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State mask mandate lifted But exceptions linger, most notably in Chicago Public Schools By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor
On Monday, the statewide indoor mask mandate ended, with Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle both agreeing to follow Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s lead and end city and county-wide mandates, as well. State and local officials also ended the vaccination card mandates, which required anyone seeking to dine in restaurants, exercise in gyms and patronize entertainment venues, among other places, to present proof of their vaccination status. In addition, weekly testing for employees covered by the mandate was also lifted. In a statement on Feb. 25, Pritzker said the decision to end the mandates comes as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to decrease across the state, while the availability of ICU beds steadily increases. Since the governor announced earlier this month that he would lift the indoor mask requirement, “the number of people in the hospital with COVID-19 has been cut in half and the number of ICU beds available increased by 24%. Illinois’ weekly COVID-19 case rate has also decreased by 70%,” state officials said. “More than 8 million people in Illinois are fully vaccinated with an average of approximately 16,000 COVID-19 vaccines administered each day, including more than 4,600 first doses daily,” they added. “Today, our hospitals are much better positioned to handle emergencies and more than See MASK MANDATE on page 5
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Precious and Vetress Boyce pose for a photo at Boyce Enterprise Beauty Supply, 3722 W. 16th St., in North Lawndale on Feb. 16, 2022.
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Vetress Boyce’s Boyce Enterprise Beauty Supply is the community’s only Black-owned beauty supply store By PASCAL SABINO Block Club News
Beauty supply stores that specialize in selling hair are staples in Chicago’s Black communities. But until recently, none of the shops in North Lawndale were Black-owned. West Side native Vetress Boyce changed that when she opened
Boyce Enterprise Beauty Supply late last year at 3722 W. 16th St. Like other Black entrepreneurs, she had to overcome gatekeeping and discrimination to break into the ultra-competitive hair industry, where supply is dominated by Korean companies. Across the country, an estimated 20 percent of beauty supply shops catering to Black customers are Black-owned, said Sam Ennon, founder of the Black Owned Beauty Supply Association. “It’s very similar to real estate, where there’s redlining and blockbusting,” Boyce said. “If these companies won’t give African American businesses access to a product that we’re the No. 1 consumers of, it’s a problem. It’s a serious problem.” Natural and synthetic hair — which can be used for braids, See BEAUTY on page 4
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Ike Expressway shootings down 70% Overall, there was a 32% decline in shootings on Illinois tollways and highways, as of Feb. 22 By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor
As of Feb. 22, there were 28 shootings on Illinois tollways and highways, compared to 41 by this time last year — a decline of around 32%, according to the most recent data on expressway shootings provided by the Illinois State Police. The decline in shootings has been much starker on the Eisenhower Expressway. So far this year, there have been three shootings on the I-290, compared to 10 by this time last year — a decline of around 70%, according to ISP data. The most recent shootings on I-290 happened on Jan. 21, Jan. 24 and Feb. 19. The Jan. 24 shooting happened near the eastbound Ashland exit ramp at 11:54 p.m. Injuries were reported in all three shootings.
Last year, there were 310 highway shootings in Illinois, compared to 147 in 2020 and 51 in 2019. On the Eisenhower, there were 51 in 2021, 28 in 2020 and six in 2019. Of the 536 highway shootings that have taken place from 2019 to Feb. 22 of this year, around 93% have been non-fatal and around 56% have resulted in injuries. The I-94 Dan Ryan is the most dangerous expressway in the state in terms of shootings. There have been 124 shootings on that expressway since 2019. The Eisenhower has the second-most shootings among Illinois highways, with 88 since 2019. The roadway is followed by I-57 (84 shootings), I-94 Bishop Ford (67 shootings) and I-55 Stevenson (44 shootings). So far this year, no fatalities have resulted from expressway shootings. At this point last year, there were six expressway shootings with fatalities and 24 in all of 2021. “Does that indicate a trend?” Daily Herald reporter Marni Pyke mused in a Feb. 21 article. “I think that remains to be seen,” ISP Director Brendan F. Kelly told her. “We’re utilizing every resource at our disposal to focus on the areas where we see the greatest amount of interstate shootings but we look for long-term trends.”
