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As draw expands, treatment will, too Lawmakers tout uptick in funding for addiction, mental health services amid gambling expansion and marijuana legalization

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

During a panel discussion in suburban Maywood last month, area lawmakers addressed the possible consequences of the state’s recent gambling expansion and legalization of recreational marijuana, with many pointing out the significant increase in funds for mental health and addiction treatment services.

“We were all concerned that we have a gambling safe passage, if you will, that’s properly funded,” said Senate Majority Leader Kimberly Lightford (4th) during the panel discussion held Aug. 30 outside of Way Back Inn, an addiction recovery treatment facility. The talk was part of Way Back Inn’s Legislative Open House.

“We wanted to make sure that those who are gamblers can get the help that’s needed if it gets out of control,” said Lighford, whose district includes parts of the West Side.

State Rep. Emanuel “Chris” Welch (4th) said that lawmakers evaluated addiction rates in states that had already legalized recreational cannabis before See FUNDING INCREASE on page 6

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LEADING THE WAY: Manny Rodriguez inside of his woodworking shop in West Garfield Park. Rodriguez trains people in carpentry and construction, which can lead to job opportunities.

Job program is ‘giving people dignity’ Revolution Workshop in West Garfield Park provides skills and hope

By MARIA MAXHAM Staff Reporter

At first glance, Revolution Workshop (RW) in Chicago looks like a typical woodworking shop. People wearing hard hats and tool belts plane wood. A table saw buzzes as it cuts boards. Recently built and well-constructed wooden sheds are on display and for sale.

Desks in the office, created out of reclaimed wood, were made on the premises.

But RW, located at 3410 Lake Street in Chicago, is anything but typical. It’s a place where futures are built; where hope takes root in the lives of people affected by crime and trauma, including homeless men and women, previous substance abusers, and individuals with criminal backgrounds; where people are given training, and a future, that otherwise wouldn’t be available to them.

Manny Rodriguez, RW’s executive director, makes it his goal to treat everyone with re-

spect, regardless of their background, while still holding them accountable.

A nonprofit, Revolution Workshop takes people with little or no skills — and often little or no hope — and trains them in carpentry and construction, electrical work, and plumbing, bringing them to pre-apprenticeship level and helping them find jobs. Oftentimes, said Rodriguez, remedial writing See REVOLUTION WORKSHOP on page 10

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Runners, walkers sought for Austin POWER 5K

Registration open for fifth annual event set for Sept. 28 in Austin

By VANESSA STOKES AustinTalks

Organizers are hoping this year’s Austin POWER 5K will attract at least 700 runners and walkers. The fifth annual event will be held Saturday, Sept. 28 in the heart of Austin.

The 3.1 mile race was created to make a difference “outside the norm,” said Malcolm Crawford, one of the event’s organizers.

The goal each year is to turn the spotlight on the many good things happening in Austin – and away from the focus on violence and hardship. Organizers changed the 5K route three years ago because they wanted participants to see a “good representation of Austin.”

“By going back into the community you (participants) get to see beautiful houses … beautiful people, beautiful families, and it’s not all gloom and doom (that’s) reported in the media,” said Crawford, executive director of the Austin African American Business Networking Association and co-owner of Sankofa Cultural Arts Center, 5820 W. Chicago Ave. Steve M. Epting Sr., senior pastor of Hope Community Church, who has participated each year alongside many members of his church, agrees the event is “more than just a 5K. It’s a movement in Austin to get something done.”

“This is about us getting together and showing that we care about Austin,” said Epting, who hopes this year to field five teams of 10 walkers/runners from his church. “It’s about highlighting what we actually have here. It’s about caring for each other.”

Another aim of this year’s race: To underscore the importance of improving men’s health, especially African American men.

“We got to talk about this (men’s health), we got to do something about this,” Crawford said.

This year’s event is dedicated to the memory of Decon Ywain Fields, who died of a heart attack earlier this year at the age of 56. Fields, a DJ at WVON, was the brother of the Rev. Cy Fields, senior pastor of New Landmark Missionary Baptist Church in East Garfield.

“Sudden death of so many iconic people that we know and love like (Chicago radio legend) Doug Banks and filmmaker John Singleton, it just hits home the lack of attention to black men’s health,” said Crawford, who over the last several months has worked to improve his own health.

Darnell Shields, executive director of Austin Coming Together, sees the 5K as an opportunity to get into shape. “I need to do better about my health,” said Shields, who just turned 46.

In past years, he’s begun the race running before slowing his pace to a walk. His goal this year: to run a few more blocks and walk less.

The year’s race ambassador is Marshawn Feltus, an Austin resident and yoga instructor. Just shy of his 18th birthday, Feltus was sentenced to nearly 40 years in prison for first-degree murder. He used his time in prison to learn, and to mentor and tutor fellow inmates in basic education and life skills. Now Feltus works as a yoga instructor for ACT Yoga in Austin.

Newly added to this year’s Austin 5K will be a fun run for kids ages 10 and under, which starts before the race tipoff at 8:30 a.m.

