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New and improved West Side mental health facility opens

Austin’s Renaissance Living Room moved into a more spacious facility at 4853 W. Chicago Ave. earlier this month

By IGOR STUDENKOV Contributing Reporter

The Renaissance Living Room, a one-of-a-kind resource where Austin residents who are dealing with a mental health crisis or simply feel overwhelmed can come in to relax and get some help, has officially moved into a larger space at 4853 W. Chicago Ave., where the program can offer longer hours and more resources.

Like the original location at 5244 W. Chicago Ave., it looks more like an apartment than a doctor’s office, with warm lighting, plenty of couches, a bookshelf full of books and zines, plenty of tables and chairs, and even a rocking chair.

The new facility also has a kitchen, a lobby filled with house plants, and rooms where clients can sleep or blow off steam. The project was funded with an $85,000 grant from the Illinois Department of Human Services (DHS), as well as private donations from the Northern Trust Corporation and the Chicago Board Options Exchange. The services are free and open to See LIVING ROOM on page 10

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People stand in front of FBI headquarters during a protest over how police have investigated the death of Treasure Hendrix.

Woman found dead in cop’s RV had sexual relationship with ex-cop Treasure Hendrix was last seen alive by the now-resigned officer, who said he had given money to her in the past

By SARA BADILINI Block Club Chicago

An autopsy report for a woman found dead in a police officer’s RV shows the officer told investigators the two had been in a sexual relationship, and he had given her money in the past.

Treasure Hendrix, 35, was found dead Aug. 19 in an RV trailer in the 1500 block of South Western Avenue, police said. The officer who owns the RV has since resigned from the department, police spokesman Thomas Ahern said.

That officer was the last person to see Hendrix alive, and he was the person who

found her unresponsive the next morning, according to the autopsy report.

The autopsy found Hendrix died of an accidental drug overdose, but her family and friends have raised questions about the investigation and said they’ve gotten few See HENDRIX on page 7

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Equity Editor/Ombudsman/Editor Michael Romain Senior Editor Bob Uphues Digital Publishing & Technology Manager Briana Higgins Contributing Reporter Igor Studenkov Reporting Partners Block Club, Austin Talks Columnist Arlene Jones Staff Photographer Alex Rogals Design/Production Manager Andrew Mead Editorial Design Manager Javier Govea Designer Susan McKelvey Sales & Marketing Representavies Lourdes Nicholls, Marc Stopeck FILEt

The Write Hotel in Oak Park.

Housing nonprofit that serves West Side extends hotel stay

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Housing Forward has extended its lease with the Write Inn Hotel in Oak Park for another year

By STACEY SHERIDAN Wednesday Journal

Crossing Austin Boulevard: This story is part of an ongoing series of articles that Austin Weekly News publishes about issues, events, people, places and things that take place west of Austin Boulevard, but that nonetheless resonate to the east of it, as well.

Housing Forward has extended its lease with the Write Inn Hotel, 211 N. Oak Park Ave., for another year.

The non-profit, which works to transition people experiencing homelessness into stable housing, will continue to use all rooms in the hotel to house clients in its interim housing program, which provides temporary accommodation for those in the program until permanent residences become available. Housing Forward’s service area includes west suburban Chicago, as well as Austin.

“It’s been just a really strong programmatic move for Housing Forward,” said Erik

Johnson, the non-profit’s chief development officer.

Prior to the pandemic, Housing Forward utilized nightly emergency shelters at rotating church locations to house people experiencing homelessness. And for 27 years, that model sufficed, but the highly contagious nature of the COVID-19 virus prompted Housing Forward to part ways with the traditional practice, which made social distancing impossible.

“We knew from following best practices that using empty hotels was a highly effective way to respond to the pandemic,” said Johnson. “What we intuited and what we are finding to be true is the impact of stability.”

Having a consistent place to sleep at night, rather than wondering where to go next for shelter, allows Housing Forward clients to take a breath and plan for next steps with the help and support of the non-profit’s case managers and staff, according to Johnson.

“We’ve had a 70 percent placement rate of those exiting the program going into a more permanent housing situation, which is a huge success,” he said. “And we are finding just the impact of this on other areas of the

individual’s life is equally as strong.”

For its success, Housing Forward was recognized by the Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago with its Community Excellence Award for 2021. The honor was also bestowed upon Dr. Allison Arwady, commissioner of the Chicago Public Health Department.

Housing Forward is paying for its Write Inn lease using COVID-19 relief funds, as was the case last year. The majority of this year’s lease will be paid for using Federal Emergency Management Agency funding and Cook County Coronavirus Relief Funds, according to Johnson.

The Write Inn is not to be confused with an emergency shelter. The 65-room hotel is strictly used for interim housing. Housing Forward has been screening individuals and approving them for permanent housing prior to moving them into the Write Inn. “The goal of the program is to link clients to the support and resources they need to achieve a more permanent housing destination,” said Johnson, who called working with the Write Inn “phenomenal.”

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Protestors call for McDonald’s CEO to be fired for comments

Fast food workers and local families rallied at the West Side McDonald’s where 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams was shot and killed in April to demand the company fire its top executive

By PASCAL SABINO Block Club Chicago

Fast food workers and local families rallied at the West Side McDonald’s where 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams was shot and killed in April to demand the company fire its top executive.