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Cars drive on the westbound lane of the I-290 Eisenhower Expressway in February. “I’m thinking shootings are down due more to the snowy weather in the city, rather than an increase in civility,” said veteran traffic and spot news reporter Kris Habermehl. “Feuds and bad blood continue unabated on social media, which oftentimes lead to expressway hits.” Earlier this month, Gov. JB Pritzker held a news conference with Illinois State Police Director Brendan Kelly in Chicago in order to update the public on recent measures implemented to address the shootings. Pritzker and Kelly pointed out that 20 arrests had been made in recent months related
to the shootings and other crime and that 99 cameras equipped with automatic license plate readers had been installed on the Dan Ryan expressway, with “hundreds more coming,” according to Capitol News Illinois. Kelly added that his agency “increased patrol presence on Chicago expressways by over 150 percent at ‘peak criminal activity times,’” Capitol News reported. “Since October, that has led to nearly 5,000 traffic stops, 132 DUI arrests, 69 firearm recoveries and 133 criminal arrests in the Chicago area.”
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City Council approves plan to buy closed West Side Aldi
The city now can buy the building that closed in October, allowing community members to work toward bringing back a neighborhood grocer
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A city plan to buy closed grocery store in a dire West Side food desert and partner with community members to bring a new grocer to the site received City Council approval Feb. 23. The ordinance clears the city’s Department of Planning and Development to buy the former Aldi grocery store at 3811 W. Madison St. in West Garfield Park for up to $700,000, which would be financed with TIF funds. The store abruptly closed in October 2021. Neighborhood groups have been negotiating with Aldi to buy the building, but the city plan gives local officials a way to take action if those talks fall through. “This is something of utmost urgency and necessity. The community of West Garfield Park currently lacks any, and I say any, full-service grocery options,” said Ald. Jason Ervin (28th). But some aldermen who struggled with similar situations in their wards but got no city assistance bristled at the plan and questioned whether this will set a new course for how the city uses land acquisitions to intervene and fix neighborhood issues. Ald. Raymond Lopez (15th) argued there needs to be a citywide plan for dealing with these kinds of acquisitions instead of dealing with them as one-offs. “I don’t think any of us disagree that the West Side… absolutely deserves to have a grocery store,” Lopez said. “But if we start buying up vacant parcels in our wards now, we are going to see an explosion of cityowned property, city-owned storefronts, city-owned buildings… based on the policy logic we’re hearing today.” Lopez said the situation would be different if a grocer had already been identified to fill the vacant Aldi building. But until an end-user is identified, it is “a dangerous gambit we are playing with taxpayer’s money,” he said. The planning department has worked with neighborhood groups to identify several potential tenants who could begin operating out of the building, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said. Community leaders appealed to city
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Community organizations joined forces to provide at least a week’s worth of fresh food to 250 West Garfield Park residents on Saturday in the parking lot of the closed Aldi, 3835 W. Madison St. leaders for help after the Aldi closed with little warning to neighbors, worsening the severe scarcity of healthy food in West Garfield Park, already considered a dire food desert. The Garfield Park Rite to Wellness Collaborative organized a campaign demanding Aldi sell the vacant building to the community for $1 so it can be redeveloped into a supermarket with a mission and values that align with the needs of residents. “The way in which Aldi abandoned the community, gave no notice to the employees, is something also that we can’t take lightly as a city. … there’s an urgent need for a grocery store to come back,” Lightfoot said. Ald. Leslie Hairston (5th) called on the city to use its land acquisition authority to take a stance against corporations that have disinvested from Black and Latino communities on the South and West sides. “Everybody has a right to eat and needs to have an opportunity to have somewhere to shop. This is corporate discrimination on some of our basic human functions,” Hairston said. The Rite to Wellness Collaborative’s campaign is about more than transforming the former Aldi location back into a grocery store, said TJ Crawford, the group’s director. It is equally focused on raising the standard for what kinds of businesses are welcomed into the community and taking a stand against companies that value
“profits over people,” he said. “Aldi is still not being held accountable,” Crawford said. “There has been no recompense to their actions so far. We need to ensure that they will carry the harm that was done and ensure they don’t do it to other communities.” The lack of fresh food in the neighborhood contributes to the massive health disparities West Garfield Park residents face, Crawford said. West Garfield Park residents have an average life expectancy 16 years shorter than people living Downtown, according to a 2015 Virginia Commonwealth University report. That gap isn’t due to shortcomings in clinical care alone, the study showed: It is also due to social conditions, including disinvestment, segregation and a lack of grocery stores. Bringing a grocery store to the area is a key piece of the Rite to Wellness Collaborative’s efforts to revive the Madison Street and Pulaski Road commercial areas in West Garfield Park. The group is also undertaking a corridor planning initiative to improve the area, and is also working to bring a health center to the neighborhood. “This is the right type of step that is needed in the Madison corridor to bring back the vitality of a business district that was once considered the Michigan Avenue of the West Side,” Ervin said.
