Washington School: Preserve or Destroy?

School, Segregation

News-Gazette Clipping

Alonzo Mitchell

News-Gazette

September 2009

The Myth of the Black Townie

Campus--Community, Education--Higher--Parkland College, Education--Higher--University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Economy, Poverty, Community, Racism, Research and Data, Library-Archive-Museum, History

This inquiry, based on qualitative data obtained from both participant interviews and my own personal observations, seeks to understand the relationship between African American students of Parkland College, the University of Illinois, and similarly aged, non-enrolled members of the Champaign Urbana community. The findings of this investigation suggest that there is often a hostile relationship between African Americans of these diverse populations. The research was based on the popular usage of the derogatory term "townie" to define an uneducaed, lower class African American who was born and raised in the area. Although there might be several viable explanations, my data seems to confirm that cleavages along lines of economics and education were the main source of conflict.

Alana Mbanza

IDEALS: University of Illinois

2008

Document

African-American Institutions in Social Networking Sites

Facebook, YouTube

Listing of pages and sites of predominantly historically African-American institutions in Champaign-Urbana on social networking sites such as Facebook, YouTube, Ning, etc. Also includes links to social networking pages containing extensive information about African-Americans in Champaign-Urbana. This list is growing! If you notice gaps correct them by contributing your information!

Salem Baptist Church



http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21674111489&ref=search&sid=1942729.1056766197..1#!/pages/Champaign/Rose-and-Taylor-Barber-Beauty-Shop/348464912064?ref=ts
Rose and Taylor Beauty Shop


http://www.facebook.com/pages/Don-Moyer-Boys-Girls-Club-Champaign-IL/61878282384?ref=search&sid=1942729.3007527564..1
http://www.facebook.com/canaanbaptistchurch?ref=search&sid=1942729.3019225682..1&v=wall

compiled by Noah Lenstra

LAST UPDATED: April 1, 2010

Candy Foster and Shades of Blue

Music

Website of local musician Candy Foster, who has lived in Champaign-Urbana since the 1960s and is often described as the "hardest working musician" in the twin cities.

Candy Foster

2010

Afya: Social and Digital Technologies that Reach across the Digital Divide

Community Informatics, SisterNet

This paper presents initiatives taken in the Afya project towards bridging the digital divide through social and digital literacy, equitable access, training, and content initiatives at the community level. As a participatory action research project, Afya (Swahili for "health") is designed to engage African American women in assessing and increasing their access to quality health information and services. Based on principles of social justice, the project is geared towards redefining relationships and achieving constructive social change at a community-wide level.

Contents

The Mission of the Afya Project
Collaborating for Change
Democracy is Messy
Afya Community Action Plan
Taking Action Across the Divide
Conclusion





The Mission of the Afya Project

Afya (Swahili for "health") is a participatory action research project designed to engage African American women in assessing and increasing their access to quality health information and services. At the same time, it nutures their interest, proficiency, access, and participation related to information technology and the Internet. Through the Afya project, we are striving to develop a practical vision for library engagement in community health and the digital divide that promotes social justice through community-wide alliances that model more democratic and participative relationships. Thus, Afya is concerned, fundamentally, with developing new social technologies (ways that people communicate and collaborate) as well as new digital tools and resources.

At the core of the Afya project is SisterNet, whose members are committed to achieving the lifestyle, behavior, and support systems that will lead to better health. SisterNet is a local network of African American women, founded by Imani Bazzell, whose members came together to fill a void. Many women in the Black community were hungry for information and support in their quest to understand their dissatisfaction with life, yet didn't necessarily have the language or mechanism to articulate and pursue alternatives. SisterNet started by organizing a health conference, called "Get With the Program," designed to explore the meanings of physical, emotional, spiritual, and intellectual health from a Black woman's perspective. The conference helped to introduce these concepts as vehicles with which Black women could transform their lives, and in the process, the life of our community. SisterNet women adopted the motto "Health, healing, leadership - For the lives we've always wanted." On the road to wellness, SisterNet women have developed numerous projects and opportunities designed to nurture healthy lifestyles and community activism.

SisterNet sees its efforts as an essential part of a political strategy to resist oppression and shape livable communities. Fannie Lou Hamer was quoted as saying, "We're sick and tired of being sick and tired!" One of the things SisterNet women were tired of was people making decisions about their lives without them even being "at the table." One of the ways to change that reality is to create your own "table."





