While his impact on the Black and Latino communities is well documented, we often overlook how fundamentally he altered life for Chicago's LGBTQ community.

The car is still, but the world is in motion. I sit in my parking lot pew, the sanctuary of a dashboard altar, windows all the way down, letting September air baptize me with a breeze that still carries the memory of summer but already hints at the sting of coming winter.

This patch of land—between water and chapel, between movement and stillness—is where I find alignment again.

They blame immigrants and LGBTQ for loss of individual and family wealth, and the failure of small businesses.