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Austin Chamber names new executive director

Ed Coleman, former CEO of Bethel New Life and West Side Forward, has come out of retirement to lead the chamber

By JESSICA MORDACQ Staff Reporter

The Austin Chamber of Commerce named a new executive director last month: Ed Coleman, a longtime influential figure on Chicago’s West Side, who is now using his extensive connections to support local businesses.

Coleman served as chief innovation officer, vice president of community economic development, then president and CEO at Bethel New Life. He was also the founding CEO of West Side Forward, a spinof f of Bethel New Life that launched in 2019.

“I thought I had retired,” Coleman said after he stepped down from West Side Forward at the end of 2023. But a job at the Austin Chamber of Commerce brought him back to the workforce.

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West Suburban names new president of medical sta

Hospital o cials sent the previous president a cease-and-desist letter around the time he resigned

By JESSICA MORDACQ Staff Reporter

There will soon be a new leader for medical staf f at West Suburban Medical Center. On March 10, West Suburban announced Dr. Chidinma Osineme will become president of the hospital’s medical staf f, leading 500 providers, starting next month.

According to the West Suburban Medical Staf f bylaws, the president of the group is responsible for re presenting the policies, needs and g rievances of the medical staf f to the CEO and governing board. Resilience Healthcare, which bought West Suburban and Weiss Memorial Hospital in Chicago in December 2022, has an advisory board rather than a governing board, and the medical staf f is an inde pendent nonprofit group separate from Resilience.

Osineme was elected vice president of West Suburban’s medical staf f and changed roles after Dr. Paul Luning resigned as president. Luning will remain in his role – which he’s held since 2007 – as chief medical officer of PCC Community Wellness Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center that West Suburban contracts services from and which hosts doctors doing their residencies at the hospital.

Osineme will fill out the remainder of Luning’s term through June 30, then star t her own two-year term as president.

The medical staf f president is also responsible for serving as the chair of the Medical Executive Committee, appointing chairs and members of medical staf f committees, and authorizing medical staf f fund expenditures.

Osineme serves as chief medical officer at Chicago Family Health Center, where she oversees 25-some medical providers and all clinical operations. She has also served as medical director at PCC Community Wellness in Chicago and as associate program director at Carilion Clinic VTC Family Medicine.

“Her expertise spans across various domains, such as maternal and child health, addiction medicine, and academic medicine. She is also an accomplished lecturer and published author in f amily medicine,” said West Suburban’s statement regarding the Howard University Colle ge of Medicine graduate.

Leaders of West Suburban’s medical staf f are elected. Most members serve two years each as treasurer/secretary, then vice president before being elected president.

Luning declined to comment on why he resigned as president of West Suburban’s medical staf f.

West Suburban sent a statement March 7 that accuses Luning of organizing a campaign to force its CEO Manoj Prasad to sell West Suburban. It also says Luning discouraged potential resident doctors from coming to the hospital’s Family Medicine Residency Program.

West Sub’s future

Three months shy of completing his twoyear term, Luning said he resigned at the hospital’s monthly medical executive meeting on March 5. The day after, Luning said he received a cease-and-desist email from the law fir m re presenting the hospital.

Prasad said Luning resigned on March 7 and the cease-anddesist letter is dated March 5.

Luning has been a member of the West Suburban medical staf f since 1995, when he was one of two members in the sec ond class of West Suburban’s Family Medicine Residenc Progr am. He was associate progr am director of the resi dency progr am from 2003 to 2020.

The accusations against Luning come after nearly a year of public outcry from resident doctors at West Suburban, who say the state of the hospital has declined since Prasad bought it at the end of 2022.

and mattresses, stretchers, wheelchairs, plus ultrasound and operating room equipment.

“We still have much work to do, but just two years out from nar rowly averting catastrophe, West Suburban is moving in the right direction,” Prasad said in the March 7 statement. “We’re upgrading, we’re growing, and we’re looking to the future.

And in a March 14 statement, West Suburban announced the opening of a Women’s Health Clinic at both its Oak Park facility and River Forest campus.

“We are very proud and excited to expand our services to include a dedicated unit that will focus on women’s health,” Prasad said in the statement. “This is a significant step for us as we continue providing high quality care that our patients expect and deserve.”

West Suburban medical staf f’s leadership changes come at a time when the hospital’s only residency progr am has lost accreditation. After the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education withdrew West Suburban Medical Center’s accreditation Jan. 21, West Suburban announced March 7 that it would be appealing the withdrawn accreditation.