Collaborating for Change

The Afya project is one such effort to set out that table, the result of a partnership with the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a generous National Leadership Grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services. In many ways this project is about relationships. In fact, it has its roots in the relationship that grew out of its Principal Investigator and Community Consultant's association, which began when they attended childbirth class together. Ann Bishop's interest in and commitment to community involvement and closing the digital divide led her to invite Imani Bazzell to collaborate on developing this project, which would marry health activism to technology activism.

Other organizations have joined us in collaborating for change in our local community, forming an alliance in which each contributes needed expertise and resources. SisterNet women, ranging from age 18-80 and crossing economic classes, are involved throughout as "community action researchers." In this role, they were responsible for pinpointing key problems in community healthcare services in our discussion groups, evaluating existing digital services, and framing project goals and activities to address the problems they identified. Thus, SisterNet women have led the effort to arrive at a Community Action Plan for the Afya project, which they are currently helping to implement. One particular way that SisterNet women's local knowledge and expertise have been kept front and center as we develop new digital health resources and plan community-wide activities is through our continual, though fluid, use of scenarios (Carroll, 1995). Our scenarios are simple, unstructured anecdotes, narratives that bring together values and practices related to the use of health services and information. They provide authentic insights into local women's experiences related to both healthcare and computers and we are finding that they serve multiple purposes in the development of both social and digital technologies (Bishop, Mehra, Bazzell, & Smith, in press; Bishop, Mehra, Bazzell, & Smith, 2000).

Faculty and students at the University of Illinois - including Bharat Mehra and Cindy Smith (herself a SisterNet member) as research assistants - help develop the techniques and resources that support the work of community organizations in the Afya project.

The Afya project also involves a substantial role for Prairienet, our local community network that is housed at the University, in the provision of computer technology and training. Like most community networks, Prairienet (www.prairienet.org) is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to contribute to community development by offering local digital content, Internet access, public access computers, and user training and support. Prairienet has provided us with computer training and Web development services, as well as free memberships and computers for SisterNet who have completed computer training.

Parkland College is a longtime supporter of SisterNet through its Department of Adult and Continuing Education. They have given generous in-kind support as well as access to computer hardware, software and other resources for the SisterNet Resource Centers we are developing as part of our Community Action Plan.

Public libraries, healthcare providers, the public health district, and other health information and service providers can exclude or miss the mark in their efforts to include or consider the needs and interests of Black women. This project seeks to bridge some of these communication gaps and lapses through the active involvement of healthcare and library organizations. These local groups have been vocal in their desire to unite in efforts to build capacity for creating and sharing health information across the social, cultural, economic, and technology divides that separate Black women from service providers. Local service providers participated in our needs assessment focus groups and are also helping to implement our Community Action Plan.

We've chosen to use SisterNet's action circle model as the primary social technology for implementing the Afya Community Action Plan. SisterNet action circles are ad hoc in nature. They are formed when three or more women identify a problem and are willing to research and develop a plan to resolve it. Action circles build knowledge and experience as skills and information are shared and developed. They are also designed to further the interests of Black women by foregrounding their concerns and insights and prioritizing their needs and relationships.





Democracy is Messy

We see SisterNet, and the Afya project in particular, as part of the larger national and global movement to make real the promise of democracy. Including traditionally excluded and disparate voices, and resisting elitism and hierarchies can not only be exhausting, but messy. Our approach to this work has three criteria to meet. It must be:

Community-wide, including SisterNet women, university affiliates, and local health information and service providers;

Committed to redefining relationships, especially as they relate to the balance of power between Black women and community-based institutions; and

Action/change oriented. This involves inquiry, not for inquiry's sake but toward some end such as resolving a problem, creating a new opportunity, or expanding a relationship.





Afya Community Action Plan

We have encapsulated basic project goals for Afya's second year as:

increase computer access and literacy among Black women;
improve the quantity and quality of health information from local providers;
establish and institutionalize ongoing information provision from Black women, in both digital and print formats;
improve relationships between providers and Black women; and
facilitate the further development of a strong social network - for the exchange of support and information related to both health and computing - among SisterNet women.
Our Community Action Plan (see Figure 1) lays out specific actions to meet our goals. It is the result of a wide range of input and reflects the priorities of a unique cross-section of local Black women.

