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‘IT’S EXHAUSTING BEING RESILIENT ALL THE TIME’ -WOMEN OF COLOR FEEL OVERWORKED AND HELPLESS DURING PANDEMIC

While everyone has been affected by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic to a degree, the extent is exponentially worse for women of color.

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One third of Black moms and one fourth of Latinx moms report being unable to work from home during the pandemic according to a new study conducted by WerkLabs, the data and insights division of The Mom Project.

High court offers rules for remote criminal hearings

More Black Americans Report Permanently Changing Their Spending and Saving Habits as a Direct Result of the Pandemic

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What belief in extraterrestrial visitors to Earth reveals about trust in elections

BY JOSHUA LAMBERT AND ANTHONY LICCIARDI JR.

Partisanship is not enough to explain why so many Americans – mostly Republicans – distrust the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.

As scholars in political behavior and methods, we are aware of another factor in voters’ thinking that has increased right alongside electoral distrust: Americans’ beliefs in conspiracy theories, especially those that express mistrust of government officials.

Our research, which has not yet been published, finds that these two beliefs are linked – to the extent that Americans who believe aliens have visited Earth are more likely than disbelievers to say that Joe Biden is not the legitimate winner of the 2020 presidential election. As conspiracy theory beliefs grow in the U.S., we expect a corresponding drop in public trust in elections.

Polling voters Drawing on academic literature focused on trust in electoral processes, we decided to look

specifically at voters’ conspiratorial beliefs. On Jan. 19, 2021, the eve of President Joe Biden’s inauguration, we conducted a survey of 633 Louisiana registered voters, selected at random. We asked a series of questions about their religious beliefs, their beliefs in extraterrestrial life and whether Joe Biden had been the rightful winner of the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

The key questions we asked were: * Do you believe that there is life in the universe other than on Earth? * Do you believe that extraterrestrials have visited the Earth? * Do you believe that Joe Biden is the rightful winner of the 2020 U.S. presidential election?

We weighted the answers to reflect the statewide population balance of gender, age and race.

Aliens and electoral trust We found that Democrats and third-party and independent voters were somewhat more inclined to believe conspiracy theories than Republicans. That fits with other recent surveys indicating that both

parties do indeed have conspiratorial leanings, though the partisan divide may influence which particular conspiracies a person believes.

Belief in conspiracy theories – the idea that secret causes are behind real-world events – have circulated broadly in the pandemic crisis and election cycle in part because of the evolution of social media networks and their ability to create echo chambers, communities where people encounter only those who agree with them.

The QAnon movement, which holds the election was fraudulent in particular, has developed from periphery to a growing mainstream group with widespread influence.

Conspiracist thinking fits well with Donald Trump’s false claims that the election was fraudulent.

QAnon believers consider the fact that he has lost all the legal challenges attempting to prove his claim to be more evidence that powerful and secretive forces are at work to steal the election and hide the truth from the public.

Most of our survey’s respondents – 59.7% – believe the defensible

possibility that life exists elsewhere in the universe than just on Earth.

And 32.3% – nearly one-third – of the respondents believe that aliens have actually visited Earth, though governments continue to deny any such thing. Third-party and independent voters are more likely to believe this than Democrats or Republicans.

We also found that just over half of the respondents did not believe Biden was rightfully elected president. There was a clear partisan split there, with 74% of Democrats trusting the results, but only 12% of Republicans believing them.

Third-party and independent voters were more evenly divided, with 36% trusting the results, 45% not believing them and 19% unsure.

Both of these beliefs express doubt about government officials’ truth-telling: In one, leaders are covering up an alien visit, and in the other, they are misleading the public about election results. When we look at people who share both of these beliefs, we find that out of the respondents who believe aliens have visited

Earth, 57.6% also believe Biden was not rightfully elected president.

The connection between belief in ET visitation and electoral mistrust is statistically significant, even when controlling for various other determinants such as partisanship, age, race and sex.

These findings are limited because we surveyed only Louisiana voters.

But we believe voters’ beliefs could be similar in several other states where Trump also won by double-digit margins, including Alabama, Idaho, Kansas and West Virginia.

While a specific belief in extraterrestrial visits to Earth may not be directly causing a belief in election fraud, these two ideas are conspiracy-oriented: People who believe the government is lying about one are more likely to believe officials are hiding the truth about the other.

Joshua Lambert is a Postdoctoral Fellow and NLP/ML researcher at the University of Central Florida.

Anthony Licciardi Jr. is a research associate in Political Science at the University of New Orleans.