As residents decide whether to transfer to a hospital with an open residency spot or undergo the matching process again to find a new residency location, they say a major factor in the future of their education is whether Prasad will allow federal Medicare funding which hospitals get for residents’ education – to travel with them to another hospital. But residents haven’t heard about Prasad’s decision since the director and associate directors West Suburban’s Family Medicine Residency Program over a month ago that they couldn’t take Medicare funding with them.

has been scheduled yet. “We want him to discuss it with us.”

When asked whether he’s made a decision about West Suburban’s Medicare funding, or when he will, Prasad told GCM that’s a subject for collective bargaining.

Residents voted to unionize November 2023 in order to have collective bargaining power in asking for better patient safety and investment in their education. Last year, the union had two bargaining sessions in February, one in March, two in April, three in May, and two in June – none of which they said Prasad came to.

According to Prasad, union and hospital lawyers met several times last summer before union lawyers started declining proposed session dates. Now, attorneys from the union and hospital are working to schedule more meetings.

Prasad said he hasn’t attended these meetings because he’s not a part of the bargaining team, and discussing matters related to employment f alls under collective barg aining

“Once they for med the union, they became part of a collective bargaining unit, so it became unlawful for West Suburban Medical Center management to directly discuss any areas that fell under the collective bargaining realm, including all matters relating to their employment, and these communications stopped,” Prasad said.

But the Residents United at West Suburban union says Prasad could be a part of bargaining discussions and he’s not prohibited from talking to residents because they’re unionized.

In its March 7 statement, West Suburban officials said the hospital has hired over 200 staf f members in the last year, enhanced services, and bought new equipment like dialysis machines, patient monitors, beds

“There’s really no way to communicate our concerns to [Prasad] and for him to tell us his plans,” Kirtan Patel, a first-year resident at West Suburban, previously told Growing Community Media, the parent company of Austin Weekly News and Wednesday Journal. Residents said they’re trying to organize meetings with Prasad’s lawyer and their union lawyer, but nothing

“As part of that unionization, they made a lot of noise,” Prasad added. “They told a lot of lies to the community, they wasted a lot of time that they should have spent training and refused numerous requests by the designated institutional officer and program director to resolve concerns.” Now, Prasad said he’s working to better West Suburban’s re putation.

“This institution has served Chicago for more than 110 years,” Prasad said in the March 7 statement. “I’m determined that it sees another 110, and that those years be defined not by financial strife and crises, but by the quality care we provide and the lives we save.”

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DR. PAUL LUNING

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e Aspire Center for Workforce Innovation, at the corner of Madison and Central, will open in April.

Aspire Center is an Austin anchor

I grew up down the street from Emmet Elementary in Austin. In 2013, Chicago closed 50 schools, disproportionately affecting under-resourced neighborhoods like Austin.

T he shuttering of Emmet Elementary School felt like a devastating loss for our community, but when Westside Health Authority (WHA) acquired the property, we saw a chance to reclaim it as a hub for economic empower ment, job creation, and community resilience.

The Aspire Center for Workforce Innovation is the result of what can happen when a community takes the lead and brings together strategic partnerships to support its vision. From the beginning, the community shaped the Aspire Center’s purpose. Through summits and meetings,

the community envisioned a center for workforce training, financial literacy, and career pathways in accessible industries with living-wage careers, like advanced manufacturing.

WHA’s leadership ensured the property reflected local priorities, supported by grassroots ef for ts that raised $20,000 to secure the site and preserve community ownership.

Strong partnerships were essential to achieving the Aspire Center’s bold dream. United Way of Metro Chicago played a crucial role in connecting us with funders and corporate allies, like BMO, a capital investor and tenant. BMO will offer coaching services, financial education, and employment support, directly empowering residents. BMO’s commitment to investing in a consultative branch at this location re-

inforces Aspire Center’s holistic approach to workforce and economic development, addressing broader needs beyond access to job opportunities. As Sean Garrett, president and CEO of United Way of Metro Chicago, put it: “Our job is to help bring people together, find resources, and help in any way we can.”

For communities facing similar challenges, Aspire Center can serve as a blueprint for transforming disused public properties into resources that address community needs. At the corner of Madison and Central, Aspire Center will serve as an anchor to boost business along Austin’s main commercial corridor.