Figure 1: Afya Community Action Plan

Establish Action Circle to develop a Web site featuring jargon-free culturally appropriate health information for our physical, emotional, spiritual, and intellectual well-being; chat and bulletin board space; news; tips; and public policy information;

Establish Action Circle to develop a SisterNet Technology/Internet Guide;

Identify and assist other local Black women's organizations interested in developing their own Web sites;

Develop and offer series of free computer training workshops targeting beginner, intermediate, and advanced needs;

Identify and train resource and referral agents (on- and off-line) to promote healthy lifestyles and use of technology;

Establish Action Circle to develop five SisterNet Resource Centers featuring relevant books, magazines, pamphlets, and Internet access in comfortable and convenient locations for Black women;

Establish Action Circle to develop and design visually appealing, easy to read health promotional materials on various topics and make them available at numerous drop-off sites;

Establish Action Circle to design a health and technology "Bill of Rights" poster for public distribution and display;

Establish Action Circle to identify leadership opportunities for women as SisterNet representatives on relevant committees, task forces, and so forth related to health and technology information and access (such as those set up by libraries, public health district, social service agencies, community organizations, private providers);

Establish Action Circle to organize Black women's health fair designed to increase knowledge about health concerns and resources and provide opportunity for interaction between health information and service providers and community women.

Sign up sheets for the activities in our action plan were presented at SisterNet's annual community health conference. Our Community Action Plan encompasses the development of both digital and social technologies; and in fact the two are intertwined. For example, we hope that social activities such as developing a cadre of local Black women who are interested in collaborating with local health service providers to create more relevant and appealing materials will lead to the creation of digital content for SisterNet's Web site. Moving from the digital to the social realm, community members hope that constructive communication through SisterNet web site's chat rooms and listservs will help build trust and understanding, a spirit of collaboration, that will be reflected in social interactions that take place in local libraries and healthcare facilities.





Taking Action Across the Divide

Each element in our action plan is designed to meet the three criteria noted above, in terms of being a community-wide effort that is geared toward redefining relationships and achieving constructive social change. Let's look at several examples.

SisterNet Resource Centers

SisterNet Resource Centers (SRC) are community-wide in that host sites will exist in Black hair salons and, later, libraries and health clinics. Each SRC respresents a collaboration among various community partners. The host sites are contributing their facilities. SisterNet women are designing the SRCs and will serve as onsite volunteers for them. Prairienet and Parkland are contributing the expertise and computer technology needed to establish and maintain the public access computing stations at each SRC. Libraries and health services will also supply expertise and materials associated with the SRCs, such as recommendations for health books and videos, and equipment such as the models used to demonstrate self breast exams.

Relationships are redefined in the course of creating and managing the SRCs in that SisterNet women are empowered, and experienced by others, as leaders in this initiative. SisterNet women involved in the SRCs take on a new role as informal outreach partners for libraries and health services, providing a critical connection to a population traditionally deemed "hard-to-reach."

We hope that change will occur along several fronts with the implementation of SRCs. First, that Black women and service providers will gain a respect for and increase their involvement with each other as they engage together in a shared enterprise. We are also striving for long-term change in Black women's health practices by providing an opportunity to model and practice good health and information habits on a regular basis. SRC materials will emphasize important and easy-to-adopt changes, such as performing self breast exams and gaining the ability to critically assess health Web sites.

SisterNet Computer Training

Through the Afya project, we are offering computer training to SisterNet women (two cohorts have already completed the four workshops that precede acquiring their own computers). Our computer training is community-wide, held at computer labs in the local Urban League, Workforce Prep Center, and Prairienet labs. The curriculum was designed and implemented by Prairienet staff, with input from SisterNet and University of Illinois students.

Because SisterNet computer training puts Black women in the role of teacher and mentor (not just trainee), the traditional relationship between expert and novice is redefined. Our training is provided through a mentorship chain. A local Black woman who herself completed Prairienet computer training and then went on to gain a staff position at Prairienet is the main teacher for our Afya workshops. She is assisted by other Black women, serving as workshop volunteers, who have also gone through Prairienet's basic training. SisterNet women participating in the current workshops act as over-the-shoulder mentors to their peers, with those who know a little more about computers sitting next to and assisting women who are complete novices.

Constructive change is embodied in this chain of mentorship: SisterNet women who participate in our training workshops can themselves go on to become workshop volunteers and even teachers. We have also instituted activities within the training workshops that are specifically geared to facilitating constructive social and technical change. The health Web site review exercise that Imani Bazzell developed directs workshop participants to explore a given health site on the Web, find something of interest that will help them make a positive change in their lives, and then report back to all workshop participants on what they learned. Thus, along with Web browsing skills, women gain motivation to use the Internet because they have seen that it contains useful and congenial information geared specifically to them. They also gain a little confidence in public speaking through their oral reports to the class. Finally, they find, share, and discuss action-oriented health information.

