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The Big Pay Back

By Maze Jackson Defender Political Editor

There is an old political saying that goes, “Good politics equals good government, and good government equals good politics.” Politics defined is the interrelationships between the people, groups and organizations in a particular area of life insofar as they involve power and influence or conflict. Taking that definition of politics into account is important in providing context for understanding how and why people are chosen or appointed to positions of power in government at all levels. Politics is the process that transforms a citizen into an elected official, which then gives the elected official the ability to govern. So politics, by its very nature is transactional—whether Democrat or Republican.

In Illinois, the transactional nature of pol-

itics has often come under scrutiny, not only from local watchdogs and media outlets, but also by the federal government. Long known as the corruption capital of the nation, the underbelly of transactional politics in Illinois have been in the national spotlight.

Illinois governors Ryan and Blagojevich were sentenced to federal prison for what had previously been known as political horse trading. While they are two of the more egregious examples, transactional politics continues. To the victor goes the spoils, and part of those spoils include key cabinet, board, agency appointments, and jobs that are known as “exempt positions,” which are all generally reserved for the winner’s supporters. The level of those appointments are generally based on what the appointee was able to provide the politician during the campaign, with the top spots often going to high level political donors,

business leaders, and campaign volunteers.

Generally, the appointees are expected to advance the agenda of the elected official that appoints them. In this article we will examine some of the most recent appointments of Illinois Republican Governor Bruce Rauner, why they were appointed, what the appointment means, but most importantly, what it means to the Black constituency that they represent.

Rauner Appointments When candidate Bruce Rauner threw his hat in the ring to be the governor of Illinois, he knew he faced an uphill battle, particularly because of the Democratic dominance in Cook County. That dominance is widely credited to the Black community. Blacks vote for Democrats more than 90 percent of the time in one of the largest counties in the nation. While recent Illinois Republicans have avoided the The Big Pay Back , Page 12

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National News

The President Visits Ethiopia News Feed Chicago Defender ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — President Obama pressed the government of Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn on Monday to ease restrictions on free speech, the press and political opposition in the impoverished East African nation.

“When all voices are being heard, when people know they are being included in the political process, that makes a country more successful,” Obama said at a joint news conference with Desalegn.

Later Monday, Obama and representatives from the 54-nation African Union, headquartered here, met to discuss terrorism, human rights and regional security issues.

The White House said most of the discussion focused on neighboring South Sudan, which has been embroiled in a bloody civil war since December 2013. Before the meeting, Obama said that “conditions on the ground (in South Sudan) are getting much, much worse.”

South Sudan, which became a nation in July 2011, has until Aug. 17 to accept a peace and power-sharing agreement between warring government factions. Most of the discussion Monday focused on how to get an agreement next month, and some participants talked about sanctions or military intervention if the warring parties fail to settle their differences, the White House said.

Obama’s visit to Ethiopia is a first by a sitting U.S. president, and the second country on a two-stop tour that began in neighboring Kenya, the nation where his late father was born.

Around this capital city, security was tight, with roadblocks on major thoroughfares and residents — as in Kenya — ordered to stay home and out of the downtown area. Even so, residents came out in force, hoping to take photos of Obama as he drove by.

“I’m heading to town on foot to try my luck if I can see President Obama passing,” said Aluka Kemal, 35, a businessman who lives in the neighborhood of Gulele.

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Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn walks and talks with President Obama in Addis Abab, Ethiopia during the President’s historic trip. waving both American and Ethiopian flags. Some held posters of Obama, chanted his name and sang songs.

Ethiopia’s economy has been growing by nearly 10% annually in recent years but remains one of Africa’s poorest nations, with unemployment around 17%. It is the second-most populous country in Africa, after Nigeria, and faces a threat from al-Shabab militants based in neighboring Somalia. Ethiopia has taken part in regional military operations against the group.

In a dramatic illustration of democracy in action, Barack Obama on Tuesday told the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia that he would love to remain president for a third term, but is unfortunately barred by the U.S. Constitution, according to CNN.The president gently urged the Ethiopian government towards democracy after a long era of rule

by monarchy and autocracy, twice calling the government of Ethiopia “democratically elected.”

SIDE NOTES From CNN: “I think if I ran again I could win.

But I can’t!” Obama said.

Obama’s quip came during a speech to the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the first address to the group by a U.S. president.

The loudest applause line came when Obama said he didn’t understand the motivation behind remaining in power through force — even when leaders have “got a lot of money.”

Two months ago, an election handed every seat in Parliament to the governing party and its allies, according to The New York Times. Human rights groups wanted Obama to denounce what they called “a sham election.”

He is the first sitting U.S. president to visit Ethiopia, a fast-growing economy, which was once defined by poverty and famine.

From The New York Times: Although human rights groups had called on Mr. Obama to use his visit to press for change, the president took a mild tone in his public remarks.

He gently urged the Ethiopian government to make room for opposition, while stressing his respect for the country and its challenges in emerging from a long era of monarchy and autocracy.

“We are very mindful of Ethiopia’s history, the hardships that this country has gone through,” Mr. Obama said at a joint news conference with Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn. “It has been relatively recently in which the Constitution

that was formed, and elections put forward a democratically elected government.” He added that “there is still more work to do, and I think the prime minister is the first to acknowledge that there is more work to do.”

The elections in May were condemned by human rights groups as a sham. The government made it hard for opposition candidates to register, raise money and mobilize supporters, according to watchdog groups.

Peaceful protesters were denied permits, harassed and in some cases arrested. News organizations were shut down and reporters harassed, threatened or arrested.

Between addressing democracy in Ethiopia and stating that he would win a third election in the U.S., it looks like Obama isn’t pulling any punches in his last days in office.

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LOCAL NEWS

Another Strike Against Chicago Rapper Chief Keef

By Elan Edwards Contributing Writer Not the most popular of rappers, amongst officials so when Rapper Chief Keef appeared — via hologram — at a Hammond music festival Saturday night, his performance was shut down by police within minutes.

Unfortunately his reputation precedes itself and it’s tainted by the violence that is associated with his concerts and the most recent incident ending in a 18 month old toddler’s death hasn’t helped his image.

The concert, planned as a benefit for the toddler Dillan Harris and a friend of the rapper’s who were killed earlier this month, was originally scheduled to take place last week at Pilsen’s Redmoon Theater however the Mayor made sure that it didn’t happen with a little help from south side Father Pfleger. Both indicated that the show “posed a significant public safety risk,” causing the theater management to rethink the agreement with Keef and the relinquished their agreement. Thus the event was canceled.

But Chief Keef, a Chicago native whose real name is Keith Cozart, determined not to be stopped planned a show at an undisclosed location, originally thought to be in Chicago.

That turned out to be Craze Fest, a day-long hip-hop festival at Wolf Lake Pavilion in Hammond, Ind. About 2,000 people attended the event, which featured rappers Lil Bibby, Jacqueese, Tink and Riff Raff, organizers said.

Chief Keef partnered with Los Angeles-based Hologram USA to beam his performance to Indiana from a soundstage in Beverly Hills, Calif. The rapper, who has had various legal troubles in Illinois, opted not to return to the Midwest, citing several outstanding warrants.

Organizers encouraged fans to donate $50 to benefit the families of 13-month-old Dillan Harris and Marvin Carr, 22, who were killed July 11. Dillan was killed in the Woodlawn neighborhood by a vehicle fleeing the scene of a shooting that killed Carr, a rapper who went by the name Capo and was an associate of Chief Keef.

To the events detriment there was not much detailed information about where Saturday’s show would actually take place .

On Saturday afternoon, Chief Keef

posted, then quickly removed, an Instagram photo of Wolf Lake Pavilion, encouraging fans to buy tickets.

Later, tweeted that the show would take place at Lincoln Hall in Lincoln Park.

Lincoln Hall representatives had no record of Chief Keef performing at their venue since Rock band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah was already booked to play the venue.

About 9 p.m., Chief Keef’s spokesman, Owen Phillips, confirmed the hologram performance would take place in Hammond. It was also streamed live on filmon.tv.

Chief Keef played one song, his hit “I Don’t Like,” and was talking about putting a stop to violence when the power was cut off.

Police bum rushed toward the stage, turning the music off about 10:25 p.m. Shining flashlights, they ordered concert-goers to leave.

Fans who gathered Saturday left the grounds in an orderly fashion, though disappointed.

Sisters Asherah and Stefanae Coleman, of Chicago, stood on the corner of Sheffield and Calumet avenues waiting for their mom to pick them up early. They were furious at the decision to cut the concert short.

“They shut down a hologram and told us we had to leave. (Chief Keef) wasn’t even here,” said Asherah Coleman, 18.

“We’re in two different time zones.”

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Both sisters said the 6 1/2hour concert was without incident, and people were having a good time. Then, just as the hologram of Chief Keef was finishing the song “I Don’t Like,” Stefanae said the music was turned down, the screen went black and Hammond police officers holding flashlights ushered people off the stage.

“There was no violence. It was the police who did this,” said Stefanae, 17. “Everyone was happy. … We went through the whole show without any problems.

“They just waited for Chief Keef, and that’s what irks me.

(The police) do this, then they get mad that we’re mad. It’s disrespectful to us.”

“Whoever paid the $80 for the VIP tickets got burned,” Asherah Coleman added. “I’m still confused.”

Hammond police Cmdr.

Pat Vicari said the promoters were warned the concert would be shut down if Chief Keef performed.

“We spoke to the promoter several times, and they assured us (Chief Keef) would not be performing,” Vicari said. “Later, an officer working the show realized it was being streamed on one of the hip-hop sites, and promoters were warned again they would be shut down.”

It doesn’t matter that the police warned them. Chief Keef

is a citizen in America last we heard.

Rock Concerts end in violence as well and concerts s are not prohibited from going on. And there was no guarantee that Chief Keef’s performance would have incited violence.

Apparently it did not. If he says he wants to send the message out to end violence, then let him. Who better than him? The youth like him.

They listen to him.

Taking his lead from Rahm Emanuel, Hammond’s mayor stood to forbid the performance.

“All I’d heard was he has a lot of songs about gangs and shooting people — a history that’s anti-cop, pro-gang and pro-drug use,” Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. told the New York Times. “He’s been basically outlawed in Chicago, and we’re not going to let you circumvent Mayor Emanuel by going next door.”

The government is out of its purview here. As a public, such tactics have to be carefully watched.

The taking of citizens rights into its hands without proper reference to legal stature is a dangerous road to go down. Nazi’s deemed Jews to be subversive and began by denying them rights and destroying their art, books, music and outlawed it so that others could not be influenced.

