Waukegan Mayor Sam Cunningham Normalized the Same Type of Political Violence He Claims to Oppose When it is Practiced by I.C.E. (800th Post!)

I. Introduction

     The following speech is an address, regarding immigration, which I delivered to the Waukegan City Council on October 20th, 2025.
     Portions of this speech were omitted from the live version of the address, in order to fit into the three-minute time period which is allotted to people who provide public comments to that body.



II. Speech

     I rise this evening to speak about the subject of immigration.
     If you compare America’s population density to the rest of the world, you will find that our population would have to grow by 183 million people, before we reach the world average, and before we could reasonably say that we are overcrowded.
     We have plenty of room for immigrants.

     The amount of wealth that undocumented immigrants take out of the welfare system, has been estimated at $150 billion per year. According to my own estimates, this is the exact same amount of wealth which is stolen from immigrants, through wage theft, each year.
     Immigrants do not cause a net loss to the American taxpayer. We can afford to “take care of immigrants”; in fact, we take care of them just as much as they take care of us.

     The immigrants who supposedly “steal Social Security numbers” are only doing so because having a Social Security number is the only way to work legally.
     Moreover, the border officials who want immigrants out, are effectively trapping immigrants here at the end of harvest season, making it impossible to leave. Those officials are the reason why most immigrants are here illegally; not the immigrants themselves.
     People are not automatically criminals just because they are here without permission. Overstaying a visa creates no victim; and if there is no victim, then there is no crime. Only violent immigrants should be deported.

     Waukegan’s diversity is its greatest strength. Although Latinos are underrepresented, on the city council, by sixteen percent, I think it is a beautiful thing that Waukegan has three white, three black, and three Hispanic aldermen, without any racial quotas needing to be enshrined in the law in order to achieve this outcome.
     I praise the Lake County Board’s decision to ban federal agents from using county property to conduct immigration enforcement operations, I reject all attempts to pit blacks against Latinos, and citizens against undocumented immigrants; and all attempts to turn this country into a fascist dictatorship based on the legitimization of political violence, no matter who is doing it.

     Which is precisely why I cannot support Mayor Sam Cunningham’s attempts to posture as a hero who is protecting people from arrest by I.C.E..

     Before I continue, I must say this:
     The U.S. Supreme Court held – in the 1983 case of Connick v. Myers – that criticizing public officials is part of our freedom of speech. So I will thank you all to stop cautioning people who speak here against criticizing city employees.

     Let’s face it: We have a mayor who kind of likes to beat people up. This is not hyperbole, nor slander; I personally watched the mayor poke my friend in the chest – causing him to fall to the ground – on July 17^th, 2021.
     I should have defended him from you. And I would have been within my legal rights to do so. I regret not doing so every day. That is a decision that I will never get back.

     This mayor’s violent behavior, at the local level, has normalized the same kind of thuggery which we have seen coming out of the Trump Administration at the federal level.
     You have given us a choice; between having the right boot on our necks, and having the left boot on our necks.
     I don’t want any boots on my neck. I can’t breathe.

     When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.

     Mr. Mayor, the people are catching on. Your days in politics are numbered.
     If you continue serving in office, you will destroy the credibility of not only yourself, but also your supporters (for being foolish enough to trust you) in the process.
     If you care about your constituents, then please retire now.

     Now, I am not stupid enough to threaten a public official. But what I will say is this: Are you gonna beat me up too? No? Too many witnesses? That's what I thought.
     Happy National Bullying Prevention Month.

Written and published on October 20th, 2025.

The majority of this speech was delivered live
on October 20th, 2025.

 

Link to All of My Articles and Videos Regarding the Waukegan City Council and/or Mayor Sam Cunningham

      The following is a link to all the articles and videos I have published, which pertain to the city council of Waukegan, Illinois; current Waukegan Mayor Sam Cunningham; or both of the above.

     The author of this blog - Joe Kopsick - has lived in Waukegan for eight years (since 2017), and began commenting on city affairs in 2019. The following articles and videos are from 2019, 2021, and 2025.

     1. "Licensing Breeds Licentiousness: Speech to the Waukegan City Council on July 15th, 2019", published to the Aquarian Agrarian on July 15th, 2019:
     http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2019/07/licensing-breeds-licentiousness-speech.html

     2. "Public Officials Should Not Appear in Ads for Public Events: Speech to the Waukegan City Council on August 5th, 2019 (First Draft)", published to the Aquarian Agrarian on July 15th, 2019:
     http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2019/07/taxpayer-funded-local-events-should-not.html

     3. "Speech to the Waukegan City Council on August 5th, 2019 (Second Draft)", published to the Aquarian Agrarian on July 30th, 2019:
     http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2019/07/speech-to-waukegan-city-council-on.html

     4. "Speech to the Waukegan City Council on August 5th, 2019 (Third Draft)", published to the Aquarian Agrarian on July 31st, 2019:
     http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2019/07/speech-to-waukegan-city-council-on_31.html

     5. "City Governments Could Make Revenue-Sourcing and Land Use More Efficient by Taxing Vacant Lots and Abandoned Properties", published to the Aquarian Agrarian on April 3rd, 2021:
     http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2021/04/city-of-waukegan-could-expand-vacant.html

     6. "Waukegan Should Adopt Land Value Taxation to End Double Taxation and Provide Property Tax Relief", published to the Aquarian Agrarian on April 14th, 2021:
     http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2021/04/waukegan-and-lake-county-should-adopt.html

     7. "Video on Land Value Taxation to Be Included in Waukegan City Council Livestream on April 19th, 2021", published to YouTube on April 16th, 2021:
     http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2021/04/video-on-land-value-taxation-to-be.html
     [To see the video referenced, see the links within, or click on Link #8 and/or Link #11 below.]

     8. "2021-04-19 City of Waukegan City Council Meeting", published to YouTube on April 21st, 2021:
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxuTD85iZ4A

     9. "Former Waukegan Mayor Sam Cunningham Excused Joe Biden's Child Molestation, and Then Physically Assaulted My Friend", published to the Aquarian Agrarian on July 25th, 2021:
     http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2021/07/former-waukegan-mayor-sam-cunningham.html

     10. "Speech to the Waukegan City Council Regarding Former Mayor Sam Cunningham (February 3rd, 2025)", published to the Aquarian Agrarian on March 17th, 2025:
     http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2025/03/speech-to-waukegan-city-council.html

     11. "Enacting Land Value Taxation in Lake County IL", published to YouTube on May 19th, 2022:
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lKt1EZ2FPc

     12. "Speech to the Waukegan City Council Regarding Land Value Taxation (March 17th, 2025)", published to the Aquarian Agrarian on March 17th, 2025:
     https://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2025/03/speech-to-waukegan-city-council_17.html

     13. "Speech to the Waukegan City Council Regarding Sanitation, Traffic, and City Council Business (August 18th, 2025)", published to the Aquarian Agrarian on August 17th, 2025:
     https://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2025/08/speech-to-waukegan-city-council-on.html

     14: "Link to All of My Articles and Videos Regarding the Waukegan City Council and/or Mayor Sam Cunningham" [i.e., this article], published to the Aquarian Agrarian on August 17th, 2025:
     https://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2025/08/link-to-all-of-my-articles-and-videos.html

Compiled and published on August 17th, 2025.

