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$6M to fund West Side health issues

West Side United, city officials hope money helps close 16-year ‘death gap’ between Downtown and West Side

By PASCAL SABINO

ALEX ROGALS/Staff Photographer

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For folks on the West Side of Chicago, reminders of the city’s historic lack of equity can be seen always and everywhere. It can be observed in the lack of healthy food options in one of the city’s most devastating food deserts, in the abundance of shuttered schools in black neighborhoods, in high unemployment and in excessive rates of incarceration in some areas.

Perhaps the most visceral illustration of inequity in Chicago is the city’s response to disaster, like the Great Chicago Fire when miles of the central part of the city went up in flames leaving thousands homeless.

“How quickly that region was rebuilt,” said Ayesha Jaco, executive director of public health collaborative West Side United. “Go down to another great fire in 1968, where not far from here along Madison Avenue we had two miles destroyed and never rebuilt.”

Joined by Mayor Lori Lightfoot and several See INVESTMENT on page 5

YOUNG, GIFTED, BLACK: Students paint during a Feb. 28 Paint & Punch event held at 345 Art Gallery in East Garfield Park. The gallery wants to give the city’s young people dynamic lessons in art and culture.

Art, culture, paint and punch

East Garfield Park’s 345 Art Gallery engages young people in holistic cultural lesson

By IGOR STUDENKOV Contributing Reporter

On Feb. 28, around 30 second-grade students sat at tables coloring masks with red, when instructor Osei Badu asked them what that color represents on the Pan-African flag.

“Blood!” responded one of the students.

“Good job,” Badu said. “Give him a hand. When we go over green, start thinking about what the green represents.”

This was the second Paint & Punch event held at East Garfield Park’s 345 Art Gallery, 345 N. Kedzie Ave. Corry Williams, a police officer and art collector, has made it his mission to get local young people interested in art. With Paint & Punch, students from public schools all over Chicago can make art and learn about their culture.

“In order to get students more engaged in the expression of art, we wanted to do something that would get students out of the classroom for a while and into the

gallery, which isn’t always accessible to them,” said Charmaine Gardner, the gallery’s events manager.

Keshanna Milsap, a second-grade teacher at Andrew Carnegie Elementary School on the South Side, said that she found out about 345 Art Gallery online.

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Local business vying to win grant to build grocery store

Forty Acres Fresh Market seeking $50K to open brickand-mortar grocery store in Austin

would allow Forty Acres to secure a location and start construction on a permanent brick-and-mortar on Chicago Avenue.

“We want a sustainable business that we know can be a part of the neighborhood’s social infrastructure. It’s a place where neighbors see each other,” she said.

In order to secure the grant to build the

By PASCAL SABINO first black-owned full-service affordable Block Club Chicago grocery store to Austin, Abunaw needs help Chicago Avenue has long been a backbone from the community that the store will serve.

Forty Acres Fresh Market is a contender for business and foot traffic in Austin. But West Side residents living near the strip for the $50,000 FedEx Small Business Grant can’t access fresh, healthy foods, as they live Contest, and the finalists for the grant are semore than a mile away from a supermarket lected by popular vote. Supporters can vote once each day at the FedEx site, and the top or grocery store.

Many Austinites travel to suburban Oak 700 entrants with the most votes will then be Park to stock up on the food they need. But reviewed by a panel of judges. Projects are the lack of affordable and healthy food in judged based on the viability of the business Austin may come to an end thanks to Forty and their savviness with social media. Bonus Acres Fresh Market, which aims to build a points are given to businesses that have a unique offering that is otherwise brick-and-mortar grocery store not available to customers, are on Chicago Avenue. Its owner is environmentally sustainable, and asking the community for help have a positive impact on the surlanding a grant to open the store. rounding community — all criIf successful, the grocery store teria that Forty Acres meets and would end what Forty Acres exceeds, according to Abunaw. founder Liz Abunaw calls an in“The city is only as strong as tentional “food apartheid” after any one of our neighborhoods. decades of disinvestment on the And we should want every one of West Side. our neighbors to have those opAustin is considered by many portunities for good health, for to be a food desert, an area lackLIZ ABUNAW wealth building, and for social ing affordable access to nutriForty Acres founder bonding,” Abunaw said. “It’s bigtious food, leaving residents to ger than food. Voting for us is saytravel a mile or more to grocery stores or otherwise rely on convenience ing, I understand this is important, and even stores, processed meals and fast food. The if you don’t live in Austin, I want people to nearest grocery stores to the corridor where have those options.”