Americans have the right to choose what they want

to listen to, dance to read, write or view. It is not police or government business.

This sort of over policing or authoritative zealous oppressive behavior is a problem. It is actually very fascist behavior. It is understood that they mean well but there has to be a better way. As shared by some of the attendees, the police’s behavior perpetrates poor relations between them and the people So the police had the audacity to report that there were no arrests, citations or incidents.

Hologram USA CEO Alki David expressed anger that the concert was shut down so abruptly.

“Shame on the mayor and police chief of Hammond for shutting down a voice that can create positive change in a community in desperate need. And for taking away money that could have gone to help the victims’ families,” David said in a statement. “This was a legal event and there was no justification to shut it down besides your glaring disregard for the first amendment right to free speech.

There is truth in what Alki David said, “Mark my words if you censor us you only make us stronger.” He’s threatening to sue.

Nick Watts, co-CEO of festival organizer Craze Productions, said despite the violent themes in some Chief Keef songs, young people listen to him.

When police shut down the show, “(Chief Keef) said, ‘stop the violence,’ ” said Watts, 21.

“It’s not about necessarily the lyrics in Chief Keef’s songs. He’s who the young people want to see. He’s who they listen to,” said Watts, expressing disappointment the fundraiser was derailed.

“We just really want to make sure we got the message out that we’re stopping the violence and we’re partying in peace,” he said.

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FAITH

Reverend Derrick B. Wells: Continuing the Legacy of Christ Universal Temple

By Mary Datcher

urged to find that voice,” he said. “My aunt attended Christ Universal Temple at the time so I called her and said ‘Will you come and get me? I’d like to go to The city of Chicago has hiccuped church with you’. She did and the rest some the world’s leading Black-owned is history.” companies that made an impact on the At the time, Wells admits that he business world. Many decades after was still “unchurched,” but the experithe Great Migration of Black southernence of hearing Rev. Colemon’s teachers, the dedication to our faith carried ings helped him when he joined the over state lines and created a northern Navy. He found his connection. bible belt revival of churches taking ref“I just had not heard certain words uge in cities such as Chicago. or certain concepts like conscious From A.M.E., Apostolic and Baptist, mind and subconscious mind associProtestant, C.O.G.I.C. and Catholic ated with a church or theological expefaiths – our churches play a significant rience. So, as a thinker and a scientist role in maintaining stability in our Black Rev. Derrick B. Wells of sorts it really, really intrigued me. I communities. In 1956 one church in didn’t know that it was the hook at the time but just in particular planted their roots in Chicago, developing a retrospect and now that I look back on it, I’m seeing how base that grew to reach hundreds of thousands over the next 55 years. Christ Universal Temple was established excited I was to hear intelligence presented in a way that by one of the first women pastors in Chicago, Reverend was absolutely reflective of God and I just loved it. I ate Dr. Johnnie Colemon. Her vision and leadership created it up.”

Wells was a member of Christ Universal Temple an international organization of affiliated New Thought churches and study groups called the Universal Founda- when he left for the Navy in 1990 traveling and exploring other religions to get a better understanding of his faith. tion for Better Living from 1956 to 1974.

As a member of the New Thought Alliance (I.N.T.A.), Upon returning to Chicago, he had a better appreciation Rev. Coleman achieved the tasks of building five struc- for his faith and wanted to immerse himself into becomtures to spread the “Better Living” teachings, including ing more than a minister—a teacher.

“I began taking classes. I began volunteering. I decidthree churches and two institutions which houses the ed that this experience was not going to be a spectator Johnnie Colemon Academy. As her congregation increased, once know as Christ Unity Temple—she con- sport for me but rather that I was going to engage and structed one of the first mega-churches in the 1970’s. see what would come out of it,” he said.

Located on the far South Side, the beautiful white buildOver the next seven years, he took the teaching training can be seen from Interstate-57 and sits on the 100- ing course and served as a staff minister. Once he was acre campus at 119th and Ashland Ave. It is the pride ordained, he went on to serve on the board of directors and joy of the community. where he decided to be considered for his current role.

After Rev. Coleman retired in 2006—and before her Longtime church member and facilitator Bruce Montpassing in December 2014—Rev. Derrick B. Wells was gomery comments, “Rev. Derrick Wells brings a unique installed in 2011 as the Senior Minister of CUT, carry- style of honesty, humility and relevance to his teaching ing the tradition of Rev. Colemon while incorporating a and preaching the principles of spirit and truth that enspark of renewed energy. Four years later, his leadership gages audiences of all ages to grow and prosper.” has brought the multimedia mega church to the next levWhen you go on CUT’s website, there are various proel in his role as senior minister of one of the largest and grams that help groups find what best fits them. Whethleading faith institutions in the region. Growing up Wells er it’s the Diamonds on the Move, which welcomes the had his doubts on where exactly his path would lead 55 and up members, the Toastmasters Club—a program him. Though he went to occasionally went to Catholic that encourages public speaking and leadership develchurch as a child, he didn’t fully come into religion until opment. The Johnnie Colemon Institute provides minisadulthood. try training for students seeking resources beyond Sun“I can say to you with more equivocation I don’t re- day service, which has become the leading blueprint for member a single solitary thing Father Cassan ever said, other Christian organizations. but I do remember treats after church. Whenever we From having one of the leading musical programs that had to go to church, I was excited about the treats. That include classical trained vocalists and musicians to its was just about the extent of my religious upbringing,” signature ‘Burning Bowl’ programs, which allows visitors Wells said. to release the emotional burdens of the previous year Growing up, he unfortunately made poor choices to define fresh and positive goals of the new year, CUT that landed him in Cook County jail. While inside those continues to keep it fresh. walls, he began to understand, the shift in his path.

A senior executive at a Chicago marketing agency, Wells said, “It helped me to become aware that this Ella Britton is the co-chair of Professionals Reaching Out was not an experience or an environment that I was (PRO) and member of CUT. meant to be in long term...After that paradigm shift, I “Rev. Wells’ messages work for my spirit and my life. came out looking for something new.”

I also love how “real” he is. I can talk to him about anyWhile searching for a church home or faith leader- thing without concern of being judged, because all he ship, it didn’t strike a chord in him and so he continued wants to do is help me to live a better life through the his search to connect. As a kid, he heard his mother lis- renewing of my mind and the embracing of my God-givten to Rev. Colemon’s sermons on tapes, and one day en inner power. I value his friendship and his counsel,” something propelled him to really listen to her message. Britton said.

“I could hear the conviction in her voice. I could hear Pastor Rev. Derrick B. Wells is no stranger to humilthe conviction of the voice that was coming through ity. He is currently working towards his doctorate and the speakers from my grandmother’s room, and I was he credits church and business leaders who have made Defender Senior Staff Writer

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a tremendous impact on their congregations and communities. The influence of elders who have adopted him keeps him grounded and never minces words in keeping him on his toes. As he works toward growing new programs such as working with Dave Ramsey on the Financial Peace University which is designed to assist people on achieving money management and practical choices.

“I recognize is that the legacy and the foundation that God laid and that

Rev. Coleman poured her life into to build and to raise a body of people in the city and beyond. Whether it’s in business, in a work or church environment or in your family, you have it within you the innate capacity to be successful,” Wells add.

“One of the things that we encourage people to do and one of the things that we teach people to do is how to get better and how to be better.”

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By Kai EL’Zabar

Defender Executive Editor

The TRUMP FIASCO Well it just keeps getting more and more interesting as we watch all the different GOP presidential hopefuls come forth to throw their hats in the ring and jockey for position. They’re up to 18 candidates who are going for the nomination. More importantly are the questions that we ask ourselves. Is it a sign of major dissension amongst the Republicans? Are the chickens coming home to roost? And if so can the Republican Party take it like it throws it?

I don’t think so. They have revealed so much about themselves just by the sheer numbers of republicans spouting off, pontificating and standing so self-righteously while loathing of others.

First we know that the GOP doesn’t have a ‘sure thing’— that one candidate that the party can rally behind. However it appears that the very obnoxious Donald Trump in all his ignorance of decorum and people skills is in the forefront.

I have my own thoughts about it. Isn’t it interesting how these men who are senators, attorneys, doctors, governors and business men have stood in front of millions and actually said very stupid things, gender bias and racist comments but when Sarah Palin said such equally ignorant things, it went viral and all of the United States discussed her ignorance. She was not respected by men and embarrassed women. Now I was no Palin fan however I am pointing out that the overall position of the GOP is very male orientated and insensitive with all things having to do with women’s rights.

That’s a clearing for Hillary. Women are tired of men assuming that we don’t count except for when it comes time for a vote.

Donald Trump introduced his presidential campaign to the world with a slur against Mexican immigrants, accusing them of being “rapists” and bringing crime into the country.

“I mean somebody’s doing it! . . . Who’s doing the raping?”

Donald Trump said, when asked to defend his characterization.

It was an unfortunate turn of phrase for Trump—in more ways than one. Not only does the current front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination have a history of controversial remarks about sexual assault, and to further escalate the issue, his ex-wife Ivana Trump once used the term “rape” to describe an incident between them in 1989. She later said she felt “violated” by the experience. The educated know that violated is a synonym for rape.

Trump’s special counsel at the Trump Organization, Michael Cohen, defended Mr. Trump saying, “You’re talking about the front-runner for the GOP, presidential candidate, as well as private individual who never raped anybody. And, of course, understand that by the very definition, you can’t rape your spouse.”

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Failure to know when to stop, Cohen continued, “It is true. You cannot rape your spouse. And there’s very clear case law.”

Unfortunately in a pure legal sense Cohen articulates a law that was on the books in most of the United States, yet many have moved to strike it from their records and have amended the law. That whole legalese around marriage and a woman’s relationship to her husband has changed. It is a part of the same dialog that refers to women and children as the property of the husband or father. We have come a long way from that ‘way of thinking’ as presented in the law but as we can see clearly in the minds of (some) men much hasn’t changed.

This reality is not new to Black people. We know all about the law stating one thing and the actions of people being another. Case in point, yes America voted in its first Black President however he has been the most disrespected by the U.S. Congress, media and in some cases foreign leadership, the most recent being Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel.

You can say what you will about President Obama. You may not agree with all that he does or say but one thing that we can all agree on, is that he has in all situations been Presidential.

With the introduction of Ivana Trump’s assertion of “rape” in a deposition—part of the early ’90s divorce case between the Trumps, also revealed in the 1993 book Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump it simply supports the rude, selfish, self-centered, self-serving attitude of a man of privilege Donald Trump is. Certainly America cannot afford one of his ilk to lead the country.