The race route begins at the corner of Mayfield and Chicago avenues; goes south on Mayfield to Race Avenue; east on Race to Menard; north on Menard to Chicago; east on Chicago to Lamon Avenue; and west on Chicago to the finish line at Mayfield and Chicago.

To learn more about participating in the race or volunteering, click here. The race is $35 for individuals, or $300 for a group of 10 people.

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The P.O.W.E.R. of Life

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ur 5th year Austin POWER 5K Run/Walk has gotten off to a great start. We have a great Race Committee working on all of the elements of the Race and the surrounding events.

We would love for you to participate with us!

The Austin POWER of Life 5K has become a beacon of light and a ray of hope for those who love and care about the wellbeing of the Austin community.

Last year we drew upwards of 1000 friends, family, residents and elected officials, including the Mayor of the City of Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who seems to have made the Austin POWER of Life 5K an annual stop – showing support for our community. The weather again was perfect, the music filled the air, and the people came prepared to have a good time.

The “Soul City Corridor” on West Chicago Avenue has begun to bustle with activity and signs reading “Grand Opening” and

(People Organizing Wealth and Economic Resources) “Coming Soon.” It is quickly becoming an economic driver and cultural hub for the Austin Community, similar to other ethnic neighborhoods such as Greektown, Little Italy, and Chinatown.

While we can see progress, we cannot help but notice the violence that continues to plague our city and our community.

With all the morbid news, it would be easy to just lie down, pull up the covers, and stay home. But instead, we choose the POWER of Life. These events serve as a way to speak life, relationship building, healthy choices, positive conversation, and action.

The POWER of Life campaign is a collaborative effort between our businesses, churches, residents, the Chicago Police Department, and the City of Chicago. This event will take place on September 21, 2019 and consists of the Austin POWER 5K Run/Walk and Marketplace Festival.

We anticipate our crowd to exceed 1,000 people. Proceeds from this year’s event will benefit the College Mentoring Experience

[CME], a not-for-profit organization located in the Austin community.

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St. Angela School: Celebrating 100 years

S Current families, alumni and neighbors celebrated with birthday cake following the Mass and outdoor blessing.

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Sr. Maryellen Callahan, RSM, President of St. Angela School (right) shares a moment with her former colleague, Mary Ellen Caron, (far left) and St. Angela Board member Christine Riley.

Had Ms. McGuire not returned to St. Angela as a substitute teacher this fall she would not have seen a favorite student from more than twenty years ago. A happy reunion.

Members of the St. Angela National Junior Honor Society served as hosts and tour guides, and participated in the entry procession for Mass.

Bill McNichols, Class of 1938, took the honors as oldest alumnus at the event. He received a resounding welcome from the congregation.

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Help us celebrate the legacy of Roberta Raymond and her contributions as the founding director of the Oak Park Regional Housing Center.

Annual Benefit Thursday, September 26, 2019 19th Century Club 178 Forest Ave, Oak Park IL 5:30 p.m.

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A different world than where we come from

umpkin spiced lattes, caramel apple cider, NCAA football, new television program debuts, hoodies and boots all trigger feelings of nostalgia inside.

Autumn is my favorite season.

My Hillman College hoodie remains my preferred Saturday outerwear.

The fictitious Alma mater of Heathcliff and Claire Huxtable garnered a six-season spin-off with daughter, Denise, briefly attending the college became a symbol of hope amid summers in the 1990s.

Themes of marriage, divorce, infidelity, HIV, AIDS and homicides of old peers back home were topics commonplace to those youth coming from the inner city. Tupac Shakur and Jada Pinkett Smith’s epic dialogue in one episode pointed out how two childhood friends of the same socioeconomic status can experience different worlds.

While I spent the greater of my elementary years in the college towns of UrbanaChampaign, the bustling, bold blackness of the show symbolized a utopia during my battles with depression in Austin.

Patti LaBelle’s iconic voice over the bass

drum and acoustic guitar of season 1 of “A Different World” acted as a zip code transporter to positive inclusion.

Jemele Hill’s recent piece in The Atlantic calling for black athletes to consider HBCU’s over predominantly white institutions speaks to a broader sense of psychological wellness within black people.

W.E.B. Dubois talks about blacks or African Americans being viewed through the lenses of the majority race in The Souls of Black Folk. Since the dawn of the civil war blacks have psychologically struggled with identity. This wanting to be accepted in a world that looks on with “contempt and pity” versus establishing more autonomous striving seems to echo the sentiment of my last piece that explores the key differences of field slaves and house slaves.

But what else can one expect after the

emancipation of millions of slaves without mental health treatment?

If all your life you were a slave, how can you be expected to adjust to this new freedom with minimal financial assistance?

Effects of the bombing of Black Wall Street, the murders of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Fred Hampton, Mark Clark and the sabotaging of any institution revolutionary to the fragility of white male patriarchy triggers a rarely explored version of culturally specific post-traumatic stress. These key moments subconsciously invoke inferiority and subjugation masked by fear and anger.

Therefore, we mass mourn the passing of Nipsey Hussle, keep Sandra Bland’s name on our lips and celebrate a mayor of Atlanta named Keisha.