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Taking ownership from page 1 sew-ins, extensions, weaves and wigs — is the moneymaker at beauty supply stores. Customers seek quality brands like Outre, Model Model, Sensationnel and Shake-n-Go — and beauty supply shops must stock them if they want to have a successful business, Boyce said. “If they come to your store and you don’t have those brands, they go somewhere else,” Boyce said. But Black business owners often have a hard time buying directly from Korean and Korean-American-owned hair suppliers, which have cornered the Black beauty market for decades, Ennon said. In North Lawndale, there are five beauty supply shops. Boyce’s is the only Black-owned shop, said Rodney Brown, executive director of the North Lawndale Chamber of Commerce. Another shop that recently opened up, Beauty Hair World at 3942 W. Cermak Road, is run but not owned by a Black woman, operator Christina Vaughn confirmed. Boyce, who ran for alderperson in 2015, has years of business experience. She owns a general contracting business, is a real estate agent and opened a successful medical supply business in North Lawndale. But when Boyce went to open a beauty supply shop, she was essentially boxed out by wholesalers, she said. They gave her higher prices than the industry standard, required massive minimum purchases or refused to sell to her, she said. “You have the big-box enterprises dominating the industry. You have groups who own the warehouses, and they’re able to control the price point, and they’re able to control who they extend credit to and who they don’t,” Boyce said. Boyce attempted to open direct accounts with distributors to stock her store. Her applications went unanswered or were “denied for no apparent reason,” she said. “I get emails saying this supplier isn’t doing business in my area. But I know of other businesses owned by different ethnicities
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Vetress Boyce poses for a portrait at Boyce Enterprise Beauty Supply, 3722 W. 16th St., in North Lawndale on Feb. 16, 2022. that are stocking those products,” Boyce said. Beauty supply stores that can’t buy directly from manufacturers and distributors have to buy goods that are already marked up by a middleman, Boyce said. “If I have to buy from a middleman … I have to mark it up more than other stores that have access to those accounts. That’s something small businesses struggle with consistently,” Boyce said. Without hair from a manufacturer, distributor or price-raising middleman, Boyce was stuck.
Keeping Black entrepreneurs out Boyce’s experience breaking into the hair supply industry is one felt by many Black entrepreneurs. Gatekeeping has been a standard in the industry for at least 40 years,
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said Ennon, founder of the Black Owned Beauty Supply Association, which helps Black-owned shops access distributors. In the ’70s, much of the market was captured by Jinny Beauty, a Korean-owned business that started with dozens of stores in Black neighborhoods, Ennon said. The company grew to dominate the industry and is the biggest distributor of Black and multicultural beauty products worldwide. Since most beauty supply stores relied on Jinny Beauty as a distributor, entrepreneurs like Ennon who manufactured hair products couldn’t get their goods on the shelves without selling through Jinny. That tight grip on the supply chain makes it easy for Jinny Beauty and other large distributors to protect retailers they have longstanding relationships with from competition
from Black entrepreneurs trying to break into beauty supply and product-making businesses. “You’d have to sell it to [Jinny] to get it into the brick-and-mortar stores,” Ennon said. “And the problem is also getting the products. You open up a beauty supply store, it’s hard to get the main brands.” Another hurdle for Black business owners is having the cash upfront to stock the store with hair, wigs and products, which can cost upwards of $150,000, Ennon said. While most shops typically buy from distributors on credit, giving them as much as three months to pay for the goods on their shelves, Black entrepreneurs, even those who have been in the business for decades, are often denied credit, he said. “When a Black beauty supply store opens,
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A welcoming competitor Boyce overcome those obstacles by networking with long-established Black beauty businesses. Boyce said she joined social media groups to get advice on how best to navigate the supply chain, and she visited Black-owned shops on the South Side, including Solo Beauty Supply at 8158 S. Cottage Grove Ave. in Chatham. Solo Beauty Supply helped Boyce buy products from distributor accounts she couldn’t access, and they’ve exchanged products, too. Without the support of other Black businesses, “I don’t think this would have been possible,” Boyce said. Solo Beauty co-owner Nedra Williams is welcoming to newcomers because she also experienced discrimination in the hair business. She and her sister, Dana Williams, inherited the business from their parents,