SisterNet Health Fair

This summer, the SisterNet Health Fair will be devoted to Afya goals related to improving both health and technology capacities through its focus on alternative/complementary health and how to find and use information in that arena. The Health Fair will be held in a local public library and comprise booths and activities set up by a wide range of health and information providers across our community, and include SisterNet women as presenters. For example, the University of Illinois health sciences librarian will set up a booth that provides information on how to access and use their resources, such as an instruction sheet for searching the PubMed (Medline for the general public) database of medical literature. SisterNet women will present material from the SisterNet technology/Internet guide they helped develop.

The SisterNet Health Fair will embody a means to redefine community relationships that was advocated by both providers and Black women in our needs assessment discussion groups. Providers were especially eager to develop ways to bring women and providers together in an informal and fun environment, where they could get to know each other outside of the official, more sterile situations that typify exchanges in hospitals and libraries. Another detrimental aspect of official exchanges is that the balance of power they represent is tipped so dramatically to the "experts," i.e., healthcare and information service professionals.

In designing health fair activities, we plan to lean toward those that are diagnostic and reflective in nature, that lead Black women to identify and follow up on changes they want to make in their lives. For example, we will hold mini workshops in which participants learn about and try yoga and tai chi, as well as how to find, assess, and use Web-based information related to alternative health. Women will contribute to a potluck refreshment stand where they sample nutritional food that can help reduce certain health risks and problems.





Conclusion

The digital divide is really a socioeconomic, cultural, and power divide that exists at both local and global levels. If we don't deal with the mistrust and inequities at their roots, we run the risk that technology access and use will simply perpetuate age-old patterns. Through the Afya project we are experimenting with ideas about how to close the digital divide through digital literacy, access, training, and content initiatives at the community level.

But modeling and practicing social justice and community engagement related to Black women's health is a much more difficult nut to crack. How do we bridge the social aspects of the digital divide? As members of diverse communities, we all must look to change in our social literacy, access, training, and content efforts. In terms of social literacy, we must learn how to read each other, how to grant respect and validity to diverse funds of knowledge and social capital. We need to be socially accessible, opening ourselves to new relationships. Social training must occur as stakeholders throughout a community model and practice a shared vision of social justice. And finally, we need new social content in the form of artifacts and structures - both online and offline - that embody constructive social change.



About the Authors

Ann Peterson Bishop is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois. Her research focuses on socially-grounded research methods and the use of information systems by disenfranchised groups. Bishop teaches courses in community information systems, information needs and uses, knowledge organization and access, social informatics, and information policy. Bishop serves as Principal Investigator for "Community-Based Creation of Networked Information Services: Developing Tools and Guidelines for Public Libraries," a two-year project funded by the Institute for Library and Museum Services (IMLS). She was Principal Investigator for the "Community Networking Initiative" (sponsored by the Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program in the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Kellogg Foundation), and co-PI for the University of Illinois' NSF/ARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative project. Bishop is a co-founder - along with Greg Newby - of Prairienet, the community network that serves East Central Illinois.
E-mail: bishop@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu

Imani Bazzell is the founder and director of SisterNet, a local organization committed to nuturing the physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual health of Black women. Professionally, she splits her time between SisterNet, the Center For Multicultural Education at Parkland College, and independent consultation with public schools, colleges and universities, unions, not-for-profit and state agencies, and community groups on racial justice, gender justice, healthcare access, and leadership development. Her commitment to institutional change in the area of public education includes serving as the coordinator of ACE (African Americans for Accountability in Education) as well as a member of the Champaign School District's Planning and Implementation Committee (charged with the development and implementation of programs and policies designed to address years of discrimination). Bazzell's other membership and organizing activities include: A Woman's Fund; NAACP; Women Against Racism; National Racial Justice Educators and Organizers; National Coalition Against Racism in Sports and Media; and, the Black Radical Congress.
E-mail: ibazzell@parkland.cc.il.us

Bharat Mehra is a doctoral student at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In the domain of human-computer interactions, his major interest lies in evaluating user's needs and understanding the role of social, cultural, behavioral, and psychological factors in the design of information systems. His current interest in the design of computer-mediated information systems for minority and marginalized groups extends his earlier cross-disciplinary research in community development and information exchange. Mehra's prior work on the East St. Louis Action Research Project (ESLARP) involved a close working relationship with the community, and the collaborative analysis of their needs, and development of recommendations for re-building the physical and cultural landscape.
E-mail: b-mehra1@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu

Cynthia Smith is pursuing a Master's Degree in Social Work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She worked for the Decatur School District for many years. Smith received her Bachelor's Degree in Child, Family and Community Services at the University of Illinois in Springfield. Her area of concentration is school social work and her future plans include pursuing a doctorate degree that will enable her to work with children and their families in both the school setting and the community.
E-mail: cdsmith4@uiuc.edu



References

A.P. Bishop, B. Mehra, I. Bazzell, and C. Smith, (in press). "Scenarios in the design and evaluation of networked information services: An example from community health," In: C. R. McClure and J. C. Bertot (editors). Evaluating Networked Information Services: Techniques, Policy, and Issues. Medford, N.J.: Information Today.

A.P. Bishop, B. Mehra, I. Bazzell, and C. Smith, 2000. "Socially grounded user studies in digital library development," First Monday, volume 5, number 6 (June), at http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_6/bishop/

J.M. Carroll (editor), 1995. Scenario-based design: Envisioning work and technology in system development. New York: Wiley.

Editorial history

Paper received 14 March 2001; accepted 16 March 2001.

Ann Peterson Bishop, Imani Bazzell, Bharat Mehra, and Cynthia Smith

Black Feminist Thought as a Contribution to Community Informatics

Community Informatics, Cyber-Church, SisterNet

Over the past 20 years, from 1989 to 2009, researchers and community members at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been consistently involved in exploring and applying
technology usage in the local community, specifically in African-American communities in Illinois. This
effort was, in part, an attempt to understand the benefits, obstacles and constraints of informaticizing
community activities and preserving and digitizing culture among technologically under-served (and often
“redlined”) communities. This paper highlights specific initiatives and collaborations that have been a part
of the development and institutionalization of a Community Informatics Initiative in the Graduate School
of Library & Information Science at Illinois through the lens of Black feminism. Building on the assorted
and emerging definitions of Community Informatics (CI) by researchers who have been at the forefront of
grassroots and localized technology programs, this paper will attempt to identify two major theoretical and
philosophical approaches to merging community-based interests with technological application and
integration and posits a third. By examining two contrasting CI projects from Illinois from a Black Feminist
perspective, I attempt to learn how to improve sustainability and model CI projects that affect African-
Americans.

Safiya Umoja Noble

http://www.ccnr.net/prato2009

2009

The Relative Lot Hypothesis: An Empirical Note

Asabere, Paul K., and Peter F. Colwell. “T.” Urban Studies. 22 (1985): 355-357.

Articles relating to building of Land of Lincoln Center on North First Street

Social Services

Legal assistance foundation to dedicate new home on Friday

Mon, 04/07/2008 - 7:01am | The News-Gazette
CHAMPAIGN – The Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation will dedicate its new building in north Champaign on Friday.

The 5,300-square-foot office at 302 N. First St. will be open to the public from 3 to 6 p.m. The open house is intended to thank those who contributed to a $775,00 capital campaign that made the building possible.

Dedication speakers will be Illinois Supreme Court Justice Rita Garman of Danville and Abner Mikva, senior director of the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School. Mikva was also a five-term congressman from Illinois and a former federal appeals court judge.

Tours begin at 3 p.m. followed by a brief program at 4:30 p.m.

Land of Lincoln is a public-interest law firm dedicated to helping the poor and elderly with free services in civil cases such as consumer, housing, family, health and disability disputes.

Champaign is the regional office for 14 counties in central Illinois. There are four other regional offices that together with the Champaign office serve clients in the 65 southern counties of Illinois.

Land of Lincoln has raised $550,000 of its $775,000 goal. As part of the redevelopment plan for North First Street, the city of Champaign donated the land and awarded a $200,000 matching grant. Other major contributors were Carle Foundation Hospital, the Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois, and the Champaign law firm of Meyer Capel.

In a release about the open house, managing attorney Valerie McWilliams said the new building is about 50 percent larger than the former space the firm rented on South Neil Street.

It has office space for eight attorneys, two VISTA volunteers, eight law students, and administrative staff. It also has a conference room, storage area and training room.

