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The Field Foundation’s former president, Angelique Power, stepped down last summer. Daniel Ash, associate vice president of community impact at the Chicago Community Trust, has been selected to take the mantle following a nationwide search. He begins the new role on June 20.
Provided Charles “Chuck” H. James III, who chaired one of the nation’s oldest Black-owned businesses, has died at 62. Mr. James, who lived in the Chicago area for extended periods, died last month at his Atlanta home as a result of heart problems, according to his sister Sarah Irby. The fourth generation in his family to run C.H. James & Co., a Charleston, West Virginia, company founded by his great-grandfather in the 1880s, Mr. James oversaw a business that supplied produce to many restaurants, schools, grocery stores and hospitals in the Mountain State. He was credited with diversifyi...