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Kroger To Sell Westchester Mariano’s Pending Merger

The company could sell the store to C&S Wholesale Grocers, owner of Piggly Wiggly, if plans to merge with Albertson’s are approved

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

Crain’s Chicago Business reported on July 9 that Kroger and Albertson’s could sell 35 Mariano’s and Jewel-Osco stores in Illinois as part of their attempts to appease regulators and secure federal approval for their planned consolidation.

The Mariano’s at 3020 Wolf Rd. in Westchester is one of them. The Mariano’s stores at 678 N. York St. in Elmhurst, 345 W Roosevelt Ave. in Lombard, and 4700 Gilbert Ave. in Western Springs were also on the list.

The Chicago Tribune reported that if “Kroger and Albertsons — which first announced plans to merge in 2022 — secure approval for the deal, the store locations listed would be sold to C&S Wholesale Grocers for $2.9 billion. Most Krogerowned Mariano’s would be divested under the plan, which calls for selling 31 of the company’s 44 stores. Kroger has also said it would sell the Mariano’s brand name to C&S.”

Based in New Hampshire, Forbes magazine lists C&S Wholesale Grocers as the eighth-largest privately held company in the United States.

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Bellwood Breaks Ground On $43M Gateway Project Apartment And Retail Development

Officials said the two four-story, 71-unit apartments will be partly financed with the state’s first workforce housing bonds

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

Bellwood officials, developers, and community members gathered on July 9 for a groundbreaking for the first phase of the $42.5 million Bellwood Gateway Project,

two four-story apartment buildings flanking St. Charles Rd.

“When completed, the Bellwood Gateway pair will have a combined 71 apartments and 6,000 square feet of first-floor commercial space, with parking behind each building,” Crains Chicago Business re-

ported last month. Peter Tsiolis, Bellwood’s economic development director, told Crain’s the “residential rents will run about $1,900 to $2,400 a month and that no leases have yet been

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The Right To Resist

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Opinion & Analysis

“I was five years old when Hitler and the National Socialists took power,” the German novelist and poet Gunter Grass said in “On the Right to Resist,” his address delivered in 1983 at Saint Paul’s Church in Frankfurt.

“I was thirty before I realized that my whole life—and my children’s and their children’s lives as well—would be blighted by the effects of that seizure of power.”

We are in our own Hitlerian moment, a point I make not merely to parrot the empty, grandstanding moralism of naive, spineless liberals like Barack Obama, whose corporation-first ‘hope and change’ PR politics the late American anthropologist David Graeber castigated some years ago.

many, that moment started on Jan. 30, 1933, when Hitler was appointed the country’s Chancellor and his Nazi Party officially Germany’s ruling party.

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“The only possible appeal of that kind of politics is ‘Well, at least they’re not Nazis,’ right?’ What they want is for the Left to be this kind of mish-mosh of bureaucratic market centrism and for the Right to be outright Fascist,” Graeber said. “To set the ball rolling in an actual Left direction would be utterly unappealing.”

An “actual Left” direction would be closer to the politics of Sen. Bernie Sanders, a figure whose talk of universal healthcare and higher taxes for the rich, and whose scruffy, un-polished appearance (much like President Joe Biden’s un-telegenic aging) so terrified the centrist Democrats that they took off the white kid gloves preserved for dealing with the party they claim is such a fascistic threat, the Republicans, and clobbered Sanders into submission, giving us Hillary Clinton in 2016 and a less old but, to them, more palatable Joe Biden in 2020.

I also don’t want to parrot the Hitler rhetoric thrown out by craven conservative opportunists like Sen. J.D. Vance, who eight years ago compared then-presidential candidate Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler only to reverse himself and claim outrageously that the Democrats’ Hitler references were what prompted a Republican sniper to badly aim at the former president’s head.

It’s too simplistic and self-absolving to make Donald Trump, as otherworldly vile a swamp creature as he is, the end all, be all of our current Hitlerian moment, even if he must rightly be identified as its figurehead.

A Hitlerian moment is when radical, right-wing, authoritarian political groups once considered fringe and laughingstocks by centrist ruling elites consolidate (or are on the verge of consolidating) power through legal, democratic means. For Ger-

Reading Grass’s 1983 address made me realize the conditions that propelled the Nazis to power. The “big industrialists wanted Hitler, financed him, and hired his services; on the other hand, the unions could not resolve to call a general strike. For fear of the Reds, the bourgeoisie went over to the Brown Shirts. Timorously respectful of the democratic laws, the Social Democrats neglected to call for armed resistance and carry the unions with them. Both churches failed miserably; bowing to the new power, they forsook Christ and his message [...] Hitler’s power was consolidated not by his own strengths but by the weakness of his adversaries. Determination to resist was lacking.”

We see German history happening in America as the Democratic Party, the party of the George Clooney Hollywood liberal, attempts to abandon their standard bearer, the current Democratic president, because he looks and acts old, and stutters. And this is the case despite Biden running against Trump, a man who reportedly wears diapers because he can’t control himself, is almost never coherent in public, and, by the way, is also old, to say nothing of the attempted coup, the indictments, the rape, the racism, etc.

We see milquetoast liberals too scared to tell the truth about Trump’s recent assassination attempt, which is that it was birthed in the womb of MAGA, a movement whose right-wing precursors go back centuries and that must be crushed with a Lincolnesque resolve. There is no uniting with that movement, even under these conditions–especially under these conditions.

We also see that virtually no one in mainstream media and politics wants to confront the truth about the last half-century, which is the more subtle, invisible, indirect, systemic violence that Republican and Democratic policies have visited on minorities, the poor, the disabled and even the so-called Middle Class.

Austerity, economic insecurity, wealth inequality, un- and underemployment, loneliness, and social isolation are some of the most powerful factors that determine whether or not countries succumb to socalled strong men.