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High court offers rules for remote criminal hearings Chief Justice says guidelines will help address case backlog

BY SARAH MANSUR Capitol News Illinois smansur@capitolnewsillinois.com

Springfield — The state’s highest court recently issued new rules to help courts transition to remote hearings for criminal cases as the pandemic continues to disrupt court operations statewide.

Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Anne Burke said the order “provides guidance for our courts to address the backlog of criminal cases created by the COVID-19 pandemic,” in a news release.

Courthouses shut their doors last March, allowing only essential matters to be held in-person and temporarily halting jury trials in criminal and civil cases and affecting criminal defendants’ right to a speedy trial.

In May, the Illinois Supreme

Court issued an order that directed circuit courts to return to normal operations on June 1 and gave local judges discretion to allow for remote or in-person hearings.

In-person civil and criminal jury trials have slowly resumed with social distancing and other public health guidelines in place in nearly all counties, except Cook County where in-person jury trials are still on hold.

The Feb. 11 order states that certain criminal hearings, such as initial appearances or non-substantive status hearings, can be held remotely, even if the person charged with a crime objects to a remote hearing.

Other hearings, such as sentencing hearings or hearings where a plea of guilty will be entered, must be conducted in-person unless the person charged with a crime agrees to participate remotely, according to the order.

Bench trials, where a judge decides the verdict instead of a jury, can be held remotely if the person charged consents in writing and the judge finds that doing so will not jeopardize the integrity of the trial process.

However, the order does not allow for remote jury trials under any circumstances. The new rules contained within the order were proposed by Illinois Supreme Court’s Court Operations During COVID-19 Task Force, which formed in June in response to challenges caused by the pandemic.

The February order only applies to criminal cases where a person could face jail as a penalty.

Richard Kling, clinical law professor at Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law and a criminal defense attorney, said the latest order is the court’s attempt to balance the necessity of conducting criminal hearings and trials with the safety concerns of COVID-19.

“The bottom line is if you can’t get jurors because they won’t come in or they can’t sit safely, or you can’t get witnesses who won’t come in or can’t testify safely, you have to do something and that’s essentially what the Supreme Court did (with its order),” he said.

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what is known as the speedy trial law, which affords a person charged with a crime the right to a trial by jury within a certain time period after arrest, generally 120 days.

A criminal defendant’s right to a speedy trial is codified in Illinois statute, and is contained in the Illinois constitution. Defendants who are held in jail beyond the timeframe allowed under the speedy trial law without being given a trial must be released from custody.

The Illinois Supreme Court’s May order paused the speedy trial clock retroactively from March 20. For criminal defendants who have been in jail since that time, the order excludes the past 11 months from the timeframe by which the defendant is allotted under the speedy trial law.

Chief Judge Eugene Doherty of the 17th Judicial Circuit said the latest order “gives some relief ” to defendants who may be unable to have an in-person jury trial.

“What the Supreme Court’s rule makes clear is that you can do a (criminal) trial by bench in a remote setting,” Doherty, who is vice-chair of

the task force, said in a phone interview. “So, that’s one additional option that might allow somebody to go to trial that couldn’t go to trial if the remote option were not available.”

Doherty said this order is one of the more important developments from the COVID-19 task force.

“This recent rule, which is a temporary COVID rule, represents, I believe, an effort to clearly define what the rules of the road are with respect to remote hearings in criminal proceedings,” Doherty said.

Still, Kling said the Illinois Supreme Court’s May order has essentially paused the speedy trial clock “indefinitely” for criminal defendants who are jailed awaiting trial.

The question of whether the court has the authority to indefinitely pause a criminal defendant’s right to a speedy trial will continue to be debated, Kling said. “I am positive, that for years to come, defendants who have had trials postponed (by the May order) are going to be filing motions to dismiss those cases,” he said. “This isn’t going [to] be over for a long time.”

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‘It’s Exhausting Being Resilient All the Time’ -- Women of Color Feel Overworked and Helpless During Pandemic Continued from page 1 While everyone has been affected by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic to a degree, the extent is exponentially worse for women of color.

The United States economy lost 140,000 jobs in December 2020. Shockingly, women lost 156,000 jobs while men gained 16,000.

In January, another 275,000 women vanished from the workforce. While the overall unemployment rate fell to 6.3% last month, it rose to 8.5% for Black women aged 20 and older, while Hispanic women were at 8.8% and white women the lowest at 5.1%.

Women of color have been hit the hardest not only due to the job types and industries crippled by the pandemic—including education, hospitality, childcare and retail—but also due to increased childcare demands at home.

One third of Black moms and one fourth of Latinx moms report being unable to work from home during the pandemic, according to a new study conducted by WerkLabs, the data and insights division of The Mom Project.

