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New 911 dispatch system coming to Maywood, Broadview State law requires both towns to consolidate their dispatch systems

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

The villages of Maywood and Broadview have entered into an intergovernmental agreement (IGA) establishing a consolidated 911 dispatch system and communication center.

The Ike Joint Emergency Telephone System will operate out of the Eisenhower Emergency Communication Center, located inside of a building addition that will be constructed adjacent Broadview’s administrative building at 2350 S. 25th Ave., in Broadview. The system will be operated by a governing board.

The IGA, which was approved in December 2017, comes after a new state law See 911 DISPATCH on page 3

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FREE PROSTHETIC: Rashad Glover makes 3-D prosthetic devices for those in need while teaching young people to make the unique devices.

A hand up … and out

Rashad Glover makes arms from 3-D printers, teaches craft to youths

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

Rashad Glover is an industrial designer by profession. His passion, though, is making arms on a 3-D printer for disabled

people who most need them.

“We pretty much find people who need arms in the ‘urban’ environment, 3-D scan them, then 3-D print custom prosthetics for recipients at no cost to them,” Glover said

in a recent interview.

It costs between $300 and $500 to buy the materials to produce each arm, which can take more than a month to make and See RASHAD GLOVER on page 3

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OUT and ABOUT the village free press Editor & Publisher Michael Romain Strategic Consultant Kamil Brady Advertising Director Dawn Ferencak

Ink-redible works of art on display at Stairway of the Stars.

In other MFA sights and sounds, the ink-work of 15-year-old artist Myles Harris has been on display at the Stairway of the Stars Dance Studio. Harris’s work was created as part of Inktober.

“Every October artists all over the world take on the Inktober drawing challenge and do one ink drawing a day the entire month,” according to the initiative’s Facebook page.

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Maywood Fine Arts and Loyola put on a circus On Jan. 19, the third annual Loyola Fundraiser for Maywood Fine Arts was held at the organization’s Fifth Avenue Stairway of the Stars Dance Studio. And it wasn’t short on delights.

“We owe a huge thank you to Eva Bading from Loyola Medicine, Ginny McCarthy from HSD Ministry, Lucia Garcia from the Center for Community and Global Health, Amy Luke from Public Health Sciences, Josh Lee the Chief Medical Officer of Loyola University Medical Center, and everyone else who put together a fantastic fundraiser Under the Big Top including all of the wonderful Medical students from Stritch and MPH students from Loyola,” MFA stated on its Facebook page.

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“To learn to be human is to develop through the give and take of communication an effective sense of being an individually distinctive member of a community.”

—John Dewey

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Chris Psenicka, everyday hero Chris Psenicka, a senior at Lyons Township High School, was driving home from school two months ago one when he saw a woman lying helpless on the sidewalk. She had been jogging and collapsed.

“Chris pulled over, got out of his vehicle, saw that the woman wasn’t breathing and didn’t have a pulse and started CPR,” recalled Broadview Fire Chief Tracy Kenny during a Jan. 16 regular board meeting.

During the meeting, Broadview village officials also swore in Broadview Police Lieutenant Thomas Kostka and Sergeant Pierre Smith.

“The fire department arrived and the woman lived and is here to tell the story,” Kenny said. “The wild side of the story is that the woman’s husband was Christopher’s first Cub Scout [leader]. So, the connection is unbelievable and it proves that CPR saves lives.”

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson presented Psenicka — the “first Fire Explorer the village ever had,” according to

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Kenny — with the village’s first Hero Award.

“I knew I’d eventually have to use those skills, but not this soon,” Psenicka told My Suburban Life.

“But I’m glad I had the proper training to execute my skills.”

My Suburban Life added: “Psenicka, who is also in the explorer program with the Broadview Fire Department, hopes to become a firefighter after graduating from LT this spring. He’s been enrolled in the Technology Center of DuPage’s EMT program since the fall, but he earned his first CPR certification a few years ago.”

Read more about Psenicka’s life-saving moment in the My Suburban Life article online at: http://www.

mysuburbanlife.com/2017/12/29/lt-senior-helps-save-life-withcpr-training/amlrgz1/.

— Michael Romain

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911 DISPATCH Merger from page 1 took effect in January 2016. The law requires municipalities with populations of fewer than 25,000 residents to consolidate their 911 dispatch systems. Maywood’s population is just under 24,000 while Broadview’s is just under 8,000.

The law also revokes the authority of local governments to collect surcharges from telecommunications and wireless carriers while enacting a uniform statewide surcharge.

Starting in 2022, the state will reduce the surcharge that is currently tacked onto the cellphone bills of residents by half in order to help pay for a statewide 911 system.

When the Maywood Board of Trustees

RASHAD GLOVER 3-D mastery from page 1 features a range of bells and whistles like flashlights and cellphone holders. The cost of labor is incalculable, measured mainly in love.

Glover, 35, said his Chicago church, New Deliverance, provides him with space and funds to make the prosthetics through a program they’ve been developing for nearly two years. He just delivered the first prosthetic he’s completed through the program to a recipient in Chicago.

Now he wants to bring young people in the western suburbs, and on Chicago’s West and South sides, into the fold. Glover recently partnered with the Oak Park Public Library on a project that will allow him to teach area young people how to make the 3-D prosthetics.

He said that he’s also taking any requests from people from area suburbs, such as Maywood, Bellwood, Broadview and Melrose Park, who need prosthetic limbs.

“There are a lot of open-source arm projects out there where people just print the arm without making it fit the person,” Glover said. “My kids will learn how to draw, modify, sand — they’ll be creative. In the process, I’ll be teaching them STEM, reading and other fundamental skills, as well as mentoring them.”

The point of origin for Rashad Glover’s big idea — to help young people, particularly the most vulnerable, learn valuable skills by making free bionic arms for those who have lost limbs — might have been inside a Barnes & Noble in Beaver Creek, Ohio, sometime in the mid-2000s.

That’s when Glover, 35, was able to pick the brain of comedian Dave Chappelle, who had formed a bond with the OPRF graduate while inside a Starbucks in the Beaver Creek bookstore.

Village Free Press | January 31, 2018 discussed the issue in 2016, village attorney Michael Jurusik said that the law emanated from the Gov. Bruce Rauner’s desire to consolidate multiple municipal governments.

“So they looked at all these public safety access points, or PCAPs,” Jurusik said at the time. “These are your dispatch centers. They said, it’s too many of these things out there; let’s get everybody to consolidate.”

Jurusik added that the part of the state’s motivation for the law was the lack of quality emergency dispatch systems in rural areas largely concentrated downstate.

When notified that they would have to consolidate, village officials in both towns pushed back against the idea, with Maywood Police Chief Valdimir Talley calling it a “lose-lose situation.”

“In my decision, it was a bad decision in Springfield that nobody really thought through [and] it’s being forced upon us,” Talley said in 2016.

He had caught Chappelle’s eye because the two were among the only black people to regularly frequent the store, said Glover, who had been studying for his master’s in business management at Antioch University in nearby Yellow Springs at the time.

“We just struck up a bond,” Glover recalled in a recent interview. “We’d just be sitting there, talking about life and family. One of the last times I saw him before I moved back to Chicago, I told myself I’d have this great question for him.”

