Business coalition warns against phasing out use of natural gas in IL
By Jenna Schweikert
Capitol News Illinois
jschweikert@capitolnewsillinois.com
SPRINGFIELD — A coalition of 19 manufacturer, business and labor organizations have petitioned to end ongoing workshops studying the future of natural gas in Illinois after a statewide resource adequacy report warned of energy shortages.
In their petition to the Illinois Commerce Commission filed Feb. 24, the coalition called continued efforts to phase out natural gas in Illinois “unreasonable and ill-advised.” The petition cited the report’s finding that Illinois still relies on natural gas, even as the state moves toward renewable energy sources and decarbonization goals.
Conducted by the ICC in partnership with the Illinois Power Agency and Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, the report assessed progress toward the state’s energy and emissions goals and measured the current and projected status of electric reliability.
Illinois aims to move to 100% carbonfree power by 2045, as mandated in the 2021 Climate and Equitable Jobs Act.
The Illinois Manufacturers’ Association, a coalition of over 4,000 manufacturers in the state, is one of the petitioners. IMA President and CEO Mark Denzler said the group brought the petition because the report already answers a key question:
“What that report said is … we have supply-and-demand issues, and that Illinois is going to struggle to provide enough power for our businesses and families,” Denzler said. “Their recommendations are, you know, we need to keep current plants operating.”
The report detailed an increase in demand for power — largely from an influx of data centers — alongside a decrease in supply as the state retires coal and oil to meet CEJA targets. The combination increases energy prices and could lead to electrical grid strain, the report concluded.
But this report is only one piece of the energy puzzle, according to Curt Stokes, an attorney who specializes in utilities cases for the Environmental Defense Fund.
“We think that that study should inform future of gas, but it’s definitely not a reason to terminate future of gas,” Stokes continued. “Future of gas is looking at electrification as one pathway to decarbonize the gas sector, but they’re … also looking at, like, a ton of other technologies.”
Future of gas workshops
In 2023, the ICC issued an order to begin workshops exploring the future of natural gas in Illinois, otherwise known as FOG, to address affordability and assess progress toward CEJA goals.
The order established one series of workshops to identify relevant topics around natural gas and another to gather stakeholder perspectives and proposed legislative and regulatory solutions.
“Utilities were spending a lot of money on infrastructure, and Illinois had just passed its CEJA legislation aiming for a 100% clean energy economy,” Stokes said. “The commission knew that something had to change from the natural gas utilities if Illinois was going to meet that goal.”
What was originally a 16-month process has now stretched into two years, with another 10 months still to go before the final report planned for December.
In an email to Capitol News Illinois, ICC Director of Communications Cayli Baker said the workshops were extended “at the request of stakeholders involved in the process.”
“The extension ideally allows more time to assemble a robust “Pathways Study” that quantifies costs/benefits of various decarbonizations strategies identified in phase 1 of the workshop proceeding,” Baker said.
Denzler said the IMA opposed FOG initially and had limited opportunity to weigh in.
“What’s happened here is the government did things backward,” Denzler said. “What they should have done is the resource adequacy plan that said, here’s our current resources, here’s what resources we need in the future. And then that could determine, is there a future of gas?”
Baker said that while the resource adequacy plan was mandated by CEJA before the FOG proceedings, the two are separate.
“The Future of Gas proceedings are designed to look at decarbonization options specific to the natural gas sector, whereas the resource adequacy report mandated by CEJA examines our electricity system and whether sufficient power will be available to meet electricity demand,” Baker said in the email. “While intertwined these topics are distinct — different pieces of the puzzle.”
Sarah Moskowitz, executive director of the Citizens Utility Board, a statewide utility watchdog, said the workshops are an unprecedented opportunity to explore the “stickiest” energy transition topics.
“The future of gas process is the arena to hash those topics out, and there’s no need at this point to foreclose on those discussions,” Moskowitz said.
CUB is an advocate against utility rate hikes, which originally motivated the ICC to approve the Future of Gas proceedings.
The future of natural gas
Without an equal supply in another energy source, Illinois continues to rely on natural gas and cannot phase it out without risking electrical grid strain, according to the resource adequacy report.
Stokes said state agencies and legislators should take the resource adequacy study “very seriously,” but the integrated resource plans mandated by the Clean and Reliable Grid Act will provide a bigger picture of Illinois’ energy resources.
“The municipal and cooperative utilities do their own studies in 2027 but for the investor-owned utilities, that process is going to start later this year,” Stokes said. “We’ll have a much clearer picture when that process is complete, on how we can get enough renewable, clean capacity on the grid in order to meet our capacity needs.”
The IMA supports an “all of the above approach” to energy that includes natural gas and renewable energies, Denzler said.
“We have to have natural gas, we have to keep current plants operating, and we have to invest in new electric generation in order to provide power for homes and businesses,” Denzler said.
Clean energy is not always reliable and doesn’t provide enough energy for certain industries, Denzler added.
“Large industrial companies that use a lot of energy, it’s really hard, if not impossible, to rely completely on renewable,” Denzler said. “It’s the right thing to do … but politically driven deadlines to say, we’re going to close gas facilities and clean coal facilities by a certain date without having enough generation to backfill that hole is a problem.”
The petition’s initial prehearing is scheduled for March 18. There are four workshops left in the FOG proceedings.
“I think the takeaway is there’s definitely a pathway (to decarbonize), and identifying what exactly that path is is what that (resource plan) process is designed to do,” Stokes said..
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By Casey Toner, Illinois Answers Project & Hannah Meisel, Capitol News Illinois
On a recent Tuesday afternoon, at a small, round table in a spacious apartment in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood, 19-year-old Oliver Wilson sits engrossed in front of two laptop screens, neither of which have anything to do with his introductory-level molecular engineering final exam in a few hours.
The University of Chicago freshman is on Polymarket, watching in real-time as users bet whether interest rates will rise in the coming weeks. The cryptocurrency-based platform allows users to wager — through buying and selling contracts — on the outcomes of future events.
Users can make classic sports gambles and pick, for example, the future NBA champion. Or they can bet on the number of people President Donald Trump will deport in 2026. Or whether Jesus Christ will return by 2027. Or betting on whether U.S. military strikes would occur in Iran.
But it was the 2024 presidential election cycle that hooked Wilson, then a senior in high school.
“I was fascinated by the fact that these markets were able to more accurately, than any other poll, predict by what margin and where Trump would win,” he said.
Signing up for Polymarket that fall, Wilson bet on Trump winning, but his simultaneous speculation that Vice President Kamala Harris would win the popular vote ended up costing him about $50 overall.
A year later, the bad bet would be a footnote. Wilson came into a pledge for a lot more money, thanks to Polymarket. He spent a week as an intern at the company’s New York City headquarters this past summer and decided later to pitch Polymarket founder Shayne Coplan to seed a prediction market club on campus.
Over Instagram, Wilson sent Coplan a pitch deck and a brief outline of the club’s goals, and Coplan initially had a one word reply: “Incredible.”
To start the club, he agreed to send Wilson and another student founder $20,000.
In a few years, prediction markets like Polymarket have gone from pariahs
to poster children for all that is hot and trendy in the financial world. While states like Illinois call the markets illegal gambling, they have flourished with the full-throated support of Trump administration officials, who argue they have final say over regulating the markets — which often means little regulation at all. The Trump family has gone all in on prediction markets, with Donald Trump Jr. investing in Polymarket and is a “strategic advisor” to a competitor, Kalshi.
Coplan’s own future has turned from bearish to bullish in short order. He has gone from a man whose New York City apartment was raided by the FBI to being named last month to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Innovation Advisory Committee.
And of course, kickstarting Wilson’s school club.
UPHILL BATTLE IN ILLINOIS?
The Trump administration has not only promoted prediction markets but vowed to fight state efforts to regulate them as they do online sportsbooks.
CFTC Chairman Mike Selig said in a statement last month that his agency “will no longer sit idly by while overzealous state governments undermine the agency’s exclusive jurisdiction over these markets by seeking to establish statewide prohibitions on these exciting products.”
“It’s clear that Americans like the product and want to participate,” wrote Selig, whose agency oversees commodities such as grain futures.
The federal move has left states like Illinois scrambling to stop an emerging industry that some observers predict could chip away at state-regulated sportsbooks like FanDuel and DraftKings.
States generally can’t tax prediction markets, losing millions, or regulate them, to protect their youngest and most vulnerable residents.
On-line sportsbooks businesses must pay millions of dollars in taxes to the state for each bet placed, forgo bets on in-state college teams, limit customers to those 21 and older, advertise help for gambling addiction and help pay for addicts’ treatment.
In Illinois, they pay a $20 million startup fee and $1 million fee every four years to renew their licenses.
Prediction markets do none of that. Neither do they have to follow strict truth-in-advertising regulations. During last year’s NBA finals, a Kalshi advertise-
ment consisted entirely of AI characters, with a TV news correspondent asking a screaming woman holding a small dog in a storm how many hurricanes there will be this year, with an arrow pointing to a rising number in green with a dollar attached, indicating a profit.
Right now, no one knows how much Illinois and other states are losing in untaxed prediction market bets — the markets don’t have to report betting data to the states. Illinois has netted nearly $1.1 billion in tax revenue since Illinois’ first legal sports wagers were placed six years ago. States have sued to gain the power to tax and regulate prediction markets, but the markets argue their platforms are not gambling, but financial tools to allow users to hedge risk.
In one effort to rein in the platforms, State Sen. Michael Hastings (D-Frankfort) introduced legislation last week that would require prediction market operators to pay a $1 million fee to the Illinois Gaming Board to obtain a “master prediction market license” and empower the state to collect a tax equal to half of a licensee’s adjusted gross receipts from bets made by in-state users. The bill is awaiting to be assigned to a committee.
Experts believe the legal question won’t be settled until the U.S. Supreme Court weighs in. But by then, prediction markets may have become as integrated into American life as sports betting has in the eight years since the nation’s high court struck down a nationwide gambling ban.
DePaul University assistant law professor Karl Lockhart, who has studied prediction markets, said the conservative majority Supreme Court could decide either way on the matter. While the Trump administration has championed the industry, federal oversight of prediction markets would encroach on states’ rights, a traditionally conservative issue.
In any case, Lockhart said there needs to be a stronger regulatory framework.
“You have to have some sort of system of morality in place in a society otherwise, or your laws are just going to keep pushing things to the lowest common denominator and the lowest possible place,” he said.
WHAT ARE PREDICTION MARKETS?
Prediction markets are not new. Depending on whom you ask, they’ve been around for decades or even centuries.
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The Iowa Electronic Markets, run by the University of Iowa’s business school, first allowed users in 1988 to bet on the presidential election between George H.W. Bush and Michael Dukakis.
In the early 1900s, people would go to Wall Street and bet hundreds of millions of dollars on presidential elections.
But in the past year, prediction markets have made the leap into mainstream culture thanks to aggressive marketing from companies like Kalshi and splashy bets featured on their websites on everything from congressional elections to the likelihood of when Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce will tie the knot.
Other markets generated national headlines but for the wrong reasons. Just last week, after the United States and Israeli missile strikes killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Polymarket canceled a market on whether there would be a nuclear detonation in 2026.
But the big money for prediction markets is sports wagering.
Even existing online sportsbook operations want a piece of the action, as they launch their own prediction markets to enjoy the benefits of what’s essentially regulation-free gambling in Illinois, the fifth-largest economy in the nation.
FanDuel, which operates the most lucrative sportsbook in Illinois, announced in December it partnered with CME Group, which operates the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, to launch its own nationwide prediction market.
Last month, the company announced that 100 million event contracts had been traded on the platform.
LEGAL PLAYING FIELD
Perhaps seeing the success that its competitors were enjoying in Illinois, the nation’s leading cryptocurrency exchange leapt into action at the end of the year and hedged its bet, with a carrot and a stick.
First, San Francisco-based Coinbase contributed $20,000 to political committees supporting Democrats in the Illinois House and Senate. Later that week, the firm sued Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and other state gaming board officials seeking to stop the state from enforcing local gambling regulations against Coinbase.
The lawsuit brought to the forefront issues that the state had kept on the back burner since the Illinois Gaming Board sent out cease-and-desist letters to prediction markets such as Kalshi, Robinhood and Crypto.com in spring 2025, during the annual sports gambling gold rush spurred by the NCAA basketball tournament.
Earlier this year, the Illinois Gaming Board sent a letter to Polymarket, which does not yet offer a general platform in the United States. National customers have to use a virtual private network to obscure their Internet location to access the software hosted outside the country.
“No person or entity may engage in a sports wagering operation or activity in
Illinois unless licensed by the IGB,” the letters said, threatening them with civil and criminal penalties.
Coinbase cited the Illinois letters in its lawsuit, which announced it was launching its own platform in January that would rely on the Kalshi exchange. Illinois’ ban on prediction markets “casts a cloud of uncertainty over the platform and threatens the company’s relationship with millions of customers and its affiliates,” which have facilitated “nearly $1 trillion in trading volume every year across multiple products.”