Speech to the Waukegan City Council, Regarding Sanitation, Traffic, and City Council Business (August 18th, 2025)

      The following speech was written on August 17th, 2025, and will be read aloud during the public comments period at the upcoming regular meeting of the city council of Waukegan, Illinois, on August 18th.

     This speech is addressed to the city's nine aldermen (including Alderman Juan Martinez, mentioned by name), as well as the mayor, the treasurer, the city's corporation lawyer, and the secretary.

     The time limit for public comments is three minutes per person. This speech will likely take just over three minutes to read aloud.

     The city council usually meets at 7:00 P.M., on the first and third Monday of each month.

     I hope that you will find the following suggestions constructive.

     First off: Several months ago, Alderman Martinez reminded Waukegan residents to empty-out  our bags of recyclable goods directly into recycling receptacles, instead of placing sealed bags of recyclables into the bins.

     I’m happy to comply with this request; in fact, this advice saves us all money on trash bags. But I do have one concern: If the receptacle tips over on windy days, then the recyclables are more likely to fall out, and blow all over the place, if they are not bagged, than if they are bagged.

     So I’d like to ask – the next time you have a chance to renew the contract with the company providing the recycling receptacles – that you please ask that contractor to provide residents with receptacles that don't lock, but can snap securely closed, and can still fling open easily when the receptacle is flipped upside-down.

     This will help keep the areas around the trash bins clean, while getting the recycling taken out efficiently and with minimal waste.

     Second: Drivers heading north on Green Bay Road, and turning right onto Washington Street, are not sufficiently informed that they will have to make two complete stops before turning.

     This intersection is monitored by camera, and people are being ticketed for failing to stop twice. So if the city is going to profit off people who fail to stop – and if people are going to be honked at by drivers who don’t know what the rule is at that intersection – then the city should install signage which is sufficient to get the point across (that drivers need to stop twice).
     Therefore I propose installing – at the southeast corner of Green Bay and Washington – either: 1) an additional stop sign; 2) a second white stop line, painted onto the street; 3) a sign which reads “inch out and stop again before turning”; or all of the above.

     Third: Some of these meetings last way too long. No sane person wants to still be in a government building at 10:00 P.M. (including, I think, you, yourselves).

     I hope that any and all aldermen who agree with me on this, will propose an amendment to the city council’s by-laws, which would shorten meetings from three hours to one-and-a-half hours (by meeting four times per month instead of two), or else an amendment which would shorten meetings from three hours to two (by meeting three times per month).
     A rule to dismiss at 9:30 P.M., automatically, would also solve this problem.

     Fourth: Several months ago, there was some concern expressed, regarding the duration of aldermen’s speaking time.

     Therefore, I ask whomever is interested, to propose a three-minute limit upon the total duration of each alderman’s general comments (which, unless I’m mistaken, are currently unlimited). This proposal would afford each resident – and each alderman – the same amount of speaking time.

     Fifth: It has been more than four months since a video from the regular meetings of the Waukegan City Council has been posted to the WaukeganTV channel on YouTube.

     Please ask someone to update your channel; the public needs to see what’s happening here, from home, so that they don’t have to endure these long meetings.


     Thank you.

Written and published on August 17th, 2025.

Delivered, with edits, on August 18th, 2025.

Edited on this blog on August 19th, 2025.

Speech to the Waukegan City Council Regarding Land Value Taxation (March 17th, 2025)

      The following speech about taxation policy was delivered, in part, on the evening of March 17th, 2025, during the twice-monthly meeting of the city council of Waukegan, Illinois.
     The Waukegan City Council allows three minutes for public comments, and normally meets on the first and third Mondays of each month, at 7:00 P.M..

     The proposal to which I refer in the speech, and offer to provide to the mayor and aldermen, can be read at the following address:
     http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2021/04/city-of-waukegan-could-expand-vacant.html
     A summary of that article can be accessed, as well, at the following address:
     http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2021/04/waukegan-and-lake-county-should-adopt.html

     Video of this speech may be available at the following address:
     http://www.youtube.com/@WaukeganTV

     It’s good to see you again… I’m Joe Kopsick, an eight-year Waukegan resident, originally from Lake Bluff.

     Out of more than three thousand counties in America, only nineteen of them tax property value more than Lake County does. Property owners feel over-taxed, and they are. That’s why I want to tell you about a plan to stop taxing property value… and start taxing the unimproved value of property.

     Land Value Taxation (or L.V.T.) is a plan to decrease urban sprawl – and conserve space in densely-populated areas – by reducing the number of vacant lots in the middle of cities. L.V.T. would tax the owners of such parcels of land; because those parcels are going unused, and because their non-use makes it impossible for everyone else to derive use from that land.

     So, then, the owners should pay a fee, to the city, in exchange for continuing to exercise ownership of that property. Cities could use tax liens (or other tools) to ensure that those who don’t pay such fees would have their property confiscated, and temporarily put into city custody, until it can be auctioned off in a fair bidding process (in which monopolists and land speculators can’t place bids).

     Four years ago, I looked at the city budget, classified all taxes into types, and determined whether they follow L.V.T. principles or could co-exist with L.V.T.. In my opinion, as much as sixty percent of the current city budget, can and should be replaced with taxes on the despoilation, hoarding, and non-improvement of land. I propose phasing L.V.T. in slowly over four years. This proposal could be enacted with or without a basic income; I propose letting each city decide.

     If you don’t mind, I’d like to give each of you a copy of this proposal. I can also email you a video I made, based on this proposal; and I have unabbreviated versions of this speech.

  

     While looking at the budget, I also learned that the city operates a “Vacant Lots Registry Fund”. So – to facilitate the phasing-in of Land Value Taxes – I propose that the city expand that fund, into what I would describe as a “vacant lots and homes; polluted or blighted or hoarded lands; and parcels housing abandoned construction projects… registry fund”.

     It may also help if that fund could eventually partner with – or maybe even merge into – local land conservation agencies, Community Land Trusts, and/or water reclamation district offices.

