fence off the encampment starting Wednesday, Department of Family & Support Services spokesperson Brian J. Berg said in a statement.

“The goal is to be proactive and avoid last-minute disruption to the living situations of the individuals located at this site in anticipation of the DNC,” Berg said.

On Thursday, the longtime encampment was mostly barren of its usual array of tents, with single shoes and piles of personal items, some covered in mud and footprints, left behind.

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Encampment residents told Block Club city outreach workers have been visiting in recent weeks to offer them rooms in coveted city-run shelters, including the former Tremont Hotel, 100 E. Chestnut St. in the Gold Coast, which was bought by the city last year and has only 60 beds.

Those who accept the beds can keep them until Aug. 31, Berg said. The convention is Aug. 19-22.

Brandie Knazze, commissioner of the support services department, told the Sun-Times the call to clear camps was made, in part, to protect people who could be swiftly removed by federal authorities or Secret Service if they’re living within the convention’s heavily guarded security footprint.

Some still at the encampment Thursday said they had gladly accepted the converted hotel rooms but had come back anyway to hang out on the grounds. Some residents took the hotel rooms despite turning down shelter offers from the city in the past, with many living on the street saying the city’s old shelter system provided little relief.

Others said they had no plans to leave.

A woman, known as “Titi” by fellow residents of the encampment, said she accepted a hotel room but worried others who did not may eventually be arrested for trespassing.

“I don’t know why it has to take the Democratic National Convention to come here for them to actually do something for the citizens already here,” Titi said. “But I think it is a good thing for them to actually take the initiative to start giving them housing, because people have needed it for years.”

Morgan McLuckie, CEO of the Orange Tent Project, a local nonprofit that provides winterized tents for the unhoused at the encampment, said she’s kept in touch with about 20 people now at Tremont. She’s following the city’s next moves with bated breath.

In March, McLuckie and others built a tiny house at the front of the encampment in an effort to urge the city to provide its residents with immediate affordable housing. But the tiny house was simply slapped with a notice and ordered torn down only a few days later.

At another orange tent encampment at South Canalport Avenue and South Ruble Street near Pilsen, resident Henry said city workers have cleared the camp by more than half in the past week by offering shelter in converted hotels.

“They should have made it a little easier transition,” Henry said.

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William, a former resident of the encampment by Roosevelt Road and South Desplaines Street, said he’ll take the Gold Coast hotel room at the Tremont for the summer before he heads south.

“I don’t see myself living here again,” said William, hanging out on the grounds Thursday of the hollowed-out encampment. “I think it [the encampment] is pretty much over with … It’s about time.”

The convention coming to town doesn’t make much of a difference to him.

“I don’t really do politics,” he said.

Courtesy of BookClubChicago.org

[chicagochinesenews]

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(芝加哥時報快訊) 芝加哥中國城唐人街附近的丹瑞安高速公路 (Dan Ryan Expressway) 今天4月14日 上午發生致命車禍，導致車道關閉和嚴重延誤,根據伊州警方表示, 這一起非意外事件的車禍發生於芝加哥唐人街附近 I-55 州際公路附近的丹瑞恩高速公路 (I-90/94) 南行道上，吉普車內的一名人員被彈出並被另一輛車撞倒,因不明原因從車上掉下來��汽車衝出車道撞上了混凝土中間帶,該人隨後被兩輛車撞倒，其中一輛逃離現場,,ISP 已確認被拋出車外的人已經死亡,作為事故調查的一部分，Roosevelt Road 和 31st street 之間的車道被封鎖, 使得55號公路特別擁擠。 (more…) “”

[bruhinb]

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Beneath the Roosevelt Expressway 4413 Clarissa St Philadelphia, PA Copyright 2019, Bob Bruhin. All rights reserved.

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[chaddavisphotography]

The North Dakota badlands as seen from the Theodore Roosevelt Expressway.

[damnrightshow]

Ready for weekend show was played on some heavy funk tunes.

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1. "I Need You Like A Boy" ANDREA HENRY (Soul Direction)

2. "Because You're You" MAGGTAPP (Preservation Project)

3. "It's An Explosion" THE ROYAL Ⅶ (Windmill)

4. "Rhythm Trip" FBI (Daisy)

5. "Just Got To Be Free" THE BLACK CONSPIRATORS (Get Down)

6. "A Bunch Of Changes" THE BLACK ON WHITE AFFAIR (Topaz)

7. "I Can't Find Another" THE SPECIALS (Satch)

8. "It Ain't Fair But It's Fun" THE FABULOUS ORIGINALS (Jewel)

9. "Tra La La" THE GREAT DELTAS (Englewood)

10. "The Funky 16 Corners" THE HIGHLIGHTERS BAND (Three Diamonds)