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Wigs on display at Boyce Enterprise Beauty Supply, 3722 W. 16th St., in North Lawndale on Feb. 16, 2022. who “had the usual impediments that still exist today,” Nedra Williams said. But since their parents entered the business before non-Black companies began dominating the beauty industry, “the structure that keeps Black people out hadn’t been developed yet,” Nedra Williams said. “They were able to get in under the radar and create some relationships early on that now is really difficult to foster,” she said. When Williams’ dad died in 2009, many distributors stopped doing business with Solo Beauty, she said. Some eventually reopened their accounts, but some didn’t, she said. “We had to basically start over again because the vendors and relationships my father had at the time, they took the oppor-
tunity to sever that relationship,” Williams said. Even though Williams has been in the business for decades, it is still “very, very rare” for distributors to give her credit, she said. “You want to be competitive with other stores, but you can’t get the merchandise because you don’t have access to the capital,” Williams said. “It makes it difficult for us to scale our stores and carry all the products other stores carry.” Supporting new Black-owned beauty shops is mutually beneficial, helping both stores overcome barriers like “outrageous minimum orders” by buying bulk orders of merchandise together, Williams said. The lack of Black store owners is “a prob-
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lem of generational wealth and Black people not being able to benefit from our own industry,” Williams said. Black ownership within the Black beauty industry is critical because retailers create opportunities to stock skin and hair products made by Black entrepreneurs, Williams said. And as more Blackowned businesses get into the industry, they can work collectively to tear down the barriers that have kept so many out, she said. “We’ve basically learned how to get around those impediments,” Williams said. “I find that the more Black people that open stores, the less the resistance is with the distributors. They’ve been able to hide or conceal their discrimination because there wasn’t that many of us. The word wasn’t out.” But things are changing, Hoi said. A majority of Sensationnel’s new accounts in recent years — and especially since the start of the pandemic — have been Black-owned beauty shops, he said. The company’s largest account is now Black-owned, he said. But the lack of Black ownership “is not something one company can try to fix,” he said. Barbara Hardy, an Austin resident who shops at Boyce Enterprise Beauty Supply, said her hair is important to her. Being able to shop at a beauty supply owned by a Black woman from the West Side makes her proud, she said. “To see somebody of color who is actually from your neighborhood excel, it lets you know that you can do this, too,” she said. “We are extremely proud of her.” Subscribe to Block Club Chicago, an independent, 501(c)(3), journalist-run newsroom. Every dime we make funds reporting from Chicago’s neighborhoods.
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“many residents will choose to continue to wear a mask — especially those who are immunocompromised and children under the age of 5 who are not eligible to be vaccinated.” “We ask for continued understanding and kindness to those who choose to wear a mask,” said Dr. Kiran Joshi, CCDPH’s colead and senior medical officer.
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half of all eligible adults have been boosted; this is the progress we needed to make to remove our state indoor masking requirements,” Pritzker stated. “As individuals, I encourage everyone to make the best choices going forward to protect your health, along with that of your family and community – and most importantly to treat each other with kindness and compassion,” the governor added. In a statement released Feb. 22, Cook County Department of Public Health (CCDPH) officials said that, as of Feb. 22, the COVID-19 positivity rate in the suburbs under its jurisdiction, which include all of Proviso Township, was 3% while the 7-day rolling average for confirmed cases was 285. “The region’s ICU and Non-ICU admissions numbers, and the positivity rate are both in the ‘lower transmission’ risk category, and confirmed cases continue to de-
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crease and are approaching the lower transmission category,” officials said. “We are glad to be able to move with the rest of the state to lift these measures,” said Dr. Rachel Rubin, CCDPH’s co-lead and senior medical officer. “We thank the residents for their cooperation, and the suburban Cook County business community for their support and compliance of the mask mandate and vaccination requirements. We urge those who have not been vaccinated to do so.”
Despite mandate’s lifting, exceptions linger “Masks will still be required where federally mandated (including on public transit), health care facilities, congregate settings, long term care facilities, and daycare settings,” state officials announced. “Additionally, private businesses and municipalities may choose to implement their own masking requirements,” they said. Cook County officials pointed out that, despite the lifting of the mask mandate,
On Feb. 25, Pritzker announced that the removal of the mask mandate will also apply to schools — a change from his earlier stance. Previously, Pritzker had said masks would still be required in schools even after he lifted the mandate statewide. That change of stance, however, will not impact Chicago Public Schools, which will continue to require that masks be worn in its buildings, officials announced in a letter to parents on Sunday. “To ensure the continued safety of our students and staff, CPS will continue to require universal masking in our schools and offices for now,” CPS CEO Pedro Martinez said.
