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Suspect in rape of two teens in custody

By J. Coyden Palmer A man who police were looking for in connection with two sexual assaults against teens in the Ashburn/Wrightwood community turned himself in late Wednesday night. Chauvet Stiggers, 23, walked into the

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Wentworth (Area 1) police station accompanied by his lawyer. At press time no charges had been filed. Stiggers was the subject of a citywide manhunt and a sketch of his likeness was on every television station and media outlet.

Earlier in the week, Chicago Police issued a community alert after two teens were raped and two others were approached by a man in a green minivan who was trying to coax them into the vehicle. Police say one of the victims was forced into the vehicle at gunpoint and was then assaulted.

The attacker was described as an AfricanAmerican male, in his 20s, with a medium complexion and black hair in braids or twists. The first assault occurred at 7:15 p.m. in the 8200 block of South Sacramento Blvd. on March 4th. The following day a 16-year-old victim was assaulted in the 7900 block of South Maplewood. Then on March 7th, the suspect exposed himself to an 18-year-old girl near 79th and Pulaski.

The fourth victim was offered $100 to get into the van before she ran away.

Chicago Public Schools officials informed the students at Bogan High School and other schools in the area to be on alert. They

were advising students to walk in groups and report any suspicious activities.

“Our victims in all four incidents indicat-

ed to us that the offender would pull his vehicle up to where they were standing, en(Continued on page 3)

PRESIDENT TODD H. STROGER (center) and the Cook County Board Tuesday, March 2, 2010, passed a resolution honoring the life and legacy of Ethel B. Darden (seated) who is 110 years young. Born on February 17, 1900 in Dallas, TX to the parents of Charles Roby and Ella Mary Boswell, Darden, who is a twin, is the youngest of five daughters. She has served her community as a volunteer at the Howalton School, the Art Institute of Chicago and the YWCA and other institutions. Mrs. Darden is the longest living member of Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) in America. President Stroger recognized Mrs. Darden as one of two 110-year-old voters in Chicago.

Census Advertising buys still under fire: Black lawmakers still have questions

By Pharoh Martin NNPA National Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) - During the recent Congressional hearing to discuss what many contend is an insufficiently funded Black advertising campaign of Census 2010, the U. S. Census Bureau’s media-buying agencies were blistered by a charge that they allegedly played unfair politics with Black newspaper publishers.

These charges have resulted in an ongoing probe into why the Census allocated so little to count African-Americans.

In a reflective interview following the hearing, during which NNPA Chairman Danny Bakewell testified, Congressional Black Caucus Chairwoman Rep. Barbara Lee (D- Calif.) said the hearing was a positive step toward ensuring equality in the distribution of media ad dollars, but there is still a long way to go.

“I don’t think it’s where we need to be,” Lee told NNPA in a phone interview.

“One of the things that we need to do is make sure that the Department of Commerce and all of the agencies responsible for insuring media buys for the 2010 Cen-

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Black Press Week (See page 2)

Rep. Lacy Clay

Rep. Barbara Lee

sus are distributing fairly and go into the area that are hard-to-count. This is a very important issue for everyone. I think it’s extremely important to have the fairness in the media buys and I think that’s what we are trying to achieve and I don’t think that

we are there yet.”

The bottom line is that Black legislators and publishers say that advertising budgets proposed for African-American media are (Continued on page 3)

NEWS

Celebration of the Black Press to Feature Dr. Height; Other Civil Rights Heroes

By Hazel Trice Edney NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) Black Press Week, the annual celebration of the nearly two centuriesold mission of Black-owned newspapers, will be fuelled this year by the fact that the 183-year-old civil rights institution is continuing to plead its own cause even as it honors the achievements of others.

“When Mr. Russwurm and Mr. Cornish said, ‘We wish to plead our own cause. For too long have others spoken for us’, they began publishing the very first Black newspaper on March 16, 1827,” says Dorothy R. Leavell, chair of the National Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation, which leads the annual event in Washington, D.C. “It certainly is momentous because 183 years later with a Black President in the White House, we still have to plead our own cause. As evident in the lack of meaningful outreach to count all African-Americans in the United States in the Census that’s now being conducted; it’s evident in many of the advertisers in this country who shun us even though we have strong economic impact upon the economy of the United States and the World. And yet, our newspapers suffer for advertising. And even in this day and time, we are still an afterthought to the main stream media.”

NNPA newspaper publishers, who over the past year have taken stands against what appears to be

advertising discrimination in economic stimulus dollars, the automobile industry, the U. S. Census and other industries, will convene in the nation’s capitol next week for the annual celebration of pleading the cause, a phrase first coined by John B. Russwurm and Samuel Cornish as they founded Freedom's Journal, the first Black newspaper, in New York City.

Among those to be honored during the annual NewsMaker of the Year Awards Gala on March 18 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel are civil and social justice warriors Dr. Dorothy I. Height, chair and president emeritus of the National Council of Negro Women for her lifetime of civil rights achievements; Dr. Ron Daniels, president of the State of the Black World, 21st Century; Earl and Amanda

Dr. Ron Daniels

Stafford of the Stafford Foundation; and Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins for their outstanding community service; Rep. Barbara Lee, chair of the Con-

Dr. Dorothy Height

Attorney Craig Watkins

gressional Black Caucus will be awarded for her political leadership; and a posthumous salute will be given to entertainer Michael Jackson.

Height, among one of the most important figures in civil rights history, is to receive the lifetime achievers award at the NewsMaker dinner.

“She is a jewel in our community,” says Leavell, comparing her to famous publishers of old like Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells who were counselors to United States presidents. “She is still very vibrant, she is still a warrior and at 97 we are excited that she will grace us with her presence on that evening.”

A special State of the Black Press Address by NNPA Chairman Danny Bakewell will be given during a State of the Black Press Luncheon and Forum at the National Press Club, also on March 18.

The State of the Black Press

event, which will feature a Leavell response to the Bakewell speech, will also feature civil rights leaders from a broad spectrum of Black institutions to discuss the current mission and future of the Black Press. They are the Rev. Jesse Jack-

Black Chamber of Commerce; and Marc Morial, President, CEO National Urban League.

With a new slogan coined by Bakewell, “The Power to Influence Black America,” as its backdrop, publishers will also meet with CBC and other Congressional and White House leaders during the three days. The week will culminate, March 19, with an annual enshrinement luncheon at Howard University’s Blackburn Center where Dr. Thomas Battle, retired director of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, will be honored.

“We’re really excited. We have exciting plans,” says Leavell. “Our voice is still needed. How will our communities know what we are doing educationally and culturally and as entrepreneurs if it were not for the Black Press? In this day and

EARL W. STAFFORD, center, reviews plans with son Earl Jr. and wife Amanda at his Centreville office.

son Sr., Rainbow/PUSH Coalition; Dr. Julianne Malveaux, Bennett College; Dr. Ron Daniels; NAACP Chair Roslyn Brock; Harry Alford, President, National

time, it is just as important because otherwise stories about our communities, stories that involve our issues would still not be on the front burner."

State set to close largest nursing home in city for mentally ill

By J. Coyden Palmer As supporters and advocates of a north side nursing home held a candlelight vigil days before it is set to be closed, the state was attempting to relocate the final 76 residents by Friday (March 12).

Somerset Place had its Medicaid funding cut and the state health department is in the process of revoking its license. Somerset exclusively served patients with mental illness but several inspections in the last two years uncovered abuses of patients, including the investigation of 15 assault and battery cases in 2008 and 2009. The facility was also cited for safety breaches.

Organizers of Monday’s vigil, Organization of the NorthEast, believe the state is just throwing many of Somerset’s residents to the streets. They say many residents cannot live independently.

Protestors of the closing say many of the residents need the specialized care that only Somerset could provide.

“The majority of these residents are transitioned without the abili2

ty to go in community based supportive housing though many qualified for that,” said Jamiko Rose, vigil organizer and Executive Director of Organizer of the NorthEast. “Many were sent to nursing homes where they won’t necessarily receive better quality of care than at the Somerset.”

The north lakefront communities of Uptown/Edgewater/Rogers Park have the highest concentration of nursing homes in the state of Illinois, according to both sides. The concern for protestors of its closing is that the process of closing the Somerset facility will establish a bad precedent for addressing quality-of-care issues in institutes for mental disease and nursing homes.

But a representative for the state’s Department of Public Health said residents had the final say on where they lived. Teresa Garate serves as the assistant director of the DPH. She said all residents were assessed on an individual bases. She added it would be ideal if all residents were ready to move back into the community, but that was not the

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case and some opted to go to other nursing facilities. Garate said it was recommended by the state that 43 residents be placed in smaller supported-living facilities.

“Considering the hand that we were dealt ... the state has been very cautious and prudent in trying to work through the process,” said Anthony Zipple, who heads a non-profit that deals with the mentally ill. “I think it’s in the best interest of the patients that this facility be closed as sad as that may be to say. While there will be an adjustment period, I think the residents will adapt to the changes.”

But not everyone agrees with Zipple. Janet Hasz of the Supportive Housing Providers Association said the state moved too quickly and completely disregarded the state’s own recommendations in regards to transition for residents. Hasz thinks more options should have been given to residents.

“It is extremely unfortunate and disturbing that the haste of the Somerset closing prevented both

the implementation of existing procedures established by the Division of Mental Health and the opportunity to enhance these procedures as called for in Governor Quinn’s recent report on Nursing Home Safety,” Janet Hasz said. “The bottom line is more time was needed to put a plan in place, provide options to residents, and enable providers to work with residents to prepare them for the transition.”

The disruptive way in which residents are being moved is what really angers Rose. She said the residents and their families deserved more respect than what they were given. She said Somerset, which at one time was home for nearly 400 residents, was a community of its own, with residents establishing longstanding relationships. Rose believes those important bonds have now been scattered with the abruptive move.

“While we as advocates acknowledge the well-publicized challenges facing Somerset, the timeline was not sufficient to support the special needs of the

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residents living with mental illness to transition to appropriate supportive-living facilities,” Rose said. “As a result, many residents have been forced to move away from their families and from a community which they have called home for decades.”

As with most things happening now when it concerns the state, money is an issue. Some argue it is the bigger issue rather than just the inproprieties noted against Somerset. Hilda Derzy is a Clincial Psychologist Specialist and she said like schools, day care centers and other entities that depend on state funds, the mentally ill are no exception. Derzy said questions of morality and citizen safety should be asked when the state starts closing facilities that deal with mentally ill patients.

“Somerset is not alone in providing care to this population, and I think that is an issue we need to be concerned about,” Derzy said. “We’re going to continue to face these types of challenges until the state works out its money problems.”

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insufficient to effectively reach a “hard-to-count” Black population.

Chaired by Rep. Lacy Clay (DMo.), the Information Policy, Census and National Archives Subcommittee, which held the congressional hearing, was moving offices on the week following the hearing and was unable to send updates on resolutions.

But, the intense dialogue during the hearing indicated that change might be coming.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) grilled executives of Census 2010’s media buying agencies about a charge from Black publishers that the agencies were unfairly demanding that Black newspapers provide free content, which they called “added value” in exchange for ad dollars.

Jeff Tarakajian, vice president of advertising agency DRAFTFCB, never directly answered the question; only replying that the “request for added value was standard.” He couldn’t testify under oath as to how the “added value” was requested but could confirm that it was, in fact, requested.

“We seek them, we encourage them but we do not make the requirement that somebody provide added value to literally qualify for a media buy,” Tarakajian said.

A key moment during the hearing was when Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Texas) asked Bakewell about a matter involving New York-based GlobalHue – which bills itself as a leader in cultural-based marketing - and NNPA, in which the ad agency allegedly demanded that Black newspapers provide free editorials favorable to the 2010 Census in return for an advertising buy.

According to a letter submitted to the hearing from GlobalHue to Bakewell, the advertising agency wrote: “In lieu of free ad space, all papers must agree to running six articles (preferably during hiatus weeks) about the Census 2010 as well as two editorials. If paper does not agree to the added value stipulations, buy will be cancelled immediately.

Waters tried probing the representatives in charge of the Census’ media buys but the congresswoman said that she believes that she was misled under oath. She called for an investigation to see if GlobalHue acted discriminatorily and into the utilization of the accounting of the $300 million dollar budget set under the previous administration.

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told that they must give free space and editorials or they will not get money,” Waters said.

Bakewell stated that GlobalHue’s demands were later retracted.

Hundreds of Black newspapers are supposed to divide a $2.5 million advertising budget that is supposed to reach an estimated 40 million Black people that were undercounted by two percent in 2000, according to statistics cited during the hearing. We need more money,” Bakewell said.

“The Black Press of America needs at least $10 million dollars to have a consistent message in 200 Black newspapers throughout America. There is no reason to cherry pick.”

The hearing’s final panel included heads of ethnic media organizations such as James Winston, executive director of the National Association of Black

similar to what Black newspaper publishers voiced, Lee said that she’s heard quite a few complaints and issues.

We’ve heard points raised like the one’s Danny [Bakewell] has

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Rep. Maxine Waters every market in the country.

“The budget allocations that we’ve made have consistently placed greater emphasis on reaching and motivating hard-to-

Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee with Danny Bakewell Owned Broadcasters, Sandy Close, executive director of New America Media and Danny Bakewell, chairman of the National Newspaper Publishers Association.

Census Director Robert Groves defended the amounts used to purchase media ads saying they were were based on statistical and historic data.

“I can honestly say that the program was set up in an objective manner guided by data on what audiences needed given their historical behavior,” Groves said in response to the perceived unfairness in media buys with ethnic media outlets.

The Census director said that the Black media buy plan was developed by Global Hue. The total media buy for 2010 is $23 million, an increase of 35 percent over the 2000 Census budget amount.

According to their research, their media plan for Census 2010 is estimated to effectively reach more than 95 percent of Blacks in

raised, which caused us to look at all of this,” Lee said. “I’ve heard the complaints but I cannot verify all of the information on that.

But I think that this is media wide.”

count audiences,” Tarakajian said. “The budget allocations are disproportionately greater to hard-to-count audiences relative to their population size. And more emphasis is being put on hard-to-count audiences than in the 2000 Census…We don’t know of any campaign that has made this kind of outreach in the history of our business,” Tarakajian said.

When asked if other Black media outlets expressed concerns

By J. Coyden Palmer The idea certainly isn’t a new one, but with thousands of high school athletes not having teams to play on after Chicago Public School officials stopped all sophomore spring sports last week, the need for corporate donations to fund sports programs is a reality. Last week a memo was sent to all Chicago public high schools informing them that spring sophomore sports were being put on hold.

The news disappointed thousands of athletes, coaches and parents who see school sports as important as academics.

In 1992, former U.S. Senator Paul Simon contacted more than three dozen Chicago-area business groups, foundations and sports teams to help generate donations to allow sports and extracurricular programs to continue in Chicago public high schools. School officials at that time were prepared to cancel all winter and spring sports because of a budget crisis. Eventually funding was acquired and the donations were not needed but this time some sports have already been cancelled.

The budget shortfall this time is due to the state of Illinois not paying local school districts the millions of dollars they are owed. CPS officials say they are owed $200 million from the state.

Dr. Joyce Kenner, principal of Whitney Young High School and member of the Illinois High School Association Executive Board, met with Chicago Public Schools Director of Sports and Extracurricular Activities earlier this week. Kenner is among a growing consensus of educators and school administrators who think courting corporate donations could be a solution to this problem.

“I promise you I am convinced that

we are going to work this one out,” said Kenner on Monday after meeting with CPS officials. “Across the district we can not afford to not have these sports programs as a viable option for our students district-wide.”