     Using L.V.T., we would tax the despoilation of land, in an intentionally punitive way; instead of accidentally appearing to “punish taxpayers for producing” (by taxing income, sale and purchase, and construction). We should phase-in L.V.T.; while phasing-out taxes on working, buying, selling, consuming, and building-values (because it would be anti-productive and economically harmful to tax these “improvements upon land”).

     Enacting Land Value Taxes – including a tax on owning more than 4.8 acres per person – will free homeowners to develop, beautify, and improve their homes, without having to worry about either gentrification, or higher property taxes arising from their having increased their own property’s value. We need to assess land value fairly – by “taxing land, not buildings” – in order to reduce the average price of land for everyone.

     Once land is less expensive, everything on top of the land will – in turn – become less expensive. It will be easier and cheaper to mix labor and capital on top of the land; more affordable to work, start a business, and apply human labor to raw materials in order to produce things we need to survive). When working and starting business are not taxed unnecessarily, they will be less expensive, and this will lead to less unemployment, less homelessness, and less landlessness.

     L.V.T. would thus make property taxes and home “ownership” less expensive and easier to understand for the average person. And I put “ownership” in quotes, because if you have to pay taxes on something you own - to the government - then it really isn’t truly or fully yours. L.V.T. solves that problem; by taxing people based on whether they’re using – and how they treat – their property; instead of taxing them just because they own it.

     L.V.T. is a win-win for everyone; except for those certain land “developers” - and giant corporations investing in real estate - who happen to be financial criminals (preying upon cities and towns, trying to profit from spoiling land, hoarding large swaths of it, and speculating on its value for personal and investor gain).

     That’s why – alongside the enactment of Land Value Taxes – we should continue (and increase) the fining and prosecution of people and companies that pollute, or that commit wage theft or other financial crimes (including mineral companies that take unique resources from our ground and then “skip town with the money”).

      Thus, the people and companies harming Waukegan’s economy the most – and hoarding Waukegan’s land the most – would start paying the city adequately for the cost of continuing to uphold their wasteful, untenable property claims (or else they would surrender that property).

     The communists wanted to communize the commons (meaning the land, water, and air); while people who want free markets say “laissez-faire” (essentially; leave producers untaxed) and want taxes to be simpler and easier to understand. This proposal achieves both, satisfying people on the economic left and right.

     Additionally, lowering taxes on everyone who earns income without allowing land to go to waste or become unusable, will also help decrease government intrusion into the private economic affairs of ordinary law-abiding workers.

     Land Value Taxation will help us move away from a model of taxing things just because they exist and are valuable, towards a model in which we would fund government with fees and fines levied against financial crimes and other harmful economic activities. L.V.T. will make city budgets easier to fully fund without resorting to double taxation of income by multiple levels of government (which taxpayers dislike). We will be taxing the right things for the right reasons, and the reason for the taxation will be (more often) related to the purpose of the spending.

     In summary: Tax land, not man. Tax land, not labor or capital. Tax bads, not goods. Tax destruction, not production.

      Thank you for listening. Please let me know if I can put you in touch with economists whom are better-versed on this topic; these include Scott Baker, Mason Gaffney, Alanna Hartzok, and Jeffery Smith.

Written on March 15th, 16th, and 17th, 2025.

Originally published on March 17th, 2025.

Edited and expanded on March 19th, 2025.

Delivered in part on March 17th, 2025.

Speech to the Waukegan City Council Regarding Former Mayor Sam Cunningham (February 3rd, 2025)

Part I: Introduction

      Approximately half of the following speech was delivered to the mayor and aldermen of Waukegan, Illinois, at the February 3rd meeting of the Waukegan City Council.

     What follows is the full speech that I would have given, had I not been constrained by the city council's three-minute time allotment for public comments.

     This speech is based, in part, on an article I published on July 25th, 2021, titled "Former Waukegan Mayor Sam Cunningham Excused Joe Biden's Child Molestation, Then Physically Assaulted my Friend". That article was published eight days after that event occurred.

     I also expanded the article, several times in October and November 2023, to reflect the fact that, originally, I neglected to mention that Cunningham shoved my friend to the ground, and neglected to mention how that occurred.

     While I regret the omission, I stress that I did not embellish the story, nor did I make any errors. The only reason why I forgot that Cunningham shoved my friend - and forgot to mention the reason why my friend subsequently sat on the sidewalk - was because of the stress which the event induced in the moment.

     I have recently discovered that undergoing stress causes the release of the hormone cortisol, which shrinks the hippocampus (which plays an important role in memory). The release of cortisol during the stress response is probably the most important factor contributing to diminished ability to remember said stressful and traumatic events.

     My original account of Cunningham's shoving my friend to the ground on July 17th, 2021 can be read at the following address:

     http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2021/07/former-waukegan-mayor-sam-cunningham.html

     Additional articles I have written that mention Sam Cunningham can be accessed at the links below:
     [Note: Despite the fact that two of these articles' titles begin with the word "speech", they were not actually delivered.]
     http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2019/07/taxpayer-funded-local-events-should-not.html
     http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2019/07/speech-to-waukegan-city-council-on_31.html
     http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2019/07/speech-to-waukegan-city-council-on.html

Part II: Unabbreviated Speech

     My name is Joseph W. Kopsick. I have lived in Waukegan for eight years.

      On February 24^th and April 1^st of this year, 2025, the eligible voters of Waukegan are called to decide who will be the next mayor of this city of 90,000 people.

     I rise this evening to inform the community that one of the candidates in this upcoming mayoral election, committed an act of physical battery, in an act which may also have constituted voter intimidation.

 

     On the evening of July 17^th, 2021, an activist friend and I went to the public sidewalk out in front of what was then the Democratic Party Headquarters of Lake County, at 118 Genesee Street.
     I was holding a sign that read either, “The president is a pedophile” or “The president is a child molester”. I had made this sign to refer to an incident that occurred on January 6^th, 2015, when then Vice President Joe Biden pinched the nipple of an 8-year-old girl, while the girl’s uncle, Steve Daines, was being sworn-in as Senator from Montana. This act was broadcast live on C-SPAN2, footage of it can still be found, and I can produce that footage if asked.

     I brought that sign to the front sidewalk, out in front of an active meeting of the Lake County chapter of the Democratic Party, in order to call local Democrats’ attention to Biden’s inappropriate behavior.

     Around 6:30 P.M., my friend and I noticed that two men were standing in front of the “A Cuban Experience” cigar store across the street. One of them was white, and the other was tall and African-American.
     My friend quickly noticed that the second person was Sam Cunningham, and he drew this to my attention. As soon as we were able to confirm that it was actually him, Cunningham – from across the street - noticed my sign, – which, again, read “the president is a child molester” – and he shouted, “That’s part of the job!”