An excerpt from the book Lost Tycoon, describes at best a disturbing scene. After a painful scalp reduction surgery to remove a bald spot, Donald Trump confronted his then-wife, who had previously used the same plastic surgeon.

“Your fucking doctor has ruined me!” Trump cried.

What followed was a “violent assault,” according to Lost Tycoon. “Donald held back Ivana’s arms and began to pull out fistfuls of hair from her scalp, as if to mirror the pain he felt from his own operation. He tore off her clothes and unzipped his pants.”

“Then he jams his penis inside her for the first time in more than sixteen months. Ivana is terrified…it is a violent assault,” Hurt writes. “According to versions she repeats to some of her closest confidantes, ‘he raped me.’”

Following the incident, Ivana ran upstairs, hid behind a locked door, and remained there “crying for the rest of night.” When she returned to the master bedroom in the morning, he was there.

“As she looks in horror at the ripped-out hair scattered all over the bed, he glares at her and asks with menacing casualness: ‘Does it hurt?’” Hurt writes.

Donald Trump has previously denied the allegation. In the book, he denies having had the scalp reduction surgery.

“It’s obviously false,” Donald Trump said of the accusation in 1993, according to Newsday. “It’s incorrect and done by a guy without much talent (Texas Monthly and Newsweek reporter Harry Hurt III). He is a guy that is an unattractive guy who is a vindictive and jealous person.”

As for Cohen, he acknowledged that he has not read the entire deposition but said he had read the two relevant pages of it, including the rape accusation.

“It’s not the word that you’re trying to make it into,” Cohen told The Daily Beast, saying Ivana Trump was talking about how “she felt raped emotionally…She was not referring to it [as] a criminal matter, and not in its literal sense, though there’s many literal senses to the word.”

So much for crisis management. It looks like Mr. Trump is in need of Olivia Pope to manage his reputation.

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Ending Mass Incarceration: The Ongoing Call to Faith Communities

By Pastor Lilian Amaya, Janis Rosheuvel and Lissette Castillo Vizcarra The crisis of incarceration this nation now faces demands people of faith act with swift and fierce moral authority to transform, not just reform, an irreparably broken system. It demands that all of us—clergy, seminarians, teachers, and people in pews, mosques and temples— provoke a revolution of values that strikes at the heart of mass incarceration. Without exception, we believers are required to realize a just world. This is our call, and we are falling short when it comes to how we treat those in jails, prisons and detention centers.

Thanks to powerful community organizing and mobilization many more people are cognizant of why mass incarceration must end. 2.3 million human beings locked down, as many as 9 million under some form of correctional control, including parole, probation or awaiting their day in court and almost 500,000 people passing through civil immigration detention annually. Growing numbers of us—particularly if we are poor, female, Black, Brown, immigrant, and or have mental health conditions—are facing incarceration or have loved ones who are. We know that the U.S. incarcerates more people per capita than any other nation on earth, approximately 700 persons per every 100,000. And we know that the racially biased “War on Drugs” has in the past 40 years incarcerated hundreds of millions of people for largely nonviolent drug offenses, tearing families asunder in the process.

Despite public perceptions, poor people of color are not more likely to use or sell drugs than their white counterparts. So what explains the disproportionate ways we are locked up?

To begin with, we are seeing the devastating results of the “tough on crime” rhetoric of the past four decades. Public policies like “stop-and-frisk,” “broken windows” promote over policing of minor offenses, which are the gateway to incarceration. Even as we write this piece, the nation is watching the unfolding of yet another case in which a young Black woman, Sandra Bland of Chicago, who ends up arrested, assaulted and dead in a jail cell after being stopped by a policeman in Texas for changing lanes without signaling while driving home from a job interview. “Zero tolerance” policing, the mass detention and deportation of millions of immigrants and a congressional bed quota mandate that requires immigrant detention centers to hold 34,000 people in the system each night, have all created a pipeline that forces targeted communities into a system not about rehabilitation, reconciliation and restitution, but about the social control of Black and Brown bodies.

Indeed, the same companies that profit from the criminalization and mass incarceration of Black and Brown people, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and GEO Group, are reaping record profits at the expense of these chronically dehumanized and marginalized communities. In 2014 alone, these two corporations made nearly $470 million in revenue.

The historic and pervasive criminalization of communities of color in the United States is a key building block of the current system of mass incarceration. As author and scholar Michelle Alexander deftly lays out in her seminal work The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, mass incarceration is largely about continuing to ensure the nation has a permanent, subservient and disenfranchised underclass whose very bodies and movement are caged and controlled. As Alexander has said, “Once you are labeled a felon you’re trapped for the rest of your life and subject to many of the old forms of discrimination in job applications, rental agreements, loan applications, school applications…Those labeled felons are even denied the right to vote.” Faith communities have been doing good work to resist mass incarceration: sponsoring conferences, reading, writing, visiting those in prison and more. Still more is required of us. www.chicagodefender.com

ENTERTAINMENT

Grant Park Music Festival Presents Hollywood Bowl Conductor Thomas Wilkins

By Kayenne Eames Defender Contributing Writer The 81st annual Grant Park Music Festival continues this evening July 29 with guest conductor Thomas Wilkins – music director of the Omaha Symphony and principal guest conductor of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra – leading the Grant Park Orchestra. The program includes Jerry Goldsmith’s eight-minute Fireworks, Dvorák’s beautiful, large-scale “Symphony No. 6,” and “The Sunday Symphony”

by William Grant Still.

Chicago pulls out all stops with special little unexpected moments.

At 5:30 pm this evening in Millennium Park’s Family Fun Tent located just west of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion one hour before the concert, CSO’s Sounds and Stories contributor Laura Sauer hosts a free Club 615 pre-concert lecture with Mr. Wilkins.

Wednesday night’s concert will also be broadcast live on 98.7WFMT, Chicago’s classical and fine arts radio station, and also online at wfmt.com/streaming.

Open lunchtime rehearsals for this concert take place Tuesday and Wednesday, July 28 and 29, 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

This special entrée welcomes the public to sit in the Pavilion Seating Bowl during rehearsals to listen and enjoy. Festival docents will be on site to talk about the concert during these rehearsal breaks.

DVOŘÁK SYMPHONY NO. 6 will be performed Today, July 29, 6:30 PM in Millennium Park by the Grant Park Orchestra.

The Grant Park Music Festival participates in Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Night Out in the Parks series. Night Out in the Parks is an initiative featuring more than 1,000 cultural activities in Chicago Park District locations citywide, in support of the City of Chicago’s Cultural Plan. This evening in particular is special and is a wonderful opportunity to be introduced to and partake in the classical genre of music.

Pack your dinner, bring a blanket or find a seat. The evening promises to be a real treat.

About the Conductor Thomas Wilkins is Music Director of the Omaha Symphony and Principal Conductor of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.

He also holds the Germeshausen Family and Youth Concert Conductor Chair with the Boston Symphony. Mr. Wilkins’ past positions have included Resident Conductor of the Detroit Symphony and Florida Orchestra and Associate Conductor of the Richmond (VA) Symphony.

He has also served on the faculties of North Park University in Chicago, University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, and Virginia Commonwealth University in Richwww.chicagodefender.com

Conductor Thomas Wilkins will lead orchestra at Grant Park mond. He has led major orchestras throughout the United States.

Last season Mr. Wilkins returned to the National Symphony Orchestra for a two-week festival of American music and dance, as well as a collaboration with world renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma at Wolf Trap, the NSO’s summer home.

William Grant Still, was named called “The Dean of Afro-American Composers,” by Nicolas Slonimsky in his authoritative Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. Born in Woodville, Mississippi on May 11, 1895 Sill’s father had been the town bandmaster and a music teacher at Alabama A&M. However he died when his son was an infant. The family moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, where his mother, a graduate of Atlanta University, taught high school. There she married an opera buff and he introduced young William to the great voices of the day and encouraged his interest in playing the violin. At the age of 16, Still matriculated as a medical student at Wilberforce University in Ohio, but that didn’t last long. The music in his DNA led him to music. He taught himself to play the reed instruments and left school to perform in dance bands in the Columbus area and work for a brief period as an arranger for the great blues writer W.C. Handy. Still graduated in 1915 from Wilberforce, married later that year, and then resumed playing in dance and theater or-

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Later he entered Oberlin College in 1917, but left in 1918 to serve in the Navy during World War I, first as a mess attendant and later as a violinist in officers’ clubs. He returned to Oberlin after his service duty and remained until 1921, when he moved to New York to join the orchestra of the Noble Sissle–Eubie Blake revue Shuffle Along as an oboist.

While on tour in Boston with the show, Still studied with George Chadwick, then President of the New England Conservatory, who was so impressed with his talent that he provided his lessons free of charge. Back in New York, Still studied with Edgard Varèse and ran the Black Swan Recording Company for a period in the mid-1920s. He tried composing in Varèse’s modernistic idiom, but soon abandoned that dissonant style in favor of a more traditional manner.

Still’s work was recognized as early as 1928, when he received the Harmon Award for the most significant contribution to Black culture in America. His Afro-American Symphony of 1930 was premiered by Howard Hanson and the Rochester Philharmonic (the first such work by a Black composer played by a leading American orchestra) and heard thereafter in performances in Europe and South America.

Unable to make a living from his concert compositions, however, Still worked as an arranger and orchestrator of music for radio, for Broadway shows, and for Paul Whiteman, Artie Shaw and other popular band leaders. A 1934 Guggenheim Fellowship allowed him to cut back on his commercial activities and write his first opera, “Blue Steel,” which incorporated jazz and spirituals. He continued to compose large-scale orchestral, instrumental and vocal works in his distinctive idiom during the following years, and after moving to Los Angeles in 1934, he supplemented that activity by arranging music for films (including Frank Capra’s 1937 Lost Horizon) and later for television (Perry Mason, Gunsmoke). Still continued to hold an important place in American music until his death in Los Angeles in 1978.

Still received many awards for his work: seven honorary degrees; commissions from CBS, New York World’s Fair, League of Composers, Cleveland Orchestra and other important cultural organizations; the Phi Beta Sigma Award and a citation from ASCAP noting his “extraordinary contributions” to music and his “greatness, both as an artist and as a human being.” and the Freedom Foundation Award. It’s not to be missed.

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ENTERTAINMENT

Dr. Mahalia Hines: Not the Common Mom

By Mary L. Datcher Defender Writer Behind every great child, there is a strong adult in their life that has influenced their development.

The role switches as we grow from being the one to admire that adult figure to becoming the one that is admired.