Other options include scaling back or eliminating freshman teams to keep the junior varsity teams going.

The theory behind this is more freshmen are likely to make a JV team as opposed to a varsity one. Davis said at this point everything is being considered to help save city sports. He understands the frustration and said he is disappointed to see things come to this point.

“Consolidation is something we are considering,” Davis said. “At this time we are not soliciting for a donor to step forward, but we certainly wouldn’t turn anyone away.”

In the meantime, citywide students, coaches and parents scheduled rallies outside of their schools on March 10th. Demonstrations were expected to take place outside the Thompson Center downtown. The first games of the season are still three weeks away, and coaches hope to have answers for students before then.

Last week Mayor Daley was asked if he thought corporate sponsors would be a good idea. Daley said he was open to donations but stopped short of advocating sponsorships.

Parents just want their children to be allowed to participate in sports.

“My son plays baseball and it keeps him in shape,” said Pam Watson, a parent of a Harlan player. “He’s doing a positive activity as opposed to being out in the streets getting in trouble. He’s learning how to work with others and he’s got a good male role model as a coach. This issue is just as important as our kids having textbooks.”

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“And in two incidents, when the victims got really close to the van, the offender grabbed them and physically pulled them into the van.”

The Ashburn community has a low crime rate and residents in the area are concerned. Made up primarily of small family homes, the

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multiracial area is the home of young families with a large populace of children residents say.

Neighbors have vowed to look out for each other’s kids and drive kids to and from school or activities until the suspect is captured.

“I’m a single mother of a teenage girl and this concerns me,” said one resident whose daughter attends Young High School and who lives on the block where one of the assaults occurred. “I drive

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her to and from school but I’m concerned for many of her friends who go to area schools and leave out early in the morning. Honestly I’m considering buying and learning how to use a gun especially if the Supreme Court overturns the Chicago handgun ban.”

Even with Stiggers in custody, police say anyone with information on the cases should still call (312) 747-8380 or (312) 7478224.

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EDITORIAL

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BROADBAND ACCESS FOR ALL Many people alive today remember black telephones with a circular dial on front. These telephones were not portable and were quite heavy to hold. Along these same lines, many of you probably remember when televisions first became popular in American homes. Some of you may even remember when radios were the chief means of communication.

The advent of the personal computer has changed all of this.

This innovation has resulted in communication changes so drastic that they were unimaginable just a few short years ago. As a result, the world has shrunk, and people have instant access to all types of information at the touch of a button on the computer...all of those except, however, people who cannot afford access to computers and the Internet, and especially broadband access.

Broadband access has made life easier for many people, who use it for job searches, school searches, resource scouting, healthcare, and a whole litany of other things. People who can surf the Internet, and surf it fast, have a distinct advantage over people that do not have that access. Among those most impacted by this digital divide are poor people of color.

This past summer, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman, Julius Grenachowski, described universal broadband Internet access as "this generation's infrastructure challenge." He compared it to building our nation's railroads and highways and electrical grid, and since that time, the commission has been working to create a National Broadband Plan, which is mandated by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, according to Danny Bakewell, Sr. publisher of the Los Angeles Sentinel and chairman of the NNPA, in an article entitled Bring the Internet to Every Home in America. Bakewell asserts that Broadband access can put people in touch with online medical resources that can save a family as much as $670 per household per year in health care costs.

We applaud the Obama administration's resolve to decrease the digital divide, but the devil is certainly in the details. One of the best approaches would be to craft a National Broadband Plan that would allow private investment to increase the reach of broadband and make it available and affordable.

What we don't want is for government regulations that would allow loopholes wherein existing consumers foot the bill because corporations pass on the costs to them. Universal broadband would cost as much as $350 billion, in order to build out high speed fiber broadband throughout the United States, according to Bakewell. This is a hefty sum. New government rules that would force companies to charge consumers more than charging other big companies to recoup investment could derail the entire process, widen the digital divide and leave some communities further behind, Bakewell warns.

We agree with Bakewell. Universal broadband would be a benefit for the entire country, but it must be done right. This means that consumers should not end up paying more while the fat cat corporations benefit. If FCC's Chairman Grenachowski is serious about universal broadband deployment, he would best eschew government regulations that would create roadblocks to access.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Reaching the Summit on Health Reform Dear Editor: President Obama recently convened lawmakers from both parties at the White House for a summit on health reform. Although the attendees failed to strike a grand compromise, Democratic congressional leaders still have time to incorporate some Republican ideas in order to produce a final bill that's genuinely bipartisan. Such bipartisanship would be politically astute, thanks to the disappearance of the Democrats' supermajority in the Senate. But it would also be good policy, as several ideas for improving the reform package, like strengthening the individual mandate and redoubling efforts to control health costs, could attract support from both parties. Lawmakers should ensure that these important fixes are at the center of the final legislative product. Two broad principles formed the core of the original reform package and should remain at the center of a new bipartisan measure. First, insurers should not be allowed to reject applicants with pre-existing conditions. And second, all Americans must maintain insurance coverage. Both principles are critical

to the success of reform. If coverage is guaranteed irrespective of a patient's health status or medical history, it's in his best interests to avoid purchasing a policy until he's sick and actually needs it.

That's where the mandate comes in. It prevents people from gaming the system and ensures that insurance prices won't spiral out of control. After all, if there's no penalty for going without insurance, then the risk pool will be comprised entirely of older, less healthy patients who need the coverage -- and whose care is extremely costly. Insurers would have to compensate by raising premiums, until coverage was unaffordable for just about everyone. The initial reform package failed to address this problem.

The Senate bill, for instance, would only fine people who choose to go without insurance $95. Eventually, that fine would increase to $750. But by then, the average individual insurance plan is expected to cost $5,000, according to the Congressional Budget Office. For most healthy people, it would be far cheaper to simply pay the fine and pick up a policy down the road. Without a stronger individual mandate, universal coverage will be impossible to achieve -- and health costs will continue to increase apace. A renewed push for healthcare reform should also devote more attention to checking the rapid growth of health costs. One effec-

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tive cost-control initiative supported by lawmakers from both parties is medical malpractice reform. Many doctors fear the prospect of a debilitating medical-liability lawsuit -- and understandably so. Roughly one in seven doctors faces such a suit each year. In order to protect themselves, doctors often order more tests and procedures than necessary. Such "defensive medi-

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Jim Crow in Silicon Valley is Exposed

By Harry Alford NNPA Columnist This is the age of high technology. IT companies are leading the way in job growth and high paying jobs as the world does business at the speed of thought. No

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place else in the world concentrates in this industry better than the Silicon Valley of California (Palo Alto – San Jose area). So with California having a minority population of 52 percent logic

would dictate that this is a place of much diversity and opportunity for Blacks and Hispanics. Sadly, that, according to investigative reporting from the Sa n Jose Mercur y News is not the case.

This industry in this location is probably the most segregated and discriminatory place in the United States. The hiring and training by companies like Google, Apple, Yahoo, Oracle, Applied Materials, Hewlett Packard, Cisco and others are acting more like the Ku Klux Klan than a good corporate citizen.

It is easy to do when traditional civil rights groups give you a pass as long as you provide sponsorship money for their fundraising events. Some groups even join with these culprits on advocacy and legislative issues as if these bastions of racism are examples of good inclusive governance.

This is damaging and has caused these rascals to go free of public criticism until now.

The Mercur y News used the Freedom of Information Act to get hiring data as late as 2005 from the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Federal Contract Compliance (OFCCP), which tracks this under Executive Order 11246. Every two years major

corporations are audited for their racial and gender demographics at all levels of hiring. The News tried to get 2008 data but companies like Google, Apple, Yahoo, Oracle and Applied Materials have successfully blocked access to that data in the courts. It is a good reason that they did as the numbers are just un-American.

Of the ten companies investigated here are the results. Collectively, only 2.1 percent of the workforce is Black while only 5.2 percent of the workforce is Hispanic. The News states “Of the 5,907 top managers and officials in the Silicon Valley offices of the 10 large companies in 2005, 296 were Black or Hispanic, a 20 percent decline from 2000, according to U.S. Department of Labor work-force data obtained by the Mercury News through the Freedom of Information request. In 2008, the share of computer workers living in Silicon Valley who are Black or Latino was 1.5 percent and 4.7 percent, respectively – shares that had declined since 2000. Nationally, Blacks and Latinos were 7.1 percent and 5.3 percent of computer workers, respectively, shares that were up since 2000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The share of

managers and top officials who are female at those 10 big Silicon Valley firms slipped to 26 percent in 2005, from 28 percent in 2000.” This isn’t progress but a reversal of our gains during the Civil Rights Struggle.

What these racial culprits are doing should be punished by the U.S. Justice Department. It is blatant discrimination and must be stopped. Now that it is exposed we must put serious pressure on this activity. What they think they can do is import a massive amount of Asians via H1B visas and count them in their collective minority numbers.

First of all, only U.S. citizens can be counted in these numbers and all groups, especially Black and Hispanic, must not be under represented. It violates law and should prohibit these corporations from doing business with the federal government or any other entity that receives federal funding or benefits from a federal program or regulation.

The NAACP, Urban League, La Raza, etc. should cease receiving money from these bigot corporations. Certainly they should stop doing their bidding and representing them as good outstanding corporate citizens. They

should be protesting and suing them in the courts. They should put serious pressure on the U.S. government to enforce standing Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity laws. If they don’t then I guess the National Black Chamber of Commerce will have to go after them in their absence like we did in the telecommunications and auto industries with success back in the 1990s. It is not exactly our mission but someone has to do it.

Remember, there are reasons why we have triple the unemployment of the national average.

This is one of them and no one is going to change the situation but us. We sometimes “sleep” with the enemy instead of beating them upside their heads. As Frederick Douglass taught us long ago, “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and never will.” Wake up people they are trying to ruin us and destroy our children. This is not the time to be nice.

Alford is the co-founder, President/CEO, of the National Black Chamber of Commerce®.

Website: www.nationalbcc.org.

Email: halford@nationalbcc.org.

St. Louis Provides Model for Developing Black Males

By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist The three major Black Methodist denominations – American Methodist Episcopal (AME), African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AME Zion) and Christian Methodist Episcopal (CME) – emerged from their joint Great Gathering conference here last week with a plan to establish Saturday Academies in cities across the nation as a way of improving the plight of young African-American males.

A pilot project is scheduled to begin in the Washington, D.C.area in May, with a Saturday Academy rotating between three churches in the major Methodist denominations. Organizers say the concept will be expanded later to 13 regions across the United States.

If Methodists are looking for a successful academy model, they should study the one developed 26 years ago in St. Louis, Mo. by St. Paul A.M. E. Church under Rev. C. Garnett Henning, now an AME bishop. It was the brainchild of Bishop Henning and my friend William J. Harrison, a local educator and member of the church.

The program, which is now a separate non-profit organization, describes itself as “a manhood, leadership and development group.” The 9 a.m. to noon sessions are held each Saturday and targets Black males ages 6-17. It has grown from an initial class of 12 to 100. According to its Web site, all seniors participating in the program have graduated from high school and college.

Keith Turner, a member of the original class, graduated from high school in St. Louis and enrolled in Morehouse College in Atlanta, William Harrison’s alma mater. Turner, the owner of TurnGroup Technologies in St. Louis, and two other program participants graduated cum laude from Morehouse.

“The program provided me with an opportunity to have experiences and meet people who were outside my family’s normal or professional circle,” Turner explained. “That type of exposure allowed me to be shaped by the successful people that we met that looked like us.”

There is no charge for enrolling in the program, but the parents or guardians must attend an orientation session before a young man can join the group. And

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when he does join, there is no confusion about what is expected: • Each young man is expected to attend the program all year; • Proper decorum and discipline will be observed; • Each young man is expected to graduate from high school; • Each young man is expected to graduate from college; • Young men are expected to volunteer for service in the home, church and community; • Each young man is expected to accept responsibility in every aspect of his life; • Each young man is expected

to strive for leadership in organizations and groups in which he is a participant; • Each young man is to earn whatever he expects to receive and beg for nothing; • Each young man is to become a man with all of its positive connotations; • Each young man is expected to average at least a 3.0 (a B) on a 4.0 scale; • Each young man taking the SAT is expected to score at least 1,000 on a 1,600-point scale and at least 26 points on the ACT 36point scale.

Harrison, the program founder, was a no-nonsense taskmaster.

He reminded parents, “We are not saviors. If you want your child saved, take him to church.”

But if you want assistance in helping a boy move successfully into manhood, St. Paul Saturdays is the place to be.

“I was blessed to have two good, hard-working parents in my life,” recalls Turner. “I was privileged to have a mentor like Dr. Harrison who believed that if young people were taught better, they would do better. He dedicated his life to the cultivation and development of young minds, all with the hope and expectation that by changing Saturday, March 13, 2010

our lives, participants of St. Paul Saturdays would have a positive impact on our communities.”

It is a lesson that another former participant, Jay Rhodes, learned well. He returned as a volunteer 15 years ago and is now co-director with Vince Pierce, who began volunteering when Rhodes returned. Other long-time volunteers include Turner (14 years), Byron Price (15 years), Henry Graham (15 years), Alan Green (10 years) and Don Henning (8 years).

No instructor receives a salary and all donations go directly to the program and helps finance college tours, trips to hotspots of the civil rights movement and other activities.

St. Paul Saturdays has made cleaning up Father Dickson Cemetery, a Black cemetery, a special project.

An examination of recent schedules reflect the range of group activities: Black History Saturday, Rites of Passage services, Academic Goal-Setting Saturday, Community Health Saturday, a tennis clinic, Entrepreneurial Saturday, Aviation Day (flying a plane with profes(Continued on page 6) 5

COMMENTARY

Worrill’s World

Critical Commentary

By Maurice A. Clayton

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill

THE REAL MEANING OF EDUCATION FOR AFRICAN PEOPLE (Dr. Conrad Worrill, Nationa l C h a ir m a n E m e r i t u s o f t h e N a t i o n a l B l a c k Un i t e d F r o n t ( N B U F) l o c a t e d a t 1 8 0 9 E a s t 71st Street, Suite 211, Chicago, Illinois, 60649, 773-493-0900, F a x # 7 7 3 - 4 9 3 - 9 8 1 9 , E - m a il : n b u f c h i c @ sb c g l o b a l . n e t , W e b site: nbufront.org)) Throughout most of our lives, African people in America have been told if you get a good education you can get a good job.

African people in Africa were told something similar. If you get a good education your condition in life will improve.

In the early part of the twentieth-century until the late 1960s and early 1970s, the thrust was to encourage African people in

Dr. Conrad Worrill America to at least get a high school diploma so that they could be eligible for a job in a significant segment of the work force.

The explosion of the 1960s Civil Rights and Black Power Movements forced colleges and universities to admit Africans in America to their predominately white colleges and universities in large numbers.

Today, African people in America are encouraged to get a college education so they can get a good job. The education market has been saturated to the extent that a high school diploma of the 1930s, 40s, 50s, and 60s, in most instances, has the same meaning as a college degree today.

That meaning is one of a college degree, qualifying people for entry-level jobs in the U. S. labor market, except for those instances 6

where people have been trained in specialized fields at the undergraduate level.

What we hear repeatedly today is that we must concentrate on African people in America reading, writing, and math skills at the elementary and secondary levels so they can compete for the jobs that will be available in U. S. multinational corporations in the twenty-first-century, driven by the world of technology and computers.

