BRONZEVILLE —The Harold Washington Legacy Committee will sponsor a 6K walk through the South Side neighborhood of the late Mayor Harold Washington as a way to register voters.
The ''Walking the Harold Washington Trail for Voter Registration" event begins at 11 a.m. Saturday at 1700 E. Hyde Park Blvd. and will end with a rally at Bethel AME Church, 4440 S. Michigan Ave. The walk will also travel past several sites that were important to the late mayor, according to Stanley Young, a spokesman for the organization.
"The main goal of the event is raising awareness and mobilizing the community to vote. This is prompted by our concern that voter turnout, especially among African-Americans, is the lowest it has been in recent decades," Young said. "We expect the walk to have a residual effect, causing some people to register in the days and weeks after the event."
The 3.7-mile walk will go past the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, 930 E. 50th St.; an apartment building at 4901 S. Drexel Blvd. where Washington once lived; the corner of 47th Street and King Drive, a former location for a voter registration drive office by the former mayor; the Charles A. Hayes Center, 4859 S. Wabash Ave. (the late Hayes replaced Washington in Congress after he was elected mayor); DuSable High School, 4934 S. Wabash Ave., the mayor's alma mater; and Progressive People’s Community Church, 56 E. 48th St., where Washington was a member.
Participants should register online to walk or call 773-643-4828 for more information.
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