     [I suppose the case could be made that he was “just joking”, but at the same time, this is arguably not a topic that it’s appropriate to make jokes about.]

     So I said, “Molesting children is part of the job of being president!?"

     Then my friend said, excitedly, “Is that disgraced former mayor Sam Cunningham?” My friend said this loudly enough for Cunningham to hear him.

     [As an aside:

     To say that my friend was in the wrong here, would require arguing that it constitutes “fighting words” to call someone who’s twenty feet away from you, “disgraced”. But my friend did not, at any point, dare Cunningham to fight him, or ask him to cross the street.

     As for the reason why my friend called him “disgraced former mayor”: As I’m sure many of you know, Cunningham had gotten in trouble for allegedly taking too much personal credit for the “Mayor’s Music Festival” and for allegedly working with his mother to attempt to get a man named Mike Morales kicked out of his public housing unit as retaliation for posting a photo of Cunningham and his mother with devil horns.]

     Hearing my friend call him “disgraced former mayor Sam Cunningham”, Cunningham marched across the street, and got up in my friend’s face. I should note, here, that my friend was a full foot shorter than Cunningham in height.

     Cunningham said, “What’d you say?”, pointed his finger at my friend’s chest, and then gave him either a shove, or a hard, firm, long, poke in the sternum. This caused my friend to fall to the ground, onto his backside.

     My friend then stood up, but sat down again, to show that he had been put there by Cunningham, and to show that he was not fighting back. At no point did my friend lay a hand or a finger on Cunningham.

     Before we knew it, Cunningham was allowed to go inside to where the meeting was happening (even though he had just been seen committing battery), and then his mother Mary Ross Cunningham – as well as a white woman inside the Democratic Party meeting – both called the police on us, claiming that there were “people laying down on the sidewalk" (as if Cunningham had not put my friend on the sidewalk by knocking him over during an instance of illegal battery).

     My friend and I left just as the police were arriving. We arguably should have stayed, and explained what happened, but we did not want to be in the position of appearing to resist arrest or contradict police in attempt to convince them that they were acting based on a false police report; nor in the position of having to convince the several people at the nearby La Casa de Samuel who witnessed and filmed the shoving, to hand-over their cell-phone videos (which, by the way, only captured what happened immediately after my friend was knocked to the ground, and thus would not be useful to the police in terms of showing who started the fight, even if they could be recovered).

     Numerous people saw Sam Cunningham there that day. I would be willing to testify in court that the preceding testimony is true, to the best of my recollection. I based tonight’s speech on a longer, more detailed account that I wrote right after it happened. Unfortunately, the police have told me that the statute of limitations for reporting Cunningham’s act of battery, have passed.

     I am not asking you to believe my account unquestioningly; and I would be glad to answer questions. I am simply inviting you to ask yourselves whether you think Sam Cunningham – six-foot-tall Sam Cunningham, whom has been accused of corruption before multiple times – has it within him, to have committed the act I have described.

     And if the answer is yes, then I invite you to consider that that sort of intimidation and battery is not the type of behavior that we should expect from someone who is running to be a servant of the people - as part of a civic obligation to create a more polite, peaceful society, where we sort out our differences calmly using words, rather than through violence – and consider that someone who has been credibly accused of such things should not be deemed a worthy candidate for mayor.

     Cunningham’s opponents are Ann Taylor, Keith Turner, Miguel Rivera, Kenneth Smith, and Harold Beadling. Choose wisely.

Part III: Link to Video

     Video of me delivering part of this speech is not yet available online. However, it may become available in the future, at the City of Waukegan's official YouTube account, which can be found at the following address:
     http://www.youtube.com/@WaukeganTV/videos

Parts I and III written on March 17th, 2025
Part II written on February 2nd and 3rd, 2025.

Based on an article written on July 25th, 2023
and edited in late October and early November 2023.

Published on March 17th, 2025.

List of Community Gardens (and Forest Preserves) in Lake County, Illinois

Community Gardens in Lake County

Community CARE Garden, 1200 American Way, Libertyville, IL 60048

Community Garden Green, 17 E. School Ct., Fox Lake, IL 60020 / 224-225-1404

Community Garden of Fox Lake, 17 Forest Ave., Fox Lake, IL 60020

Community Garden Site, Waukegan, IL 60085

Gardeners of Central Lake County, in Evangelical Free Church, 431 W. Austin Ave., Libertyville, IL 60048 / 847-772-2186

Grayslake Community Garden, 42 Barron Blvd., Grayslake, IL 60030

Grayslake Community Garden, 119-129 Library Lane, Grayslake, IL 60030

Green Oaks Memorial Garden at Green Oaks Village Hall, 2020 o’Plaine Rd., Libertyville, IL 60048 / 847-362-5363

GreenTown Waukegan / GreenTown Grows, 128 N. West St., Waukegan IL 60085 / 847-241-4481

Gurnee Community Garden & Mother Rudd Garden, 801-975 Kilbourne Rd., Gurnee IL 60031

Hawthorn Gardens, 24481 N. Old McHenry Rd., Hawthorn Woods, IL 60047 / 847-726-0627

Heiden Gardens Condo Association, 13000 W. Heiden Circle, Lake Bluff, IL 60044 / 847-234-
            7810

Highland Park Community Garden, West Ridge Center, 636 Ridge Rd., Highland Park IL 60035
            or 60040

Island Lake Victory Garden, 3613 Lakeview Dr., Island Lake, IL 60042 / 847-526-8764

Island Lake Victory Garden, Veterans Park, 316 Island Dr., Island Lake, IL 60042 / 847-526-8764 (possibly)

Libertyville Gardens, Sports Complex, 1950 N. U.S. Highway 45, Libertyville, IL 60048

Madeleine Fuqua Garden, in Henry Pfau Callahan Park; 12101-12199 W. Yorkhouse Rd., Waukegan IL 60087

Mundelein Community Garden, 416 Banbury Rd., Mundelein, IL 60060 / 847-388-5450

Mundelein Community Garden, 667-899 Dunbar Rd., Mundelein, IL 60060 / 847-388-5450 (possibly)
Prairie Crossing Community Garden, 32400 N. Harris Rd., Grayslake 60030

Vernon Hills Community Gardens - Century Park North Garden / Century Park Pavilion Garden,1401 Indianwood Dr., Vernon Hills, IL 60061

Vernon Hills Community Gardens – Century Park Boat Dock Garden, 1001 Lakeview Parkway, Vernon Hills, IL 60061

Vernon Hills Community Gardens - Hartmann Park Garden, 292 Oakwood Rd., Vernon Hills, IL 60061 / 847-996-6800