Often, the liberal politicians who claim that they’re the people’s last best hope

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signed for the commercial space.”

The village recently demolished the old Village Hall, the former police and fire stations, and the old Bellwood Office of Emergency Management building at 2711, 2712, and 2719 St. Charles Rd. to make way for one of the buildings.

The village will own the buildings, but they’ll be managed by Evergreen Real Estate Services. Evergreen also developed the Bellwood Senior Apartments at 542 25th Ave, which was built last year.

Village officials said the development would be paid for by private investment, a state grant secured by Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch, and workforce housing bonds. They added the project is the first of its kind in Illinois to utilize workforce housing bonds. The project is scheduled for completion in Spring 2026.

According to Brookings, a nonprofit Washington D.C.-based think tank, workforce housing is “most often used to indicate a program targeted at households that earn too much to qualify for traditional affordable housing subsidies.”

In May, Bellwood Mayor Andre Harvey said he hoped the apartments would lure more working professionals to the village.

“We want to build housing to get professionals back into the community and keep them here,” the mayor said. “We’re looking for doctors, lawyers, firefighters, police officers, and any residents looking to move back to the community.”

The mayor envisions the development anchoring the village’s burgeoning downtown streetscape, an ambition that village officials have had for decades and that is encapsulated in the St. Charles Road Redevelopment Plan adopted in 2008.

“Every great village has a great downtown, and I am so honored to break ground on a longtime dream come true for myself and, more importantly, for the residents,” said Mayor Harvey.

“The Bellwood Gateway Project is a gateway to Bellwood’s future. This wouldn’t be possible without this amazing team,

Local and state lawmakers, developers, and community leaders break ground on the first phase of the $42.5 million Bellwood Gateway Project, two four-story apartment buildings flanking St. Charles Rd.

including Speaker Welch who shares our vision,” the mayor said. “I am blessed with a great village board of trustees and staff. Peter Tsiolis and Aric Swaney that head up economic development for the village never say ‘no,’ but rather always say ‘let’s go.’ A special thanks to everyone at FH Paschen, Mesirow Financial and DesignBridge that played pivotal roles.”

“Growing up in the ‘Woods – Bellwood and Maywood –made me the man I am today; it will always be home,” said Speaker Welch. “I’m so proud that this first phase of the Bellwood Gateway Project will help dozens of families call this vibrant, diverse community their home, too. I want to thank Mayor Harvey, village staff, and residents for their shared vision in revitalizing our downtown spaces.”

According to Crain’s, the “contemporarystyle buildings, drawn up by Chicago architecture firm DesignBridge, ‘look sleek and modern, light and bright,’ Harvey said, indicating their look will help signal the new vitality he and his predecessor, Frank Pasquale, have tried to infuse into the town through homebuilding.”

The Bellwood Gateway Project is the lat-

est in a succession of single-family homes and apartment complexes built directly by Bellwood and not a private developer — a unique development method that was considered rare when Pasquale pioneered it in 2016.

Since then, the village has directly developed more than two dozen single-family homes, virtually all of which have sold, and the Bellwood Senior Apartments. The single-family homes are larger than the typical Bellwood home and designed to lure families to the village who want more square footage.

Recently, Mayor Harvey successfully lobbied state lawmakers to pass a 10-year property tax reduction for homebuyers who purchase houses built by municipalities, a proposal designed to alleviate the village’s high residential property tax burden. By not waiting for private developers to build, Bellwood is leading a trend that could spread across the state. In 2022, Stone Park directly developed two single-family homes on the 1700 block of N. 37th Ave., and nearby suburbs like Maywood are considering getting into the trend.

The Illinois-based construction firm F.H. Paschen will build the Bellwood Gateway Project apartments. The company’s CEO, James Blair, lauded Bellwood’s role as a pioneer of workforce housing bonds.

“At F.H. Paschen, we know firsthand how communities like Bellwood are adapting to meet the demands of their changing population,” Blair said.

“We’ve been working in Chicago and the suburbs for almost a century to help build the places we live and learn and age-in-place,” he added. “This transformative workforce housing project in Bellwood stands as a repeatable initiative that other suburban communities can emulate. This project exemplifies the successful collaboration between public and private entities to provide housing options for a changing workforce.”

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An architectural rendering of the two apartment buildings that will be built flanking St. Charles Road in Bellwood.

Broadview’s Uncle Remus Reopens After Renovations

The popular chicken restaurant reopened its location at 1801 Roosevelt Rd. after it underwent a $400,000 makeover

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

Fans of Uncle Remus Saucy Fried Chicken, 1801 Roosevelt Rd. in Broadview, have something to cheer about. On July 12, the restaurant chain reopened its third and only suburban location after being closed for remodeling for about a year. The company operated a food truck in Broadview during that period.

“I didn’t think it would be this long,” said Uncle Remus CEO Charmaine Rickette Alfred before a ribbon-cutting on Friday. “ “This has stretched my faith to a level I never thought it would be.”

Alfred said the company paid for the $400,000 renovation project largely with its own money and local Tax Increment Finance (TIF) funding. She learned about the funding through a chance encounter with Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson.

“Banks don’t like restaurants,” she said. “This place was done with a lot of love and hard labor and out of the cash register. When you don’t have a loan, you have to do it yourself and figure it out. We figured it out.”

“What we fail to recognize is that small, Black businesses go through the hardest,” said Mayor Thompson. “I didn’t want this project to be hard for her to do something so meaningful to a lot of people who believe in and come to this location to purchase food.”

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Alfred called the renovated space Uncle Remus 2.0 to reflect the store’s new features, including a wall-size tribute to the franchise’s 50-year history, a large walk-in freezer, a new filtration system, new speakers in the lobby and kitchen, kiosks allowing

C&S owns the Piggly Wiggly grocery store chain. Most Piggly Wiggly stores are in the Southeastern United States, and Illinois has fewer than 10 locations.