When the time came, Glover said, he asked the comedian, “What did you do that took you from where you were before, with your early movies, until now?

“He paused for a second and said, ‘Let me get some cookies and stuff,’ and I’m thinking he’s going to blow me off and sneak out of the store,” Glover recalled. “But he actually found me and said, ‘Always keep good people around you.’ He said the key was 100 percent the circle he was in.”

That moment, for Glover, was both revelatory and prescriptive. It explained a lot of his own success up until then. After all, he said, he had been raised by a village of supporters both within his high school, Oak Park and River Forest, and the larger Oak Park community.

Glover was a senior in high school, living on his own and working three jobs when Dr. Austin Harton — who along with his wife, Michelle Harton, headed Black Organization Student Support (BOSS) — took him to Radio Shack.

BOSS was a support system that the Hartons ran for their own children, as well as for dozens of African American children at Oak Park schools who needed the kind of nudge the Hartons would give Glover after the teenager told them he wanted to build something special for his friend, Ben Adelman, who had cerebral palsy.

“I showed Dr. Harton what I wanted to do and he said, ‘OK, let’s go get you some supplies,’” Glover recalled. “So he took me to Radio Shack on Madison Street in Oak Park and told me to get whatever I want. I

Former Broadview mayor Sherman Jones said at the time that his “gut opinion is that we’re not going to realize any cost savings, because the call volume won’t change.”

Both towns applied for waivers that would have exempted municipalities of fewer than 25,000 from the requirement to consolidate, but to no avail.

According to the IGA, Broadview will be responsible for paying the cost of the construction of the new building addition that houses the IKE 911 center. The village will also be the sole owner of the property.

Both villages will each pay 50 percent of the costs of certain equipment, in addition to some interior construction costs related to the center’s operation.

In 2016, according to village officials, Maywood had eight dispatch employees working in a room above the village’s police station while Broadview employed six dispatch employees.

Once the build-out is completed, all

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dispatch employees for both villages will operate out of Broadview, but, according to the IGA, each of the villages will be “the sole employer of its own 911 dispatchers and supervisory staff who work at the IKE 911 Center” and responsible for those employees’ salaries and benefits.

According to a draft budget of the buildout from last September, the construction cost of the new center could range from a total of approximately $1.8 million to $1.96 million. The conceptual budget also allows for roughly $1.6 million for the purchase dispatch and radio equipment, and furniture.

The new 911 dispatch system will be governed by the IKE 911 Center Operating Board, comprised of fire and police chiefs, “with the assistance of a designated 911 Center Dispatch Supervisor(s),” according to the IGA language.

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HANDY PROP: Rashad Glover, above, works to tailor a prosthetic to a client’s arm. said, ‘What’s my limit?’ He said, ‘There is no limit.’”

Glover took that equipment and made a special contraption that fit over one of Adelman’s hands, allowing him to operate an electric car. One day, Glover pulled his friend out of class to test the finished prototype.

“He slides it on and starts touching his fingers and the toy car zips down the hallway,” Glover said. “Ben starts crying, so security comes toward us because they’re thinking I’m hurting him. At this point, I think I’m going to jail and will get kicked out of school. [Former District 200 superintendent] Sue Bridge even comes to see what’s happening.”

But Adelman, who Glover said had never played a video game or operated a toy car, was crying tears of joy.

“He was like, ‘This is the happiest day of my life,’” Glover recalled, adding that high school officials alerted Wednesday Journal of Glover’s act of kindness. Glover’s aunt

sent the subsequent article to Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio. Glover credits the article for getting him into college.

Now, fueled by Chappelle’s advice, Glover is intent on recreating the kind of community that helped raise him for the benefit of young people growing up today. Along with the Oak Park library, he also plans to partner with Chicago-based After School Matters to teach 3-D prosthetic production to kids in Chicago.

He said he’s looking to grow his nonprofit, Global Glover Technologies, inside of a three-story building owned by his church.

“My goal is to create a village of entrepreneurial kids in various communities,” he said. “Most people with 3-D printers are printing toys and just wasting plastic. We can be printing stuff that people can use and that makes their lives better.”

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Davis challenger makes ballot

Democratic Primary for 7th Congressional seat will be Davis. vs. Clark

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

The Democratic Primary for the 7th Congressional District seat is shaping up to be a face-off between incumbent U.S. Rep. Danny K. Davis and challenger Anthony Clark, an Oak Park high school teacher and community activist.

On Jan. 22, a hearing officer overruled a series of objections filed by Davis surrogates, Ricky Hendon and Cherita Logan, against Clark’s nomination papers and recommended that Clark’s name appear on the ballot for the March 20 Democratic Primary election.

A three-person Cook County electoral board sided with the hearing officer’s decision last Tuesday.

A third candidate in the race, Ahmed Salim — a regulatory compliance officer who lives in Chicago — was knocked off of the ballot after a hearing officer sustained objections made by Hendon and Logan that claimed that Salim didn’t have enough valid petition signatures.

During an interview on Jan. 22, Clark said that while he was relieved with the hearing officer’s decision, he conceded that he’s approaching the last leg of the primary handicapped somewhat after having to stave

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off what he described as the Davis team’s frivolous and undemocratic objections.

Hendon, a well-known Chicago political operative and former state lawmaker, and Logan, Davis’s district director, claimed that Clark’s campaign had obtained fake signatures and that Clark and his mother, Blanche, had engaged in fraud by claiming to have circulated petition sheets that were actually circulated by other people.

During the challenge process, which lasted roughly a month, Clark said, he had to round up people who been subpoenaed

to appear at hearings to testify the validity of their signatures, and on Clark’s and his mother’s behalf.

After uncounted hours of labor and roughly $12,000 in legal fees, Clark said, his campaign was able to show that they had enough valid signatures for Clark to appear on the ballot. According to election documents, Clark showed that 1,841 of the 2,750 signatures he filed were valid — 485 greater than the 1,356 signatures needed to stay in the race.

“The time I spent fighting this challenge

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Clark also claimed that the Davis campaign has engaged in intimidation tactics, such as the time when someone claiming to be the congressman called Clark’s home urging him to drop out of the race.

He added that there have also been “fake Facebook accounts created by people posting under my campaign posts … it’s essentially cyber-bullying. I’m not a victim and I’m not fazed by this, but really?”

When reached by phone for comment on Monday evening, a Davis spokesperson said that the congressman was in Washington, D.C. working to end the shutdown of the federal government.

“It’s been disheartening to see how the machine operates, to the point where the public has essentially accepted it, saying this is just the way they operate,” Clark said.

“This shouldn’t be how they operate.”

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Sign-up now for an African American Read-In

On Friday, Feb. 2, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., at West Suburban Medical, 3 Erie Court in Oak Park, the hospital will host the opening reception of “Fleeting Fragrances,” inside of its lower level gallery. The show, which features the art Bala Thiagarajan, runs through April 1.

And on display until the end of February is “Women of Quiet Confidence,” a show featuring the art of Maywood resident artist Jesse Howard. A reception to meet Howard will be held on Thursday, Feb. 15, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Room #101, Village Hall of Oak Park, 123 Madison St. But don’t wait until then to get on over to see Howard’s work!

Village Free Press is proud to partner with AKB Events and Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview District 89 on the African American Read-In, a national reading event promoting literacy and African American authors during Black History Month.