Comparatively, only 1/10 of both white and Asian moms were unable to work from home during the pandemic.

With many Black and Latinx moms not afforded the luxury of remote work during these trying times, that not only puts them at a greater potential risk to COVID-19 exposure, but also leaves their childcare responsibilities in doubt.

White and Asian moms are 9% more likely

to leave their employer in comparison to Black moms, and are 14% more likely to leave their employer compared to Latinx moms.

“Moms are currently in a delicate balancing act and many are unfortunately going to topple over due to the unrelenting pressures of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic if they don’t receive much-needed resources, help and support,” said Dr. Pam Cohen, president of WerkLabs and the study’s lead author.

“Women of color, especially, aren’t able to focus on their careers or their families because the pandemic has stripped them of that choice, or they’re drowning in an attempt to maintain both.”

Two times as many moms of color compared to white moms, who are more often afforded the flexibility to work from home, report feeling as though their workplace is testing employees to see who persists and remains resilient. Not only do they feel tested by employers, but 20% more moms of color in comparison to white moms feel their workplace assumes that “working from home” equates to “more time for work” despite competing childcare and pandemic realities.

With significantly more Black and Latinx moms reporting being single mothers, that equates to more at-home responsibilities that falls on their shoulders; two times more Black moms report doing more than 90% of household work in comparison to white and Asian moms.

“As a mom of color I feel like there’s an ex-

MIT Sloan study finds strong evidence of political bias in formation of social media ties A recent experiment conducted on Twitter

by MIT Sloan School of Management Prof. David Rand and MIT Sloan Research Affiliate Mohsen Mosleh, who is also a professor at the University of Exeter Business School, shows that politics matter a lot when strangers are forming new social ties.

They found that Democrats and Republicans are equally likely to favor people who share their party affiliation when deciding who to follow.

“Our experiment shows that shared partisanship does indeed have a large impact on social tie formation. People on both sides of the political divide were roughly three times more likely to form social ties with strangers who identify with the

same party, compared to counter-partisans,” says Rand. Their study also found that these new social ties were not just based on pre-existing social circles or algorithm-suggested connections. Rather, people in the study were much more likely to connect with total strangers simply because of shared political views.

“These results emphasize the fundamental psychological bias many people have against interacting with those who do not share their partisanship,” says Rand. “Should social media platforms want to foster more connection across party lines, they will likely need to use friend recommendation algorithms to counteract the preexisting bias our study demonstrates.”

pectation that we have to be strong … that we have to be resilient,” according to one respondent. “And, while I agree with that to an extent, it’s exhausting being resilient all the time.”

Unfortunately, the weight of the pandemic isn’t just crushing women of color. More than 80% of the more than 1,500 women surveyed feel overwhelmed attempting to balance work and at-home demands, while 75% report feeling “mom guilt” while working, unable to devote their full attention to their children.

“Childcare consists of a lot of screen time.

It feels terrible to be spending time at home, but having to be more connected to work and colleagues online than with the children that are physically in your presence,” reports one mom of color respondent.

As the pandemic is forcing moms to choose between career and children, almost 2.1 million women vanished from the paid labor force completely since February 2020, and by September 2020, three working mothers were unemployed for every one father who had lost his job.

This unimaginable loss of labor diversity “has set working women back by more than three decades—to levels of labor force participation last seen in 1988.”

According to survey respondents who left an employer amid the pandemic, 39% were laid off, 33% chose to leave, 18% took temporary leave, and 12% were furloughed.

With their time spread so thin, women and moms are unable to look for new opportu-

nities or further their career development.

Black and Latinx moms rate the impact of COVID-19 on their ability to advance their careers as 15% more negative than white moms, while 72% of all demographics surveyed indicate they don’t have time to engage in off-hours career development opportunities.

Thankfully, there are some resources available to facilitate career advancement despite the difficulties posed by the pandemic. In September, The Mom Project’s not-for-profit arm, MomProject.org, announced its RISE initiative. Over the next three years, RISE will elevate 10,000 women of color by providing scholarships to highly sought after technology certificates such as Google and Salesforce that will bolster their earning potential. The model is built from the understanding that while upskilling, moms need to also be able to earn income and provide for their families, often as a primary earner.

Currently there are more than 150 women enrolled in the RISE via one of three certification tracks—Salesforce Administration, Google IT Support, and Google IT Automation with Python—which can be completed in as little as six weeks. In Q2 of 2021, RISE will introduce additional certification tracks such as Project Management, Data Analysis and UX Design to further accelerate the supply of qualified leaders of color to meet demand for diverse talent by committed employers and partners of The Mom Project.