Village Green Memorial Garden, 1312 Shermer Rd., Northbrook, IL 60062

Volo Community Garden, 500 IL-60, Volo, IL 60030

Waukegan Garden Club, 1911 N. Sheridan Rd., Waukegan, IL 60085







Forest Preserves, and Sites in Lake County Which May Have (or Be) Community Gardens

Bowen Park Greenhouse in Bowen Park, 1800 N. Sheridan Rd., Waukegan IL 60085 / 847-360-4725

Century Park Arboretum, 1002 Lakeview Parkway, Vernon Hills, IL 60061; 847-996-6800

Elawa Farm, 1401 Middlefork Dr., Lake Forest, IL 60045

Greenbelt Forest Preserve, 1110 S. Green Bay Rd., North Chicago, IL 60036 / 847-367-6640

Independence Grove Forest Preserve, 16400 W. Buckley Rd., Libertyville IL 60048 / 847-968-3499

Lake Forest Open Lands: Derwen Mawr Nature Preserve, Golf Lane, Lake Forest, IL 60045 / 847-234-3880

Lake County Forest Preserves, 21950 Riverwoods Rd., Riverwoods, IL

The Sheridan at Green Oaks, 19330 N. Waukegan Rd., Lake Bluff, IL 60044 / 847-857-6261

For More Information Regarding Community Gardens

The Lake County Community Foundation, 1200 University Center Drive, Suite #333, Grayslake
            IL 60030 / 847-377-0520 / www.lakecountycf.org

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Compiled and Published on March 22nd, 2024

Expanded, and .PDF file made available, on March 24th, 2024

Housing Assistance Agencies Currently Operating in Waukegan, Illinois

Housing Assistance Agencies Currently Operating in Waukegan, Illinois

Alexian Brothers Housing & Health Alliance – The Harbor

- Address: 826 North Ave., Waukegan

- Phone Number: 847-782-8015

Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago

- Address: 671 S. Lewis Ave., Waukegan

- Phone Number: 847-782-4000

Community Action Partnership of Lake County

- Address: 2424 Washington St., Waukegan

- 847-249-4330

El Puente Latino (food bank, may have housing)

- Address: 2415 Butrick St., Waukegan

- Phone Number: 847-597-3051

Family First Center of Lake County

- Address: 2504 Washington St., Suite 300G, Waukegan &/or 2408 29^th St., Waukegan

- Phone Number: 224-789-7763

Habitat for Humanity – Lake County

- Address: 315 N. M.L.K. Jr. Ave., Waukegan

- Phone Number: 847-623-1020

Love, Inc. – Lake County

- Address: 339 Lakewood Ave.

- Phone Number: 847-782-8630

House of Peace

- Address: 671 S. Lewis Ave., Waukegan

- 224 430-4977

Mary’s Mission

- Address: 642 S. M.L.K. Jr. Ave. , Waukegan

- Phone Number: 847-623-2136

One Hope United – Rebound

- Address: N. Lewis Ave., Waukegan

- Phone Number: 847-662-0945

P.A.D.S. Lake County – P.A.D.S. Office (homeless outreach service)

- Address: 1800 Grand Ave., Waukegan

- Phone Number: 847-869-4357

P.A.D.S. Lake County – Waukegan Public Library (homeless outreach service)

- Address: 18 N. County St., Waukegan

- Phone Number: 847-623-2041

Salvation Army – Waukegan Corps Community Center

- Address: Green Bay Rd, Waukegan

- Phone Number: 847-336-1880

Staben House (homeless shelter)

- Address: 3000 Grand Ave., Waukegan &/or 422 South Avenue, Waukegan

- Phone Number: 847-244-9944 or 847-244-0805

Waukegan Main Street

- Address: 214 Washington St., Waukegan

- Phone Number: 847-623-6650

Y.W.C.A. – Lake County

- Address: 1537 S. Waukegan Rd., Waukegan

- Phone Number: 847-662-4247

Might Not Provide Housing (Call to Find Out)

Christian Fellowship Church
- Address: 621 Belvidere St.
- Phone Number: 847-336-1815

Greater Faith Church – Baptist
- Address: 565 Powell Ave.
- Phone Number: 847-244-4400)

Liberty Temple Full Gospel Church
- Address: 711 8^th St.
- Phone Number: 847-662-3182)

Mt. Moriah Christian Center
- Address: 524 10^th St.
- Phone Number: 847-662-5683

North Point Community Christian Church
- Address: 900 Lewis Ave.
- Phone Number: 847-746-5522

Truth Youth & Family Counseling Services
- Address: 2504 Washington St.
- Phone Number: 224-489-7773

Waukegan Adult Rehabilitation Center
- Address: 431 S. Genesee St.
- Phone Number: 847-662-7730

Written and Published on December 5th, 2023

Food Pantries Currently Operating in Waukegan and Libertyville, Illinois

 FOOD PANTRIES IN WAUKEGAN and LIBERTYVILLE, Illinois

(Times and other information may be subject to change.

Call ahead of time to make sure pantry is still operating,
and operating this week, and find out times,
and whether they require I.D.s or residence in town.

Call United Way, at 211, for more options.)

______________________________________________________________________________

 

MONDAYS

- 10 AM – 1:45 P.M. – C.O.O.L. (Christian Outreach of Lutherans) Food Pantry, 800 W. Glen
            Flora Ave., Waukegan (bring photo ID) (call 847-662-1230 for more info) (Can only get food                  once every 30 days)

 - 10 AM – 2 PM: Food pantry at Umma Center, 841 Grand Ave , Waukegan
            (call 847-336-6136; must go on same day of the week each time you go) (bring bags, not boxes)

Monday Through Friday

- Community Action Partnership of Lake County, 1200 Glen Flora Avenue. Must have
            appointment provide ID of everyone over 18 in household, and provide Social Security
            cards of everyone in household. Call 847-249-4330, extension 3324 for more
            information [213 Water St. and 224-412-8945 are not valid contacts]. Open Monday
            through Friday.

- 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM: St. Joseph’s Church
            - 112 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Libertyville IL 60048 / 847-362-2073


TUESDAYS

- 10 AM – 1:45 P.M. – C.O.O.L. (Christian Outreach of Lutherans) Food Pantry, 800 W. Glen
            Flora Ave., Waukegan (bring photo ID) (call 847-662-1230 for more info) (Can only get food                  once every 30 days)

- 10 AM – Noon: Mt. Moriah Christian Center, 524 10^th St.. Call 847-662-5683 for more information.