We stay divided on R. Kelly, Bill Cosby,

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FOUNTAIN III One View

FUNDING RECOVERY: Illinois Department of Human Services Secretary Grace B. Hou, Commissioner Brandon Johnson, Sen. Kimberly Lightford and Rep. Emanuel “Chris” Welch during the Way Back Inn’s Legislative Open House on Aug. 30.

FUNDING INCREASE Budgets up from page 1 Illinois took the step to do so.

“That’s why future budgets will call for increased funding and mental health dollars,” Welch said.

Lightford said that 20 percent of all future tax revenues the state generates from the legalization of marijuana will go toward substance abuse and mental health services.

And that’s not including the funding that the state allocated in its most recent budget.

“It was more support that went into mental health and substance abuse in this budget than I’ve seen in a very long time,” Lightford said of the new state budget, which the Senate approved and Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed in June.

The new budget allocates “$39 million for addiction treatment and prevention and $43 million for mental health services — which represents increases in 18% and 13%, respectively,” according to NPR. “The money will be made available to service providers through grant programs administered by the Illinois Department of Human Services.”

Illinois Department of Human Services Secretary Grace B. Hou was in attendance at the Legislative Open House in Maywood on Aug. 30.

“We know that people who suffer from mental health issues are inclined to have gambling issues as well, so one of the things we’re doing at DHS is, for the first time, a thorough study of gambling disorders across the state,” she said. “Up until re-

Colin Kaepernick, Jay Z and the NFL. Our heads bow with every black male assassinated by police, triggering a feeling of helplessness further exacerbated by acquittals and leniency.

Many black people have not recovered from the CIA-backed crack epidemic while heroin abuse sweeps across America.

Our worlds juxtapose even among black.

Black people do not have a unified opinion of their experiences in America and as a result the debate about black athlete abandoning college coaches like Nick Saban and Jim Harbaugh or even Lovie Smith will remain fractured like “the choice of slavery.”

I still watch the NFL and I will baptize my 6-month-old son in the tradition of NCAA football Saturday mornings, but as he becomes older and starts to examine where his choices will lead, I’ll gladly recite the lyrics, “Just remember you’ve been told it’s a different world, a different world, than where you come from, than where you come from.”

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cently, we’ve put very little money behind gambling disorder services and we need to dramatically change that, but we want to do that with the right kind of data and research to back us up.”

Welch said that the state allocates in the recent budget $2 million for clients in institutional settings like the Way Back Inn. The state has also expanded treatment options for residents dealing with gambling disorders, said Way Back Inn officials.

“The state has recently given us the option of being able to serve gambling disorder clients in our extended residential care facility,” said Anita Pindiur, the executive director of the Way Back Inn, which in addition to the Maywood facility, also has extended care facilities in Forest Park, Melrose Park and Oak Park.

Dagmar Porcelli, the board president of the Way Back Inn, said that the organization

has a 64 percent success rate “as our clients work through recovery with us, returning to safe environments and they leave our facilities gainfully employed.”

In June, Illinois became the 11th state in the country to legalize recreational marijuana. Starting Jan. 1, 2020, residents who are 21 and older will be allowed to possess up to 30 grams of cannabis flower, no more than 500 milligrams of THC and five grams of cannabis concentrate. Under the new law, residents with prior convictions for possessing no more than 30 grams of marijuana before legalization may be pardoned and their records expunged.

Also in June, state lawmakers passed a bill that, according to ProPublica Illinois, could “transform Illinois into the gambling capital of the Midwest.

“Within two years, Illinois could have more than 7,000 video gambling establish-

ments, 5,000 lotterylike sports betting kiosk locations, 16 casinos, five racinos and online sports gambling accessible on millions of mobile phones. The bill even allows video slot and poker machines at Chicago’s airports, O’Hare and Midway.”

Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson (1st), an Austin resident who lost his older brother to addiction, said that “our investment in our communities is the most important thing we can do to solve the social ills we are all aware of,” adding that addiction and mental illness are only symptoms of societal problems that go beyond slot machines and cannabis flower.

“Mental health issues don’t just start when people become adults,” Johnson said.

“Many times, they go back to the beginning of their lives.”

Shanel Romain contributed to this report.

CONTACT: michaelromain@ymail.com

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The price isn’t high enough for our criminals

verything has a price. The most recognizable price we all understand is the value of our labor. That’s why there are jobs that pay a minimum wage while others pay in the tens of millions.

Paying a price is the foundation of living. Everything in this world has value, and each of us determines what we are willing to spend for it.

The only time we have no control over the price we pay is when we are murdered by the criminal element that permeates this society. And in the black community, that criminal element is extracting the price on a daily basis. No one is safe from paying the ultimate price when those no-good, low-life, dirty-rotten, should’ve-been-abortedand-never-born individuals take to shooting guns with impunity. Old and young, male and female, it doesn’t make a difference. Far too many innocent people are losing their life because of the reckless and senseless violence that some individuals within the black community perpetrate on the black community.

I have to pose this question: Where are the lawand-order black politicians? We have a plethora of hand-wringers who can’t come up with any kind of solution. Their silence and inaction makes them complicit. As such, the problem gets worse while the remedy offered is nonexistent.

