Hope rises for Ford Heights' future
Described as one of the nation's poorest cities, activist Doug Dobmeyer Monday said Ford Heights deserves a better chance of survival in this new millennium and a window of economic opportunity just like other urban areas.
He's known the mayor of that tiny mostly African American town, Sillerine Bennett, for more than two decades.
Dobmeyer is still shocked at the poverty that still exists in that community of more than 4,000 people that lies just 28 miles south of Chicago.
"The town feels more southern than northern," he said after delivering a speech entitled: "Dialogue on Poverty, Welfare: The Old, the New, the …
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