The need for the grocery store is illustrated Forty Acres Fresh Market will be built are Food 4 Less, 4821 W. North Ave. and Save A by the 16-year “death gap” in life expectancy Lot, 5555 W. North Ave., each more than a between parts of downtown Chicago and the West Side, where many struggle from premile away.

Forty Acres Fresh Market previously won ventable diseases that have little to do with grants to successfully expand their weekly clinical care, and everything to do with the pop-up markets and build out their produce built environment of a neighborhood.

Forty Acres Fresh Market will fill a gap box delivery program. But the previous rounds of funding couldn’t be used for con- in the market for in-between shopping trips, which Abunaw said are the most frequent struction or rent costs, Abunaw said.

Abunaw is now vying for a grant that runs to the store that people make. These are

typically weekly trips to the market for fresh foods and produce needed to cook a meal, rather than canned goods, dried foods and staples that people stock up on during a less frequent visit to a larger supermarket. The modest size of the 5,000-square-foot store also makes the business more sustainable and affordable since they’ll pay less rent, smaller overhead, and fewer utility costs.

And with Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s INVEST South/West initiative targeting the Chicago Avenue corridor as one of its priority areas, Abunaw said the timing is right for opening a grocery store on the strip. With other busi-

nesses drawing shoppers to the area and contributing to the walkability and visual appeal of the neighborhood, Forty Acres Fresh Market will be ripe for success. And once the business secures a site for the grocery store, Abunaw will be able to access even more city support with grants like the Neighborhood Opportunity Fund to help build out the store.

“With the timing of everything, I have a better chance of survival,” she said. “I’m doing this at a time where other microbusinesses like Forty Acres are ready to scale, and are being given the resources to do so.”

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BIG WEEK Attend free screening of ‘Loving’ On Wednesday, March 4, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., at North Austin Branch Library, 5724 W. North Ave., join us for the screening of “Loving,” the story of an interracial couple who are arrested in Virginia during the 1960s. Their landmark legal battle results with the Supreme Court’s historic 1967 decision.

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Focus on appreciation, not appropriation

ultural appropriation is one of the latest hot-button issues trending in the world of social media. Cultural appropriation is defined as “the act of adopting elements of an outside, often-minority culture, including knowledge, practices, and symbols, without understanding or respecting the original culture and context.”

Is that not the definition of America? I mean this entire country is built on and based on adoption of all sorts of other people’s cultures to become part of our own.

Oftentimes the first people to scream about cultural appropriation are young people. Many of them have no historical context about how they probably are themselves participants in cultural appropriation. Yet they feel entitled to get upset. Take the case of the young white girl who had a beautiful prom dress made to look like a Chinese qipao dress. When she posted a picture wearing the dress on the internet, a Chinese-American student quickly attacked her, saying his culture shouldn’t be used for a prom dress. The funny thing is, when people who were in China saw her in the dress, they appreciated her caring enough about their style to utilize it.

How many words are there like Chicago and Illinois, now a part of the English language, that came from the native Americans who once occupied this land?

Are we to stop using the words because we might have abused the original meaning and context?

Historically black culture has become

part of mainstream America during my lifetime. One of my earliest memories of watching basketball on television in the early 1960s was hearing an announcer question why two black players slapped each other’s hands. Those announcers subsequently learned that black people called it, “Give me five.” That action over time has morphed into the high-five. It is so ingrained into American society that it would be impossible to retract it back. Remember when Michelle and Barack Obama did the fist bump and the white media’s reaction to it? That had been going on in the black community for ages and now it, too, is part of American culture.

Black folks calling out people for cultural appropriation is always an interesting situation to see. One of the Kardashian sisters put on some box braids, and some internet trolls had a fit. Yet black women will get defensive if countered with accusations about weave, dying hair blonde, and stars who have bleached their skin lighter.

Food has also been a victim of the cultural appropriation hysteria. Forty years ago, tacos were not an item on everybody’s menu. Now it is considered a staple American dish. Spaghetti is another tradition within the black community, even though it has its origins from Italy, who probably borrowed it from Chinese noodles.

And don’t even get me started on those sports symbols that are heads of native Americans, like the Blackhawks or the Cleveland Indians (and truthfully the latter really needs to go).

As a society and a people, let us focus more on cultural appreciation.