11. "Stay Together" SOUL EXCITEMENT (Pink Dolphin)

12. "Straight Ahead" BOBBY BOYD CONGRESS (Okapi)

13. "Everybody Walking Together" PROPHECY (All Platinum)

14. "In A Moment" THE INTRIGUES (Yew)

15. "You're A Friend Of Mine" THE WORDS OF WISDOM (Ⅸ Chains)

16. "Be My Friend" RIPPLE (GRC)

17. "I Believe In Miracles" THE JACKSON SISTERS (Prophecy)

18. "Nothin' But A Party Part 2" THE BLENDERS (Cobra)

19. "Fast Man" THE PC'S LTD (Fran)

20. "Everything's Gonna' Be All Right" ROBERT MOORE (Saadia)

21. "Peace Still Is With Us" APOLLOS SHOW BAND (Jonlewis)

22. "Simple Song" ZEBRA (Zebra)

23. "Worldwide Traveller" MUSIC STAR (Jaz'zon)

24. "To Be Free" LUTHER DAVIS GROUP (Life Time)

25. "We're Movin" IMAGE (Verdy)

26. "I'll Know It's Love For Sure" PURE RELEASE (Release)

27. "My Baby Loves Me" MACHINE (Jarrett)

28. "Help Your Brothers" CROSS BRONX EXPRESSWAY (Zell's)

29. "Sunny Day" COMING OF MAN (Right Kind)

30. "Jump In The Water" RAY MUNNINGS (Tammi)

31. "The World Part 2" SANDI & MATUES (Matues)

32. "Don't Give Up" BETTY WILSON (Dayco)

33. "Tighten Up" ROOSEVELT MATTHEWS WITH BILLY BALL & THE UPSETTERS (King)

34. "Harlem Runble" GRAMBLING COLLAGE MARCHING BAND (Spontaneous Arts)

35. "I Really Love You" THE MYSTICS (Teako)

36. "How Good Is Good" MICKEY AND THE SOUL GENERATION (Mr.G)

37. "Get Up Off It Baby" THE SOUL AUTHORITY UNLIMITED (Bet)

38. "Psycho" THE FABULOUS MARK Ⅲ (Twink)

39. "Where Do You Go" JBC BAND (Jeree)

40. "Fell Into A Bag" RIVER CITY FUNK BAND (R.D.M.)

41. "Here I Stand" THE GETTO CHILDREN (So-Char)

42. "I Ain't Gonna be No Fool For You" THE FABULOUS PLAY MATES (Select)

[bookgleanings]

In 1938, when the federal government first considered aid for interstate highways … Secretary of Agriculture (and subsequent Vice President) Henry Wallace proposed to President Roosevelt that highways routed through cities could also accomplish ‘the elimination of unsightly and unsanitary districts.” Over the next two decades, the linkage between highway construction and the removal of African Americans was a frequent theme of those who stood to profit from a federal road-building program. They found that an effective way to argue a case for highway spending was to stress the capacity of road construction to make business districts and their environs white. Mayors and other urban political leaders joined in, seizing on highway construction as a way to overcome the constitutional prohibition on zoning African Americans away from white neighborhoods near downtown.

In 1943, the American Concrete Institute urged the construction of urban expressways for “the elimination of slums and blighted areas.” In 1949, the American Road Builders Association wrote to President Truman that if interstates were properly routed through metropolitan areas, they could “contribute in a substantial manner to the elimination of slum and deteriorated areas.” An important influence on national legislation and administration of the highway system was the Urban Land Institute, whose 1957 newsletter recommended that city governments survey the “extent to which blighted areas may provide suitable highway routes.” By 1962 the Highway Research Board boasted that interstate highways were “eating out slums” and “reclaiming blighted areas.”

Alfred Johnson, the executive director of the American Association of State Highway Officials, was the lobbyist most deeply involved with the congressional committee that wrote the 1956 Highway Act. He later recalled that “some city officials expressed the view in the mod-1950s that the urban Interstates would give them a good opportunity to get rid of the local ‘niggertown.’” His expectation did not go unfulfilled.

Hamtramck, Michigan, for example, was an overwhelmingly Polish enclave surrounded by Detroit. The city’s 1959 master plan called for a “program of population loss,” understood to refer to its small number of African American residents. In 1962, with federal urban renewal funds, the city began to demolish African American neighborhoods. The first project cleared land for expansion of a Chrysler automobile manufacturing plant. Then, federal dollars were used to raze more homes to make way for the Chrysler Expressway (I-75) leading to the plant. In advance, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights had warned that the expressway would displace about 4,000 families, 87 percent of whom were African American.

Twelve years later, a federal appeals court concluded that HUD officials knew that the highway would disproportionately destroy African American homes and make no provision for finding them new lodgings.

