South Cook News

A 28-year-old man who has a criminal record has been showing up to Homewood Village meetings dressed in brightly colored clothes — including a rainbow wig — to protest redevelopment plans the village is considering.

His name is Keaton Fisher and, according to his Facebook page, he is staunchly against the village of Homewood turning the former Calumet Country Club’s golf course into a trucking center.

A source at the meetings said Fisher was visually impaired and incoherent at all meetings.

“He obnoxiously yells at the board members, had a bull horn and is always in the audience sometimes in the front row,” the source said. “He brought a man in a gorilla suit with him to the second meeting. David Janocha slams books on the ground and causes a scene.”

Fisher has a criminal record — he has been arrested and charged for criminal mischief and resisting an officer in 2011 in Florida and battery and reckless conduct in 2011 and 2017 in Illinois.

Fisher’s 2011 charges in Illinois occurred on May 16, 2011. He was found guilty on July 21, 2011, and sentenced to probation for six months.

Fisher’s 2017 charges in Illinois occurred on Dec. 18, 2017. He was found guilty and sentenced to community service on Jan. 18, 2018.

The Florida charges occurred in Gainesville, Fla. Fisher was arraigned on Dec. 21, 2011. Several pre-trial conferences occurred between February and May 2012. The court withheld adjudication of guilt, ordered Fisher to pay $50 per month to the Department of Court Services and ordered him to serve supervised probation for a period of one year. Fisher entered a plea of nolo contendere to criminal mischief, which means he accepts conviction like a guilty plea but does not admit guilt.

Throughout Fisher’s Facebook page, he has shared multiple demonstration events against the redevelopment plans that say, "Truck, No!"

Fisher was born in Chicago and raised in Homewood. He went to college at the University of Florida before moving back to Illinois and transferring to the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he studied urban studies.

Fisher considers himself a "hip-hop hipster, a combination of Flavor Flav and Chuck D, or Batman and Beetlejuice." He wants to "build a city" called Universe City of Imagine Nation.