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City commission approves Garfield Green development The affordable housing project is intended to keep Garfield Park affordable while amplifying the benefits of other investments in the area By PASCAL SABINO Block Club Chicago
An affordable housing development is coming to an area of East Garfield Park with abundant public transit options to “counteract the pressures of displacement” in the changing neighborhood, a developer said. Tentatively called the Garfield Green, the affordable housing project plans to build on the positive impacts of nearby large developments, such as the Garfield Park Community Eco-Orchard and the Hatchery Chicago, a food business incubator opened in 2019. Residents can get involved to decide the project’s final name, interior design and the look of public art at the site by emailing c40chicago@poah. org. As the community develops, the availability of affordable housing and community-owned retail opportunities at the Garfield Green site
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tion, a global contest focused on transforming underused lots into models for sustainable urban planning. The plan moving forward is the result of an intensive community engagement process that altered the design and the specific offerings of the development. When the project was initially developed by the city for the C40 Reinventing Cities Competition, “there was very little community engagement and ownership required for the competition,” Requejo said. After the competition, the city identified a developer, Preservation of Affordable Housing, and initiated a series of engagement meetings and participation strategies to incorporate the needs of the community into the design of the project. “We needed to get way better community engagement and go beyond that and offer something more, which is community ownership,” Requejo said. Plans for the Garfield Green project have been led by various resident committees and guided by community feedback and input from the Garfield Park Community Council. There is a committee guiding the vendors and businesses that will eventually occupy the commercial space in the development. The 4,300-square-foot commercial space in the development “is outfitted for a restaurant if we want it to be. It could be a market, or an
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The hypocrisy of Facebook
’ve written a couple of columns where I talked about the phenomenon of unintended consequences, when the desired action creates a secondary action that was not foreseen. However when it comes to Facebook (FB) and their so-called “community standards,” I’m beginning to wonder if those standards — when people post what they feel should be the punishment for criminal behavior, and then are subsequently penalized for the comment by being placed in Facebook jail, unable to post (from 24 hours to up to 30 days) — are the intentional support of criminal behavior. I’ve just gotten out of FB jail. A coworker was shot by some thugs because he had a stick-shift car and the carjacking criminals couldn’t drive it. So they put four bullets in his body. I posted a comment about the need for public flogging in the Daley Center plaza. Months before, in response to the criminals who shot up the car and killed the little girl in the McDonald’s drivethru, I posted about using tar and feathers as punishment. Well, both of my posts violated FB’s “community standards.” But for the folks who live for social media, when that criminal element goes online and never sees any commentary about what should happen to them or what kind of punishment should be meted out, then they think what they’re doing is OK. They are empowered to continue on
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with their negative behavior because, in their eyes, they only see messages of prayers and not calls for them to be dealt with severely. After my last comment expressing support for a public flogging, I couldn’t post for three days. I cannot post in a group for a week, and when I do post, my post will automatically be prioritized lower in the feed so nobody sees it. All of that, because I took a stand against criminal behavior publicly. It is time for the federal government to intervene in how FB restricts speech. Because when you contest FB actions, they use COVID-19 as the reason why they don’t have enough bodies to do an actual review. That is a bunch of BS! If FB truly has community standards, they obviously have double standards as well. For the word that was invented from hatred is allowed to stand for years and they don’t remove it. People even include it in their Facebook names. Yes, I’m talking about the n— word. For some reason, that word is OK and all one has to do is search for it and example after example comes up on FB. That says a lot about their community standards. Yet tell criminals they deserve punishment? Violation! Especially when the commentaries are not just random posts, but are in a direct response to posts about criminal behavior. Facebook, you are a damn hypocrite!