McDonald’s came under fire when a text sent from CEO Chris Kempczinski to Mayor Lori Lightfoot implied the deaths of Jaslyn Adams and 13-year-old Adam Toledo were the fault of bad parenting. Organizers are calling for McDonald’s to replace Kempczinski as well as improve conditions for the company’s workers.

“The CEO of the company, he said a racist comment.

He’s for himself and his corporation. He’s not here for the workers and the kids,” said Lawndale resident Kintrell Hughes.

It was inappropriate for the CEO to blame the family who fell victim to violence, rather than the social conditions like disinvestment and poverty that are at the root of crime in the area, Hughes said.

The messages were especially harmful since McDonald’s markets heavily toward Black and Latino people and profits from those communities where there are countless loyal customers, Hughes said. The debacle exposes a lack of understanding of the circumstances surrounding the violence on the West Side and a deep disconnect between McDonald’s leadership and the communities where they do business, protesters said.

Organizers are demanding a $15 minimum wage for all employees nationwide, a $200 million fund for supporting Chicago’s communities, and for the creation of a committee dedicated to improving work conditions for McDonald’s employees.

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Protesters at the North Lawndale McDonald’s are demanding the CEO of the fast food restaurant be dismissed.

The inflammatory texts were sent after Kempczinski met with the mayor at the company’s headquarters in April, and the messages were recently released through a Freedom of Information Act request.

“With both, the parents failed those kids which I know is something you can’t say. Even harder to fix,” Kempczinski said in the text to the mayor.

Adams was killed while getting a Happy Meal with her father from the drive-thru. Police suspected the shooting may have been gang-related.

Toledo was killed by a Chicago Police officer in March after a foot chase. Initially holding a gun, Toledo dropped the weapon and held up his hands before the officer shot him, a video of the chase showed.

Kempczinski has since apologized for the statements. But community groups including Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, the Movement for Black Lives, the Little Village Community Council and St. Agatha Catholic Church say an apology is not enough.

“We gather together to raise our voices and the voices of our community to challenge those in power at McDonald’s to open their minds and hearts to truly regard their employees with the same or even better regard than their profits,” said Rev. Larry Dowling, PASCAL SABINO/Block Club Chicago pastor at St. Agatha Church.

Mock Happy Meals at the McDonald’s protest criticized the company’s The statement from McDonald’s top execu-

treatment of employees.

tive is just one symptom of deeper issues of racial injustice within the company, the protesters said. McDonald’s has been sued several times in recent years by employees, franchise owners and Black members of the company’s leadership team for racial discrimination.

Those issues, which include low wages, unsafe working conditions and racial discrimination against cooks and cashiers, cannot be fixed with a CEO at the helm who perpetuates racist tropes, the protesters said.

“It’s clear to us that Chris Kempczinski can’t fix McDonald’s problems with race because Chris Kempczinski is himself part of the problem,” the community groups wrote in a statement.

Kempczinski is in no position to criticize struggling parents for the violence they face since “he can’t relate because he is wealthy and we are not,” McDonald’s employee Adriana Sanchez said.

Companies like McDonald’s that pay low wages make it tough for parents to protect their kids since they have to work long hours just to make ends meet, Sanchez said.

“We as parents, we have to work two jobs and leave our children alone sometimes or in the care of other people.

With a salary like this, it’s not enough to support our families,” Sanchez said.

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Cowboy hats are going to be popular

he movies have always had an effect on popular culture. Within the black community, even more so.

I recall when the movie Superfly came out in 1972, how it left an indelible mark on black culture. Men began to perm their hair to look like actor Ron O’Neal in the movie. They began to wear the pimp culture clothing like he wore. They even put phony antennas on the back of their cars pretending they had car phone service.

These lyrics from Curtis Mayfield’s song sums it completely: “Diamond in the back, sunroof top, diggin’ the scene with a gangsta lean.”

The hit movie Black Panther from several years ago gave us a different perspective on various African cultures. Popularly, we took the crossing of the arms across the chest and adopting the phrase “Wakanda Forever” to symbolize Black pride.

So after watching the Netflix movie, The Harder They Fall, I am hoping it, too, translates certain aspects of Black history to a modern-day sense of pride. I have always known that cowboys were Black.

Otherwise, there would have never been a need for the term “cattleman.” But as the term cowboy became the more popular reference, as well as what was portrayed in prior movies, books and television shows, American society white-washed the image in more than one way. So to see that movie in glorious color with all the black faces and cowboy attire was fantastic.

I doubt any of this will serve as spoilers regarding the movie’s plot, but what the movie features is the feel and look of the old spaghetti Westerns that Clint Eastwood starred in in the 1960s and ’70s. The vastness of the Old West, the little towns that dotted what was then called Indian Territory, were beautifully captured. And if one aspect of that movie can become the new norm, I would love to see Black men replace the baseball caps they currently wear with cowboy hats.

Why the hat? Baseball caps to me represent leisure. A cowboy hat says, “I’m grown and I’m serious.” It’s something about the way a man shapes that kind of hat to fit his head, face and personality that I most enjoy.

Cowboy hats are really not a “one hat fits all” kind of accessory. First off, there’s a variety of colors and textures that can be chosen. Then the brims can be narrow to extra wide. There’s more of a sense of pride when a man puts on a hat that he has personally shaped to his liking — from the dip in the middle at the top to the way the brim is angled, curved and shaped. And when you watch the film closely, there is one scene where that hat is more important than anything else.