I want to go on record as being a proponent to re-institute the death penalty here in Illinois. Those criminals who are willing to take other people’s lives, must be held accountable with their own life. Life in prison is no longer a deterrent or an acceptable price to pay. For far too many who willingly participate in the criminal lifestyle, going to prison is like going to college. They don’t get a “trunk party” but they get a “book party.” People give them money to put on the “book” so they can buy

things while they’re away.

And just like those who go away to school and come back with book learning, our criminal element go to prison and come back with even more knowledge about the carnage they can commit. There may not be any proof that the death penalty will be a deterrent, but I guarantee you this: Let’s have a public execution and see what the crime rate becomes after it.

I think the death penalty should be given to those who shoot others on the expressway.

There’s something extremely malicious about anyone who is participating in that kind of activity. They know their actions could result in the death of others, but they don’t care about the potential number of other people who could be killed. School shooters should get the death penalty. Why waste money trying to rehab someone who cares so little. Those who pull out automatic weapons and fire indiscriminately should be held accountable.

Those who are harboring these killers need to be held accountable. If one has a young person in their household who is not working, but they always seem to have money or a stolen car, that head of household knows something is not right. Turning their head and not caring may not be a death penalty offense, but it should be a long-term jail offense with a corresponding financial fine.

Until we as a society and as a community begin to seriously address the gun violence, not with silly marches closing down expressways, or press conferences defending the accused before all details are publicly known, we are sending out subliminal messages of acceptance of criminal behavior.

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ALL THE PATIO’S A STAGE: Participants enjoy the last Poetry on the Patio event in Austin earlier this month. Poetry on the Patio could be the longest-running outdoor spoken word show in the nation.

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Poetry on the Patio, believed to be one the longest-running outdoor spoken word shows in the country, closed out the summer 2019 season last weekend in Austin – outside the same home where it’s been held the past 17 years.

Markell “Kell-O-G” Mooney, spoken word poet and founder of Word Life Productions, started the patio shows at his family’s home in the 5100 block of West Concord Place in March 2003 after the death of his father, Willie E. Mooney Sr. “When I did my event, I only pass out a few flyers for what me and my mom wanted to put together,” Mooney said. “I had a few flyers at this currency exchange, a few flyers at the local park district, and we had a flood of artists come in.”

From then on, the Mooney’s backyard became the place to be for people and artists in Austin to express themselves while being served jerk chicken and Martha Mooney’s famous macaroni salad.

Minister Willie E. Mooney Jr., founder of Full Moon consulting and Markell Mooney’s brother, noted “there’s a lot of negative connotations concerning the Austin area. So this is one way, especially during the summer, to highlight some of the positive things that are going on in the area.”

Willie Mooney said the patio shows draw people and artists from a number of suburbs, communities and even other parts of the country just so they can be part of the performance.

“Bringing the arts into the community is something that [you] rarely … see in our community, and the neighbors love it,” Willie Mooney said. “[They’re] embracing what

we’re doing as a black business and as a family. That’s different than what you would normally see on the West Side.”

Mari Redd, an entertainer and co-host for last weekend’s show, has known Markell since he was Mr. Mooney at La Follette Park teaching drama and poetry at day camp and she was 9. She’s now 24.

“The park district kids [are] what gave him that fuel to even keep going despite everything he had going on,” Redd said.

After being away for three years, Redd is excited to come back and even invited friends from high school and college – and anyone around Chicago who’s trying to have music or poetry heard.

“It feels good to provide that same platform that once upon a time somebody gave you.”

Johnetta “Awthentik” Anderson also knew Markell Mooney back in the day when she was 16 and still growing as a poet.

“They didn’t have any open mics for younger poets during that time ’cause they were all in the bars,” Anderson said. “I heard about this event, I came, and I’ve been coming ever since.”

Now with summer coming to an end, and winter just around the corner, Markell Mooney will continue the open mics until the end of the year.

“When it gets cold here we go to a few cafes … a few venues, [and] we’ll host a few poetry slams, “he said.

Markell Mooney, who released a book of poems, Words of Life, just over a year ago, is in the process of moving out of state. Even though he doesn’t know exactly where, he knows Poetry on the Patio brand will still be around, alive and strong.

“It’s just a good safe haven,” he said. “If we could just give about three to four hours of just a nice beautiful atmosphere and some good words and good food, just keep people away from trouble, I did my duty.”

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REVOLUTION WORKSHOP Reclaiming lives from page 1 and math skills are needed as well.

“We provide a robust technical skill set,” said Rodriguez. The training includes certification from the National Center for Construction Education and Research in core skills, OSHA-10, and forklift operation. It’s a 10- to 12-week program, open to 24 individuals at a time, referred to as a cohort.

And it’s free. RW provides transportation assistance to participants and gives graduates their own tool belt, basic set of tools, and equipment like steel-toe boots and a hardhat.

They also provide snacks and coffee to participants, many of whom are homeless.

“You can’t focus if you’re hungry,” said Rodriguez.