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INVESTMENT Funding fusion from page 1 West Side aldermen, Jaco announced new investments under the organization’s Impact Investment Collaborative aimed at course-correcting the city’s record when it comes to inequity in supporting opportunities for black folks and people of color on the West Side.

The initiative will direct $6 million towards improving economic vitality out west by funding four community development financial institutions that will bring access to capital and loans to small businesses and organizations in the area. The investments will help finance projects that are responsive to community needs, like affordable housing, healthy foods and job readiness programs.

The importance of those investments drills down into one of the simplest and most poignant bellwethers for equity: the massive health disparities that leave a 16-year “death gap” between Downtown and the West Side.

Downtown residents live on average 16 years longer than residents of Garfield Park.

And since clinical care alone doesn’t account for that gap in life expectancy, West Side United combines the resources of several hospitals and health organizations in the area to address the social determinants of health — things like income, education, walkability and the availability of nutritious food that have a tremendous impact on health outcomes.

“The reality is we can’t improve health without helping the neighborhood’s economic conditions,” said Dr. Omar Lateef, CEO of Rush University Medical Center, which is a member of West Side United. “If you’re going to solve poor health, you have to end premature mortality. If you’re going to end premature mortality, you have to invest in that community.”

The additional investments into the West Side are backed by the newest member of the West Side United collaborative, the American Medical Association, which has committed $2 million over the next two years to the project. According to CEO James Madara, providing capital to an opportunity-starved neighborhood can have a transformative impact on public health.

“The neighborhood a child is a raised in can have a profound influence on his or her health over the entire lifetime,” Madara said. “When individuals don’t have access to affordable housing or healthy food in their communities, when they have limited access to build wealth, and lack opportunities for quality education, when they lack access to safe and reliable public transportation so they can make their doctor’s appointment, all of that negatively impacts a person’s health and their ability to navigate our health system.”

The Impact Investment Collaborative is also backed by a $1.5 million investment from Northern Trust.

PASCAL SABINO/Block Club Chicago

HEALTH INVESTMENT: West Side United Executive Director Ayesha Jaco, center right, with partners of the Impact Investment Collaborative. Below, Mayor Lightfoot speaks at the Feb. 26 press conference in Austin.

Lightfoot commended Northern Trust and the American Medical Association for working with West Side United to answer the city’s call for partners in implementing the INVEST South/West initiative. The new partners are joining a roster that includes BMO Harris, Starbucks and Fifth Third Bank, each of whom has committed millions to the mayor’s initiative.

“With new city partners on board, this

nership with West Side United that is responsive to the specific public health needs of the area is a model that Lightfoot hopes can be replicated in other parts of the city as the INVEST South/West initiative moves forward.

“We want to reverse the history of the city of not investing in the West Side and the South Side. There are too many places on SHANEL ROMAIN/Contributor the West Side in particumarks another step forward in my adminlar who look like the emistration’s commitment to ensuring com- bers from 1968 fires have just cooled,” Lightmunity-based health care serving all of our foot said about the large swaths of Lawndale residents, regardless of ZIP code,” Lightfoot and Austin that never recovered after they said. were razed during the riots following the Lightfoot said Chicago’s history of devel- assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. opment has prioritized investment “here, “We have to reverse that. And investments but not there,” funneling public and private like this are an important step in that direcfunds into affluent neighborhoods while tion.” neglecting black communities. The partCONTACT: pascal@blockclubchi.org

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345 GALLERY Fun fest

from page 1 the community,” she said. “We’re excited for a South Side school to reach out to us and come out on a journey to the side of the city they’ve never been to before and have this experience.”

Williams said that she has also been talking with several nearby West Side schools, including Polaris Charter Academy and Faraday Elementary, which are both located a few blocks from the gallery.

During the Feb. 28 Paint & Punch, many students were inspired by the red, green and black colors of the Pan-African flag. They were also inspired by local KESHANNA MILSAP police and firefighters.

Teacher “We are just here to show support for the community,” said Lt. Dominic Wizgird, a local firefighter. “Williams is doing such a great job.”

Toward the end of the event, each student received a Chicago Police Department backpack, which contained a CPD-branded teddy

“As you can see, students are engaged, being creative and making masks to contribute to the Black History Month.”

ALEX ROGALS/Staff Photographer

INSPIRED: Children use different colors to paint their own masks on Feb. 28, during a Paint and Punch event at the 345 Gallery in East Garfield Park. bear, water bottle and a set of headphones.