Coinbase has similar lawsuits against Connecticut and Michigan. Likewise, Kalshi is suing Maryland, New Jersey, Nevada, New York and Ohio.
The Illinois attorney general’s office declined to comment on the lawsuit. So far, it has taken a backseat to litigation, relying on other attorney general’s offices to take the fight to prediction markets.
“...We have seen similar situations in other nationwide litigation where a few lead states do the heavy lifting and the rest of the AGs pile on later,” said Kevin Frankel, a partner at the national firm Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff, who has written about the prediction market litigation. “Of course, a particularly activist state government could decide to grab the bull by the horns and attempt to create good case law in their district/circuit.”
The Massachusetts attorney general’s office has a reputation as a legal bulldog, and in September 2025, it sued Kalshi in state court. The lawsuit alleged the company had advertised itself on Instagram as “The First Nationwide Legal Sports Betting Platform” and skirted state laws similar to those in Illinois that prohibit people under 21 from sports gambling.
In late January, a state judge issued an injunction that banned Kalshi from offering sports betting in Massachusetts until the company follows the state’s gambling laws.
The lawsuit mentions that 139,600 Massachusetts residents “experience gambling problems” with “another 4 to 6 million … demonstrating problematic gambling behaviors” with Internet searches relating to “gambling addiction” spiking after sports gambling was legalized in the state. Kalshi facilitates gambling without any of the safeguards put in place to curtail gambling addition, the lawsuit states.
An Illinois study conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic showed about 3.8% of the adult population — or 383,000 people — are considered to have a gambling problem with another 761,000 people at risk for developing one. The real numbers might be higher because the survey was conducted during lock-downs and business closures and when online sports gambling had yet to be fully implemented, according to the study.
People who work in addiction recovery see little difference between gambling and prediction markets when it comes to their patients. All it takes to set up an account on one of the prediction markets
is download the app and fund it through a debit card, a bank account or crypto.
“People can argue about whether it meets a legal definition, but from a practical perspective, and especially from an addiction perspective, it is categorically a type of gambling,” said Keith Whyte, the former executive director of the National Council for Problem Gambling.
“It can create a lot of the same excitement, and, of course, it can also create the same addiction as other forms of gambling. So a clinician, a psychologist, a counselor, a consumer and certainly, someone with a gambling problem sees prediction markets as indistinguishable from other forms of gambling.”
POKER AND OTHER PREDICTIONS
Wilson, the University of Chicago freshman, said he isn’t worried about becoming hooked because he doesn’t have an addictive personality. He became an avid prediction market user after first learning the finer points of a classic game of skill: poker.
A friend who used poker winnings to pay for his University of Chicago tuition introduced him to the card game two years ago at a holiday party. Wilson then bought David Sklansky’s “The Theory of Poker,” which he kept in his high school bookbag until the cover was worn.
“Every decision that you make inherently has probabilities tied to it, so making the most positive expected value
decision is one of the most important things that you can discover within not just prediction markets, but also something like poker,” said Wilson, who counts Elon Musk among his heroes.
His campus prediction market club, Oracle Trading, is expanding. It now has a board with four members, an LLC for liability purposes, and has a goal of publishing one Polymarket-related data science article before the school year’s end.
Wilson said they’re getting the club its own bank account to facilitate the $20,000 contribution from Polymarket that Coplan, the Polymarket CEO, promised him in the Instagram message.
The donation is part of a larger promotional blitz that prediction markets are making on college campuses.
Wilson estimates that he makes up to 50 bets a week on Polymarket, though he says that many of the bets are “arbitrage,” meaning that he’s taking advantage of mispricings or differences in odds across platforms.
Wilson does see the potential for addiction in the same way a person can get addicted to sports betting, roulette or trading financial derivatives.
And what about the students joining his club?
“I think there’s a difference between just a risk taker and a gambler, and I think as long as those risks are exclusively calculated, then I am happy to let them in,” Wilson said.
By Grant McCarty Contributor
Last week, I discussed strawberry types and the varieties best suited for home gardeners. Now that you’ve selected what to plant, the next step is learning how to manage your strawberry patch for long-term success. Good management—especially fertilization, watering, and pest control—helps ensure strong growth and a great harvest.
Strawberries perform best in welldrained, fertile soils that contain plenty of organic matter. Preparing the soil before planting is one of the most important steps. Incorporating compost or wellrotted manure improves soil structure and drainage, giving your young plants a good start. Strawberries prefer slightly acidic soil, ideally between pH 5.8
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Growing strawberries: Managing your planting
and 6.5, so a soil test can help guide any lime or sulfur adjustments needed before planting. Keep in mind that modifying the soil pH can take some time.
Fertility requirements differ between Junebearing and dayneutral varieties. Junebearing strawberries benefit from light fertilization at planting, followed by another application after harvest. Avoid applying high amounts of nitrogen in early spring, as this can lead to vigorous leaf growth and reduced fruit production. Dayneutral strawberries, the annual/ single-season strawberries, require more consistent fertilizer. Monthly applications of a balanced fertilizer, like 10-10-10, will help support their steady flowering and fruiting.
Water management is equally important. Strawberries have shallow roots,
which means they dry out quickly, especially during summer heat. Aim to provide about 1-1.5 inches of water weekly at the base of the plants. Your strawberries could benefit from mulch, such as straw, to conserve moisture, suppress weeds, and protect developing berries from soil splash. For Junebearing types, mulch also plays a role in winter protection.
Managing weeds, runners, and pests is important for keeping strawberry beds productive, but runner control is especially essential for dayneutral varieties. Although dayneutral plants naturally produce fewer runners than Junebearing types, removing any runners that do appear helps the plants focus their energy on continuous flowering and fruiting. I find that remove them by hand or with clippers is the easiest way to do this step.
You may be removing runners all season long from day-neutral strawberries.
Several pests and diseases can affect strawberries. Gray mold, leaf spot, and powdery mildew are some of the most common issues. Good spacing, dry foliage, and prompt removal of overripe berries help reduce disease pressure. Slugs, sap beetles, and spider mites are frequent pests, though regular harvesting, mulching, and monitoring often keep them manageable.
By staying on top of soil care, watering, fertilizing, and pests, you’ll give your strawberries everything they need for a strong and reliable harvest.
Grant is the Local Food and Smalls Farms Educator of the University of Illinois Extension.
Is truth becoming a scarce resource
By Dr. Robert Vogl, Ph.D. Illinois Renewable Energy Association
Contributor
The February 26th article in The Rock River Times provided a good overview of the issues involving data centers in Illinois. It stressed the battle pitting consumer cost vs state economic competitiveness. Another perspective on data centers is raised by those who are feeling overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information already available as they are not sure what is true. As AI and algorithms capacity increases so will the challenges faced by citizens in trying to make sense of things impacting their lives.
Nate Hagens in a recent Frankly presentation #128 “ Ultra-processed information: AI and the coming deluge of noise” expects that all the new AI systems will make it extremely cheap to generate coherent text and stories. They will have well developed arguments and explanations conveying competence and authority. They will contain an abundance of information. However Hagens anticipates that authenticity, judgement and the ability to determine what is grounded in truth will be a scare resource. Perhaps
we will get an answer to the question raised by Jeb Bush years ago when he asked what is truth worth.
Hagen’s concern is that we will see something similar to what we have seen with our processed food system and its impact on the physical health and nutrition on some of our citizens. He describes processed food products as engineered for shelf life and irresistible tastes. Agriculture reliance on fossil fuels has created an abundance of calories and food that supports a large global population. Yet the results can be described as somewhat bizarre in that nearly 3 billion people globally are obese while nearly 1 billion are malnourished. Many modern processed foods are designed to be addictive. Such foods are targeted at what is known as the Bliss Point. They are optimized for the right ratios of salt, sugar and fat producing overweight consumers. Instead of redesigning processed foods to limit obesity more people are relying on pills and injections to shed excessive fat. Hagens notes processed or engineered information using Ai and algorisms is likely to have adverse impacts on the
public’s ability to recognize the reality of how the information will impact our lives.
The process of obscuring reality can take many forms. An article in Newsweek, February 6th 2025 by Peter Aitken addressed the advice provided by presidential advisor Steve Bannon that the best way to deal with media critics and political opposition was to “Flood the Zone” and overwhelm the opposition with a flurry of actions that makes it difficult for critics to respond to all the actions being taken by the federal government. As a result some of the proposed actions will go unchallenged. The Newsweek article went on to indicate that the current administration has extended the process of “ Flooding the Zone‘” to the point where it is testing the limits to presidential power.
Hagens is concerned that the new AI capacity will be optimized in a similar fashion as the processed food system. A lot of AI output will be optimized for a perfect blend of novelty, polarization, and righteousness to keep us engaged and coming back for more. The intent of the abundant content is not accidentally
addictive but it will be the intended product.
Hagens assumes we want to known what is going on in the world as it impacts our lives in multiple ways. However the sheer volume of information is beyond one’s ability to fact check the flood of information and Hagens offers a few humble suggestions as to how one might respond to the engineered information. He uses three questions to help him process information to which he reacts. Is it true, relevant and useful? When faced with the question of whether the information is true, he tries to trace it back to something that is real, or a reliable source. or a respected institution. If it is relevant he determines it is if it deepens his understanding or changes it or if it changes his decisions and priorities. Addressing the question of usefulness he considers if it has improved his judgement, helped him to see the trade-offs or act with a little more wisdom.
If truth becomes a scarce resource, what impact will it have on society as a whole?
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ESTATE OF: DAVID E. SEAL, Deceased. 2026-PR-30
CLAIM NOTICE
NOTICE is given of the death of DAVID S. Seal. Letters of Office were issued to David S. Seal, 3154 Alyce Dr., Rockton, IL 61072, who is the legal representative of the estate. The attorney for the estate is Rodney W. Kimes, 419 Main St., PO Box 537, Pecatonica, Illinois 61063. Claims against the estate may be filed in the Circuit Clerk’s office, Winnebago County Courthouse, Rockford, Illinois, with the representative or both on or before the 11th day of September, 2026, or if mailing or delivery of a notice from the representative is required by §18-3 of the Probate Act of 1975, the date stated in that notice.
Any claim not filed on or before that date is barred. Copies of a claim filed with the clerk must be mailed or delivered by the claimant to the representative and to the attorney within ten days after it has been filed.
DATED: March 3, 2026
David S. Seal, Executor of the Estate of DAVID E. SEAL Rodney W. Kimes, #6211305 rkimes@bolgrienlaw.com BOLGRIEN, KOEPKE & KIMES, LLC 419 Main Street P.O. Box 537 Pecatonica, IL 61063 608-365-7702
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In The Matter of the Estate of JAMES SANTOS, Deceased. No.: 2026 PR 19
CLAIM NOTICE
NOTICE is given of the death of JAMES SANTOS, who died on November 4, 2025. Jasmine Santos, whose address is 4944 Illinois Street, Loves Park, IL 61111, was appointed Special Administrator of the Estate of JAMES SANTOS, deceased, on March 2, 2026. The attorney of record of the Estate is Mary Wood of MacCloskeyKesler & Associates, 308 West State Street, Suite 200, Rockford, IL 61101. Any claims against the estate may be filed on or before September 11, 2026, that date being at least six (6) months from the date of first publication, or within three (3) months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to creditors, if mailing or delivery is required by Section 18-3 of the Illinois Probate Act of 1975, as amended, whichever date is later. Any claim not filed on or before that date shall be barred. Claims against the estate may be filed in the Office of the
Winnebago County Circuit ClerkProbate Division at the Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 W. State Street, Rockford, Illinois 61101, or with the Special Administrator, or both. Copies of claims filed with the Circuit Clerk’s Office - Probate Division, must be mailed or delivered to the Administrator and to the attorney for the estate within ten (10) days after it has been filed. The estate will be administered without court supervision, unless under Section 28-4 of the Probate Act of 197 5 (755 ILCS 5128-4) any interested person terminates independent administration at any time by mailing or delivering a petition to terminate to the Clerk of the Court.
DATED: 3/4/2026
JASMINE SANTOS, Special Administrator /s/ Mary I. Wood By: Mary I. Wood
Prepared by: Mary I. Wood, 6301210
MacCloskeyKesler & Associates, LLC 308 West State Street Rockford, IL 61101 815-965-2000
Eservice@rockfordinjurylawyer. com
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n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
I COUNTY OF WNNEBAGO
In the Matter of the Estate of: FRANKLIN P. MOLINE
a.k.a. FRANK P. MOLINE, Deceased.
Case No. 2026 PR 34 CLAIM NOTICE NOTICE is given of the death of FRANKLIN P. MOLINE a.k.a. FRANK P. MOLINE. Letters of Office were issued on March 4, 2026, to DONALD E. MOLINE, JR., as Independent Administrator, who is the Legal Representative of the Estate. The attorney for the Estate is Paul S. Godlewski, One Court Place, Suite 301, Rockford, IL 61101.