Crain’s reported that the “companies have started notifying staff at affected locations, Chief Executive Officer Rodney McMullen wrote in a memo to employees on Tuesday. Impacted workers will become employees of C&S

customers to place their orders, order tracker screens, and a dedicated section for online Door Dash orders, among other enhancements.

The store has also added items to the menu, such as rotisserie chicken, mashed potatoes, and corn. In several

after the transaction closes, McMullen wrote and will remain as Kroger and Albertsons staff until then. C&S has committed to transferring pay and health plans and assuming all collective bargaining agreements, he added.”

It’s unclear what the pending sale means for plans pitched earlier this year by Kroger, the parent company of the Mariano’s grocery store food chain, to install video gaming terminals inside the Westchester Mariano’s.

Kroger officials appeared before the Westchester village board in March to seek approval to construct a private gaming room within the store that would be restricted to people under 21. The room would include a full camera and alarm system, and Mariano’s

weeks, it plans to launch a new version of its loyalty program. Alfred said the program has saved its 5,000 members $23,000.

Alfred said this is the 20th anniversary of Uncle Remus’s opening in Broadview. The franchise was found-

would “comply with all state and local codes and regulations.” The village took no action at the meeting on Feb. 27, when the proposal was presented.

ABC 5 Chicago reported on July 10 that the companies involved in the deal “have pledged that no stores will be closed as a result of the merger, and all collective bargaining agreements will remain in place.”

Rodney McMullen, Kroger’s Chairman and CEO, stated that his company reached a divestiture agreement with C&S “that maintains Kroger’s commitments to customers, associates and communities, addresses concerns raised by regulators, and will further ensure that C&S can successfully operate the

ed in 1969 by Alfred’s parents, Gus and Mary Rickette, at 210 S. Cicero in Chicago. The couple had owned and operated several other chicken restaurants, including G & G Chicken Shack and Royal Chicken, before opening Uncle Remus.

In August of 1969, the couple opened their largest Uncle Remus restaurant at 5611 W. Madison St. in the city’s Austin community “to offer customers a carry-out menu as well as a dine-in food experience,” the franchise’s website explains. “This location still exists and is a staple in the Austin community.”

Gus and Mary retired in 1991 when Alfred began managing the day-today operations at the Austin location. In 2015, she opened a second location at 747 E. 47th Street in the city’s Bronzeville community.

Gus Rickette, who grew up poor in Leland, Miss., and turns 98 this August, beamed with pride during Friday’s ribbon-cutting. He had a pithy explanation about how he and his wife went from wage workers to founders of one of the most iconic chicken brands in the Chicago area. It all started, he said, with “one box of chicken and a lot of faith.”

Uncle Remus Saucy Fried ChickenBroadview, 1801 Roosevelt Rd., is open Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. To 10:30 p.m., Sunday, noon to 7:30 p.m. For more information, visit uncleremususa.com.

divested stores as they are operated today.”

“C&S told NBC Chicago that the purchased stores will mean ‘welcoming hundreds of highly skilled grocery retail veterans and tens of thousands of store associates from Kroger and Albertsons who are currently responsible for these stores.’

“‘Their skill and knowledge, along with our leading wholesale and supply expertise will undoubtedly ensure that these stores continue to successfully serve their communities for many generations to come,’” the company said in a statement. “‘C&S acquiring these stores also will benefit store associates, customers, consumers, communities and our wholesale customers.’”

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Uncle Remus founder Gus Rickette (fifth from left), Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson, and Uncle Remus CEO Charmaine Rickette Alfred gather on July 12 with other Broadview officials, Uncle Remus employees, family and construction contractors to cut the ribbon on the franchise’s newly reopened Broadview location.

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Maywood Fine Arts thrilled audience members with two performances of “The Lion King” on the lawn at Thatcher Wood Pavillon in River Forest on Thursday, July 11.

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Football Camp At East Gives Young Players NFL Combine Experience

Fourth Annual JADSPEP Football Camp

Helped rival Pirates and Panthers alike get a leg-up on the competition

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

The Fourth Annual JADSPEP Football Camp took over the football field at Proviso East’s Theresa L. Kelly Stadium, 807 S. 1st Ave. in Maywood, from July 11 through July 13. And this year, more than any previous ones, the free camp had the look and feel of an NFL Combine.

“I inspect all the little things, and we add on each year,” said Aaron Peppers, the Maywood trustee and head coach of East’s varsity football team who founded JADSPEP.

The organization’s name is a play on the first names of everyone in the Peppers family, including Peppers, his wife, Shawn, and their three children: Joshua, Ashanti, and Daliyah.

“That 40-yard dash laser over there picks up as soon as you move. We used to use stopwatches. No, that’s something dif-

ferent,” Peppers said. “They use that laser at the NFL Combines. So, it’s just little things like that. The kids love it.”

Peppers said the camp hosted 175 participants this year, ages 8 to 18. These included members of the East and West boys’ football and girls’ flag football teams.

“When I was their age, we couldn’t afford these camps,” Peppers said. “They were like $200 for two days and $300 for three days. I didn’t bother my parents about stuff like that, but to have the opportunity to provide a three- to four-day camp of instructional football with certified coaches and

they can work together and unify, get fed, get t-shirts — it’s a win-win.”

Local football players like Taylor Banks and Teon Berry said the JADSPEP camp helps them develop as individual players in the offseason and exposes them to talent scouts. But the cross-rival unity is also real, with rival Pirates and Panthers working out and completing drills alongside each other.

“It’s all good,” said Jarrett Swift, a rising junior wide receiver for the Pirates. “We’re just making each other better. We’re all still family at the end of the day.”

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Aaron Peppers, the Maywood trustee and head coach of East’s varsity football team who founded JADSPEP, coaches on day two of the camp on July 12 at Proviso East High School.