Aspire Center proves that even when facing intentional, systemic disinvestment, communities can lead change on their terms through strategic and purposeful collaboration.

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Feds pull grant funding from Illinois fair housing groups that investigate discrimination

Groups warn cuts will drastically reduce capacity to represent tenants, homebuyers

By LILY CAREY Capital News Illinois

John Petruszak opened his email Feb. 27 to find a message he called “shocking”: the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development had rescinded two grants it had awarded to his advocacy organization, the South Suburban Housing Center.

The grants, which represent 37% of the center’s budget, hadn’t been rescinded through any misstep by the organization. Rather, at the order of the Trump administration’s newly established Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, the grant was being terminated because it “no longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities,” the letter read.

The message came as a surprise to Petruszak, the center’s executive director. Fair housing organizations like his offer legal services and support to anyone facing discrimination in the housing market on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, familial status or disability, receiving hundreds of complaints each year. In 2023, private fair housing nonprofits across the country handled over 75% of all housing discrimination complaints.

“Fair housing is really a fundamental right,” Petruszak said. “It’s a check and balance on the housing market, just like democracy is a check and balance on our governing systems.”

But a drastic reduction in these organizations’ capacity or a mass shuttering of fair housing nonprofits could leave renters and prospective homebuyers with fewer avenues for justice if they face discrimination from landlords, real estate agents or neighbors.

Petruszak said the South Suburban Housing Center will have to cut its housing enforcement team down from five full-time staffers to one or fewer. The Homewoodbased organization typically investigates up to 250 complaints each year but won’ be able to keep up with this demand after these cuts are made, he said.

Since 1987, the federal government has helped fund private organizations that investigate cases of housing discrimination through its Fair Housing Initiatives Program, or FHIP.

The South Suburban Housing Center is one of at least 60 fair housing groups nationwide, including at least four in Illinois, that saw their FHIP grant funding suddenly pulled last month. The organizations represent about half of all of the fair housing grant recipients. Advocates said they heard from the National Fair Housing Association that some organizations saw all of their grants terminated, while others saw only partial cancellations.

T he groups all received the exact same message, which consisted of about three sentences and provided little detail other than attributing the grant rollback to

e Ralph H. Metcalfe Federal Building in Chicago’s Loop houses the Midwest Regional O ce of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. HUD last month noti ed fair housing nonpro ts across the country, including several in Illinois, that their Fair Housing Initiatives Program grant funding would be cut o .

President Donald Trump’s executive order establishing the Department of Gover nment Ef ficiency.

In response, four fair housing groups, backed by the National Fair Housing Alliance and law firm Relman Colmax, sued HUD and DOGE in Massachusetts’ federal court on Thursday. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of all of the groups that had their grants terminated, alle ged the government’s decision to rescind the grants was unlawful, and noted the funding had already been authorized by Congress.

In a statement provided to Capitol News Illinois, a HUD spokesperson said that “the Department is responsible for ensuring our grantees and contractors are in compliance with the President’s Executive Orders,” citing only the Trump order that established DOGE

“If we determine they are not in compliance, then we are required to take action,”

the spokesperson said in an email. “The Department will continue to serve the American people, including those [who] are facing housing discrimination or eviction.”

Dominic Vo z, director of fair housing for the Evanston-based fair housing nonprofit Open Communities, said the cancellations “felt like an attack on civil rights in housing.”

“All of our work is about justice, and it’s not about one group, it’s for everybody,” Voz said. “We’re on the side of the law, so we are not a political group.”

The 1968 Fair Housing Act outlawed discrimination in any housing-related transactions. According to HUD, the law also requires that “all federal programs relating to housing and urban development be administered in a manner that affirmatively furthers fair housing.”

“This is something that has continued for decades upon decades, including under

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the last Trump administration,” said Emily Coffey, director of equitable development and housing for the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights. “It’s shocking, at this stage, that the administration would sidestep the longstanding bipartisan appropriation of this funding.”

The lack of federal grant funding, which many fair housing groups have depended on for over 30 years, could be an “existential threat” for advocates and renters alike, Voz said. The Chicago area has a well-documented history of redlining, the practice of withholding financial services or loans from people who live in neighborhoods with higher numbers of racial minorities.

While the south suburbs, where Petruszak’s work is based, were once heavily redlined, shifts to af fordable housing policies in Chicago led many Black residents to move to the area from the city in the late 20th century. That history continues to impact the area’s housing market today, making fair housing work “essential,” Petruszak said.