Aside from hands-on technical training, RW teaches life skills to participants. This includes financial management, emotional intelligence, conflict resolution, and different pathways in construction, including steps to take to work as an electrician, a plumber or in HVAC. Once training is completed, RW works with its wide network of union and nonunion companies to help place participants in jobs.

“We teach them how to fish,” said Rodriguez, referring to the old adage, “Give me a fish and I eat for a day; teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime.” Graduates of the program are instructed in how to write a resume but must put it together themselves and how to go onto career websites to look for jobs.

“Everything we do here is through a lens of no judgment,” said Rodriguez. “When I interview people interested in training here, I don’t care what they did before. I don’t care what kind of trouble they’ve been in. I want to know why now? What motivates you now?

What is telling you to change your life?” Sometimes, he said, it’s someone’s kids who are the motivation for change. Sometimes someone’s best friend or brother was killed. “Sometimes people say they’ve been to hell on earth and don’t want to go back there,” he said.

RW holds regular Monday morning information sessions for people interested in joining the program.

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A JUDGEMENT FREE ZONE: Rodriguez said that everything his team at RW does “is in the lens of no judgment.”

“We also work with other nonprofits, including halfway houses and substance abuse and anti-violence programs, to look for motivated individuals and take them the rest of the way,” said Rodriguez. These nonprofits include Breakthrough Urban Ministries, the Salvation Army, and Above and Beyond Recovery Center.

Participants are treated like employees during the training period. They need to clock in and out and are expected to be there from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.

“But 8 a.m. really means 7:45,” said Rodriguez. “When you’re working a job, you can’t pull into the parking lot at 8. You have to be in the shop and ready to go by then. Work ethic is a big part of what we teach.” The cohorts are broken down into groups for the program, each with a rotating team leader. “We try to simulate what it’s like on a job site,” he said.

And, just like in a regular job, trainees are held accountable. They must show up on time and can’t miss days without approval.

If they mess up, they’re given a verbal warning, then a written warning, and then terminated from the program. But each warning or termination comes with a discussion about what went wrong and how to improve.

And anyone terminated is given a chance to come back to the program and start over.

“Every cohort has had someone who was kicked out,” said Rodriguez. “But each person who returned completed the program successfully.”

The requirements to join the program are fairly basic. You must be between the ages of 18 and 40, authorized to work in the United States, able to obtain a driver’s license by the end of training (with help from RW, if necessary), and have no sex offenses. Other offenses don’t matter to Rodriguez, who said that about 75 percent of people he trains have some kind of criminal background. A high school diploma or GED isn’t required, but RW will assist people in getting their GED. Rodriguez says it’s a great time for a program like this. Roughly 85 percent of people working in the trades are middle-aged white men. There is high demand for skilled entrylevel employees in fields where the bulk of the work force is aging out. And bringing more diversity to these jobs is important. RW’s trainees are about 73 percent African American, 21 percent Latino and 6 percent white.

As a nonprofit, RW receives grants, but also raises unencumbered money to help feed the cohorts and pay for outstanding tickets and fines so that participants can clear their records and receive driver’s licenses.

The Social Enterprise branch of RW builds semi-custom wood products, such as tables and podiums, for individuals or organizations.

When the Forest Park Review visited, a photographer from a Chicago-area synagogue was there taking photos of a table in progress, commissioned by the synagogue through RW, which also produces and sells standard products such as cutting boards and Jenga-style games.

Rodriguez, born and raised in the Chicago area and a Forest Park resident for the past seven years, is no stranger to hardship. He and his two sisters, one of whom was seriously ill, grew up with a single mother. His grandmother, who lived with them, struggled with mental illness. His father was in and out of his life and suffered from addiction. But Rodriguez was fortunate to have a strong mother and to meet good people in his life who became role models.

An Eagle Scout, Rodriguez said one of his scout leaders had a huge impact on him, giving him a code of values and demonstrating that helping other people is key. His leader was an electrician and provided Rodriguez with training and a job. He attributes this to him staying out of gangs, drugs and violence.

From this, his desire to help others was born.

In college at the University of Illinois Champaign, Rodriguez studied business and co-founded the U of I Latina/Latino Alumni Association. Having a network, he said, has been integral throughout his life. At RW, he has created a similar experience for participants, who keep in touch and help each other get jobs after graduating from the program.

“I didn’t always feel blessed as a kid,” said Rodriguez, “but I have been nothing but blessed since adulthood.”

Rodriguez is one of 12 finalists in the Coors Light Líder of the Year contest, a nationwide competition featuring “Latino community leaders demonstrating an outstanding commitment to empowering their communities.” The winner, announced later this month, will receive a $25,000 grant for his or her nonprofit. Rodriguez said he’s honored and humbled to be a finalist.

“But I’ve already won, regardless of whether I win this competition,” he said.

Carmen Marsans, media coordinator of the contest, said all the finalists this year are amazing and doing so much for their communities. What stands out to her most about Rodriguez is that “he’s giving people dignity.”

“The” Friendship BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. Dr. Reginald E. Bachus, Pastor

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Retooling the way the Austin Weekly News works

e were about six months into Wednesday Journal Inc. back in 1980 and the money we’d raised was running out. The check to the printer the previous week had bounced — not by much but it bounced — and now the printer wanted a certified check before he’d print the next issue.