Many of our ancestors in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth-centuries, who were concerned with the issue of education, asked the question— education for what? It is quite clear that the major direction of U. S. educational policy has been to train and educate African people to work for white people. That is, to teach them to read, write, and compute, so they will be prepared to work for us.

In a paper written by our great ancestor Dr. Jacob Carruthers several years ago, entitled, “Black Intellectuals and The Crisis In Black Education,” he observed, “When the chattel slave system was destroyed by the Civil War, one of the first acts of the victors was to provide for Black schooling on a wide scale. The northern industrialists through their philanthropic alter egos began finding and establishing Black colleges. These colleges were intended to sit atop a Negro education system.”

Further Dr. Carruthers wrote, “By the turn of the century, even southern whites were making use of this Negro education system to facilitate the transition from the old chattel to a new, but equally effective, system of Black exploitation.”

Carruthers explains, “The new system depended upon the cultivation of a Black elite to serve as examples for the masses of Blacks and to demonstrate the rewards of obedience.”

The educated Black elite, Carruthers points out, “demonstrated time and time again their ability to do what they had been trained to do. Eventually, a few of them were invited to manage the segregated colleges that were established to train Black teachers.

In this manner, a small, educated Negro elite became overseers of the educational affairs of millions

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of Black people.”

This model of education, that continues today, was established by so-called leading white educators in this country who met at Lake Mohonk, New York (a resort area) on June 4-6, 1890, and June 3-5, 1891 to read and discuss papers on what they officially called the “Negro Question.”

Again, Dr. Carruthers writes that at the end of the second conference “they had decided that the primary things that Blacks had to be taught were morality and the dignity of labor (i.e., working for white folks).”

African people in the United States have a rich tradition of leaders who have taken issue with the white conceptualization of the mission of education of African people in America. David Walker, Henry Highland Garnet, Henry McNeal Turner, Martin R. Delany, and Edward Wilmot Blyden were nineteenth-century advocates that the education of African people should be designed to assist us in doing for ourselves.

In the twentieth-century, leaders such as Marcus Garvey, Carter G. Woodson, Elijah Muhammad, and Malcolm X, all spoke and wrote consistently about the need for African people to develop an education program aimed at developing African people “to do for self.”

In other words, we are still challenged today to create an education climate that inspires African youth in America to understand that the purpose of education is to develop the skills and historical understanding of the past as it relates to the present and future in preparation for working for self and the liberation of African people. This is the challenge of the twenty-first-century— to defeat the one hundred year tradition established by white educational leaders who created curricula for Africans in America designed to prepare them to work for white folks.

Our esteemed ancestor, Dr. John Henrik Clarke reminded us repeatedly, that, “history is the clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day.

It is also a clock that they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. The role of history in the final analysis is to tell a people where they have

Daley: Government by proxy I thought for a moment when the mayor of Chicago, Richard M. Daley, announced that he is looking to find two new alderpersons to fill the recently vacated positions of the 1st and 29th wards with the loss of the recently jailed Alderman Carruthers (who had allegedly received thousands of dollars worth of work done and monies taken from undercover agents), how good it would be for me to be a resident of one of those wards. Then just as quickly I nixed the thought and considered it a very bad idea. I realized that the dollar amount, $100,000 for an aldermanic salary, was a hook to pull in yet another.

Mmmm, one hundred thousand dollars, hmmpf.

The current mayor will have to remember that he won’t be able to continue to garner election after election with shenanigans like those uncovered in the 29th ward and the Midway airport bulldozing, just to name a few unsavory incidents associated with his administration, continuing to persist. Then when you realize there are a lot of persons who are being and were interviewed by the Feds about one thing or another about the goings on in this city even the average Joe tends to become just a

Maurice Clayton wee bit suspicious of his surroundings. The current head honcho of this great city should be reminded of the old saying that “loose lips sink ships.”

As an aside Daley had another problem from his Cook County State’s Attorney days regarding his dealings pertaining to a case involving the Duwalabe family.

A member of this family met with an untimely death as a result of being kidnapped and the botching of the investigation of that crime.

God bless America.

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(Continued from page 5) sional pilots) and computer liter- modera tor, a nd me dia coa ch.

He can be reached through his acy.

All participants are expected to Web site , www.ge orgecurr y.com You can also follow him at excel.

Turner said, “This program www.twitter.com/currygeorge. helped instill within me that the only limitations that I have are the limitations that I place on myself.”

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been and what they have been, where they are and what they are.

Most importantly, the role of history is to tell a people where they still must go and what they still must be. To me the relationship of a people to their history is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.” The purpose of education must always be “for us to do for ourselves!”

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D iscla imer: T he fo llo wing co lumn is a gossip column. We ask t h a t i t e m s c o n ta i n e d h e r e i n b e judged by individuals that read it as such and not as documente d f a c t s g a t h e r e d b y th e n e w s gathering personnel of this publicatio n. All sourc es submitting i t e m s t o T H E C H A T T ER B O X are confidential.

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Allison Payne BALD EAGLE STRIKES AGAIN Ima hears Governor Baldhead is up to his anti-Negro antics again.

Despite squeaking by political rival Dan Hines by tricking the coloreds into disbelieving their eyes and ears after they were reminded what Harold Washington said, he apparently feels he owes nothing to them. The Bald Eagle is reportedly firing every high ranking Black person working in state government and replacing them with either a Mexican or one of them liberal white folks that Malcolm X said are wolves in sheep’s clothing. They say he is cleaning out all of the human service divisions and he done turned his back on that Negro director he put over the pris-

-ImaPEACE KEEPING Ima be glad when the Supreme Court lift that hand gun ban so I can go grab my .45 and confront that crazy looking white man who claimed WGN-TV reporter Allison Payne is a recovering alcoholic and that her slurred speech is not the result of a stroke, but because of that Mad Dog 20/20.

They say when his boy said this stuff Payne’s 6 foot 5 foot behind went postal and threatened to whup his ass on 47th Street— well, not exactly. She went on her Facebook and went off on the man and said there wasn’t nothing wrong with admitting a former alcohol problem she had five years ago and that what he done was a low blow. Ima got to agree because we don’t remember him saying too much when they found Skippy zig zagging down the street, drunk off that country wine—and he’s back on TV! And there’s a whole lot of white reporters on the television set that look like they be on that crystal meth—but we don’t see Robert Feder busting them out. Seems

We hear the Alphabet Boys is chasing a well known community activist type around the town and that after having being cornered one night coming out of his house that he may have been talked into cooperating. Be careful if this funny acting person suddenly shows up at yo’ doorstep. He may be recording.

-ImaON THE RADIO Is some sort of pay-olla scandal about to hit a local radio station?

People are whispering all hush mouth about $10,000, Warner Brothers, and something somebody supposedly promised to do.

Fortunately, the radio person is bumping uglies with the boss and so they probably won’t get fired behind it—not right away at least.

-ImaDEVIL MADE HER DO IT Ima went to her West Side Baptist Church and happen to see Sister So and So doing her usual

-Ima-

dollars from Barack and Michelle sometime around April. Snow ought to be melted by then. You know Negroes don’t like marching in no cold. They claim that out of all of the needy people and groups in Englewood, one particular church got some big money and they say once they tell you who is in the pulpit, you will know why. One of them is so hot about it they say he done wrote some anonymous letter to the Feds asking them to investigate the matter.

OBSERVATION

-Ima-

They say once a coward, always a coward. That could be why one elected official on a very high up level never quite follows through on all them empty threats he like to make on the TV every now and then. He is famous for attacking white people and stuttering over simple words. He is so disliked by one crowd that they have vowed to “expose him for what he is” at his next event.

Good luck trying to find out when that is—-this politician don’t like coming out in public, except to eat.

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shouting routine ‘bout time the preacher started all that heming and hawing. She must have forgotten she didn’t put no panties on with her panty hose and so the entire church got a good look at her Holy Ghost quite a few times.

The usher tried to sit her down, but she kept right on kicking up that left leg. The preacher like to had a stroke. Good news is we believes in resurrection so we could have revived him at any time.

-ImaSTIMULI MONEY Protestors are getting ready to expose who got what stimulus

Four Negro citizens are still going around and telling people that former school board leader Michael Scott was gunned down by some unknown people and did not commit suicide like the city pretends. They are working overtime to convince folk this is a conspiracy and a cover up of epic proportions, even claiming they “saw the body” and “the gun used in the death was put up under his body.” They also talking about real estate deals, the Mob, funny actions of some West Side preachers, and a whole lot of other stuff. Unfortunately they are having a hard time trying to convince people they ain’t making the whole thing up. Let the man rest in peace, please.

Pat Quinn ons. He done dissed Art “Madigan’s Boy” Turner and they say he even trying to woo some white man to be his running mate that tried to trick a bunch of Black politicians into going to jail.

They say Quinn ain’t hired but two Negroes down there in his office —and neither one of them look like they can stand up to his wacky ideas. Say he also hiring whole staffs from some white, liberal groups that prides itself on helping out darkies and Mexicans and, their first act after coming on board is to increase the state’s Black unemployment rate by firing long time Coloreds from their good government jobs. Negroes, unless folk start seeing some collard green and fried chicken eating people in his administration it may be time to rethink supporting this man before November.

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Warner Sanders like this fellow got an issue with Negroes because before he left the Cloudy Times, he talked so bad about Warner Saunders that his 6 foot 8 foot behind tried to beat him down at a black tie dinner.

Allison Payne if you is reading this, tell Ima where to meet you in the parking lot. We know how to trick white people and I will hit him high and you hit him low

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FREE LEADERSHIP DIALOGUE AT GOVERNORS STATE UNIVERSI TY: Learning more about what makes leaders successful is integral to becoming a successful leader and understanding the role character plays in our leaders. A Leadership Dialogue discussion of “Passion and Principal: John and Jessie Fremont, the Couple Whose Power, Politics, and Love Shaped 19th Century America” by Sally Denton will be led by Dr. Paul Craig, on Saturday, March 13, from 8:30 am to 1 pm, in the Hall of Honors at Governors State University. The Leadership Dialogue series, sponsored by the Metropolitan Institute for Leadership in Education (MILE) of the College of Education at Governors State University, is designed to develop an understanding of the meaning of leadership. The event is free and open to the public. Participants are asked to pre-register and be familiar with the book. Call 708-534-4024 or visit www.gsu-mile.org. Governors State University is located at 1 University Parkway, University Park, Illinois.

“YES WE COUNT” POETRY SLAM COMPETI TION: The “Yes We Count" Poetry Slam Competition, presented by the Chicago South Side NAACP Complete Count Committee, will take place on Saturday, March 13, at the U.of C. International House, 1414 EAST 59th Street Chicago, Illinois. It is featuring the special guest host from the Kings of Poetry, "BLAQ ICE.” Lyricists, poets and rappers are invited to participate - compete to become the poster child of this national campaign. Admission is FREE, and there are door prizes and refreshments! Contestants' supporters are welcomed.

REGISTER TODAY! Please forward completed registration form to: Coordinator & CEO WPAHOA Pasha Hunt-Golliday, phone 888-412-9888, Fax: 773955-3794 or send email to empowered@wpahoa.org. VISIT CHICAGO SOUTH SIDE NAACP COMPLETE COUNT COMMITTEE contest website for Contest Guidelines & Rules: http://www.wix.com/ssnaacppoetryslam/chicago DOWNTOWN WALKING TOURS: The Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) hosts 45minute Lunchtime Building Tours Weekdays at 12:15 pm CAF members FREE; $5 non-members. Tours include: The Reliance Building (Hotel Burnham), the Willis Tower and 311 S. Wacker Drive, the Monadnock Building, the Rookery, the Fine Arts Building, and a tour of the Chicago Board of Trade, City Hall/8

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County Building, the Daley Center, and the Thompson Center. Check www.architecture.org for meeting place for each tour.

On Saturdays, March 13 and 17, there will be Modern Wing To urs at the Art Institute of Chicago. Docents examine the context for the Renzo Piano-designed addition and its incorporation into the campus overall design. There will be a Seats of Power Tour on Saturday, March 19 at 12:15 pm. Tour City Hall/County Building, Daley Center and James R. Thompson Center.

For more information, please visit www.architecture.org.

ART OF GASTRONOMY AT HYDE PARK ART CENTER: On the 3rd Thursday of every month at 7 pm, all current Hyde Park Art Center (HPAC) staff and students are encouraged and welcome to join artist Darrell Roberts for one of his favorite cheap eats in Chicago for food and discussion. This month on Thursday, Mar ch 18, at 7pm, join them at Los Comales in Pilsen for Mexican food and good conversation. Call to RSVP. The Hyde Park Art Center is located at 5020 S. Cornell Avenue in Chicago. For more information call 773-324-5520 or visit www.hydeparkart.org.

SLUMBER PARTY SCIENCE OVERNIGHT AT THE PEGGY NOTEBAERT NATURE MUSEUM: Illusions, explosions, and experiments will ignite your interest in the world of science when you explore all that the Nature Museum has to offer after hours on Friday, March 19 and Saturday, March 20, from 6 pm - 9 am. The cost: $40/child, $30/adult (members) or $50/child, $40/adult (nonmembers). For more information, e-mail overnights@naturemuseum.org. Located at 2430 North Cannon Drive in Chicago’s Lincoln Park, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum is open every day except Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day; weekends from 10 am to 5 pm and weekdays from 9 am to 4:30 pm. Cost: $9 adult general admission; $7 students and seniors; $6 children; Thursdays are suggested donation days with the exception of groups of 10 or more. Groups of 10+ will be given the group rate and must register at least two weeks in advance.

Call 773-755-5111, Ext. 3 or visit naturemuseum.o rg for more information on group visits. The Nature Museum offers a variety of daily events including animal feedings, butterfly releases, and more. Programs are FREE with Museum admission unless otherwise noted and are subject to change. Please check the visitor

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guide on the day of your visit for the most up-to-date schedule.

Register for any of their family, adult and children’s programs online at nat uremuseum.or g unless otherwise noted.

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KIDS ACTIVITIES THAT 'ROCK' AT THE MORTON ARBORETUM: See spectacular plant images from rare books and art collections in "Flora! Illuminated." A non-traditional alphabetical exploration of spectacular

plant images from the Suzette Morton Davidson Special Collections of the Sterling Morton Library. Selected snippets of song lyrics, poetry and prose will accompany these brilliant images to (Continued on page 13)

COOK COUNTY TREASURER Maria Pappas presents an award of excellence to J. J. Turner (third from left), of Turner’s Investment Services and master of ceremonies at event in her downtown Chicago office, for commitment and dedication to the community at her Black History Month Celebration. The awards presentation took place during Pappas’ annual celebration of Black History Month, where art work by Shirley Hudson was also presented and on display through the end of February. Pappas regularly hangs the work of various artists in her office. Pappas honored several other dignitaries at her annual Black History Month celebration for their contributions to heritage and community. From left: Treasurer Pappas; Debbie Schell, honorary consul of Belize; J.J. Turner; Father George Clements; Andre R. King, honorary consul of Barbados; Shirley Hudson, artist; and Bennett Johnson, honorary consul of Uganda.

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Some people HAVE to carry flood insurance. By federal law, anyone who has a mortgage from a federally regulated lender on property in a flood zone must have flood insurance. Truth is, though, that many more homeowners should carry this protection. *** At least 25 percent of flood-loss claims come from areas of low-tomoderate risk and premium costs are lower in low-risk areas. The subsidized insurance is sold through almost all insurance companies; it's usually tacked on to your homeowner's package. *** The federally subsidized program was begun in 1968, when the government determined it would be cheaper and more efficient to have an insurance program than to just bail out flood victims. *** In addition to rain and other natural disasters, man-made development even within a neighborhood has changed the way rainwater flows and pools. Blocked storm sewers or ice dams can change the drainage system and result in flooding.