The African American Read-In has an auspicious history. The initiative was created in 1990 by the Black Caucus for the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Since the Read-In’s inception, it has reached more than 5.5 million participants around the world. This would be the first time that the District 89 community has participated in the initiative.

AKB Events, the lead organizer for this local Read-In, is looking for volunteers — community leaders, political officials, policemen, firemen, business owners, parents, education advocates and other professionals — who would be willing to read stories published by African American authors to second- and third-graders in District 89.

January 31 – February 10

Big Week

Davis rolls out national bail reform bill The congressman introduced a measure requiring states to change their bail laws

By IGOR STUDENKOV Contributing Reporter

U.S. Representative Danny Davis (7th) is looking to make Illinois bail reform national.

On Jan. 18, he introduced House Bill 4833, which would require state governments to change their laws regarding bail and trial procedures in two significant ways.

If a person is arrested for a non-violent misdemeanor crime and hasn’t been arrested in the past, the state can’t require them to post bail in order to get out of jail.

In addition, the state must give them an opportunity to have their charges dismissed against them if they complete a mental health treatment program, a drug rehab program or a community service program.

The bill also has language requiring the U.S. Attorney General to review studies on bail reform and pretrial release programs to “determine best practices” to reduce the amount of money state spend on federal funds in connection to pre-trial imprisonment. Nothing in the bill would actually require the states to follow those recommendations.

During a press conference held on Jan. 25 at Greater St. John Bible Church, 256 North Waller Ave., in Austin, Davis told reporters that he was confident that the bill has a good chance of passing. Most of the bills that pass get bipartisan support, the congressman said, before touting his experience in getting his bills passed even when Republicans control Congress and the Oval Office.

DANNY DAVIS The push for bail reform has been ongoing for a number of years. Proponents have argued that the current bail bond system essentially discriminates against the poor — those who can afford to pay bail can get out easily, while those who can’t are stuck in jail.

Davis said he fully supports the idea.

“The only reason a lot of those individuals are in jail is because they don’t have the money to pay bail,” he said.

The congressman also said that, generally speaking, he doesn’t believe jail time is

necessarily the best way to address the issues that caused people to commit crimes in the first place.

“Often, when people are locked up, they shouldn’t be locked up,” he said. “They should be seen by mental health professionals.”

In June 2017, Gov. Bruce Rauner signed Senate Bill 2034, which covered some of the same ground as Davis’ bill, making several changes to how Illinois handles bail for individuals accused of non-violent crimes.

It gives the inmates a right to have a lawyer or, if she or she can’t afford a lawyer, a public defender, at a bail bond hearing.

When figuring out conditions for getting the defendants released, it asks for judges to operate from that assumption that, ideally, those conditions should be “non-monetary” and “least restrictive.” The judges have discretion to balance that against the defendant’s livelihood to actually show up in court. And it automatically reduces bail by $30 per day for every day a defendant spends in jail.

As of Jan. 28, the bill had eight cosponsors—all of them Democrats (including Rep. Bobby Rush and Rep. Robin Kelly from Illinois.

When asked whether a bill like this stood a chance in a Republican-controlled Congress and with Donald Trump in the White House, Davis said that he felt that it did.

“I’m optimistic,” he said. “Most legislation needs to have bipartisan [support] in order to pass.”

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When: Feb. 20 through Feb. 23 Where: District 89 elementary schools Time: Varies according to schedules and your availability Why: To promote literacy and African American authors during Black History Month and to let young people know that heroes, legends and role models don’t just exist in books — they’re also flesh and blood.

The combination of literary role models with real life role models will be a powerful lesson for students.

To participate, or for more info about this initiative, please contact Kamily Brady, the owner of AKB Events, at kamil.brady@ akbevents.net. Volunteers may be subject to screening.

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Seeking Local Contractors Housing Helpers, Inc., a local non-profit redeveloper of foreclosed homes, is now accepting Statements of Qualifications for Contractors and Sub-Contractors.

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Man convicted of Maywood leader’s 2013 murder Brandon Jackson found guilty Jan. 23 in death of officer ‘Temo’ Estrada

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

A man who had been in custody on firstdegree murder and attempted armed robbery charges related to the death of Maywood community leader and Cook County Sheriff ’s Investigator Cuauhtemoc “Temo” Estrada on Dec. 20, 2013 has been convicted.

According to a report published Jan. 23 in the Chicago Sun-Times, it took jurors no more than six hours on Tuesday to determine that Brandon Jackson was guilty of the crime.

What helped convict Jackson, the SunTimes reported, were “repeated phone calls from Piatt County Jail in downstate Monticello — including one to his father asking him to retrieve the alleged murder weapon.”

Estrada, 50, was hosting a family holiday party at a Bellwood VFW hall in the 200 block of 30th Avenue when his daughter and her boyfriend, who were carrying food into the facility, were approached by two armed

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robbers in ski masks and hoodies.

Estrada, upon walking outside, saw the robbery in progress and reached to draw his gun. The robbers shot him in the chest. He was rushed to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, where he died less than an hour later.

According to the Jan. 23 Sun-Times report, two masked gunmen were shown on video surveillance shot from the VFW parking lot.

One of the men had on a maroon hoodie, which investigators would eventually retrieve from the basement in Jackson’s grandmother’s house, the Sun-Times reported. The hoodie, the Sun-Times adds, had traces of gunshot residue on one of its cuffs.

The Sun-Times also reported that investigators “also found the box for the alleged murder weapon — a .44 caliber

Virginian dragoon — in Jackson’s grandmother’s house, prosecutors say.”

In 2006, Gage Thornton pleaded guilty to a single count of murder in connection to Estrada’s death. Thornton faces 35 years in prison. His formal sentencing date is Feb. 22 while Jackson’s pre-sentencing hearing is set for Feb. 21, the Sun-Times reports.

Estrada, a 20-year veteran with the Sheriff ’s department, was widely known throughout Maywood and the surrounding Western Suburbs as an active member of his community. He was the founder of the popular Azteca Festival that was held in Maywood for several years.

According to a Chicago Tribune report published at the time of Estrada’s death, Sheriff Tom Dart said that the Maywood community leader “was well known with his family as being the person who planned the parties, executed the parties. He was very meticulous about it and loved doing it … For family events he was the guy. There’s nothing about this that isn’t heartbreaking.”

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When driving in other towns, beware of the crash tax Many villages charge non-residents for police, fire responding to emergencies

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

In 2009, according to a New York Times article, a man was “knocked off his motor scooter by the car behind him” while riding in Chicago Heights.

“Five months later he got another surprise: a bill from the fire department for responding to the scene of the accident.”

In March 2011, a resident of St. Clair Shores, Mich. “was stunned to receive a bill from a collection agency for $327.35 his insurance company refused to pay to Eastpointe Police for investigating a fenderbender he reported in December.”

“How can they charge that much money for a cop to walk out to the parking lot and look at my car?” the man reportedly asked.

In 2014, a Round Lake resident called 911 after he was involved in a three-car accident in Grayslake, according to a 2017 report from NBC 5 Responds. He wasn’t hurt, but he was concerned about the passengers in another car.

Still, the man — who gave the police a statement, but declined medical care at the scene — said that he was billed for $1,240 some months later from the Grayslake Fire Protection District.