Claims against the Estate may be filed on or before September 14, 2026, that date being at least six [6] months from the date of first publication, or within three [3] months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to creditors, if mailing or delivery is required by 755 ILCS 5/18-3 of the Illinois Probate Act, 1975 as amended, whichever date is later. Any claim not filed by the requisite date as stated above, shall be barred.
Claims against the Estate may be filed in the office of the Winnebago County Circuit ClerkProbate Division at the Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 West State Street, Rockford, IL, 61101 or with the Estate, legal representative, or both.
Copies of claims filed with the Circuit Clerk’s Office - Probate Division, must be mailed or delivered to the Estate legal representative and to his attorney within ten days after it has been filed.
Dated: March 11, 2026
DONALD E. MOLINE, JR. Independent Administrator
PREPARED BY PAUL S. GODLEWSKI
Attorney for the Estate One Court Place, Suite 301 Rockford, IL 61101
815/964-0058
ARDC-0977837 service at: psglegal@aol.com
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MACHESNEY MINI WAREHOUSES 11330 N. 2 nd St. Machesney Park, IL 61115
815-297-7803
NOTICE OF SALE
The personal properties stored by Deanna Coil (11), Jody Burke (52), Stanley Manewin (69), Angie Johnson (74/91/124), Thomas Hall (94), Casey Larson (132), Terry Harris (187) and Sharon Govern
(227). Located at 11330 N. 2nd St., Machesney Park, Illinois, a self-storage facility, shall be sold through an online auction, at www.storagetreasures.com on 03/24/2026, to enforce the owner’s lien thereon. If not sold, the property will be otherwise disposed of. Property includes household goods and many personal items. 27098R TRRT 3/18 n n n NOTICE OF SALE
Personal Property stored by the following individuals from A Place for Space Self Storage L.L.C. P.O. Box 8116 Rockford IL 61126, a self-service storage facility, operated by A Place for Space Self Storage L.L.C. shall be sold at public auction at the address listed below. The Auction will be held on or after 4/24/26 at 9:00am to enforce the Owner’s Lien thereon. If there are no bidders, the property will be otherwise disposed of by the owner. Any vehicles sold will not have a title provided to the buyer. Auction begins at 9am, all other locations immediately follow.
Units Located at 5112 Linden Rd Rockford IL 61109 at 9:00am
Travionne Cattledge #046; Tori Campbell #054; Jaqueline Estrada Almanza #087; Lamarr Springfield #098; Houston Frey #102; Keyvondre Cummings #181; Angela Ultsch #235; Qlajuwuan Scott #326; Raven Schurman #334; Rafael Escobedo #338; April Gonzalez #360; Marisol Perez #401; Natassia Fair #412; Samantha Suchan #420; Brittany Maurchie #462; Beverly Ann Cuplin #485.
Units Located at 3722 Baxter Rd Rockford IL 61109 immediately following.
Destynee Joesten #B017; Patrick Moriarity #B039; Kris Habermehl #B078; Stephanie Thompson #B084.
Units located at 5315 Sandy Hollow Rd Rockford IL 61109 immediately following. Veronica Griner #S022; Manuel Plumacher #S039; Manuel Plumacher #S091; Kaunda Sims-Goode #S108; Edward Davis #S117; Jeff Carlson #S120.
Units located at 1619 N Meridian Rd Rockford IL 61103 immediately following.
Nathan Bruner #M029; Louis Leavy #M100; Cody Vaughn #M142; Yolanda Leach #M146; Joseph Wyss #M183; David Jackson #M070. Units located at 1821 W Chrysler Dr Belvidere IL 61008 immediately following.
Sharon Theurer #C028; Gerald Reinwaldt #C079; Dawn Wolf #C087; Chris Meyer #C093; Jermery Matz #C145; Stephanie Rivas #C146.
If the unit is not paid in full by Friday, April 17th, 2026 at 4 pm your unit will be sold to the highest bidder at public auction on Friday, April 24th, 2026. To register as a buyer please arrive 15 minutes prior to the auction with proper identification and payment. Please register at our office located at 5112 Linden Rd Rockford IL 61109.
A Place for Space Self Storage L.L.C. 27099R TRRT 3/18 n n n Elm Storage 1034 Short Elm St. Rockford, IL
Notice of Public Self-Storage Auction
Notice is hereby given that Elm Storage, on behalf of the facility owner at the address indicated below, intends to hold a public sale to satisfy a lien by selling the personal property belonging to the individuals listed below. The sale will be conducted for cash on March 26, 2026, at approximately
7:00 PM at Elm Storage, 1034 Short Elm St., Rockford, Illinois. Units and Tenants: • Unit A059 - [Jean Clark-Bell]; • Unit C001 - [Nevaeh Johnson]; • Unit C024 - [Damiane Morrison]; • Unit C158 - [Cecilia Barrois]. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Please refer to the website for terms and conditions. Units will be available for viewing prior to the sale date on storagetreasures.com. A buyer’s premium of up to 15% and a cleaning deposit will be charged per unit. Purchases must be made with cash or credit card only and cleaning deposit cash only and paid at the Elm Storage office.
Elm Storage reserves the right to refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase until the winning bidder takes possession of the property. All sales are final. 27100R TRRT 3/18 n n n
STATE OF ILLINOIS, CIRCUIT COURT
WINNEBAGO COUNTY
PUBLICATION NOTICE OF COURT DATE FOR REQUEST FOR NAME CHANGE (MINOR CHILDREN) Request of:
JOHNATHAN DAVIS TO CHANGE NAMES OF MINOR CHILDREN
Case Number 2026-MR-56
There will be a court date on my Request for Name Change (Minor Children) for: Morgan Benjamin to Jayson Jeremiah Davis. The court date will be held: on April 17, 2026 at 9:00 a.m., at 211 S. Court St., Rockford, IL, Winnebago County, in Courtroom #2. /s/ Johnathan Davis, Petitioner 27101R TRRT 3/25
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WINNEBAGO COUNTY
PUBLICATION NOTICE OF COURT DATE FOR REQUEST FOR NAME CHANGE (MINOR CHILDREN) Request of:
ALIYAH DOZIER TO CHANGE NAMES OF MINOR CHILDREN
Case Number 2026-MR-7
There will be a court date on my Request for Name Change (Minor Children) for: Ze’Merius Omarie Mboliyou-IV to Zy’mir Kalik McCormick. The court date will be held: on April 9, 2026 at 10:00 a.m., at 400 W. State St., Rockford, IL, Winnebago County, in Courtroom #426. /s/ Aliyah Dozier, Petitioner 27102R TRRT 3/25
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ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO
This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a creative service business in said County and State under the name of The Creative Cusp at the following post office addresses: 2020 Forest View Rd., Rockford, IL 61108; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Amy Sayavong; Alyssia Ann Roberts
SIGNED: Amy Sayavong 3/2/26
SIGNED: Alyssia Ann Roberts 3/2/26
Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 2nd day of March, A.D. 2026. Lori Gummow, County Clerk Krystal Soto, Deputy Clerk 27103R TRRT 3/25
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ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION
STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO
This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a aesthetics business in said County and State under the name of Cherished Aesthetics at the following post office addresses:
1026 E. Riverside Blvd., Loves Park, IL 61111; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Cherish Marie Adams
SIGNED: Cherish Marie Adams 3/3/26
Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 3rd day of March, A.D. 2026. Lori Gummow, County Clerk Teresa Bravo, Deputy Clerk 27104R TRRT 3/25 n n n
ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION
STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO
This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a business consulting business in said County and State under the name of Sunshine Energy Consulting at the following post office addresses: 7712 Mildred Rd., Machesney Park, IL 61115; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Linsey Nicole Blitch
SIGNED: Linsey Nicole Blitch 3/3/26
Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 3rd day of March, A.D. 2026. Lori Gummow, County Clerk Ariel Rosas, Deputy Clerk 27105R TRRT 3/25 n n n
ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION
STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO
This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a piloting air plane business in said County and State under the name of Rockford Aero at the following post office addresses: 1720 Old Orchard Rd., Rockford, IL 61107; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: William Schnauffer IV
SIGNED: William Schnauffer IV 3/3/26
Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 3rd day of March, A.D. 2026. Lori Gummow, County Clerk Krystal Soto, Deputy Clerk 27106R TRRT 3/25
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ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO
This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a lawncare snow removal business in said County and State under the name of Urban Oasis Landscaping at the following post office addresses: 2412 Andrews St., Rockford, IL 61101; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Christopher Reese Tubbesing
SIGNED: Christopher Reese Tubbesing 3/4/26
Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 4th day of March, A.D. 2026. Lori Gummow, County Clerk Teresa Bravo, Deputy Clerk 27107R TRRT 3/25 n n n
ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO
This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a construction business in said County and State under the name of Tim James Exteriors at the following post office addresses: 3110 Rice Ave., Rockford, IL 61101; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Timothy Allen James SIGNED: Timothy Allen James 2/20/26
Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 20th
day of February, A.D. 2026. Lori Gummow, County Clerk Krystal Soto, Deputy Clerk 27108R TRRT 3/25 n n n
ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION
STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO
This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a entertainment business in said County and State under the name of Bandana Bando at the following post office addresses: 730 N. Church St., Rockford, IL 61103; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Lawrence Reed Harmon Jr. SIGNED: Lawrence Reed Harmon Jr. 2/26/26
Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 26th day of February, A.D. 2026. Lori Gummow, County Clerk Krystal Soto, Deputy Clerk 27087R TRRT 3/18 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION
STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO
This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a sole proprietor business in said County and State under the name of Azucena Beauty Co at the following post office addresses: 424 Winona Dr., Machesney Park, IL 61115; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Maria Azucena Mandujano SIGNED: Maria Azucena Mandujano 3/5/26
Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 5th day of March, A.D. 2026. Lori Gummow, County Clerk Mary McRae, Deputy Clerk 27109R TRRT 3/25 n n n
PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS, FIRST COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION, Plaintiff, vs. MERCEDES HANLEY, Defendant, No. 2025-LM-124.
The requisite Affidavit for Publication having been filed, notice is hereby given to you, Mercedes Hanley, that the above-entitled action has been filed against you in the Circuit Court of Winnebago County, Illinois, praying for declaratory judgment and order of monetary damages for the plaintiff. YOU ARE SUMMONED and required to file an appearance, pay the required fee (unless the Court determines you cannot afford to pay this fee), and answer or otherwise plead in response to the Complaint filed in this cause. You must file by April 19th, 2026, after publication of this notice. If you fail to do so, a judgment by default may be entered against you on said date for the relief requested in the complaint. Russell Law Offices, S.C., #6348089, Attorneys, 125 E. Main Street, PO Box 686, Warren, IL 61087 (608) 448-3680
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF:
CHARLES E. JEFFERSON, Sr., Deceased. No. 2025 PR 347 CLAIM NOTICE
NOTICE is given of the death of Charles E. Jefferson, Sr. Letters of Office were issued on January 29, 2026, to Carl Jefferson of 160 Tournament Drive, Concord, NC 28025, as Independent Administrator for the Estate. The attorney of record for the Estate is Kiera P. Kamedula, 1111 South Alpine Road, Suite 704, Rockford, IL 61108.
The estate will be administered without court supervision, unless under paragraph 28-4 of the Probate Act (755 ILCS 5/28-4) any interested person terminates independent administration at any time by mailing or delivering a petition to terminate to the clerk.
Claims may be filed on or before September 4, 2026, that date being at least six (6) months from the date of first publication, or within three (3) months from the date of mailing or delivery of notice to any known creditor required by Section 18-3 of the Illinois Probate Act of 1975 as amended (755 ILCS 5/18-3), whichever date is later. Any claim not filed by the requisite date stated shall be barred.
Claims against the estate may be filed in the office of the Winnebago County Circuit ClerkProbate Division at the Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 W. State Street, Rockford, Illinois, or with the Executor, or both. Copies of any claim filed with the Circuit Clerk’s Office - Probate Division must be mailed or delivered to the Executor and to its attorney within ten days after it has been filed.
Dated: February 23, 2026 Carl Jefferson, Executor
Kiera P. Kamdula, (6351337) 1111 South Alpine Road Suite 704 Rockford, IL 61108 (815) 968-7200 27073R TRRT 3/18 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF:
MICHAEL RYAN DAVIDSON, Deceased.
Case No. 2026-PR-0000038 CLAIM NOTICE
NOTICE is given of the death of Michael Ryan Davidson. Letters of OFfice were issued on February 17, 2026 to Bonnie Ann Davidson, of 11203 and 1/2 Dorothea Avenue, Machesney Park, Illinois 61115, who is the legal representative of the estate. The attorney for the estate is Ray A. Ferguson, 216 North Court Street, Rockford, IL 61103.
Claims against the estate may be filed on or before September 4, 2026, date being at least six (6) months from the date of first publication, or within 3 months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to creditors, if mailing or delivery is required by Section 18-3 of the Illinois Probate Act, 1975 as amended, whichever date is later. Any claim not filed by the requisite date stated above shall be barred.