“As you can see, students are engaged, being creative and making masks to contribute to the Black History Month,” said Milsap.

Kai Roberson, one of those students, said that she appreciated witnessing adults do so much to help her and her classmates celebrate Black History Month.

“I think it was fun, because I had the opportunity to have fun with my classmates and make this art,” she said.

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By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

Early voting for the upcoming Presidential Primary Election, set to take place on March 17, starts Monday, March 2, and will continue through March 16.

According to the Cook County Clerk’s office, voters “do not need to provide an excuse or reason why they cannot vote on Election Day” in order to vote early. Government ID cards are not required, but they may be helpful if questions about “registration, address or signature” arise. Voters may also expedite the process if they have ID cards available.

“You can register to vote at all early vote sites,” the Clerk’s office explained. “Any voter who needs to register for the first time or file an address change must present two forms of ID, one of which shows the voter’s current address.”

The following is a list of early voting sites

in each of the West Side wards within Austin Weekly News’ coverage area, according to the Chicago Board of Elections: 24: St. Agatha Parish | 3147 W. Douglas Blvd.

■ Ward 28: West Side Learning Center | 4624 W. Madison (on March 16, the site will remain open through 7 p.m.)

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here was tremendous energy, some deserved tension, the inevitable worries but, overall, an invigorating determination late last month, as more than 200 Chicago journalists gathered at the Allegro Hotel for a reconvening of the Chicago Journalism Town Hall.

A fascinating range of people from bold startups in neighborhoods the legacy press has either ignored or exploited, including The TRiiBE, Block Club Chicago, the South Side Weekly and City Bureau, to leaders of legacy publications including the SunTimes, Trib and Crain’s talking of reinvention using thin resources.

It seemed only fascinating to watch Trib publisher Bruce Dold awkwardly encounter Charlie Johnson, one of his own reporters and a leader of the newly formed union at the Trib at a moment of difficult negotiations. Before the week was out, Dold had been pushed out of the Tribune. And on Monday the plucky Sun-Times announced a three-year deal with its newsroom, which had approved it unanimously.

Among the 24 who were split on two panels were leaders of digital nonprofit startups ranging from the Chicago bureaus

of growing national outlets, such as ProPublica and Chalkbeat, scrappy and essential longtime Chicago pubs including the Chicago Reporter, the Reader and the Chicago Crusader.

There was, of course, talk about how to stay in business — whether that business was organized as a for-profit or a nonprofit entity.

While there was acknowledgement that those of us reporting the news, creating the content, have been and have allowed ourselves to be rolled by Facebook and Google (and other tech giants now in pre-roll mode), there was precious little hand-wringing, happily no nostalgia for days when the media was limited to a handful of outlets posting profit margins that were near obscene and thought innovation was mixing up the roster of comic strips.

I’d attribute that forward-thinking to the gratifying, powerful mix of people in the room. The energy of young people and their editorial entrepreneurialism, the primary role played by women in so many of these ventures, the strong voices of people of color. This was not the newspaper confabs I’ve endured where aging white guys (and I’m raising my hand) pine for 1987.

Central to the discussion that day was the preeminent need to tackle head-on the historic lack of diversity in our newsrooms and organizations, the failings of most news organizations to connect with communities of color, to listen to people who do not look like us. So much work to do. But to be in a room where these issues were so strongly addressed was liberating.

So this seems like a good time to offer an update on all that we’ve been up to here at Austin Weekly News over the past year.

We, along with our sister pubs Wednesday Journal of Oak Park & River Forest, Riverside-Brookfield Landmark and the Forest Park Review, have made the full conversion to a non-profit called Growing Community Media.

That happened with the start of the year.

Our corporate version, which a handful of us worked to launch in June 1980, did not quite make it to the 40th anniversary. But with this new project the work we do will continue.

As far as we can tell, we are the first -- maybe the only -- for-profit, legacy print community news publisher to make this leap to a nonprofit. We are glad to have the Chicago Reader right behind us in the conversion process. And our cutting-edge

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status likely explains why the Illinois Press Association has slotted us to talk at its annual conference this spring. This idea is percolating.

Always worth noting that our strategy is to continue to grow in print, digital and social media. We will keep offering more and better marketing solutions to local businesses, keep selling subscriptions to keep the postal service in business, too.