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Camp participants T’yon Williams, Dexter Jackson, Jarrett Swift, and Marlon Brackett at the Fourth Annual JADSPEP Football Camp on July 12.

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Girls’ flag football players participate in the Fourth Annual JADSPEP Football Camp on July 12.

131st Annual Feast Procession

Hundreds of community members participated in the traditional procession for the 131st Annual Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. The procession wound through the streets of Melrose Park on July 14 before returning to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church and Shrine, 1101 23rd Ave. in Melrose Park.

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Eulojio Ortega, Who Painted

The Five-Story Mural In ‘World’s Largest Starbucks,’ Is Painting The Village’s Centennial Mural

Berkeley has commissioned the Chicago artist Eulojio Ortega to paint the muchanticipated Centennial mural on the side of LeDonne’s Hardware, 1750 N Taft Ave. in Berkeley.

Nicknamed the “Chicago Muralist,” Ortega’s most notable work is the five-story mural inside Starbucks Reserve Roastery Chicago — the world’s largest Starbucks.

On its website, Starbucks explains that “the mural pays tribute to the farmers and coffee-growing regions of the world [and] begins in a staircase between the first and second floors and spans all five stories, following the journey of coffee from tree to cherry to harvest.”

During an interview with Village Free Press on July 11 while he was painting the mural, Ortega said the Centennial mural will incorporate iconic symbols representative of the village’s rich history.

Some symbols include the old City Hall, the new City Hall, and, of course, the village’s official flower — the rose.

on Saturday, July 20, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The garden walk arrives on the heels of a record-setting 6th annual plant sale, which delivered $3,300 to the Westchester Food Pantry.

“Grassroots Garden Group would like to thank the community for continuing to support our events, including the plant sale and garden walk, which has raised more than $30,000 for the pantry since 2018,” the Group stated.

This year, the Garden Walk features six gardens south of Windsor Drive between Sunnyside Avenue and the Forest Preserve, including the first repeat garden in its history.

“The owners continue to re-imagine their space while retaining popular features that made it a fan favorite a few years ago,” the Group stated. “This family-friendly event will start at the southeast corner of Sunnyside Avenue and Wakefield Street, where attendees will check-in, purchase raffle tickets for fantastic prizes, and shop for fun, gardenrelated merchandise from our GGG Market.”

Bethanny Alexander, the Grassroots Garden Group’s founder and president, said the event is one of the “high points of summer” for the village.

Nicknamed the “Chicago Muralist,” Ortega has completed murals all over the city and country. Perhaps his most notable work is the five-story mural inside Starbucks Reserve Roastery Chicago — the world’s largest Starbucks.

“Every mural is different,” he said. “Sometimes, I use a spray gun. A lot of this will be hand-brushed. I like to do a combination of spraying and hand brushing.”

The village will host an official mural unveiling on Sunday, Aug. 11, from 10 to 11:30 a.m., at Berkeley Park, 5819 Electric Ave. in Berkeley. For more information on Berkeley Centennial events, click here.

Hillside Appoints New Deputy Police Chief

Hillside has a new deputy police chief. Sgt. Dan Pereda was sworn into the role at a regular board meeting on June 24.

“A dedicated and accomplished member of our team, Dan Pereda brings over 18 years of exemplary service and leadership to this critical role,” Hillside officials explained in a statement on the village’s website.

“Deputy Chief Pereda has been a vital part of the Hillside Police Department, serving in various capacities and contributing significantly to our mission of protecting and serving the community,” officials added. “His appointment reflects our commitment to fostering leadership from within and ensuring the continued success of our department.”

Grassroots Garden Group Gears Up

For 6th Annual Garden Walk

Westchester’s Grassroots Garden Group is preparing to host its 6th Annual Garden Walk

“This year is no exception, and we are excited to share with the community some of the beautiful gardens in our midst,” she said. Entry tickets and raffle tickets for the Garden Walk can be purchased at grassrootsgardengroup.org. Tickets purchased in advance are $15, and tickets purchased on the day of the event are $20. All profits from the garden walk and raffle ticket sales benefit the Westchester Food Pantry.

Founded in 2015, Grassroots Garden Group is a volunteer organization whose mission is to help make Westchester a more beautiful community. To learn more about Grassroots Garden Group, visit grassrootsgardengroup. org; email grassrootsgroup2015@gmail.com; or follow them on Facebook.com/grassrootsgardengroup and Instagram @grassroots_ garden_group.

Hillside Awarded $150K Tree Inventory And Management Grant

The village of Hillside was one of 22 Illinois recipients of the Tree Inventory and Management Plan Grant administered by The Morton Arboretum’s Chicago Region Trees Initiative.

Morton Arboretum officials reported that Hillside got $150,000 “to remove 25 dead or hazardous trees in disadvantaged areas, plant 200 trees in disadvantaged areas, and complete work specified in the grant application.”

In a statement on the village’s website,

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Sgt. Dan Pereda, Hillside’s new Deputy Police Chief, during a swearing-in ceremony on June 24.

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Eulojio Ortega, nicknamed the “Chicago Muralist,” works on the Berkeley Centennial mural on the side of LeDonne’s Hardware, 1750 N. Taft Ave. in Berkeley, on July 11.

Hillside officials said the village “will utilize these funds to purchase and plant a diverse selection of native trees to support biodiversity and climate resiliency.

“Increasing the tree canopy will also help lower ground surface temperatures, improve air quality and reduce stormwater runoff. This project would be a new initiative and help the Village undertake a major step to increase tree coverage throughout. New trees will help replace trees that are no longer viable or have been lost to disease and provide coverage where there is a lack of trees.

“Last, this project will provide us the opportunity to create momentum for residents and businesses by sharing educational resources as they see the direct benefits of new trees planted in the Village.”

