Alfreda Calbert

Please tune into the weekly West Garfield Park Community Stakeholders television show on CAN TV 21. Fathers Who Care and the West Garfield Park Community Stakeholders 37th Ward Alderman and Committeewoman and the Chairman of the Black West Side Elected Officials How to Save our Children and our Community How to Create Social and Environmental Changes What is the State of Mental Health on the West Side?

We need to demand President Trump's help in stopping this violence 2016 was a virtual bloodbath in Chicago. When you consider the city's dismal homicide rate, it is unfathomable that 784 people were killed and that the city was never declared a state of emergency. In fact, nearly 100 of those homicides came from the Austin community, the neighborhood where I have pastored for over 25 years. While Chicago may be America's epicenter of violence, Austin is its ground zero.

Start on your Black History essay for the City Treasurer Each year the City Treasurer's Office sponsors a Black History Month Essay Competition. The winner of this competition will receive a $2,500 non-renewable scholarship to support the cost of attending the first year of college. The deadline for the essay competition, which is open to all CPS high school seniors, is Feb. 23.