Constitutional Convention race heats up with telegrams
Hostilities flared again as Michael Shakman and Alderman Claude Holman exchanged messages amid the Constitutional Convention race. Al Raby urged opposition to State's Attorney Edward Hanrahan as the brief item mentions a further announcement.
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Michael Shakman
Blackstone
4Th Ward
Claude W.B. Holman
al Raby
Dorchester
Edward V. Hanrahan
Hanrahan
Shakman
Holman
5Th Ward
Man killed as builders repair unsafe apartment stairs
Ira Talmer, 77, died July 29 after a section of a third story porch collapsed while he repaired it at a building on Greenwood. Tenants report slow repairs before the accident and say after the death work quickened with four exterior back stairs being rebuilt and windows, screens and rodent control needed. They accuse Leon Mott Real Estate of no response and say they have contacted owner John H. Johnson, editor of Ebony, Tan and Jet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenwood
Ira Talmer
Billings
Melvin Bryant
Bryant
Talmer
Leon Mott
John H. Johnson
Ebony, Tan
Jet Magazines
Johnson
Nancy Been Hays
Tenants complain as repairs lag at 23 unit building
Bryant reports easy repairs but tenants allege delays and hidden problems. Johnson says Mott Real Estate knows more of the condition. tenants fear eviction. Six foot lumber pile from old porches remains, with nails exposed in the yard. Eagle Construction says disposal unit was to remove debris August 9 but did not. Fire and renewal inspectors cited code violations, yet no repairs started.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryant
Eagle Construction Company
Sawyer Ave
Fire Department
Chicago Department of Renewal
Kamp Kenwood ends with broader youth program in Kenwood
Kamp Kenwood a city day camp sponsored by KAM Temple and First Baptist Church ends Friday after a summer serving 120 Kenwood youths. Donna Katzin along with Luther Washington and Elizabeth Holder pursued a community camp model with bi monthly parent meetings and 25 teen counselors gaining on the job training and housing and youth problems discussed at sessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel Pollock
Kamp
Kenwood
KAM Temple
First Baptist Church
Donna Katzin
South Shore Dr
Kamp Kenwood
Donna
Columbia
Graduate School of Community Organization
Luther Washington
Chappel
Elizabeth Holder
Evans
Forum on Con Con Will the Illinois Constitution really affect your life
League of Women Voters and Hyde Park Kenwood Community Conference sponsor a Sept. 11 forum at the Lutheran School of Theology 55th and University. Seven of eight candidates are expected to speak with a Q and A session on issues from rights of women and minorities to taxation housing health care and education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
League of Women Voters
Hyde Park-Kenwood
Lutheran School of Theology
55Th and University
Peery
Nsw
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Shakman McGee
Er Oy
Mott Real Estate
William Clarke
Ellis
Attye Belle McGee
Henry
Raby
Kerner
HPRCC
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