“I didn’t think it was fair that I was being charged for services I didn’t use,” he told NBC 5 Reports.

Municipalities already charge for ambulance care, which is typically covered by health insurance.

Fees that are charged to non-residents involved in car accidents simply because police and fire departments responded to the scene are different and they’ve become increasingly prevalent across the country over the last two decades.

“The charge is variously called a ‘crash tax’ or ‘resource recovery,’ depending on one’s point of view,” the New York Times explained. “In either case, motorists are billed for services they may have thought were covered by taxpayers.

“Sometimes the victim’s insurer pays. But if it declines, motorists may face threats from a collection agency if they don’t pay.”

The so-called crash tax is outlawed in some states, but not in others. In Illinois, it is legal to charge non-residents fees for police and fire response to auto accidents.

Critics of the fees say that they “amount to double taxation,” the New York Times reports. Supporters say that traffic crash response by policemen and firemen goes beyond the primary function of those professionals and should not be financed by the taxpayers who live in the places where the crashes happen.

According to an NBC 5 Responds investigative report that aired late last

year, the Broadview and Maywood fire departments are among dozens in the Chicago area that “charge fees to non-residents when responding to vehicle accidents and car fires in their jurisdictions.”

“Forty-four departments responded with information on their fees,” NBC reported.

“While these charges can differ between municipalities, non-residents could be billed $250 per vehicle per hour and $70 per firefighter per hour. Some departments may also charge a flat fee for extrication services or responding to a vehicle fire.”

In Broadview, fees for emergency responses to car accidents are $250 per hour per vehicle and $35 per hour per personnel. In Maywood, fees range from $435 to $2,200, depending on level of service, NBC 5 Responds reported.

Officials with the Broadview and Maywood fire departments could not be reached for comment.

Bill Schultz, a fire chief in Wheaton and the president of the DuPage County Fire Chiefs Association told NBC 5 Responds that many police and fire departments charge non-residents fees.

“The residents are paying tax dollars. A non-resident is not,” Schultz said. “With any tier type of charges, it’s about trying to equalize as best as possible. It’s never going to be one hundred percent.”

NBC 5 Responds explained that some municipalities have mechanisms that allow non-residents to appeal the fees, resulting in them being reduced or waived.

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NEWS briefs Two residential fires in two days in Maywood A Broadview firefighter sustained a minor injury while putting out a fire that happened at a home in Maywood on Jan. 28, according to Maywood Fire Chief Craig Bronaugh.

The one alarm fire happened in a single family home at 1420 S. 14th Ave., in Maywood, at around 10:21 a.m., according to dispatch records.

Bronaugh said that a firefighter sustained an ankle injury while fighting the blaze.

He was taken to Loyola University Medical Center.

“As a result of this fire, the home sustained significant damage,” Bronaugh said in a statement. “The cause of the fire was accidental.”

Bronaugh said that no one else was injured in the blaze, but the family who resided in the house has been displaced. He said that the Red Cross has provided assistance for the family.

Jan. 27 fire starts in apartment building The Maywood Fire Department is currently investigating the cause of a fire that broke out in a multi-unit apartment building on Jan. 27, according to Fire Chief Craig Bronaugh.

The department responded to reports of smoke in the building, located at 506 Erie St., just before 1 a.m., on Saturday.

“After investigating, fire personnel discovered fire in an unoccupied apartment unit on the second floor of the building,” Bronaugh said. “The fire extended to another unoccupied apartment unit directly above it, on the third floor — where the fire was extinguished.”

Bronaugh said that that one woman was transported to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood for smoke inhalation.

The cause of the fire is still under investigation.

Housing prices up across Proviso, but up big in Maywood According to a Jan. 24 Crain’s article, home values in the Chicago metro area “rose at a healthy rate in 2017,” according to data from the Illinois Association of Realtors — especially in Maywood.

“The median price of a home sold in a ninecounty Chicago area last year was $235,000, up 5.6 percent from 2016,” Crain’s reports.

In Maywood, home prices rose 44 percent over what they were in 2016, with the average home price last year at $121,000.

In Bellwood, home prices rose 17 percent over what they were in 2016, with the average home price last year at $140,000.

According to Crain’s suburbs were included in the map “only if they had 25 or

more sales during the year,” which might explain Broadview’s exclusion.

“In the city, the data provider breaks sales down into two types, detached (houses) and attached (condos and townhouses); for each neighborhood, we have included data for either of these types only if there were at least 25 sales of that type during the year.

“Data are available only for Cook, DuPage, Lake and Will counties, and in those counties it’s not available for all towns. The color used in the map shows the price change for the type of home that had the most sales in that neighborhood.”

In Melrose Park, home prices rose 5 percent over what they were in 2016, with the average home price last year at $175,000.

East High School in 1946 — died on Dec. 30 from Kidney failure, according to a Chicago Tribune article published Jan. 21.

He was 89 years old.

Willson’s daughter, Debbie Bradley, confirmed her father’s death for the Tribune, which noted that Willson was a professor and wrestling coach at Wheaton College, “leading the school’s wrestling team to three conference titles and coaching three individuals to Division III championships.”

Crain’s: Loyola to pay $270M for Berwyn hospital

John Wood, longtime member of MaywoodProviso Rotary Club, dies

According to a Jan. 25 Crain’s article, Loyola Medicine in Maywood will pay roughly $270 million to buy MacNeal Hospital, according to an application Loyola filed this month with the state regulator that must approve the sale, which is scheduled to close by March.

Last October, Loyola announced that it had agreed to acquire MacNeal — a century-old, 368-bed community medical center based in Berwyn — along with its affiliate operations, from Tenet Healthcare Corporation, which is an international for-profit healthcare services company based in Dallas, Texas.

As part of the agreement, Loyola will take over local physician practices owned

by Tenet; Chicago Health System, an independent practice association with nearly 1,000 physicians; and CHS accountable care organization.

According to Crain’s, no spokespeople for Loyola and Tenet would comment on the acquisition price.

“In the application to state regulators, Loyola said that adding MacNeal likely would reduce costs at the hospital and surrounding communities it serves, though by how much isn’t clear,” Crain’s reported.

“Loyola noted that it will continue to invest in MacNeal and its employees, and the scope of services offered at the hospital would not change.”

Notable deaths: Peter Willson, state wrestling champ for Proviso East; John Wood, longtime Rotarian; Darius Sconiers, chef to stars Peter R. Willson “led by example,” recalled his old friend, former DuPage County Treasurer John Lotus Novak.

Willson — who was born in Melrose Park, grew up in Maywood and graduated a twotime state wrestling champion from Proviso

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John Wood, a longtime member of the Maywood-Proviso Rotary Club and a Proviso East High School graduate, died on Jan. 12, according to his friends and relatives.

Former Maywood trustee and Rotary member Gary Woll wrote of Wood: “About 10 years ago in his backyard in Oak Park, John brought up Rotary. I assumed he was considering joining the Oak Park Club.

But no, he wanted to be in our club and for years was very active.”

Woll said that Wood was a former club board member before he took ill a couple of years ago. He was also a member of Unity Temple in Oak Park for over 50 years, according to the congregation’s senior minister, Rev. Alan C. Taylor.

