The Rev. Leon Finney Jr., an established energy participant in Chicago politics, has died.
Finney died Friday morning on the University of Chicago Medical Center after a “long-term illness,” N’DIGO writer Hermene Hartman, a detailed buddy, showed to the Chicago Sun-Times.
Jerry Thomas, Finney’s publicist, additionally showed his demise.
“Dr. Finney’s rich history with TWO (The Woodlawn Organization) and the Woodlawn area, along with Bishop (Arthur) Brazier (Apostolic Church of God), left a deep imprint in that area of all they sought to continue to try to develop it and fight for it,” mentioned the Rev. Michael Pfleger, senior pastor of St. Sabina Church.
“Dr. Finney is one of the few pastors who still understood that justice was the DNA of the gospel. He tried to be vocal about issues that affected the South Side and poor people.”
Finney constructed an actual property empire on Chicago’s South Side and accrued political energy whilst hobnobbing with politicians like Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel, Richard M. Daley and Toni Preckwinkle.
He minimize his enamel preventing slumlords and the University of Chicago’s growth plans within the 1960s. He as soon as garnered reward from politicians and appointments to tough executive forums, together with spots at the Chicago Plan Commission, Chicago State University and the CHA.
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