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

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State and Washington Street, Chicago (No. 3)

State Street is a large south-north street in Chicago, and its south suburbs. Its intersection with Madison Street (41.8820°N 87.6278°W) has marked the base point for Chicago's address system since 1909. State begins in the north at North Avenue, the south end of Lincoln Park, runs south through the heart of the Chicago Loop, and ends at the southern city limits, intersecting 127th Street along the bank of the Little Calumet River. It resumes north of 137th Street in Riverdale and runs south intermittently through Chicago's south suburbs until terminating at New Monee Road in Crete, Illinois.

From north to south, State Street traverses the following community areas of Chicago: Near North Side to the Chicago River, Chicago Loop to Roosevelt Road, Near South Side to 26th Street, Douglas to 39th Street, Grand Boulevard to 51st Street, Washington Park to 63rd Street, Grand Crossing to 79th Street, Chatham to 91st Street, Roseland to 115th Street, and West Pullman to 127th Street, where it terminates across from Riverdale Bend Woods. The street runs parallel and adjacent to the Dan Ryan Expressway from 65th Street south to just beyond 95th Street, where State Street crosses the I-94 Bishop Ford Memorial Freeway to enter Roseland. 

The northern portion of the Vincennes Trace or Vincennes Trail, a buffalo migration route and an Indian trail which ran some 250 miles to Vincennes, Indiana, was called Hubbard's Trace or Hubbard's Trail since it connected Chicago with Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard's more southerly trading outposts. It took on the name State Road after some state-funded improvements. Vincennes Avenue, one of Chicago's rare diagonal streets, is a vestige of the Vincennes Trace, and further south the trail eventually became Illinois Route 1. In its early days, State Road was unpaved and known for having mud so deep it was jokingly said that it could suck down a horse and buggy.  In the late 1860s, Potter Palmer embarked on efforts to raise the profile and prestige of State Street. He enticed Marshall Field and Levi Leiter to move their prosperous and growing department store, Field, Leiter & Co., to the corner of State and Washington Streets in 1868, and he built his own Palmer House hotel nearby in 1870. For many years the city's most well-known seafood retailer, Burhop's Seafood, was located on North State Street, as well as the historic Chicago Theatre. The latter was lit by Commercial Light Company in 1958, making it the brightest thoroughfare in the world, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Source: Wikipedia

[zeldaspeaksmindfulness]

Can someone please tell me why we can't do the same in Chicago for the homeless? We are not serving humanity if we allow people to FREEZE in this FRIGID CHICAGO WEATHER! MAYOR Lightfoot, Are You Listening? We deliver food, tents, butane, generators and heaters to the people of Tent City (DesPlaines Ave. in between Taylor Street & Roosevelt Road - right off Kennedy Expressway) and Chicago Ave Viaduct between Sacremento and Kedzie! We can not do it alone! We are our Brothers and Sisters Keepers! Have you forgotten the Village concept? Where is your humanity to allow the rich to flourish and the poor to die in the cold? Now that you know, what will you do? P.S. For the Alderman of Tent City who only showed up for the cameras when Dr. Willie Wilson showed up to bless them with $$, you need to step up and help homeless in your community! KARMA awaits you! https://lnkd.in/gJ56Vt_U #help #chicago #humanity #warmingcenters #higherlearning #zeldaspeaks #monday #mindfulness

[technsavi]

Chicago Sees Expansion of Robotic Food Deliveries

Chicago Sees Expansion of Robotic Food Deliveries

The Chicago City Council has approved a robotic food delivery that previously served only a fraction of the UIC campus. The new delivery area will now be expanded many times. It should cover the University of Illinois Hospital as Ogden Avenue is the eastern boundary and Halsted Stree is the western boundary. The limits are Eisenhower Expressway and Roosevelt Road in the north and south. A…

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Behavioral health resource event to be held Friday | News, Sports, Jobs

Behavioral health resource event to be held Friday | News, Sports, Jobs

<!– SHOW ARTICLE –> Minot’s “It Takes a Village” community behavioral health resource event will be held Friday from 3-7 p.m. at Roosevelt Park, 1215 E. Burdick Expressway, at Shelter No. 2 and band shell area. The event aims to raise awareness about available behavioral health resources in the Minot region. There will be more than 25 booths featuring public and private behavioral health…

[beatrixiv]

Does she know Jesse James Hampton, Jr? Did Jesse James Hampton, Jr work for the @usps @irsnews 1960s to retirement at Roosevelt Road and Kennedy Expressway, where @ups is today? @irsnews @statedept @treasurydept @usdot @thejusticedept @hendersonrandolph @wilfredleon_941 @hendersonrandolph394 @lynettehendersonrandolph @pen.nyhenderson @randolphhenderson12 @veronicawebb @iamwandasykes @herbiehancock (at West Side, Chicago) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeGgGkEu_MN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Twin Bridges US 1 (Roosevelt Expressway) View from Kelly Dr Philadelphia, PA Copyright 2019, Bob Bruhin. All rights reserved.