Claims against the estate may be filed in the office of the Winnebago County Circuit Clerk-Probate Division at the Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 West State Street, Rockford, Illinois, or with the estate legal representatives, or both.
Copies of claims filed with the Circuit Clerk’s Office-Probate Division, must be mailed or delivered to the estate legal representatives and to his attorney within ten days after it has been filed.
DATED: February 11, 2026
/s/ Bonnie Ann Davidson
Bonnie Ann Davidson, Administrator
Name: ATTORNEY RAY A. FERGUSON
Attorney for Estate
Address: 216 North Court Street
City: Rockford, IL 61103
Telephone: 815-489-9500 27074R TRRT 3/18 n n n
TAX DEED NO. 2026-TX-0000083
FILED February 18, 2026 TAKE NOTICE TO: LORI GUMMOW, WINNEBAGO COUNTY CLERK; Natalie J. Rinaldo; Occupant; Michael J. Rinaldo; UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES INTERESTED; AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS. This is NOTICE of the filing of the Petition for Tax Deed on the following described property: ALL OF LOT ONE (1) AS DESIGNATED UPON THE PLAT OF MURTFELDT’S SUBDIVISION OF SOUTH PART OF BLOCK 13, IN SPAFFORD’S ADDITION TO THE CITY OF ROCKFORD, WHICH PLAT IS RECORDED IN BOOK 86 OF DEEDS, PAGE 202 IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS; EXCEPTING HOWEVER, THE NORTH FIFTY (50) FEET IN WIDTH OF SAID LOT, THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID EXCEPTED TRACT BEING PARALLEL WITH THE NORTH LINE OF SAID LOT; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLNOIS.
Property Index Number 1124-382-021
On July 24, 2026 at 9:30 a.m. Courtroom 412 the Petitioner intends to make application for an order on the petition that a Tax Deed be issued. The real estate was sold on November 7, 2023 for general taxes of the year 2022. The period of redemption will expire June 30, 2026. G. Michael Scheurich, Attorney for Petitioner (815) 636-9600 27075R TRRT 3/18
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ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO
This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a aerospace business in said County and State under the name of Eastgate at the following post office addresses: 2330 Kilburn Ave., Apt. 106, Rockford, IL 61101; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Matthew Joshua Davis SIGNED: Matthew Joshua Davis 2/24/26
Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 24th day of February, A.D. 2026. Lori Gummow, County Clerk Ariel Rosas, Deputy Clerk 27086R TRRT 3/18 n n n
TAX DEED NO. 2026-TX-0000084 FILED February 18, 2026
TAKE NOTICE TO:
LORI GUMMOW, WINNEBAGO COUNTY CLERK; Alpine Bank & Trust Co. n/k/a Midland States Bank; Chris Capovilla; Occupant; The Cloisters of Forest Hills Corporation; Carole Cotter; UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES INTERESTED; AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS.
This is NOTICE of the filing of the Petition for Tax Deed on the following described property: Condominium Unit described as Unit No. Two Hundred Twenty-three (223) in the Cloisters of Forest
Hills, a Condominium as delineated on survey of part of the Northeast Quarter (1/4) of the Southeast Quarter (1/4) of Section 7, and part of the Northwest Quater (1/4) of the Southwest Quarter (1/4) of Section 8, all in Township 44 North, Range 2 East of the Third Principal Meridian, bounded and described as follows, to-wit: Beginning on the South line of the Northeast Quarter (1/4) of the Southeast Quarter (1/4) of said Section 7 at a point six hundred twenty-five and nine hundredths (625.09) feet East of the Southwest corner of said Northeast Quarter (1/4) of the Southeast Quarter (1/4) of said Section 7; thence North 00 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds East, parallel with the West line of the Northeast Quarter (1/4) of the Southeast Quarter (1/4) of said Section 7, a distance of one thousand thirteen and seventy-three hundredths (1013.73) feet; thence South 83 degrees 30 minutes 00 seconds East, one hundred seventy-six (176.0) feet; thence South 54 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds East, two hundred seventy-seven (277.0) feet; thence South 58 degrees 30 minutes 00 seconds East, two hundred fifty-six (256.0) feet; thence South 31 degrees 35 minutes 43 seconds East, two hundred thirty (230.00) feet; thence South 13 degrees 36 minutes 11 seconds East, five hundred and forty-four hundredths (500.44) feet to a point in the South line of the Northwest Quarter (1/4) of the Southwest Quarter (1/4) of said Section 8, a distance of one hundred forty-nine and sixty-six hundredths (149.66) feet, North 88 degrees 43 minutes 57 seconds East of the Southwest corner of the Northwest Quarter (1/4) of the Southwest Quarter (1/4) of said Section 8; thence South 88 degrees 43 minutes 57 seconds West along the South line of the Northwest Quarter (1/4) of the Southwest Quarter (1/4) of said Section 8, a distance of one hundred forty-nine and sixty-six hundredths (149.66) feet to the Southwest corner of the Northwest Quarter (1/4) of the Southwest Quarter (1/4) of said Section 8; thence South 89 degrees 03 minutes 29 seconds West, along the South line of the Northeast Quarter (1/4) of the Southeast Quarter (1/4) of said Section 7, a distance of seven hundred five and ninety-two hundredths (705.92) feet to the point of beginning, in Winnebago County, Illinois, which survey is recorded December 30, 1974 in Book 35 of Plats on Pages 297, 298 and 299 and is attached as Exhibit A to Declaration of Condominium made by Village Associates of Rockford, Inc. recorded December 30, 1974 n Microfilm 7224-0540 as Document No. 1353519 and amended by instrument recorded on Microfilms 8011-0078, 8110-0104, 81100115 and 8206-0880 in the Recorder’s Office of Winnebago County, together with its undivided percentage interest in and to the common area and facilities of the said Condominium, subject to adjustment of
said percentage interest as set forth in said Declaration, as amended from time to time; all situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois. Property Index Number 1207-431-064
On July 24, 2026 at 9:30 a.m. Courtroom 412 the Petitioner intends to make application for an order on the petition that a Tax Deed be issued. The real estate was sold on November 7, 2023 for general taxes of the year 2022. The period of redemption will expire June 30, 2026.
G. Michael Scheurich, Attorney for Petitioner (815) 636-9600 27076R TRRT 3/18 n n n
TAX DEED NO. 2026-TX-0000085 FILED February 18, 2026
TAKE NOTICE TO:
LORI GUMMOW, WINNEBAGO COUNTY CLERK; Illinois Attorney General; Emilio Canseco; Araceli Lopez Nevarez; Occupant; Evelyn Canseco; Illinois Department of Healthcare & Family Services; UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES INTERESTED; AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS.
This is NOTICE of the filing of the Petition for Tax Deed on the following described property: Lot Forty-seven (47) as designated upon Plat No. 2 of Wellington East, being a subdivision of part of the West Half of the Northeast Quarter of Section 27, Township 44 North, Range 2 East of the Third Principal Meridian, the plat of which is recorded in Book 39 of Plats on page 2B in the Recorder’s Office of Winnebago County, Illinois; situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois.
Property Index Number 1227-252-002
On July 24, 2026 at 9:30 a.m. Courtroom 412 the Petitioner intends to make application for an order on the petition that a Tax Deed be issued. The real estate was sold on November 7, 2023 for general taxes of the year 2022. The period of redemption will expire June 30, 2026. G. Michael Scheurich, Attorney for Petitioner (815) 636-9600 27077R TRRT 3/18
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TAX DEED NO. 2026-TX-0000086 FILED February 18, 2026 TAKE NOTICE TO: LORI GUMMOW, WINNEBAGO COUNTY CLERK; Timothy Quist; Ashley R. Putvin; Occupant; UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES INTERESTED; AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS. This is NOTICE of the filing of the Petition for Tax Deed on the following described property: LOT TWO HUNDRED THIRTY-TWO (232) AS DESIGNATED UPON THE PLAT OF SCARSDALE, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER (1/4) OF SECTION 29, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 2 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, THE PLAT OF WHICH SUBDIVISION IS RECORDED IN BOOK 18 OF PLATS ON PAGES 26 AND 27 IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. Property Index Number 1229-354-006
On July 24, 2026 at 9:30 a.m. Courtroom 412 the Petitioner
intends to make application for an order on the petition that a Tax Deed be issued. The real estate was sold on November 7, 2023 for general taxes of the year 2022. The period of redemption will expire June 30, 2026.
G. Michael Scheurich, Attorney for Petitioner (815) 636-9600 27078R TRRT 3/18 n n n
TAX DEED NO. 2026-TX-0000087 FILED February 18, 2026 TAKE NOTICE TO: LORI GUMMOW, WINNEBAGO COUNTY CLERK; Occupant; Maria Mayer; UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES INTERESTED; AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS. This is NOTICE of the filing of the Petition for Tax Deed on the following described property: Lot One Hundred Thirty-one (131) as designated upon the Plat of Factory Addition to the City of Rockford, which Plat is recorded in Book 11 of Plats on page 9 in the Recorder’s Office of Winnebago County, Illinois, situated in Winnebago County and State of Illinois. Property Index Number 1501-177-002
On July 24, 2026 at 9:30 a.m. Courtroom 412 the Petitioner intends to make application for an order on the petition that a Tax Deed be issued. The real estate was sold on November 7, 2023 for general taxes of the year 2022. The period of redemption will expire June 30, 2026.
G. Michael Scheurich, Attorney for Petitioner (815) 636-9600 27079R TRRT 3/18 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY NORTHWEST BANK OF ROCKFORD, Plaintiff, VS. ANTHONY PRITZ, EPI PROPERTIES LLC, AN ILLINOIS LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, UNKNOWN OTHERS, NON RECORD CLAIMANTS AND UNKNOWN TENANTS, Defendants. CASE NO. 2026 FC 86 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE THE REQUISITE Affidavit for Publication having been filed, notice is hereby given to Unknown others, Nonrecord Claimants and Unknown Tenants, Defendant in the above-entitled suit, that the said suit has been commenced in the Circuit Court of the 17th Judicial Circuit, Winnebago County, Illinois, against you praying for a foreclosure of a mortgage upon the following property:
Count I:
Lot Eighteen (18) in Block Twelve (12) as designated upon the Plat of Liberty Park Subdivision, a Subdivision of part of the Southwest Quarter (1/4) of Section 30, Township 45 North, Range 2 East of the Third Principal Meridian, the Plat of which is recorded in Book 16 of Plats on Page 16 in the Recorder’s Office of Winnebago County, Illinois; situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois.
Commonly known as: 504 Liberty Blvd. Machesney Park, Illinois 61115
P.I.N Number: 08-30-328-013
Property Code: 138 C 304
Count II: All of Lot Sixteen (16) except the South Forty-Four (44) feet thereof in Block Seven (7) as designated upon the Plat of Colonial
Gardens, except the South Forty-Four (44) feet of Lot Sixteen (16) in Block Seven (7) as designated upon the Plat of Colonial Gardens, being a Subdivision in part of the Southwest Quarter (1/4) of Section 31, Township 45 North, Range 2 East of the Third Principal Meridian, the Plat of which is recorded in Book 16 of Plats on Page 31 in the Recorder’s Office of Winnebago County, Illinois; situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois.
Commonly known as: 701 Colonial Drive. Machesney Park, Illinois 61115
Property Code: 139 C 304
P.I.N. Number: 08-31-309-001 And for other relief, that the action was filed on or about February 27, 2026. That Summons was duly issued out of said Court against you as provided by law, and that the said suit is still pending. The record titleholder of the real estate is EPI Properties LLC, an Illinois Limited Liability Company. An identification of the mortgage sought to be foreclosed is as follows: Mortgagor – Anthony Pritz Mortgagee – Northwest Bank of Rockford.
Date of Mortgage – October 26, 2004 and April 14, 2011 Date of Recording – October 27, 2004 and April 21, 2011 County of Recording – Winnebago Recording Document – 0471417 and 20111014776
NOW THEREFORE, unless you Unknown Others, Nonrecord Claimants and Unknown Tenants, the said Defendant, file your Answer to the Complaint in said suit or otherwise make your appearance therein in the said Circuit Court of the 17th Judicial Circuit, Winnebago County, 400 W. State Street in the City of Rockford, State of Illinois on or before April 22, 2026, default may be entered against you at any time after that date and a judgment may be entered in accordance with the prayer of the Complaint. Dated at Rockford, IL on the 27th day of February, 2026. Thomas A. Klein, Clerk of the Circuit Court Winnebago County, Illinois Plaintiff’s Attorney Timothy F. Horning MEYER & HORNING, P.C. 631 N. Longwood Street Suite 101 Rockford, IL 61107 815/636-9300 thmeyerhorning@aol.com 27080R TRRT 3/18 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO PROBATE DIVISION IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF RICHARD G. ECKBURG, Deceased. Case No. 2026-PR-0000045 Date Will Filed: January 28, 2026 Will Number 2026-WI-76 CLAIMS NOTICE NOTICE is given of the death of RICHARD G. ECKBURG. Letters of Office were issued on February 24, 2026, to Nancy L. Eckburg, whose address is 136 Douglas Street, Rockford, IL, 61103, as Independent Executor of the Estate. The attorney of record for the estate is Anthony R. Phelps of Reno & Zahm LLP, 2902 McFarland Road, Suite 400, Rockford, Illinois 61107. Claims may be filed on or before September 4, 2026, that date being at least six (6) months from the date of first publication, or within three (3) months from the date of mailing or delivery of notice to any known creditor required by Section 18-3 of the Illinois Probate Act of 1975 (755 ILCS 5/18-3), whichever date is later. Any claim not filed by the requisite date stated shall be barred.