Dante Hall, Grammy-Nominated Gospel Singer, Owner Of Bellwood Restaurant, Laid To Rest

Dante Hall, a Grammy-nominated Gospel singer and a businessman who helped enhance the live music scene in Proviso Township, was laid to rest on July 13. Hall died suddenly on June 30.

Hall had a successful solo career as a singer who collaborated with various musical acts, including Gospel singer Yolanda Adams, Gospel producer and arranger Donald Lawrence, and pop star Jennifer Hudson. He also wrote a book, “Growing Up Black: Things My Grandparents Said.”

Hall leveraged his signing career with a background in real estate to open Donnie’s Bar & Grill, 117 N. Broadway in Melrose

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Park, which was among nearly 70 Chicago Black Restaurant Week participants in 2021.

During a 2021 interview with Village Free Press, Hall said his menu features a range of items, including chicken wings, catfish, turkey, spaghetti, and pork chops. It also included homemade desserts baked by his mother, particularly the pound cake, peach cobbler, and banana pudding.

Hall said he migrated into the restaurant business through a career in real estate and music. He and his band would often play in the Melrose Park location on Fridays.

Hall relocated his establishment to Bellwood. The move came with a name change. Earlier this year, he opened Donnie’s Place at 466 25th Ave. The venue’s live music remained central to its business model.

Hall was funeralized at Living Word Church in Forest Park on July 13 and buried the same day at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Hillside.

Cook County Clerk’s Office To Host Back-To-School Birth Certificate

Day July 20

The Cook County Clerk’s Office will host a Back-to-School Birth Certificate Event on Saturday, July 20, at Chicago and suburban locations for families seeking to obtain birth certificates to complete their child’s school registration.

To accommodate working families who may not be able to visit the Clerk’s Office of Vital Records on weekdays, the office will be open in Chicago, Markham, Maywood, and Skokie on Saturday, July 20, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Maywood location is 1311 Maybrook Square (Whitcomb Building), Room 104, in Maywood.

The Clerk’s Office also announced that the first 10 families applying for a birth certificate at each location will receive one free backpack filled with school supplies for their child’s return to school. The backpacks are being supplied courtesy of the Chicago-based Disparti Law Group.

“Whether your child is starting kindergarten or your teenager is entering high school, having their birth certificate on hand is essential for enrollment and a smooth start to the school year,” said Clerk Cedric Giles.

The following is required to get a certified copy of a child’s birth certificate:

■ The child must have been born in suburban Cook County or Chicago;

■ The attending adult must be listed as the child’s parent on the birth certificate or be their legal guardian;

■ The attending adult must have a valid photo ID, such as a driver’s license, federal or

state ID card, military ID, U.S. passport, and/ or supporting documents;

■ A $15 fee is required ($4 for each additional copy)

If you cannot attend the Cook County Clerk’s Back-to-School Birth Certificate Day, you can request a birth certificate online, by phone, by mail, or at a local currency exchange. For additional information, visit the Cook County Clerk’s website at www.cookcountyclerk.com/birth.

Ironworkers Local 63’s Broadview Training Center Opened

Ironworkers Local 63 opened its new 12,000-square-foot training center at 2525 Lexington St. in Broadview last month. Lawmakers, union leaders, and other community members gathered on June 22 for the official grand opening.

According to RE Business Online, the building dubbed the “Glass House” was designed by architectural firm Gensler and is visible from the Eisenhower Expressway.

Members of Ironworkers Local 63 help

build the glass facades on skyscrapers in the Chicago area.

“The facility provides lab-like instruction spaces, a pressurized testing chamber, a five-ton bridge crane, and an adaptable training structure,” RE Business notes. “Skyline Construction was the general contractor.”

Maywood Homicide, Fatal Bellwood Car Accident

According to Cook County Medical Examiner’s records, a 19-year-old man from Maywood was killed in the 100 block of S. 2oth Ave. in Maywood on July 8. The fatal shooting happened around 1:22 a.m., and the victim was pronounced dead about a half-hour later. Maywood Police could not be reached about the incident on Monday evening.

On July 14, a 37-year-old man from Chicago died from multiple blunt-force injuries after he was hit by a motor vehicle while on the I-290 Eastbound west of 25th Avenue in Bellwood. The accident happened sometime after 3 a.m. No more details are available.

Singer and businessman Dante Hall.

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The Ironworkers Local 63 training center at 2525 Lexington St. in Broadview officially opened on June 22.

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Unity And Entrepreneurship Shine In Bellwood

Christian Unity Church hosts young entrepreneurs at a cowboy-themed community celebration on July 13

By COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTOR

Submitted

Community members from near and far grabbed their cowboy hats and gathered for the Big Fun Day Rodeo, held July 13 on the grounds of Christian Unity Church, 2140 Washington Blvd., Bellwood.

Christian Unity partnered with the Girls and Boys Succeed Mentoring Academy, The Answer Inc., and DLD For Youth to host the community event celebrating youth entrepreneurship, unity, and diversity. The event attracted attendees from diverse cultural backgrounds.

The day featured various activities, including a free vending space for young entrepreneurs, encouraging words from Bishop Reginald J. Saffo, chairman of the Proviso Township Ministerial Alliance Network (PTMAN) organization, and various entertainment options.

Infinity and Beyond Tumblers, Trimel Dancers, a stilt man, a pony and horseback riding, a gaming truck, a bouncy house, a waterslide, and numerous games and prizes kept the crowd engaged.

Firehouse Subs and M&M Tacos were complimentary for all attendees. The event showcased the strength of unity in diversity, with Black and Brown entertainers contributing to its success.

Young people ride ponies at Christian Unity’s Big Fun Day Rodeo on July 13 in Bellwood.