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Providence St. Mel student lands perfect ACT score Mario Hoover is the first to achieve a perfect 36 on the test in the West Side school’s 42-year history
think they can do it as well.” While Hoover has excelled academically, he has also triumphed outside the classroom by volunteering weekly at the MLK Boys & Girls Club at 2950 W. Washington Blvd., and singing in the All State Chorus. He hopes to continue his love of singing in college by studying music as a minor. “He has a great voice. He’s very talented,” By PASCAL SABINO said Tim Ervin, principal at Providence St. Block Club Chicago Mel. “He’s a great kid from a great family. Just a joy to be around. Very positive attitude about A student at Providence St. Mel everything.” School on the West Side achieved Providence St. Mel is wella perfect score on the ACT stanknown on the West Side as a school dardized college admissions test. with an excellent track record of The perfect score of 36 is the guiding students. Students are highest any student performed on known to go to some of the top the test in the prestigious private universities in the country, and the school’s 42-year history. school boasts that 100 percent of The student, Mario Hoover, is a graduates since 1978 have received bright and ambitious junior born college scholarships, Ervin said. and raised on the West Side. He “It speaks to the preparation at studied hard to earn a high score PSM that’s going to prepare stubecause he dreams of being a neuMARIO HOOVER dents to be successful in college rosurgeon and he “knows what and beyond,” Ervin said. [he’s] capable of,” he said. But while several students each year score He hopes his accomplishment encourages others in the neighborhood to recognize they 34s and 35s on the ACT, Hoover is the first to get a perfect 36, Ervin said. Hoover has a maare capable of excellence, Hoover said. “It means that not only can I achieve this. ture perspective and knows what it takes to set But others can as well. It breaks the notion himself up for a successful future and excel at that people from the West Side can’t succeed,” the difficult ACT exam, Ervin said. Hoover said. “I hope people look at me and The tough academics at Providence St. Mel
were a major reason Hoover’s mother, Zippora Collins, enrolled him at the school. She attended the school for a year in high school, so she knew it would push him to stay on top of his classes and his homework. “It’s very rigorous. The curriculum is way more demanding. It’s faster. They learn a lot more in the amount of time they’re given in a day,” she said. “He really had to do the work.” Hoover started at Providence St. Mel in third grade. He transferred there after his previous school, Mary Mapes Dodge Elementary Renaissance Academy, was closed by then-mayor Rahm Emanuel along with 49 other schools, mostly in Black neighborhoods. Dealing with the school closure “was hard because we had no idea what was going to happen,” Collins said. When the city shut down Dodge, the district assigned Hoover to a school at the edge of Humboldt Park. Hoover’s mother grew up on the West Side, so navigating different gang territories is a concern she’s all too familiar with. To protect her son from getting caught between feuding gangs on his commute, she pulled him out of public school and enrolled him at Providence St. Mel, which is closer to their home. “I know the gangs are different. That’s where my mind went because I’ve lived here my whole life. You work on this block and these guys work on that block and they don’t get along,” she said. “I didn’t feel it was safe
enough.” Switching to a private school with a fastpaced curriculum was a difficult change for Hoover. It was especially tough to let go of the friends and teachers that supported him at Dodge, he said. “Dodge really did feel like home. I was there for a long time and I made close connections, especially with teachers. But Providence eventually became home as well,” Hoover said. It took some time to for Hoover to acclimate to Providence St. Mel in third grade, but “once he made that adjustment, he started to soar,” his mother said. His success is proof that when young people are lifted up and given quality resources and opportunities, they can achieve beyond expectations, Hoover said. “Not everybody has the best access to education. But once provided with those tools and resources to succeed, a lot of people have the potential to. I see potential everywhere as I walk through my neighborhood,” Hoover said. Hoover has his sights set on the Ivy League and hopes to go to Columbia University in New York. His hard work paying off, and he has already been contacted by the school, his mother said. “I get emotional because it is a great accomplishment,” she said. “It’s a huge accomplishment for our neighborhood and for our family.”