Claims against the estate may be filed in the office of the Winnebago County Circuit Clerk Probate Division at the Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 West State Street, Rockford, Illinois 61101, with the Independent Executor, or both. Copies of any claim filed with the Circuit Clerk’s Office Probate Division must be mailed or delivered to the Independent Executor and to the attorney for the Estate within ten (10) days after it has been filed. The Estate will be administered without court supervision, unless under Section 28-4 of the Illinois Probate Act of 1975 (755 ILCS 5/28-4) any interested person terminates independent administration at any time by mailing or delivering a petition to terminate to the Clerk of the Court.
Dated this 25th day of February, 2026.
RENO & ZAHM LLP BY: /s/ Anthony R. Phelps
Anthony R. Phelps, Attorney for Nancy L. Eckburg, Independent Executor of the Estate of Richard G. Eckburg RENO & ZAHM, LLP
Anthony R. Phelps (#06297415) 2902 McFarland Road, Suite 400 Rockford, IL 61107 Phone (815) 987-4050 arp@renozahm.com
27081R TRRT 3/18 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO PROBATE DIVISION IN RE THE ESTATE OF: PAUL D. HILL, JR., Deceased. Case No. 2026 PR 26 CLAIM NOTICE NOTICE is given of the death of PAUL D. HILL, JR., Letters of Office were issued on February 11, 2026, to HOWARD BEST, who is the legal representative of the estate. The attorney for the estate is Tyler M. Crosby, Crosby & Crosby LLP, 3815 N. Mulford Rd. #4, Rockford, Illinois 61114. Claims against the estate may be filed on or before September 4, 2026, that date being at least six (6) months from the date of first publication, or within three (3) months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to creditors, if mailing or delivery is required by 755 ILCS 5/18-3 of the Illinois Probate Act, 1975 as amended, whichever date is later. Any claim not filed by the requisite date as stated above shall be barred.
Claims against the estate may be filed in the office of the Winnebago County Circuit Clerk-Probate Division at the Winnebago County Courthouse, Rockford, Illinois, or with the estate legal representative, or both.
Copies of claims filed with the Circuit Clerk’s Office-Probate Division, must be mailed or delivered to the estate legal representative and to his/her attorney within ten days after it has been filed.
/s/ Tyler M. Crosby
Tyler M. Crosby
Attorney for Administrator CROSBY & CROSBY LLP
Attorney for Administrator
Tyler M. Crosby ARDC: 6323771
3815 N Mulford Road, Ste. 4 Rockford, Illinois 61114 P: (815) 367-6432
E: eservice@crosbyandcrosbylaw.com
27082R TRRT 3/18
n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: JOSEPH A. RICOTTA, Deceased.
CASE NO: 2026 PR 42 CLAIM NOTICE
NOTICE is given of the death of JOSEPH A. RICOTTA, Letters of Office were issued on February 19, 2026, to Joseph V. Ricotta, Executor, who
is the legal representative of the estate. The attorney for the estate is BRIAN K. LARKIN, ONE COURT PLACE, SUITE 301, ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS 61101.
Claims against the estate may be filed on or before September 4, 2026, that date being at least six (6) months from the date of first publication, or within three (3) months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to creditors, if mailing or delivery is required by Section 18-3 of the Illinois Probate Act, 1975 as amended, whichever date is later. Any claim not filed by the requisite date stated above shall be barred.
Claims against the estate may be filed in the office of the Winnebago County Circuit Clerk-Probate Division at the Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 W. State Street, Rockford, Illinois, or with the estate legal representative, or both. Copies of claims filed with the Circuit Clerk’s Office--Probate Division must be mailed or delivered to the estate legal representative and to his/her attorney within ten days after it has been filed.
DATED February 26, 2026 /s/ Joseph V. Ricotta
Brian K. Larkin
Joseph V. Ricotta
Attorney at Law One Court Place, Suite 301 Rockford, IL 61101 815-964-4601
Brian@blarkinlaw.com
27083R TRRT 3/18 n n n
ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION
STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO
This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a party rental services business in said County and State under the name of Gaby’s Party Rentals at the following post office addresses: 1211 24th St., Rockford, IL 61108; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Abel Marquez-Ramirez; Leticia Pacheco Reveles
SIGNED: Abel Marquez-Ramirez 2/6/26
SIGNED: Leticia Pacheco Reveles 2/6/26
Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 6th day of February, A.D. 2026. Lori Gummow, County Clerk Krystal Soto, Deputy Clerk 27084R TRRT 3/18 n n n
ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO
This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a handmade crafts business in said County and State under the name of Mammaw’s Creations at the following post office addresses: 3000 Charles St., Rockford, IL 61108; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows:
Brandon Lee Sanders
SIGNED: Brandon Lee Sanders 2/18/26
Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 18th day of February, A.D. 2026. Lori Gummow, County Clerk Ariel Rosas, Deputy Clerk
27085R TRRT 3/18
Rock River Times. March 18, 2026
n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS
Rocket Mortgage, LLC
f/k/a Quicken Loans, LLC
f/k/a Quicken Loans Inc. Plaintiff, -v.-
Donald Sowl; et. al.
Defendants.
2025-FC-0000347
2737 HANSON ST, ROCKFORD, IL 61109
NOTICE OF SALE
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on 2/6/2026, an agent of Auction.com, LLC will conduct the Online Only auction at www. auction.com, with the bidding window opening on 3/30/2026 at 10:00 AM CDT and closing on April 1, 2026 at 10:00 AM subject to extension, and will sell at public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate.
LOTS ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY (180) AND ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-ONE (181) AS DESIGNATED UPON THE PLAT OF FACTORY ADDITION TO THE CITY OF ROCKFORD, WHICH PLAT IS RECORDED IN BOOK 11 OF PLATS ON PAGE 9 IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS; SITUATED IN WINNEBAGO COUNTY AND STATE OF ILLINOIS.
Commonly known as 2737 HANSON ST, ROCKFORD, IL 61109 Property Index No. 15-01130-026
The real estate is improved with a Residential Property. The judgment amount was $66,852.54 Sale Terms: Full Sale Terms are available on the property page at www.auction.com by entering 2737 HANSON ST into the search bar. If sold to anyone other than the Plaintiff, the winning bidder must pay the full bid amount within twenty-four (24) hours of the auction’s end. All payments must be certified funds. No third-party checks will be accepted. All bidders will need to register at www.auction.com prior to placing a bid. 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) (l) 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. For information, contact Plaintiffs attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES PC (630) 794-5300 please refer to file number 14-25-05599. Auction.com, LLC 100 N LaSalle St., Suite 1400,
Chicago, IL 60602 - 872-225-4985
You can also visit www.auction. com. Attorney File No. 14-25-05599 Case Number: 2025-FC-0000347
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. I3282730 P27064R TRRT 3/18 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS NEWREZ LLC D/B/A SHELLPOINT MORTGAGE SERVICING, Plaintiff, -v.IRMA J JOE A/K/A IRMA JEAN JOE; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants. 2024-FC-0000358 510 AND 512 NORTH HORSMAN, ROCKFORD, IL 61101 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on 2/5/2026, an agent of Auction.com, LLC will conduct the Online Only auction at www. auction.com, with the bidding window opening on 3/30/2026 at 10:00 AM CDT and closing on April 1, 2026 at 10:00 AM subject to extension, and will sell at public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate. LOT 1 AND 2 AS DESIGNATED ON THE PLAT OF DIAMOND’S RE-SUBDIVISION OF PLAT OF WEST PARK LOTS, THE PLAT OF WHICH RE-SUBDIVISION IS RECORDED IN BOOK 11 OF PLATS, ON PAGE 39 IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 510 AND 512 NORTH HORSMAN, ROCKFORD, IL 61101
Property Index No. 11-22276-016
The real estate is improved with a Single Family Residence. The judgment amount was $63,221.24
Sale Terms: Full Sale Terms are available on the property page at www.auction.com by entering 510 AND 512 NORTH HORSMAN into the search bar. If sold to anyone other than the Plaintiff, the winning bidder must pay the full bid amount within twenty-four (24) hours of the auction’s end. All payments must be certified funds. No third-party checks will be accepted. All bidders will need to register at www.auction.com prior to placing a bid. 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) (l) 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. For information, contact Plaintiffs attorney: McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLP (312) 346-9088 please refer to file number 2419599IL. Auction.com, LLC 100 N LaSalle St., Suite 1400, Chicago, IL 60602 - 872-225-4985 You can also visit www.auction.com. Attorney File No. 24-19599IL Case Number: 2024-FC-0000358 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. I3282725 P27065R TRRT 3/18 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS Stillman BancCorp, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.Don Wesdell, as Administrator of the Estate of Andrew J. Maurizzi; et. al.
Defendants. 2025-FC-0000237 12509 Farm School Rd, Durand, IL 61024 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on 11/13/2025, an agent of Auction.com, LLC will conduct the Online Only auction at www.auction.com, with the bidding window opening on 3/30/2026 at 10:00 AM CDT and closing on April 1, 2026 at 10:00 AM subject to extension, and will sell at public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate.
PART OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER (1/4) OF SECTION 24, TOWNSHIP 28 NORTH, RANGE 10 EAST OF THE FOURTH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, BOUNDED AS FOLLOWS, TO-WIT: BEGINNING AT THE POINT OF INTERSECTION OF THE EAST LINE OF SAID SECTION WITH THE CENTER LINE OF THE HIGHWAY RUNNING EASTERLY AND WESTERLY THROUGH THE SOUTH PART OF SAID QUARTER (1/4) SECTION; THENCE NORTH ALONG THE EAST LINE OF SAID SECTION, 10 RODS, MORE OR LESS, TO A POINT 5 CHAINS NORTH OF THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID SECTION; THENCE WEST, PARALLEL WITH THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID SECTION, 15 3/4 RODS, MORE OR LESS, TO THE EAST LINE OF PREMISES CONVEYED BY AARON BOILMAN AND WIFE TO SUSAN M. WEBSTER BY DEED RECORDED IN BOOK 69 OF DEEDS ON PAGE 103 IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO, COUNTY, ILLINOIS; THENCE SOUTH ALONG SAID EAST LINE TO THE CENTER LINE OF SAID HIGHWAY; THENCE EASTERLY ALONG SAID CENTER LINE OF SAID HIGHWAY TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNING; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 12509 Farm School Rd, Durand, IL 61024 Property Index No. 05-24400-005
The real estate is improved with a Single Family Residence. The judgment amount was $129,250.05
Sale Terms: Full Sale Terms are available on the property page at www.auction.com by entering 12509 Farm School Rd into the search bar. If sold to anyone other than the Plaintiff, the winning bidder must pay the full bid amount within twenty-four (24) hours of the auction’s end. All payments must be certified funds. No third-party checks will be accepted. All bidders will need to register at www.auction.com prior to placing a bid. 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) (l) 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.
For information, contact Plaintiffs attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES PC (630) 794-5300 please refer to file number 14-25-01008. Auction.com, LLC 100 N LaSalle St., Suite 1400, Chicago, IL 60602 - 872-225-4985
You can also visit www.auction. com. Attorney File No. 14-25-01008 Case Number: 2025-FC-0000237
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.
I3282733
P27066R TRRT 3/18 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTYROCKFORD, ILLINOIS Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC. PLAINTIFF Vs. Annessa Bare; Unknown Owners and Nonrecord Claimants DEFENDANTS No. 2025-FC-0000498
NOTICE BY PUBLICATION
NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU:
Annessa Bare
Unknown Owners and Nonrecord Claimants
That this case has been commenced in this Court against you and other defendants, praying for the foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveying the premises described as follows, to-wit: COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 2731 19th Street Rockford, IL 61109 and which said Mortgage was made by: David K. Bare
Annessa Bare the Mortgagor(s), to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as mortgagee, as nominee
for American Financial Resources, Inc., as Mortgagee, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Winnebago County, Illinois, as Document No. 200900937339; and for other relief; that summons was duly issued out of said Court against you as provided by law and that the said suit is now pending. NOW, THEREFORE, UNLESS YOU file your answer or otherwise file your appearance in this case in the Office of the Clerk of this Court, Thomas A. Klein Clerk of the Circuit Court 400 West State Street, Room 108 Rockford, IL 61101 on or before April 3, 2026, A DEFAULT MAY BE ENTERED AGAINST YOU AT ANY TIME AFTER THAT DAY AND A JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRAYER OF SAID COMPLAINT.
CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C.
Attorneys for Plaintiff 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100 Burr Ridge, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300
DuPage # 15170
Winnebago # 531
Our File No. 14-25-08036
NOTE: This law firm is a debt collector.
I3282835
P27069R TRRT 3/18 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE SEVENTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, 400 WEST STATE STREET, ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS ESTATE OF Larry Edward Kothe, DECEASED. 26 PR 49
Notice is given to creditors of the death of the above named decedent. Letters of office were issued to Dylan Michael Kothe, 2609 Doe Court, Janesville, Wisconsin 53548, as Independent Administrator, whose attorney of record is Nicole Lawless, Bielski Chapman, Ltd, 123 North Wacker Drive, Suite 2300, Chicago, Illinois 60606. The estate will be administered without court supervision, unless under section 5/28-4 of the Probate Act Ill. Compiled Stat. 1992, Ch. 755, par. 5/28-4) any interested person terminates independent administration at any time by mailing or delivering a petition to terminate to the clerk.
Claims against the estate may be filed with the clerk or with the representative, or both, on or before September 4, 2026, or, if mailing or delivery of a notice from the representative is required by section 5/18-3 of the Probate Act, the date stated in that notice. Any claim not filed on or before that date is barred. Copies of a claim filed with the clerk must be mailed or delivered by the claimant to the representative and to the attorney within 10 days after it has been filed.
E-filing is now mandatory for documents in civil cases with limited exemptions. To e-file, you must first create an account with an e-filing service provider. Visit http://efile.illinoiscourts.gov/service-providers.htm to learn more and to select a service provider. If you need additional help or have trouble e-filing, visit http://www.illinoiscourts.gov/FAQ/gethelp.asp. Nicole Lawless Bielski Chapman, Ltd (6345934) 123 North Wacker Drive, Suite 2300 Chicago, Illinois 60606 (312)583-9430 I3282814
P27068R TRRT 3/18
n n n
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17th JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WinnebagoRockford, ILLINOIS
SELENE FINANCE, LP Plaintiff vs. NICHI FONSECA; ARACELI AGUILAR;
PORTFOLIO RECOVERY ASSOCIATES, LLC; FOUR RIVERS SANITATION AUTHORITY; MIDLAND CREDIT MANAGEMENT INC.; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendant 25 FC 123 CALENDAR
NOTICE OF SALE
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on April 16, 2026, at the hour 1:00 p.m., Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Rockford, IL 61108, sell, in person, to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: LOT TWO (2) IN BLOCK THREE (3) AS DESIGNATED UPON THE PLAT OF TOFT’S SUBDIVISION OF A PART OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER (1/4), SOUTHEAST QUARTER (1/4) OF SECTION 6 AND PART OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER (1/4), OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER (1/4) OF SECTION 7 OF TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 2 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS, THE PLAT OF WHICH SUBDIVISION IS RECORDED IN BOOK 26 OF PLATS ON PAGE 5 IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. P.I.N. 1206480004. Commonly known as 3618 TOFT ST., ROCKFORD, IL 61114. The real estate is: single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection(g-1) of Section 189.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: At sale, the bidder must have 10% (or 25% if so ordered in the Judgement of Foreclosure) down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property is sold AS IS subject to all liens or encumbrances. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the circuit court case record, property tax record and the title record to verify all information before bidding. IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER THE ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(c) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information call Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC, 13010 Morris Road, Suite 450, Alpharetta, Georgia 30004. (708) 668-4410 ext. 52109. 25-271714 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION intercountyjudicialsales.com I3282876 P27088R TRRT 3/25 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17th JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WinnebagoRockford, ILLINOIS U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE HOLDERS OF THE FIRST FRANKLIN MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006-FF12 MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-FF12 Plaintiff vs. HAROLD A. KASCH; DIANE L. KASCH; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendant 25 FC 191
CALENDAR
NOTICE OF SALE
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on April 16, 2026, at the hour 1:00 p.m., Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Rockford, IL 61108, sell, in person, to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: LOT SEVEN (7) IN BLOCK THIRTEEN (13) AS DESIGNATED UPON THE PLAT OF FISHER, MILLS AND GOODHUE’S ADDITION TO THE TOWN OF BELOIT, THE PLAT OF WHICH ADDITION IS RECORDED IN BOOK 40 OF DEEDS ON PAGE 7 IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. P.I.N. 04-06-259-006. Commonly known as 226 S. BLUFF ST., SOUTH BELOIT, IL 61080. The real estate is: single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection(g-1) of Section 189.5 of the Condominium Property Act.
Sale terms: At sale, the bidder must have 10% (or 25% if so ordered in the Judgement of Foreclosure) down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property is sold AS IS subject to all liens or encumbrances. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the circuit court case record, property tax record and the title record to verify all information before bidding. IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER THE ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(c) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW.
For information call Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC, 13010 Morris Road, Suite 450, Alpharetta, Georgia 30004. (708) 668-4410 ext. 52109. 25-280504
INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION intercountyjudicialsales.com I3282894
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n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTYROCKFORD, ILLINOIS JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association PLAINTIFF Vs. Jacquie Vallance; Joelle Sumpter; Jayson Rogers; Unknown Heirs and Legatees of Mary J. Rogers; Unknown Owners and Nonrecord Claimants; Amy L. Silvestri, as Special Representative for Mary J. Rogers (deceased) DEFENDANTS No. 2025-FC-0000490
NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU: Jacquie Vallance Unknown Heirs and Legatees of Mary J. Rogers
Unknown Owners and Nonrecord Claimants
That this case has been commenced in this Court against you and other defendants, praying for the foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveying the premises described as follows, to-wit: COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 4002 Tatum Rd Rockford, IL 61114 and which said Mortgage was made by:
Mary J. Rogers the Mortgagor(s), to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Mortgagee, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Winnebago County, Illinois, as Document No. 20201018526; and for other relief; that summons was duly issued out of said Court against you as provided by law and that the said suit is now pending. NOW, THEREFORE, UNLESS YOU file your answer or otherwise file your appearance in this case in the Office of the Clerk of this Court, Thomas A. Klein Clerk of the Circuit Court 400 West State Street, Room 108 Rockford, IL 61101 on or before April 3, 2026, A DEFAULT MAY BE ENTERED AGAINST YOU AT ANY TIME AFTER THAT DAY AND A JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRAYER OF SAID COMPLAINT.
CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100 Burr Ridge, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 DuPage # 15170 Winnebago # 531 Our File No. 14-25-07891 NOTE: This law firm is a debt collector.
I3282566 P27067R TRRT 3/18 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO PROBATE DIVISION IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOYCE A. ERICKSON, Deceased. Case No. 2026-PR-60 CLAIMS NOTICE Notice is given of the death of JOYCE A. ERICKSON. Letters of Office were issued on March 10, 2026, to Mary B. Ennis, who is the Independent Executor of the Estate. The attorney for the Estate is Ryan T. Straw, Reno & Zahm LLP, 2902 McFarland Road, Suite 400, Rockford, Illinois 61107. Claims may be filed on or before September 18, 2026, that date being at least six (6) months from the date of first publication, or within three (3) months from the date of mailing or delivery of notice to any known creditor required by Section 18-3 of the Illinois Probate Act of 1975 as amended, whichever date is later. Any claim not filed by the requisite date stated shall be barred.
Claims against the estate may be filed in the office of the Winnebago County Circuit Clerk Probate Division at the Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 W. State Street, Rockford, Illinois 61101, with the Independent Executor, or both. Copies of any claim filed with the Circuit Clerk’s Office, Probate Division, must be mailed or delivered to the Independent Executor and to the attorney for the estate within ten (10) days after it has been filed. The estate will be administered without court supervision, unless, under Section 28-4 of the Probate Act of 1975 (755 ILCS 5/28-4), any interested person terminates independent administration at any time by mailing or delivering a petition to terminate to the Clerk of the Court. Dated this 11th day of March 2026.
RENO & ZAHM LLP
By: /s/ Ryan T. Straw Attorney for Mary B. Ennis, Independent Executor Ryan T. Straw (#6297723) RENO & ZAHM LLP 2902 McFarland Road, Suite 400 Rockford, IL 61107 (815) 987-4050 rts@renozahm.com
n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
WINNEBAGO COUNTYROCKFORD, ILLINOIS
Pennymac Loan Services, LLC
PLAINTIFF
Vs. Tracey A. Vendegna; Michael J. Vendegna; United States of AmericaSecretary of Housing and Urban Development; Unknown Owners and Nonrecord Claimants
DEFENDANTS No. 2025-FC-0000497 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION
NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU:
Tracey A. Vendegna
Michael J. Vendegna
Unknown Owners and Nonrecord Claimants
That this case has been commenced in this Court against you and other defendants, praying for the foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveying the premises described as follows, to-wit: COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 3653 Casandra Drive Rockford, IL 61114 and which said Mortgage was made by:
Tracey A. Vendegna the Mortgagor(s), to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as Nominee for Universal Lending Corporation, as Mortgagee, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Winnebago County, Illinois, as Document No. 20151007750 modified with 2025017174; and for other relief; that summons was duly issued out of said Court against you as provided by law and that the said suit is now pending.
NOW, THEREFORE, UNLESS YOU file your answer or otherwise file your appearance in this case in the Office of the Clerk of this Court, Thomas A. Klein Clerk of the Circuit Court 400 West State Street, Room 108 Rockford, IL 61101 on or before April 17, 2026, A DEFAULT MAY BE ENTERED AGAINST YOU AT ANY TIME AFTER THAT DAY AND A JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRAYER OF SAID COMPLAINT.
CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100 Burr Ridge, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 DuPage # 15170 Winnebago # 531 Our File No. 14-25-08006
NOTE: This law firm is a debt collector. I3283574 P27110R TRRT 4/1
n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS ROCKET MORTGAGE, LLC F/K/A QUICKEN LOANS, LLC F/K/A QUICKEN LOANS INC. Plaintiff, -v.LUCAS HENDRICKS et al
Defendant 2025-FC-0000354 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 11, 2025, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on April 17, 2026, at the Advocus National Title Insurance, 973 Featherstone Rd, Suite 100, ROCKFORD, IL, 61107, sell at public in-person sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT THIRTY-THREE (33) AS DESIGNATED UPON THE PLAT OF MEADOWDALE EAST SUBDIVISION, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE NORTH HALF (1/2) OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER (1/4) OF SECTION 32, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 2 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, THE PLAT OF WHICH SUBDIVISION IS RECORDED IN BOOK 27 OF PLATS ON PAGE 199 IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 7706 ORION ST, LOVES PARK, IL 61111 Property Index No. 08-32106-040
The real estate is improved with a residence.
Sale terms: If sold to anyone other than the Plaintiff, 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, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. 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. Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption.
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 151701(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. For information, examine the court file, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL, 60527 (630) 794-9876 THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION
One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE
You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.
com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.
CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE IL, 60527
630-794-5300
E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com
Attorney File No. 14-25-05726
Attorney ARDC No. 00468002
Case Number: 2025-FC-0000354
TJSC#: 45-3182
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 # 2025-FC-0000354
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, AS OWNER TRUSTEE OF THE RESIDENTIAL CREDIT OPPORTUNITIES TRUST X-B Plaintiff, v. UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF JOHNNY F. COX, DECEASED; ISAAC COX; JOHNNY COX, JR; AMY SILVESTRI, SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR JOHNNY F. COX, DECEAESED; CHERRELL N. COX; JENNIFER A. COX
A/K/A JENNIFER A. SCHAFER; SHANTATE L. YOUNG; JOHNMAYA COX; KRISTIN A. COX; DAVID M. COX; ANTHONY L. COX; HALEY JORDAN COX; ALEXIS N. COX; UNKNOWN OWNERS; AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS. Defendants. No. 2023-FC-0000453
NOTICE BY PUBLICATION
The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given to the following: Jennifer A. Cox a/k/a Jennifer A. Schafer, Kristin A. Cox, Thomas Anderson, Unknown Heirs and Legatees of Johnny F. Cox, Deceased, and Unknown Owners and Nonrecord Claimants, Generally. Notice is hereby given to Defendants in the above-entitled suit that the above-named Plaintiff has filed its Complaint in said Court for Foreclosure pursuant to the mortgage foreclosure laws of the State of Illinois, of the lands and premises in the Complaint situated in Winnebago County, State of Illinois: LOT SEVEN (7) AS DES-
IGNATED UPON PLAT NO. 1 OF SHILOH ESTATES BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE EAST HALF (1/2) OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER (1/4) OF SECTION 15, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH. RANGE 2 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, THE PLAT OF WHICH IS RECORDED IN BOOK 35 OF PLATS ON PAGE 386 IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE, IN WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS, EXCEPTING THE NORTH TEN (10) FEET THEREOF; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. PIN: 12-15-379-007
Common address: 6420 Guilford Road, Rockford, IL 61107. that summons was duly issued out of the said Court against you as provided by law, and that said suit is now pending. The said Complaint is for the foreclosure of the mortgage.