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*** Are you at risk? Should you be protected against flood damage?

Talk to the folks with the answers at Community Insurance Center, 526 East 87th Street, your insurance headquarters. We have been serving the community since 1962.

For more information about the services we provide, call (773) 6516200. You can also reach us via email at: sales@communityinsurance.com or visit the website at www.communityins.com.

Call Community Insurance Center, Inc. to see how much your savings could be – in the first year alone when you switch to the AARP Auto Insurance Program from the Hartford.

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Tool for Today’s Economy: An Independent Consumer Financial Protection Agency

By Charlene Crowell NNPA Financial Writer

overdraft fees, and toxic mortgages.

Late last year, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation to create a new and independent Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA). For several months, the measure has lingered in the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, whose members bicker over the need to create a new federal agency while stooping to partisan threats of filibuster.

So while America’s people are resorting to desperate measures, like online payday loans to sort through their own financial wreckage, Capitol Hill has yet to demonstrate a sense of urgency

For most Americans, the Better Business Bureau (BBB) is the private sector’s gold-standard of objectivity and fairness. Founded in 1912, this nonprofit organization today has 123 offices in the United States and Canada that monitor more than four million local and national businesses and charities.

So when this advocate for fairness and transparency issues a written warning against deceitful activity, it is time to take note. After receiving a deluge of complaints, the BBB recently told buyers to beware. The warning also came following an independent investigation and lawsuit by the West Virginia Attorney General.

The culprit: online payday loans.

According to Stephen A. Cox, President and CEO of the Council of Better Business Bureaus, “Desperate times are leading people to the Internet to apply for payday loans and many are falling deeper into debt after getting tangled up with a lender who has zero regard for the law.”

As with traditional payday store loans, online payday lenders quickly give consumers a painful lesson. These consumers also quickly find out that what was intended to be a small, one-time loan turns on a debt spigot that is far more difficult to turn off. Often operating without state licenses and with no geographic boundaries, online lenders are given access and information on borrower bank accounts that siphon off funds with each lending cycle, leaving fewer available funds and no legal protections under state laws. Funds deducted from most bank accounts wind up paying fees and interest -- but not the principal borrowed.

Ironically, the consumer alert issued by the BBB came during the annual observance of National Consumer Protection Week, March 1-7. When President Barack Obama signed the proclamation on February 27, he said in part, “Consumers should know their rights and should learn about goods and services before they buy.”

From the perspective of many consumer groups, including the Center for Responsible Lending, becoming an informed consumer

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that could provide solutions in proportion to the real problems people suffer -- like depleted family finances or lack of health care.

The theme of this year’s national consumer observance is “Nuts and Bolts: Tools for Today’s Economy”. It seems that an effective federal regulator, like a CFPA, could be the ‘tool’ America needs.

Charlene Crowell is the Center for Responsible Lending’s Communications Manager for State Policy and Outreach. She can be reached at Charlene.crowell@responsiblelending.org.

Charlene Crowell is just not enough. The plague of financial problems that today affect families, governments, and businesses alike is a systemic ill fuelled by inherently unfair and irresponsible financial practices, made worse by the deceptive way products are marketed. Scant regulation and enforcement, more than uninformed consumers, are the twin reasons for the myriad of problems incurred from payday loans, credit cards,

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EDUCATION

YMCA Partners with Chicago Bulls to Fight Childhood Obesity The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago recently announced a partnership with the Chicago Bulls to combat childhood obesity and create EnergizaBulls Fitness Learning Centers in YMCA community schools.

On Wednesday, March 3, Mayor Daley, CPS president Ron Huberman, Alderman Walter Burnett, and YMCA president Richard H. Malone joined Bulls players Derrick Rose, Joakim Noah, Jannero

Pargo and James Johnson to officially unveil the first of 25 EnergizaBulls Fitness Centers. The new fitness center is located at the Morton School of Excellence, a YMCA Community School, on the city’s west side.

The collaboration between the YMCA and the Bulls began in 2009 when the Bulls charity organization, CharitaBulls, was awarded approximately $1.475 million from the U.S. Department of Ed-

CHICAGO BULLS ENERGIZABULLS Fitness Program’s official unveiling event at Morton School of Excellence.

CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS student at the Chicago Bulls Energizabulls Fitness Program demonstrates one way to stay in shape while having fun.

DICK MALONE, President and CEO of YMCA Chicago with Bulls guard Derrick Rose at the Chi ca go Bulls En ergi zab ul ls Fi tness Program offi ci al unvei lin g e vent a t Mort on Sc hool of Excellence. ucation to help enhance physical alarm to us,” said Richard H. Mal- the fitness centers is to help chileducation programs within Chica- one, president and CEO of the dren develop the knowledge, attigo Public Schools (CPS).

YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago. tudes, and skills they need to “Childhood obesity has inThe EnergizaBulls Fitness Cen- adopt and maintain a physically creased 60 percent in the last 10 ters are permanent, sustainable active and healthy lifestyle. years; diabetes has become a sig- wellness health centers located Through this collaboration, the nificant concern; and even high within the school’s building. Each YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago cholesterol is affecting children. Is- fitness center will include cardio- developed programs that get chilsues that we used to associate with vascular machines such as bikes, dren moving in a fun and interacadults are now affecting children. elliptical, HOPSports, and ex- tive way. Additionally, the YMCA These statistics are sounding an ergaming equipment. The goal of will track student’s daily activity, monitor their progress and help them reach the recommended level of activity.

The YMCA is committed to help students make healthier lifestyle decisions and address the national childhood obesity epidemic. It was recently reported that Illinois has the fourth highest rate of childhood obesity in the nation.

BULLS GUARD Derrick Rose shares a photo moment with Chicago Public Schools student at the Chicago Bulls Energizabulls Fitness Program official unveiling event at Morton School of Excellence.

Five other Chicago Public Schools chosen to receive fitness centers this year include Ryerson Community School, Lawrence Elementary School, Oglesby Elementary School, Orozco Community Academy and Whistler Elementary School.

Four Illinois State Scholars named at De La Salle’s Lourdes Hall Campus De La Salle Institute proudly announces that four students at its Lourdes Hall Campus for Young Women have been named Illinois State Scholars for the 2009-10 school year.

Receiving the prestigious plaudit were seniors Elizabeth Humphrey (Calumet City), Brittany Phillips (Bridgeport), Elizabeth Galka (Brighton Park) and Candice Burke (Hyde Park).

Humphrey is No. 1 in the 113member Class of 2010 at De La Salle’s Lourdes Hall Campus, owning a 4.950 grade-point average in the Honors Program.

Phillips (4.819 GPA, 2/113), Galka (4.700 GPA, 3/113) and Burke (4.585 GPA, 4/113) are al10

so enrolled in the Honors Program.

De La Salle congratulates each of these exemplary young women on their achievements and wishes them every future success.

De La Salle Institute is an independent Catholic secondary school rooted in the tradition of Christian Education begun by St. John Baptist de La Salle. Founded in 1889, its mission has been, and is, to foster a desire for excellence in education. Young people from a variety of ethnic and economic backgrounds are given the opportunity to fully develop their abilities so they may be active, contributing members of our complex changing society.

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ELIZABETH GALKA (l-r), Brittany Phillips, Elizabeth Humphrey, and Candice Burke.

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Maria High School helps domestic violence victims The Maria High School community recently donated three car loads of goods to Family Rescue, Inc., a social services agency that provides support services and shelter to abused women and their children who are victims of domestic violence. The items were collected through a service project organized by Carly Comiskey, Maria Guidance Department administrative assistant. She appealed to all Maria students and staff to donate items that would positively impact the shattered lives of victims of domestic violence in need of help.

Sharell Hicks, of Advisory 200, said, “It felt good to give to people who were in the situation that they were in, and it made a true impact in their lives. It has also inspired me to do other things to

help others.”

Through their success in donating the most items, the sophomores of Advisory 200 had the honor of delivering the donations to the Family Rescue administration office at 9204 S. Commercial. Shayana Lanier, of Advisory 200, said, “We, as Maria students, I feel, are truly living up to Maria standards, ‘Making a difference in the world.’ ” Family Rescue works to break the cycle of domestic violence by providing legal advocacy, shelter and counseling. For more information about Family Rescue, go to www.familyrescueinc.org. For information about Maria High School, please contact Mario Escobedo at 773-925-8686, ext.

116, or visit www.mariahighschool.org.

South-Southwest Suburban United Way Gives a Salute to Female Veterans South-Southwest Suburban United Way and Illinois Department of Employment Security are partnering together to host the “Salute to Female Veterans” Social Service Forum. Female veterans are encouraged to come on Tuesday, March 23rd from 9:00 am - 12:00 pm to learn more about the services and opportunities for women who have served their country. Vendors from the Southland area will be at the forum to give information on job training, medical assistance, benefits, continued education, business start up, and more! “Salute to Female Veterans” Social Service Forum is being held at Orland Park

Civic Center, located at 14700 Ravinia Avenue in Orland Park, IL. To RSVP, contact Tom Miller at 708. 458.0500 x237 or email Thomas.L.Miller@illinois.gov.

South-Southwest Suburban United Way strives to eradicate generational poverty and government dependency by addressing long-standing inequities in Health, Income and Education in order to empower individuals and families to self-sufficiency and to deliver positive, measurable community impact. United Way-sponsored programs touch the lives of 300,000 people in the Southland region. United Way puts the

BEFORE THEIR TRIP To deliver donations to Family Rescue, Maria students of Advisory 200 are pictured displaying some of their donations and various signs that reflected the project at Maria: (front row, from left) Asia Mendez, of Marquette Park; Shayana Lanier, of Chicago Lawn; Miriam Scheib er-Ca mor-etti, of Hyde Park; a nd Beatriz Barrera, of Ci cero; (midd le row, from left) Jose lyn U ribe , of C hica go La wn; Pa ulina Lopez , of Bri ghton Pa rk; Evely n Alvarado, of Little Village; and Courtney Robinson, of West Pullman; (back row, from left) R o o m 2 0 0 A d v i so r C a r l y C o m i sk e y ; B r i a n n a B u r k s, of C h i c a g o L a w n ; B r i a n a C r a n e , of Wrightwood; Heather Martin, of Garfield Ridge; and Sharell Hicks, of Ashburn.

needs of the community first and is uniquely positioned to develop community-wide solutions because we are partners with every facet of the health and human services spectrum.

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Activist journalist Laura Washington selected as new Woods Fund of Chicago President The board recently announced that it has selected longtime board member and journalist Laura S. Washington as its new president.

Washington brings to the Woods Fund more than two decades of diverse experience in print and broadcast journalism, urban affairs and social justice issues; 12 years of nonprofit management experience; and numerous awards and honors for her exemplary journalism and civic activism.

“After an extensive search that included over 200 candidates from all over the country, we selected Laura Washington, one of our nation’s leading experts in social justice issues, and someone with deep experience in Chicago’s civic, nonprofit, academic and political communities,” said Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, Chairman of the Woods Fund Board of Directors.

Washington joins the Woods Fund as it implements a new core The Chicago Crusader

principle of racial equity. The Woods Fund chose to recently incorporate a racial equity perspective into its grant making. The Fund plans to focus on ways in which race and ethnicity shape power, access to opportunity, treatment and related outcomes in metropolitan Chicago. The foundation hopes this practice will inform solutions that will eliminate inequalities.

“I am honored to lead this illustrious foundation as we embark upon this pioneering effort focusing on racial equity,” Washington said. “The Woods Fund plays an instrumental role in empowering and increasing opportunities for the less advantaged communities in Chicago. We are well positioned to combat structural racism, a fundamental barrier to enabling work and eradicating poverty in these communities.”

Washington is widely recognized as one of Chicago’s most influential and respected journal-

Laura Washington ists. She currently writes a column for the Chicago Sun-Times and regularly appears on National Public Radio, Chicago Public Radio and WTTW as an analyst and commentator on race, politics and current affairs. She is also widely quoted and featured in na-

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tional media, including Time and Newsweek magazines, The New York Times, NBC Nightly News, the PBS News Hour and the BBC. Washington launched her career in 1980 as a reporter at The Chicago Reporter. In the mid1980s, she served as Deputy Press Secretary to Mayor Harold Washington during his first and second terms. Washington also worked as an investigative producer at CBS-2/Chicago and correspondent for WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight.” She returned to The Chicago Reporter in 1990 and served for 12 years as its editor, then publisher.

Washington’s academic career is equally extensive. She served as the Ida B. Wells-Barnett University Professor at DePaul University and Fellow at DePaul’s Humanities Center from 2003 to 2009. She also did stints as an instructor and lecturer at the Medill School of Journalism at North-

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western University from 1987 to 2003. Washington earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s in journalism from Medill.

Washington begins her tenure on March 1, after eight years as a Woods Fund board member and three years as its chair. She takes over for former President Deborah Harrington, who is retiring from Woods after 10 years of distinguished service. #### The Woods Fund of Chicago is a grant making foundation whose goal is to increase opportunities for less advantaged people and communities in the Chicago metropolitan area. Woods supports nonprofits in their important roles of engaging people in civic life, addressing the causes of poverty and other challenges facing the region, promoting more effective public policies, reducing racism and other barriers to equal opportunity, and building community and common ground.

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ENTERTAINMENT

By Raymond Ward

SOLID GOLD: May I take a moment to add my CONGRATULATIONS to the following “favorites” of mine on their winning the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. Sandra Bullock, “Best Actress,” for “The Blind Side”; Jeff Bridges, “Best Actor” for “Crazy Heart”; Christoph Waltz, “Best Supporting Actor” for “Inglourious Basterds”; the one and only Mo’Nique, “Best Supporting Actress for “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire; Kathryn Bigelow, “Best Director” for “The Hurt Locker” and Geoffrey Fletcher, “Best Adapted Screenplay” for Sapphire “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire. Geoffrey’s win marked the first time in the 82 year history of the Academy Awards that a Black man has won in the writing category....and by the way if you have not seen “Precious” its now available on DVD. MORE GOLD...WELL THE AWARD WAS ACTUALLY SILVER: “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire,“ cleaned up at the 25th Spirit Awards, winning Best Movie, Best Actress (Gabourey Sidibe), Best Director (Lee Daniels), Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress. The Spirit Awards are presented to small films made by independent film studios.

FLEET FEET: It’s not one of my favorite shows, but, the new cast has been announced for Season 10 of “Dancing With The Stars,” which begins on ABCTV on March 22nd. Puting on their dancing shoes will be: actress Pamela Anderson; reality TV star, Kate Gosselin; Nicole Scherzinger of The Pussycat Dolls; Olympic figure skating champion Evan Lysacek; 80year-old former astronaut Buzz Aldrin; Clean Houses’ Nicey Nash; athlete Chad Ochocinco, actors Aiden Turner, Jake Pavelka and Erin Andrews and “badgirl” Shannen Doherty.

IN PRODUCTION: One of my favorite books of 2009, “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett is about to become a film. Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks Studios has acquired the rights to the book which centers on Southern white women and their Black maids in the 1960s. Tate Taylor, a childhood friend of the author has written the script and will also direct the film and Chris Columbus has signed on as Producer.