Christmas is coming and perhaps giving a cowboy hat to the man/men in your life can help to encourage a welcome change in headgear.

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The flyers the Hendrix’s family has been distributing over the last weeks looking for information around the death of Treasure Nicole Hendrix.

HENDRIX

Family wants answers from page 1 updates from police. Posts about the case have been shared widely on social media.

At a Sunday march, Hendrix’s family said there are “too many discrepancies” in an autopsy report that details the circumstances of her death.

Block Club obtained the autopsy report through a Freedom of Information Act request.

In the autopsy report, Hendrix’s fiance — who could not be reached for comment — alleges the former officer who found Hendrix’s body would use drugs with her.

The former officer also told a police investigator he gave money to Hendrix and had previously had a sexual relationship with her, according to the report.

Ahern said “there is an open investigation into the allegations made by” Hendrix’s family.

The officer resigned in August, Ahern said.

Block Club has not named the officer because he has not been charged with a crime. He could not be reached for comment.

The former officer told a detective he met with Hendrix at 2 p.m. Aug. 18 at Parlor Pizza, 108 N. Green St., for food and a few drinks, according to the report. He said she left at 4 p.m. to meet a friend.

But video from the restaurant shows Hendrix and the former officer arriving at 4:03 p.m. and leaving 41 minutes later, according to the report.

The former officer told the investigator Hendrix called him about 9 p.m. the same day, asking to come over, according to the report. He agreed, and Hendrix arrived at his RV about 11 p.m., “visibly drunk and high,” he told the detective, according to the report.

The officer told the investigator he lists his home on Airbnb and sleeps in the RV when it’s occupied. He parks the RV in a lot near the Cinespace campus.

A photo of Hendrix’s car shows it arrived about 9:47 p.m. and did not leave, according to the report.

The former officer told the investigator he let Hendrix sleep in a back bed of the RV while

he slept in another part of the vehicle, according to the report.

He woke up about 8:30 a.m. Aug. 19 and found Hendrix “unresponsive,” according to the report. He told the investigator he performed chest compressions on Hendrix until paramedics arrived, but she was pronounced dead at the scene.

The former officer told the detective he and Hendrix had been friends for several years and would get together occasionally for drinks. He said he had put money into Hendrix’s bank account to help her out.

Hendrix had a history of drinking and using narcotics, the former officer told investigators, and he’d had a sexual relationship with her in the past, according to the report.

Hendrix’s fiance said she did have a history of drug and alcohol use, according to the report. He also told the investigator Hendrix dated the former officer in the past “and was still seeing him recently,” and the two “have a history of doing narcotics together,” according to the report.

Hendrix’s family disputes that she used drugs.

Investigators did not find any signs of drugs in the RV, according to the report. They did see several alcohol bottles on a table.

Hendrix’s family, speaking at the Sunday protest, expressed doubts about the notes in the report. They think it’s unlikely Hendrix would have been able to drive to the former officer’s RV while drunk and high, said her aunt, Tracey Maxey.

“Also, the times don’t add up,” Maxey said.

“It doesn’t make sense to us. We want it to make sense.”

The autopsy found Treasure Hendrix had alcohol, cocaine, fentanyl, meth and MDMA in her system at the time of her death.

Maxey said Hendrix drank but didn’t do hard drugs.

“She also had bruises on her face and swollen lips, like if she hit something or something hit her. … She didn’t do that to herself,” Maxey said.

Hendrix’s family said they are outraged by silence from police and the authorities and are calling on the FBI to investigate.

“We had to become detectives ourselves because nobody told us anything. Nobody ever knocked on my door to tell me that my Treasure had passed,” Maxey said.

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Halloween is typically a time when the West Side sees an uptick in robberies, shootings and crime. But this past Halloween different — just one homicide was reported in Austin on Oct. 31, 15th District Police Commander Andre Parham said earlier this month at a monthly meeting of faith leaders.

Parham credited that low number to the work of groups within the community and police working together by hosting a variety of fall/Halloween events throughout the holiday weekend.

“Don’t think that it’s just the police. It’s a collaboration between the police, faith communities, block clubs, everyone,” Parham said.

Crimes such as homicides are down but carjackings have gone up, a trend that is being seen city-wide.

“More than half of the people arrested for carjacking in Chicago last year were juveniles,” according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

A database created by the Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart’s office showed the majority of carjackings in the city and suburbs have occurred on the West Side.

During the virtual meeting, different lead-

ers expressed the importance of building consistent relationships with youth in the community and providing engaging opportunities to deter violence and crime.

“Our faith base is being challenged to be more engaged in the community. We have to go deeper than events and seasonal activities,” said Pastor Steve Epting of Hope Community Church. “We have to create relationships in our community if we want to see the violence we are seeing reduced.”

“Right now, I think that social media and the way that they glorify some of these carjackings and these incidences … it needs to be talked about, and it needs to be addressed to give them other ideas. Like what opportunities are we giving them?” said youth engagement Officer William Martinez.

Martinez and others shared some of the current and upcoming opportunities for youth.

Chicago West Side Sports, a collaboration between police and community volunteers, is starting sign-ups. GRIP Outreach for Youth’s SLAM program, which is partnering with By the Hand, has seen the number of participants grow from about 30 to nearly 100.

