Longtime Elgin resident Ina Dews, known for her community activism, candor and quilting skills, dies at 85.
Longtime Elgin resident Ina Dews speaks with Elgin Mayor Dave Kaptain during her 80th birthday party on March 31, 2017 at Bethesda Church of God in Christ.“She loved Elgin. She loved politics. She made sure politics worked for the people. And she loved family,” said Dews’ nephew, state Rep. La Shawn Ford, D-Chicago.
Ina Dews speaks out against an Elgin city mural,"American Nocturne," during a community discussion held by the Elgin Human Relations Commission in 2016. Many residents were outraged when it was discovered that the public painting was based on a photograph taken of a lynching in 1930. Mae Hicks Jones, who now lives in St. Charles, said she met Dews in the 1990s through their mutual involvement with the Elgin Human Relations Commission.
Elgin City Councilwoman Tish Powell noted that Dews was known not only for her brutal honesty and social activism, but also for her artistry, particularly in making quilts. Dews donated three quilts to the Illinois State Museum in Springfield in 2008, one of which she made when she was 15 and the others made by aunts who taught her quilt-making. Those were the first quilts made by Black people to be added to the museum’s collection.
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