Three residents walk through a parking lot in 2003 at Evergreen Terrace in Joliet. | Sun-Times Media file photo
Former Joliet City Manager John Mezera exits the Dirksen Federal Building in Chicago, Ill., on Thursday, October 4, 2012. | Andrew A. Nelles~Sun-Times Media
Former Joliet City Manager John Mezera exits the Dirksen Federal Building in Chicago, Ill., on Thursday, October 4, 2012. | Andrew A. Nelles~Sun-Times Media
CHICAGO — President Barack Obama became part of the city of Joliet’s case to condemn Evergreen Terrace on Tuesday. Former City Manager John Mezera testified in the third day of the trial that then-U.S. Sen. Barack Obama as well as two former heads of the …