“We have a lot of needs, and we can’t meet them all at one time,” Epting said. “I think that if we stay together and focus and trust and keep our focus in the right place, there will be a definite change in the community.

Not just violence reduction, but people loving each other like they should.”

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LIVING ROOM Expanding from page 1 anyone who walks through the door.

During the grand opening held on Nov. 10, Austin elected officials and healthcare providers touted the Renaissance Living Room as a much-needed resource that they hoped would make the community healthier and help tackle the stigma around getting help with mental health issues.

The facility is currently open every day at 8 a.m. to midnight, but officials with Renaissance Social Services, which operates the Living Room, hope to be able to have it open 24/7. The one stumbling block is that they want to hire from Austin and West Garfield Park, which makes the process even longer than it would already be. Michael Banghart, the nonprofit’s executive director, said that the extra time and effort is worth it.

As before, interested residents can simply walk in or call and text ahead of time. If they want, they can talk to one of the recovery support specialists, typically people who have experienced mental health challenges in the past and are trained to help people in similar situations. They can also speak with an on-call therapist. Clients are not required to be vaccinated, but they do need to wear masks.

Renaissance Social Services, 2501 W. Washington Blvd., originally launched in 1997 to help low-income Chicagoans keep their homes. The nonprofit has since expanded into other services, including providing physical and mental health resources. Banghart previously said that they decided to open the Living Room in Austin because “a significant cluster” of their clients lived on the West Side and their research showed that Austin and West Garfield Park “had

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(Left to right): WHA property manager Rosie Dawson, Ald. Emma Mitts, state Rep. La Shawn Ford, Renaissance Social Services Director Michael Banghart, WHA CEO Morris Reed, an unidentified community member and Renaissance Living Room Team Lead Loren Phillips. mental health needs, but not many mental health resources.”

The space at 5244 W. Chicago Ave., which it leased from the Westside Health Authority (WHA), was always meant to be temporary, until they found something larger. Rosie Dawson, WHA’s property manager, said that she thought that the then-vacant building at 4835 W. Chicago Avenue, a block west of her organizations’ health services building at 4800 W. Chicago Ave., would be a good fit for the Living Room and had WHA purchase it and lease it to the organization.

The state grant paid for the cost of renovating the space, and it will continue to cover staff salaries and other expens-

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es until next summer. Banghart said that it will continue to receive annual funding from DHS going forward.

While the move was supposed to be completed in August, the city took longer to issue permits than expected. Dawson said that they tried to hire locally, giving an example of a bricklayer who “fell on hard times” and came looking for a job. They had a soft opening on Nov. 6.

Loren Phillips, the team lead for the Living Room, said that the new facility has a room where clients can nap and soundproof room for clients who either want a quiet space or a place to blow off steam without disturbing anyone else.

Since many clients come in from the street hungry, the Living Room has a kitchen. A lobby area by the door is used to screen clients who may need a “higher level of support” than the Living Room can provide. Officials will soon install a vending machine in the facility that will dispense Narcan, which reverses opioid overdoses.

“There are a lot of folks standing on the corner and I’m sure Renaissance can help them, because they’ve been standing there for a long time,” said Ald. Emma Mitts (37th), whose ward includes the location of the new Living Room facility. “We shouldn’t look at people as if they’re not a person.

Everybody is a somebody.”

State Rep. La Shawn Ford (8th) said the new facility is “renewing the way we see mental health. I don’t know anyone here who can’t use [a visit to the Living Room].”

Morris Reed, WHA’s CEO, said that the Living Room would complement the Austin Health Center and other services at 4800 W. Chicago Ave. “You’re going to see a renewed spirit in the air,” Reed said.

“We have faith that our community will change. We will be better and we will all prosper.”

For more information about the Renaissance Living Room, visit renaissancelivingroom.org.

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Screenshot of a mock ComEd energy bill on the utility’s website.

The state is taking applications for assistance through May 31, 2022

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) announced on Nov. 10 that the state’s utility relief program for low-income families is now open for applications.

The agency will distribute over $295 million in utility assistance programming through Gov. Pritzker’s Help Illinois Families program, state officials explained in a statement. The program is accepting applications now through May 31, 2022, while the funds remain, they said.

Households earning 200% the federal poverty level or below are eligible. To apply or to get more information about the program, residents can also call the hotline service providing real-time assistance in over 30 languages at 1-833-711-0374.

“Since the program first launched in September, over $84 million in payments have been approved for 77,000 households through the Low-income Household Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP),” officials said.

“Today, more than $200 million remains available to help cover the cost of heating and energy bills, including expanded benefits provided this year from $750 to $1,000 in

payments available, on average per household, allowing more assistance to Illinois families for utilities this season than ever before.”

State officials said the Energy Information Association (EIA) has estimated that nearly half of all U.S. households are expected to face higher heating costs this winter.

“While everyday household costs are increasing, we want Illinois families to know that help is available and that they don’t have to struggle alone,” said DCEO Deputy Director David Wortman.

State officials and representatives with the Citizens Utility Board (CUB) recommend residents take advantage of utility assistance while the funding remains available and to avoid delaying payments on bills while the annual shut-off moratorium is in effect from Dec. 1 through March 31.