That was a moment. And I remember thinking as a chastened 24-year-old, “This is the greatest job ever but, Dan, you don’t have a God-given right to publish this newspaper.

Figure it out. Make this work.”

Back then the figuring it out was learning how to sell advertising. And we did. Lots of advertising. Lots of grassroots reporting. Lots of connections in all the neighborhoods we came to serve.

Here we are 39 years later and it is, once again, a moment.

And while selling advertising will remain vital to us, there is a whirlwind around independent community journalism all across America that threatens its future, threatens our future as the publishers of newspapers like the Austin Weekly News, which Wednesday Journal Inc. purchased more than 20 years ago.

We don’t have a God-given right to keep publishing and you don’t have a right to expect a Breaking News Update in your e-mail or a print copy in your mailbox — not if we all just sit back and think of better days.

It is time to open the hood and rebuild the engine — possibly a bad metaphor as I’ve never rebuilt an engine, hardly opened the hood but you get the point. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s metaphor might be more apt, that sometimes change is like redesigning the airplane while you’re flying it.

So that is what we are doing. Crafting a new business model that builds on our strengths, widens our base of local support beyond just advertising and opens the door to more reporters, more ways to tell our stories, more voices from the neighborhoods.

We start knowing that the work we do every day in all seven neighborhoods we cover is essential. Independent community journalism holds local governments to account. It connects neighbors. It is the credible source when social media goes haywire. It allows a community to debate and celebrate.

Now we need to add a new revenue stream to our mix of

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advertising and print subscribers. For that we have created a non-profit called Growing Community Media that will soon own these four publications and work diligently to broaden local partnerships and donations. Think of it as public radio without the pledge drives. (Though we will be persistent in asking for you to join in.)

We are turning to our supporters in these neighborhoods, individuals who grasp the importance of independent local journalism; readers, specifically our thousands of digitalonly readers, who, when they think about it, know someone has to pay these reporters, photographers, and designers; and, more gradually, to local and national foundations, some of whom have suddenly begun to take very seriously the possibility that neighborhood journalism could vanish, leaving a hole in our democracy.

How can you help? Jump in with your active support. Talk up the importance of the Austin Weekly News to neighbors.

Critique our efforts. As we raise more money, what stories should we be telling? And what stories can you help us tell?

Become a Digital Member with a one-time donation or a monthly donation. Brag about it after you donate. Saving independent community journalism is good work.

Non-profit journalism is the future of journalism. It is all around us and being supported by everyday people who know in their bones that life is all about community and that community needs active means to connect and grow.

Here’s how to donate: AustinWeeklyNews.com/donate.

Want to talk about other ways we can partner to grow community? Reach out directly to me: dhaley@wjinc.com.

Reading ‘Black Against Empire’

Chapter 1: ‘Huey and Bobby’

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

For the remainder of this year until Dec. 4, I’ll be publishing reading guides to complement each chapter of Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin Jr. This book is the inaugural selection of One Book, One Proviso — an initiative launched last month by Village Free Press, a newspaper I publish in the west suburbs.

I decided that Austin Weekly News readers would also benefit from this collective reading as well.

The book was chosen to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Black Panther icon Fred Hampton, who died on Dec. 4, 1969 in an unlawful and unjust raid authorized and carried out by local, state and federal law enforcement authorities inside his West Side apartment.

The book’s first chapter, “Huey and Bobby,” charts the roots of the Black Panther Party in the personal histories of its founders — Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, who met in 1962 as students at Merritt College — a public community college in Oakland, California.

They encountered each other at a rally at the college “opposing the U.S. blockade of Cuba,” the authors note on page 21.

In 1958, the United States activists like Martin. basically declared that it The difference between would not sale weapons to Malcolm’s ballot-or-the-bullet Cuba while the country was political rhetoric (see page under the regime of the 27) and Martin’s political dictator Fulgencio Batista. rhetoric of Gandhian After Batista was overthrown nonviolence boils down, in

by Fidel Castro in 1959, the many respects, to economics.

U.S. declared it would no Malcom, a reformed hustler, longer ship most exports to speaks the lingo of the Cuba, which under Castro Northern ghettos. Martin had transferred Americandoesn’t. owned oil refineries to Cuban Another important ownership (a process called difference between Civil nationalization).

Rights leaders like Malcolm Huey and Bobby joined the and Black Power leaders like University of California Press Bobby and Huey is that the Afro-American Association, a black student group at the latter opposed the Vietnam college. While members of War and other acts of U.S. the group, the young men were introduced to imperialism from the very beginning of authors like W.E.B. DuBois, James Baldwin, their activist careers, and anti-imperialism Booker T. Washington and Ralph Ellison. formed the foundation of their political They also seriously engaged with the Black philosophy. Martin would eventually oppose Nationalist ideas of Malcolm X, whose the war, but only later in his evolution as a assassination on Feb. 21, 1965 enraged Bobby. political and economic radical.