No one understands the impact of that role better than Dr. Mahalia Hines. A former teacher and principal who taught in the Chicago Public School system for over 35 years, her experience is deep, and her knowledge is priceless. As a current member of the Chicago Board of Education, she has seen many challenges over the last four years. But through the storm, there have been a great deal of pots of gold at the end of the rainbow.

One of her proudest accomplishments is being the proud mother of recording artist and actor, Lonnie “Rashid” Lynn – better know to the public as Common.

Born in South Haven, Michigan as a child, after moving around, Hines relocated from D.C. with her family at the age of 8 years old to Chicago.

She’s always considered Chicago to be her home. She earned her college degree, majoring in Marketing with a minor in English. Her dream was to work in the advertising and marketing business, but in the 1960’s, there were very few women of color in the male-dominated field.

One day she was approached to fill in as a substitute teacher at Cooper Elementary on the West Side of Chicago.

“I’ll never forget. It was on the West Side – mostly Hispanic students in the kindergarten class,” she recalls. “There were only two students that spoke English and I didn’t speak any Spanish. That’s just how bad we needed teachers back then. I realized that I loved teaching. My other minor was English, so I ended up asking for a transfer and ended up at Stagg Elementary School. It was brand new at the time. That was my real first teaching experience.”

In those years, the public school system began to change as Brown vs. Board of Education ruling had set the decree for most major cities to integrate the schools with both Black students and teachers in predominately white public schools.

“They transferred of us into schools where there weren’t many African-American teachers,” she said. “Because I had a minor in English, I ended up at Morgan Park www.chicagodefender.com

Mahalia Hines poses with her son, Lonnie “Rashid” Lynn, better known as Common, at the Oscars.

High School. I integrated Morgan Park High School—there were five Black teachers. It’s really ironic because one of the people who went into it with me was Charles Alexander. He ended up being the principal there years later. That was my first experience with racism. I had been down South but I had never experience it until I began to teach at Morgan Park High School.”

Transitioning from teaching to becoming a principal, Hines thinks the system has changed a great deal since her start since the late 1960’s.

“That was the era of ‘Black Pride,’” she said. “We felt so committed to the kids in the Black schools. I often say, I know we were making major difference. Then I looked up and they split us. I don’t know if it was for the good or intentionally to take us out of those schools. I still think back then, it was much better. I think it was better, because it was much more respect for teachers at that time and for education.”

During this time, she noticed that her son had become a very prolific writer in school but had no idea about rap music. She has always taught him the importance of edu-

cation and reading, and as a child television was mostly watched on the weekends.

As he signed with Relativity Records, and moved on to MCA eventually arrived at the Universal Music Group system, Common’s stardom continued to rise. It was important to give back to his community, so they formed the Common Ground Foundation.

She explained, “He said he wanted to have a foundation to really start to give back. It wasn’t really thought out at that time. We knew that we wanted to give back to kids.

At the time, we didn’t have a lot of financial support, but we had people that would help. We started out small doing workshops in schools and things, using some of the people that could do them. I don’t think we had vision for it, we just knew we wanted to help.”

Since it’s inception over 15 years ago, Common Ground Foundation has raised over hundreds of thousands of dollars to assist organizations in the Chicago area. In the last five years, they have taken a handson approach to working closely with students.

“One year, the Kanye West Foun-

dation awarded kids for good attendance. He asked me if I could attend and come out. I went to the Chicago Theatre and I remembered seeing all of the kids coming in and how excited they were [and] how excited I felt just being around them,” Hines said.

“I went back to Rashid and said, ‘I got it. We don’t know the kids. This is what we need to do – we need to focus on a small group.’”

“Because of my educational background, I want to take kids out of 8th grade and keep them all the way into their junior year of high school. We partnered with organizations like Chicago Scholars Foundation and the Chicago Urban League,” she explained. Soon after, they decided to mentor high school students until they went to college.

Mentoring principals has been a priority since her days as one. Over the years, she noticed that the culture has changed where educators had become fearful of sharing ideas and new techniques. She decided to share her concern with then mayoral candidate, Rahm Emanuel who was running in his first term in the Chicago mayoral election in 2010.

Through mutual acquaintances, a meeting was arranged to share her

ideas with the soon-to-be mayor.

“I wanted to be on the educational transitional team so maybe I can share some of the things that I know and let them know what’s going on,” she said. “For some reason, I thought that Rahm would be the one. I knew that I could at least get a meeting with him.”

With the help of friends in the educational system, she put together a curriculum program that invited 3,000 high school students from both the West and South sides to discuss ideas on education empowerment in both the federal and local government at the UIC Forum.

A few months after Mayor Emanuel was elected, he appointed her to the Chicago Board of Education in May of 2011.

Still wearing her hat as the CEO of Think Common, they decided to scale back on their annual gala style fundraiser to produce an event that would collaborate with other like-minded nonprofits. Last September, Aahh Music Festival headlined friends of Common that included fellow Chicago musical partner and friend, Kanye West.

While Hines stepped back from the day-to-day operations, Tamara Brown, executive director of Common Ground Foundation stepped in to manage more responsibilities for the company. Dr. Hines said feels more comfortable in her role as mom, grand mom, wife and mentor.

Being married for almost 36 years to her husband, Ralph Hines, they try to spend time in their Florida home in the winter months. Every summer she has looks forward to spending time with her granddaughter who will be attending Howard University in the fall.

What was to be 18 months as a part of the Chicago Board of Education has turned into four years. In the midst of all the controversy and challenges, she will continue another term on the board, because her work is never done. The experience gives her insight on how to reach other educational instructors nationally and internationally.

“I’ll continue my work with coaching principals,” she said. “I like working in the schools throughout the United States. I have somebody in Houston and the Delta region as well as someone in Brazil.

That is the biggest way I can impact the greatest number of kids.”

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Comcast Studio Xfinity Studio Opens in Near North

Comcast celebrated the grand opening of STUDIO XFINITY today in the Near North neighborhood. The new 9,000-square-foot store at 901 W. Weed St. brings together the best TV and Internet technology in a unique

store experience that will serve as a test environment for enhanced ways to serve customers. In addition, the store will serve as an interactive space in which customers can experience Comcast’s wide range of Internet,

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video, voice and home security and automation products and services.

“STUDIO XFINITY is a transformational retail environment designed to give our customers new ways to experience our products and services,” said John Crowley, senior vice president of Comcast’s Greater Chicago Region.

“STUDIO XFINITY is a significant investment and is part of a much larger effort underway here in Chicago and around the country to redefine the customer experience.”

“I’m thrilled that Comcast has selected the City of Chicago and specifically the 27th Ward as the site of the launch of STUDIO XFINITY,”

said Walter Burnett, Chicago 27th Ward Alderman.

Robert Steele, Commissioner of Cook County’s 2nd District, added, “Locating the store in Cook County demonstrates the market’s technology and economic leadership, as well as Comcast’s commitment to the Chicago area.”

Comcast hosted over 60 young students with a special surprise by the Minions, the latest animated film stars. STUDIO XFINITY is the latest edition of the revamped Weed St. shopping district which formerly housed nightclubs for the past 20 years.

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FRONT CONT. The Big Pay Back from Page 2 Black community during gubernatorial contests, Rauner made a conscious effort to appeal to Black voters.

Hoping to take advantage of the Black community’s increasing disillusionment with Democratic Governor Pat Quinn, Rauner enlisted the services of some high profile Black community leaders including Rev. James Meeks, Pastor Corey Brooks, N’Digo Publisher Hermene Hartman, and Dr. Willie Wilson to act as surrogates for his campaign.

While Meeks, Brooks, Hartman

and Wilson were vilified in the Black community for supporting the Republican candidate, they remained loyal and when Rauner was elected to office, he rewarded that loyalty with key appointments.

Rev. James Meeks Rev. James Meeks was once considered the heir apparent to the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Operation P.U.$.H., but in recent years has focused on expanding his own power base. Meeks, the pastor of Salem Baptist Church, which is based in the arena-sized House of Hope in the far South Side’s Roseland community.

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No stranger to politics, Meeks has been a vocal advocate for equitable education funding to the point of threatening to run in the 2008 Democratic Primary against former governor Rod Blagojevich.

Blagojevich eventually agreed to provide an additional $1 billion dollars in funding for Illinois schools but was ousted from office before he could follow through on their agreement.

Meeks ran and was elected to serve in the Illinois State Senate in 2002. Throughout his time in Springfield, he remained singularly focused on education funding, but became increasingly frustrated with the difficulty he encountered trying to increase education funding in Springfield, which was controlled completely by Democrats.

Meeks eventually rose to Chairman of the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus in 2008. In 2013, Meeks resigned from the Illinois State Senate, disillusioned with the lack of progress on his mission.

Fast forward to 2013 and Bruce Rauner enters the race and one of his major goals is increased education funding, Meeks number one goal. The two met and after some discussion, Meeks agreed to join the Rauner campaign. Throughout the campaign—Meeks’ remained a steadfast supporter of Rauner because of his promise on education funding, even as large portions of the community branded him a “sellout,” sure that Rauner would cast him aside if he were to win the election.

Rauner won the election, appointed Meeks to his transition team, and eventually appointed Meeks to become the Chairman of the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE). Meeks’ critics claim that the appointment was political payback for selling out the community. For Meeks, serving as the Chairman of the ISBE, which administers billions in school grants, allowed him to have a direct say in the education process. Meeks believes education is the top determining factor in a child’s longterm success, and as Chairman of ISBE he will direct how those funds are spent. While many Blacks remain skeptical, only time will tell if Meeks’ sacrifice will have a positive impact on the outcomes for Black youth.

Pastor Corey Brooks Indiana native, Pastor Corey Brooks first made news when he decided to camp out on the rooftop of his church until he raised enough funds to build a community center for his church. He successfully raised the funds with donations from notables such as Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry. Brooks followed that

exploit up with a walk across the country against urban violence. He also launched the Project H.O.O.D. ­initiative in the Woodlawn and Englewood communities. Operating a church in one of Chicago’s toughest neighborhoods, many Blacks may question his intentions, but few question his authenticity.

An Indiana native, Brooks was already familiar with the Republican Party and had been known to court conservative leaning politicians not traditionally welcomed in the Black community. All of Brooks’ initiatives garnered national media attention, making him a household regular in Black and White communities, and a likely target of support for Rauner in the Black community.

Like Meeks, Brooks looked at the state of the Black community and realized Springfield was completely controlled by Democrats. Things didn’t seem to be getting better, so he too decided to break from the ranks and openly support Rauner. He too was ridiculed, criticized, and called a sellout by many in the Black community. Used to being stung by Democratic politicians regularly, Black people talked openly about Rauner ditching Brooks after the election.