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During a Feb. 11 meeting, Dr. Gwendolyn Purifoye outlined city’s practice of overlooking Black transit needs in favor of gentrifying, white areas By IGOR STUDENKOV Contributing Reporter
As the North Lawndale Community Coordinating Council’s Transportation Committee celebrated the permanent restoration of bus service along the section of Ogden Avenue, between California Avenue and Pulaski Road, they were also reminded of the disparities that continue to affect the community. During the committee’s Feb. 11 meeting, which was held virtually over Zoom, social scientist Dr. Gwendolyn Purifoye, who currently teaches at Chicago’s North Park University, laid out how the city prioritized majoritywhite neighborhoods over majority-Black ones. She said that the once majority-Black Near West Side community area only got significant investments after it became wealthier and whiter. While the report wasn’t a surprise to anyone
in attendance, she brought on several slides worth of data, showing that, even though the West Side saw more transit use before the pandemic, the North Side received more investment. Committee Chair Rochelle Jackson and other attendees described Purifoye’s presentation as “powerful.” While much of the presentation dealt with the South Side, Purifoye also touched on West Side issues, using the Near West Side community area as a major example of how the level of investment seems to correlate with race. In the 1990s, the area was largely known for food processing businesses and cheap motels, industry and the Henry Horner Homes public housing development. At the time, the community area was 19% white, 67% Black, 9% Hispanic and 5% Asian. Purifoye said that Henry Horner residents wanted the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) to rebuild the Damen/Lake Green Line station, which was demolished in 1948. The effort, however, didn’t gain much traction, even as the Green Line underwent extensive renovations in 1994 and 1995. “They had transit issues, which they voiced, yet no new transit stations were built to meet their needs,” Purifoye said. By the time the CTA agreed to rebuild the Damen/Lake station in 2018, the community demographics had changed dramatically, with the Henry Horner Homes demolished and only partially replaced by mixed-income develop-
ments. By that point, meatpacking companies had given way to upscale restaurants and condos. The community area’s overall white population reached 42% while the Black population dropped to 32%, the Hispanic population remained steady at 9% and the Asian population grew to 15%. Purifoye cited Ald. Walter Burnett (27th) in the 2018 press release about the Damen/Lake station restoration. The alderman said that “giving residents more transportation options can open up more employment opportunities, make it easier for them to get to schools and improve their overall quality of life.” “Did Black folks not want it 20 years ago?” she said sarcastically. “Did the Black folks not need it?” Purifoye also questioned why there wasn’t more investment in transit services in North Lawndale while the Near West Side was gentrifying. According to the census data she compiled, from 2015 to 2019, 35 percent of Near West Side residents didn’t have a personal vehicle, and 25% used transit to get to work. Meanwhile, 42% of North Lawndale residents didn’t have a personal vehicle and 35% used transit to get to work. “Where is North Lawndale’s new station, where is North Lawndale’s new investment?” Purifoye said. From 2001 to 2005, the CTA rehabbed the Blue Line’s Douglas branch, which has since
become part of the Pink Line. But while the stations that served North Lawndale were rebuilt to be more accessible to people with mobility issues, the line didn’t see any stations restored. The section of the Blue Line that serves North Lawndale and Austin has three stations that have closed since 1973, but the CTA doesn’t have any plans to reopen any of them. “If you’re on the bus for two hours, that means you’re not at home, that means you’re not at community events,” Purifoye said. Her research found that, before the pandemic, routes that primarily served the West Side carried around 5 million weekday riders while North Side routes carried around 4 million riders. The gap got even wider during the spring of 2020, when Gov. J.B. Pritzker imposed a stayat-home order, with West Side route ridership reaching nearly double the North Side ridership in April and May. Ultimately, Purifoye said that the city needs to make meaningful changes to how it plans public transit. “Even though the goal [of public transportation] is to move from one place to the next, it often serves to keep us immobile and supports racial residential segregation,” she said. “It actually serves as a barrier to keep some people trapped in the area while providing greater mobility [to others], so others can grow faster.”