The Panthers also very swiftly identified Like Malcolm and Fidel, Huey and Bobby were in favor of black and brown people that the Cold War had less to do with being economically self-sufficient and no the United States spreading democracy longer dependent on U.S. imperialism for across the world than with the United States attempting to establish economic material survival.

Contrast the Northern, working-class, and military dominance over Third World people, who were predominantly black and relatively impoverished upbringings of activists like Bobby, Newton and Malcolm brown (hence the rally against the blockade with the Southern, middle-class and of Cuba at Merritt College). Southern Civil Rights leaders were not as vocal in their relatively comfortable upbringings of

opposition (if they were opposed at all) to the Vietnam War, in particular, and U.S. imperialism, in general.

Guiding questions ■ Explain how the Black Panther Party logo symbolizes the party’s philosophy?

■ After wracking his brain, what solution does Huey Newton finally hit upon for organizing “the brothers on the block”?

■ Who are some of the key people responsible for helping the Panthers develop their “language of the gun”?

Further Reading ■ Huey P. Newton, Revolutionary Suicide (New York: Writers and Readers, 1995) ■ David Hilliard and Lewis Cole, This Side of Glory: The Autobiography of David Hilliard and the Story of the Black Panthers (New York: Little, Brown, 1993) ■ Bobby Seale, Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton (1971; reprinted Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1990).

■ Penny Von Eschen, Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism 1937-1957 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997).

■ Robert F. Williams, Negroes with Guns (New York: Marzani & Munsell, 1962).

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PUBLIC NOTICES Notice Invitation to Bid to METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO Sealed proposals, endorsed as below, will be deposited in the sealed bid depository located in the lobby of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Administration Building, 100 East Erie Street Chicago, Illinois 60611, from the date of the Invitation to Bid, up to 11:00 A.M. on the bid opening date, and will be opened publicly by the Director of Procurement and Materials Management or her designee at 11:00 A.M. on the stated bid opening date below for: CONTRACT 18-277-3M DIGESTER SLUDGE HEATING SYSTEM UPGRADES AND BOILER REMOVAL, CALUMET WATER RECLAMATION PLANT Bid Opening: October 29, 2019 Compliance with the District’s Affirmative Action Ordinance Revised Appendix D, Appendices C, K and V, and the Multi-Project Labor Agreement is required on this Contract. ***************************************** The above is an abbreviated version of the Notice - Invitation to Bid. A full version which includes a brief description of the project and/or service can be found on the District’s website, www.mwrd. org; the path is as follows: Doing Business Ž Procurement and Materials Management Ž Contract Announcements.

Specifications, proposal forms and/ or plans may be obtained from the Department of Procurement & Materials Management, Room 508, 100 East Erie Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611, Monday - Friday, between 8:45 A.M. and 4:15 P.M. Documents, unless stated above to the contrary, will be mailed in response to a fax request (312/7513042). The vendor may also download specifications, proposal forms and/or plans online from the District’s website, www.mwrd. org. The path is as follows: Doing Business Ž Procurement and Materials Management Ž Contract Announcements. No fee is required for the contract documents unless stated above.

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By Darlene A. LoCascio Director of Procurement and Materials Management Chicago, Illinois September 18, 2019 Published in Austin Weekly News 9/18/2019

PUBLIC NOTICES PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,� as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: Y19002066 on August 29, 2019 Under the Assumed Business Name of LALA’S SWEETS & SCENTS with the business located at: 11924 SOUTH WALLACE STREET 2ND, CHICAGO, IL 60628.

The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/ partner(s) is: YOLANDA MICKLES 11924 SOUTH WALLACE STREET 2ND, CHICAGO, IL 60628.

Published in Austin Weekly News 9/04, 9/11, 9/18/2019

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. AS SUCCESSOR TO LASALLE BANK, N.A. AS TRUSTEE, FOR MERRILL LYNCH FIRST FRANKLIN MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST, MORTGAGE LOAN ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-3 Plaintiff, -v.CYNTHIA R. HYMON, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF JUANITA GRADAM CARTER A/K/A JUANITA O. CARTER HYMON, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, THOMAS P. QUINN, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR JUANITA GRADAM CARTER A/K/A JUANITA O. CARTER HYMON (DECEASED) Defendants 2018 CH 14497 4909 W LEXINGTON ST 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 June 5, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on October 16, 2019, 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 4909 W LEXINGTON ST, CHICAGO, IL 60644 Property Index No. 16-16-407-007 The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential

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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 twentyfour (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. 14-18-11966 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2018 CH 14497 TJSC#: 39-3676 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 14497 I3130615

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS MUNICIPAL DEPARTMENT FIRST DISTRICT CITY OF CHICAGO, A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION, Plaintiff, vs.

SECOND CHANCE HOMES, LLC; COMMUNITY INITIATIVES, INC.; MARY A. WOODARDS; LAWANDA WOODARDS; TBI URBAN HOLDINGS, LLC, AND UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 11 M1 402008 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on August 19, 2019, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Friday, October 11, 2019, at the hour of 11 a.m. in its office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: a) 21 N. PINE UNIT A (16-09-315-046-0000): b) UNIT 121 N. PINE UNIT B (16-09-315-047-0000): C) UNIT 121 N. PINE UNIT C (16-09-315-048-0000): P.I.N. 16-09-315-046-0000; 16-09-315-047-0000 and 16-09-315-048-0000.