Also like Meeks, Rauner appointed Brooks to his transition committee after he was elected. Raunerconsults with Brooks regularly when making decisions that impact the Black community. Just recently, Rauner appointed Brooks to the Illinois Tollway Board. While Brooks will only collect an annual salary of $31,426, the Illinois Tollway annual budget is in excess of $1 billion dollars and is one of the state of Illinois’ largest economic engines. As one of Illinois’ largest economic engines, Black participation at the Tollway remains at minimal at best. Brooks’ detractors doubt the impact he can have as only one of a nine-member board.

Consider however, that Brooks, who is also a lawyer, has already proven that he knows how to cut the deals to get to the table with conservative Whites. They key will be if Brooks can translate that Board appointment into Black economic op-

portunity and development.

Hermene Hartman Once a dominant force in the Chicago political, social, business scene, N’Digo founder and publisher Hermene Hartman had found herself struggling for relevance before she signed on with the Rauner campaign. While Hartman still operated her publication, it was but a mere shadow of what it had been in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. But with an email list and a recognizable masthead, Hartman made herself one of Rauner’s most vocal advocates and one of Pat Quinn and the Democratic Party’s harshest critics.

Unlike Brooks and Meeks, Hartman served as a paid campaign consultant for Rauner during the campaign, working to connect Rauner with various community organizations and influencers. While Rauner spent millions on campaign consultants, Hartman was ridiculed for only receiving $55,000 for her services.

Hartman was in a precarious position post election, because her services were paid for, Rauner had no post election obligations to Hartman. In fact, until Hartman published a scathing electronic editorial five months after Rauner’s election, the governor had not contacted her for anything. After the editorial, Rauner appointed Hartman to the $46,960/year Human Relations Committee, where she will have a say in settling employee discrimination complaints in Illinois. While the position is rather innocuous, Hartman fight workplace discrimination.

Rev Willie Wilson Rev. Willie Wilson is the plainspoken South Side businessman, preacher, TV host, philanthropist, and donor that used his influence among local ministers to become one of Rauner’s biggest supporters. Unlike the aforementioned Black Rauner supporters, Wilson’s interest in Rauner’s election was business. Sources say that Wilson, who owns a business supply company, is positioned to take over the concessions at the Illinois Department of Corrections.

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Education: The Driving Force Behind the Chicago Football Classic Buy Your Tickets Today for September 26 to Support Scholarships for Aspiring HBCU Students

By A. L. Smith, Correspondent Defender Contributing Writer Larry Huggins is a Chicago businessman with great expectations. He’s counting on over 50,000 spectators to attend the 2015 Chicago Football Classic and fill Soldier Field on a special Saturday this fall.

The 18th installment of the Classic features East-Coast rivals Morgan State University and Howard University, on Saturday, September 26th at 3:30 p.m.

A man of vision and determination, he fully expects this HBCU education and college sports extravaganza he co-founded with fellow businessmen and brothers Everett and Tim Rand in 1997 to top last year’s estimated 45,000 loyal College football fans and supporters who attended the game.

“One of the things I like about the Classic, is the prevailing spirit of cooperation, and emphasis on higher education for young people,” says Mr. Huggins. “Many individuals, corporations as well as civic and community organizations work together for the greater good of young urban Chicago-area students aspiring to attend college, specifically Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).”

Ron Collins is a man who knows football and loves cars. He is also a dedicated professional who understands the power and the promise of a good college education. As the Executive Director of the Chicago Football Classic, Inc., he considers himself fortunate to be intrinsically involved in the intersection of both highways. Over the last 18 years, the Classic provided more than $3.5 million in HBCU college scholarships.

“I thank the Brothers Rand, Everett and Tim, and Larry Huggins, three compassionate Chicago philanthropists who co-founded the Chicago Football Classic, Inc. in 1997, for the opportunity to work with them and help drive this important educationally-focused, civic organization,” says Collins.

“Now is the time to PURCHASE TICKETS for the 2015 Chicago Football Classic! This budget-friendly, yet wildly entertaining sporting event will excite and entertain the entire family, so join us on the 26th of September,” says an enthusiastic Collins. “Prices range from $17- $45 dollars. Speaking of tickets, all attendees 18 and above are eligible to participate in a special scholarship raffle. They will have the opportunity to realize the once-in-a-lifetime dream of driving off in a new 2015 Dodge Challenger.” Another reason to attend the Classic? The raffle ticket holders must be present at the 18th Annual Chicago Football Classic to win!

TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW! For more information on attending or to purchase tickets for the 2015 Chicago Football Classic, Inc. (CFC), please call 773734-1600 or 773-874-8000, x 4024. Tickets are also available via Ticketmaster. Go to www.chicagofootballclassic.biz, or connect with the Classic on Face Book: www.facebook.com/ChicagoFootballClassic or: twitter.com/@ChiFtblClass.

Raffle proceeds benefit the Chicago Football Classic (CFC) Scholarship Fund. The CFC Scholarship Fund has provided financial assistance for promising, yet economically challenged students at the nation’s 106 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

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sic has established a profound impact on the lives of many young people who otherwise would not have been able to afford to further their education.”

According to Collins, one of the major draws of the Classic, is the post-game awarding of a shiny, blazing hot and spanking brand new 2015 Dodge Challenger, ‘America’s classic muscle car’, courtesy of Sherman Dodge.

BMO Harris Bank and Sherman Dodge of Skokie, Ill., returned this year as the Co-Title Sponsors of the Chicago Football Classic (CFC)! “ I truly thank our co-sponsors for their continued support. We’re doing this game to help our youth understand what life is all about,” said Everett Rand, a co-founder of the CFC. “We’re trying to get everyone involved in the various activities surrounding and including the CFC football game. We focus on youth in the communities, and their educational aspirations. The three of us work hard to put this on every year, basically for the improvement of our community. While we’ve been doing this game for over 17 years now, we also understand that to keep it successful, we need the participation and strong support of the community. Education is the cornerstone of everything that the Classic stands for.”

His brother and Classic co-founder Tim Rand concurs: “So we are going to ask everyone to help us fill Soldier Field on September 26th, to show Chicago and others across the U.S. that we mean business about promoting higher education among young African-Americans in Chicago. This will also help us tell the world that the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), are educationally significant and do indeed matter. These schools play a vital role in today’s society. They help train future generations of leaders.”

In 1997, entrepreneurs Everett Rand, Tim Rand and Larry Huggins established the Chicago Football Classic (CFC) as a not-for-profit organization dedicated to encouraging African American youth to ‘strive for the stars’, and achieve their personal best in school, the workplace and in the larger community.

“Our mission is to create a sustainable impact. And today this is more important than ever. A new U.S. report released just this week details the fact that over 33% of Chicago’s youth are living in poverty. We’re working to make sure that they too can follow their dreams of becoming doctors, lawyers, businesspersons, educators and tech moguls. One of the things that we’ve always talked about is how this Classic weekend is about much more than just a football game,” said Huggins. “Our goal again this year is to raise money for scholarships. This money is immediately re-invested into the community to uplift and support young people.”

And don’t forget - - as a part of this mission, CFC title co-sponsor Sherman Dodge will raffle off that 2015 Dodge Challenger SXT at the conclusion of the game.

“Classic tickets are on sale now and this is the best time to score the winning ticket, and drive into the sunset,” smiles CFC Executive Director Ron Collins.

He is also a proud Morgan State University alumni whose love affair with cars started with his purchase of a 1975 MGB convertible. “My first car was a twodoor, rag-top foreign sports car, and when the muscle car segment gained traction in the popular culture, I became an immediate fan, and never looked back. I love sports cars - - the Challenger is one of my absolute favorites, and is one of the best in the marketplace.”

A quiet yet forcefully determined and focused individual, he is wholly committed to expanding the brand and reach of the Chicago Football Classic.

In conclusion, Collins says, “Education is key to success in today’s technology driven global economy. It is imperative for students to fully understand the importance of pursuing higher education. Today more than ever, the Chicago Football Classic (CFC) serves to showcase the outstanding academic, artistic, technological and athletic achievements possible for students seeking to further their education at an Historically Black College and University (HBCU). Those of us fortunate enough to have attended these fine academic institutions respect the enduring legacy, and treasure the time-honored traditions of the HBCU experience”.

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Continued from page 12 If true, Wilson will have translated his support for Rauner into hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts. Those contracts can potentially lead to additional jobs, business opportunities, and higher quality meals for prisoners if Wilson is genuinely concerned about the Black economic development.

That remains to be seen, because Wilson has gone from supporting Rauner, to an unsuccessful mayoral run, to a recently announced Presidential campaign, potentially squandering any political capital he may have earned if he shows poorly.

Payback is a political fact of life. Meeks, Brooks, Hartman, and Wilson have all been paid back based on what they did to get the Governor elected. It remains to be seen if they can translate their personal payback into benefits for the Black community as a whole.

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Black America Cooks Secrets Behind the Clean Food Label ©2015 Donna Battle Pierce

By Donna Pierce Defender Contributing Writer If you’re familiar with the “scientific approach” popularized by Fannie Farmer, the Boston cooking teacher who published her first cookbook 119 years ago in 1896, you’ll understand why my grandmother had no use for those namesake cookbooks written by the incredibly popular cooking teacher who is credited for revolutionizing American cooking. Was that a good thing?

When comparing cooking styles from my grandmother and Farmer—who Anthony Di Renzo described as a “wasp” in his book “Bitter Greens: Essays on Food, Politics and Ethnicity from the Imperial Kitchen”—it didn’t take me long to fully appreciate my grandmother’s casual ingredient measurements as representative of a much more sophisticated and sensual approach to passing down delicious recipes based on seasons and ingredients. Instead of following Farmer’s strict measurement instructions, my grandmother’s recipes are full of dashes leaving amounts up the circumstances—consider the season, occasion and budget—for which each dish is being prepared.

“These recipe amounts are guidelines to help build your confidence,” granny used to say. “After that, I expect you to change things around based on a dozen variables…especially the season.”

Although Granny usually added a pinch of sugar to her post-summer chicken salad recipes as a balance for celery, onions and green peppers no longer at their peak, her Summer Chicken Salad is a triumph of simplicity intended to be served over thick garden vine-ripened tomato slices oozing with flavor.

Donna Pierce is a 2015 recipient of a Harvard Nieman Foundation Visiting Fellowship who is currently working on a cookbook about historic black recipes and cooks, She is the former Assistant Food Editor and Test Kitchen Director for the Chicago Tribune and Contributing Editor for Upscale Magazine.