- 10 AM – 2 PM: Food pantry at Umma Center, 841 Grand Ave., Waukegan
            (call 847-336-6136; must go on same day of the week each time you go) (bring bags, not boxes)

- 10 AM – 3 PM, at Libertyville Township Pantry, 359 Merrill Court Libertyville IL 60048 / 847-
            816-5989


WEDNESDAYS

 - 10 AM – 1:45 P.M. – C.O.O.L. (Christian Outreach of Lutherans) Food Pantry, 800 W. Glen
            Flora Ave., Waukegan (bring photo ID) (call 847-662-1230 for more info) (Can only get food                  once every 30 days)

- 10 AM – 2 PM: Food pantry at Umma Center, 841 Grand Ave. (location confirmed) (call 847-480-
            4320; must go on same day of the week each time you go) (bring bags, not boxes)

- 10 AM – 3 PM: UMMA Center, 221 Washington St., Waukegan

THURSDAYS

- 10 AM – Noon: Food pantry at St. Anastasia, 624 Douglas Ave., Waukegan, bring photo ID.
            Call 847-623-5050 for more information.

- 10 AM – 1:45 P.M. – C.O.O.L. (Christian Outreach of Lutherans) Food Pantry, 800 W. Glen
            Flora Ave., Waukegan (bring photo ID) (call 847-662-1230 for more info) (Can only get food                  once every 30 days)

 - 10 AM – 2 PM: Food pantry at Umma Center, 841 Grand Ave., Waukegan
            (call 847-336-6136; must go on same day of the week each time you go) (bring bags, not boxes)

- 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM: St. Joseph’s Church
            - 112 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Libertyville IL 60048 / 847-362-2073

SATURDAYS

- 8:00 – 9:15 A.M.: First Presbyterian Church (Mobile Pantry)
            - Saturday each week at 8:00 AM-9:15 AM
            - 219 W. Maple Avenue Libertyville IL 60048 / 847-362-2174 or 847-662-2174
            - Cars will pull into Brainard Parking lot across from church on Douglas St. in
                        Libertyville and check in.

 - 8 AM – 11 AM: HOPE Food Distribution Services
            - St. Lawrence Episcopal Church Community Meal (Soup Kitchen)
            - 2nd and 4th Saturdays of the month, or every third Saturday of the month
                        (call to find out)
            - Phone: 847-362-2110 or 847-662-7084
            - 125 W. Church St. Libertyville IL 60048

- 10 AM – Noon: Food pantry at Shiloh Baptist Church, 800 S. Genesee St., Waukegan

Day(s) of Week Unknown;
            Entities Possibly Providing Food Pantry Services (Call for More Information)

- Christian Fellowship Church, 621 Belvidere St.. Call 847-336-1815. Food on holidays only.

- El Puente Latino, 2415 North Butrick. Call 847-599-3051 for more information.

- Greater Faith Church – Baptist, 565 Powell Avenue. Call 847-244-4400 for more information.

- Liberty Temple Full Gospel Church, 711 8^th St.. Call 847-662-3182 for more information.

- Most Blessed Trinity / Holy Family Parish, 914 8^th Street. Call 847-623-2112 for more information.

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Based on research gathered throughout 2023.

Completed and published on December 5th, 2023.

Edited and expanded on December 6th and 23rd, 2023,
and January 4th, 2024.

Link to PDF added on January 4th, 2024.

In Memoriam: General-Purpose Obituary for Ethan August Winnett (for Release and Publication)

 

     The Winnett family of Waukegan, Illinois wishes to announce the sad and untimely passing of their beloved son, Ethan Winnett. Ethan August Winnett (1985 - 2023) was 38 years old.

     Ethan will be remembered as someone who was "intricately a part of everyone who shared love with him in any form” by his younger sister Elanna; and by the rest of his family. She added, “he will never be truly gone”.

     He will also be remembered as someone who was always ready to provide computer and technical support, and help his friends with their resumes. His penchant for poetry, his love of music, and his fun-loving attitude touched the lives of everyone around him, and helped keep them in good spirits.

     Ethan Winnett was the best friend of everyone he met.

 

     Ethan will also be remembered - by the Green Party – as a dedicated and busy activist, who served as the interim chairman of the Lake County chapter of the Green Party of Illinois since the mid-2010s. Ethan was a dedicated chairman, helping to keep the chapter open and populated through difficult years of low attendance, and drawing more people into the chapter and party. His outspoken nature, and his righteous indignation at the powers-that-be, helped inspire and guide the party through years of oppression and antagonism. And for that, he will be sorely missed, and not soon forgotten.

     He will also be remembered - by the environmental group Clean Power Lake County – as someone who was committed to cleaning up trash throughout the Waukegan area. He was also interested and involved in community gardening in Waukegan.

     Ethan was an indispensable member of the community of Lake County, providing charitable services to its people, such as by preparing free meals for the homeless (despite struggling on-and-off with homelessness himself at the time).

     He will also be remembered for his work for the Veterans’ Administration at the Great Lakes Naval Station, were he worked in the prosthetics department, and helped to repair electronic devices for elderly veterans. Additionally, he was a veteran of the United States Army, stationed in South Korea, and a tireless advocate for veterans’ rights, and for achieving peace worldwide.

     Ethan also briefly worked as a substitute teacher at Waukegan East High School.

 

He is survived by his mother Lana; his sisters Elanna Winnett, Esther Redding; his brother Buddy Winnett, Jr., and other siblings. Ethan was preceded in death by his father and hero, Buddy Winnett, Sr., who passed away in 2019.

 

As a lover of nature, science, and technology, Ethan was not religiously observant; so in his memory - in lieu of prayers - mourners are encouraged to do the things that Ethan loved; singing songs, sharing poetry, doing something to be close to nature (such as planting a tree), eating Ethan's favorite foods (jap-chae and kim chi), or simply reminding someone they care about that they love them.

     Anyone wishing to make a donation in Ethan's memory may contact Clean Power Lake County, or the Green Party of Illinois.

     Anyone wishing to be kept updated about memorial services for Ethan should contact his sister Elanna ("Ela"), by e-mailing earth2ela@gmail.com, as that information will become available soon.

 

Elanna Winnett contributed to the content and editing of this article.

Portions of this article were originally written

on October 20th, 21st, 22nd, and 31st, 2023;

and November 3rd, 2023,

and were originally published in an article titled

"In Memoriam:
Green Party of Lake County, Illinois

Announces Passing of Ethan Winnett";
which can be read at the link below:

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2023/10/green-party-of-lake-county-illinois.html

Edited and expanded on November 14th, 2023.

Former Waukegan Mayor Sam Cunningham Excused Joe Biden's Child Molestation, and Then Physically Assaulted My Friend

Former Waukegan Mayor Sam Cunningham

    At around 6:30 P.M. on Saturday, July 17th, 2021 - while standing in front of the Lake County Democratic Party headquarters at 118 North Genesee in Waukegan - an activist friend of mine was assaulted while standing less than three feet away from me.