We are making active progress in raising funds for the nonprofit. Our goal for this year is $400,000. Not chump change. At GrowingCommunityMedia.org hit the button for Donor Transparency and you’ll find the names of the hundreds of friends and neighbors who have already jumped in to create this new model of independent community journalism.

We’ve got $5 donors and we’ve got $5,000 donors. And, we’ll announce soon, our first major gift which will grow our newsroom and fund expanded reporting on equity and education. We’re looking to grow funding for that post as well as other new newsroom initiatives.

While you are at GrowingCommunityMedia.org, I’d welcome and encourage you to hit the donate button and partner with us.

Independent community journalism works best when we all have a stake in it.

Want to talk with me about all this? Connect at dhaley@wjinc.com. My cell is (708) 268-1440.

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A West Side art center embraces growing pains The Front Porch Art Center has a good problem — expanding beyond its capacity

By IGOR STUDENKOV Contributing Reporter

The Front Porch Art Center has been around for less than a year, but has already made a mark on the West Side. The forward movement is in keeping with founder Keli Stewart’s ambitions for her organization.

An Austin native, Stewart launched the organization in order create a venue where West Siders can perform and organize art events. She has hosted several performance events at her house at 311 N. Waller Ave., as well as at the nearby Austin Town Hall Fieldhouse, at 5610 W Lake St. During a recent artist potluck, held Feb. 22, Stewart laid out her vision for the art center. She is looking to recruit an intern to improve outreach and hire a grant writer to help secure critical funding. In the long run, she wants to secure a permanent physical space to for the center.

Stewart, along with fellow artist Vanessa Stokes, co-founded the Austin Town Hall Art and Culture Committee in order to promote art in the Austin community and particularly within the Austin Town Hall, 5610 W. Lake St. “Our work reexamines African-American social and cultural history by creating spaces that explore our complex contemporary narratives,” according to the committee’s website.

“Because Westside neighborhoods like Austin have lacked public art centers for years, we intend to fill a much needed void by creating arts and cultural programming, such as workshops, classes, weekly performances, exhibitions, artist partnerships, residencies, neighborhood walking tours, public wellness events, and community fish dinners.”

For the most part, Front Porch Art Center has been focusing on storytelling. Last

year, between October and December, Stewart organized Westside Stories, which are monthly open mic-style events. And she held two “Motherwit,” events, which Stewart described as “part testimony, part TED talk” dedicated to “celebrating lives and stories of West Siders.”

The Feb. 22 potluck was a way for local artists to hang out together and network. Stewart updated attendees about the progress that Front Porch has made recently. Currently, she said, the organization is in talks with the Mosaic Theater, based in Washington D.C., on the staging of a trilogy of plays about Emmett Till that could take place later this year.

Stewart also said that Front Porch Art Center is in the talks with Old Town School of Folk Music to bring some musical programming to the West Side. With growth comes need. Stewart she needs an intern who can focus on social media, as well as a grant writer.

Daryl Satcher, actor and a writing instructor at Columbus College, said that he was willing to see if any of his students might be interested.

And Stewart’s major long-term priority is to secure a dedicated space for Front Porch Art Center that would serve as a performance space, art gallery and a meeting space.

Satcher said that he fully supported Stewart’s efforts. That the nation’s greatest city for theater doesn’t have any theaters on the West Side “is a problem,” he said.

“I’m at the point where I’d rather produce my own stuff on the West Side rather than produce something on the North Side,” he explained.

For more information about Front Porch Art Center, visit frontporchartscenter.org.

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On the West Side, a tribute to Toni Morrison on her birthday Front Porch Art Center hosted Feb. 18 party in honor of late Nobel laureate

By BONNI McKEOWN Contributing Reporter

A dozen black women from various Chicago neighborhoods gathered Feb. 18 on the West Side to celebrate a literary foremother whose books have articulated many people’s feelings and experiences. Toni Morrison died Aug. 5, 2019, at age 88. She was the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The Front Porch Art Center, the organization founded by Keli Stewart, invited people to a party on Feb. 18, Morrison’s birthday, to read quotations from the author’s work while enjoying cake and cupcakes provided by Brown Sugar Bakery, which has a presence in Austin.

“We see the front porch as a place where we gather,” Stewart said. “They say the West Side is hood, but I say we are really country. I think our stories are preserving some important stuff. Toni Morrison’s stories make up for the absence of stories about what happened in Mississippi before our parents came here.”

Shani Smith, a South Side community activist, reinforced Stewart’s point.