Send questions or share your favorite original recipe to dpierce@BlackAmericaCooks.com or Donna Pierce 535 N. Michigan Ave. Suite 3105, Chicago, Ill. 60611. (Include your name and telephone number) If we print your recipe in this column, you will win a new cookbook. Find more recipes and information by joining Donna on BlackAmericaCooks.com.

Summer Chicken Salad 1/2 cup to 3/4 cup mayonnaise, see Skinny Soul Tip 1 teaspoon each: olive oil, Creole or Dijon-style prepared mustard 1/2 teaspoon each (or to taste): prepared horseradish, salt Freshly ground black pepper About 3 1/2 to 4 cups torn, bite-size chunks and shreds from 4 average chicken breast halves 2 hard-cooked eggs, peeled and finely chopped or grated

By Elan Edwards Defender Contributing Writer Today’s atmosphere between the retailor and the consumer is one of distrust. Long one are the days when trust in a product went a long way. The patients trust in their doctor is equally challenged for many reasons. Black folks have more reason to distrust much of what goes on in America as it pertains to them because of the unequal treatment in all areas of life.

So whereas a blanket statement, “Consumers have become deeply distrustful of their food,” may be true, it takes on an entirely different reality as it pertains to the particulars associated with being Black.

There’s Sheila Donaldson, who had her “aha moment” when she read the label of the barbecue sauce she was feeding her 1-year-old.

“I was alarmed to see that the No. 1 ingredient was high-fructose corn syrup,” says Donaldson, 30, who lives on the south side. “I had no idea that barbecue sauce had fructose and not sugar. That food was made up of not-real ingredients.”

Donaldson started scrutinizing food labels once she was diagnosed as a diabetic. She deeply researched each food ingredient she’d never heard of, began shopping more carefully, and started cooking more meals at home. She even began advocating Healthy Attitudes Lifestyle club about food for her friends.

“My approach, is count chemicals, not calories,” she says.

More consumers like Donaldson have begun to avoid foods with unfamiliar or worrisome ingredients on food labels. A survey last year by the Nutrition Business Journal found that high-fructose corn syrup tops consumers’ least-wanted list. No. 2 was partially hydrogenated oils or “trans fats.”

Truth is consumers don’t trust companies anymore, especially after the whole cigarette tobacco companies experience. People learned that the big corporations don’t care about them compared to their bottom line.

If the cost of paying off a lawsuit is less than the profit they will go for the lawsuit every time regardless of the impact it has on the consumer.

Mintel recently surveyed grocery shoppers. Only 38 percent said they trust what companies say about their products on food labels. That leaves 62 percent who don’t.

Food companies have noticed.

The latest strategy to win back wary shoppers can be summed up in one word: simple. Pillsbury has a new line of Purely Simple baking mixes. Kroger has a Simple Truth line of store brand foods. Keebler has Simply Made cookies.

Names of things that sound like they’d be used by chemists, rather than home cooks, are being whisked off the ingredient labels of processed foods -- which now account for 70 percent of the American diet. Ingredient lists are being made as short, easy to pronounce, and understand as possible.

In the food industry, this is called “clean labeling.”

And big companies are racing to do it. In recent weeks, Kraft said it would take artificial colors and preservatives out of its iconic mac & cheese. Nestle is chucking artificial colors and flavors out of its chocolates. General Mills will purge artificial colors and flavors from its cereals.

This change of attitude is also visible in the fast foods industry. Many have taken to improve the food choices adding healthier foods to their menu. This is all because the American public has hit an all time crisis and is now trying to find its way back to healthy. Obesity, diabetes and hypertension have impacted about 78.8 of the American population. Doctors have demanded that patients take back the responsibility of their own health.

The results are the switch in diets and exercise including how people shop for food.

We have a long way to go but being an educator consumer goes a long way. So add reading your food labels to your list—it just may change your life and your family’s.

1 1/2 medium celery ribs, finely chopped, about 3/4 cup 1/2 each, small: green pepper, onion, trimmed, finely chopped 2 unchilled, vine-ripened tomatoes, trimmed, cored, cut into thick slices Place the mayonnaise to a small bowl; stir in olive oil, mustard, horseradish, salt and pepper; set aside.

Place the chicken chunks in a large bowl; top with grated egg, celery, green pepper and onion. Stir in the mayonnaise mixture, stirring lightly to coat but not mash the salad.

To serve chilled or at room temperature, use a spoon or scoop to top thick tomato slices with chicken salad. Makes about four servings.

Skinny Soul Tip: make this for guests without losing any flavor by replacing half of the mayonnaise with zero-fat Greek yogurt. As a Greek yogurt fan, I enjoy this for myself made with all Greek yogurt and no mayonnaise.

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR Defender Community Calendar,

July - August, 2015 July 29: Strong Minds, Still Minds, a community yoga class series, begins July 29 at First Lutheran Church of the Trinity, 643 W. 31st. St. from 7 to 8:30 p.m. and is held every Wednesday. A $5 to $10 donation is suggested. Bring a towel or a yoga mat with you to practice, and dress in loose, comfortable clothes.

July 29: Blast Off with MSI Science Minors, an event showcasing students who’ve been trained by the Museum of Science and Industry, takes place July 29 and July 31 from 1 to 2 p.m. at the Chicago Public Library’s Kelly Branch, 6151 S. Normal Blvd. Kids who participate in Science Minors on both days could win a free trip to the Museum of Science and Industry.

Spotlight

July 30:

You don’t have to go all the way to the Art Institute to find great pieces; just take look on the South Side.

The South Side Community Art Center (SSCAC) will host its 50thAnnual Art Auction & Fundraiser on Saturday, Aug. 1, at Illinois Institute of Technology Campus’ Herman Hall, 3241 S. Federal St., from 5 to 9 p.m. The auction will feature art from established and emerging artists, including Elizabeth Catlett, Eldzier Cortor and Margaret Burroughs.

Funds raised help to preserve, conserve and promote the legacy and future of African-American art and artists, and highlight recognized and emerging artists.

Dynate & Associates presents Chicago Rhythms: Season lll- A Live Music Atmosphere for Mature Adults featuring Mz. Freda. Chicago Rhythms takes place every Thursday at Norman’s Bistro, 1001 East 43rd Street. Doors open at 6 p.m. with no cover charge. Brought to you

by Luster Products Inc., The Carolyn Y. Adams Breast Cancer Foundation, State Farm and Red Level Entertainment.

July 31: The National Association of Black Engineers is hosting its annual Regional Leadership Conference for the Great Lakes Region July 31–Aug. 1 at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign.

Aug. 1: The M.A.D.E. Foundation (Making a Difference Everywhere) will host Leaders 4 Chicago 3ON3 Tourney, a three-on-three basketball tournament, at Seward Park on August 1. Stephen Bardo, analyst for the Big Ten Network, will emcee the event. Proceeds benefit the program, which assists Chicago’s at-risk, inner city youth.

Aug. 1: Rep. LaShawn Ford presents the Small Business Development Program Orientation & Registration Event Aug. 1 at the 15th District CAPS Community room, 5701 W. Madison St. at 10 a.m. The free seminar, which is part of an eight-week venture or small business project, aims to inform those living in low-to-moderate incomes to start a community venture or small business.

Aug. 1 : South Side clergy and community members are holding an assembly for calling Chicago Aldermen and the Cook County Commissioner to address police accountability and violence Aug. 1 from 1:30 to 3 p.m. at the Hartzell Memorial United Methodist Church, 3330 S. King Dr. www.chicagodefender.com

Aug. 1: As part of the Black Harvest Film Festival at the Chicago Public Library’s Kelly Branch, the libary is screening “The Bicycle” (2014), featuring Cinque Northern and Stormi Smith.

The screening takes place at 2 p.m. and is free and open to the public.

Aug. 2

As part of the Black Star Project’s educational series, Otis Monroe, professor of Banking Theory, is hosting a seminar about banking,

personal finance and young people and money Aug. 2 from 2:30 to 4 p.m. at The Black Star Project, 3509 S. King Drive. To RSVP call 773-285-9600 for more information.

Aug. 4: Saint Xavier University invites the community to its 19th annual Golf Classic Aug. 4 at the Silver Lake Country Club, 14700 S. 82nd Ave. Orland Park, IL at 9 a.m. Check in is at 7 a.m.

Proceeds from the event will go toward student scholarship funds. For more information,

please contact, SXU’s Office of Special Events at 773-298-3748 or specialevents@sxu.edu.

Now–Aug. 10 Ti-Rock Moore’s “Confronting Truths: Wake Up!,” new solo exhibit at Gallery Guichard, 3521 S. King Dr., featured the much-discussed piece titled, “Michael Brown Black Angel,” a life-size replica of Michael Brown’s body lying face down in the street after he was shot by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, last summer.

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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, File No. D15143079 on the July 21, 2015. Under the Assumed Name of JAHSE with the business loIN MEMORIAM cated at 1115 S. PLYMOUTH CT., CHICAGO, IL 60605, CHICAGO, IL 60612.

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This letter is to notify that on August 25, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. an auction will be held at Hyde Park Self Storage, Inc., located at 5155 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL, 60615, to sell the following articles held within said storage units to enforce a lien existing under the laws of the state of Illinois.

This letter is to notify that on August 25, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. an auction will be held at South Shore Self Storage, Inc., located at 7843 S Exchange Ave, Chicago, IL 60649, to sell the following articles held within said storage units to enforce a lien existing under the laws of the state of Illinois.

1. 3015 John V. Moore

1. 222 Shawanda Moore

2. 36 Olivia Boyd

2. 234 Germain White

3. 471 Olivia Boyd

3. 260 Martin Willliam

4. V410 Valerie Adams

4. 479 Janis Peters

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL EVENT NO. 186 (2015)

5. V417 Deborah J. Mayo

5. 506 Michael Craig

All questions must be submitted in writing via the CHA Supplier Portal (https://supplier.thecha.org) , to the above-mentioned Event, no later than August 7, 2015 at 12:00 P.M. CST.

ATTENTION ALL VENDORS THE CHICAGO HOUSING AUTHORITY (“CHA”) INVITES QUALIFIED FIRMS/ ORGANIZATIONS TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS FOR: INSURANCE BROKERAGE AND CONSULTANT SERVICES

6. 528 Janis Peters 7. 570 Martell Thompson 8. 605 Charles McGhee

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PRE-PROPOSAL MEETING:

July 30, 2015 at 11:00 A.M. CST at the CHA, 60 E. Van Buren, 13th floor, Room 1315, Chicago, IL 60605

PROPOSAL DUE DATE/TIME:

August 24, 2015, no later than 12:00 P.M. CST via the CHA Supplier Portal

SOLICITATION DOCUMENTS ARE AVAILABLE ON-LINE AT THE CHA SUPPLIER PORTAL AT https://supplier.thecha.org Holt, Julia passed on October 30, The Habitat a private 2014.