The state and CUB are planning two virtual informational events in English and Spanish that are designed to help residents apply for the state utility relief funding.

During the pandemic, Gov. Pritzker’s Administration has made historic levels of assistance available for Illinois consumers struggling to afford their electric and natural gas bills, and it’s our mission to get the word out,” said CUB Executive Director David Kolata. “It’s in everyone’s best interest to keep seniors and families safe and connected to the utility service we all need.”

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A mural designed to heal divides unveiled on North Ave. On Nov. 13, the North Avenue District’s North Art Bridge mural series launched with unveiling at Code Ninjas in Oak Park

By IGOR STUDENKOV Contributing Reporter

Crossing Austin Boulevard: This story is part of an ongoing series of articles that Austin Weekly News publishes about issues, events, people, places and things that take place west of Austin Boulevard, but that nonetheless resonate to the east of it, as well.

Oak Parkers and Galewood residents gathered at Code Ninjas, 7119 W. North Ave. in Oak Park, on Nov. 13, to mark the unveiling of the first of what they hope will be a series of window and wall murals designed to help bridge the divide between the communities.

The mural series is spearheaded by The North Avenue District, an organization that aims to revitalize the North Avenue commercial corridor between Harlem Avenue and Austin Boulevard on both Oak Park and Chicago sides.

Judith Alexander, the organization’s chairwoman, said that busy traffic and a shortage of good pedestrian crossings hinders the ability of residents of the two communities to patronize each others’ businesses. She hopes the mural series helps change that reality.

The Code Ninjas mural was painted by young people who attend St. Giles Catholic Parish school, which is located in Oak Park, but serves Galewood, as well.

Alexander said getting more people from both sides to cross North Avenue is a major component of her organization’s vision.

“We really want to turn North Avenue from a barrier to a JUDITH ALEXANDER bridge,” she said.

The North Avenue District “North Avenue is Chairwoman difficult to cross — physically and literally. [During the 2018 Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning North Avenue Revitalization and Mobility Plan study], I think about 30 percent of people said that they don’t cross North Avenue. And some of the business owners told me, ‘I sure wish I could get people from the other side.’”

But art alone won’t surmount the physical barriers to access along the busy corridor. Alexander said her organization is also pushing for better crosswalks, sidewalk improvements, more landscaping and traffic calming measures.

The murals, she said, will help with cultural revitalization in the area. Alexander cited Wicker Park and Pilsen as examples

“We really want to turn North Avenue from a barrier to a bridge.”

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Young students who helped create the mural at Code Ninjas stand in front of their work of art on Nov. 13. of communities where street art has played roles in community revitalization.

Alexander’s organization was instrumental in the Oak Park Area Arts Council’s 2018 installation of a mural on the west wall of the Wonder Works Children’s Museum on the Oak Park side of the corridor, at 6445 W. North Ave. She said the new mural installed outside of Code Ninjas is ideally located at the intersection of North and Harlem avenues, where Oak Park, Chicago, River Forest and Elmwood Park converge.

“It’s a wonderful location, on the corner of North and Harlem, so it’s kind of an entryway to our district,” she said. “And the murals will be facing North Avenue and they’re large and colorful, so they’ll be a wonderful welcome.”

Chris Kvapil, who runs the Code Ninjas location in Oak Park, as well as two other locations in the Chicago area, said the organization’s involvement with the mural project is a natural extension of its mission.

“With what made us successful, this was

an opportunity to build bridges with our community,” he said.

The mural’s design was inspired by Black British artist Lakwena Maciver, who paints murals that employ bright colors, eye-catching geometric patterns and phrases of affirmation.

Jocelyne Adkins, the program director for

By Discovery, which provides after school arts programming to Oak Park elementary school students, said the students who painted the mural looked to Maciver’s work when thinking of their own patterns.

“Their dedication to their task never wavered,” Adkins said. “Nor did their ability to enjoy the process.”

Connor Yaffe, 8, of Oak Park, said the mural project “was really fun,” echoing the thoughts of 11-year-old Emma Hartweg, of Galewood.

“It was really fun and cool that something that I helped make is going to be shown to a lot of people,” Hartweg said.

Senate President Don Harmon (39th) said the mural project made him reminiscene on

his own days as a student at St. Giles, when he and his classmates painted the windows of what is now Buona Beef, 7025 W. North Ave. “This is a proud tradition for St. Giles students to paint windows on North Avenue,” Harmon said.

“This is what we need in our community,” said state Rep. Camille Lilly (78th). “I’m very excited about the energy that’s bringing together the local businesses, the government and the residents to the benefit of North Avenue.”

Alexander said that, in the future, more North Art Bridge project murals will be painted by professional artists and local students.

She said her organization hopes to have a mural painted by students from Galewood’s Sayre Language Academy, 1850 N. Newland Ave., and Oak Park’s Mann Elementary School, 921 N. Kenilworth Ave. She said the only thing standing in their way are the funds.

“There are various public sources of grant funding in Chicago and Oak Park and we’ll also be looking for donations,” she said.

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Marketing the free market

ast month, I took a trip to the Oak Park Avenue office of Oak Park Township Assessor Ali ElSaffar to talk about property tax assessments. I wanted his opinion about why the Vantage Oak Park Apartments at 150 Forest Ave. were assessed at $90 million by Oak Parker and Cook County Township Assessor Fritz Kaegi and, after the owners appealed, nearly half that by the Cook County Board of Review.

