Conversations With The Citizen

<span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Thanks for joining us for another episode of &quot;Get Your House In Order&quot;. &nbsp;Host Bren talks with Chaka Atwater, &nbsp;the owner of a local Farmer Insurance Agency. &nbsp;Todays conversation is about &#39;Things that your insurance agent knows, that you need to know&#39;. Also, Ms. Atwater talks about how building a relationship with your agent can help. Listen in to hear why purchasing the best coverage is necessary no matter if it&#39;s Life Insurance, Auto Insurance, Business or Home, you must understand that buying the cheapest might not give you the total coverage need in some incidents.</span>

<span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Joining us today for &quot;Conversations With The Citizen&quot; is Eli Washington. &nbsp;Eli is the Chairman of the Chesterfield Community Council. CCC is committed to &nbsp;building a better community block by block and has for decades. Today, Eli joins us to talk about their Annual Greater Chatham Home Expo 2026, taking place on Saturday, April 25th at Tuley Park located at 90th and King Drive. &nbsp;Attendees are being asked to pre-register by going to https:// www.eventbrite.com/e/egreater-chatham-communities-home-expo-2026-tickets-1984578283068. &nbsp;If you are a homeowner or want to become one, you &nbsp;need to be here to have access to&nbsp;resources like: property tax appeals, home buying and banking financing, energy/utilities assistance and tips on fraud prevention. All of this resources will be available under one roof that participants can take advantage of. </span>

<span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">This Week On &quot;Get Your House In Order&quot; &nbsp;Host &nbsp;Bren Talks About &quot;What Truth&#39;s You Need To Know. &nbsp;Bren Discussed The Five A&#39;s Everyone Need and Approval Is One Of Them. &nbsp;Listen In To Hear If You Can Identify With Any Of The A&#39;s.</span>

<span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">In The Studio Live With Us Today Is Mariyana T. Spyropoulos, Clerk Of The Circuit Court Of Cook County. Mariyana joined us to discuss the Courts Amnesty Week &nbsp;initiative. This program aims to help Traffic Violators save money on ticket fines. For more information visit: cookcountyclerkofcourt.org</span>

<span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">This week on &quot;Get Your House In Order&quot;, &nbsp;Our host Bren talks about Asset Planning. &nbsp;She gives us a reminder that no matter how big or small your family heir looms or assets we all have assets and that they are important and that we should identify the next person to hold and care for them. &nbsp;Bren, also touch on POA ( Power Of Attorney) and how they work.</span>

<span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Thanks for joining us for another episode of &quot;Get Your house In Order&quot;. &nbsp;This week our guest is Alees Edwards Founder and President of &quot;We Are Our Own Medicine. &nbsp;Listen in to learn more about her upcoming event and how they are bring victims and families of gun violence together.</span>

<span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">This week&#39;s episode of &quot;Conversations With the Citizen&quot;, &quot;Get Your House In Order welcomes Margo Richmond as a guest. &nbsp;Margo and our host Bren along with other women across the city are on a crusade to get voters numbers up by the General Election in November. &nbsp;Today&#39;s discussion was about everything politics. Motivation is first, listen in to hear what the conversation was all about.</span>

<span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">This week on &quot;Conversations With The Citizen&quot; &quot;Get Your House In Order&quot; host talked about Reverse Mortgages. &nbsp;Bren talked about things you need to look out for. &nbsp;Listen to hear what she had to say.</span>

<span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Welcome to another exciting week of &nbsp;&quot;Conversations With The Citizen&quot;, &#39;Get Your House In Order&#39;. &nbsp;Today our GYHIO host discussed Legacies and the different types of Legacies. &nbsp;Stay tune next week when we continue the discussion. Bren will talk about ways on building an everlasting Legacy.</span>

On this week&#39;s episode of &quot;Conversations With The Citizen&#39;, The host shared personal experiences of the important of&nbsp; having a Medical Power Of Attorney in place.&nbsp; What happens when you can not speak for yourself.&nbsp; Who will be your voice?&nbsp;Listen in to hear what she had to share this week.&nbsp;&nbsp;