“My grandfather had to escape from a plantation,” she said. “So I say I’m just the second generation out of TONI MORRISON slavery.”

AUTHOR Marche Pernell, a young Austin resident, said she feels muffled by society’s racism when trying to express her experiences and feelings. She read a quotation from Morrison’s novel Sula.

“Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous,” the book says.

Melody Waller of Greater Grand Crossing also quoted from the novel Sula.

“The cry that had no bottom and no top — just circles and circles of sorrow. We need each other as we go through those circles.”

Waller said her mother, a librarian, introduced her to books by Morrison and other black writers.

Morrison’s writing shows the beauty of black people even

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ODE TO AN ICON: Hostess Keli Stewart, seated, at a Toni Morrison birthday party her organization sponsored. The event featured women reading quotations from the famous author’s various novels and essays. in times of tragedy and misdeeds. Her novels come alive with poetry, mysteries and wild women. Everyone attending said their lives were influenced by a Morrison book or quotation.

Tanisha Woodson-Shelby read the scene from Jazz that depicts a couple riding the train to a new life, fearful but finding joy in the dancing motions of the wheels.

Larissa Johnson of Hyde Park read from Morrison’s The Source of Self Regard, a book of essays published last year. Johnson said that African Americans seek a connection with their homeland through people from other parts of the African diaspora.

Stewart read a poetic section from Morrison’s novel Beloved, in which she honors all parts of black bodies, often scorned and devalued by a racist system.

“How many times do we tell our liver and our heart, I love

An excerpt from ‘Sula’ Then summer came. A summer limp with the weight of blossomed things.

Heavy sunflowers weeping over fences; iris curling and browning at the edges far away from their purple hearts; ears of corn letting their auburn hair wind down to their stalks. And the boys. The beautiful, beautiful boys who dotted the landscape like jewels, split the air with their shouts in the field, and thickened the river with their shining wet backs. Even their footsteps left a smell of smoke behind.

It was in that summer, the summer of their twelfth year, the summer of the beautiful black boys, that they became skittish, frightened and bold — all at the same time.

In that mercury mood in July, Sula and Nel wandered about the Bottom barefoot looking for mischief. They decided to go

down by the river where the boys sometimes swam. Nel waited on the porch of 7 Carpenter’s Road while Sula ran into the house to go to the toilet. On the way up the stairs, she passed the kitchen where Hannah sat with two friends, Patsy and Valentine. The two women were fanning themselves and watching Hannah put down some dough, all talking casually about one thing and another, and had gotten around, when Sula passed by, to the problems of child rearing.

“They a pain.”

“Yeh. Wish I’d listened to mamma.

She told me not to have ’em too soon.”

“Any time atall is too soon for me.”

“Oh, I don’t know. My Rudy minds his daddy. He just wild with me. Be glad when he growed and gone.”

Hannah smiled and said, “Shut your

mouth. You love the ground he pee on.”

“Sure I do. But he still a pain. Can’t help loving your own child. No matter what they do.”

“Well, Hester grown now and I can’t say love is exactly what I feel.”

“Sure you do. You love her, like I love Sula.

I just don’t like her. That’s the difference.”

“Guess so. Likin’ them is another thing.”

“Sure. They different people, you know …”

She only heard Hannah’s words, and the pronouncement sent her flying up the stairs. In bewilderment, she stood at the window fingering the curtain edge, aware of a sting in her eye. Nel’s call floated up and into the window, pulling her away from dark thoughts back into the bright, hot daylight.

you?” the Morrison quotation reads.

Love is something we earn, Morrison explains in her novel Jazz.

“I didn’t fall in love; I rose in it.”

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In Austin, Mayor Lightfoot tries quelling coronavirus fears

Mayor says city coordinating with other agencies, urges people to ‘go about their normal lives’

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

Speaking on in Austin last week, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said that residents should not allow the global spread of coronavirus, a contagious respiratory illness, to disrupt their daily activities.

“I want to make sure that people understand that they should continue to go about their normal lives,” Lightfoot said during a press conference about a major health-related investment held Feb. 26 at Austin Town Hall Park, 5610 W. Lake St. “We have extremely well-thought out, well-planned responses in the event that the virus appears again in any one else in Chicago. We’re in constant contact with folks at the [Centers of Disease Control] and at Homeland Security.”

Lightfoot said that she’s also been in contact with authorities at the county and state level.