The conversation, however, veered into much deeper territory. In a nutshell, ElSaffar said, the differences may come down to appraisals and which factors appraisers are prioritizing in the process of making their valuations. Appraisals are called opinions of value for a reason, he said.

ElSaffar has personal experience with how perceptions of value can affect the price of property. He said things like racial and class bias can play critical parts in how “the market” determines worth.

“It’s sort of funny living on Austin Boulevard and talking about this,” he said. “I see it. I’ve had people who are afraid to come to my house. It’s like, ‘Oh, come on.’ But it happens. So, yes, that influences market values.”

The conversation with ElSaffar prompted me to revisit an essay I’d read years ago by the historian David M.P. Freund. In “Marketing the Free Market: State Intervention and the Politics of Prosperity in Metropolitan America,” Freund punctures one of the most potent myths in the American dreamscape — one best articulated by former Fox commentator Bill O’Reilly on the night Barack Obama was re-elected president.

“The white establishment is now the minority,” a shell-shocked O’Reilly said.

“And the voters, many of them, feel that the economic system is stacked against them and they want stuff. You are going to see a tremendous Hispanic vote for President Obama. Overwhelming black vote for President Obama. And women will probably break President Obama’s way. People feel that they are entitled to things and which candidate between the two is going to give them things?”

This was said by a man who was born and raised in public housing — Levittown, New York, which, as comedian Jon Stewart reminded O’Reilly in 2014, gave the Fox host a stable home that required no down payments, was subsidized by the federal government and exclusive to whites.

According to a Washington Post article that quotes from Marvin Kitman’s biography of O’Reilly, “all a prospective buyer needed to buy one of the original Levitt ‘ranch’ houses, sales prices at $7,990, was a $90 deposit and payments of $58 a month.’”

This denialism isn’t unique to O’Reilly or conservatives. The denialism is bipartisan, affecting whites (and more than a few Blacks) across ideological lines. Freund writes that the myth about the race-neutral free market is popular in America, partly because the federal government itself has conspired to propagate it.

“In addition to creating wealth for some while helping to marginalize others, federal intervention also helped create and popularize a unique postwar political narrative that obscured the origins of race and class inequality in the modern metropolis,” the historian explains.

“Paradoxically, the state helped popularize the myth that its policies did not facilitate suburban growth and did not contribute to new metropolitan patterns of inequality. Instead it insisted that ‘free market’ forces, alone, were responsible for the gulf — economic and increasingly, spatial — that separate the nation’s haves from its have-nots.”

Freund writes it’s well known (at least among historians) that the new federal credit programs created in the 1930s, particularly programs operated by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), made “homeownership affordable for most white people after World War II.” Take a look at the FHA’s underwriting manuals from the 1930s and 1940s. Up until the 1950s, the FHA endorsed racerestrictive covenants in mortgages, which essentially prohibited whites from selling or leasing their homes to non-whites.

MICHAEL ROMAIN

RESTRICTIVE: Shots of Levittown, New York, (above and below left) an early suburban, post-war development that excluded black homeowners. Up until the 1960s, the FHA explicitly endorsed race-restrictive covenants in mortgages.

After the 1950s, explicit racial restrictions were removed from underwriting manuals, but the agency still actively supported racial discrimination in housing “well into the 1960s and thus excluded most racial minorities from the robust new market for homeownership,” Freund writes.

Despite the government’s blatant racebased social engineering, which propped up the whites-only private market for homes, most New Dealers were trying “to convince business groups and fiscally conservative congressmen — and, perhaps, even themselves — that the government’s unprecedented interventions in the U.S. economy were not cutting a path toward ‘state control’ of private enterprise.”

The government used language like “free market for homes” in various FHA promotional campaigns, even describing the agency as “a helper only” in one pamphlet.

One of the FHA’s most visible PR efforts targeting consumers and businessmen in towns across America was its “Better-Housing Campaign,” which started in 1934.

Freund describes the campaign as a multimillion-dollar effort to stimulate both home improvement and new home construction by educating people on federal insurance opportunities, as well as on the myth that the revival in the housing market “was being driven solely by the forces of supply and demand.”

In other cases, Freund explains, the government’s impact was less direct, with whites reproducing FHA talking points in their conversations about protecting their suburban communities.

“Residents read local news coverage

describing the postwar housing boom as the fruit of free enterprise and describing public housing as an unwarranted strain on the market, no doubt unaware that these columns often originated as industry or government-produced press releases.”

The effect, over decades of aggressively marketing this lie, was the intellectual basis among white businesspeople and consumers for “what seemed a sensible and specifically nonracial defense of racial exclusion. Indeed, FHA officials were among the first to invoke the free market narrative specifically for this purpose when challenged by civil rights activists to abandon the agency’s discriminatory practices.

“Indignant at the charge that federal programs were discriminating by race, housing officials countered that they were merely respecting the demands of the free market for property,” Freund explains.

Following the FHA’s lead, white suburbanites, blind to how their own advantages came at the expense of minorities, took to defending racial exclusion and all kinds of obviously egregious racially disparate outcomes “solely by citing market imperatives” and supposedly empirical economic principles.