Accomplished chef dies in Jan. 27 car crash A Bellwood man and Proviso East graduate who was an elite chef was killed in a multi-car crash in Chicago on Jan. 27, according to multiple news reports.

D a r i u s Sconiers, 35, was fatally injured in a 9-car collision that was the result of a 56-year-old man’s medical e m e r g e n c y.

According to an initial police report, the man was driving a white 2017 Mercedes sedan while driving eastbound on I-290, near Wells Street.

Police said that the Mercedes “struck the back of the gray 2013 Cadillac truck stopped in traffic at a very high rate of speed,” according to an ABC 7 report, which noted that the incident took place at around 4:30 p.m. on Saturday.

“The Mercedes continued striking several other stopped vehicles as the driver could not regain control of his vehicle,” ABC 7 added. “The Mercedes caused an extensive

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chain reaction crash due to how fast his vehicle was traveling while striking other vehicles in traffic, police said.”

According to a WGN report, “Sconiers was trapped in his grey Cadillac truck and had to be extricated.”

The driver sustained injuries that weren’t life threatening while his wife, who was a passenger in the Mercedes, was taken to the hospital.

Six people were in critical condition at the time of the ABC 7 report. WGN reported that 11 “other people were injured and eleven others refused transport to the hospitals.”

Police said that they did not suspect that the crash was caused by drug or alcohol use.

The Congress was closed off until 11:02 p.m.

Sconier, ABC 7 reports, had “just moved to the Bronzeville neighborhood” after living in Bellwood. A graduate of Proviso East, Triton College and DeVry University, Sconier once worked as an executive chef for McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood & Steaks and Smith & Wollensky.

Relatives told ABC 7 that Sconier, who was working as a private chef, may have been on his way to a celebrity client’s home. He was pronounced dead just before 5 p.m.

“On Sunday, Sconier’s family remembered him as a funny, talented and spiritual man,” ABC 7 noted.

Sun-Times: A Maywood drug dealer’s arrest led feds to ‘El Chapo’ According to a Chicago Sun-Times report published Jan. 28, the arrest of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera — one of the biggest drug kingpins in modern history and one of the world’s most wanted men — was sparked roughly a decade ago, when a Maywood man sold some drugs to an informant.

“One of the biggest drug investigations in history began in Chicago with less than two ounces of heroin,” the Sun-Times reports.

“On a hot summer day in 2007, a west suburban drug dealer named Christopher Baines sold a plastic baggie containing 50 grams of the brown, powdery stuff to a government informant near Cicero and Chicago avenues on Chicago’s West Side.”

Thomas Shakeshaft, the former assistant U.S. attorney who investigated Baines, described the mid-level drug-dealer to the Sun-Times.

“Chris Baines was known to DEA as a Traveling Vice Lord — not necessarily a full-on member of the gang — but he was a significant narcotics trafficker on the West Side and lived in Maywood,” Shakeshaft says.

“And, like a lot of these cases, DEA got started looking at somebody that they know about. And the case agent had a cooperating source who could buy into Baines. And that’s how we work these things.”

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Broadview board at odds over personnel issues

Two public works employees and a cashier were hired with the village of Broadview — until they weren’t.

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

The village of Broadview’s Board of Trustees has for weeks been at loggerheads over three temporary positions that Mayor Katrina Thompson has been looking to fill, in addition to efforts by her administration to pay for a public works employee to obtain a commercial driver’s license, or a CDL. The new personnel changes, Thompson said, are part of a more comprehensive effort by her administration to properly staff a public works department that the department’s director says has been chronically undermanned and overworked, and to overhaul a human resources apparatus that the mayor said was nonexistent before she took office.

But three trustees, however, argue that the hires were not made in the light of day and have no financial or organizational justification.

Amid the standoff, Thompson says, the successful applicants who landed those positions — and some of whom had already started working — have been sent home until the issue gets resolved.

During a Jan. 16 regular meeting, three resolutions necessary to authorize the “temporary and probationary” hiring of a part-time and full-time laborer in the public works department, and a cashier, failed for lack of a second.

Trustee Judy Abraham introduced the motion, but no other trustees in attendance — including John Ealey, Sherman Jones and Judy Brown-Marino — would provide the second, since each had substantial concerns with the potential hires.

Ealey and Brown-Marino said that that the language in the resolutions seemed designed to circumvent a board policy that requires all hires to be made with prior board approval.

“I’m disappointed and disgusted by the manipulative and duplicitous way this whole thing has been handled,” BrownMarino said.

Jones said that he wasn’t necessarily against the hires; his primary concerns were that they were being made without sufficient financial information — an argument that Brown-Marino also made.

“I’d like an explanation of why these people need to be hired and how it fits into our budget,” Brown-Marino said. “We still don’t know where we’re at financially.”

During a Jan. 19 special meeting, where the resolutions were again brought up for a vote, Jones recommended that the mayor implement a needs assessment.

“Somebody needs to come in and look at the department heads and ascertain what are the needs and wants,” said Jones, who also expressed concerns that the hires were being made without consulting the union.

Jones, who is chair of the board’s finance committee, also said that he feared that the

hires could put the village in the position to bring on new employees only to have to lay them off in the future when finances tightened.

He added that “before we start hiring a cashier and increasing staff ” the village should examine the impact of its attempts to automate some administrative functions, which he said could reduce employees’ workloads.

“The biggest issue I have is current expenses versus recurring expenses,” Jones said. “Today’s dollars versus tomorrow’s dollars.

At the Jan. 19 meeting, the resolutions failed 2-3, with Jones, Brown-Marino and Ealey providing the dissenting votes.

Abraham and Trustee Verina Horne voted in favor of the measure.

Addressing the concerns of the three trustees who voted against the hires, Thompson said that she had emailed BrownMarino a financial audit, which would have been sufficient to show that the three positions were within the budget.

Horne said that she had looked at those financial documents, and also consulted with the village’s financial experts, and they showed that the budget would accommodate the new hires. She and Abraham said that they trusted the advice of Thompson and Matthew Ames, the public works director, who both said that the new hires were necessary.

Thompson said that the new hires were needed particularly in light of ongoing investigations conducted by the Cook County Inspector General and the village attorney into a scandal involving public works employees utilizing the village-owned facility for off-the-books repairs.

Thompson said the scandal, which came to light last May after an ABC 7 investigative report, had consumed most of her attention when she first came into office. She said the three hires she recommended to the board would be the first since she was elected last April.

“We had two [public works] employees terminated — one full-time and another part-time and we haven’t replaced them,” Thompson said. “They are needed in those departments. The department is shortstaffed.”

Thompson added that she consulted with the village’s attorney, Jones and Ealey about a range of concerns and possible complications, such as union issues and the hiring process. She said that she had introduced the resolutions at Ealey’s request and that his concerns about the language of the resolutions were misplaced.

“All employees are probationary when we have new hires,” Thompson said.

“Everybody is probationary because you have to prove yourself worthy to stay in the position — across the board — so I don’t know why that is new terminology for you.”

Thompson said that the hires were made transparently “and compliant with the community.” She said that the positions were posted on the village’s website and published in local newspapers.

Candidates were also screened and vetted through two rounds of interviews, she said, adding that the process also reflected residents’ desire for the village to hire locally when possible. Two of the hires, Thompson said, are from Broadview and one is from Maywood.