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Julia is survived by her husband; William; daughter; Regina; grandson: Robert; brother; Tommie; sisters: Ann and Margaret; as well as nephews, nieces, cousins, other relatives and friends.

Visitation was held on Fri., Nov., 7, 2014 @ W.W. Holt Funeral Home.

Funeral Services were held: Sat., Nov. 8, 2014 @ Second Presbyterian Church, 1936 S. Michigan Ave. Interment: The Habitat Company as a private Washington Memory Gardens management firm for the Chicago Gardens.

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A Celebration of Tyna’s life will be held on Thursday, November 13, 2014 at Martin Temple AME Zion Church, 6930 S. Cottage Grove Ave., Chicago, IL 60639 starting at 6:30 p.m. with Bishop Nathaniel Jarrett officiating.

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YOUare ARE NOTIFIED that Bids dueHEREBY no later than Thursday , the Annual Meeting and Regular Meeting of August the Board of Commissioners 6, 2015 by 2pm CST. of the Chicago Housing Authority has been RESCHEDULED from Tuesday, August 18, 2015 to Monday, August 17, 2015. The rescheduled meeting will be held at the CHA Corporate Offices located at 60 E. Van Buren, 12th Floor Loft, Chicago, Illinois. The Closed Meeting is scheduled to start at 8:30 a.m. and the Business and Public Participation segment will start at 9:30 a.m. or immediately following the conclusion of the Closed Meeting.

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PROPOSED FY2016 MOVING TO WORK ANNUAL PLAN ATTENTION ALL PUBLIC HOUSING RESIDENTS AND HCV PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS

The meeting previously scheduled for Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 8:30 a.m. at Savoy Square, 4448 South State Street, Chicago, Illinois, has been cancelled.

If you have any questions concerning the time and place of Board meetings, please contact Lee Chuc, Board Secretary at 312-913-7282.

The Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) is releasing the Proposed FY2016 Moving to Work (MTW) Annual Plan for public comment.

Date: July 27, 2015

The 30-day public comment period begins July 22 (8 a.m.) and ends August 21, 2015 (5 p.m.). While CHA encourages and welcomes all residents, program participants, and the community-at-large to review the Proposed FY2016 MTW Annual Plan and attend the hearings, you are not required to attend the public comment hearings in order to submit comments on the Proposed FY2016 MTW Annual Plan. The date, time, and location of the public comment hearings are as follows: • July 29, 2015, 6:00pm: Mabel Manning Library, 6 S Hoyne St • August 5, 2015, 6:00pm: 18th District Police Station, 1160 N Larrabee St • August 6, 2015, 6:00pm: Las Americas Senior Building, 1611 S Racine St All comments must be received by 5:00 p.m. on August 21, 2015. Copies of the Proposed FY2016 MTW Annual Plan will be available beginning July 22, 2015 until August 21, 2015 (5 p.m.) at the following locations:

Scattered Sites Waitlist Openings

• CHA and HCV Administrative Offices

60 E Van Buren St

• Central Advisory Council Office

243 E 32nd St

•Douglas and East Side: 3 and 4 bedroom

• HCV Regional Office – South

10 W 35th St

• Oakland: 1 and 3 bedroom

• HCV Regional Office – West

2750 W Roosevelt Rd

• Fuller Park and New City: 2 and 3 bedroom

• Family Investment Center (FIC)

4859 S Wabash St

• Kenwood: 2, 3, and 4 bedroom

• Chinese Mutual Aid Association

1016 W Argyle St

• Calumet Heights, Pullman, and South Deering: 2 bedroom

• LUCHA

3541 W North Ave

• South Chicago: 3 bedroom

• Claretian Associates

9108 S Brandon Ave

Chicago Housing Authority is accepting applications for apartments in the following community areas ONLY:

Applicants MUST live in the community area. Proof of residency MUST be provided at the time of application and at apartment screening.

An electronic lottery will determine applicants’ ranking on the waiting list. While no minimum income is required, maximum income restrictions apply.

Accessible ADA units are available.

Registration is held: August 24, 2015 – September 19, 2015 Monday – Friday (9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.)

Saturday, August 29, 2015 & Saturday, September 12, 2015 (10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.)

4100 S. King Drive Ave. Phone (773) 324-6305

3. 216 Unique Triplett 4. 231 Ezekiel Morris

Funding will be provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The subsequent contract shall be subject to the applicable compliance standards and procedures of Executive Order No. 11246, as amended, Equal Opportunity and other provisions as specifically set in the specification. The Authority encourages participation by joint ventures, minority business enterprises, and women business enterprise firms

• www.thecha.org Mail comments to:

Chicago Housing Authority Attention: Proposed FY2016 MTW Annual Plan 60 E. Van Buren Street, 12th Floor Chicago, IL 60605

E-mail comments to:

commentontheplan@thecha.org Subject: Proposed FY2016 MTW Annual Plan

Fax comments to:

(312) 913-7837 Subject: Proposed FY2016 MTW Annual Plan

If you have a question about this notice, please call the CHA at (312) 913-7300.

Please note: Reasonable Accommodations will be made for persons with disabilities if requested.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORPORATION Plaintiff, -v.CHICAGO TITLE LAND TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE UNDER A TRUST AGREEMENT DATED APRIL 21, 1998 AND KNOWN AS TRUST NUMBER 1105733, URBAN PARTNERSHIP BANK AS ASSIGNEE OF TRUST DEED DOCUMENT 98475624, URBAN PARTNERSHIP BANK AS SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO SOUTH SHORE BANK, CHICAGO TITLE LAND TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE UNDER TRUST DEED DOCUMENT 00214373, CITY OF CHICAGO, CITY OF CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF WATER MANAGEMENT, DOROTHY T. BENNETT, MARITAL BUFFORD, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF DOROTHY T. BENNETT, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 13 CH 20832 7220-7222 S. YATES BLVD. Chicago, IL 60649 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on June 24, 2015, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on August 25, 2015, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT 5, BLOCK 4 IN KOUNTZE’S ADDITION TO SOUTH SHORE, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF LOTS 16 TO 20 INCLUSIVE IN BLOCK 1 AND LOTS 1 TO 5 BOTH INCLUSIVE AND 16 TO 20 BOTH INCLUSIVE IN BLOCK 4 IN STAVE AND KLEMM’S SUBDIVISION OF THE NORTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION 25, TOWNSHIP 38 NORTH, RANGE 14 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, (EXCEPT PART TAKEN FOR OGLESBY AVENUE), IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 7220-7222 S. YATES BLVD., Chicago, IL 60649 Property Index No. 20-25-213-017-0000.

The real estate is improved with a multi family apartment building.

The judgment amount was $28,580.92.

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 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, contact Plaintiff s attorney: HAUSELMAN, RAPPIN & OLSWANG, LTD., 29 E. Madison, Ste.950, CHICAGO, IL 60602, (312) 372-2020 Please refer to file number 134200-201.

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.

HAUSELMAN, RAPPIN & OLSWANG, LTD. 29 E. Madison, Ste.950 CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 372-2020 Attorney File No. 13-4200-201 Attorney Code. 4452 Case Number: 13 CH 20832 TJSC#: 35-9957 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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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION TCF NATIONAL BANK Plaintiff, -v.UNKNOWN HEIRS AT LAW AND/OR DEVISEES OF CHRISTINE RATCLIFF A/K/A CHRISTINE J. RATCLIFF, JAMES E. WALKER A/K/A JAMES WALKER, RONYEL BROWN A/K/A RONYELL BROWN A/K/A RONYELL BROWN-POWELL, HOMEPLUS FINANCE CORPORATION, UNKNOWN HEIRS AT LAW AND/OR DEVISEES OF MELVIN RATCLIFF A/K/A MC RATCLIFF, WILLIAM P. BUTCHER, AS PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE ESTATE OF CHRISTINE RATCLIFF A/K/A CHRISTINE J. RATCLIFF, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 14 CH 14602 821 N. LOCKWOOD 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 May 28, 2015, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on August 31, 2015, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT 31 IN BLOCK 3 IN THE SUBDIVISION OF THE EAST 1/2 OF THE SOUTH EAST 1/4 OF THE SOUTH WEST 1/4 OF SECTION 4, TOWNSHIP 39 NORTH, RANGE 13, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 821 N. LOCKWOOD AVENUE, Chicago, IL 60651 Property Index No. 16-04-330-015-0000.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $103,239.34.

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 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 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, contact DAVID T. COHEN, DAVID T. COHEN & ASSOCIATES, 10729 WEST 159TH STREET, ORLAND PARK, IL 60467, (708) 460-7711 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.

DAVID T. COHEN & ASSOCIATES 10729 WEST 159TH STREET ORLAND PARK, IL 60467 (708) 460-7711 Attorney Code. 25602 Case Number: 14 CH 14602 TJSC#: 35-8405 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.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION TCF NATIONAL BANK Plaintiff, -v.JESUS ZAVALA, MARIA E. ZAVALA A/K/A MARIA EUSEBIA BUCIO DE ZAVALA, ISRAEL BUCIO, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 14 CH 06158 2117 W. 51ST STREET Chicago, IL 60609 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on June 9, 2015, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on September 10, 2015, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT 18 IN NUTT AND WALLECK’S SUBDIVISION OF THE WEST 1/2 OF BLOCKS 1 AND 4 IN THE SUBDIVISION OF THE SOUTHWEST 1/4 OF SECTION 7, TOWNSHIP 38 NORTH, RANGE 14, (EXCEPT THE WEST 50 FEET THEREOF), EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 2117 W. 51ST STREET, Chicago, IL 60609 Property Index No. 20-07-302-014-0000.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $119,324.81.

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 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 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, contact DAVID T. COHEN, DAVID T. COHEN & ASSOCIATES, 10729 WEST 159TH STREET, ORLAND PARK, IL 60467, (708) 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.

