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Recalling Maywood’s first black mayor Thirty-five years ago, Joe Freelon won a special election that secured his place in history

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

The following profile of Joe Freelon, Maywood’s first African American mayor, was published on our website last November, after the former mayor died at the age of 87. It is being republished to mark the 35th anniversary of the special election victory, held on Nov. 2, 1982, that sealed his mayoralty.

Born on Sept. 15, 1929, in Grenada, Mississippi, Joe Freelon was one of 13 children. He attended Grenada’s elementary and high schools before enlisting in the U.S. Army for three years and eventually enrolling at Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama.

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Diving into Maywood’s water woes The Chicago Tribune highlighted the village’s sky-high water rates, fees in 2-part investigation

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

A two-part Chicago Tribune investigative piece, published online Oct. 25, reports that majority-minority suburbs with relatively high concentrations of low-income

residents, pay more for water service (and for fees related to maintenance and reconnections) than some of the wealthiest (and whitest) suburbs in the country.

The lengthy report singles out black suburbs like Ford Heights, Harvey and

Maywood as places with some of the highest water rates and reconnection fees in the region.

“The latest census figures show that Maywood has about 7,400 households,” the See WATER WOES on page 7

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OUT and ABOUT the village free press Editor & Publisher Michael Romain Strategic Consultant Kamil Brady Advertising Director Dawn Ferencak Editorial Designer Debbie Becker Advertising Design Support Andrew Mead HOW TO REACH US Village Free Press c/o Wednesday Journal 141 S. Oak Park Ave. Oak Park, IL 60302 PHONE: 773-626-6332 FAX: (708) 467-9066 thevillagefreepress.org Twitter: @village_free Facebook: @maywoodnews

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Broadview public safety fundraises for a cause On Oct. 26, the Broadview Fire and Police Departments hosted a “McHeroes Night” at the McDonald’s in Broadview at 6200 Broadview Village Square in order to raise money for the Special Olympics and Gift of Hope — a nonprofit organ that advocates for organ and tissue donation awareness.

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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

Maywood Proviso Rotary Club’s silent auction a success On Oct. 28, the Maywood Proviso Rotary Club held its annual silent auction at the Best Western in Hillside.

The annual event, the club’s largest fundraiser, is designed to collect funds for the range of philanthropic endeavors the club is involve in. Those include dictionary giveaways and relief efforts, among other projects.

The silent auction’s theme was Mardi Gras, so naturally the crowd reveled in the sounds of New Orleans — from Zadego to bounce.

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Karimah Westbrook plays a civil rights matriarch in ‘Suburbicon’ When George Clooney’s new film, “Suburbicon” opened in theaters last Friday, some Proviso Township residents may have seen a familiar face.

Karimah Westbrook, who attended Proviso East High School, plays the mother in the first black family to integrate a fictional suburb called Suburbicon.

The film is based on the true story of Daisy Meyers, who moved her family into Levittown, Pennsylvania in KARIMAH WESTBROOK 1957.

Levittown, an allwhite suburb, was built by William J. Levitt, who is widely considered to be the father of the modern American suburb.

During an interview with Bill Zwecker of the Chicago Sun-Times, Westbrook said that she prepared for the role by reading Meyers’ memoir, “Sticks and Stones.”

“I learned so much from reading her book,” said Westbrook, who has also appeared in the films “Badassss” and “Save the Last Dance.”

Westbrook told Zwecker that she got her start in acting at East and by “appearing in community theater productions and at the Circle Theater in Forest Park.”

Clooney told The Hollywood Reporter that Northerners “love to think they had nothing to do with [racism]” “They love to wash their hands and say: ‘Actually, we were the liberals. We were against slavery and pro-civil r i g h t s . ’ And the truth of the matter was much more complicated.

There were a lot of problems, particularly in places like Levittown.”

“I can’t imagine how awful that had to be,” Westbrook told Zwecker of Meyers’ struggles, “living through all that, while trying to support your family and doing all the things a normal family needs to do to survive.”

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Proviso Township residents aid Puerto Rico in diverse ways

Students at Roosevelt in Bellwood, a Maywood flight attendant and area Rotary Club are chipping in

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

Community members from across Proviso Township are chipping in to help out the many victims of recent natural disasters, particularly Hurricane Maria, which battered the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico on Sept. 20, leaving nearly 900,000 people without power.

Maywood resident Gina Ruffin, a longtime United Airlines flight attendant, saw the destruction with her own eyes as the plane carrying Congressman Luis Gutierrez (4th) descended on the island. The Illinois congressman has made multiple trips to the island since the hurricane.

Ruffin said she’s provided relief in her own way, bringing along batteries and food to give to families in need. The island residents, she said, had been without electricity for some time when she visited last month.

From afar, some students at Roosevelt Middle School in Bellwood got creative in their attempts to raise funds for victims of

Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria.

The school devised what they called “Dollars for Dress Code,” which allowed students to bring a dollar in order to be out of the district’s dress code for a day between Oct. 2 and Oct. 6.

“Students would be required to donate a minimum of $1 each day to be out of dress code (within reason) but they can donate more if they choose,” according to a letter sent to parents and guardians

by Principal Paul Glover and classroom teacher Kelly McElligot.

McElligot said that the students raised nearly $1,900, which they sent to Americares, a nonprofit disaster relief and global health organization.

“The reason we chose to donate money to the organization Americares is because we researched them and found out they are a more reliable organization than other widely known organizations,” the letter read.

Members of the Maywood-Proviso Rotary Club have also gotten in on the action. The club is partnering with a church in Chicago to collect goods that will be shipped off to the island, said Maywood Trustee Isiah Brandon, who is spearheading the effort.

“There is a real situation there and they are in dire need of help,” said Brandon during a Rotary silent auction in Hillside on Oct. 28. Brandon said at the time that the club will set a date in the next several for when the collection drive will be held.

“This is what the Rotary Club is all about,” Brandon said. “We look forward to getting in the mix and helping those impacted by the hurricane.”

For more information on how to help out the victims of Hurricane Maria, visit www.unitedforpuertorico. com/.

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Above, students at Roosevelt Middle School in Bellwood who helped raise nearly $1,900 for victims of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria. Left, Maywood flight attendant Gina Ruffin, third from right, on a flight with Congressman Luis Gutierrez.

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State senator recounts Springfield harassment Sen. Kimberly Lightford joins chorus of women vowing to expose sexual harassment in state politics

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

According to a Chicago Sun-Times investigative report published on Oct. 24, more than 150 women have signed a letter “that describes harassment endured by elected officials, lobbyists, consultants and others in politics.”

In addition to the letter, a group of women in state politics have started a Facebook group called “Say No More” in the wake of sexual harassment allegations that have come out against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.

“Misogyny is alive and well in Illinois politics,” a description of the group reads.

“The #MeToo stories flooding our news feeds — penned by women in government, politics, and other adjacent fields — are proof that we have a long way to go. The time has come for us to take a stand, raise our voice, and #ILSayNoMore. This group is a space for those of us who are committed to demanding better.”

According to the Sun-Times report, “tales of sexual harassment — everything from comments about breasts and hips and legs to groping and propositions for sex — are rampant in the Capitol this week during the veto session as an open letter has opened the

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Since the stories of Weinstein’s KIMBERLY LIGHTFORD sexual harassment have flooded “I think that when you’re just around people who are in the media in recent weeks, people powerful positions, men and have responded with their own women alike, they think they can do that,” accounts of sexual assault on social media.

Lightford told the Sun-Times.

Actress Alyssa Milano’s viral tweet on The senator said that when she first got Oct. 15 has been among the most popular and

spawned millions of hundreds of thousands of reactions.

Polly Poskin, the executive director of the Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault, told the State Journal-Register in Springfield that me too campaign is great, but hopes it helps victims of sexual harassment and assault get some kind of real-life justice.