     The attacker was Sam Cunningham, the former mayor of Waukegan.

     During the half-hour before this happened, I had been holding a sign that read "The president is a pedophile" (referring to Joe Biden pinching a young girl’s nipple live on C-SPAN on January 3rd, 2015), and showing it to cars and pedestrians that passed by the office of the county Democratic Party headquarters, during one of their business meetings.
     I did not make any attempts to shout or to attract excessive or unwanted attention to myself, nor did I even show my sign to attendees of the meeting. Nor did I, nor my friend, leave the public sidewalk (where it was our legal right to be) at any point during this interaction.

     Prior to the incident which I recount below, my friend had been sitting inside the meeting, waiting politely for his turn to speak. He took a break from waiting for his turn to speak, to come outside to talk to me. I was standing on the public sidewalk, holding a sign.
     Next, my friend saw an African-American man and a white man across the street. My friend said "Is that Sam Cunningham? Wait, maybe not." I looked at the African-American man across the street – standing outside of what I later found out was A Cuban Experience cigar shop at 119 North Genesee – and I looked at his face. I said "That is Sam Cunningham”, because it was.

      Next, Cunningham, or maybe his friend, reacted to my sign. I’m not sure who said it because I was looking away for a moment. But I’m fairly confident that the voice I heard was Cunningham’s.

     In response to my chalkboard sign that read, "the president is a child molester" (referring to Joe Biden, whom had been inaugurated six months prior), Cunningham responded "That's part of the job!", apparently referring to molesting children.

     I replied, “Molesting children is part of the job of being president!?"

      Next, my friend said – loudly enough to be heard from across the street – “Is that disgraced former mayor Sam Cunningham!?"

    [Note: My friend said this because Cunningham had recently lost an election against Ann Taylor, after Cunningham had faced several scandals. Cunningham and his mother (Mary Ross Cunningham, Vice-Chair of the Lake County Board) threatened to get a man named Mike Morales kicked out of public housing, and possibly also sue him, in retaliation for posting a picture, to social media, which depicted the Cunninghams with devil horns on their heads.

     http://abc7chicago.com/waukegan-il-news-mayor/5267320/

     Also, Cunningham arguably attempted to take too much personal credit for his involvement in the so-called “mayor’s” music festival in Waukegan. Cunningham’s likeness appeared in ads for the event, and thus could have unfairly influenced voters to re-elect him.]

     After hearing my friend say “Is that disgraced former mayor Sam Cunningham!?”, Cunningham swiftly walked – practically marched – across the street (North Genesee Street) and got in my friend’s face.

     My friend is just over five feet tall, and stands nearly a foot shorter than Cunningham. Cunningham stared my friend in the face, and got so close to him that their noses were less than two inches away from touching.

      While I can’t remember exactly what my friend and Cunningham were shouting at each other at this time, I believe that my friend called Cunningham a “piece of shit” at some point, and I distinctly remember Cunningham calling my friend “boy”. I think he said something like, “What’d you say, boy!?” or “What’d you say about me, boy!?”
     [To clarify, if my friend did call Cunningham a "piece of shit", then it was only after Cunningham or his friend (most likely Cunningham himself) yelled "that's part of the job" in regard to molesting children in order to become the president.]

      Next, Cunningham poked my friend in his forehead with the brim of Cunningham’s hat.

     This caused my friend to step back, and to cede ground to Cunningham, out of fear.

     After shouting and staring at my friend, and poking his forehead with the brim of his hat, I said to Cunningham, “Could you stop assaulting my friend, please?”

     Cunningham did not only force my friend to step back; he also covered my friend’s mouth with one or both of his hands, and shoved my friend in the chest, forcing him to step back again.

     Next, Cunningham strolled into the Lake County Democratic Party meeting, as if nothing had happened; as if he had not just committed assault in front of several party members and nearly a dozen customers at La Casa de Samuel at 120 N. Genesee.

     In response, a woman from the Lake County Democrats called the police on my friend instead of Cunningham. After being chased and assaulted, my friend laid down on the public sidewalk  in order to show that he was not fighting back, that he was not a threat, and that he was being submissive. He did this to make it clear that he was not the attacker, did not initiate the fight, and did not wish the fight to continue.

     [Note, added on November 3rd, 2023:

     An additional reason why - I believe - my friend laid down on the sidewalk, was to show that he had been knocked down onto the sidewalk. To clarify, I do not mean to suggest that he was faking it. While everything happened very quickly, and it is difficult to remember, I have been thinking about this event more lately, and I believe that Cunningham's second shove could have and would have easily knocked my friend to the ground, especially considering that Cunningham was more than a foot taller than my friend. The trajectory of the shove could have easily knocked my friend off his feet. I believe that my friend fell down after Cunningham shoved him the second time, and then stood up again and regained his balance, but then sat down again on the sidewalk in order to show that he had been put there by Cunningham. This is when Mary Ross Cunningham, and/or a white woman inside the Democratic meeting, called the police to report "people laying on the sidewalk" (which is what we heard one of these women saying while calling the police).]

     Although the Democrats allowed Sam Cunningham to enter (after he had not only committed assault, but lost an election after he was revealed as corrupt); they also refused to allow my friend to re-enter. My friend, as I said, was sitting inside peacefully, waiting for his turn to speak, before Cunningham assaulted him. Despite the fact that my friend posed no threat, while Cunningham did, the Democrats kicked my friend out and gave Cunningham refuge after he initiated assault.

     To be clear, Cunningham initiated this assault not at me for holding my sign saying Biden is a pedophile, but at my friend, for saying “Is that disgraced former mayor Sam Cunningham?”.

      All of this happened while Sam Cunningham’s mother, Mary Ross Cunningham (the Vice-Chair of the Lake County Board) was sitting outside – between La Casa de Samuel and the Democratic Party headquarters – calmly talking on her cell phone.

     Sam Cunningham’s friendship with members of the Waukegan Police Department – and his and his mother’s friendships with members of the county’s Democratic Party elite – made it too dangerous, in my and my friend’s opinion, to stick around to answer police questions after this happened.
     We went to my car and drove away because we had a reasonable fear that the police would detain us - or even beat us up - because the Democrat who called the police made it sound like we were the ones who had started the fight, or were being dangerous, or were doing something illegal.
     But - I repeat - my friend and I did not harass anyone, and we did not leave the public sidewalk, nor stray into the street at any time. Cunningham, though, did cross the street in order to assault my friend.

________________________________

      Evidently, losing his mayorship was not clear enough of a message that the people of Waukegan do not trust him. The disgraced former mayor still believes that he has the right to intimidate fellow Waukegan residents in public.

     The former mayor must not be allowed to intimidate anyone, let alone activists.