“There’s a great deal of historical documentation of discriminatory practices in the housing market that led to the south suburbs changing from a predominantly white area in the 1970s and 80s, to a predominantly Black area by 2000,” he said. “It’s an area where monitoring for discrimination in housing is most crucial, because of the historical nature of this discrimination.”

Though the federal grants to the South Suburban Housing Center represent more than a third of its overall budget, they funded 92% of its housing enforcement and education programs annually. The two grants that were terminated amounted to $550,000 combined.

Open Communities’ canceled grants amounted to 25% of its annual budget, according to Voz. The group, based in the northern suburbs of Cook County, dedicates these resources to investigating landlords accused of discrimination and filing human rights complaints. One of its lawsuits, filed in the U.S. District Court of Northern Illinois in 2023 helped prevent landlords from using artificial intelligence to reject rental applications.

The Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights saw a three-year grant rescinded two years into its implementation, Coffey said. The grant comprised approximately 15% of the group’s annual budget. The group focuses primarily on filing lawsuits in federal courts, pursuing “high impact” cases related to large housing providers or local governments, Coffey said.

In Illinois, the Human Rights Act, passed

in 1979, prohibits discrimination in housing and real estate against the same seven federally protected classes. T he Illinois Department of Human Rights also helps intervene in instances of housing discrimination. However, IDHR has struggled to keep up with the number of discrimination cases it has received over the past two years.

A 2022 expansion to the Illinois Human Rights Act added source of income as a class protected against housing discrimination. When this expansion took effect in 2023, IDHR began to see a “steady increase”

in complaints, according to agency spokesperson Addie Shrodes.

It can sometimes take a few months for IDHR to address complaints when they’re filed, Shrodes said. But she said the department is also adding new staf f to its fair housing division next week and is hoping to support private fair housing organizations in any way possible.

Petruszak said it’s the responsibility of the state gover nment to step up and assist fair housing groups impacted by funding losses.

“We’re not talking about a great deal

of money — to the government, the FHIP grant is like a grain of sand in the Saharan desert,” he said.

For Coffey, though, it seems unlikely that the state would be able to fill the gap created by the federal government’s decision to rescind these grants.

“The state budg etary landscape is just as decimated by what’s happening at the federal level,” Coffey said. “But without having access to lawyers to be able to push forward claims of housing discrimination, this discrimination is allowed to go unchallenged.”

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COLEMAN

Coming out of reitrement

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The purpose of any chamber of commerce, Coleman said, is to support local businesses. The Austin Chamber does this by promoting West Side businesses and helping them with exposure, plus making sure they understand how to use local and federal tools.

Coleman has previously served as board chair and board member of the Austin Chamber. As the chamber’s new executive director, Coleman has several priorities.

He’s developing a new online directory to connect chamber members with potential customers and clients, plus providing more support to local businesses during grand openings.

Coleman also hopes to create a new membership structure for local nonprofits, so they can be better re presented in the Austin Chamber of Commerce

“The intent is to be able to support nonprofits, as well as for-profits,” Coleman said. Coleman’s background af fords him an extensive network of local players who can help grow businesses that are a part of the Austin Chamber of Commerce.

As a member of the Illinois Comptroller’s advisory board, Coleman is discussing how to connect public officials with

“I’m really looking fo rward to a lot of interaction with the business community of Austin.”

ED COLEMAN

Executive director at the Austin Chamber of Commerce

West Side businesses to further improve their resources.

Coleman was on the advisory board for the city’s Neighborhood Opportunity Fund and plans to host a networking event with chamber members who can talk with NOF about its small business grants. He also hopes to hold special events to introduce chamber businesses with representatives from the United States Small Business Administration and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.

And of course, Coleman plans to continue the Austin Chamber of Commerce’s annual holiday tree lighting ceremony.

“I’ll make sure that particular activity does as much as possible to expose the community to those who are participating in it,” Coleman said.

Coleman’s West Side role

After starting his career as an operations engineer at Amoco Oil, Coleman worked in field operations for the U.S. Census Bureau, taught finance, entrepreneurship and small business management at several Midwest colle ges, and did some consulting work.

In 2012, Coleman started at Bethel New Life, which empowers West Side residents through community- and solution-oriented approaches.