“It’s hard to predict what the general public will push for and what legislative bodies will create,” Poskin said. “We continue to need the #metoo campaigns because we haven’t met that accountability yet.”

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Triton prof’s film on girls in STEM premieres on WTTW

Now Risé Sanders Weir wants her film, Gadget Girls: STEM Futures, screened in classrooms

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

When Oak Park filmmaker Risé Sanders Weir started working on a documentary exploring some of the social obstacles keeping young women from going into science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields at a similar rate to men, it was 2012 — a different world in terms of gender politics.

Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby and Bill O’Reilly, for instance, still roamed the earth as giants, uninjured and unbowed.

Weir’s film, called Gadget Girls: STEM Futures, premiered on WTTW last month in a country where Donald Trump is president.

So, naturally, Weir is sensing some urgency to get the documentary seen, particularly while issues of gender inequity and women’s rights are at the center of the national conversation.

“In one sense, in a sad way, things are much more out in the open right now,” Weir said in a recent phone interview. “I think in a bigger sense, as former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill would say, all politics is local. We have to start at the bottom to change things.”

The year before she started working on the film, Weir had read a New York Times article profiling the technology summer camp at Triton, called “GADgET” (Girls Adventuring in Design, Engineering and Technology), which introduced middle school girls to the male-dominated fields of manufacturing and engineering.

The one-week camp is designed to equip

girls with tools — from drills to soldering shut down as a film student at Columbia guns — that they learn through direct College, she did experience some of the usage, trial and error. The point is to instill pressure that befalls women in malethem with the confidence they need to dominated industries. excel comfortably in STEM subjects in the “There were times when I’d be the only classroom. woman or one of only two women in a class,” Weir’s film documents the girls at a she recalled. “I remember a directing class I GADgET camp in 2012, following them as had. If the guys wanted a female character they learn the skills necessary to design in their scene, I had to play the character their own gadget by week’s end. in every scene because there were so few According to its website, the women in our class. I didn’t goal of the film is to “shed light feel like the guys didn’t want on the social pressures that are me there or anything. It was pretty positive, but there are holding girls back from STEM still obstacles even for women careers. This film will inspire who may not be experiencing girls to stay the course, keep outright discrimination.” learning and practicing, and arm Weir said that, by screening them with real-world knowledge her film far and wide, about how to succeed in what particularly to young girls who still is a man’s world.” may be outnumbered in STEM Weir, who has been an adjunct classrooms, she hopes to send faculty member at Triton for RISÉ SANDERS WEIR a singular message: You’re not five years, plans on launching alone. an outreach campaign in the “Sometimes, as individuals, coming months to have her film not just seen but digested by girls and we feel like we’re not empowered to speak or boys in Oak Park and River Forest schools put our ideas out there without feeling like (her daughter attends Brooks). She’s also we’re viewed in a certain way,” Weir said.

“I want young girls who start feeling interested in showing the film on PBS the social pressures that may lead to stations in Michigan and Ohio.

“The hope is to get it out there for middle them thinking they’re not smart or aren’t school girls to see it,” Weir said, since the interested in hard sciences,” she said. “I film explores what might be called the want them to know that they’re not the only confidence gap between girls and boys person who felt this way. It’s a universal studying or pursuing science, math and experience. That way, they can recognize that this is a thing they need to deal with.” technology fields.

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Melrose Park store among top sellers of ‘crime guns’ Business at Suburban Sporting Goods has exploded recently

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

During last month’s Taste of Melrose Park, police in that village sold $10 raffle tickets for the chance to win a semiautomatic rifle alongside $3 artichoke casserole. The police, who also raffled off a handgun, said that the raffle was a fundraiser for their union, according to a Chicago Sun-Times report released at the time.

According to a flyer, winners were required “to have a valid Foid card” and were directed to fill out paperwork and pick up the weapon at Suburban Sporting Goods, 2306 W. North Ave. in Melrose Park, the SunTimes reported.

Suburban Sporting Goods, it turns out, is among the top 10 source dealers of so-called “crime guns,” according to a report released publicly by the City of Chicago on Oct. 29.

“Since 2013, the Chicago Police Department has recovered nearly 7,000 ‘crime guns’ each year,” the report explains. “For the purposes

of this report, a crime gun refers to a firearm recovered by CPD that was illegally possessed, used, or suspected to be used in furtherance of a crime.

“The overwhelming majority of these firearms were originally purchased outside of the city limits and brought into Chicago.

So far in 2017, CPD is already on pace to exceed last year’s gun recoveries. It is selfevident that the availability of illegally circulated firearms in Chicago is directly connected to its deadly street violence.”

Notably, Suburban Sporting Goods in Melrose Park was not in the top 10 source dealers four years ago. The store, though, has “continuously climbed each year to become the seventh largest source dealer of crime guns over the four-year period from 2013 to 2016.”

The number of recovered firearms traced to Suburban Sporting Goods in Melrose Park has gone from fewer than 30 in 2013 to over 80 last year, an over 300 percent increase.

The report adds that Suburban Sporting Goods also “had the lowest average time to crime of any top ten source dealer, suggesting that a portion of direct sales went to straw purchasers and firearm traffickers.”

According to the report, a firearm’s “time

But Tribune reporters found that the store has been in hot water for its gun sales before.

Twenty years ago, Donald Beltrame “was one of five gun shop owners hit with rare federal criminal charges for allegedly selling to straw purchasers, but a jury acquitted him of all counts after a five-day trial.”

The Beltrames told the Tribune that all of the guns sold in their store are sold legally and that they’ve put in place mechanisms for detecting illegal purchasers.

to crime” “refers to the amount of time that lapsed between the initial retail sale and the subsequent recovery of that firearm by law enforcement,” the report explains. “A shorter time to crime serves as an indicator than illegal trafficking or transfer activity took place before the firearm came into the hands of law enforcement.”

Suburban Sporting Goods, the report notes, “had both the highest three-year and one-year time to crime of any top ten [federally licensed firearms dealers], with almost half of its Chicago crime guns having been recovered within one year of initial sale.”

Last week, Chicago Tribune reporters interviewed the owners of Suburban Sporting Goods for an article published Oct. 27.

Owner Donald Beltrame and his son, Jim, told Tribune reporters that the reason why the store has skyrocketed as a source for “crime guns” is because business has been booming.

“With business increasing, you’re going to have an increase in everything, which is unfortunate,” Jim Beltrame told the Tribune. “We’ve probably had a 1,000 percent increase in sales, so (the 300 percent spike in crime guns found) is relatively low.”

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D209 planning to redesign websites, logos The district is expected to hire a vendor for the over $70K project by Nov. 7

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

Proviso Township High School District 209 officials are preparing to redesign the websites used by the district, Proviso East, Proviso West and Proviso Math and Science Academy at an estimated cost ranging between $70,000 and $120,000.

“Our website is very old and in many ways not functional for the work we want to do,” said D209 Supt. Jesse Rodriguez during a regular school board meeting on Oct. 10.

According to Tracy Avant-Bey, the district’s director of information technology, the websites for the three high schools launched in 2007 while the district’s website launched in 2011.

“Typically with technology you go through a refresh cycle of four to five years,” she said. “That’s what we’re looking to do with the websites now.”

District officials said that they want to modernize the visual layout of the sites, make them more mobile-friendly, and upgrade them so that staff members are

able to update content on the site for their respective departments and schools within a central management system.

Officials divided the capabilities they expect to get from the redesign into two categories — tier one and tier two, with the former representing capabilities that the district requires of the new sites and the latter representing capabilities that the district desires and that are more contingent on pricing.

The new sites, officials said, would allow parents and students the ability to submit applications for PMSA, register for school, pay student fees and upload documents like physicals and consent forms, among other tier one functions that the current sites aren’t able to support.

The new sites would also be required to feature links connecting to the district’s social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter.

Part of the website redesign process will include the redesign of the logos used by the district, Proviso West and PMSA so that they look better on cell phone screens and other

digital media, as well as printed items like signs, apparel and letterhead.

“In our discussion with the web development team, we discovered we have several different logos for West, several different Panthers,” Avant-Bey said. “For PMSA, in some cases a cobra is being used instead of a python.”

Some tier two capabilities that the district highly desires include personal websites for all classroom teachers in the district, with each school’s website linking to those pages, and the ability of each website to translate into Spanish without using Google Translate or other translation software.

The district currently pays a small fee for Google’s translation services, which aren’t very accurate, said Avant-Bey. She added that the district would ask vendors to price out a more accurate translation service.

In a request for proposals document, the district listed several education-related websites that they’re considering examples to model. They include the website of Morton School District 201, Leyden School District 212, Northern Illinois University

and DePaul University.

District officials said that the costs for the website redesign are included in the 2017-18 budget. Officials have sent out requests for proposals and the top two or three candidates will be invited to present on Oct. 30 before the website development committee. The school board is expected to award a contract to the successful vendor at a regular meeting on Nov. 7.

Avant-Bey said that the district is seeking outside vendors with skills in graphic design and other areas “so that they can build the front-end to make it visually acceptable and organized while web developers and programmers can work on the back-end so we can have the functionality we’re looking for.”

She said that the new sites will be launched in phases, with a series of test phases preceding the actual launch. District officials expect the new sites to be fully functional by May 2018.

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Proviso East’s NJROTC program offers a community of leaders The program, which is at peak enrollment, is seeking funds for programming

By MICHAEL ROMAIN

to go to the military for a long time and this works as a starter program.”

Murphy’s enthusiasm is nurtured by Bradford Murphy, 16, said that he had Darryl Person, the NJROTC senior naval been looking forward to joining Proviso East science instructor at Proviso East, who has High School’s Naval Junior Reserve Officers headed up the program for four years.

Training Corps, or NJROTC, since before he Person said that, with an enrollment of enrolled.

205 students, the program is the largest its “I’ve been in NJROTC for two years,” been since it was started in 2000.

Murphy, a sophomore at the high school, “We do outreach and we make sure the said during a recent interview. “I joined the activities and programs are sound, that minute I started school. I’ve been wanting we’re fun and relatable, and that we have a great rapport with our kids. In many instances, our staff are like fathers and mothers to our cadets,” he said.

“I’ve learned that kids want to know that you care and once they know that you care, they will support you, they’ll participate, Chris Harris/Facebook they’ll be drawn ATTENTION: Members of the Proviso East NRJOTC color guard dur- to your program,” Person added. ing an event in Forest Park in 2015.

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The former naval commander has prior experience to attest to the universality of his formula. Person said he came to East from an NJROTC program in East Aurora, where he grew enrollment from 600 cadets when he took it over to 1,000 cadets by the time he left.

The NJROTC at Proviso East comprises a range of activities, including drill team, color guard and orienteering, which are sports that require participants to utilize maps and compasses to navigate from one point to another in diverse and unfamiliar areas, such as forest preserve.

Each year, the cadets participate in a variety of events, such as a military ball and field trips.

“This is a family atmosphere where the kids have a sense of belonging and the opportunity to develop leadership skills,” Person said. “We encourage them to pursue academic excellence. It’s a citizenship program, basically. We’re trying to help them become positive citizens in the community.

But we also make it fun.”

This past Labor Day, he said, around 40 cadets took a trip to a naval base in Norfolk, Va. and Washington, D.C., where the cadets visited the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

The constant drum of activities, however,

requires fundraising at a near-constant clip, Person said. But the program has even that down to military precision. They often coordinate fundraising campaigns for events or activities that may not happen for months at a time.

This month, the program was trying to raise $5,000 to send cadets to a military ball in Elmhurst that will happen on April 13, 2018.

And then there’s the other, more routine activities that take place throughout the year, including tutoring for cadets, partnerships with area middle schools and an initiative that allows cadets to instruction their fellow cadets, among other activities.

For Murphy, the program all leads to the same end: the cultivation of his individual character through a supportive community.

“I’ve gotten leadership skills and have been able to work with other students who need help under me and to learn a lot from other people who know a lot more than me.

I’ve been a lot more social too,” he said.

“This program has done a lot for me.”

For more info on the NJROTC program at Proviso East or to donate, call Darryl Person (773) 562-7583. VFP

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WATER WOES Drowning in fees from page 1 Tribune reports. “Last year, the village issued 1,436 water disconnection notices on residential and commercial accounts, records show, though it’s unclear how many of the notices led to water service being discontinued.”

Residents in Maywood have to pay $300 in order for their service to resume if their water has been disconnected after a 30-day nonpayment period. In Calumet Park it’s $200. In Glenwood and Ford Heights it’s $100.

According to the report, a range of explanations have been presented for the high water rates in lower-income, majority-minority communities, including “cracked pipes and leaky hydrants” that cause large amounts of water to be lost and the “exorbitant replacement costs of that infrastructure.”

For instance, the Tribune found that of “the 946 million gallons that Maywood bought from Melrose Park in 2016, 367 million gallons, or 38.7 percent, never made it to taps, costing residents and businesses in this cash-strapped village nearly $1.7 million. Maywood residents pay one of the region’s highest water rates.”

(The Tribune explained that its analysis of water lost through leaky pipes doesn’t take into account so-called “apparent loss,”

which includes “meter or accounting errors and water theft”).

Towns with mostly black residents (which pay among the highest water rates in the region) lost, on average, 18 percent of water, compared to the overall regional rate of 10 percent.

There are also the costs related to fraud and mismanagement. The Tribune cites a case of mismanagement investigated in 2015 by the Cook County sheriff ’s office involving Maywood employees in the finance department who fraudulently credited the accounts of village property owners.

Several employees were fired after the scheme, including one public works employee who appealed his firing and sued the village, claiming wrongful termination.

After an arbitrator sided with him, the employee was eventually awarded over $100,000. He has since been reinstated.

The Tribune explains that the abuses in places like Maywood are undergirded by “a system that lacks accountability.”

According to state law, elected officials in municipalities like Maywood can set their own water rates by adopting ordinances and there’s no guarantee that they’ll “keep water revenue in water accounts.”

“In fact, it’s legal for towns to divert water revenue to other purposes, provided local officials deem the water system is being managed properly,” the Tribune reports.

Maywood Village Manager Willie Norfleet, Jr., who the Tribune interviewed, said he thought the village’s water loss was as high as 50 percent. He attributed the

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loss to a “significant number of meters are malfunctioning” and “many leaking hydrants and broken water mains,” according to the Tribune.

Norfleet said that the village “is making progress on lowering the water loss by repairing and replacing water meters and hydrants, installing a better water pump and control system at the village’s water plant and going after delinquent customers.”

Counting your losses For its report, the Tribune created an interactive database where readers can look up the average monthly water bill for their town for every 5,000 gallons in 2017, the percentage of water loss their town reported losing in 2016 because of leaky pipes or water main breaks, and the age of the town’s pipes in 2014.

Bellwood

Monthly water bill for 5,000 gal. in 2017: $55.85 (a 32% increase since 2013) % water loss in 2016: 26.16 Age of pipes: 53 percent of the village’s 43 miles of pipes are over 60 years old

Broadview

according to the Tribune).

Age of pipes: Over 60 percent of the village’s 34 miles of pipes are between 21 and 40 years old.

Maywood

Monthly water bill for 5,000 gal. in 2017: $72.61 (an 11% increase since 2013) % water loss in 2016: 38.73 Age of pipes: 60 percent of the village’s 62 miles of pipes are over 60 years old.

Melrose Park

Monthly water bill for 5,000 gal. in 2017: $26.60 (a 15% increase since 2013) % water loss in 2016: 22.18 Age of pipes: 42 percent of the village’s 77 miles of pipes are under 20 years old. And 27 percent are over 60 years old.

Note: Bellwood, Broadview and Maywood water passes from Lake Michigan to Chicago through Melrose Park and experiences an additional markup. Melrose Park gets its water directly from Chicago.

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Monthly water bill for 5,000 gal. in 2017: $44.09 (a 23% increase since 2013) % water loss in 2016: N/A (Broadview didn’t submit a 2016 water audit form and isn’t in state compliance,

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Maywood hits refresh on acquiring properties The village still wants to acquire a Roosevelt Road auto dealership and the old Bushwood Golf center

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

The village of Maywood recently hit the refresh button on attempts to acquire an abandoned Roosevelt Road auto dealership and the former Bushwood Golf Practice Center and Driving Range on Madison St. for redevelopment purposes.

During an Oct. 17 regular meeting, the Maywood Board of Trustees voted unanimously to direct staff to begin the process of taking over the tax certificate to the Bushwood property, located at 30 W. Madison, from the Cook County Land Bank Authority, which acquired the certificate in a scavenger sale in July. Trustees Antonio Sanchez, Melvin Lightford and Ron Rivers were absent.

Village staff had also presented to the board the option of allowing the Land Bank to take the deed to the property and then selling it to a private developer for redevelopment. That scenario, staff said, would have been hindered by the environmental problems associated with the property.

The village has been trying to acquire the auto dealership, along with some parcels surrounding it, since it at least July 2013, when the board signed a resolution requesting and authorizing the county to submit a no-cash bid that would allow the village to purchase the properties’ delinquent tax deeds.

The vacant dealership, located at 415 Roosevelt Rd., was most recently home to West Suburban Auto Group before it closed 10 years ago. Since then, the owners of the property have allowed the taxes to fall into delinquency.

In addition to the auto dealership, the village is also attempting to acquire the vacant auto repair garage and vacant lot annexing the dealership at 2120 S. 5th Avenue.

According a 2016 Village Free Press report, county records showed that the owner of the auto dealership, its surrounding lots and the abandoned auto repair garage had not paid taxes since 2014.

As of last year, the delinquent taxes on the properties — which include five separate property pin numbers — totaled more than $415,000, records showed.

Michael Marrs, an attorney with the village’s law firm, Klein, Thorpe & Jenkins, said that the owner contested the tax proceedings and the Circuit Court ruled, on a technicality, in favor of the owner.

“We’re taking another run at it,” Marrs said during the Oct. 17 meeting. “The way the schedule is playing out, we should have a right to get these certificates of purchase on these properties by early to mid-summer.”

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November 1 – 7

Big Week Profit from a free homebuyer seminar Grow your awareness with PASO On Thursday, Nov. 2, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., at Proviso Math and Science Academy, 8601 W. Roosevelt Road, PASO West Suburban Action Group will host a screening of “Documented,” a documentary film about Jose Antonio Vargas’s undocumented experience.

Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who produced and directed the film, will attend the screening and will be available for discussion. Please confirm your attendance at this FREE event through PASO’s Facebook page or by calling (708) 410-2000.

Join Community Bank of Oak Park and River Forest for an opportunity to learn about home buying and the benefits of homeownership on Saturday, Nov. 4, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Maywood Public Library, 125 S. 5th Ave. in Maywood. Down payment assistance programs are available!

Seating is limited, so reserve yours today! For more info, call Phillip Lagiglia at (630) 936-3245.

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OFF THE ROLLS: Above, an empty auto dealership at 415 Roosevelt Rd., along with land surrounding it, and the former Bushwood Golf Practice Center and Driving Range are among properties the village wants to acquire.

Attend a celebration dinner Vargas will also keynote PASO’s celebration dinner on Friday, Nov. 3, 6 p.m., at the Diplomat West Banquet Hall, 681 W. North Ave. in Elmhurst, where the organization will honor four community leaders. Early Bird tickets are $50 for adults and $30 for kids. Contact PASO at (708) 410-2000 or email mary@pasoaction.org for more info.

Reserve your seat in Maywood’s pre-exam fire fighter course Maywood’s Board of Police and Fire Commissioners is hosting three comprehensive preexamination sessions for entrylevel fire-fighter applicants from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Nov. 18, Dec. 9 and Dec. 16 at the Multipurpose Building, 200 S. 5th Ave. in Maywood.

The cost of the course is $30 per person, which is non-refundable.

The course is intended to assist applicants with identifying and

developing important skills that they will need to complete and pass the firefighter entry level examination.

The entire curse is nine hours — three hours each session. Spacing is limited to 40 applicants. Please contact the commissioner’s office at (708) 450-4488, between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m., to reserve your seat.

You may begin reserving your seat from Nov. 6 until Nov. 17. Seating cannot be reserved after that date.

Please note it is to your advantage to be present for all three sessions.

Grow your financial literacy The nonprofit organization People Help People will host a free financial workshop in Room 202 at the Maywood Public Library on Saturday, 125 S. 5th Ave. in Maywood, on Saturday, Nov. 4, 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Attendees will receive advice on how to maximize savings for the future.

No registration required.

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JOE FREELON Deacon

from page 1 After graduating from Tuskegee’s R.O.T.C. program with a bachelor’s degree in 1956, Freelon re-entered the military as an officer stationed at Fort Bliss in Texas. Eventually, he would move to Chicago and become a schoolteacher.

In 1964, Freelon and Gladys, his wife of 61 years, moved to Maywood and joined Second Baptist, where Freelon would serve as chairman of the church’s deacon board for more than 40 years.

The church was a magnet for former southerners and educators like Louise Denton-Jones, who was also born and raised in Grenada before moving to Maywood and starting a decades-long teaching career.

“Joe was what you’d call my homeboy,” said Denton-Jones, who officiated Freelon’s funeral service on Nov. 25, 2016. “We’re from the same hometown and we both graduated from Grenada Public High School. We’ve come a long way. Joe was no ordinary man.

He was a great man.”

Freelon was in his early 50s, and had distinguished himself as a social studies and math teacher in Chicago Public Schools, as well as a key community figure, by the time a group of residents tapped him to run for mayor in the early 1980s.

“Joe was first and foremost an educator,” wrote U.S. Rep. Danny K. Davis (7th), who sent a letter that was read by his former chief of staff and current Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin (1st) during the service.

“He taught for many years in the North Lawndale community [and] children in the community at large loved him,” Davis wrote.

“Joe was the kind of person who would always come when called. When a group of his neighbors, friends, colleagues and fellow church members called, he answered and ran for mayor. For the rest of his life, he has been a leading force in the governance of Maywood.”

Freelon entered the race as one of eight candidates, including six African Americans. One of them, Bill Hampton — the brother of slain Black Panther leader Fred Hampton — recalled in an interview on Friday that the 1981 race may have featured the most black candidates of any race in the village’s history.

According to newspaper accounts, some residents feared that, with so many blacks in the running, they would split the African American vote in what would amount to a missed opportunity at a time when the village’s black residents, who had comprised Maywood’s majority, were hungry for representation in the mayor’s office.

But Freelon prevailed over newspaper publisher Ron Saunders by just 23 votes, a result that Saunders contested in the courts.

In May 1982, a Cook County Circuit Court judge ordered Freelon to vacate his position as mayor due to “large-scale voting irregularities in the April 7, 1981 election

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GOD, FAMILY, MAYWOOD: Former Maywood mayor Joe Freelon pictured with his wife, Gladys (below left) and immediate family ( above right), and in his younger years. that put him in office,” according to a May 28, 1982 Chicago Tribune article.

Among those irregularities, the judge noted, were failures by election judges to “initial ballots” and “check registration cards” — oversights the judge said were due largely to “lack of knowledge of the election laws and the rules of the election board.”

After he stepped down, the village board appointed Freelon acting mayor until a special election could be held on Nov. 2, 1982.

Freelon would go on to comfortably defeat Saunders by several thousand votes in a head-to-head matchup.

“It is abundantly clear tonight that the people are saying, ‘Take your programs and move forward,’” Freelon said when he was elected to an historic first term for the second time.

The Maywood mayor’s victory in 1981 predated a wave of major black mayoralties across the country. Two years after the village first elected Freelon, Chicago would elect Harold Washington, Philadelphia would elect Wilson Goode and New York City would elect David Dinkins.

Race played a critical role in urban politics in those years, with blacks jockeying for more local political power while whites fought to maintain their tremendous political advantages against a demographic surge that worked against them.

Months after his historic win, Mayor Washington attended a rally at the Maywood Community Center in order to galvanize support behind an all-black slate comprising four candidates for District 89 school board

seats.

“Maywood is a focal point of a lot of attention,” said Washington, who was introduced by Freelon. “You know what you want. You don’t need me to tell you how to do it; but … I am bringing you this message from the good people of Chicago.”

The all-black slate, called the Citizens for Representative Education, claimed that the board’s white majority from Melrose Park “restricted public comment,” among other allegations of discriminatory practices.

Washington, the Tribune reported, called the majority white board of a majority black school district “a travesty on common sense.”

Donna Felton, a lawyer who was running on the CRE slate that year, spoke in religious terms when describing the movement to elect more black officials to the school board, among other local seats of power.

“What this says to the people is a crusade is still going on,” Felton said. “Many black people who never heretofore voted now realize the power of the collective vote and specifically the black vote. Harold epitomizes the movement. His presence here will have a tremendous impact on our race.”

Long before Barack Obama, Washington, and the other trailblazing black mayors like him, Freelon included, were models for young African American men, particularly in the South, who had never seen themselves in those positions of power.

Rev. David Core, Gladys’ nephew, was a young man in Alabama when his Uncle Joe was first elected mayor.

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“I used to drop his name a lot,” Core, who eulogized Freelon, said of his uncle. “It made me feel like I was a little more than what I was, because I had an uncle who was a mayor.

In Alabama at that time we didn’t have black mayors. So I’d drop his name around. That made me feel a little bigger on the totem pole. He was an encouragement to us young, black men looking for an example. Because of him, we thought more of ourselves.”

Freelon’s election was also a boon to local religious leaders, some of whom found a sympathetic ear in the longtime deacon.

One pastor, who spoke briefly during the funeral, said the mayor helped alleviate a conflict related to Sunday parking near the pastor’s Maywood church.

“In 1993, God began to bless the church in such a way that we were taking up all the parking on 14th Avenue; so much so that we got tickets,” said the pastor. “It’s good to have saved people in political arenas. He cleaned up all my tickets and fixed it so we would have one-way parking on 14th Ave. on Sunday. We just need those kind of people in office today. He set a precedent and a legacy and I encourage all of us to pick up the cross.”

The village’s first black mayor, said another pastor during brief comments on Saturday, was a church leader before he was a politician.

“I met Deacon Freelon 27 years ago,” the pastor said. “Every time that I came here or met him in public, he was Deacon Freelon. I happened to call him a couple of times when he was in office and he would say, ‘Son, I’ll take care of it.’ I’d just like to encourage the church and the community to follow the footsteps and pattern of Deacon Joe Freelon.

Serve with dignity, with excellency and with commitment.”

Freelon would need to tap into reserves of that commitment during the long, drawn-out battle for greater representation that local black leaders were fighting throughout his first term.

In addition to the prolonged legal battles he endured after his 1981 election, the mayor also had to confront a lull in that electoral crusade Felton referenced.

The four-member slate that the first black mayors of Chicago and Maywood supported with such vigor lost the campaign to unseat the predominantly white District 89 school board. According to a Nov. 9, 1983 Tribune article, Washington’s visit to the suburbs may have created a “backlash in the white community.”

“Tell Harold Washington to stay home,” then-Melrose Park Mayor C. August Taddeo told Tribune reporters. “Tell him to stay on that side of Austin Boulevard. I think he’s a great man. He’s got his own problems. He should solve them.”

The Tribune reported that the “slate of white candidates was winning 80-to-1 margins in some Melrose Park precincts that reported early results.”

The CRE slate of four blacks, Freelon told reporters, wasn’t generating anywhere near as much support, a disappointing reality that was compounded by low voter turnout.

In majority black precincts in Maywood,

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the future of black political representation.

In those days, much of that future hinged on Jesse Jackson.

In April of that year, while attending the National Conference of Black Mayors in Missouri, Freelon told the St. Louis PostDispatch that, even if the civil rights leader and presidential candidate “did nothing more than get people registered and out to vote who have never voted before, the impact will be great.”

Many blacks “who thought of running for higher office before but didn’t are going to run for office now,” Freelon predicted. “And I think you’re going to see black candidates seriously running for president from now on.”

Mayor Freelon’s election came in the wake of drastic racial change in Maywood. In 1970, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, Maywood’s black residents comprised roughly 41 percent of its total population.

By 1980, blacks were 75 percent of a village that had lost more than 2,000 residents —

from around 30,000 in 1970 to around 28,000 a decade later — and thousands of jobs.

In 1975, the 18-acre American Can Co. plant, once the largest employer in town, closed its doors. Around the same time, a Canada Dry bottling plant also closed. Those two from page 9 companies, according to estimated accounts voters “were giving the black slate margins published by the Tribune, employed around of only 5 of 10 votes,” and “only 25 percent 8,000 people. of the voters in Maywood came to the polls, When those major local employers closed, about half the turnout that the black slate smaller businesses that depended on the estimated it needed,” the Tribune reported. incomes gained from them closed, too.

All wasn’t lost, however. Some black The loss of stable jobs, small businesses political leaders, like CRE candidate William and homeowners in the village, the Frayser, considered the losing effort just cumulative impact of which residents are a start in a larger war for greater political still living with now, precipitated a loss of representation. tax revenue and all of the complications “It was lost, technically, but I see this as a that come with that loss. victory,” Frayser said. “It is long past time A 1976 work stoppage among Maywood that this [victory] should come to us as a police officers was followed by another one racial group. We have here the foundation in 1983, while Freelon was two years into his of an organization.” first term.

By 1984, Freelon was looking beyond That year, Maywood patrolmen were Maywood and even Chicago for a glimpse of demanding a 7 percent salary increase and permanent shifts. The village, the mayor said at the time, simply didn’t have enough money to fund that large of a pay raise. A full-blown police strike was averted after the village offered a graduated salary increase.

There would be more work stoppages and strikes to come, including a massive strike by village employees in September 1986 that nearly “shut down village hall and the police station but had little immediate effect on city services,” the Tribune reported.

Many of the problems that Freelon confronted are eerily similar to those pestering village officials now.

In February 1983, the mayor and his colleagues confronted around $750,000 worth of overdue water bills and up to $1 million worth of overdue parking tickets by implementing shutoffs for delinquent customers and attaching boots to the cars of people with the most outstanding parking fines.

Within less than five months of implementing the shutoffs, the Tribune reported at the time, village officials had collected $322,000. That figure is similar to the estimated $333,000 that the village collected within several days after sending shutoff notices to residents more than 60 days behind on their water payments last June.

That more recent collection attempt was to address what Screen shot current Maywood Village PAST IS PROLOGUE: A photo from a Chicago Tribune article from September 1986 detailing a labor disManager Willie Norfleet

Mayor

pute between the village and its employees.

thevillagefreepress.org called “the extreme delinquency” of unpaid water bills that amounted to more than $1 million.

And just as current residents often complain of the village’s crime rate now, the issue was no less pressing more than two decades ago — dominating, and perhaps ultimately upsetting, Freelon’s bid for a third-term in 1989, which he lost to State Farm insurance agent Don Williams.

Williams and Solomon Smith, the third candidate in that race (who was a retired Maywood police chief under Freelon’s predecessor), hammered the sitting mayor on the village’s increasing crime rate.

But Freelon’s four terms in office (after losing in 1989, he would later win his seat back in 1993 and serve for eight more years) may be characterized as much by the precedents the former mayor established as by the problems that dogged the village back then and that persist today.

Freelon presided over the construction of the police station at 125 S. 5th Ave., where the current mayor’s office and village council chambers are also housed. In addition, numerous committees and commissions, such as a beautification committee and a Water Service Commission, were created during his tenure.

“There’s been a change in attitude in recent years,” Mayor Freelon told the Tribune in 1997, when the village bought and demolished the decaying American Can site on St. Charles Road.

“In the past, we were trying to reconstruct the American Can Co., and that wasn’t going to happen,” he said, expressing the sense of optimism and resilience amid relative decline that would also be the late mayor’s legacy. “Now, we’re looking at other options and we’re positive about those.”

Articulating an approach to economic development that would be followed by mayors and elected officials who would come after him, Freelon told the Tribune that the village would focus on attracting a diverse array of businesses from smaller industries.

The razing of the old American Can plant — long a symbol of a bygone economic reality — would make way for Aetna Plywood, a wood and laminate products distributor, and Cintas Corp., a laundry and distribution center along St. Charles Road.

Although they did not begin to replace the amount of employment that American Can and Canada Dry provided, the two facilities would generate close to 200 jobs, according to one estimate published by the Tribune.

More, perhaps, than most places, current and former residents of Maywood have an unyielding faith in the town’s people — a belief that Freelon often touted.

“Maywood is a community where most people not only know each other but take care of each other,” the mayor told the Tribune. “People may think of us as a bluecollar place, but that makes us a very rich place indeed.

“If I had to pinpoint it, I guess I’d say our families are what have held the community together, despite what some people say was a bad economic picture in the past.”

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VILLAGE perspectives

High on costs, low on justice I want to thank the Chicago Tribune for its recent articles documenting the dramatic inequity in water rates across Chicagoland. I live and work in Maywood and have been mortified by the ever-increasing water bills my neighbors and I are faced with.

The fact that so many water shutoff notices have been issued in our community was one I was not aware of; unfortunately, however, it doesn’t surprise me.

Our problems in Maywood don’t stop at high water rates. We also must deal with high property taxes and an arbitrary method of assessing real estate values.

The assessed value of our home in Maywood increased by $50,000 with this recent assessment. That means our taxes, on a home newly assessed at $211,000, will be $11,573 — an effective tax rate of 5.4 percent.

That, of course, is assuming I could sell my home at the assessed value, which is extremely far from assured.

So, the effective tax rate is likely even higher.

After the county denied our appeal on the assessment of our home, I reread the series of Chicago Tribune articles detailing how the system that the county uses to assess real estate values for tax purposes favors wealthy communities over poorer ones.

The whole process, from assessment to appeals, seems very arbitrary. For instance, while we were denied, most of my neighbors received nominal reductions in their assessments. I have filed for a re-review, but this in itself is wrong and does not address the root problems.

From a social justice perspective, we should be alarmed that the 15 communities with the highest tax rates are all predominantly African American and lowincome.

When you combine these taxes with the lack of services, the lack of viable business districts, and failing schools, our poor communities have no way up.

Homeowners are paying exorbitantly for the poorest community attributes possible.

This is clearly a public health issue and it is discriminatory. In addition to outlining this reality, we need to take action. What can we do to solve this? And why isn’t there more outrage about these injustices?

— Amy Luke Maywood

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MY perspective

The long crisis of poor, black suburbs

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Publisher

The Chicago Tribune’s recent deep dive into the suffocating water rates affecting residents in majority black, lower-income suburbs like Maywood is just the latest in a litany of reports that tell many of us who live in these places, like myself and Amy Luke, what we already know and intuit.

We pay too much for critical functions, like running water that is often wasted because of aging, dilapidated infrastructure and bad management. We are overtaxed. We are underserviced and rarely sold to by businesses who pay taxes in our communities. The list can be added to.

The fact that places like Maywood and Harvey are so often black is not because they’re governed by black people, but because they’ve been systemically abandoned by progress, just as African Americans were largely ignored by a raft of “progressive” policies like the New Deal and the GI Bill and Aid to Dependent Children and federally subsidized mortgages.

Read the article we published this week on Maywood’s first black mayor and you’ll see that many of the issues Maywood is confronting now were prevalent 40 years ago. Black suburbs, like Black America, have been mired in a long crisis not of their making. In fact, they are the very byproducts, the effluent, of this country’s long tradition of profit-seeking with reckless and racist abandon.

What needs to happen now is for the residents of these suburbs to take real personal responsibility — not the kind that’s been perverted to protect the powerful from the consequences of their actions.

Real personal responsibility means taking ownership of one’s suffering — learning and understanding how we got here and who and what is responsible, holding those people and forces accountable, and extracting justice for ourselves and our posterity. It means realizing the power that we have and coming together in solidarity.

What does that look like in real life? Only time, dialogue and organization will tell. But the dialogue has to be had.

If nothing else, the leaders of these suburbs need to be convening regular and ongoing conversations about high property taxes and service fees and other issues that they suffer in common. And they need to be talking not just among themselves but with allies and foes alike.

They need to be talking about the history of these issues, how they came about; but they also need to take ownership of their actions and understand how they may be exacerbating them. They need to identify problems and seek solutions in common.

They need to band together, form a power bloc, identify potential policy solutions and pressure legislative bodies to enact them.

And what power these leaders have to enact solutions among themselves — through ordinances that their own city councils and boards can create, through sound governance and effective management, for instance — ought to be exercised.

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Public Notice: Your Right to Know REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT–CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS SUCCESSOR BY MERGER OF U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION ND Plaintiff, -v.JOSE MONTANO, BEATRIZ MONTANO, TARGET NATIONAL BANK F/K/A RETAILERS NATIONAL BANK, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR WILLMINGTON FINANCE, INC. Defendants 13 CH 007064 1643 N. 44TH 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 May 18, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on November 14, 2017, 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 1643 N. 44TH AVENUE, STONE PARK, IL 60165 Property Index No. 15-05-205-0080000.

The real estate is improved with a multi-family residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the 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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

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

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

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

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH

SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

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 14-13-10882.

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. 14-13-10882 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 13 CH 007064 TJSC#: 37-9205 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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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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

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

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

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

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1).

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

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 10431.

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. 10431

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT–CHANCERY DIVISION HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR WELLS FARGO HOME EQUITY ASSET-BACKED SECURITIES 2005-3 TRUST, HOME EQUITY ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-3 Plaintiff, -v.UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, JORIE WRIGHT, LOYCE WRIGHT, JR, ROBIN S. WRIGHT, WILLIAM BUTCHER, SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DECEASED MORTGAGOR, BERNADETTE WRIGHT A/K/A BERNADETTE A. WRIGHT, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF BERNADETTE WRIGHT A/K/A BERNADETTE A. WRIGHT, IF ANY Defendants 15 CH 4983 930 MARIK DRIVE 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 August 29, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on November 30, 2017, 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 930 MARIK DRIVE, BELLWOOD, IL 60104 Property Index No. 15-16-109-0980000.

The real estate is improved with a single family home, no garage.

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 15 CH 4983 TJSC#: 37-7970 I3061921

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT–CHANCERY DIVISION NEW YORK COMMUNITY BANK Plaintiff, -v.LATRICE J BARNETT, COUNTY OF COOK Defendants 15 CH 16290 321 28TH AVENUE 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 March 21, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on December 1, 2017, 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 321 28TH AVENUE, BELLWOOD, IL 60104 Property Index No. 15-09-215-0180000, 15-09-215-019-0000.

The real estate is improved with a yellow, aluminum siding, single family, two car detached 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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

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

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

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

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1).

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

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LINOIS 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 251305.

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. 251305 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 15 CH 16290 TJSC#: 37-8561 I3063274

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 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125, Chicago, IL 60606, (312) 541-9710 Please refer to file number 17-4830.

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. 17-4830 Attorney Code. 40342 Case Number: 17 CH 4899 TJSC#: 37-8045 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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THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Plaintiff, -v.UNKNOWN HEIRS AT LAW AND LEGATEES OF RAYMOND F. MUELLER, ZACHARY MUELLER, AS HEIR OF RAYMOND F. MUELLER, CHRISTIAN MUELLER, AS HEIR OF RAYMOND F. MUELLER, WILLIAM P. BUTCHER, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF RAYMOND F. MUELLER, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 16 CH 13653

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 OF AMERICA Plaintiff, -v.JAMES JAFFE, BMO HARRIS BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION F/K/A HARRIS N.A. Defendants 17 CH 4899 2414 N. WEST ST. 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 August 28, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on November 30, 2017, 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 2414 N. WEST ST., River Grove, IL 60171 Property Index No. 12-27-424-0440000.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $212,394.71.

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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT–CHANCERY DIVISION FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (‘’FANNIE MAE’’), A CORPORATION ORGANIZED AND EXISTING UNDER

1553 NORFOLK AVE. 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 August 28, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on November 30, 2017, 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 1553 NORFOLK AVE., Westchester, IL 60154 Property Index No. 15-21-214-0370000 Vol. 170.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $228,083.95.

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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

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

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

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

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSES-

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SION, 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 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125, Chicago, IL 60606, (312) 541-9710 Please refer to file number 16-4031.

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. 16-4031 Attorney Code. 40342 Case Number: 16 CH 13653 TJSC#: 37-8063 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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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 14-16-08637.

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. 14-16-08637 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 16 CH 010295 TJSC#: 37-8149 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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or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

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

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

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

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1).

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

For information, contact Plaintiff’s attorney: JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC, 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125, Chicago, IL 60606, (312) 541-9710 Please refer to file number 16-4184.

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. 16-4184 Attorney Code. 40342 Case Number: 16 CH 14817 TJSC#: 37-8042 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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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 2049 NORTH 19TH AVENUE, Melrose Park, IL 60160 Property Index No. 12-34-302-0580000.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $138,042.62.

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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

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

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) 291-1717 For information call between the hours of 1pm–3pm. Please refer to file number 17-082919.

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. 17-082919 Attorney Code. 42168 Case Number: 17 CH 5859 TJSC#: 37-7129 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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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 14-17-05344.

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. 14-17-05344 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 17 CH 006142 TJSC#: 37-6926 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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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 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125, Chicago, IL 60606, (312) 541-9710 Please refer to file number 16-4201.

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. 16-4201 Attorney Code. 40342 Case Number: 16 CH 14802 TJSC#: 37-7892 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT–CHANCERY DIVISION DITECH FINANCIAL, LLC Plaintiff, -v.ROBERT E. WARREN Defendants 16 CH 010295 2933 ELDER LANE 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 August 28, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on November 30, 2017, 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 2933 ELDER LANE, FRANKLIN PARK, IL 60131 Property Index No. 12-28-220-049.

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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

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

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

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at

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 OF AMERICA Plaintiff, -v.MICHAEL S. HOPKINS, DENISE A. HOPKINS, CITY OF CHICAGO Defendants 16 CH 14817 2309 S. 12TH AVE Broadview, IL 60155 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 23, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on November 27, 2017, 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 2309 S. 12TH AVE, Broadview, IL 60155 Property Index No. 15-22-213-0030000 Vol. 171.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $208,358.00.

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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor,

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT–CHANCERY DIVISION CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES, LLC Plaintiff, -v.ANGEL AVITIA A/K/A ANGEL AVITIA SR., MARIA AVITIA, STATE OF ILLINOIS, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PORTFOLIO RECOVERY ASSOCIATES LLC Defendants 17 CH 5859 2049 NORTH 19TH AVENUE Melrose Park, IL 60160 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 2, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on November 28, 2017, at The

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT–CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.KRYSTAL LANDFAIR, ILLINOIS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Defendants 17 CH 006142 2025 HIGH ST BERKELEY, IL 60163 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on July 21, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on December 1, 2017, 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 2025 HIGH ST, BERKELEY, IL 60163 Property Index No. 15-18-100-0030000.

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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

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

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

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

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1).

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

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 OF AMERICA Plaintiff, -v.MEGAN MEGALL, JEFFREY MEGALL, JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. Defendants 16 CH 14802 1872 KENSINGTON AVE 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 August 22, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on November 27, 2017, 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 1872 KENSINGTON AVE, Westchester, IL 60154 Property Index No. 15-20-409-045 Vol. No. 169.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $257,709.78.

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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

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

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT–CHANCERY DIVISION JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.YOLANDA TRETO-GUTIERREZ A/ K/A YOLANDA TRETO GUTIERREZ, MARTIN M GUTIERREZ A/K/ A MARTIN GUTIERREZ, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Defendants 16 CH 00525 314 NORTH 6TH AVENUE MAYWOOD, 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 July 11, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on November 22, 2017, 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 314 NORTH 6TH AVENUE, MAYWOOD, IL 60153 Property Index No. 15-11-118-0220000, 15-11-118-023-0000.

The real estate is improved with a tan, vinyl siding, multi unit, two garage; one appears to be a three car attached & other a four car detached.

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

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party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

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

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: 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 252314.

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. 252314 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 16 CH 00525 TJSC#: 37-9098 I3064829

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT–CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR ASSET BACKED SECURITIES CORPORATION HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST 2001-HE2 ASSET BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2001-HE2 Plaintiff, -v.EUGENE WARD JR., DEBRA C. WARD Defendants 15 CH 015756 3615 MADISON STREET BELLWOOD, IL 60104 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on June 30, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on November 15, 2017, 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 3615 MADISON STREET, BELLWOOD, IL 60104 Property Index No. 15-09-321-1070000.

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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

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

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

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

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1).

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

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 14-15-16488.

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. 14-15-16488 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 15 CH 015756 TJSC#: 37-9271 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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Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on November 9, 2017, 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 630 S. 12TH AVENUE, MAYWOOD, IL 60153 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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

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

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

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

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1).

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

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 14-16-06357.

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. 14-16-06357 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 16 CH 007574 TJSC#: 37-9099 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT–CHANCERY DIVISION NEW PENN FINANCIAL LLC D/B/A SHELLPOINT MORTGAGE SERVICING Plaintiff, -v.ROSA MORGADO A/K/A ROSA MARIA MORGADO, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 17 CH 004003 921 25TH AVENUE 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 August 31, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on December 4, 2017, 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 921 25TH AVENUE, BELLWOOD, IL 60104 Property Index No. 15-15-105-0020000.

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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

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

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

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

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1).

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

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 14-17-03252.

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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. 14-17-03252 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 17 CH 004003 TJSC#: 37-8308 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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Defendants, 17 CH 6468 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, December 7, 2017 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. 15-15-321-023-0000.

Commonly known as 2014 South 19th 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 Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (614) 220-5611.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT–CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee for the registered holders of LB-UBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 2007-C2, Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-C2, acting by and through LNR Partners, LLC, its special servicer, Plaintiff, v.

WAL MP, LLC, Unknown Owners, and Non-Record Claimants, Defendants.

2017-CH-8325 Property address: 1445 West North Avenue, Melrose Park, Illinois 60160 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE Sheriff’s No. 170223 PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment Order of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above-captioned cause on September 25, 2017, Thomas J. Dart, the Sheriff of Cook County will, on Wednesday, November 15, 2017, at the hour of 1:00 p.m. in Room LL06 in the lower level of the Richard J. Daley Center, 50 W. Washington St., Chicago, Illinois 60602, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: Permanent Index Number: 12-34404-014-0000 Commonly known as: 1445 West North Avenue, Melrose Park, Illinois 60160.

The mortgaged real estate is a leasehold in a commercial building.

Sale shall be under the following terms: Bidders must present, at the time of sale, a cashier’s or certified check for 10% of the successful bid amount. The balance of the successful bid shall be paid within 24 hours, by similar funds. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call Plaintiff’s Attorney, Amy E. McCracken, Duane Morris, LLP, 190 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603, telephone: (312) 499-6700.

This is an attempt to collect a debt pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I3064935 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT–CHANCERY DIVISION BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC Plaintiff, -v.KEVIN COLLINS, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, PATRICE COLLINS, FILDALAS COLLINS A/K/A FILDELLAS COLLINS, GREGORY COLLINS, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF FILDAS COLLINS, WILLIAM P. BUTCHER, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR FILDAS COLLINS (DECEASED) Defendants 16 CH 007574 630 S. 12TH AVENUE MAYWOOD, 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 December 7, 2016, an agent for The Judicial

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT–CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR C-BASS TRUST 2006-CB9, C-BASS MORTGAGE LOAN ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-CB9; Plaintiff, vs.

MAE FOWLER A/K/A MAE H. FOWLER; ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE; JEFF FOWLER; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF MAE FOWLER, IF ANY; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF JEFF FOWLER, IF ANY; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 16 CH 11048 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, December 8, 2017 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 15-10-228-025-0000; 15-10228-026-0000.

Commonly known as 112 South 16th Avenue, Maywood, IL 60153.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection For information call the Sales Clerk at Plaintiff’s Attorney, The Wirbicki Law Group, 33 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603. (312) 3609455 WA16-0535.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION I3066112 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT–CHANCERY DIVISION THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY NA FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY NA AS SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO JPMORGAN CHASE BANK NA AS SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CHICAGO, AS TRUSTEE FOR GE CAPITAL MORTGAGE SERVICES, INC. HOME EQUITY LOAN PASS THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 1999-HE1; Plaintiff, vs.

MAE COLLINS; ROSS T. COLLINS; WEST SUBURBAN NEIGHBORHOOD PRESERVATION AGENCY; FRANKLIN CREDIT MANAGEMENT CORPORATION;

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT–CHANCERY DIVISION AMERICAN ADVISORS GROUP Plaintiff, -v.UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF EMMA J. HORNE AKA EMMA HORNE, DECEASED, UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS AND LIENHOLDERS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF EMMA J. HORNE AKA EMMA HORNE, DECEASED, UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS AND LIENHOLDERS AGAINST THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF EMMA J. HORNE AKA EMMA HORNE, DECEASED, DUANE HORNE, CITIBANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO CITIBANK (SOUTH DAKOTA), N.A., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ACTING

BY AND THROUGH THE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, MANOR CARE OF HINSDALE IL, LLC, STATE OF ILLINOIS-DEPARTMENT OF HEALTHCARE AND FAMILY SERVICES, WILLIAM BUTCHER, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF EMMA J. HORNE AKA EMMA HORNE, DECEASED Defendants 17 CH 03151 1534 MORRIS AVENUE BERKELEY, IL 60163 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on September 13, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on December 14, 2017, 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 1534 MORRIS AVENUE, BERKELEY, IL 60163 Property Index No. 15-08-112-0500000.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $119,102.40.

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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate

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arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

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

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 Plaintiff’s attorney: HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC, 111 East Main Street, DECATUR, IL 62523, (217) 422-1719 Please refer to file number 2120-13356.

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. 2120-13356 Attorney Code. 40387 Case Number: 17 CH 03151 TJSC#: 37-8434 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT–CHANCERY DIVISION DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE FOR NOVASTAR MORTGAGE FUNDING TRUST, SERIES 2006-5 NOVASTAR HOME EQUITY LOAN ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-5 Plaintiff, -v.LOVIE WALTON, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 17 CH 004726 1317 S. 8TH AVENUE MAYWOOD, 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 September 7, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on December 11, 2017, 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 1317 S. 8TH AVENUE, MAYWOOD, IL 60153 Property Index No. 15-14-125-0080000.

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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

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

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

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

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/ 18.5(g-1).

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

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 14-17-03677.

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. 14-17-03677 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 17 CH 004726 TJSC#: 37-8463 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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dominium 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) 291-1717 For information call between the hours of 1pm–3pm. Please refer to file number 17-082934.

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. 17-082934 Attorney Code. 42168 Case Number: 17 CH 5564 TJSC#: 37-8509 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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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, 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 14-17-04584.

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. 14-17-04584 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 17 CH 006445 TJSC#: 37-8499 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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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. 15-033522 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3065809

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 14-17-02585.

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. 14-17-02585 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 17 CH 002969 TJSC#: 37-8620 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT–CHANCERY DIVISION NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC Plaintiff, -v.ORAPIN CHELMOWSKI, KING ARTHUR CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION A/K/A KING ARTHUR CONDOMINIUM II NORTHLAKE, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, UNKNOWN OCCUPANTS Defendants 17 CH 5564 15 KING ARTHUR COURT, UNIT 2 Northlake, IL 60164 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on September 11, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on December 12, 2017, 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 15 KING ARTHUR COURT, UNIT 2, Northlake, IL 60164Property Index No. 12-30402-052-1002.

The real estate is improved with a condominium.

The judgment amount was $116,589.40.

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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

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

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

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

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

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT–CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.ENRIQUE HERRERA, ELIZABETH HERRERA, VILLAGE OF FRANKLIN PARK, CAPITAL ONE BANK (USA), N.A. Defendants 17 CH 006445 3537 N. ERNST 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 September 8, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on December 11, 2017, 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 3537 N. ERNST STREET, FRANKLIN PARK, IL 60131 Property Index No. 12-21-326-0040000.

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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT–CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, N.D.; Plaintiff, vs.

RODOLFO RODRIGUEZ; MARIA G. VASQUEZ AND UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 12 CH 24070 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, December 4, 2017 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. 15-03-128-011-0000.

Commonly known as 1521 N. 21st 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

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT–CHANCERY DIVISION JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.RICHARD A. GALLARDO, MICHELE A. GALLARDO, CITY OF NORTHLAKE, ILLINOIS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA–DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, UNIFUND CCR PARTNERS, PORTFOLIO RECOVERY ASSOCIATES, LLC Defendants 17 CH 002969 112 S. CARYL AVENUE NORTHLAKE, IL 60164 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on September 13, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on December 15, 2017, 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 112 S. CARYL AVENUE, NORTHLAKE, IL 60164 Property Index No. 15-05-112-0150000.

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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

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

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.

EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act., which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation or discrimination based on age, race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or intention to make any such preferences, limitations or discrimination.

The Illinois Human Rights Act prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental or advertising of real estate based on factors in addition to those protected under federal law.

This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. All persons are hereby informedthat all dwellings advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis.

Restrictions or prohibitions of pets do not apply to service animals.

To complain of discrimination, call HUD toll free at: 1-800-669-9777.

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