Rev. Dr. Alvin Love

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  Alvin Love, pastor of Lilydale First Baptist Church and one of many ministers that Obama worked with in the community; Terri Gardner, formerly president of Brainstorm Communications, which helped launch the Project Vote!

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  "Many of the parishes were in predominantly African-American communities, and I think all of the priests were non-African-American," Rev. Alvin Love, head of the Lilydale First Baptist Church on 113th Street, told me. "Barack came to me and wanted to try to connect with the whole community."

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  LOVE: The far Southside of Chicago is the last remaining part of the city that's not connected.
  
  That's Rev. Dr. Alvin Love with the Developing Communities Project, a group that has been working to get the CTA Red Line extended.
  
  LOVE: Right now they pay what I call a South Side tax, because they have to take at least one bus, sometimes two buses, before they can get to the train. So it places a hardship on people to be able to go where the available jobs are.
  
  So why doesn't the Red Line go further south?
  
  LOVE: I just don't think the far South Side has ever been a priority for the city. It's like we're out here and don't exist, and so it takes community residents to basically stand up and say, 'Hello, we're here, and we want the same rights and the same opportunities as any other resident of Chicago.'
  
  Rev. Love says the red line extension would also bring much needed transit-oriented, economic development. That's what happened, he says, on the southwest side when the orange line was extended to Midway Airport in the early 1990s.
  
  LOVE: You go from Midway coming into downtown where there used to be all those factories on the southwest side, now you have all these businesses: Dominicks, Jewel, and these great shopping malls. All of that stuff has been done because of that orange line.
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  The DCP would like to bring pressure on the city and state, but Rev. Love says the organization was never able to recruit a strong political leader to help.
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  But Rev. Love and DCP community members say to make that route a reality, they'll have to keep up their fight.

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  Speaker, Dr. Alvin Love, Lilydale First Baptist Church/President, Baptist General State Convention of Illinois
  
  Installation Service: Sunday, March 11, 2007

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  Rev. Alvin Love, pastor of Lilydale First Baptist Church at 113th and Union Streets, was used to having strangers knock on the door and ask for handouts.When Love opened it one day in 1985, he assumed that's what the lanky young man was up to.

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  It is a quote from Pastor Alvin Love that reveals the origins of greatness AND one of the big reasons I think people are supporting Obama.Love says,
  
  "Pastor Alvin Love was finishing up Sunday service, and Pastor Love talked about the young Barack Obama, who'd come to him to do community organizing through the various churches in the area. 'Barack kind of broke down those barriers for us, because it was easy for us to get into our own agenda,' Love recalled. 'And it was all the neighborhoods on the South Side, and all the pastors were saying the same thing, so finding out that we had more in common than we thought was an eye-opening experience.'"

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  His very first meeting at Altgeld Gardens did not go well, Pastor Love recalled.

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  This event was held at the Lilydale First Baptist Church, Chicago, where Dr. Love is the pastor. Past President Hall gave the charge to President Love and the other newly elected Convention Officers.
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  The Celebratory Banquet was held on Saturday, March 10, 2007 at the Double Tree Hotel in Oak Brook, where Rev. Alvin Love delivered the message and Rev. Michael Griffin served as Toastmaster.

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  Rev. Alvin Love, President, Baptist Convention of Illinois

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  Rev. Alvin Love, pastor of Lilydale First Baptist Church at 113th and Union Streets, was used to having strangers knock on the door and ask for handouts.When Love opened it one day in 1985, he assumed that's what the lanky young man was up to."Who is this skinny guy and what does he want," Love thought.
  
  Obama was looking for Love's thoughts, though, not his money."He asked what I wanted to see get done and what was important in this neighborhood," said Love.
  
  Obama's interest impressed the 28-year-old minister, who had been looking for ways to connect his aging congregation with a surrounding neighborhood that was getting younger and rougher.He joined DCP and now serves as its president.
  
  On a crisp spring afternoon not long after he arrived, Obama made another important contact.

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