The office has been in use by the staff since July.

For information, contact McWilliams at 217-356-1351 or vmcwilliams@lollaf.org.

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At new site, facility has 'room to grow'

Sat, 08/18/2007 - 8:28am | Julie Wurth
The site of the infamous "chicken-neck murder" is now a center for people who need affordable legal help.

The Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation moved this month to a new location at 302 N. First St., C, much closer to many of the clients it serves.

A new $50,000 gift from Carle Foundation Hospital also put the agency closer to its goal of raising $750,000 to pay off the mortgage for the project.

Though the regional office covers 14 counties, Land of Lincoln lawyers are pleased to be part of the north Champaign neighborhood. The new office is in a low-income census tract at the corner of First and Church streets, two blocks north of the Champaign police station and close to public transportation downtown.

"It's very convenient for me now," said Odessa Profit, 53, of 302 E. Park St., who has worked with the agency to get disability benefits. "It's just a couple of blocks away. It's a nice location."

The site has "important symbolism," said Valerie McWilliams, managing attorney for the office.

"The location is fabulous for us. We want to have a neighborhood presence, a community presence," she said.

It also has a colorful legal history. In 1968, attorney John Phipps was hired as a special prosecutor for a murder that took place in one of two houses that occupied the property. A man gave a friend $1 to buy some neck bones for supper, Phipps said, but he spent the money on wine instead and came back drunk. The two argued and the drunk rushed the first man, who shot him. He stumbled out the door to a nearby barber shop, where he died. The other man, who was much smaller and legally blind, was acquitted.

Phipps, a longtime Land of Lincoln board member, called the new building a "great facility" that will enhance productivity.

The old office at Illini Plaza, 1817 S. Neil St., C, was about two-thirds the size of the 5,000-square-foot red brick and limestone building.

There's an expansive training room, complete with a projector, that can host classes on credit repair, predatory lending or free tax help. A roomy storage area spreads across the back of the building. There's more space for the seven attorneys, eight to 10 law students, two VISTA volunteers and administrative staff, and even an empty office. A wireless network allows them to work anywhere from their laptops.

"We actually have room to grow," McWilliams said.

Land of Lincoln has raised $475,000 for its "Building for the Future" campaign – $75,000 from the Lawyers Trust Fund, $200,000 from the city and $200,000 in other commitments, including Carle's, McWilliams said.

Carle Foundation Hospital has worked closely with Land of Lincoln on its Law and Health Project, which helps people secure Medicaid and disability benefits. A joint Medical Debt Task Force also improved the hospital's Community Care program, which provides discounts or free care to income-eligible patients, she said.

"Land of Lincoln does an excellent job in assisting people who don't have access to counsel," said Dr. James Leonard, chief executive of Carle Foundation Hospital. "We felt that anything we could do to help them move along in their strategic plan and their mission made a lot of sense."

Half of Carle's $50,000 gift will be used as matching funds to encourage gifts from other donors, including Carle Clinic, Christie Clinic and Provena.

"This is a way to pull some of the other medical providers in," Leonard said.

"Our clients are not just a few people who get into trouble," McWilliams said, noting that divorces, child support and other family law issues make up half of the caseload. "Their problems are similar to other people's, they just happen to have low incomes."

News-Gazette

Yntema, Jean Busey, 1898-2002. Interview and Memoir.

Racism, early 20th Century

Yntema, teacher, discusses early 20th century life in Champaign County, Illinois:
upper-class family and home life, childhood, family vacations, women's suffrage,
the towns of Urbana and Champaign, Depression, and banking business of the
Busey family. She also talks about teaching in Crossnore, South Carolina, trips to
Europe, living in Waukegan, Illinois, her husband's family, and her impressions of
African Americans. She also briefly mentions the University of Illinois at Urbana,
an American Indian reservation, and a Mississippi plantation.

Some of her remarks on African-Americans in Champaign-Urbana appear on pages 40-42 (page 35-37 according to page numbers) as she discusses "Ivory," a local African-American (she calls Negro), an itinerant worker she remembers from her childhood.

Colleen R. Ogg

Archives/Special Collections, University of Illinois at Springfield

1984

Decision on building's fate put on hold

North First Street, Buddies, Media--News-Gazette

Article on Buddie's Bar.

http://www.news-gazette.com/news/other/2004-01-07/decision-buildings-fate-put-hold.html

News-Gazette

7 January 2004