So far, three people in Illinois have tested

positive for what authorities are calling Disease 2019 (COVID-19). The first two cases showed up in a Chicago area couple last month. The wife, who is reportedly in her 60s, had recently returned from Wuhan, China, the global epicenter of the virus and where it started to spread.

The couple has since recovered and been released from home isolation, according to multiple media reports.

The Chicago Department of Public Health has provided a basic primer on what Coronavirus is and how you can prepare for it. Below is an excerpt of that online primer. See the full primer at https://bit.ly/39fg5dy.

■ Use hand hygiene, hand sanitizer or soap and water when hands are visibly soiled; cover your cough and sneezes; avoid ill people; and stay home when sick (except to seek medical care).

■ It’s currently flu and respiratory disease season and CDPH recommends getting a flu vaccine and taking everyday preventive actions to help stop the spread of illness.

■ Healthcare providers should continue to ask patients with fever and respiratory symptoms about their travel history. Refer to CDC’s Guidance for Healthcare Professionals for more information on screening and evaluating Persons Under Investigation.

■ Businesses and employers should actively encourage all employees to stay home

when sick, perform hand hygiene, and cover coughs and sneezes. Businesses should review their emergency operations plan, including identification of essential business functions, teleworking and flexible sick leave policies.

■ Community- and faith-based organizations should review existing emergency operations plans, including strategies for social distancing and modifying large gatherings such as concerts and festivals. See CDPH’s COVID-19 Guidance for Communityand Faith-based Organizations.

■ Everyone can do their part to reduce spread of rumors. Let people know that viruses cannot target people from specific populations, ethnicities, or racial backgrounds.

Being of Asian descent does not increase the chance of getting or spreading COVID-19.

■ Help fight fear and stigma. Support people who are coming back to school or work after completing their quarantine or isolation period for COVID-19 exposure or illness.

■ The CDPH does not recommend that people who are well wear a face mask to protect themselves from respiratory diseases, including COVID-19. Face masks should be used by people who show symptoms of COVID-19 to help prevent the spread of the disease to others. The use of facemasks is also crucial for health workers and people who are taking care of someone in close settings

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■ Patients who get sick with COVID-19 develop mild to severe respiratory illness with symptoms of: Fever, cough, difficulty breathing ■ Many common illnesses can cause these same symptoms. COVID-19 can only be diagnosed at a public health laboratory. Individuals who have these symptoms and have traveled to China or have had close contact with someone with COVID-19 should be seen by a doctor or medical professional.

For more info about coronavirus, call (312) 746-4835, during business hours Mon. – Fri., and 311 during evenings, weekends and holidays. You can also email coronavirus@chicago.gov.

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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.KENNETH C. ROGERS, BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, DISCOVER BANK, MERRICK PARK CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION Defendants 19 CH 08119 5424 W. FERDINAND ST. #102 CHICAGO, IL 60644 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 17, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 30, 2020, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 5424 W. FERDINAND ST. #102, CHICAGO, IL 60644 Property Index No. 16-09-118040-1001 The real estate is improved with a residential condominium.

The judgment amount was $56,301.41.

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, including the Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, 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

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE without recourse to Plaintiff and in â&#x20AC;&#x153;AS ISâ&#x20AC;? 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 (driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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, HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC Plaintiffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Attorneys, 111 East Main Street, DECATUR, IL, 62523 (217) 422-1719. Please refer to file number 382716.

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HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC 111 East Main Street DECATUR IL, 62523 217-422-1719 Fax #: 217-422-1754 E-Mail: CookPleadings@hsbattys.com Attorney File No. 382716 Attorney Code. 40387 Case Number: 19 CH 08119 TJSC#: 39-8016 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Case # 19 CH 08119 I3142244

Commonly known as 1818 NORTH HONORE STREET, CHICAGO, IL 60622 Property Index No. 14-31-410023-0000 The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $785,307.26.

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, including the Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, 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, The sales clerk, SHAPIRO KREISMAN & ASSOCIATES, LLC Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301, Bannockburn, IL, 60015 (847) 291-1717 For information call between the hours of 1pm - 3pm.. Please refer to file number 18-087497.