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ENTERTAINMENT: CHICAGO STYLE

By Elaine Hegwood Bowen, MSJ

Precious – The Oscars I was thrilled when Mo’Nique won the Oscar for best supporting actress for her role in the movie Precious—based on the novel PUSH by Sapphire.

Not only did Mo’Nique win an Oscar, the screenwriter also won for his role in bringing this celebrated novel to the big screen.

Mo'Nique has appeared in other movies, one of them Shadowboxer, which was directed by Lee Daniels—along with Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Helen Mirren—who directed her in Precious. But as Mary Jones in Precious, she delivered a break-out, dark performance as an abusive, struggling, unemployed welfare mother.

After winning her award, she thanked the Academy: “I would like to thank the Academy for showing that it can be about the performance and not the politics," said Mo'Nique.

Mo'Nique also thanked the first Black actress to win an Oscar, Hattie McDaniel, the 1939 supporting-actress winner for "Gone With the Wind."

"I want to thank Miss Hattie McDaniel for enduring all that she had to so that I would not have to," she said.

Precious also won the adaptedscreenplay Oscar for Geoffrey Fletcher. Fletcher is the first African-American screenwriter to earn an Oscar. As screenwriter, Fletcher took the novel Push by Sapphire and wrote the script upon which actors performed the movie. Other Black screenwriters have been nominated in the past, including Motown’s Suzanne de Passe for Lady Sings the Blues.

Also Charles Fuller earned a nomination but didn’t win an Oscar for his screenplay of A Soldier’s Story, which was his own book. Spike Lee earned a nomination for his Do The Right Thing, and John Singleton was nominated for Boyz n the Hood.

In the last Barbara Walters Oscar Special, which aired Sunday, March 7, esteemed journalist Walters asked Mo'Nique about her childhood and her open marriage to high school sweetheart Sidney Hicks. Mo’Nique recalled being molested by an older brother and holding onto that secret for years. She also recalled that she hadn’t spoken with her older brother for years, and that he had done time in prison for molesting someone else. But when she did see him again in 2006 after the birth of her twins,

ACTRESS MO'NIQUE, comedienne and BET talk show host, poses with her first Oscar. the siblings had a conversation Mo'Nique overwhelmingly acted and they haven’t spoken since and delivered much more than then. Mo’Nique mentioned that the actresses with whom she was when he held one of her sons at competing for the supporting acthe hospital, things just seemed tress award. out of place. I’m sure Mo’Nique In the end, Clareece “Precious” used her real-life experiences up- Jones, played by newcomer on which to bring Mary Jones to Gabourey (Gabby) Sidibe, who life in Precious. was also nominated for best acI like that Mo’Nique is getting tress but didn’t win, finds herself all this publicity, but I really and figures out that she can well think, as she’s said in the past, take care of herself and her two that she could do without it all. children, without having to enInterviewers are too intrusive, dure the mental and physical and I suspect Mo’Nique would abuse from her mother. But that rather turn down an interview journey to self-realization was a than to keep rehashing the same long one, but one that audience story over and over again. members will agree was worth Regarding the movie, critics seeing in the movie Precious. And have pegged Precious as too dark, in the end, it’s worth seeing again; but it’s reality in many homes, especially knowing that two and if you haven’t seen the movie, Blacks won Oscars from the efyet, it’s a good forum where fort.

GEOFFREY FLETCHER, the first Black to win a screenwriting Oscar, poses with his award. Fletcher is a Harvard graduate and wa s so nervous during the award s ceremony that he found it difficult to speak.

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ENTERTAINMENT

COP OUT

A Review by Bonnie DeShong Jimmy (Bruce Willis) and Paul (Tracy Morgan) have been partners on the police force for nine years. Both have issues with their personal life. Paul is entirely too jealous of his wife and Jimmy is the loser ex-husband with a daughter who is about to have a $48,000 wedding. Jimmy and Paul get a tip on a drug deal going down and set up a sting but it goes wrong and they end up blowing an undercover case and are suspended for several months.

Suspended means no pay so how is he going to pay for his daughter’s wedding? He decides to sell his prized baseball card. This is where the story begins. The store is robbed while he is there, he and Paul blow an undercover case trying to get the robbers and they are suspended for several months.

Of course, they still go after the robbers, get caught up in a major

drug ring and blah, blah, blah.

There is a saying, “there is a thin line between classy and tacky” and this film crossed the line.

Bruce Willis looks good and does his thing, “being cool.” Tracy Morgan’s balance was off. It’s not his fault but that of the script. He does his best to make Paul a man of some kind of substance but it crosses the line to where it is not entertaining. The story of the Latino drug dealers with a fixation on sports memorabilia and religion was interesting and held up. Dave (Seann William Scott) was confusing, funny at times, but kind of weird.

I think I was hoping for the chemistry Bruce Willis had with Chris Tucker in “Fifth Element” on a higher level. My fault, my expectations were to high. I sat in the theater and wondered why I hadn’t gone to see another film.

I say, DON’T SPEND THE MONEY, to see this at the theaters. Wait for the video!

Tracy Morgan as Paul in "Cop Out."

Essence.com featured exclusive photos from its third annual ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood Luncheon HONOREES INCLUDED CICELY TYSON, QUEEN LATIFAH, ZOE SALDANA, MARY J. BLIGE AND GABOUREY SIDIBE Recently, Essence.com audiences had the chance to experience what happens when the best and brightest of Black Women in Hollywood come together to celebrate the legendary achievements of some of the greatest American actresses of our times during Oscar Week. Featured exclusively on ESSENCE.com, the third annual ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood luncheon, held at the Beverly Hills Hotel, honored Hollywood royalty such as: Cicely Tyson (Legend Award); break-out star Gabourey Sidibe (Best Break-

through Performance); versatile ALister Queen Latifah (Power Award); Tinseltown darling Zoe Saldana (Star to Watch Award); and Hip-Hop turned starlet, Mary J. Blige (Songstress of the Year).

You will only find complete coverage of this star-studded event honoring the 40th Anniversary of ESSENCE magazine on http://www.essence.com. Essence.com uploaded images live from the red carpet starting at 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time / 12:30 p.m. Pacific Time — with additional red carpet video of the night.

Essence.com will also feature exclusive glitterati shots from the red carpet of celebrity attendees including: Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, Steve Harvey and more.

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create a memorable experience for visitors. The exhibit will highlight some rarely seen artwork and rare books revealing the extraordinary beauty and depth of the plant world. All ages are welcome in the Sterling Morton Library ONGOING through June 29; 9 am - 5 pm, Tuesday-Friday; 10 am-4 pm Saturday. A garden with no plants? Learn how to tend to a different kind of garden in "Rock Gardening." Kids will get to try their hand at Zen gardening in this self-guided, dropThe Chicago Crusader

in activity in the Children's Garden. All ages, Children's Garden.

Weekdays in March: 1 pm - 4pm (weather permitting) Let's rock!

Come to "Science Rocks!" and learn about different types of rocks, find out their uses for and make your own "pet rock" to take home! All ages are welcome to this drop-in activity. Children's Garden. Conveniently located at I-88 and Rte. 53 in Lisle, Illinois, the Arboretum is open 7 days a week, 365 days a year, from 7 am Central Time until sunset. For more information, visit www.mortonarb.org,

Queen Latifah from the parties, after-parties and behind-the-scene peeks of the event on Twitter at Twitter.com/essenceonline. Viewers can also stayed on the pulse with minute-to-minute coverage from the party at essence.com/entertainment.

Sponsors for the ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood Luncheon included presenting sponsor Lincoln, as well as partner sponsors COVERGIRL Queen Collection and MasterCard Worldwide. The ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood Luncheon was also supported by Moet & Chandon.

About Essence Communications Inc.: Essence Communications Inc. (ECI) is the number one media and communications company dedicated to African-American women. With a multi-platform

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presence in publishing, live events, and online, the Essence brand is “Where Black Women Come First”. The company’s flagship publication, ESSENCE magazine, is the preeminent lifestyle magazine for African-American women; generating brand extensions such as the Essence Music Festival, ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood, Window on Our Women (WOW I & II) and Smart Beauty I, II & III consumer insights, the Essence Book Club, Essence.com, and ventures in digital media (mobile, television and VOD). For 40 years, ESSENCE, which has a brand reach of over 8 million, has

Zoe Saldana been the leading source of cuttingedge information relating to every area of African-American women’s lives. Additional information about ECI and ESSENCE is available at Essence.com.

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Gabourey-Sidibe About Essence.com: Essence.com is the daily online destination for African-American women that informs, entertains and connects. The expansive web destination delivers daily fresh content, engaging blogs, robust photo galleries, a substantial online community and original video programming across four channels that include: News & Entertainment, Fashion & Beauty, Relationships and Lifestyle.

Essence.com is currently the largest and fastest growing African-American magazine website.The site’s growth is unsurpassed and reaches more than a million monthly unique visitors. The new Essence.com launched in September 2008 as one of the first projects to come from the partnership between The Warner Bros. Television Group and Time Inc.’s Essence Communications Inc. 13

WORLD OF MUSIC

By Dr. Barbara Wright-Pryor

Kirill Gerstein makes CSO subscription concert debut Russian-born pianist Kirill Gerstein made his Chicago Symphony Orchestra subscription debut in performances of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor this past weekend with conductor Charles Dutoit as guest conductor of the CSO. The Thursday, March 4 opening concert revealed the soloist to be an artist with impeccable technique who wasn’t the lest bit shaken even though the low strings occasionally lagged a fraction of a second behind the established tempo, notwithstanding Maestro Dutoit’s definite and precise beat or glances in their direction. Nor did the soloist wince when the horn soloist played incorrect notes during the reintroduction of the first movement theme.

The Rachmaninoff was paired with Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11 in G minor (subtitle: The Year 1905) composed in 1957 which makes extensive use of revolutionary songs as thematic ele-

ments as it progresses without pause from the opening movement, Palace Square, to the mas-

ry, and the final movement, The Tocsin, ending with the ominous “death bell” strokes. The work re-

Kirill Gerstein sacre and its aftermath, The Ninth of January, the funereal third movement, Eternal Memo-

quires a large orchestra of triple woodwinds, four horns, three trumpets and trombones, tuba,

timpani, percussion, celesta, harps and strings and lasts just over an hour. I suspect that more rehearsal time was spent on the Shostakovich piece, leaving insufficient time for the Rachmaninoff.

In January of this year, Kirill Gerstein received the 2010 Gilmore Artist Award, one of the most prestigious honors for pianists. The Award is presented every four years on a non-competitive basis to an exceptional pianist who, regardless of age or nationality, has the potential to sustain a career as a major international concert artist. Mr. Gerstein will receive $300,000 in support of his musical and career goals over the next four years.

Born in Voronezh, in southwestern Russia, thirty-year-old Kirill Gerstein studied piano at a special music school for gifted children and taught himself to play jazz. He came to the U.S. at 14 to continue his studies in jazz piano at Boston’s Berklee College

German soprano Anne Schwanewilms withdraws from Lyric’s ‘Figaro’ German soprano Anne Schwanewilms has withdrawn from eight remaining performances in Lyric Opera of Chicago’s current revival of The Marriage of Figaro February 28-March 27 due to a stubborn bronchial infection, and has returned home on her doctor’s advice, Lyric’s general director William Mason announced Tuesday, March 9.

Schwanewilms sang the role of Countess Almaviva in the Mozart masterpiece for the opening performance February 28 and subsequent performances March 3 and 6.

American soprano Amanda Majeski portrayed the Countess at Lyric March 9 and March 12. She is a first year member of the Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago, and is scheduled to portray the Countess at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis this summer.

American soprano Nicole Cabell will portray the Countess for the fi-

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nal six performances at Lyric, March 15 through 27. Currently portraying Musetta in the Metropolitan Opera production of La Bohème, Cabell was released by that company in order to assume the role of the Countess at Lyric.

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Cabell’s current season includes her recent return to Lyric Opera of Chicago for Adina in L’elisir d’amore, followed by her return to the Metropolitan Opera for Musetta in La Bohème (a role she will also sing at the end of the season for her debut at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires). She will also make her New Orleans Opera debut in one of her favorite roles, Gounod’s Juliette. Earlier this season she made her concert debut with the Cleveland Orchestra and its music director, Franz Welser-Möst as the soprano soloist in Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem; and returned to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

for performances of Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with Markus Stenz.

Cabell’s other concert engagements this season include Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, first with the Singapore Symphony and John Nelson, then with the Accademia di Santa Cecilia and Antonio Pappano in Rome. Future engagements include returns in leading roles with the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and the Deutsche Oper, Berlin, plus opera debuts in Cologne, Montreal and Tokyo.

Amanda Majeski is a native of Gurnee, Illinois. She will portray Mozart’s Countess when she returns to Opera Theatre of St. Louis in June. Before joining the Ryan Opera Center the soprano completed graduate studies at Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music. She received her undergraduate degree from the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University. She made her Weill Hall recital debut in 2008 and is active on the roster of the Marilyn Horne Foundation. Majeski made her Lyric debut as a Peasant Girl in the current revival of Le nozze di Figaro.

The production is conducted by Sir Andrew Davis (February 28, March 3, 6, 9, 12, 18, 20) and Leonardo Vordoni (debut/March 15, 22, 24, 27). The original production is by Sir Peter Hall; Herbert Kellner is stage director, with sets and costumes by John Bury and lighting by Duane Schuler.

For tickets, call 312-332-2244 or go to lyricopera.org

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of Music while continuing to study the classical piano repertoire. Following two summers at the Boston University Young Artist program at Tanglewood, Mr. Gerstein moved to New York City to study with Solomon Mikowsky at the Manhattan School of Music where he earned both his Bachelors and Masters of Music degrees by the age of 20, then continued his studies in Madrid with Dmitri Bashkirov and in Budapest with Ferenc Rados. Now an American citizen, Mr. Gerstein divides his time between the United States and Germany, where he has been a professor of piano at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart since 2006.

Chica go Symphony Orchestra with Mitsuko Uchida — A highly anticipated guest of the CSO, renowned pianist Mitsuko Uchida is especially known for her luminous and passionate interpretations of music by Mozart.

On March 18-20, she returns to conduct the composer’s Piano Concertos Nos. 17 and 27 from the keyboard, bookending the Divertimento in F Major, K. 138, performed by the strings of the Orchestra. Uchida has been the focus of a Carnegie Hall Perspectives series and has served as artist-in-residence with both the Berlin Philharmonic and The Cleveland Orchestra, and she was named Instrumentalist of Year by BBC Music Magazine in 2008.