The mayor also traded Brown-Marino’s harsh assessment of Thompson’s tactics with a harsh assessment of her own about some of the dissenting trustees’ tactics, which she said seemed designed to sabotage her administration and to hold those prospective employees hostage to a messy legislative process.

“We’re implementing best practices, but some people like dysfunctional chaos and now I’m starting to learn that in my role being the mayor,” Thompson said.

The conflict extended to the mayor’s attempts to pay a for a public works employee to obtain a CDL license, which is a requirement in order to get a job in the department.

Ealey said that he didn’t believe the village should be paying the $50 licensing fee since it isn’t common practice in the private sector.

“I carried [a CDL] for 27 years and never, ever did the company volunteer to pay for it,” Ealey said.

Horne, Abraham and Thompson said that the village should invest in the skills of its employees. Horne recommended that the board establish a policy requiring employees who receive CDLs paid for by the village to stay employed in the position for a certain amount of time before taking another job elsewhere.

Brown-Marino, however, seemed taken aback that numerous employees had been hired in the public works department in the past without having a CDL, which Ames said is a job requirement.

Thompson said that the unqualified hires happened before she got into office, during a time when the village was without an HR department. “[Broadview village administrator Le’Tisa] Jones and I have been looking at directors and getting people to be in compliance, because we inherited a lot of things that should have been required from the beginning,” Thompson said, adding that letting go unqualified employees would have “been detrimental for us” during the winter season.

“We wouldn’t have had anyone qualified to do snow removal and to keep our community afloat, so we have to make strategic decisions as we make hard decisions moving forward,” the mayor said, adding that employees without the license have several months to obtain it if they want to keep their jobs.

At least one Broadview resident expressed concerns about the CDL issue during public comments on Jan. 19.

“I don’t want us to just hire folks and pay their way,” said one resident, adding that she had discovered that the employee who would obtain the license is Abraham’s nephew — a claim that we could not independently verify before going to press on Monday.

Another resident, however, expressed support for the CDL payment.

“I find it difficult [that] you’re not approving to pay for that licensure,” she said, adding that the practice was done when Jones was mayor.

For his part, Jones said that he wasn’t against the hire, per se; he only wanted to see a policy in place before the village paid for the CDL. On Jan. 16, the vote on the CDL issue was tabled until further discussion.

Meanwhile, the three new hires may be in limbo unless the mayor appoints a new trustee to replace the late Tara Brewer, who Thompson described as a friend and ally.

Brewer died earlier this month after a short illness.

That new appointment could possibly be the third vote that would allow Thompson to cast the tie-breaking vote in favor of the resolutions required for those employees to start work.

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Other brief Broadview news Registration for youth baseball underway Registration is now open for Broadview Youth Baseball’s 2018 season. The program is open to young people, ages 4 to 14, and registration fees — which range from $75 (for T-Ball) to $185 (for Juniors and Majors) — cover uniforms, equipment, trophies, awards, insurance and field maintenance, among other costs.

Volunteers are needed. Cash, check, money orders or credit cards (Visa or MasterCard) are accepted.

Birth certificates and proof of residency is required to register. For more info, contact Broadviewbaseball@ gmail.com, or Coach Little at (708) 466-3016.

Broadview gets series of grants for energy efficiency, street repairs At a Jan. 19 special meeting, Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson announced that the Cook County Board of Commissioners had approved a $170,000 capital grant to fund 25th Avenue street improvements.

At the same meeting, Thompson announced that ComEd had approved $80,000 for an energy efficiency program in the village.

“We’re saving in areas where we can do more,” Thompson said.

— Michael Romain

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Advertisement for Bids – Maywood Park District Recreation Center Renovations Bid Submission. The Maywood Park District, Cook County, Illinois, will receive lump sum sealed bids from general contractors for Maywood Park District Recreation Center Renovations, 809 Madison Street, Maywood IL 60153 Sealed bids will be received on or before, but not after, 10:30 a.m. on February 23, 2018. at the Maywood Park District Office located at 921 S. 9th Avenue, Maywood IL 60153. Bids received after that time will not be considered.

Sealed envelopes or packages containing the Bid Forms shall be transmitted to the attention of the “Executive Director” and shall be marked or endorsed with the title of the Bid (“Sealed Bid for Maywood Park District Recreation Center Renovations”) and the Bidder’s full legal name. The bids will be publicly opened and read aloud at the Maywood Park District Office at 10:30 a.m. on February 23, 2018.

Bidding Documents. Contractors may obtain copies of the Bidding Documents from any BHFX Digital Imaging location. Please contact BHFX at (630) 393.0777 to obtain a set of Bidding Documents, or visit their Plan Room online at www.bhfxplanroom.com. Bidders shall be responsible for the costs of reproduction of printed copies.

Pre-bid meeting. A pre-bid meeting will be held at the project site on February 13, 2018 at 10:30 a.m. with a tour of the existing facility to follow. Prospective bidders are strongly recommended to meet the Owner and Architect at the Maywood Park District Office for the pre-bid meeting. If the Contractor is not able to attend the pre-bid meeting, then they shall contact the Owner and/or the Construction Manager to make arrangements to visit the building. Contractors submitting a bid are required to certify on the Bid Form that they have visited the building to familiarize themselves with the existing conditions.

Information to bidders. Each bid must be accompanied by a bid bond or a cashier’s check in the amount of 10% of the total bid, made payable to Maywood Park District, as a guarantee that the successful bidder will promptly execute a satisfactory contract, will furnish a satisfactory performance bond and payment bond and proceed with the work. Upon

failure to do so, the bidder shall forfeit the amount deposited as liquidated damages and no mistakes, errors, exclusions, or omissions on the part of the bidder shall excuse the bidder or entitle the bidder to a return of the aforementioned amount.

No bid will be considered unless the bidder shall furnish evidence satisfactory to the Board of Commissioners that the bidder has the necessary facilities, abilities, experience, equipment, financial and physical resources available to fulfill the conditions of the Contract and execute the work, should the Contract be awarded to such bidder.

This project is being financed, in part, with funds from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, “Park and Recreational Facility Construction Grant Program” (PARC) grant program.

Maywood Park District encourages minority business firms to submit bids on this project and to utilize minority businesses as subcontractors for supplies, equipment, services and construction.

Not less than the prevailing wage shall be paid for labor on the work to be done as required by law. The PARC grant program requires that 50% of the labor hours on the project must be performed by residents of the State of Illinois. Substantial Completion of the Work is required by September 28, 2018.

The Board of Commissioners reserves the right to reject any and all bids, to waive any technicalities and irregularities in the bidding, and to hold the bid proposals for a period of sixty (60) days from the date of opening set forth above.

Questions about the bid documents should be submitted, in writing, to Tedd Stromswold, Williams Architects (tastromswold@williams-architects.com). Responses to questions submitted by bidders during the bidding period shall be in the form of written addendum to all plan holders of record.

By order of the Board of Commissioners of the Maywood Park District, Cook County, Illinois. Dated at Maywood, Illinois this January 29, 2018.

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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION; Plaintiff, vs.

JOSE EDGAR GALLEGOS; Y.A. LOPEZ DE GALLEGOS; STATE OF ILLINOIS; TOWN OF CICERO, A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION; Defendants, 15 CH 2988 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

Friday, February 23, 2018 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. 15-04-111-013-0000.