I don’t think O’Reilly was merely hypocritical when he denounced all of those non-white “takers” in 2012. I think like a lot of whites, the freedom-loving, marketworshipping former Fox talking head had been genuinely fooled by government propaganda.

How’s that for irony?

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The film studio where “Chicago Fire,” “Chicago PD,” “Chicago Med” and “The Chi” are filmed is being sold for $1.1 billion — and will stay in Chicago, according to published reports.

Cinespace Chicago Film Studios’ sprawling 60-acre campus is located on the West Side, with the main studios at 2621 W. 15th Place in North Lawndale. The studio has about 33 sound stages and recently announced it will add up to 19 more soundstages to its campus.

TPG Real Estate, a Texas- and Californiabased firm, bought the Chicago studio along with Cinespace Toronto for an estimated $1.1 billion, Deadline reports. Eoin Egan, who formerly worked as head of production services at Netflix, will be named Cinespace’s new COO, according to Deadline.

The acquisition is expected to accelerate the growth of Chicago’s thriving film industry and bring more production jobs to the area, said Avi Banyasz, co-head of TPG Real Estate.

“Consumer appetite for original content… has accelerated through the pandemic, leading to a dramatic increase in the demand to produce new films and television and in turn, a surge in the need for studio space,” Bantasz said.

The deal will also expand Cinespace’s social impact work in Chicago by growing the CineCares Foundation, the film studio’s nonprofit wing. CineCares creates pathways into the film industry for young people on the South and West Sides through job training, education and internships at Cinespace.

“Community has always been core to who we are,” said Alex Pissios, CEO of Cinespace. “TPG’s investment will expand these efforts and provide more jobs for Illinois.”

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“Chicago has a compelling, beautiful cityscape with so much potential. …I am thrilled to see this acquisition expand our capability for content creation,” Lightfoot said.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION REPUBLIC BANK OF CHICAGO Plaintiff, vs.

C O N S TA N T I N E C. PAVLOPOULOS; CHICAGO TITLE LAND TRUST COMPANY, as Successor Trustee to Bridgeview Bank Group, as Successor Trustee to Uptown National Bank of Chicago, as Trustee under a trust agreement dated August 7, 2000 and known as Trust No. 00-114; OLD NATIONAL BANK, as successor in interest to the FDIC as receiver for Integra Bank, as successor in interest by merger with Prairie Bank and Trust Company; CHARLES PAVLOPOULOS; CITY OF CHICAGO; UNKNOWN BENEFICIARIES, UNKNOWN OWNERS and NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants, 20 CH 3908 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Monday, December 13, 2021 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: Commonly known as 2404 W. Flournoy St., Chicago, IL 60612.

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Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

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

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

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION NEWREZ LLC D/B/A SHELLPOINT MORTGAGE SERVICING Plaintiff, -v.MARIA GLIBKA A/K/A MARIA GLIBCA, PETRO GLIBKA, ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, CITY OF CHICAGO, CAVALRY PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 19 CH 06878 1912 SOUTH HOMAN AVENUE CHICAGO, IL 60623 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 29, 2020, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on December 10, 2021, 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 1912 SOUTH HOMAN AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60623 Property Index No. 16-23-418-0380000

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE 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.

MCCALLA RAYMER LEIBERT PIERCE, LLC Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200, Chicago, IL, 60602. Tel No. (312) 346-9088.

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

MCCALLA RAYMER LEIBERT PIERCE, LLC One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200 Chicago IL, 60602 312-346-9088 E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com Attorney File No. 20-04777IL_613818 Attorney ARDC No. 61256 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 19 CH 06878 TJSC#: 41-2274 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Case # 19 CH 06878 I3180828 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION TVC FUNDING IV, LLC; Plaintiff, vs.

DAVID C. HALL; OLIVER MONTGOMERY INVESTMENT, LLC; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 20 CH 5380 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, December 14, 2021 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. 16-04-428-001-0000.

Commonly known as 4857 West Iowa Street, Chicago, Illinois 60651.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call The Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Anselmo Lindberg & Associates, LLC, 1771 West Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois 60563-1890.

(630) 453-6960. F20070020 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION intercountyjudicialsales.com I3180192 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 REGISTERED HOLDERS OF CWABS, INC., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-13 Plaintiff, -v.LORENA C. EVANS, HENRY EVANS, HOUSEHOLD FINANCE CORPORATION III, CITY OF CHICAGO, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 2018CH12500 4336 W CULLERTON ST CHICAGO, IL 60623 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on June 1, 2021, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on December 9, 2021, 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 4336 W CULLERTON ST, CHICAGO, IL 60623 Property Index No. 16-22-414-0090000 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 real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

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

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

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

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE 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. 14-18-10730 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2018CH12500 TJSC#: 41-2204 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 # 2018CH12500 I3180525 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION DITECH FINANCIAL LLC Plaintiff, -v.ROBERT A SMIGLA A/K/A ROBERT SMIGLA, CATHERINE M. TESTOLIN A/K/A CATHERINE TESTOLIN, BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., DAILY NEWS CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, DAILY NEWS TOWNHOUSE ASSOCIATION Defendants 19 CH 11114 1246 WEST COTTAGE PLACE CHICAGO, IL 60607 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on February 13, 2020, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on December 8, 2021, 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 1246 WEST COTTAGE PLACE, CHICAGO, IL 60607 Property Index No. 17-17-113-0800000 The real estate is improved with a white stone, two story townhouse, attached one 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

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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

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

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

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

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

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

MCCALLA RAYMER LEIBERT PIERCE, LLC Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200, Chicago, IL, 60602. Tel No. (312) 346-9088.

