Chicago Activist Rev. Leon Finney Dies during 82

Highly reputable Chicago activist, Rev. Leon Finney Jr. upheld divided on Sept. 4, 2020, during a University of Chicago Medical Center. He was 82.

A good friend, Hermene Hartman, told a Chicago Sun-Times his genocide came after a long-term illness. In 2019, a orator for a priest said, he had cardiovascular illness in 2016. The following year, a had open-heart surgery.

Being ill did not stop a Reverand, in Jan he attended a 30th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Breakfast hold by a Rainbow PUSH Coalition. In March, he was in contention with a CEO of Frackle Media Group for their assistance with a Metro Media project.

He was a brave personality of a city’s southside communities given a 1960s,” writes Dorothy Brown, a Cook County Clerk. She proudly recalls Finney fighting off slumlords. Moreover, he doggedly worked toward achieving mercantile and housing expansion in Bronzeville and Woodlawn.

Brown fondly remembers a mentorship and support he afforded other village activists and inaugurated officials whose concentration was to urge a peculiarity of life for Blacks in Chicago.

Secretary of State Jesse White says Finney was a “good male who done a good grant to creation Chicago a improved place. He was a clever voice for a disadvantaged.” His genocide is a vital detriment for Chicago.

Rep. Danny K. Davis, D-Ill., pronounced that Finney was a male of many careers: a successful businessman, a clergy who orderly and grown a successful church, and he taught divinity during a McCormick Theological Seminary.

Finney was rarely reputable by many. Called a good friend. He is described as a village treasure. He might be left though all that he did for Black Chicagoans stays a reverence to his greatness.

Written by Cathy Milne-Ware

Sources:

Chicago Sun-Times: Rev. Leon Finney, longtime energy actor in city politics, passed during 82; Stefano Esposito and Rachel Hinton

Chicago Tribune: The Rev. Leon Finney Jr., longtime South Side romantic and developer, dies; Deanese Williams-Harris

Office of a Clerk of a Circuit Court of Cook County: Clerk Dorothy Brown Mourns a Loss of Dr. Leon Finney, Jr., Trailblazing Activist and Businessman, Jalyne R. Strong

NBC News: Rev. Leon Finney, Longtime Chicago Activist, Dies

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