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. 18-087497 Attorney Code. 42168 Case Number: 18 CH 13381 TJSC#: 40-9 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Case # 18 CH 13381 I3145063

IL 60644 Property Index No. 16-16-214185-0000 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, including the Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, 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, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL, 60527 (630) 794-9876 THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650

(312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc. com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE IL, 60527 630-794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal. com Attorney File No. 14-19-05709 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2019 CH 07377 TJSC#: 39-7605 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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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, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL, 60527 (630) 794-9876 THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc. com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE IL, 60527 630-794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal. com Attorney File No. 14-19-02120 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2019 CH 01062 TJSC#: 40-150 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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DEVELOPMENT; 41-45 N. MAYFIELD PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants, 17 CH 1912 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, April 3, 2020 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. 16-08-420-041-0000.

Commonly known as 41 North Mayfield Avenue, Unit D, Chicago, Illinois 60644.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a townhouse residence. The purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by subdivisions (g) (1) and (g)(4) of Section 9 of the Condominium Property Act Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection For information call Ms. Michelle Breitzman at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Shapiro Kreisman & Associates, LLC, 2121 Waukegan Road, Bannockburn, Illinois 60015.

(847) 291-1717. 18-089270 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION intercountyjudicialsales.com I 3 1 4 5 9 8 8

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON F/K/A THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR STRUCTURED ASSET MORTGAGE INVESTMENTS II INC. MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2005AR4 Plaintiff, -v.BOGUSLAW KASPROWICZ, IWONA KASPROWICZ, CHICAGO TITLE LAND TRUST COMPANY AS SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO LASALLE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE UNDER TRUST AGREEMENT DATED APRIL 4, 2005 AND KNOWN AS TRUST NUMBER 134142, FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION AS RECEIVER FOR WASHINGTON FEDERAL BANK FOR SAVINGS Defendants 18 CH 13381 1818 NORTH HONORE STREET CHICAGO, IL 60622 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 27, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 30, 2020, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate:

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.BRIDGET RANDLE, FIRST FINANCIAL CREDIT UNION, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF JOE N. RANDLE, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF LUCY RANDLE, DAMON RITENHOUSE, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR LUCY RANDLE (DECEASED) AND JOE N. RANDLE (DECEASED) Defendants 2019 CH 07377 5019 W GLADYS AVE #C CHICAGO, IL 60644 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on November 20, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 31, 2020, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 5019 W GLADYS AVE #C, CHICAGO,

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR BLUEWATER INVESTMENT TRUST 2018-1 Plaintiff, -v.WILLIAM THORPE A/K/A WILLIAMS THORPE, CECELIA THORPE A/K/A CECELIA NELSON-THORPE, CITY OF CHICAGO Defendants 2019 CH 01062 1235 S MILLARD AVE CHICAGO, IL 60623 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 3, 2020, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on April 6, 2020, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1235 S MILLARD AVE, CHICAGO, IL 60623 Property Index No. 16-23-106017-0000 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, including the Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, 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

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. Plaintiff, vs.

JAMES D. WILCHER AKA JAMES WILCHER; CITY OF CHICAGO; SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE CORPORATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR FREDDIE MAC SEASONED CREDIT RISK TRANSFER TRUST, SERIES 2017-2, AS OWNER OF THE RELATED MORTGAGE LOAN Plaintiff, -v.RAYMOND M. LOPEZ A/K/A RAYMOND LOPEZ, MARCELLA M. LOPEZ Defendants 19 CH 7420 2501 South Avers Avenue CHICAGO, IL 60623 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 18, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on April 13, 2020, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 2501 South Avers Avenue, CHICAGO, IL 60623 Property Index No. 16-26-121001-0000 The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $204,422.65.

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, including the Judicial Sale fee for the

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Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, 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, The sales clerk, SHAPIRO KREISMAN & ASSOCIATES, LLC Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301, Bannockburn, IL, 60015 (847) 291-1717 For information call between the hours of 1pm - 3pm.. Please refer to file number 19-090824.

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. 19-090824 Attorney Code. 42168 Case Number: 19 CH 7420 TJSC#: 39-8200 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Case # 19 CH 7420 I3146211 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDER OF THE CWABS, INC ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATES SERIES 2006-15; Plaintiff, vs.

ROGER WASHINGTON AKA ROGER L. WASHINGTON; LANISE WASHINGTON; CITY OF CHICAGO A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 17 CH 15707 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, April 7, 2020 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. 16-22-228-013-0000.

Commonly known as 1539 S KEDVALE AVE, CHICAGO, IL 60623.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call Ms. Kimberly S. Reid at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Marinosci Law Group, PC, 134 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. (312) 940-8580.

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