Tickets are $18-$199. Call 312294-3000 or go to www.cso.org ******** Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra & Wynton Marsalis / Jazz at Symphony Center — The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis swings into town on Friday, March 19, at 8:00 pm. A multitalented trumpeter, composer, bandleader, advocate for the arts and educator, Marsalis has helped propel jazz to the forefront of American culture. His remarkably versatile Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, composed of today’s finest jazz soloists and ensemble players, is known for its stylistic authentici-

ty and a dynamic sense of swing that few big bands today can match. Their Chicago program includes selections from Ted Nash’s Portrait in Seven Shades and works by Count Basie, Mary Lou Williams and others. Tickets are $34-$129 and can be purchased at 312-294-3000 or www.cso.org ******** For the third concert program of its 2009–10 season, the Orion Ensemble performs the work that inspired its season-long theme of “Musical Connections,” Robert Kritz’s “Connections” for Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello and Piano was written expressly for Orion; Also scheduled are Baermann’s Quartet in B-Flat Major for Clarinet, Violin, Viola and Cello, Op. 18, and Tchaikovsky’s Trio in A Minor, Op. 50, for Violin, Cello and Piano. Performances are Sunday, March 21 at Fox Valley Presbyterian Church, 227 East Side Drive in Geneva; Sunday, March 28 at the Music Institute of Chicago’s Nichols Hall, 1490 Chicago Avenue in Evanston; and Wednesday, March 31 at Roosevelt University’s Ganz Hall, 430 S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago. Single tickets are $25, $22 for seniors and $10 for students; children 12 and younger are free. Call 630-6289591 or visit orionensemble.org. ******** The Chicago Crusader

SPIRITUALLY SPEAKING

African-American Baptist mission collaboration pledges $50 million to help rebuild Haiti Five major African-American Baptist organizations pledge $50 million in life-sustaining services and facilities to help Haiti and earthquake survivors The African-American Baptist Mission Collaboration (AABMC) recently unveiled plans for a massive $50 million project to help rebuild Haiti and provide aid to Haitian earthquake survivors. At a press conference held at New Covenant Baptist Church in Chicago, organization leaders said the money will be raised largely through church donations.

The Collaboration includes five of America’s largest, historic African-American Baptist organizations, representing more than 40,000 church congregations and 10 million Christians nationwide. They are: Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention; National Baptist Convention, USA; National Missionary Baptist Convention of America; National Baptist Convention of America, and the Progressive National Baptist Convention. This is the first time the organizations have come together for a united effort.

The Collaboration will provide assistance that includes plans for: Five health care clinics to provide restorative health services and wellness 50 schools with enhanced learning environments 500 reconstructed churches to serve as center points for community empowerment 5,000 homes to house victims left homeless following the earthquake “The images coming from Haiti are devastating,” said Dr. T. DeWitt Smith, Jr., president of the Progressive National Baptist Convention. “Our vision for Haiti, however, is not limited to the images we’ve seen. We will work with Haitian partners to re-

AFRICAN-AMERICAN BAPTIST Organizations Pledge $50 Million To Rebuild Haiti – The African-American Baptist Mission Collaboration (AABMC), formed in February 2010 to help r e b ui l d a n d r e v i t a l i z e H a i t i i n t h e w a k e o f t h e d e v a s t a t i n g e a r t h q u a k e t h a t h i t i t J a n u a r y , pledged a $50 million investment package to rebuild Haiti at a recent press conference held at t h e N e w C o v e n a n t B a p t i st C h u r c h i n C h i c a g o. A A B M C c on s i s t s o f fi v e h i s t or i c A f r i c a n American Baptist communities— Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention; National Ba p t i s t C o n v e n t i o n , U S A ; N a t i o n a l M i s s i o n a r y B a p t i s t C o n v e n t i o n o f A m e r i c a ; N a t i o n a l Baptist Convention of America, and the Progressive National Baptist Convention. These five Baptist communities represent more than 40,000 Baptist churches across America, and more than 10 million Christians nationwide. Above, Dr. Stephen John Thurston, president of the National Baptist Convention of America and the senior pastor of the New Covenant Baptist Church, addresses the media at the press conference on the details of the $50 million investment package and how it will be used to help Haiti. build strong homes, churches, schools and clinics.”

The AABMC has also begun providing: Weekly deployment of medical professionals to provide critical medical services and care A daily feeding program that provides 300 meals per day at First Baptist Church in Petionville, located near Port-au-Prince A daily feeding program providing 150 meals every day for earthquake survivor patients at SaintMarc hospitals Other significant components include providing water, energy supplies, cash grants and gro-

ceries to families and individuals in need. In February, 1,000 families who lost homes in Legoane (near the earthquake’s epicenter) and communities to the west of Port-au-Prince received a total of $30,000 in cash and grocery grants.

“Providing immediate response to immediate needs has been critical,” said Dr. Stephen John Thurston, president of the National Baptist Convention of America and senior pastor of the New Covenant Baptist Church.

“Having existing working relationships with established churches in the country enabled

us to move swiftly to provide food, water, temporary shelter and pastoral care. This is reminiscent of the immediate support that churches gave to people in our own country in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina in 2005.”

AABMC also is developing a volunteer management program to assist the more than 10 million AABMC church members across America who may want to help by donating their personal time.

The program will operate via online application, providing volunteer service opportunities that match interests to needs. The volunteer program will include

scheduling service assignments in Haiti for the next several months.

“We realize that members of our churches across America are deeply affected by the damage that this earthquake has wreaked on families and individuals in Haiti,” said Dr. Julius R. Scruggs, president of the National Baptist Convention, USA, whose convention launched an online volunteer recruitment platform days after the January 12 earthquake.

“This is a way that our members can give of their personal time and resources to help our brothers and sisters recover in Haiti,” he said.

It is estimated that more than one million children in Haiti are now orphans because of the earthquake. AABMC is rising to this challenge by establishing an orphanage partnership program.

Under this program, AABMC will connect its member churches and social organizations with orphanages in Haiti to ensure that Haitian orphans are properly cared for and nurtured.

“African-American Baptists know what it means to support one another through devastation,” said Dr. David Emmanuel Goatley, executive secretary-treasurer of Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention and the coordinator for the African American Baptist Mission Collaboration. “We know what it means to care for children through extended families. We are committed to work on behalf of those who are most vulnerable in the aftermath of this tragedy and to labor to help children know safety, security, and nurturing care.”

For additional information on the AABMC Haitian development project, or for more information on how to contribute to AABMC on behalf of Haiti, please contact AABMC at 202.543.3200, or lottcarey@lottcarey.org.

Zion Hill M.B. Church member Ruby Jefferson Worsham celebrates 100th Birthday Ruby Jefferson Worsham, a resident in the Englewood community, was honored with a celebratory 100th birthday program on Sunday, March 7 at Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church, 1460 West 78th Street where she has served faithfully for more than 59 years.

Reverend Dr. George W. Waddles, Sr. is her “beloved pastor.” Members, family and friends joined Ruby Jefferson Worsham for a wonderful tribute and worship service.

Ruby Jefferson was born on March 9, 1910, in Belzoni, Mississippi. She lived in the southern region until she moved to Chicago in 1932. She later married James Coleman. After his death in 1948, she was blessed to marry the true love of her life, Adolphus WorThe Chicago Crusader

RUBY JEFFERSON-WORSHAM celebrated her 100th birthday Tuesday, March 9. She is an active member of Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church, 1460 W. 78th St., Dr. George W. Waddles, Sr., Pastor.

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sham. Mother Worsham shared a story, which took her back to her youth when she first met her husband. “We had a beautiful union for many years until he passed away in 1989,” said the honored centenarian. Their life together also included her husband’s sons from a previous marriage.

A dedicated and beloved “church mother” of Zion Hill, Mother Worsham, has been an active member since she joined the church in 1951. She sang with the Mass Choir for 38 years and taught Sunday School for more than 25 years until a few years ago.

In addition, she has served for many years in the Missionary Society and the Senior Guild where she is still active today. Members of

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the congregation agree this woman who is an example to many is truly an inspiration to others.

Church member Glorya Jackson adds “Mother Worsham is a woman of great faith, with a loving spirit and such gentle strength, Ruby Jefferson Worsham is a legend in her own time. She leads by example and truly exemplifies the love of Christ and the attributes of a godly woman. Mother Worsham is loved and admired by all whose lives she has touched. With almost a century behind her, Ruby Jefferson Worsham’s life and her testimony truly bear witness to the goodness of the Lord.”

Ruby Jefferson Worsham is a centenarian to be celebrated.

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The Right to Repair Act ensures that seniors can continue to enjoy the affordability and convenience of having their vehicles serviced locally. The bill makes certain that car owners, not car companies, retain the choice of where to take the vehicle for service by requiring equal access to repair information, safety bulletins and tools from vehicle manufacturers.

Without the Right to Repair Act, seniors may find their independence severely compromised if they are forced to go a car dealer for service and repairs, particularly if there is no dealership in their area. Worse yet, they may decide to forgo critical safety repairs because the distance to a dealership is too great.

RetireSafe strongly urges Congress to pass the Motor Vehicle Owners’ Right to Repair Act to protect older Americans nationwide.

We encourage vehicle owners to make their voices heard by visiting www. righttorepair.org and sending a letter to their U.S. Representative in support of the Right to Repair Act. Sincerely, Thair Phillips President RetireSafe HOUSES FOR SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION GREEN TREE SERVICING, L L C P l a i n t i f f , v .

DISCOVER BANK, et al D e f e n d a n t 09 CH 32598 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 4, 2010, an agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation will at 10:30 AM on April 6, 2010, at the The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction toSaturday, the highest bidder, as 13, set forth March 2010 below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 5930 SOUTH EGGLESTON AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60621 Property Index No. 20-16-305-033-0000 The real estate is improved with a two story single family home with no garage. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction;. The balance, in certified funds, 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"

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DISCOVER BANK, et al D e f e n d a n t 09 CH 32598 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 4, 2010, an agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation will at 10:30 AM on April 6, 2010, at the The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 5930 SOUTH EGGLESTON AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60621 Property Index No. 20-16-305-033-0000 The real estate is improved with a two story single family home with no garage. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction;. The balance, in certified funds, 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 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 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: Visit our website at http:\\service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5 pm. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES, Plaintiff's Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300, CHICAGO, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 476-5500. Please refer to file number PA0820293. 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. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300 CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 476-5500 Attorney File No.: PA0820293 Attorney Code. 91220 Case # 09 CH 32598 I246130 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.; P l a i n t i f f , v s .

STEVEN FITZGERALD A/K/A STEVE F I T Z G E R A L D ; MARY FITZGERALD; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF STEVEN FITZGERALD, IF ANY; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF MARY FITZGERALD, IF ANY; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; D e f e n d a n t s , 09 CH 03846 PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on 9/10/2009, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, April 13, 2010, at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: P.I.N. 20-28-308-024-0000.

Commonly known as 7628 SOUTH UNION AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60628.

The improvement on the property consists of a multi-family residence.

The successful purchaser is entitled to possession of the property only. The purchaser may only obtain possession of units within the multi-unit property occupied by individuals named in the order of possession. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the s a l e .

For information: Visit our website at http://service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only. Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 0 9 0 1 9 1 2 .

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES C O R P O R A T I O N Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I250436 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION ONEWEST BANK, FSB ASSIGNEE OF M O R T G A G E ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR MARKET STREET M O R T G A G E CORPORATION; Plaintiff, v s B.LACKS MUST CAROLYN HOLT BYNUM; MORTGAGE E L E C T R O N I C REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. UNDER MORTGAGE RECORDED AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 0616045146; NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; UNKNOWN TENANTS AND UNKNOWN OWNERS; D e f e n d a n t s , 09 CH 30547 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause on January 12, 2010 Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK ILLINOIS COUNTY, DEPARTMENT COUNTY DIVISION CHANCERY ONEWEST BANK, FSB ASSIGNEE OF M O R T G A G E REGISTRATION ELECTRONIC INC. AS SYSTEMS, NOMINEE FOR MARKET STREET M O R T G A G E Plaintiff, CORPORATION; s . v CAROLYN HOLT BYNUM; MORTGAGE E L E C T R O N I C SYSTEMS, INC. REGISTRATION MORTGAGE UNDER AS DOCUMENT RECORDED 0616045146; NUMBER CLAIMANTS; NONRECORD TENANTS AND UNKNOWN UNKNOWN OWNERS; D e f e n d a n t s , CH 30547 09 OF SALE NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause on January 12, 2010 Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: 20-27-116-030-0000.

P.I.N. Commonly known as 7344 South Calumet Chicago, IL 60619.

Avenue, The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence.

Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours.

No refunds. The property will NOT be for inspection. open For information call Sales Clerk at Law Offices of Ira T. Nevel, 175 North Franklin (312) Street, Chicago, Illinois 60606.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION COMMUNITY INITIATIVES, I N C . , P l a i n t i f f , v .

FLAGSTAR BANK, FSB, et al D e f e n d a n t 06 CH 25028 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 27, 2010, an agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation will at 10:30 AM on March 30, 2010, at the The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 6218-20 S. MARTIN LUTHER KING DRIVE, Chicago, IL 60637 Property Index No. 20-15-317-054-1001, 1002, 1003, 1004, 1005, 1006, 1007, 1008, 1009 AND 1011 The real estate is improved with a commercial property. The judgment amount was $123,949.13. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction;. The balance, in certified funds, 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 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 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 Plaintiff's attorney: HAUSELMAN, RAPPIN & OLSWANG, LTD. , 39 South LaSalle Street - Suite 1105, CHICAGO, IL 60603, (312) 372-2020 . Please refer to file number 09-4400-24. 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. HAUSELMAN, RAPPIN & OLSWANG, LTD. 39 South LaSalle Street - Suite 1105 CHICAGO, IL 60603 (312) 372-2020 Attorney File No.: 09-4400-24 Attorney Code. 4452 Case # 06 CH 25028 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 COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION GREEN TREE SERVICING, L L C .

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LEONARD, et al LATOYNIA D e f e n d a n t CH 5750 09 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 4, 2010, an agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation will at 10:30 AM on April 6, 2010, at the The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 7006 SOUTH NORMAL BOULEVARD, CHICAGO, IL 60621 Property Index No. 20-21-326-019-0000 The real estate is improved with a brick two story with no garage. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction;. The balance, in certified funds, 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 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 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: Visit our website at http:\\service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5 pm. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES, Plaintiff's Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300, CHICAGO, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 476-5500. Please refer to file number PA0902779. 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. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300 CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 476-5500 Attorney File No.: PA0902779 Attorney Code. 91220 Case # 09 CH 5750 I246239

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT DIVISION CHANCERY U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION TRUSTEE, AS THE SECURITIZATION UNDER AGREEMENT SERVICING DATED AS OF AUGUST 1, 2005 ASSET STRUCTURED CORPORATION, SECURITIES ASSET STRUCTURED LOAN TRUST INVESTMENT PASS-THROUGH MORTGAGE CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-HE3 P l a i n t i f f , s . v THOMAS MURPHY; FEDERAL ASSET M A N A G E M E N T CONSULTANTS, LTD; 5901 SOUTH P R A I R I E CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION; CITY OF CHICAGO; COMMUNITY INIATIVES INC. AKA CII, A S RECEIVER; UNKNOWN OCCUPANTS; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, D e f e n d a n t s , 09 CH 2303 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause on December 29, 2009 Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 20-15-304-001-0000 New Number Assigned: 20-15-304-038-1001.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK Commonly known as 5901 South Prairie COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY Avenue, #1W, Chicago, IL 60637.

DEPARTMENT CHANCERY The mortgaged real estate is improved DIVISION COMMUNITY INITIATIVES, with a condominium residence.

The I N C . , purchaser of the unit other than a P l a i n t i f f , mortgagee shall pay the assessments and v . the legal fees required by subdivisions FLAGSTAR BANK, FSB, et al (g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9 of the D e f e n d a n t Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 06 CH 25028 10% down by certified funds, balance, by CONTROL T HEIR OWN COMMUNITY NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS certified funds, within 24 hours. No HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a refunds. The property will NOT be open Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered for inspection in the above cause on January 27, 2010, an For information call William E. Dutton, Jr. agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation (ARDC #6255876)/Barbara J. Dutton will at 10:30 AM on March 30, 2010, at the (ARDC #6188016) at Plaintiff's Attorney, The Judicial Sales Corporation, One DUTTON & DUTTON, P.C., 10325 West South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor Lincoln Highway, Frankfort, Illinois 60423.

CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public (815) 806-8200. auction to the highest bidder, as set forth INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES below, the following described real estate: C O R P O R A T I O N Commonly known as 6218-20 S. MARTIN Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I246840 LUTHER KING DRIVE, Chicago, IL 60637 Property Index No. 20-15-317-054-1001, 1002, 1003, 1004, 1005, 1006, 1007, 1008, 1009 AND 1011 The real estate is improved with a

at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 20-15-304-001-0000 New Number Assigned: 20-15-304-038-1001.

Commonly known as 5901 South Prairie Avenue, #1W, Chicago, IL 60637.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a condominium residence.

The purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by subdivisions (g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection For information call William E. Dutton, Jr. (ARDC #6255876)/Barbara J. Dutton (ARDC #6188016) at Plaintiff's Attorney, DUTTON & DUTTON, P.C., 10325 West Lincoln Highway, Frankfort, Illinois 60423.

(815) 806-8200.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES C O R P O R A T I O N Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I246840 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK ILLINOIS COUNTY, DEPARTMENT COUNTY DIVISION CHANCERY HOME FINANCE, LLC; CHASE P l a i n t i f f , s . v HAYWARD W. SUGGS AKA HAYWARD JR. AS SUGGS, INDEPENDENT EXECUTOR OF THE OF ESTATE VIRGINIA SUGGS AKA VIRGINIA M. HAYWARD SUGGS; W. SUGGS AKA HAYWARD SUGGS, INDIVIDUALLY, JR. UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF SUGGS VIRGINIA AKA VIRGINIA M. SUGGS; PHYLLIS H O P G O O D ; PHARREL LEWIS AKA PHARREL M. MELVENA LEWIS; STRONG AKA MELVENA E. STRONG; SUGGS, WAYMAN REGINALD SUGGS, JR.; UNKNOWN AND OWNERS NORNECORD CLAIMANTS; D e f e n d a n t s , CH 9622 08 OF SALE NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause on December 29, 2009 Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Wednesday, March 31, 2010 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 20-27-202-015-0000.

Commonly known as 7151 South Eberhart, Chicago, IL 60619.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence.

Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours.

No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection For information call Kara Findlay at Plaintiff's Attorney, Freedman Anselmo Lindberg & Rappe, LLC, 1807 West Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois 60563-1890.

(866) 402-8661. For Bidding instructions call (630) 453-6713 24 hours prior to sale.

F 0 8 0 1 0 6 5 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES C O R P O R A T I O N Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I246873 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, L.P. P l a i n t i f f , s . v GIPSON; LANDMARK LEROY CONDOMINIUM RESIDENCES INC.; UNKNOWN ASSOCIATION, AND LEGATEES HEIRS OF LEROY GIPSON, IF ANY; OWNERS AND UNKNOWN NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; e f e n d a n t s , D CH 12563 09 PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on 1/4/2010, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, April 6, 2010, at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: P.I.N. 20-15-401-031-1003.

Commonly known as 6043 SOUTH MARTIN LUTHER KING DRIVE UNIT 201, CHICAGO, IL 60637.

The improvement on the property consists of a condominium residence.

The purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by subdivisions (g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.

For information: Visit our website at http://service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only. Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 0 9 0 6 0 0 5 .

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES C O R P O R A T I O N Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I249859

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK N.A. AS TRUSTEE UNDER POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT DATED AS OF AUGUST 1, 2005 ASSET- BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2005-WHQ4 P l a i n t i f f , v .

FYLYNNE CRAWFORD, et al D e f e n d a n t 09 CH 009602 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 4, 2010, an agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation will at 10:30 AM on April 6, 2010, at the The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 7032 EMERALD AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60621 Property Index No. 20-21-321-030 The real estate is improved with a residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction;. The balance, in certified funds, 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. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). IF 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 Plaintiff's attorney: The Sale Clerk, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. , 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 between the hours of 1 and 3 PM only and ask for the sales department.. Please refer to file number 14-09-06676. 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) 794-9876 Attorney File No.: 14-09-06676 ARDC# 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case # 09 CH 009602 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 COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE STRUCTURED ASSET INVESTMENT LOAN TRUST, 2006-1 Plaintiff, v s .

ANGELIQUE ANDREWS CITY OF CHICAGO; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants, 09 CH 13609 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause on December 21, 2009 Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, April 6, 2010 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 20-21-307-027-0000.

Commonly known as 6836 South Union Avenue, Chicago, IL 60621.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence.

Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours.

No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection For information call Kara Findlay at Plaintiff's Attorney, Freedman Anselmo Lindberg & Rappe, LLC, 1807 West Diehl Road,Chicago Naperville, Crusader Illinois 60563-1890.

The (866) 402-8661. For Bidding instructions call (630) 453-6713 24 hours prior to sale. w 0 9 0 3 0 1 3 3 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES C O R P O R A T I O N Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I249860

cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 20-21-307-027-0000.

Commonly known as 6836 South Union Avenue, Chicago, IL 60621.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence.

Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours.

No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection For information call Kara Findlay at Plaintiff's Attorney, Freedman Anselmo Lindberg & Rappe, LLC, 1807 West Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois 60563-1890.

(866) 402-8661. For Bidding instructions call (630) 453-6713 24 hours prior to sale. w 0 9 0 3 0 1 3 3 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES C O R P O R A T I O N Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I249860 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION CHASE HOME FINANCE LLC P l a i n t i f f , v .

REGINALD CLEMONS, et al D e f e n d a n t 08 CH 013878 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 7, 2010, an agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation will at 10:30 AM on April 9, 2010, at the The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 253 W. 60TH STREET, CHICAGO, IL 60621 Property Index No. 20-16-408-003 The real estate is improved with a residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction;. The balance, in certified funds, 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. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER OF AN ORDER OF ENTRY IN ACCORDANCE POSSESSION, WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: The Sale Clerk, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. , 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 between the hours of 1 and 3 PM only and ask for the sales department.. Please refer to file number 14-08-09328. 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) 794-9876 Attorney File No.: 14-08-09328 ARDC# 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case # 08 CH 013878 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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auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 6918 S. PERRY AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60621 Property Index No. 20-21-415-025 The real estate is improved with a residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction;. The balance, in certified funds, 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. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). IF 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 Plaintiff's attorney: The Sale Clerk, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. , 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 between the hours of 1 and 3 PM only and ask for the sales department.. Please refer to file number 14-09-20210. 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) 794-9876 Attorney File No.: 14-09-20210 ARDC# 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case # 09 CH 029093 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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605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). 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 Plaintiff's attorney: The Sale Clerk, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. , 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 between the hours of 1 and 3 PM only and ask for the sales department.. Please refer to file number 14-09-16699. 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) 794-9876 Attorney File No.: 14-09-16699 ARDC# 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case # 09 CH 024999 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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HOUSES FOR SALE

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK ILLINOIS COUNTY COUNTY, CHANCERY DEPARTMENT DIVISION JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, .

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WILLIAMS, et al BARBARA D e f e n d a n t CH 024999 09 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on November 30, 2009, an agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation will at 10:30 AM on April 6, 2010, at the The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive 24th Floor CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 7232 S. LAWRENCE AVENUE, SAINT CHICAGO, IL 60619 Property Index No. 20-27-211-031 The real estate is improved with a residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction;. The balance, in certified funds, 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. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK further recourse against the Mortgagor, COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's DEPARTMENT CHANCERY attorney. Upon payment in full of the DIVISION ONEWEST BANK, FSB amount bid, the purchaser will receive a P l a i n t i f f , Certificate of Sale that will entitle the v . purchaser to a deed to the real estate after EITHAN FERMAN, et al confirmation of the sale The property will D e f e n d a n t NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff 09 CH 029093 makes no representation as to the NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS condition of the property. Prospective HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a bidders are admonished to check the court Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered file to verify all information. If this property in the above cause on January 5, 2010, an is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a will at 10:30 AM on April 7, 2010, at the mortgagee shall pay the assessments and The Judicial Sales Corporation, One the legal fees required by The South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). IF YOU ARE THE auction to the highest bidder, as set forth MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU below, the following described real estate: HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN Commonly known as 6918 S. PERRY POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60621 Property ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF Index No. 20-21-415-025 The real estate is POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE improved with a residence. Sale terms: WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE 25% down of the highest bid by certified ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE funds at the close of the auction;. The LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's balance, in certified funds, is due within attorney: The Sale Clerk, CODILIS & twenty-four (24) hours. The subject ASSOCIATES, P.C. , 15W030 NORTH property is subject to general real estate FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR taxes, special assessments, or special RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 between taxes levied against said real estate and is the hours of 1 and 3 PM only and ask for offered for sale without any representation department.. refer to file as to quality or quantity M of title andCwithout BLACKS UST ONTROLthe Tsales HEIR OWN CPlease OMMUNITY number 14-09-16699. THE JUDICIAL recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" SALES CORPORATION One South condition. The sale is further subject to Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL confirmation by the court. If the sale is set 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at sale shall be entitled only to a return of the www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, further recourse against the Mortgagor, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL attorney. Upon payment in full of the 60527 (630) 794-9876 Attorney File No.: amount bid, the purchaser will receive a 14-09-16699 ARDC# 00468002 Attorney Certificate of Sale that will entitle the Code. 21762 Case # 09 CH 024999 purchaser to a deed to the real estate after NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt confirmation of the sale The property will Collection Practices Act, you are advised NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a makes no representation as to the debt collector attempting to collect a debt condition of the property. Prospective and any information obtained will be used bidders are admonished to check the court

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N .

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REGINALD CLEMONS A/K/A REGINALD J. CLEMONS, et al D e f e n d a n t 08 CH 014431 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on March 24, 2009, an agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation will at 10:30 AM on March 29, 2010, at the The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate:Commonly known as 315 W. 59TH PLACE, CHICAGO, IL 60621 Property Index No. 20-16-402-013 The real estate is improved with a residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction;. The balance, in certified funds, 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. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). IF 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 Plaintiff's attorney: The Sale Clerk, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. , 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 between the hours of 1 and 3 PM only and ask for the sales department.. Please refer to file number 14-08-09332. 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) 794-9876 Attorney File No.: 14-08-09332 ARDC# 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case # 08 CH 014431 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.

I250998 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, L.P. P l a i n t i f f , v s .

NADA SHAMAH; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC AS NOMINEE FOR COUNTRYWIDE BANK FSB; MICHIGAN-60TH STREET C O N D O M I N I U M ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF NADA SHAMAH, IF ANY; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON Saturday, RECORD CLAIMANTS; D e f e n d a n t s , 09 CH 10491 PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on 12/21/2009, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, March 23, 2010, at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: P.I.N. 20-15-308-017-1007.

Commonly known as 6003 SOUTH MICHIGAN AVENUE UNIT 1, CHICAGO, IL 60637.

The improvement on the property consists

BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP COUNTRYWIDE FKA HOME LOANS SERVICING, L.P. P l a i n t i f f , s . v SHAMAH; MORTGAGE NADA REGISTRATION ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS INC AS NOMINEE FOR BANK COUNTRYWIDE MICHIGAN-60TH STREET FSB; C O N D O M I N I U M ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN HEIRS LEGATEES OF AND NADA SHAMAH, IF ANY; UNKNOWN AND NON OWNERS RECORD CLAIMANTS; D e f e n d a n t s , CH 10491 09 PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on 12/21/2009, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, March 23, 2010, at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: 20-15-308-017-1007.

P.I.N. Commonly known as 6003 SOUTH AVENUE UNIT 1, MICHIGAN IL 60637.

CHICAGO, The improvement on the property consists The of a condominium residence. purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by subdivisions (g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after of the sale. confirmation For information: Visit our website at http://service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only. Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 3 8 2 .

0 9 0 4 JUDICIAL SALES INTERCOUNTY C O R P O R A T I O N Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I245564 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK ILLINOIS COUNTY COUNTY, CHANCERY DEPARTMENT AMTRUST BANK DIVISION P l a i n t i f f , v .

VLADAN BOZOVIC, et al D e f e n d a n t 09 CH 024265 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, 2009, an agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation will at 10:30 AM on April 6, 2010, at the The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive 24th Floor CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 6217 S. VERNON AVENUE, UNIT 3, CHICAGO, IL 60630 Property Index No. 20-15-417-027-1016 (20-15-417-025 / 026 Underlying) The real estate is improved with a condo/townhouse. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction;. The balance, in certified funds, 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. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). IF 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 Plaintiff's attorney: The Sale Clerk, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. , 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 between the hours of 1 and 3 PM only and ask for the sales department.. Please refer to file number 14-09-13055. 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) 794-9876 Attorney File No.: 14-09-13055 ARDC# 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case # 09 CH 024265 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 March 13,information 2010 obtained will be used for that purpose.

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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) 794-9876 Attorney File No.: 14-09-13055 ARDC# 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case # 09 CH 024265 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.

I250212 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT, CHANCERY D I V I S I O N MIDFIRST BANK, P l a i n t i f f V .

TERESA HARRIS; SOUTH CENTRAL BANK AND TRUST COMPANY; DAN RYAN FINANCIAL CENTER; MIDLAND FUNDING NCC-2 CORPORATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, D e f e n d a n t s 09 CH 25450 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE Fisher and Shapiro file # 09-23685 (It is advised that interested parties consult with their own attorneys before bidding at mortgage foreclosure sales.)

PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered on January 8, 2010, Kallen Realty Services, Inc., as Selling Official will at 12:30 p.m. on April 9, 2010, at 205 W. Randolph Street, Suite 1020, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real property: Commonly known as 6505 South Drexel Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637 Permanent Index No.: 20-23-114-002 The mortgaged real estate is improved with a dwelling. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

The judgment amount was $37,442.82.

Sale terms: 10% of successful bid immediately at conclusion of auction, balance by 12:30 p.m. the next business day, both by cashier's checks; and no refunds. The sale shall be subject to general real estate taxes, special taxes, special assessments, special taxes levied, and superior liens, if any. The property is offered "as is," with no express or implied warranties and without any representation as to the quality of title or recourse to Prospective bidders are Plaintiff. admonished to review the court file to verify information. all For information: Sale Clerk, Fisher and Shapiro, 4201 Lake Cook Rd., 1st floor, Northbrook, Illinois 60062, (847) 498-9990, between 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. weekdays n l y . o I242473

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT, CHANCERY D I V I S I O N WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO WELLS FARGO BANK MINNESOTA, N.A., AS TRUSTEE F/K/A NORWEST BANK MINNESOTA, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR THE REGISTERED HOLDERS OF STRUCTURED ASSET SECURITIES CORPORATION, AMORTIZING RESIDENTIAL COLLATERAL TRUST, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2002-BC9, P l a i n t i f f V .

TONY JAMISON; VERONICA JAMISON; CITIFINANCIAL, INC. F/K/A ASSOCIATES FINANCE, INC., D e f e n d a n t s 08 CH 41731 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE Fisher and Shapiro file # 08-12362 (It is advised that interested parties consult with their own attorneys before bidding at mortgage foreclosure sales.)

PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered on September 2, 2009, Kallen Realty Services, Inc., as Selling Official will at 12:30 p.m. on March 2, 2010, at 205 W. Randolph Street, Suite 1020, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real property: Commonly known as 7520 South Saint Lawrence Avenue, Chicago, IL 60619 Permanent Index No.: 20-27-403-030 The mortgaged real estate is improved with a dwelling. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

The judgment amount was $104,255.94.

Sale terms: 10% of successful bid immediately at conclusion of auction, balance by 12:30 p.m. the next business day, both by cashier's checks; and no refunds. The sale shall be subject to general real estate taxes, special taxes, special assessments, special taxes levied, and superior liens, if any. The property is offered "as is," with no express or implied warranties and without any representation as to the quality of title or recourse to Plaintiff.

Prospective bidders are admonished to review the court file to verify all information.

For information: Sale Clerk, Fisher and Shapiro, 4201 Lake Cook Rd., 1st floor, Northbrook, Illinois 60062, (847) 498-9990, between 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. weekdays o n l y .

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK ILLINOIS COUNTY COUNTY, CHANCERY DEPARTMENT DIVISION JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, ASSOCIATION NATIONAL P l a i n t i f f , v .

DAVID BONNER A/K/A DAVID C. SR., et al BONNER, D e f e n d a n t CH 016484 08 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on June 9, 2009, an agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation will at 10:30 AM on March 30, 2010, at the The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 7301 S. LANGLEY AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60619 Property Index No. 20-27-222-001 The real estate is improved with a multi-family residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction;.

The balance, in certified funds, 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. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). IF 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 Plaintiff's attorney: The Sale Clerk, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. , 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 between the hours of 1 and 3 PM only and ask for the sales department.. Please refer to file number 14-08-11657. 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) 794-9876 Attorney File No.: 14-08-11657 ARDC# 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case # 08 CH 016484 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.

I251518 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, L.P. P l a i n t i f f , v s .

KENNETHA GLOVER; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF KENNETHA GLOVER, IF ANY; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; D e f e n d a n t s , 09 CH 15642 PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on 12/22/2009, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Wednesday, March 24, 2010, at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: P.I.N. 20-28-216-024-0000.

Commonly known as 7332 SOUTH HARVARD AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 6 0 6 2 1 .

The improvement on the property consists of a multi-family residence.

The successful purchaser is entitled to possession of the property only. The purchaser may only obtain possession of units within the multi-unit property occupied by individuals named in the order of possession.. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon 18 payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the s a l e .

For information: Visit our website at http://service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only. Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 0 9 0 9 9 4 2 .

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES C O R P O R A T I O N Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I245648

entered in the above entitled cause on 12/22/2009, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Wednesday, March 24, 2010, at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: 20-28-216-024-0000.

P.I.N. Commonly known as 7332 SOUTH HARVARD AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 0 6 2 1 .

6 The improvement on the property consists The of a multi-family residence. successful purchaser is entitled to possession of the property only. The purchaser may only obtain possession of units within the multi-unit property occupied by individuals named in the order of possession.. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the a l e . s For information: Visit our website at http://service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only. Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 9 4 2 .

0 9 0 9 JUDICIAL SALES INTERCOUNTY C O R P O R A T I O N Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I245648 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION AURORA LOAN SERVICES, LLC, P l a i n t i f f , v s .

ROSE M. LEWIS; MORTGAGE E L E C T R O N I C REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR PROFESSIONAL MORTGAGE PARTNERS, INC.; LVNV FUNDING LLC, Defendants, 07 CH 25318 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause on January 11, 2008 Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Monday, March 22, 2010 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: Commonly known as 7353 South Rhodes Chicago, IL 60619.

Avenue, 20-27-219-016.

P.I.N. mortgaged real estate is improved The with a single family residence.

Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours.

No refunds. The property will NOT be for inspection open For information call William E. Dutton, Jr. (ARDC #6255876)/Barbara J. Dutton (ARDC #6188016) at Plaintiff's Attorney, DUTTON & DUTTON, P.C., 10325 West Lincoln Highway, Frankfort, Illinois 60423.

(815) 806-8200.

JUDICIAL SALES INTERCOUNTY C O R P O R A T I O N Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I245451 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK ILLINOIS COUNTY COUNTY, DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK, NA SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO WELLS FARGO HOME MORTGAGE, INC. P l a i n t i f f , v .

ANGELINA EILAND-FRAZIER A/K/A ANGLELINA E. FRAZIER A/K/A ANGELINA T. EILAND-FRAZIER, et al D e f e n d a n t 09 CH 032014 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on February 2, 2010, an agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation will at 10:30 AM on April 5, 2010, at the The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 7036 S. UNION AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60621 Property Index No. 20-21-322-032 The real estate is improved with a residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction;. The balance, in certified funds, 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. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS13, AFTER Saturday, March 2010 ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: The Sale Clerk, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. , 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 between the hours of 1 and 3 PM only and ask for the sales department.. Please refer to file number 14-09-25692. 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

confirmation of the sale The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). IF 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 Plaintiff's attorney: The Sale Clerk, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. , 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 between the hours of 1 and 3 PM only and ask for the sales department.. Please refer to file number 14-09-25692. 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) 794-9876 Attorney File No.: 14-09-25692 ARDC# 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case # 09 CH 032014 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.

I249281

CHANCERY DIVISION CITY OF CHICAGO, A MUNICIPAL C O R P O R A T I O N ; P l a i n t i f f , v s .

CHARLES DETRICK & SONS, INC.; CHARLES DETRICK UNKNOWN HEIRS AT LAW OR LEGATEES OF CHARLES DETRICK; BENJAMIN HAYES; J.B. SIMS A/K/A JAYONNA B. SIMS; S. SIMS, JR.; TRI M E D ; BESSIE MAE SIMS; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; D e f e n d a n t s , 08 CH 36685 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on February 10, 2010, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Monday, April 12, 2010, at the hour of 11 a.m. in its office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: Commonly known as 7545 South Halsted, Chicago, IL. P.I.N. 20-28-300-012.

The property consists of vacant land.

Sale terms: 10% of the purchase price will be required to bid at the sale. The balance of the purchase price required by 12:00 p.m. the following day.

The property will NOT be open for i n s p e c t i o n .

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the s a l e .

For information call City of Chicago Corporation Counsel/Collection and Ownership Litigation Division, 33 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602 (312) 742-0007.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES C O R P O R A T I O N Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I250324

HOUSES FOR SALE

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION CITIMORTGAGE, INC., P l a i n t i f f , v .

MARIO HYDE, et al D e f e n d a n t 07 CH 36672 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 14, 2010, an agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation will at 10:30 AM on April 16, 2010, at the The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 7241 EBERHART AVENUE, Chicago, IL 60619 Property Index No. 20-27-210-016-0000 The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $139,513.68. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction;. The balance, in certified funds, 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 The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the are property. Prospective bidders 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 YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER OF AN ORDER OF ENTRY IN ACCORDANCE POSSESSION, WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: HAUSELMAN, RAPPIN & OLSWANG, LTD. , 39 South LaSalle Street - Suite 1105, CHICAGO, IL 60603, (312) 372-2020 . Please refer to file number 07-2222-6029. 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. HAUSELMAN, RAPPIN & OLSWANG, LTD. 39 South LaSalle Street - Suite 1105 CHICAGO, IL 60603 (312) 372-2020 Attorney File No.: 07-2222-6029 Attorney Code. 4452 Case # 07 CH 36672 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.

I252645 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION CITY OF CHICAGO, A MUNICIPAL C O R P O R A T I O N ; P l a i n t i f f , v s .

CHARLES DETRICK & SONS, INC.; CHARLES DETRICK UNKNOWN HEIRS AT LAW OR LEGATEES OF CHARLES DETRICK; BENJAMIN HAYES; J.B. SIMS A/K/A JAYONNA B. SIMS; S. SIMS, JR.; TRI M E D ; BESSIE MAE SIMS; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON B LACKS M UST RECORD CLAIMANTS; D e f e n d a n t s , 08 CH 36685 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on February 10, 2010, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Monday, April 12, 2010, at the hour of 11 a.m. in its office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: Commonly known as 7545 South Halsted, Chicago, IL. P.I.N. 20-28-300-012.

The property consists of vacant land.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION JPMORGAN CHASE BANK N .

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P l a i n t i f f , v .

ERIC SANDERS, et al D e f e n d a n t CH 027133 09 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 14, 2010, an agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation will at 10:30 AM on April 16, 2010, at the The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 7324 S. RHODES AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60619 Property Index No. 20-27-218-039 The real estate is improved with a residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction;. The balance, in certified funds, 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. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). IF 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 Plaintiff's attorney: The Sale Clerk, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. , 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 between the hours of 1 and 3 PM only and ask for the sales department.. Please refer to file number 14-09-14299. 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) 794-9876 Attorney File No.: 14-09-14299 ARDC# 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case # 09 CH 027133 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.

I252584

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK ILLINOIS COUNTY COUNTY, DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON F/K/A THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE HOLDERS OF GE-WMC ASSET-BACKED THE CERTIFICATES, PASS-THROUGH 2005-2 SERIES P l a i n t i f f , v .

HENRY DORSEY JR. A/K/A HENRY et al DORSEY, D e f e n d a n t CH 005910 09 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS GIVEN that pursuant to a HEREBY Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 7, 2010, an agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation will at 10:30 AM on April 9, 2010, at the The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 7211 S. SAINT LAWRENCE AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60619 Property Index No. 20-27-212-008 The real estate is improved with a residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction;. The balance, in certified funds, 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. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). IF 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 Plaintiff's attorney: The Sale Clerk, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. , 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 between the hours of 1 and 3 PM only and ask for the sales department.. Please refer to file number 14-09-04058. 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) 794-9876 Attorney File No.: 14-09-04058 ARDC# 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case # 09 CH 005910 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 that purpose. for I250900

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK ILLINOIS COUNTY COUNTY, DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP F/K/A COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP P l a i n t i f f , v .

STEVEN J. FITZGERALD A/K/A STEVEN FITZGERALD, et al D e f e n d a n t 09 CH 21044 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 19, 2010, an agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation will at 10:30 AM on April 21, 2010, at the The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 448 WEST 61ST STREET, CHICAGO, IL 60621 Property Index No. 20-16-314-021-0000 The real estate is improved with a two-story, two-unit, frame apartment building; no garage. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction;. The balance, in certified funds, 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 CONTROL THEIR OWN COMMUNITY 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

special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). IF 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: Visit our website at http:\\service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5 pm. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES, Plaintiff's Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300, CHICAGO, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 476-5500. Please refer to file number PA0909084. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Sales Corporation at Judicial www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300 CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 476-5500 Attorney File No.: PA0909084 Attorney Code. 91220 Case # 09 CH 21044 I250933 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK, NA; P l a i n t i f f , v s .

DALA IGUODALA; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF DALA IGUODALA, IF ANY; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; D e f e n d a n t s , 08 CH 33358 PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on 2/11/2010, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Monday, April 12, 2010, at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: P.I.N. 20-27-228-024-0000, 20-27-228- 0 2 5 - 0 0 0 0 .

Commonly known as 7420 South Champlain Avenue, Chicago, IL 60619.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.

For information: Visit our website at http://service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only. Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 0 8 2 1 3 7 0 .

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES C O R P O R A T I O N Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I250320 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK ILLINOIS COUNTY, DEPARTMENT COUNTY DIVISION CHANCERY AURORA LOAN SERVICES, LLC P l a i n t i f f , s . v CITY OF RAWLIN E. BROWN; UNKNOWN CHICAGO; HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF RAWLIN E. IF BROWN, ANY; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON CLAIMANTS; RECORD D e f e n d a n t s , CH 16460 09 PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on 1/14/2010, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Friday, April 16, 2010, at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: P.I.N. 20-16-110-045-0000.

Commonly known as 5654-56 SOUTH NORMAL AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60621.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.

For information: Visit our website at http://service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only. Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 0 9 1 0 2 9 7 .

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HEALTH

March is National Kidney Month Thapelo Institute to offer free kidney screenings Chicago jazz singer Felena Bunn was just 25-years-old when she suffered a stroke caused by high blood pressure. Three years later, she received the devastating news that her kidneys were failing. Felena, now 35, has been on costly dialysis for three years while waiting for a lifesaving transplant.

Earl Singleton has suffered from diabetes for 10 years. In 2006, he went into the hospital for an amputation when doctors discovered his kidneys were failing.

After being diagnosed with endstage renal disease, the Hyde Park resident and former teacher must undergo dialysis treatment at the hospital three times per week for four hours.

Felena and Earl are just two of thousands in Chicago suffering from chronic kidney disease. It is a health crisis that is taking a harsh toll on Chicago minorities, particularly in “red zones,” neighborhoods most affected by kid-

ney disease.

Facts about chronic kidney disease: • African Americans are four times more likely than Caucasians to develop kidney failure.

• In Chicago, minority neighborhoods on the South and West Sides have significantly higher kidney failure rates than the rest of the city.

• Early screening and education are key to preventing chronic kidney disease • The American Kidney Fund (AKF) provides financial support to kidney patients, health education and prevention efforts.

March is National Kidney Month and March 11 was World Kidney Day. In recognition of National Kidney Month, the AKF and Thapelo Institute in Chicago will offer a free kidney health screening: • Saturday, March 13, from 8:00 a.m. to noon

CHICAGO JAZZ SINGER Felena Bunn receives dialysis at her job at the Kenwood Oakland Community Organization. Felena was just 25 years old when she suffered a stroke caused by high blood pressure. Three years later, she received the devastating news that her kidneys were failing. Felena, now 35, has been on costly dialysis for three years while awaiting a lifesaving transplant.

• South Park Baptist Church, 3722 S. King Drive in Chicago • American Kidney Fund Presi-

dent and CEO, LaVarne Burton, will speak about the impact of chronic kidney disease as well as

address reasons associated with high rates of the disease in minority communities.

Dental Day at Legacy Charter School More than 200 pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten, first- and secondgraders received free dental screenings recently when law firm Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP partnered with Allstate Insurance and Colgate Bright Smiles, Bright Futures to sponsor Dental Day at

Legacy Charter School. Founded

by Sonnenschein in 2005, Legacy is a Chicago Public School located in Chicago’s North Lawndale community.

The purpose of the Dental Day program was to heighten awareness

for the importance of good oral health habits, especially in early childhood where oral health habits are formed. In addition to screenings, the program included fun oral health activities, a dental report card for each child, and dentist referrals, as needed.

3 5 - y e a r - ol d F e l e n a B u n n i s a b l e t o s e l f - a d m i n i st e r d i a l y s i s t r e a t m e n t f ou r t i m e s da i l y e v e n w h i l e on t h e j ob a t t h e Kenwood Oakland Community Organization.

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D E N T A L D A Y P A R T I C I P A N T S i n c l u d e d , l e f t t o r i g h t , b a c k r o w , t h e Bi g T o o t h ( N a t a l i e Holleran), Allstate volunteer; Leslie Davis, partner, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP; Dr. R a b b i t ( K e n t A b s a l o n s e n ) A l l s t a t e v o l un t e e r ; D r . M a r s h a B u t l e r , S e n i o r V i c e P r e s i d e n t o f Global Marketing, Colgate Bright Smiles, Bright Futures; Dr. Brushwell (Joe Rippin), Allstate v o l u n t e e r ; M i c h e l e C o l e m a n M a y e s , S e n i o r V P a n d g e n e r a l c o u n se l fo r A l l s t a t e ; a n d Li s a Kenner, principal of Legacy Charter School. In the front row, left to right, are Legacy Charter School students from Bridget Hogan’s first grade class, six-year olds Brianna Warren, Jurnee Williams and Timia Ware, and seven-year olds Jaya Tate, Michael Woods and Jaylon Smith.

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