Association of Black Cardiologists Announces Support for 2021 Black Maternal Health Momnibus The Association of Black Cardiologists has endorsed the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act of 2021, a historic legislative package introduced by Representatives Lauren Underwood (IL-14) and Alma Adams (NC-12), Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), and members of the Black Maternal Health Caucus.

The Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act will build on existing maternal health legislation, like policies to extend postpartum Medicaid coverage, with 12 bills to comprehensively address every dimension of America’s maternal health crisis.

The Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act makes investments in social determinants of health, community-based organizations, the growth and diversification of the perinatal workforce, improvements in data collection, and support for moms and babies exposed to climate change-related risks. In addition to direct efforts to improve Black maternal health outcomes, the Momnibus focuses on high-risk populations, including veterans, incarcerated people, Native Americans, and other women and birthing people of color.

33% Growth for Digital Books from Public Libraries and Schools in 2020 Sets Records Librarians and educators achieved record levels of digital book circulation in 2020.

Readers worldwide borrowed 430 million ebooks, audiobooks and digital magazines in the past 12 months, a 33% increase over 2019. This significant growth was influenced by the pandemic, social justice and remote learning. Data were reported by OverDrive, the leading digital reading platform for 65,000 libraries and schools worldwide.

Social unrest and widespread civil protests had a profound impact on the world and libraries expertly responded. Digital books about social justice and those written by Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) or by a member of the marginalized community from which it depicts (Own Voices) experienced 165% YoY circulation growth. White Fragility, So You Want to Talk about Race, The Hate U Give and others became top 10 titles checked out during 2020.

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From Ferguson To Chicago: New Salvation Army Commanders Make Black History New Leaders Oversee 28 Community Centers and 50 Social Service Programs In June 2007, new Salvation Army Chicago leaders, Lt. Colonels Lonneal and Patty Richardson made history. They became the first African American Divisional Commanders to lead an area for The Salvation Army in the Midwest when they were appointed to oversee The Salvation Army Midland Division headquartered in St. Louis. Now this dynamic husband and wife team has come to Chicago focused on tackling some of the growing needs of disenfranchised communities who have been the victims of a double pandemic.

Lt. Cols. Richardson took over the reins of leadership for The Salvation Army Metropolitan Division, spanning from Rockford to northwest Indiana, last summer, at a challenging time. In their role, they oversee 28 corps community centers and 50 social service programs for The Salvation Army. While several programs have been paused since the start of the pandemic, many have adapted and expanded as the organization has seen up to a fivefold increase in need, particularly in requests for food and emergency financial assistance.

“People who never thought they’d need The Salvation Army have come to us,” Lt. Col. Lonneal said. “A number of people are living paycheck to paycheck. So, we need to be prepared for what will come to help them to restore their lives.”

The Salvation Army’s services will continue, especially as the full

Lt. Colonels Lonneal and Patty Richardson economic impact of the pandemic emerges. Lt. Col. Patty said partnerships will be important, especially in minority communities, in which the pandemic has had a disproportionate impact. She said advocacy among community leaders and lawmakers will also be important.

But, Lt. Col. Lonneal said the disease that’s killed hundreds of thousands of Americans isn’t the only challenge. He said our city is facing a twin pandemic: COVID and racial injustice.

“I think America has been on this 200-plus year journey of trying to develop a vaccine to deal with the racial injustice,” he said. “We can’t give up hope, because every time we feel we have found a vaccine that cures what ills us, we find that this pandemic too morphs into different strains and begins to once again infect our populations.”

He said The Salvation Army seeks to build bridges, and points

to previous experience doing just that.

Lt. Cols. Richardson led The Salvation Army Midland Division in St. Louis during the Ferguson riots. They were heavily engaged in the conversation about how to bring the community together, including pairing local youth with law enforcement for a weeklong summer camp.

Lt. Cols. Richardson were instrumental in the creation of the Ferguson Community Empowerment Center, a joint venture between The Salvation Army and the Urban League of St. Louis. The center, complete with after-school programming and services aimed at breaking the cycle of poverty, was built on the site of the QuikTrip gas station that was burned down during the unrest.

Lt. Cols. Richardson said building relationships will be key to trying to tackle both facets of the twin pandemic in Chicago. And they’re already getting started.

“We need to come together, put our best minds forward, to come up with how do we deal with this pandemic of racial divide in our country. If we don’t, we will once again be torn apart just as COVID has divided families, just as COVID has changed our world,” Lt. Col. Lonneal said.