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

MCCALLA RAYMER LEIBERT PIERCE, LLC One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200 Chicago IL, 60602 312-346-9088 E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com Attorney File No. 20-04660IL_614010 Attorney ARDC No. 61256 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 19 CH 11114 TJSC#: 41-2226 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Case # 19 CH 11114 I3180500

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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 REGISTERED HOLDERS OF CWABS, INC., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-3 Plaintiff, -v.BARBARA PURCHES, CITY OF CHICAGO, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 2018CH06975 1433 NORTH LOTUS AVENUE CHICAGO, IL 60651 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on June 14, 2021, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on December 8, 2021, 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 1433 NORTH LOTUS AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60651 Property Index No. 16-04-111-0080000 The real estate is improved with a residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

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

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

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

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

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

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

For information, examine the court file, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL, 60527 (630) 794-9876 THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE IL, 60527 630-794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-18-02829 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2018CH06975 TJSC#: 41-2046 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 # 2018CH06975 I3180401

UNIT 2 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 March 29, 2021, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on December 14, 2021, 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 2442 WEST HARRISON STREET UNIT 2, CHICAGO, IL 60612 Property Index No. 16-13-234-0691006 The real estate is improved with a condo/townhouse.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

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

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

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

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

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

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

For information, examine the court file, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL, 60527 (630) 794-9876 THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100

BURR RIDGE IL, 60527 630-794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-19-02294 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2019CH03543 TJSC#: 41-2239 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call Mr. Matthew C. Abad at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Kluever Law Group, 225 West Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois 60606.

(312) 236-0077. SPS000604-20FC1 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION intercountyjudicialsales.com I3179612

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. 14-20-04752 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2020CH05934 TJSC#: 41-2582 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 # 2020CH05934 I3181115

dential 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, JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125, Chicago, IL, 60606 (312) 541-9710. Please refer to file number 20 8120.

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

JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125 Chicago IL, 60606 312-541-9710 E-Mail: ilpleadings@johnsonblumberg.com Attorney File No. 20 8120 Attorney Code. 40342 Case Number: 2020 CH 05335 TJSC#: 41-2470 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 # 2020 CH 05335 I3181221

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION LONG TERM CAPITAL PARTNERSHIP V, LLC; Plaintiff, vs.

HELEN SAXON AKA HELEN R. SAXON; CITY OF CHICAGO; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 21 CH 1640 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, December 7, 2021 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. 16-09-304-022-0000.

Commonly known as 328 North Lockwood Avenue, Chicago Illinois 60644.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call The Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Anselmo Lindberg & Associates, LLC, 1771 West Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois 60563-1890.

(630) 453-6960. F21020011 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION intercountyjudicialsales.com I3179610 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR BEAR STEARNS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES I TRUST 2006-AC3, ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-AC3 Plaintiff, -v.MARITZA DE ARCOS, 2440-48 WEST HARRISON CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF ROLANDO DE ARCOS, DAMON RITENHOUSE, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR ROLANDO DE ARCOS (DECEASED) Defendants 2019CH03543 2442 WEST HARRISON STREET

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR SOUNDVIEW HOME LOAN TRUST 2006-WF2, ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-WF2 Plaintiff, vs.

GEORGIA L. SNOW Defendants, 17 CH 11966 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, December 7, 2021 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. 16-04-319-042-0000.

Commonly known as 5444 West Iowa Street, Chicago, IL 60651.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (614) 220-5611. 17-029095 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION intercountyjudicialsales.com I3179576 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION US BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR GIFM HOLDINGS TRUST; Plaintiff, vs.

ELISA ARELLANO; MOISES AGUILERA; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICA’S WHOLESALE LENDER; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE; UNKNOWN OWNERS GENERALLY AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 20 CH 7273 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, December 7, 2021 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. 16-26-308-041-0000.

Commonly known as 2750 South Harding Avenue, Chicago, IL 60623.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR MFRA TRUST 2016-1 Plaintiff, -v.PROPERTY PROSPECTS LLC, VASILYEV VALERY A/K/A VALERY VASILYEV, 2637 W CRYSTAL CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION Defendants 2020CH05934 2637 W. CRYSTAL STREET, UNIT 1 CHICAGO, IL 60622 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on October 19, 2021, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on December 28, 2021, 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 2637 W. CRYSTAL STREET, UNIT 1, CHICAGO, IL 60622 Property Index No. 16-01-231-0601001 The real estate is improved with a commercial property.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

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

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

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

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION AJAX E MASTER TRUST I, A DELAWARE TRUST, WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, TRUSTEE Plaintiff, -v.FRANKLIN BROWN, CITY OF CHICAGO, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, STATE OF ILLINOIS, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 2020 CH 05335 4345 W. Lexington Street CHICAGO, IL 60624 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on March 15, 2021, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on December 17, 2021, 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 4345 W. Lexington Street, CHICAGO, IL 60624 Property Index No. 16-15-402-0060000 (VOL. 563) The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $156,458.11.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the resi-

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