     A corrupt politician is one thing, but a corrupt politician who physically intimidates people and excuses child molestation by the politically powerful is another thing entirely. And he intimidates people because they criticize him.

     If Cunningham is allowed to get away with physically intimidating activists in the street, then what is to stop him from taking a “hit” out on his opponents? Current mayor Ann Taylor would have every right to be worried about such a thing.

     By sheltering Cunningham after several of them witnessed this assault, the Lake County Democratic Party has shown that its ideology - statism under the guise of a representative democratic republic - is one that supports the use of violence for political goals. This is nothing more than legalized terrorism.

     I hate to risk appearing to dehumanize an African-American person by comparing him to an animal – and I do condemn the use of dehumanizing language to excuse violence against innocent people – but Sam Cunningham is not an innocent person.

     As soon as a competent police force takes charge of Waukegan, they should make sure that they have a tranquilizer dart gun available.

     The police should not rule out the use of such weapons, the next time former mayor Cunningham decides to physically chase and harass someone who is exercising their right to publicly criticize him while standing on a public sidewalk in his hometown.

     I do not recommend the use of tranquilizer guns for comic effect, nor to humiliate Cunningham. I say this because it would have been the only way to act quickly enough to stop Cunningham, in the course of his attack (without resorting to either tasing him, shooting him, or tackling him in order to immobilize him).

     Cunningham is at least six feet tall, and strong enough to defeat almost anyone whom he might decide he wants to defeat. The protection he receives from police - coupled with his strength - render him almost like a police force unto himself (even with his mayorship stripped).

     Former mayor Sam Cunningham must be stopped. The City of Waukegan must never elect a mayor who will not promise to fire any and all high-level officials in the Waukegan Police Department who may wish to protect the Cunninghams' privilege to intimidate and harass our city's residents.

     If current mayor Ann Taylor (who defeated Cunningham in the spring 2021 election) refuses to fire any such officials, then she is acting against the interests of not only the residents of Waukegan, but against the interests of her own neck (i.e., to remain whole and undivided).

     Post-Script / Four Updates:


     1)
     
     I later discovered - after writing and publishing the article above - that the white woman inside the Democratic Party headquarters, whom I initially believed to have been the person who called the police, might not have been the only person who called the police.
     It was either her, or Sam Cunningham's mother (Mary Ross Cunningham); or else they both called the police.
     I say this because - as I stated above - Mary Ross Cunningham was "calmly talking on her cell phone" while all this was going on. She witnessed the whole thing.

     2)

     Several people, whom were dining at the Casa San Juan Mexican restaurant (which then lay directly north of what was then the Democratic Party headquarters, on Genesee Street), took videos of the aftermath of the attack, on their cell phones, when this happened.

     However, these restaurant patrons probably did not get any footage of the attack while it happened, because of how quickly it happened, and because of how little time they had to get their phones out of their pockets.

     At the site of where Casa San Juan once stood, there is now a restaurant called La Jaiba Seafood Restaurant and Bar. That restaurant is located at 120 North Genesee Street. The Democratic Party headquarters - which was then located at 118 North Genesee Street - is no longer in operation, as of November 3rd, 2023; and Lake County's Democratic Party headquarters has moved to a different location.

     3)

     The person whom Cunningham shoved to the ground was named Ethan August Winnett.

     Ethan did not want me to disclose his identity when I originally wrote and posted this article, because he was afraid of being arrested (for example, for trespassing). But I am revealing his name now, because he passed away on October 19th, 2023; one week prior to the writing, publication, and addition of this update.

     I am also revealing his name now, because I recently discovered that Sam Cunningham is running for Mayor of Waukegan again, for the election to be held in 2025. And he must not be allowed to win it.

Ethan August Winnett

(January 31st, 1985 - October 19th, 2023)

     4)

     You can find proof that Joe Biden is a child molester by clicking any of the links below:

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6zXhYsIWKQ

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCTXDInRBvQ

     http://rumble.com/v1mpclq-joe-biden-pinches-nipple-of-montana-senators-8-year-old-niece.html

     http://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=610584119946225

     http://coronanews123.wordpress.com/slow-motion-of-vp-biden-sexually-assaulting-sen-daines-8-year-old-niece-pinches-nipple/

     http://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/politics/girl-confirms-that-biden-groped-her-and-pinched-her-nipple-and-its-on-video/97600954/

     http://www.dailyveracity.com/2021/07/27/teen-confirms-joe-biden-pinched-her-nipple-when-she-was-eight-years-old/

     http://www.rightjournalism.com/did-joe-biden-really-pinch-8-year-old-maria-piacesis-nipple-in-2015-she-says-yes-photos/

     http://www.tacticalshit.com/girl-who-was-touched-by-creeper-joe-biden-on-camera-confirms-he-groped-her-and-pinched-her-nipple/

     http://thewashingtonstandard.com/video-exposes-criminal-joe-biden-pinching-little-girls-nipple-why-is-america-tolerating-this/

     http://poptopic.com.au/news/senator-daines-niece-maria-piacesi-says-biden-pinched-her-nipple/

     http://nationalfile.com/daines-niece-confirms-joe-biden-pinched-her-nipple-according-to-report/

     http://www.ibtimes.sg/did-joe-biden-pinch-8-year-old-girls-nipple-62138

     http://jessica-ramer.medium.com/did-biden-pinch-a-young-girls-nipple-911b6b885b06

     http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/sick-girl-touched-creeper-joe-biden-camera-confirms-groped-pinched-nipple-metoo/

     http://www.quora.com/Whats-this-about-Maria-Piacesi-admitting-Biden-pinched-her-nipple-when-she-was-8-years-old

     138.197.76.185/nm0081182/Joe-Biden/610ca2ebe955b14a9b9632c9/Maria-Piacesi-the-niece-of-Senator-Steve-Daines-confirms-Biden-publicly-groped-her-nipple-as-an-8-year-old?reply=610dfa5a24f12667d999e8e6

     http://debatepolitics.com/threads/slow-motion-of-vp-biden-sexually-assaulting-sen-daines-8-year-old-niece-pinches-nipple.487635/

     

 

Originally written on July 18th, 2021
(the day after the attack).

Edited and expanded on July 25th, 2021;
and October 26th and November 3rd, 2023.

Originally published
(without the Post-Script / three of four Updates)
[now the first, third, and fourth updates]
on July 25th, 2021.

Post-Script / three of four Updates
[now the first, third, and fourth updates]
added on October 26th, 2023;

and edited and expanded on November 3rd, 2023.

Photos of Ethan Winnett added on November 3rd, 2023.

Fourth Update to be posted
[which now appears as the second Update]
was written and added on November 3rd, 2023.