Commonly known as 1721 North 38th Avenue, Stone Park, IL 60165.

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

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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. 14-036068 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3073461

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 or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-17-03411.

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. 14-17-03411 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 17 CH 004831 TJSC#: 37-10863 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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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, SHAPIRO KREISMAN & ASSOCIATES, LLC, 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301, Bannockburn, IL 60015, (847) 2911717 For information call between the hours of 1pm–3pm. Please refer to file number 17-083618.

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.

SHAPIRO KREISMAN & ASSOCIATES, LLC 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301 Bannockburn, IL 60015 (847) 291-1717 E-Mail: ILNotices@logs.com Attorney File No. 17-083618 Attorney Code. 42168 Case Number: 17 CH 9946 TJSC#: 37-10903 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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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. 15-08-212-018-0000.

Commonly known as 114 47th Avenue, Bellwood, Illinois 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 The Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Anselmo Lindberg & Associates, LLC, 1771 West Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois 60563-1890.

(630) 453-6960. For Bidding instructions visit www.alolawgroup.com 24 hours prior to sale. F17030189 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3073029

OF AMERICA Plaintiff, -v.KEVIN KIRKENDALL, RACHEL KIRKENDALL, THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON F/K/A THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWHEQ REVOLVING HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST, SERIES 2007-A Defendants 17 CH 9096 302 N Elm St Hillside, IL 60162 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on November 28, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 6, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 302 N Elm St, Hillside, IL 60162 Property Index No. 15-18-209-0220000.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $222,406.13.

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 Plaintiff’s attorney: JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC, 230

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC Plaintiff, -v.KEITH W. JONES, KIM L. LEWIS Defendants 17 CH 004831 1702 N. 38TH AVENUE STONE PARK, IL 60165 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, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 2, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1702 N. 38TH AVENUE, STONE PARK, IL 60165 Property Index No. 15-04-110-0450000.

The real estate is improved with a 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.

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

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC Plaintiff, -v.BILLY CARMACK A/K/A BILLY D. CARMACK, MARLENE CARMACK, CITIZENS BANK, N.A. F/K/A RBS CITIZENS BANK, N.A. Defendants 17 CH 9946 2752 BUDD STREET River Grove, IL 60171 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on November 29, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 2, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 2752 BUDD STREET, River Grove, IL 60171 Property Index No. 12-26-402-0430000.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $135,725.87.

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

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION AMERIHOME MORTGAGE COMPANY LLC; Plaintiff, vs.

ROSALBA BERNAL; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 17 CH 4710 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, February 19, 2018 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION DLJ MORTGAGE CAPITAL, INC.; Plaintiff, vs.

NOELIA RUMBO; JULIAN RUMBO; UNKNOWN OWNERS, GENERALLY AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 17 CH 6690 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause on November 17, 2017 Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, February 20, 2018 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. 15-04-122-034-0000.

Commonly known as 1506 North 33rd Avenue, Melrose Park, IL 60160.

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. Anthony Porto at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Kluever & Platt, L.L.C., 150 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60601.

(312) 981-7385.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3073087 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (‘’FANNIE MAE’’), A CORPORATION ORGANIZED AND EXISTING UNDER THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES

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W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125, Chicago, IL 60606, (312) 541-9710 Please refer to file number 17-5111.

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.

JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125 Chicago, IL 60606 (312) 541-9710 E-Mail: ilpleadings@johnsonblumberg.com Attorney File No. 17-5111 Attorney Code. 40342 Case Number: 17 CH 9096 TJSC#: 37-10721 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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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 Plaintiff’s attorney: HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC, 111 East Main Street, DECATUR, IL 62523, (217) 422-1719 Please refer to file number 612521568.

If the sale is not confirmed for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the purchase price paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney.

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.

HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC 111 East Main Street DECATUR, IL 62523 (217) 422-1719 Fax #: (217) 422-1754 CookPleadings@hsbattys.com Attorney File No. 612521568 Attorney Code. 40387 Case Number: 17 CH 06538 TJSC#: 38-63 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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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. 17-001863 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3074197

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. Anthony Porto at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Kluever & Platt, L.L.C., 150 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60601.

(312) 981-7385.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3074025

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: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5pm.

McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC, Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200, Chicago, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 416-5500. Please refer to file number 9491.

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.

McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200 Chicago, IL 60602 (312) 416-5500 E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com Attorney File No. 9491 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 08 CH 42186 TJSC#: 37-11302 I3072963

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.

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, SHAPIRO KREISMAN & ASSOCIATES, LLC, 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301, Bannockburn, IL 60015, (847) 2911717 For information call between the hours of 1pm–3pm. Please refer to file number 17-082298.

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.

SHAPIRO KREISMAN & ASSOCIATES, LLC 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301 Bannockburn, IL 60015 (847) 291-1717 E-Mail: ILNotices@logs.com Attorney File No. 17-082298 Attorney Code. 42168 Case Number: 17 CH 2184 TJSC#: 37-11155 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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BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. Plaintiff, vs.

BETTY R. RUSSELL A/K/A ELIZABETH RUSSELL; COUNTY OF COOK; ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE; NICOR GAS COMPANY; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF BETTY R. RUSSELL, IF ANY; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants, 10 CH 22207 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, February 26, 2018 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 1812 South 20th Avenue, Maywood, IL 60153.

P.I.N. 15-15-304-027-0000.

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 Nikhil Mehta at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Marinosci Law Group, PC, 134 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602.

(312) 940-8580. 16-11515 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3073935

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.ALVERTIS D. SUTTON, CARLA J. SUTTON AKA CARLA SUTTON, CAPITAL ONE BANK (USA), N.A. AS SUCCESSOR TO HSBC BANK NEVADA, N.A. FKA HOUSEHOLD BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SPRINGLEAF FINANCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS, INC. FKA AMERICAN GENERAL FINANCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS, INC., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ACTING BY AND THROUGH THE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT Defendants 17 CH 06538 1111 32ND 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 November 28, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 6, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1111 32ND AVE, BELLWOOD, IL 60104 Property Index No. 15-16-216-0040000.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $251,729.13.

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.

The property will NOT be open for

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION DITECH FINANCIAL LLC Plaintiff, vs.

ROBERT L. ALONGI, AKA ROBERT A. ALONGI; CITIZENS BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FKA RBS CITIZENS, N.A.; DEBORAH L. ALONGI Defendants, 17 CH 1603 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 Friday, March 2, 2018 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. 12-22-307-001-0000.

Commonly known as 9429 CRESCENT DRIVE, FRANKLIN PARK, IL 60131.

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

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION SELECT PORTFOLIO SERVICING INC.; Plaintiff, vs.

ROBERT F. HARRIS, AS PLENARY GUARDIAN OF THE ESTATE OF JACQUELIN VALENTIN AKA JACQUELINE VALENTIN; JIMMY VALENTIN; EQUABLE ASCENT FINANCIAL LLC; ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; UNKNOWN OWNERS, GENERALLY AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 17 CH 3767 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause on November 30, 2017 Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, March 1, 2018 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. 12-28-212-060-0000.

Commonly known as 3045 Elder Lane, Franklin Park, IL 60131.