“It we do not come together and seriously attempt to create a more just and perfect union, then this pandemic will continue to divide, kill, and destroy us as a nation.”

Black Females More Likely Than Black Males to Exercise, Eat Healthy When Faced with Perceived Discrimination Study Suggests Optimism Plays a Role

Black men and women, as well as adolescent boys and girls, may react differently to perceived racial discrimination, with Black women and girls engaging in more exercise and better eating habits than Black men and boys when faced with discrimination, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.

“In this study, Black women and girls didn’t just survive in the face of racism, they actually responded in a positive manner, in terms of their health behavior,” said lead researcher Frederick Gibbons, PhD, with the University of Connecticut.

“This gives us some hope that despite the spike in racism across the country, some people are finding healthy ways to cope.” For a paper published in the journal Health Psychology, researchers evaluated data collected over 14 years from an ongoing study on the impacts of racism on the physical and mental wellbeing of Black people. The analysis looked at 889 families living in Iowa and Georgia who have been participants in the Family and Community Health Study.

The families consisted of an adolescent, the adolescent’s primary caregiver and in 289 cases, an older sibling. The first analysis examined the correlation between perceived racial discrimination and participants’ body mass index. Researchers then looked at how participants responded to survey questions on optimism and on eating and exercise habits.

The relationship between perceived racial discrimination and healthy habits in Black males was insignificant, the study found. Black women and adolescent girls, on the other hand, showed improvements in healthy eating and exercise as their perceptions of racism increased. And there was an even more significant increase in healthy behaviors for Black women who indicated they had an optimistic view of their lives and the future, according to the researchers. There was no correlation between racial discrimination and BMI in either Black males or Black females. “ The findings were surprising and suggest that adaptive coping strategies may lead to resiliency,"

Gibbons said. “This contrasts with the avoidant coping strategies that we might see out of someone who is less optimistic.”

The findings should be placed in the context of the larger body of research on this issue, which has shown a correlation between perceived racial discrimination and unhealthy behaviors,including those leading to higher BMI, according to Gibbons.

“The question is why are these results different from the ones we’ve found in previous studies?” he said. “There are several possible explanations, including the fact that participants in previous studies may have conflated weightbased discrimination with perceived racial discrimination. It could also be that studies not finding a connection between perceived racial discrimination and poor health outcomes are less likely to be published.”

If the findings are confirmed in subsequent research, they could be used in resiliency programs targeting people of color and

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underserved populations, according to the researchers.

“There are programs already in place that work to instill a sense of resiliency and optimism in disenfranchised youth,” Gibbons said. “The findings from this study would suggest that these programs are on the right track, and that perhaps we should be developing more programs that focus on these types of coping skills.”

Article: “Perceived Racial Discrimination and Healthy Behavior Among African Americans,” by Frederick X. Gibbons, PhD, Meg Gerrard, PhD, and Mary E. Fleischli, PhD, University of Connecticut; Ronald L. Simons, PhD, University of Georgia; and John H. Kingsbury, PhD, Minnesota Department of Health.

Health Psychology, published online Feb. 25, 2021.

Contact: Frederick Gibbons, PhD, can be reached at rick.gibbons@uconn.edu.

Full text of the article is available online at https:// www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/heahea0001056.pdf.

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REAL ESTATE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION LOANCARE, LLC Plaintiff, -v.- CECILIA LOCICERO A/K/A CECILIA A LOCICERO, CLAUDIA ELLIS A/K/A CLAUDIA M VELA-ELLIS, JACLYN ADAMS, THERESA M ROBERSON, BANKOF AMERICA, N.A.,

UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF GRACE A VELA, IF ANY, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, DAMON RITENHOUSE, SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DECEASED MORTGAGOR, GRACE A VELA, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR COUNTRYWIDE BANK, FSB Defendants 2018CH08259 85 ISA AVENUE CHICAGO HEIGHTS, IL 60411 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 29, 2020, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 25, 2021, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 85 ISA AVENUE, CHICAGO HEIGHTS, IL 60411 Property Index No. 32-20209-019-0000 The real estate is improved with a single family home with a detached 2 car garage. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property.

Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver's license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

MCCALLA RAYMER LEIBERT PIERCE, LLC Plaintiff's Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200, Chicago, IL, 60602. Tel No. (312) 346-9088. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. MCCALLA RAYMER LEIBERT PIERCE, LLC One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200 Chicago IL, 60602 312-3469088 E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com Attorney File No. 20-05447IL_615494 Attorney ARDC No. 61256 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 2018CH08259 TJSC#: 41-205 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Case # 2018CH08259 I3164556 ____________________________________

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