Commonly known as 121 North Pine Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60644.

The property consists of vacant land.

Sale terms: 10% of the purchase price will be required to bid at the sale. The balance of the purchase price required by 12:00 p.m. the following day.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.

For information call City of Chicago Department of Law/COAL, City Hall 121 North LaSalle Street, Suite 400, Chicago, Illinois 60602 (312) 7420007.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 Dated: August 23, 2019 I3130535

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 twentyfour (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. 14-19-00704 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2019 CH 01114 TJSC#: 39-3777 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 # 2019 CH 01114 I3130260

357-1125. 18-05156 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3131075

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION BMO HARRIS BANK N.A. F/K/A HARRIS N.A. Plaintiff, -v.FREDERICK WALLACE, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 2019 CH 01114 711 N LARAMIE AVE 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 June 11, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on October 15, 2019, 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 711 N LARAMIE AVE, CHICAGO, IL 60644 Property Index No. 16-09-200-0150000 The real estate is improved with a residence.

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

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION MATRIX FINANCIAL SERVICES CORPORATION Plaintiff, vs.

FRANKLIN BROWN, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, COOK COUNTY ASSESSOR’S OFFICE, CITY OF CHICAGO, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants, 19 CH 1262 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, October 18, 2019 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. 16-15-401-002-0000.

Commonly known as 4353 WEST FLOURNOY , CHICAGO, IL 60624.

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

The successful purchaser is entitled to possession of the property only.

The purchaser may only obtain possession of units within the multi-unit property occupied by individuals named in the order of possession.

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)

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 TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF THE CWABS INC., ASSETBACKED CERTIFICATES SERIES 2007-BC3 Plaintiff, -v.UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF BOBBY MOORE A/K/A BOBBY G MOORE, IF ANY, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, JOHN LYDON, SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DECEASED MORTGAGOR BOBBY MOORE A/K/A BOBBY G MOORE, BOBBY MOORE, JR., DENNIS MOORE, CURTISS MOORE, MELVIN MOORE, THERESA MOORE, CITY OF CHICAGO Defendants 2017 CH 8980 4851 WEST MONROE 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 April 17, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on October 21, 2019, 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 4851 WEST MONROE STREET, CHICAGO, IL 60644 Property Index No. 16-16-205-018 The real estate is improved with a 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 twentyfour (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate

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

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

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. 262546 Attorney ARDC No. 61256 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 2017 CH 8980 TJSC#: 39-2600 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 # 2017 CH 8980 I3130039

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. 264856 Attorney ARDC No. 61256 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 18 CH 09239 TJSC#: 39-2183 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 09239 I3128613

LIENHOLDERS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF OLLIE M. BUTCHER, DECEASED, UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS AND LIENHOLDERS AGAINST THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF OLLIE M. BUTCHER, DECEASED, NADINE BUTLER, GREGORY BUTCHER, RODNEY BUTCHER, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ACTING BY AND THROUGH THE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, STATE OF ILLINOIS-DEPARTMENT OF HEALTHCARE AND FAMILY SERVICES, WILLIAM BUTCHER, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF OLLIE M. BUTCHER, DECEASED Defendants 18 CH 07713 5451 W. RICE STREET 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 July 22, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on October 23, 2019, 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 5451 W. RICE STREET, CHICAGO, IL 60651 Property Index No. 16-04-327-0060000 The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $332,748.02.

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

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

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

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no

representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

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

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

For information, HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 111 East Main Street, DECATUR, IL, 62523 (217) 4221719. Please refer to file number 2120-15075.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC 111 East Main Street DECATUR IL, 62523 217-422-1719 Fax #: 217-422-1754 E-Mail: CookPleadings@hsbattys. com Attorney File No. 2120-15075 Attorney Code. 40387 Case Number: 18 CH 07713 TJSC#: 39-4629 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 07713 I3131662

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION DITECH FINANCIAL LLC Plaintiff, -v.SEAN GAURIGE, HSBC BANK NEVADA, N.A, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR COUNTRYWIDE BANK, N.A Defendants 17 CH 14388 2642 WEST GRAND AVENUE CHICAGO, IL 60612 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on April 2, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on October 28, 2019, 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 2642 WEST GRAND AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60612 Property Index No. 16-12-209-0290000 The real estate is improved with a tan brick, one story 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 twentyfour (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. 264600 Attorney ARDC No. 61256 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 17 CH 14388 TJSC#: 39-2117 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 # 17 CH 14388 I3130696

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION CILICI, LLC Plaintiff, -v.TORAMY CAMPBELL, CAPITAL ONE BANK (USA), N.A., URBAN PARTNERSHIP BANK Defendants 18 CH 09239 1342 NORTH MASSASOIT 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 March 27, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on October 28, 2019, 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 1342 NORTH MASSASOIT, CHICAGO, IL 60651 Property Index No. 16-05-220-0180000 The real estate is improved with a brown brick, two story multi unit 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 twentyfour (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

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