Christian Unity Church Pastors Jerry and Annette Barker were honored to provide the venue space of the Bishop Willie B. Dugan Memorial lot adjourned to their church.

RESIST

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against the strong man’s existential threat are the very people whose policies deepen austerity, exacerbate economic insecurity and inequality, erode the social safety net, and empower the industrialists financing him. And once out of power, these same liberals disappear into the privileged bastions their policies helped erect.

In 2011, President Obama famously roasted Donald Trump at a White House Correspondents’ Dinner. In 2016, Obama told voters the “fate of the republic rests on your shoulders.” A year later, just weeks after Trump’s inauguration, Obama, having made the world safer for billionaires and bank executives who tanked the world economy, appeared in photos kitesurfing with Virgin billionaire Richard Branson.

It is not just Trump who has been recently

turned into a martyr. Feckless Democrats have managed to turn President Biden into a martyr among the very constituents who reluctantly propelled him into office — Black voters who viscerally understand the stakes of this election and the power that Biden’s incumbency poses for his reelection chances and who, unlike the racist ‘Democratic Plantation’ dog-whistling perpetuated by the conservative right, are far savvier as a group in their realpolitik than Beltway pundits and overpriced consultants will ever be; workers of all races and ethnicities who see the tangible differences on issues like unionization between the president and Trump; and senior citizens who rightly see ageism in the elite Democrats’ attempts to displace Biden over what are, in the grand scheme of things, minor gaffes compared to Trump’s wholesale upending of conventional American politics. That Democratic donors have clumsily turned Biden into a progressive populist martyr (largely, I firmly believe, because of their trepidation of a Black woman as president)

Pastor Annette, CEO of Girls and Boys Succeed Mentoring Academy, was the event’s driving force. Her goal was to empower youth

is quite the inadvertent achievement when you consider Biden’s abysmal record over his entire political career.

“Biden has spent his career reflexively adopting his right-wing opponents’ positions as his own,” wrote Branko Marcetic in his illuminating 2020 book, “Yesterday’s Man: The Case Against Joe Biden.” “Genuinely believing in consensus and bipartisanship for their own sake, he has repeatedly worked with Republicans to advance the lion’s share of their political goals, dismantling the New Deal in the process.”

Four years later, some of the very Democrats who persuaded us that electing the neoliberal Biden over the more Leftist Sanders was our last, best hope against Trump are the people who are abandoning Biden at the first sign of distress (even though that debate shouldn’t have told anyone anything new that they didn’t know about either candidate already).

Meanwhile, Trump and his ilk are working hard to turn the factions that might

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through entrepreneurship and self-care. The event was part of the GNSMA summer initiative TNSC2 (Teen Self-Care), which focuses on teaching teens self-care techniques to instill positivity and safety.

The event was a resounding success, with attendees of all ages enjoying the fun, food, and entertainment. It was a shining example of a beloved community coming together to promote unity, entrepreneurship, and youth empowerment.

“Our goal is to reach and teach our youth, equipping them with the skills and mindset to succeed in life,” said Pastor Annette, who expressed her heartfelt thanks to The Answer’s Debra Vines and DLD For Youth’s Wanda Wade for helping make the event happen.

prevent them from assuming power against each other.

It’s important that when we talk about Hitler nowadays, and I believe we should, every chance we get, we don’t leave out the people, forces, and conditions that enabled his rise. They were the 1920s and 1930s equivalent to the feckless and opportunistic centrists, liberals, and conservatives of our day.

If you’re looking for ways to react to the perilous Hitlerian moment we find ourselves in, don’t look to liberals and craven conservatives (not even the so-called Never Trumpers, because at one point, Vance was one of them).

Look to Gunter Grass.

“Never fear,” he said in 1983. “I’m not advocating Molotov cocktails, plastic bombs, and submachine guns. Civil disobedience, continuous, imaginative protest, the churches’ condemnation of the potential for genocide, and lastly a general strike—these are the possible forms of resistance I envisage.”

That’s as true today as it was four decades ago.

COURTESY PASTOR ANNETTE BARKER/FACEBOOK

MARIA PAPPAS COOK COUNT Y TREASURER

What Juneteenth Means to Me

I was on the couch watching TV, and bored. My mother walked in and told me, “Juneteenth is coming up, I want you to talk about it”. I didn’t want to, so I said no because I didn’t care about Juneteenth at the time. Then, my mother said, “Do you know how important Juneteenth is?”

I said, “I don’t care, I’m bored”. My mother said, “Juneteenth is the reason you can even be able to say you’re bored.” Before the first Juneteenth, our ancestors were enslaved. They had to be tortured so you could say you’re bored. They had to be taken from their loved ones so you can say you’re bored. Not only that, but they had to attempt escaping so you could say you’re bored. Your ancestors had to do tireless work no matter how cold or how hot it was, so you could say you’re bored. Sometimes, they died so you could say you’re bored.”

At that moment, I realized the importance of Juneteenth. Juneteenth means to celebrate the fact that black people aren’t enslaved. Juneteenth means to try to be grateful for the fact, we, Black people, don’t have to tirelessly work when we’re about to burn, or freeze. Juneteenth especially means, to be grateful for the fact you can say “I’m bored”. So I want to thank all of my ancestors that survived and tried to escape so I can lay on my couch, watch television and be bored.

— Maya Dawson, Broadview, Lindop Elementary School 7th grader

When Do Black Kids Get Independence?

The Fourth of July is a day synonymous with independence, with freedom. A day that sparks fireworks in our mind and in the skies. A day off of work, a day for barbecue smoke smiles and water balloon soaked shorts. A day stolen land was given a new name. And everyone’s free?