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC Plaintiff, vs. UNKNOWN HEIRS OF DOROTHY M. WALLACE A/K/A DOROTHY WALACE, OLD REPUBLIC INSURED FINANCIAL ACCEPTANCE CORPORATION, MELVIN LOVE, DEBRA LOVE, POSSIBLE HEIR, NELSON LOVE, POSSIBLE HEIR, CARY ROSENTHAL AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants, 18 CH 4665 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Monday, March 21, 2022 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. 16-08-415-011. Commonly known as 125 N. MENARD AVE, CHICAGO, IL 60644. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. For information call Mr. Ira T. Nevel at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Law Offices of Ira T. Nevel, 175 North Franklin Street, Chicago, Illinois 60606. (312) 357-1125. 18-01115 ADC INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION intercountyjudicialsales.com I3186990
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, LOGS Legal Group LLP Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301, Bannockburn, IL, 60015 (847) 291-1717 For information call between the hours of 1pm 3pm.. Please refer to file number 19-089470. 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. LOGS Legal Group LLP 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301 Bannockburn IL, 60015 847-291-1717 E-Mail: ILNotices@logs.com Attorney File No. 19-089470 Attorney Code. 42168 Case Number: 19 CH 1094 TJSC#: 41-3360 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 1094 I3187407
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION THE NORTHERN TRUST COMPANY FKA NORTHERN TRUST) COMPANY; Plaintiff, vs. LAURA R. LEWIS AKA LAURA R. HARMON; WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY FSB, DBA CHRISTIANA TRUST AS TRUSTEE FOR PNPMS TRUST I UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 18 CH 1174 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, March 29, 2022 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. 16-03-208-004-0000. Commonly known as 1503 North Kedvale Avenue, Chicago, IL 60651. 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. 19-028323 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION intercountyjudicialsales.com I3187581
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION MTGLQ INVESTORS, L.P. Plaintiff, -v.KEVIN ANDERSON, MARLA J SMITH ANDERSON, BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BELL FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION, CAPITAL ONE BANK (USA), N.A., LVNV FUNDING LLC, NEIGHBORHOOD LENDING SERVICES, ONEMAIN FINANCIAL OF ILLINOIS, INC., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO AMERICAN GENERAL FINANCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS, INC., STATE OF ILLINOIS Defendants 2018 CH 13968 1645 SOUTH CHRISTIANA 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 January 8, 2020, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 29, 2022, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker, 1st Floor Suite 35R, Chicago, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1645 SOUTH CHRISTIANA AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60623 Property Index No. 16-23-405-0060000 The real estate is improved with a red brick, multi-family home, no 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, 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
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION UMB BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INVIDIVUAL CAPACITY, BUT SOLELY AS LEGAL TITLE TRUSTEE FOR LVS TITLE TRUST XIII Plaintiff, -v.UNKNOWN HEIRS AND/OR LEGATEES OF DAISY M. BUTTS A/K/A DAISY BUTTS, DECEASED, LOIS MARTIN, NATHANIEL BUTTS, LEE ARTHUR BUTTS, LAVONNE BUTTS, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND/ OR LEGATEES OF OTHA BUTTS, JR., DECEASED, JULIE E. FOX, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR DAISY M. BUTTS A/K/A DAISY BUTTS, DECEASED, STATE OF ILLINOIS, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, UNKNOWN OCCUPANTS Defendants 19 CH 1094 1134 NORTH MENARD AVENUE CHICAGO, IL 60651 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 15, 2021, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 22, 2022, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker, 1st Floor Suite 35R, Chicago, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1134 NORTH MENARD AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60651 Property Index No. 16-05-403-0240000 The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $164,822.11. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION NEWREZ LLC FKA NEW PENN FINANCIAL, LLC D/B/A SHELLPOINT MORTGAGE SERVICING; Plaintiff, vs. JONATHAN ASHTON GOODEN; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; CAROLYN FIELDS; Defendants, 18 CH 13046 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, March 29, 2022 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. 16-16-211-069-0000. Commonly known as 4851 West Quincy Street, Chicago, IL 60644. 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. 19-032074 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION intercountyjudicialsales.com I3187583
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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. MCCALLA RAYMER LEIBERT PIERCE, LLC Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200, Chicago, IL, 60602. Tel No. (312) 346-9088. 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 312-346-9088 E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com Attorney File No. 20-04709IL_613834 Attorney ARDC No. 61256 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 2018 CH 13968 TJSC#: 42-549 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 # 2018 CH 13968 I3187882
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE OF CITIGROUP MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2019-D Plaintiff, -v.DIEGO A LOPEZ, JR A/K/A DIEGO A LOPEZ A/K/A DIEGO LOPEZ A/K/A DIEGO ANGEL LOPEZ, EVELYN M COCOM A/K/A EVELYN COCOM A/K/A EVELYN M LOPEZ A/K/A ELELYN M LOPEZ, WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST AS TRUSTEE FOR PNPMS TRUST I Defendants 21 CH 03317 3956 WEST ERIE STREET CHICAGO, IL 60624 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 5, 2022, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on April 6, 2022, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker, 1st Floor Suite 35R, Chicago, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 3956 WEST ERIE STREET, CHICAGO, IL 60624 Property Index No. 16-11-108-0400000
The real estate is improved with a brown brick, single family home with a detached two car garage. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, 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. MCCALLA RAYMER LEIBERT PIERCE, LLC Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200, Chicago, IL, 60602. Tel No. (312) 346-9088.
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 312-346-9088 E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com Attorney File No. 21-07426IL_688296 Attorney ARDC No. 61256 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 21 CH 03317 TJSC#: 42-166 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 # 21 CH 03317 I3188297
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