NOW THEREFORE, unless you, the said above-named Defendants, file your appearance in the said suit in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court Winnebago County, Illinois, on or before April 17, 2026, default may be entered against you at any time after that day and Judgment entered in accordance with the prayer of said Complaint. Stephen G. Daday (3127015) Julie Repple (6296271) Kimberly Padjen (6195074) Lavelle Law LTD. 1933 N Meacham Rd Ste 600, Schaumburg, IL 60173 (847) 705-7555 sdaday@lavellelaw.com jrepple@lavellelaw.com kpadjen@lavellelaw.com I3283556 P27112R TRRT 4/1 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO PROBATE DIVISION
In the Matter of the Estate of MICHAEL F. ANDERSON Deceased. Case No. 2025-PR-0000221 CLAIM NOTICE
Notice is given of the death of MICHAEL F. ANDERSON. Letters of Office were issued on March 10, 2026, to B. RENEE ANDERSON 11731 Ventura Blvd., Machesney Park, IL 61115, who is the Executor of the Estate. The attorney for the Estate is MICHAEL J. SCHAPPERT, HolmstromKennedyPC, 800 North Church Street, Rockford, Illinois 61103.
Claims against the Estate may be filed on or before September 18, 2026, that date being at least six
(6) months from the date of first publication, or within three (3) months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to creditors, if mailing or delivery is required by Section 18-3 of the Illinois Probate Act, 1975 as amended, whichever date is later. Any claim not filed by the requisite date stated above shall be barred.
Claims against the Estate may be filed in the office of the Winnebago County Circuit ClerkProbate Division, at 400 West State Street, Rockford, Illinois 61101, or with the Estate legal representative, or both.
Copies of claims filed with the Circuit Clerk’s Office - Probate Division must be mailed or delivered to the Estate legal representative and to his attorney within ten (10) days after it has been filed.
Dated: March 11, 2026 B. RENEE ANDERSON, Independent Executor of the Estate of MICHAEL F. ANDERSON, Deceased HolmstromKennedyPC Their Attorneys By: /s/ Michael J. Schappert
Michael J. Schappert
Attorney Michael J. Schappert HolmstromKennedyPCARDC #3128183
Attorney for Independent Executor
800 N. Church Street Rockford, IL 61103 (815) 962-7071 mjs@hkrockford.com 27118R TRRT 4/1 n n n
ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION
STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO
This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a child care service business in said County and State under the name of Twilight Child Care Service at the following post office addresses: 1327 Wagner Ave., Rockford, IL 61103; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Christina Ann Loudermilk SIGNED: Christina Ann Loudermilk 3/9/26
Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 9th day of March, A.D. 2026. Lori Gummow, County Clerk Teresa Bravo, Deputy Clerk 27119R TRRT 4/1 n n n
ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION
STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO
This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and
transact a custom art business in said County and State under the name of Howard Art Studios at the following post office addresses: 429 Pershing Ave., Machesney Park, IL 61115; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Elizabeth Rose Howard SIGNED: Elizabeth Rose Howard 3/10/26
Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 10th day of March, A.D. 2026. Lori Gummow, County Clerk Teresa Bravo, Deputy Clerk 27120R TRRT 4/1 n n n
ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO
This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a residential/commercial cleaning business in said County and State under the name of Leave It To Me at the following post office addresses: 1830 Warren Rd., Rockford, IL 61108; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Amber Ann White
SIGNED: Amber Ann White 3/12/26
Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 12th day of March, A.D. 2026. Lori Gummow, County Clerk Teresa Bravo, Deputy Clerk 27121R TRRT 4/1 n n n
ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION
STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO
This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a hair braiding and selling goods business in said County and State under the name of Liz Ventures at the following post office addresses: 529 Marquette Rd., Machesney Park, IL 61115; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Laure Pole
SIGNED: Laure Pole 1/29/26
Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 29th day of January, A.D. 2026. Lori Gummow, County Clerk Krystal Soto, Deputy Clerk 27122R TRRT 4/1 n n n
ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO
This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and
transact a salon business in said County and State under the name of Olive Aurelia Beauty Studio at the following post office addresses: 129 Phelps Ave., Suite 508, Rockford, IL 61108; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Megan Irene Smith
SIGNED: Megan Irene Smith 3/12/26
Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 12th day of March, A.D. 2026. Lori Gummow, County Clerk Lisa Nolley, Deputy Clerk 27123R TRRT 4/1 n n n
ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO
This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a construction business in said County and State under the name of Xavier’s Crews Renovations at the following post office addresses: 4855 E. State St., Rockford, IL 61108; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Octavio Xavier Flores
SIGNED: Octavio Xavier Flores 3/12/26
Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 12th day of March, A.D. 2026. Lori Gummow, County Clerk Lisa Nolley, Deputy Clerk 27124R TRRT 4/1 n n n
ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO
This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a landscaping business in said County and State under the name of Jrs Landscaping and Lawn Care Inc. at the following post office addresses: 3028 Gladstone Ave., Rockford, IL 61101; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Maria Del Carmen Galindo; Leopoldo Jesus Ochoa Hernandez
SIGNED: Maria Del Carmen Galindo 3/13/26
SIGNED: Leopoldo Jesus Ochoa Hernandez 3/13/26
Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 13th day of March, A.D. 2026. Lori Gummow, County Clerk Ariel Rosas, Deputy Clerk 27125R TRRT 4/1
n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS Rocket Mortgage, LLC f/k/a Quicken Loans, LLC f/k/a Quicken Loans Inc. Plaintiff, -v.- Donald Sowl; et. al. Defendants. 2025-FC-0000347 2737 HANSON ST, ROCKFORD, IL 61109 NOTICE OF SALE
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on 2/6/2026, an agent of Auction.com, LLC will conduct the Online Only auction at www.auction.com, with the bidding window opening on 3/30/2026 at 10:00 AM CDT and closing on April 1, 2026 at 10:00 AM subject to extension, and will sell at public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate.
Commonly known as 2737 HANSON ST, ROCKFORD, IL 61109 Property Index No. 15-01-130-026
The real estate is improved with a Residential Property. The judgment amount was $66,852.54 Sale Terms: Full Sale Terms are available on the property page at www.auction.com by entering 2737 HANSON ST into the search bar. If sold to anyone other than the Plaintiff, the winning bidder must pay the full bid amount within twenty-four (24) hours of the auction’s end. All payments must be certified funds. No third-party checks will be accepted. All bidders will need to register at www.auction.com prior to placing a bid. 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)(l) 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. For information, contact Plaintiffs attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES PC (630) 794-5300 please refer to file number 14-25-05599. Auction.com, LLC 100 N LaSalle St., Suite 1400, Chicago, IL 60602 - 872-225-4985 You can also visit www.auction. com. Attorney File No. 14-25-05599 Case Number: 2025-FC-0000347 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. I3282730
P27064R TRRT 3/18 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS NEWREZ LLC D/B/A SHELLPOINT MORTGAGE SERVICING, Plaintiff, -v.- IRMA J JOE A/K/A IRMA JEAN JOE; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants. 2024-FC-0000358 510 AND 512 NORTH HORSMAN, ROCKFORD, IL 61101 NOTICE OF SALE
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on 2/5/2026, an agent of Auction.com, LLC will conduct the Online Only auction at www.auction.com, with the bidding window opening on 3/30/2026 at 10:00 AM CDT and closing on April 1, 2026 at 10:00 AM subject to extension, and will sell at public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate. Commonly known as 510 AND 512 NORTH HORSMAN, ROCKFORD, IL 61101 Property Index No. 11-22-276-016
The real estate is improved with a Single Family Residence. The judgment amount was $63,221.24 Sale Terms: Full Sale Terms are available on the property page at www.auction.com by entering 510 AND 512 NORTH HORSMAN into the search bar. If sold to anyone other than the Plaintiff, the winning bidder must pay the full bid amount within twenty-four (24) hours of the auction’s end. All payments must be certified funds. No third-party checks will be accepted. All bidders will need to register at www.auction.com prior to placing a bid. 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)(l) 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. For information, contact Plaintiffs attorney: McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLP (312) 346-9088 please refer to file number 24-19599IL. Auction.com, LLC 100 N LaSalle St., Suite 1400, Chicago, IL 60602 - 872-225-4985 You can also visit www.auction.com. Attorney File No. 24-19599IL Case Number: 2024-FC-0000358 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. I3282725
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REAL ESTATE NOTICE
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS Stillman BancCorp, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.- Don Wesdell, as Administrator of the Estate of Andrew J. Maurizzi; et. al. Defendants. 2025-FC-0000237 12509 Farm School Rd, Durand, IL 61024
NOTICE OF SALE
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on 11/13/2025, an agent of Auction.com, LLC will conduct the Online Only auction at www. auction.com, with the bidding window opening on 3/30/2026 at 10:00 AM CDT and closing on April 1, 2026 at 10:00 AM subject to extension, and will sell at public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate. Commonly known as 12509 Farm School Rd, Durand, IL 61024
Property Index No. 05-24-400-005
The real estate is improved with a Single Family Residence. The judgment amount was $129,250.05 Sale Terms: Full Sale Terms are available on the property page at www.auction.com by entering 12509 Farm School Rd into the search bar. If sold to anyone other than the Plaintiff, the winning bidder must pay the full bid amount within twenty-four (24) hours of the auction’s end. All payments must be certified funds. No third-party checks will be accepted. All bidders will need to register at www.auction.com prior to placing a bid. 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)(l) 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. For information, contact Plaintiffs attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES PC (630) 794-5300 please refer to file number 14-25-01008. Auction.com, LLC 100 N LaSalle St., Suite 1400, Chicago, IL 60602 - 872-225-4985 You can also visit www.auction. com. Attorney File No. 14-25-01008 Case Number: 2025-FC-0000237 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.
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17th JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF Winnebago - Rockford, ILLINOIS SELENE FINANCE, LP Plaintiff vs. NICHI FONSECA; ARACELI AGUILAR; PORTFOLIO RECOVERY ASSOCIATES, LLC; FOUR RIVERS SANITATION AUTHORITY; MIDLAND CREDIT MANAGEMENT INC.; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendant 25 FC 123 CALENDAR
NOTICE OF SALE
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on April 16, 2026, at the hour 1:00 p.m., Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Rockford, IL 61108, sell, in person, to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 1206480004.
Commonly known as 3618 TOFT ST., ROCKFORD, IL 61114.
The real estate is: single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection(g-1) of Section 189.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: At sale, the bidder must have 10% (or 25% if so ordered in the Judgement of Foreclosure) down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property is sold AS IS subject to all liens or encumbrances. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the circuit court case record, property tax record and the title record to verify all information before bidding. IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER THE ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(c) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW.
For information call Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC, 13010 Morris Road, Suite 450, Alpharetta, Georgia 30004. (708) 668-4410 ext. 52109. 25-271714
INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION intercountyjudicialsales.com I3282876
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17th JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF Winnebago - Rockford, ILLINOIS U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE HOLDERS OF THE FIRST FRANKLIN MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006-FF12 MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-FF12 Plaintiff vs. HAROLD A. KASCH; DIANE L. KASCH; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendant 25 FC 191 CALENDAR NOTICE OF SALE
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on April 16, 2026, at the hour 1:00 p.m., Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Rockford, IL 61108, sell, in person, to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 04-06-259-006.
Commonly known as 226 S. BLUFF ST., SOUTH BELOIT, IL 61080.
The real estate is: single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection(g-1) of Section 189.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: At sale, the bidder must have 10% (or 25% if so ordered in the Judgement of Foreclosure) down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property is sold AS IS subject to all liens or encumbrances. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the circuit court case record, property tax record and the title record to verify all information before bidding. IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER THE ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(c) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information call Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC, 13010 Morris Road, Suite 450, Alpharetta, Georgia 30004. (708) 668-4410 ext. 52109. 25-280504 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION intercountyjudicialsales.com I3282894
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS ROCKET MORTGAGE, LLC F/K/A QUICKEN LOANS, LLC F/K/A QUICKEN LOANS INC. Plaintiff, -v.- LUCAS HENDRICKS et al Defendant 2025-FC-0000354 NOTICE OF SALE
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 11, 2025, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on April 17, 2026, at the Advocus National Title Insurance, 973 Featherstone Rd, Suite 100, ROCKFORD, IL, 61107, sell at public in-person sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 7706 ORION ST, LOVES PARK, IL 61111 Property Index No. 08-32-106-040
The real estate is improved with a residence.