Blaring cop sirens replace the boom of the fireworks and in a moment worlds shatter under a smoke filled sky. Calls are made to incarcerated family, locked up over a drug now legal. They long to taste freedom. And as another black boy learning his times tables is added to the morgue, a little girl, on

Broadview sisters Maya and Ryann Dawson, seen above, were among the winners of the inaugural Jubilee SPEAKS! Oratorical Essay Competition, held last month on Juneteenth at the 19th Century Club in Oak Park.

the other side of town, walking a goldendoodle, looks up at the same sky and whispers a silent wish to stay in the land of the free. But when will black children be free? Free to bask in the same sun as their neighbors, free to run and sing and scream, to finally be a kid to make dumb mistakes that won’t break their future.

Since our shackled down ancestors came to America, salt in their tongues and shackles where gold and diamonds should’ve been. We’ve been dying to try to attain freedom.

And while white folks’ focus on tax loopholes and write-offs, on buying houses and getting jobs right out of high school. Black folks have been begging and dying to vote, to live, and to learn. And since Frederick Douglass wrote “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” and white folks patted his coily head and called him a good negro, and pronounced him articulate. The same way white folks do to me and every other black kid who’s ever “talked right”. Then smile at the correct use of the grammar system used to oppress us and him. Black folks have begged to benefit from the legal document that classified them as a fraction of a person, as property. Still, every year we pop fireworks, fly the flag that used to hang from trees next to our strung up bodies, and pretend to be proud to be standing on top of a

to come crumbling down with two bullets in the skull of one of the boys. That night, that boys’ mom will cry to the God taught to her from her enslavers and beg, “When will our children be free?”

For these reasons, when photos of fireworks and sparklers flood my explore and for you page every Fourth of July. All I can do is grit my teeth and click not interested, the same way I’m not interested in the false form of freedom American politicians keep dangling at my people. You think by making Juneteenth a national holiday, we’ll forget what you did to gain yours? You think by acknowledging the sin of your founding fathers, we’ll forget what you did to ours? Not only that, but you think by letting a few black folks line dance in the White House we’ll forget that the blood, sweat, and tears, built every damn institution in this country. Then justify you in the right to spray us with tear gas when we tried to burn this whole place to the ground to free the soul of my great-greatgrandmother, whose spirit was caught in the window of your “vintage rustic barn” home. Which everyone knows is just a code word for a plantation home in which she was violated every night.

country built on top of a mass genocide. We pretend the red in our flag doesn’t represent the blood of indigenous Americans that run underneath all of our cities.

Black children have been subjected to the ugly rear end of this so-called land of the free since 1619. From alligator bait to thugs, from lynchings to shootings, from the hyper-sexualization of our young black girls to, the hyper-sexualization of our young black girls in the media and the integrated school system. The aestheticization of the revolutions we’ve organized. For a white woman to sit in front of protests and take selfies and use hashtags to claim to be “woke” while wearing a diamond ring around her finger that came from the blood of an African child. For her to go home, and teach her little daughter with the goldendoodle to cross the street and call the police when she sees a little black boy in a hoodie holding skittles walking back to his rightful home across the street from theirs. And she’ll go and tell her son who will grow up to be a police officer to identify a threat in a four-year-old boy holding a water gun squealing in delight at a park, in a man going on a run, and in a group of black teens kicking it walking down the street, laughing loud, and singing proud, enjoying a little taste of freedom. All for it

When brilliant black children stuck in poverty use the brain molded by kings and queens in Africa to find creative ways to survive, instead of getting into an Ivy League, populated by significantly less intelligent white kids who got on off legacy, then you can tell me black children are free. When black children don’t have to bite their tongues and avert their eyes when talking about racism and slavery in class in order to get a letter of recommendation to a college that they will ultimately hate-crimed at, then you can tell me black kids are free. When young black girls’ bodies aren’t fetishized in the media, aren’t desired at the age of nine, then you can tell me black kids are free. When young black boys aren’t killed in cold blood, by a gun and a uniform multiple times, every day, all across the country, then you can tell me black kids are free. And when I publish this article, and I’m called a revolutionary and an activist instead of articulate, and even closer to getting into a white school that would love to have someone as polite as I am, then you can tell me black kids are free. When our accomplishments aren’t reduced down to a good reflection of the people trying so hard to kill me, then, and only then, can you tell me black kids are free.

— Ryann Dawson, Broadview, Fenwick High School junior

SCREENSHOT

PUBLIC NOTICES

PUBLIC NOTICE

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: G24000232 on June 24, 2024 Under the Assumed Business Name of LUXE SALON STUDIOS with the business located at: 2100 W. ROOSEVELT UNIT A, BROADVIEW, IL 60155. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: KALEEMA WILLIAMS 3124 MONROE ST. BELLWOOD, IL 60104.

Published in Village Free Press

July 3, 10, 17, 2024

PUBLIC NOTICE

PUBLIC NOTICE OF COURT

DATE FOR REQUEST FOR NAME CHANGE

STATE OF ILLINOIS, CIRCUIT COURT COOK COUNTY.

Request of ERNEST LILTRELL BLIZZARD 20244003827.

There will be a court date on my Request to change my name from: ERNEST LILTRELL BLIZZARD to the new name of: ION ONAREI

The court date will be held: On August 27, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. at 1500 Maybrook Drive Maywood, Illinois 60153, Cook County in Courtroom # 0112

Published in Village Free Press July 3, 10, 17, 2024

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENTCHANCERY DIVISION

WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.

Plaintiff, -v.FRANCES J. LEE A/K/A FRANCES LEE, LATHROP TOWER CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION

Defendants 24 CH 18 314 LATHROP AVENUE UNIT 404 FOREST PARK, IL 60130

NOTICE OF SALE

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on April 15, 2024, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on August 13, 2024, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker, 1st Floor Suite 35R, Chicago, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 314 LATHROP

AVENUE UNIT 404, FOREST PARK, IL 60130

Property Index No. 15-12-429-058-1028

The real estate is improved with a condominium.