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. Anthony Porto at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Kluever & Platt, L.L.C., 150 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60601.

(312) 981-7385.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3074030 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING LLC A DELAWARE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY; Plaintiff, vs.

KIMBERLY MORIELLO GERENA; ALEX GERENA; BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING LLC; UNKNOWN OWNERS, GENERALLY AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants 17 CH 4037 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause on November 28, 2017 Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, March 1, 2018 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. 15-03-122-083-0000.

Commonly known as 1618 N. 18th Avenue, Melrose Park, IL 60160.

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

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK NA; Plaintiff, vs.

THERESA M. HRILJAC AKA THERESA HRILJAC; WESTCHESTER PLACE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION; Defendants, 17 CH 7512 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 Thursday, March 1, 2018 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. 15-29-323-003.

Commonly known as 2815 Brighton Court, Westchester, IL 60154.

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. 17-018262 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3074011 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC Plaintiff, -v.WILLIAM D PRUDDEN, GRISELDA PRUDDEN, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF WILLIAM D. PRUDDEN, IF ANY, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 08 CH 42186 1519 HULL AVENUE Westchester, IL 60154 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 4, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 6, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1519 HULL AVENUE, Westchester, IL 60154 Property Index No. 15-21-120-0410000.

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

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.17 CH 2184 550 ANDY DRIVE Melrose Park, IL 60160 SHEILA HARRIS, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PORTFOLIO RECOVERY ASSOCIATES LLC Defendants NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 8, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 9, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 550 ANDY DRIVE, Melrose Park, IL 60160 Property Index No. 15-02-107-0540000.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $348,981.68.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION US BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, vs.

JUAN F. JACOME; EVELYN JACOME; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 17 CH 8542 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 Tuesday, February 27, 2018 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. 15-02-115-024-0000.

Commonly known as 321 Division Street, Melrose Park, IL 60160.

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. 17-020314 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3073954 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION HOME POINT FINANCIAL CORPORATION Plaintiff, vs.

DIANE T. KOBROW; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS

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Defendants, 17 CH 10049 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 Wednesday, February 28, 2018 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. 12-29-302-033-0000.

Commonly known as 153 Winters Drive, Melrose Park, Illinois 60164.

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 The Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Anselmo Lindberg & Associates, LLC, 1771 West Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois 60563-1890.

(630) 453-6960. For Bidding instructions visit www.alolawgroup.com 24 hours prior to sale. F17070133 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3073961

Defendants 2017 CH 11043 2421 S 22ND AVENUE BROADVIEW, IL 60153 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on November 9, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 16, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 2421 S 22ND AVENUE, BROADVIEW, IL 60153 Property Index No. 15-22-116-0410000.

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.

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

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

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

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-17-11627.

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. 14-17-11627 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2017 CH 11043 TJSC#: 37-10385 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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attorney: HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC, 111 East Main Street, DECATUR, IL 62523, (217) 422-1719 Please refer to file number 2120-13189.

If the sale is not confirmed for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the purchase price paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney.

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.

HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC 111 East Main Street DECATUR, IL 62523 (217) 422-1719 Fax #: (217) 422-1754 CookPleadings@hsbattys.com Attorney File No. 2120-13189 Attorney Code. 40387 Case Number: 17 CH 04675 TJSC#: 37-11079 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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IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-17-11241.

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. 14-17-11241 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 17 CH 10580 TJSC#: 37-10212 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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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: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5pm.

McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC, Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200, Chicago, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 416-5500. Please refer to file number 257347.

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.

McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200 Chicago, IL 60602 (312) 416-5500 E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com Attorney File No. 257347 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 2016 CH 9957 TJSC#: 37-11291 I3073567

Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (614) 220-5611. 17-014287 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3074630

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION OCWEN LOAN SERVICING LLC; Plaintiff, vs.

MAURICE D. MOORE; SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS TRUSTEE UNDER THE POLLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT DATED AS OF FEBRUARY 28K, 1998 SERIES 1998-A; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF MAURICE D. MOORE, IF ANY; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 17 CH 9767 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 Friday, March 9, 2018 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. 15-22-419-004-0000.

Commonly known as 2913 South 10th Avenue, 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 the Sales Clerk at Plaintiff’s Attorney, The Wirbicki Law Group, 33 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603. (312) 3609455 WA17-0359.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3075078 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION CITIMORTGAGE, INC. Plaintiff, -v.PATRICIA A. DEARMAN A/K/A PATRICIA DEARMAN, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA– DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.BABATUNDE OWOLABI AKA B. OWOLABI AKA BABATUNDE O. OWOLABI Defendants 17 CH 04675 1500 EVERS AVENUE WESTCHESTER, IL 60154 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 12, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 13, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1500 EVERS AVENUE, WESTCHESTER, IL 60154 Property Index No. 15-20-122-0410000.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $366,288.66.

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 Plaintiff’s

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION CITIZENS BANK, N.A F/K/A RBS CITIZENS N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO CHARTER ONE BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.DEAN BREY Defendants 17 CH 10580 4443 MADISON STREET HILLSIDE, IL 60162 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on November 6, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 12, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 4443 MADISON STREET, HILLSIDE, IL 60162 Property Index No. 15-17-100-0330000.

The real estate is improved with a 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.

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).

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION THE MONEY SOURCE, INC. Plaintiff, -v.RIGOBERTO AVILA, EDWARD LOEWE, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF EDWARD LOEWE Defendants 2016 CH 9957 3443 RUBY STREET FRANKLIN PARK, IL 60131 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 12, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 13, 2018, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 3443 RUBY STREET, FRANKLIN PARK, IL 60131 Property Index No. 12-21-430-013.

The real estate is improved with a single family home with a detached one car garage.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance 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

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION US BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR THE STRUCTURED ASSET INVESTMENT LOAN TRUST MORTGAGE PASS THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2004-10; Plaintiff, vs.

JUAN VALENCIA; MICHELLE HERNANDEZ; ONEMAIN FINANCIAL OF ILLINOIS INC. FKA AMERICAN GENERAL FINANCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS, INC.; TOWN OF CICERO, A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION; THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, OFFICE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY; STATE OF ILLINOIS CITIMORTGAGE, INC.; Defendants, 17 CH 6027 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, March 5, 2018 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. 12-25-106-028-0000.

Commonly known as 3128 North 76th Court, Elmwood Park, IL 60707.

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,

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC; Plaintiff, vs.

EDITH CUATE; JOSE F. CUATE; DISCOVER BANK; CITY OF CHICAGO; Defendants, 16 CH 2263 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 Tuesday, March 6, 2018 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. 15-08-118-012-0000.

Commonly known as 301 50th 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. 16-001639 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3074660 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES, LLC; Plaintiff, vs.

JAMES RAMIREZ; ELVIRA RAMIREZ; BEATRICE RODRIGUEZ AKA BEATRICE RAMIREZ; LVNV FUNDING LLC; Defendants, 16 CH 15659 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Wednesday, March 7, 2018, 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 mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 15-18-228-009-0000.

Commonly known as 13 HOWARD AVENUE, HILLSIDE, IL 60162.

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 within 24 hours, by certified funds. 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) 357-1125. Ref. No. 16-03197 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3074700

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