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[damnrightshow]

Play again yesterday’s episode. And here is playlist. Check it !

1. "I Betcha Didn't Know That" FREDERICK KNIGHT (Truth)

2. "Can You Feel My Vibe" HENDERSON & JONES (Epsilon)

3. "Look On The Good Side" THE INVITATIONS (Silver Blue)

4. "Live Fast Die Young" ERIC LOMAX (Columbia)

5. "Steppin' In" LEON COOK (Cannonball)

6. "Come Round Here" THE DECISIONS (Soul Direction)

7. "Someone" MILTON CAMPBELL & THE R-D-M BAND (Zoom)

8. "Young Mods' Forgotten Story" THE IMPRESSIONS (Curtom)

9. "Nobody Beats My Love" SIR JOE (Soul Direction)

10. "Here I Stand" THE GETTO CHILDREN (So-Char)

11. "The Party" ROOSEVELT WILLIAMS (Neptune)

12. "Looking Thru The Window" EDDIE BLACK SPEED (Watts City)

13. "My Lovely Lady" MOODY SCOTT (Staraiht Ahead)

14. "Hipit" HOSANNA (Calla)

15. "Brown Sugar" TK MURRAY (Street Soul)

16. "If You Wanna Go Back" JEAN CARN (Philadelphia International)

17. "I Told You So" THE DELFONICS (Philly Groove)

18. "Wake Up People" HEEM THE MUSIC MONSTER (Blood Leaf)

19. "Peace Still Is With Us" APOLLOS SHOW BAND (Johnlewis)

20. "Shake" HOUSE BROS (North Broad St)

21. "Keep On Doin' What You're Doin'(Alberto's Groove)" GILESPIE & CO. (Tesla Groove)

22. "Hold On" BRIAN JACKSON (BBE)

23. "Love Inflation" THE JONESES (Mercury)

24. "You Can Be A Star" LUTHER DAVIS GROUP (Life Time)

25. "I Know I'm Falling In Love" CHANTIQUE (AIP International)

26. "A World Like That" DON BRYANT (Creative Soul)

27. "Dreamworld Fantasies" BILL BROWN AND THE SOUL INJECTION (Super Disco Edits)

28. "Let's Get Together" NATURAL IMPALSE (Epsilon)

29. "Nothing Left Is Real" PURE FUNK (Planet Earth)

30. "Spread Love" BODY HEAT (Power)

31. "Help Your Brothers" CROSS BRONX EXPRESSWAY (Zell's)

32. ”Not Too Young" CONTINETAL SHOWSTOPPERS (Seventy 7)

33. "We Make It" VISIONS OF NEW WORLD (New World)

34. "Life" SEAQUENCE (Aidqueen)

35. "Don't Walk Away" GENERAL JOHNSON (Arista)

[nytransitmuseum]

In December 1936, the IND Queens Boulevard line was extended with eight new stations from Jackson Heights – Roosevelt Avenue to Kew Gardens – Union Turnpike. At that time, Woodhaven Boulevard (then Woodhaven Blvd – Slattery Plaza) was opened as a local station as a part of the Independent Subway System. The stores that made up Slattery Plaza were demolished when the Long Island Expressway was built in the 1950s, but the original name tablets still remain in the subway station.

The station was built with bellmouth provisions, meaning the tunnels were constructed wide enough for future service to be expanded. The idea was that the two side platforms could be demolished and replaced with two island platforms. Today, the local station is served by the R and M trains during the day, and the E train during late nights.

Have you ever ridden via the IND Queens Boulevard line?

[zeldaspeaksmindfulness]

Can someone please tell me why we can't do the same in Chicago for the homeless? We are not serving humanity if we allow people to FREEZE in this FRIGID CHICAGO WEATHER! MAYOR Lightfoot, Are You Listening? We deliver food, tents, butane, generators and heaters to the people of Tent City (DesPlaines Ave. in between Taylor Street & Roosevelt Road - right off Kennedy Expressway) and Chicago Ave Viaduct between Sacremento and Kedzie! We can not do it alone! We are our Brothers and Sisters Keepers! Have you forgotten the Village concept? Where is your humanity to allow the rich to flourish and the poor to die in the cold? Now that you know, what will you do? P.S. For the Alderman of Tent City who only showed up for the cameras when Dr. Willie Wilson showed up to bless them with $$, you need to step up and help homeless in your community! KARMA awaits you! https://lnkd.in/gJ56Vt_U #help #chicago #humanity #warmingcenters #higherlearning #zeldaspeaks #monday #mindfulness