Sale terms: If sold to anyone other than the Plaintiff, 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, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. 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.
Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption. 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.
For information, examine the court file, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL, 60527 (630) 794-9876 THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE
You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.
CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C.
15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE IL, 60527 630-794-5300
E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com
Attorney File No. 14-25-05726
Attorney ARDC No. 00468002
Case Number: 2025-FC-0000354
TJSC#: 45-3182
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 # 2025-FC-0000354
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Week of March 1 to 7, 2026
Crossword THEME: PLANTS
ARIES
Moving house requires careful planning. You’ll start the process and assess the work that needs to be done. Designing your new space to match your tastes will fill you with pride at home and at work.
TAURUS
Make your health a top priority. A new diet will improve your well-being and boost your self-esteem. Through steady perseverance and commitment, your successes will become visible and deeply rewarding.
GEMINI
Critics may voice opinions this week. Prepare strong arguments to stand your ground. By saying aloud what others are thinking, you’ll stand out and take a strong, convincing stance.
CANCER
You may receive an unexpected sum of money in the form of a refund or adjustment. Your romantic partner may keep you waiting or postpone an important date you were looking forward to.
LEO
Rushing into things isn’t always a good idea, especially when it comes to money and relationships. As you embark on new beginnings, obstacles may slow your progress. These moments will teach you that patience is essential to your journey.
VIRGO
You’re entering a period of reflection in both your career and your love life. You’re considering some changes. Your growing desire for a better quality of life will inspire you to make it a top priority.
LIBRA
A big clean-up at home or at work will help clear your mind. With the help of family and friends, you’ll move forward with greater peace of mind. Their support will fill you with gratitude and strengthen the bonds that unite you.
SCORPIO
Week of March 8 to 14, 2026
ARIES
Across
1. Canvas primer
6. Chlorofluorocarbon, acr.
9. Heroin, slang
13. Poetic although
14. Indochinese language
15. Part of a whole
16. Like certain suspects
17. Rainbow, e.g.
18. Not mainstream, as in art
19. *Coast ____, world’s tallest tree
21. *Vanilla-producing plant
23. Classic film production company, acr.
24. ____ in the neck
25. ____ the season!
28. Ready and eager
30. “Reader’s ____” magazine
35. “Do ____ others...”
37. Rubber bulb on an old bike
39. “Lord of the Flies” shell
40. Bear’s den
41. *Colorful daisy-like bloom
By fine-tuning your goals, you’ll unlock your full potential. Whatever path you choose, you’ll pour your heart and soul into it. Your romantic side will shine through during a getaway with your partner.
TAURUS
If you’re in a new relationship, the idea of marriage may come up as a way to formalize your relationship and ease lingering doubts. At work, keep your emotions in check during negotiations to avoid confusion or misunderstandings.
GEMINI
A new training opportunity will arise, opening new doors to growth and quickly improving your quality of life. In love, take the initiative to break free from your daily routine. Even a simple walk hand in hand could help reignite intimacy and happiness.
CANCER
You’ll become a hero simply by listening to someone in need. Professionally, you may unexpectedly find yourself leading a team and becoming the central pillar of an important project.
LEO
You’ll receive news of a birth in the family or find a real estate investment that fits your budget perfectly. To advance at work, embrace your success or work on changing your mindset.
VIRGO
You’ll feel inspired to change your vehicle. You’ll interpret an unusual message, possibly debating with people in a multilingual context. Your curiosity will soar this week.
LIBRA
You’ll find surprising solutions to your financial and emotional challenges. A welldeserved promotion and raise are on the horizon, bringing you happiness and satisfaction in your career and daily life.
SCORPIO
43. *The corpse flower emits a foul one
If you’re still searching for your career path, a sudden revelation will guide you toward a new challenge that aligns perfectly with your goals. Be open-minded. Any form of change you welcome will attract abundance and success into your life.
44. Spouse’s parent
46. EU money
SAGITTARIUS
47. Unadulterated
48. Fish food unit
50. Karl of politics
52. Between NE and E
53. Fat Man or Little Boy
4. Medieval oboe
5. Study of bird eggs
6. Armor-____
7. Distant
Life feels like it’s flying by! Your love for the finer things may lead you to explore highend shops and fine-dining restaurants. Treat yourself to a touch of luxury and take the opportunity to refresh your wardrobe with a new style.
45. Like duck’s foot
49. Likewise
51. Pencil tip
SAGITTARIUS
8. Cold-weather drink
You may feel inspired to undertake training that broadens your intellectual and spiritual horizons. If your children are on holiday, you’ll enjoy discovering exciting new activities you can do together during these precious moments.
9. Hyperbolic sine
10. Ghana money
11. Battery fluid, e.g.
12. “Wow!”
55. Major time period
CAPRICORN
57. *Fastest-growing plant
60. *Coffea ____ a.k.a. coffee plant
64. Dam
Week of March 15 to 21, 2026
ARIES
Your friends will invite you to participate in an especially enthralling activity. This may be just what you need if you’ve been keeping to yourself lately. If you’re single, this outing could open the door to an unexpected romantic encounter.
TAURUS
This week, you’ll be juggling professional demands and family responsibilities. Finding the right work-life balance won’t be easy. Still, it’s essential for maintaining your peace of mind and overall well-being.
GEMINI
You may decide to plan a refreshing getaway—even a short one—with your partner or family before the end of winter. Your employer might also send you on an important business trip.
CANCER
You’ll experience a whirlwind of emotions this week. However, you’ll need to keep your cool. You may stumble upon a creative solution to your financial worries. In love, a simple smile could help you preserve or attract a meaningful connection.
LEO
You’ll take charge of organizing a professional or social event that brings together many different people. Managing every detail may cause some extra stress at work and at home. Solid organization and patience are critical.
VIRGO
Mild anxiety could cloud your focus or dampen your mood. Don’t let your emotions take over. Therapy could be beneficial, and regular physical exercise could offer a muchneeded escape.
LIBRA
You’ll overcome a challenge that will boost your self-esteem. Despite initial setbacks, your perseverance and boldness will lead to impressive accomplishments, earning you recognition and respect in both your personal and professional circles.
SCORPIO
If you’re thinking about moving, now’s the perfect time to start the process. Be cautious of a loved one’s excessive expectations; they may be trying to take advantage of your generosity. Stay alert and protect your boundaries.
54. *Covered with sphagnum
56. Beyond’s partner
You’ll overcome your fears and act with renewed determination. Your creativity will lead you to create a masterpiece that will earn you recognition and a well-deserved financial reward for your talents and efforts.
57. Pulpit predecessor
58. Affirm with confidence
15. Alfresco meal
CAPRICORN
20. Nebraska’s largest city
It’s a good time to apply for a loan or renegotiate your mortgage. Finding a lasting solution to your financial worries will help you preserve or regain your joie de vivre, your smile and your inner peace.
65. Slovenly abode
67. More painful
AQUARIUS
68. Change the Constitution
69. Old Man’s turf, according to Hemingway
22. Antonym of keep
24. Throw out of kilter
59. Darn a sock, e.g.
60. Nursemaid, in India
61. Wraths
62. One-tenth of a dime
63. Liberal pursuits
You’ll be in high demand this week, both within your circle of friends and at work. Your popularity will soar, and your client base will expand. You’ll become the go-to person for effectively managing any important business.
25. *It once was more valuable than gold
26. Absurd
Clients who value your talents will keep you in high demand this week. If you’re single, your soulmate could appear at a friendly gathering, bringing a wonderful surprise to your social and romantic life.
70. Black tie one
PISCES
71. Shakespeare, a.k.a. ____ of Avon
72. Kum Ba follower
27. Static picture
64. Blood testing site
AQUARIUS
66. *Camellia sinensis drink
29. *U. S. national flower
31. Gwyneth Paltrow’s brand
32. Empower
33. Open disrespect
Take the time to carefully think through your plans and negotiate wisely. Pay attention to every detail. Thoughtful gestures will nurture intimacy and strengthen harmony within your romantic relationship.
73. What defense does, after presenting
Down
1. India’s wild ox
2. Something ____
34. *Leaves of ___, let them be 36. Non-written exam
38. Infamous Roman tyrant
The luckiest signs this week: SCORPIO, SAGITTARIUS AND CAPRICORN
3. Poker variety
42. Space exploration vehicle
After lengthy negotiations, you’ll finally get approval to buy a property or fund a project that’s close to your heart. You may also need to reevaluate your friendships. Although difficult, this process will be beneficial in the long run.
PISCES
SAGITTARIUS
You’ll take multiple trips this week. Expect traffic jams or confusion in finding your way. Seek a second opinion or gather more information to better understand each situation and avoid mistakes.
CAPRICORN
The overtime hours you put in at work will be generously rewarded. A short, languagebased training course could bring you considerably closer to achieving one of your major professional goals, opening the door to new opportunities.
AQUARIUS
If you’re under pressure to make a quick decision, trust your instincts to avoid overanalyzing the situation. In love, mutual affection reflects true fulfillment. Now’s the perfect time to nurture and deepen this beautiful connection.
PISCES
You’ll feel a strong urge to step back and recharge. Take the time you need to reconnect with your inner child and appreciate the beauty in life. This reconnection will awaken your passions and restore your inner peace.
The luckiest signs this week: AQUARIUS, PISCES AND ARIES
Take a step back to reassess projects that are at a standstill. This pause will help you clarify your long-term goals. In love, a romantic getaway or a short trip could strengthen your bond and rekindle your passion.
The luckiest signs this week: TAURUS, GEMINI AND CANCER
Crossword & Sudoku
Across
1. Boat personnel
5. Treaty
9. Move back and forth
12. Volcano output
13. Like suntan lotion
14. Age of note
15. Again
16. Sprinkles
18. Seed
19. Mermaid’s home
20. Word before park or song
24. Radiance
28. Auto repairman
31. Fizz water
32. Skating-rink surface
33. Discard
35. Obtained
36. Females
38. Chopper field
40. Just fair: hyph.
41. Lazy person
42. “____ the King’s Men”
44. Fiend
48. Begs
53. BLT spread
54. Title for Galahad
55. Make corrections to
56. Agenda
57. Watch secretly
58. Spicy
59. Decade numbers
Down
1. Obstruct
2. Rant
3. Eternally
4. Affection
5. School of whales
6. Diver’s necessity
7. Narrow escape: 2 wds.
8. Variety
9. Itty-bitty
10. Painter’s work
11. Pump purchase
17. Falls behind
21. Owns
22. Tortilla dish
23. Bogged down
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25. NBC’s peacock, e.g.
26. Skunk feature
27. Light-bulb word
28. Fail to hit
29. Mountain feedback 30. Third letters 34. Dessert item
Skyrocket 39. Punctual
Evil look
Storm wind
Baseball’s Nolan 47. Vast time periods 48. Dangerous curve
Small bite
50. Take a stab at
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52. Boar’s home
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RV, Camping, & Travel Show
Mercyhealth Sportscore Two 8800 E. Riverside Blvd. Loves Park, IL rkfdrvshow.com
815.329.5998
Friday, March 20- Sunday, March 22
The 52nd Annual Rockford RV, Camping & Travel Show returns March 20 from 2 p m8 p m , March 21 from 10 a m - 8 p m , and March 22 from 10 a m - 4 p m Visitors can explore the latest 2026 RV models, including fifth wheels, travel trailers, toy haulers, expandable trailers, and motor homes, while taking advantage of show season discounts and rebates Campground and lodging representatives will also be on hand to help guests plan their next adventure. Admission is $8 for adults ages 12 and older, children under 12 are free, and parking is free.
March 18 - March 24, 2026
Rockford DanceMakers Festival
RPL Nordlof Center
118 N. Main St.Rockford, IL 61101
rockforddancemakersfestival.com
Friday, March 20 - Saturday, March 21
The inaugural Rockford DanceMakers Festival takes the stage March 20 at 7 p m and March 21 at 6 p m at the RPL Nordlof Center’s J R Sullivan Theater, celebrating professional choreographers from Rockford and the surrounding Stateline region Audiences will experience an inspiring lineup of original works by ten choreographers, plus special guest Winifred Haun & Dancers. A Q&A with the choreographers follows the opening night performance, and Haun will lead a master class March 21 at 1 p m General admission is $25, seniors 67 and older are $20, and students with ID are $15
Animal Rescue Expo UW Health Sports Factory 305 S. Madison St. Rockford, IL 61104 animalrescueexpo.com 815.298.1300
Saturday, March 21
The Animal Rescue Expo returns to UW Sports Factory on Saturday, March 21, from 11 a m - 4 p m for a family friendly day centered on animal rescue, education, and fun More than 70 vendors will offer rescue resources, adoption opportunities, shopping, and entertainment for guests of all ages. Attendees can explore educational programming and connect with organizations dedicated to helping animals in need. Admission is a $5 donation, while kids and veterans get in free Guests can also purchase a $20 ticket for an up close sloth experience for ages 5 and older
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