“The whole purpose of what I was doing [at Bethel New Life] was to engage in wealth building opportunities for local residents,” Coleman said.

Those wealth building opportunities, he added, focused on three key areas of workforce/career development, business development/entrepreneurship, and investment from companies that provide opportunities to West Side residents.

An example of one such company, Coleman said, is Illinois Tool Works, which opened ITW Speer Academy, a STEM-focused high school, in 2014 on the border of Belmont Cragin and Austin.

“They’re an example of a company that would come in and say, ‘The West Side is worth investing in,’” Coleman said. “‘The people on the West Side are capable of taking advantage of the opportunities that we have to offer.’”

And those aren’t just job opportunities, but also those for local construction, suppliers and partnerships.

In 2022, ITW joined with United Way to launch its Commit to a Neighborhood Initiative in order to create living-wage jobs and grow economic development in Belmont Cragin and Austin.

Bethel New Life and West Side Forward also helped prepare contractors for construction opportunities for the Joint Public Safety Training Campus, which opened in 2023 between West Garfield Park and West Humboldt Park.

Connecting businesses with opportunities like these is a focus that Coleman hopes to grow as the new head of the Austin Chamber of Commerce.

“I’m really looking forward to a lot of interaction with the business community of Austin,” Coleman said.

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

U.S. Bank Trust National Association, as Trustee of the Igloo Series IV Trust Plaintiff

vs. Bertha Porter; Andrew McDaniel; Unknown Owners and Nonrecord Claimants

Defendant 24 CH 2091 CALENDAR 57 NOTICE OF SALE

PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on April 23, 2025, at the hour 11:00 a.m., Intercounty’s office, 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, IL 60602, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 16-09-411-013-0000.

Commonly known as 201 North Lamon Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60644.

The real estate is: 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: At sale, the bidder must have 10% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

For information call Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Sottile & Barile, LLC, 7530 Lucerne Drive, Suite 210, Middleburg Heights, Ohio 44130. (440) 5721511. ILF2402009 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION intercountyjudicialsales.com I3262520

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

DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR MERITAGE MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2005-1 ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-1 Plaintiff, -v.RONNIE A. BARNES A/K/A RONNIE BARNES A/K/A RONNIE BARNES SR, AETNA FINANCE COMPANY

D/B/A ITT FINANCIAL SERVICES, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS

Defendants 24 CH 7295

5849-51 WEST OHIO STREET 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 5, 2024, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on April 10, 2025, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker, 1st Floor Suite 35R, Chicago, IL, 60606,

TJSC#: 44-3219

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

Case # 24 CH 7295

I3261615

sell at a public in-person sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 5849-51 WEST OHIO STREET, CHICAGO, IL 60644

Property Index No. 16-08-217-0010000

The real estate is improved with a multi unit building containing two to six apartments.

The judgment amount was $119,860.64.

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

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

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

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

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

For information, contact The sales clerk, LOGS Legal Group LLP

Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 2801 LAKESIDE DRIVE, SUITE 207, Bannockburn, IL, 60015 (847) 291-1717 For information call between the hours of 1pm - 3pm.. Please refer to file number 24-101651. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION

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

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

2801 LAKESIDE DRIVE, SUITE 207 Bannockburn IL, 60015

847-291-1717

E-Mail: ILNotices@logs.com

Attorney File No. 24-101651

Attorney Code. 42168

Case Number: 24 CH 7295

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENTCHANCERY DIVISION CAG NATIONAL FUND IV LLC Plaintiff, -v.-

BESSIE EARLY, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF MELINDA J. SMITH, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, MICHAEL SMITH, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, WILLIAM P. BUTCHER, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR MELINDA J. SMITH (DECEASED)

Defendants

2024 CH 07803

128 S PARKSIDE AVENUE

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 January 7, 2025, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on April 11, 2025, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker, 1st Floor Suite 35R, Chicago, IL, 60606, sell at a public in-person sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 128 S PARKSIDE AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60644

Property Index No. 16-17-204-0360000

The real estate is improved with a residence.

The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption.

If 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. 14-24-02617

Attorney ARDC No. 00468002

Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2024 CH 07803 TJSC#: 45-104

Case # 2024 CH 07803 I3262183

EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY

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The Illinois Human Rights Act prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental or advertising of real estate based on factors in addition to those protected under federal law. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis. Restrictions or prohibitions of pets do not apply to service animals. To complain of discrimination, call HUD toll free at: