Knight of Grand Crossing by Hiram Shogun Harris & Naleighna Kai & Anita L. Roseboro

Author:Hiram Shogun Harris & Naleighna Kai & Anita L. Roseboro [Harris, Hiram Shogun]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781952871030
Publisher: Macro Publishing Group

Chapter Nineteen

“They’re not going to vacate the Power of Attorney. Your mother signed it. Two witnesses signed it, and Cain had Michelle Harris, someone you all went to school with at CVS, notarize her signature. It’s fully legal. Unless you can get her to sign a new one, and have his signature on it as a witness, there’s nothing you can do,” Vikkas, the King of Wilmette, said into the phone from The Daley center in downtown Chicago.

“Why do we need his signature,” Rahm questioned as he paced the hall of his home.

“It makes it airtight. He can’t protest it later. But he could protest one we try to put in front of her right now. It’ll simply be the battle of the POA’s, and the lawyers will walk off with all of the money. We’ll get a new one and have him involved,” Vikkas answered. “Then, we’ll have your mother on that plane and put Cain and all his madness behind you.”

All while growing up, it was Cain versus Rahm. He never understood why. Maybe they got it honest. The brotherhood duel wasn’t the only major thing that marked people who grew up in the Grand Crossing area. The name “Grand Crossing” came from an 1853 right-of-way feud between the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway and the Illinois Central Railroad that led to a “frog war” and a crash that killed eighteen people.

The crash was the result of illegal construction of railroad tracks on behalf of the Illinois Central, across another railroad company’s tracks which created hostilities between the two railroads. Lawsuits and appeals to civic transportation authorities escalated into the companies pitting their workers against one another with deadly results.

The area catered to the railroad workers of mostly Irish, Scottish, English, and German descent and were later joined by Swedes and Italians. African Americans began moving into the neighborhood from the overcrowded Black Belt and that’s when Grand Crossing’s White residents began to move out. Their “flight” allowed Rahm’s grandmother to purchase her first property and raise her only daughter in a safe place that would afford her even better opportunities than her ancestors had.

Later, everyone pooled their resources to purchase a six flat, where the family resided on one side, Rahm on the top floor, grandmother on the first, and Lorraine in the middle; the other side was for families who brought in the funds to maintain the place. Unfortunately, Cain was promptly escorted off the premises after the fourth time one of his “cougars” vandalized the place to the tune of nearly twenty grand. That’s when Aunt Alyssa moved into the building because tenants on the other side didn’t feel it was safe. She was the only one of his father’s side of the family that had anything to do with Rahm and Cain after their father was killed during the United States invasion of Panama.

Seems like Cain embraced the seedy side of the area’s history since Grand Crossing also boasted one of the most notorious criminals—Al Capone, before he moved to Cicero.

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