The judgment amount was $75,647.47. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW.

You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information, contact The sales clerk, LOGS Legal Group LLP Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301, Bannockburn, IL, 60015 (847) 291-1717 For information call between the hours of 1pm - 3pm.. Please refer to file number 23-100379. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION

One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236SALE

You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

LOGS Legal Group LLP 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301 Bannockburn IL, 60015

847-291-1717

E-Mail: ILNotices@logs.com

Attorney File No. 23-100379

Attorney Code. 42168

Case Number: 24 CH 18

TJSC#: 44-1045

NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Case # 24 CH 18 I3247463

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENTCHANCERY DIVISION US BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE OF LB-IGLOO SERIES IV TRUST; Plaintiff, vs. UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF MONIQUE CAMERON JEROME CAMERON JR.; CHICAGO TITLE LAND TRUST COMPANY AS SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF A TRUST AGREEMENT DATED THE 26TH DAY OF NOVEMBER 1994, KNOWN AS TRUST NUMBER 9768; UNKNOWN BENEFICIARIES OF CHICAGO TITLE TRUST COMPANY AS SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF A TRUST AGREEMENT

DATED THE 26TH DAY OF NOVEMBER 1994, KNOWN AS TRUST NUMBER 9768; AMIR MOHABBAT, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR MONIQUE CAMERON, DECEASED; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 22 CH 11912

NOTICE OF SALE

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Monday, August 12, 2024 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. 15-10-403-019. Commonly known as 245 South 14th Avenue, Maywood, IL 60153.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 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 Ms. Mary E. Spitz at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Sottile & Barile, LLC, 7530 LUCERNE DRIVE,

MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS, OHIO

44130. (440) 572-1511. ILF2203049 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION intercountyjudicialsales.com

I3247427

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS

COUNTY DEPARTMENTCHANCERY DIVISION PHH MORTGAGE CORPORATION Plaintiff, -v.-

DEBBY MCCLINTON A/K/A DEBBY C. MCCLINTON, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, OCWEN LOAN SERVICING, LLC

Defendants 2020 CH 03113 549 48TH AVE BELLWOOD, IL 60104

NOTICE OF SALE

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on June 13, 2023, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on August 9, 2024, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker, 1st Floor Suite 35R, Chicago, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate:

Commonly known as 549 48TH AVE, BELLWOOD, IL 60104

Property Index No. 15-08-409-073-0000

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions

of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption.

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain

entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL, 60527 (630) 794-9876 THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE

You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE IL, 60527 630-794-5300

E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com

Attorney File No. 14-20-01819

Attorney ARDC No. 00468002

Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2020 CH 03113 TJSC#: 44-1593

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY

DIVISION

ROCKET MORTGAGE, LLC F/K/A

QUICKEN LOANS, LLC F/K/A

QUICKEN LOANS INC.

Plaintiff,

-v.LANCE WESBY, SANDRA FINCH, CITY OF CHICAGO, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS

Defendants 2023 CH 07541 1032 EASTERN AVE

BELLWOOD, IL 60104

NOTICE OF SALE

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on May 30, 2024, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on July 29, 2024, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker, 1st Floor Suite 35R, Chicago, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate:

Commonly known as 1032 EASTERN AVE, BELLWOOD, IL 60104

Property Index No. 15-16-120-048-0000 The real estate is improved with a residence.

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.

You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure

sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information, examine the court file, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C.

Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL, 60527 (630) 794-9876

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION

One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE

You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100

BURR RIDGE IL, 60527 630-794-5300

E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com

Attorney File No. 14-23-05331

Attorney ARDC No. 00468002

Attorney Code. 21762

Case Number: 2023 CH 07541

TJSC#: 44-1626

Case # 2023 CH 07541

I3247101

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENTCHANCERY DIVISION LOANDEPOT.COM, LLC; Plaintiff, vs.

ESAU AYALA; THE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; HELEN CANOLA ARIAS; DONTE PARKER, JR.; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 23 CH 8824

NOTICE OF SALE

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY

GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Monday, August 5, 2024 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. 15-08-213-022-0000.

Commonly known as 124 46th Avenue, Bellwood, IL 60104. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 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 Mr. John Kienzle at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Marinosci Law Group, PC, 2215 Enterprise Drive,

Westchester, IL 60154. (312) 9408580. 23-03583 ADC INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION intercountyjudicialsales.com I3247022

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENTCHANCERY DIVISION US BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY IN ITS CAPACITY AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE OF CIM TRUST 2021-NR1; Plaintiff, vs. TONNIE YOUNG; WILLIE HAYES; STATE OF ILLINOIS Defendants, 19 CH 9367

NOTICE OF SALE

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Monday, August 5, 2024 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. 15-09-112-030-0000, 15-09112-029-0000, 15-09-112-028-0000. Commonly known as 306 Bohland Avenue, Bellwood, IL 60104. The mortgaged real estate is

improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 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 Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (614) 220-5611. 18-016158 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION intercountyjudicialsales.com I3247016

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENTCHANCERY DIVISION FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE CORPORATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FREDDIE MAC SEASONED LOANS STRUCTURED TRANSACTION TRUST, SERIES 2019-2

Plaintiff, vs. SHEILA K. COLLINS-JOHNSON AS GUARDIAN FOR CANUTE G. COLLINS A/K/A CANUTE GEORGE COLLINSSR Defendants, 23 CH 6288

NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Monday, August 5, 2024 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. 15-22-110-085-0000. Commonly known as 2320 S. 22ND AVE., BROADVIEW, IL 60155. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 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 Mr. Ira T. Nevel at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Law Offices of Ira T. Nevel, 175 North Franklin Street, Chicago, Illinois 60606. (312) 3571125. 23-01771 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION intercountyjudicialsales.com I3247013