DAVID T. COHEN & ASSOCIATES 10729 WEST 159TH STREET ORLAND PARK, IL 60467 (708) 460-7711 Attorney Code. 25602 Case Number: 14 CH 06158 TJSC#: 35-8969 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

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOISCOUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION SEAWAY BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, F/K/A SEAWAY NATIONAL BANK OF CHICAGO Plaintiff, -v.DARRELL STEVENSON, GWENDOLYN STEVENSON, ASPIRE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, F/K/A FAA EASTERN REGION FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, CITY OF CHICAGO, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 14 CH 13826 7636 SOUTH PERRY AVENUE Chicago, IL 60619 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on June 8, 2015, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on September 9, 2015, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: THE SOUTH 10 FEET OF LOT 14 AND LOT 15 (EXCEPT THE SOUTH 5 FEET THEREOF) IN BLOCK 10 IN BANKER’S RESUBDIVISION OF BLOCKS 3 AND 10 IN H.L. STEWART’S SUBDIVISION OF THE NORTH 1/2, OF THE SOUTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION 28, TOWNSHIP 38 NORTH, RANGE 14 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 7636 SOUTH PERRY AVENUE, Chicago, IL 60619 Property Index No. 20-28-411-041-0000.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $54,119.80.

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 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, contact Plaintiff s attorney: BROTHERS AND THOMPSON, TWO PRUDENTIAL PLAZA, 180 N. STETSON AVE., SUITE 4425, Chicago, IL 60601, (312) 372-2909 FAX: (312) 262-7398 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.

BROTHERS AND THOMPSON TWO PRUDENTIAL PLAZA, 180 N. STETSON AVE., SUITE 4425 Chicago, IL 60601 (312) 372-2909 Attorney Code. 35496 Case Number: 14 CH 13826 TJSC#: 35-9447 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.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.JORGE GARCIA, CITY OF CHICAGO, UNKNOWN OWNERS-TENANTS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 10 CH 10803 5439 S. KOLIN AVE. Chicago, IL 60632 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on September 22, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on August 20, 2015, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT 32 AND THE SOUTH 5 FEET OF LOT 33 IN BLOCK 14 IN THE RE-SUBDIVISION OF PART OF BLOCK 11 AND OF BLOCK 14 IN STEDMAN’S SUBDIVISION OF THE WEST 1/2 OF THE SOUTHEAST 1/4 AND PART OF THE WEST 1/2 OF THE NORTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION 10, TOWNSHIP 38 NORTH, RANGE 13, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 5439 S. KOLIN AVE., Chicago, IL 60632 Property Index No. 19-10-416-057-0000.

The real estate is improved with a single unit dwelling.

The judgment amount was $493,534.04.

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 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, contact Plaintiff s attorney: KOZENY & McCUBBIN ILLINOIS, LLC, 105 WEST ADAMS STREET, SUITE 1850, Chicago, IL 60603, (312) 605-3500 Please refer to file number 10-0207.

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.

KOZENY & McCUBBIN ILLINOIS, LLC 105 WEST ADAMS STREET, SUITE 1850 Chicago, IL 60603 (312) 605-3500 Attorney File No. 10-0207 Attorney Code. 56284 Case Number: 10 CH 10803 TJSC#: 35-10474 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.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION PRE HOLDINGS 9, LLC Plaintiff, -v.PIERRE LANE, INGRID SPINKS, CITY OF CHICAGO, JP MORGAN CHASE, N.A., UNIQUE MANAGEMENT APARTMENT SERVICES, AND UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 14 CH 10559 10201 S. ST. LAWRENCE Chicago, IL 60628 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on July 10, 2015, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on August 18, 2015, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOTS 1137 AND 1138, IN FREDERICK H. BARTLETT’S GREATER CHICAGO SUBDIVISION NO. 1, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF ALL THE EAST HALF OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 10, TOWNSHIP 37 NORTH, RANGE 14 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, AND ALL OF THAT PART OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 10, LYING WEST OF THE ADJOINING ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD RIGHT OF WAY (EXCEPT THEREFROM THE NORTH 33.277 ACRES THEREOF), IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS Commonly known as 10201 S. ST. LAWRENCE, Chicago, IL 60628 Property Index No. 25-10-417-001-0000.

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

The judgment amount was $828,539.99.

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 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, contact OWEN P. QUINN, MCDONALD HOPKINS LLC, 300 NORTH LASALLE STREET, SUITE 2100, Chicago, IL 60654, (312) 280-0111 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.

MCDONALD HOPKINS LLC 300 NORTH LASALLE STREET, SUITE 2100 Chicago, IL 60654 (312) 280-0111 Case Number: 14 CH 10559 TJSC#: 35-10241 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.

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR FREMONT HOME LOAN TRUST 2005-A, MORTGAGE-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-A Plaintiff, -v.SHIRLEY WILLIAMS, FIRST SECURITY TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK Defendants 1 : 12 CV 9668 12846 SOUTH LOWE AVE Chicago, IL 60628 JUDGE Rebecca R. Pallmeyer NOTICE OF SPECIAL COMMISSIONER’S SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on March 5, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, Special Commissioner appointed herein, will at 10:30 AM on August 11, 2015, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 12846 SOUTH LOWE AVE, Chicago, IL 60628 Property Index No. 25-33-112-047.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $144,352.33.

Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours.

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

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

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

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

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

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, contact Plaintiff s attorney: POTESTIVO & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 223 WEST JACKSON BLVD, STE 610, Chicago, IL 60606, (312) 263-0003 Please refer to file number C1496329.

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.

POTESTIVO & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 223 WEST JACKSON BLVD, STE 610 Chicago, IL 60606 (312) 263-0003 Attorney File No. C14-96329 Case Number: 1 : 12 CV 9668 TJSC#: 35-9958 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.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION MIDFIRST BANK Plaintiff, -v.RADFORD SMITH, VERONICA M. REAVES A/K/A VERONICA REAVES-SMITH A/K/A VERONICA MICHELLE REAVES-SMITH, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, DISCOVER BANK, MIDLAND FUNDING, LLC, LVNV FUNDING, LLC Defendants 15 CH 307 5808 SOUTH CALIFORNIA AVENUE Chicago, IL 60629 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on May 29, 2015, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on September 1, 2015, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 5808 SOUTH CALIFORNIA AVENUE, Chicago, IL 60629 Property Index No. 19-13-131-018-0000.

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

The judgment amount was $52,761.11.

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 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, contact The sales clerk, SHAPIRO KREISMAN & ASSOCIATES, LLC, 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301, Bannockburn, IL 60015, (847) 291-1717 between the hours of 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. only Please refer to file number 14-074654.

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

SHAPIRO KREISMAN & ASSOCIATES, LLC 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301 Bannockburn, IL 60015 (847) 291-1717 Attorney File No. 14-074654 Attorney Code. 42168 Case Number: 15 CH 307 TJSC#: 35-8431 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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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION EVERBANK Plaintiff, -v.IHOR BONDARSKYY, JACEK MILCZANOWSKI, AS TRUSTEE OF THE 5537 S. THROOP STREET RESIDENTIAL LAND TRUST, ALSJ, INC. Defendants 12 CH 06504 5537 S. Throop St. Chicago, IL 60636 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 17, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on August 31, 2015, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 5537 S. Throop St., Chicago, IL 60636 Property Index No. 20-17-106-015-0000.

The real estate is improved with a multi family residence.

The judgment amount was $361,635.56.

Sale terms: 100% of the bid amount, including the Judicial sale fee for 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, shall be paid in certified funds immediately by the highest and best bidder at the conclusion of the sale.

The certified check must be made payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. 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, contact Plaintiff s attorney: HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC, 111 East Main Street, DECATUR, IL 62523, (217) 422-1719 If the sale is not confirmed for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the purchase price paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee s attorney.

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 Attorney Code. 40387 Case Number: 12 CH 06504 TJSC#: 35-9703 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

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORPORATION, Plaintiff, -v.CHICAGO TITLE LAND TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE UNDER A TRUST AGREEMENT DATED FEBRUARY 28, 1989 AND KNOWN AS TRUST NUMBER 107876-04, CITY OF CHICAGO, CITY OF CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF WATER MANAGEMENT, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 14 CH 14851 116-118 S. CALIFORNIA AVE. 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 July 9, 2015, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on August 14, 2015, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 116-118 S. CALIFORNIA AVE., Chicago, IL 60612 Property Index No. 16-13-109-040-0000.

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

The judgment amount was $275,795.66.

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 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, contact Plaintiff s attorney: HAUSELMAN, RAPPIN & OLSWANG, LTD., 29 E. Madison, Ste.950, CHICAGO, IL 60602, (312) 372-2020 Please refer to file number 144300-557.

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.

HAUSELMAN, RAPPIN & OLSWANG, LTD. 29 E. Madison, Ste.950 CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 372-2020 Attorney File No. 14-4300-557 Attorney Code. 4452 Case Number: 14 CH 14851 TJSC#: 35-10149 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.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF LOUISE E. WOODLEY AKA LOUISE WOODLEY AKA LOUISE EASTON WOODLEY, 5115-17 HYDE PARK-ELLIS CONDOMINIUMS ASSOCIATION AKA ELLIS ESTATES CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION OF HYDE PARK, FRANCES P. HODGES AKA PATRICIA WASHINGTON HODGES AKA PATRICIA HODGES, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATOR, FELIX LAMAUREAUX, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF ROSE BLAKEY, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF LUCILE LAMAUREAUX, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 14 CH 17096 5117 SOUTH ELLIS AVENUE APT. 1 Chicago, IL 60615 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on July 14, 2015, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on August 24, 2015, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 5117 SOUTH ELLIS AVENUE APT. 1, Chicago, IL 60615 Property Index No. 20-11-303-023-1002.

The real estate is improved with a condominium.

The judgment amount was $177,295.12.

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 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, or a 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 and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). In accordance with 735 ILCS 5/151507(c)(1)(h-1) and (h-2), 765 ILCS 605/9(g) (5), and 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1), you are hereby notified that the purchaser of the property, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and legal fees required by subsections (g)(1) and (g)(4) of section 9 and the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of section 18.5 of the Illinois Condominium Property Act. 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, contact the sales department, ANSELMO LINDBERG OLIVER LLC, 1771 W. Diehl Road, Suite 150, NAPERVILLE, IL 60563, (630) 453-6960 For bidding instructions, visit www.fal-illinois.com. Please refer to file number F13120752.

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.

ANSELMO LINDBERG OLIVER LLC 1771 W. Diehl Road, Suite 150 NAPERVILLE, IL 60563 (630) 453-6960 E-Mail: foreclosurenotice@fal-illinois.com Attorney File No. F13120752 Attorney ARDC No. 3126232 Attorney Code. 26122 Case Number: 14 CH 17096 TJSC#: 35-10649 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

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION TCF NATIONAL BANK Plaintiff, -v.SERGIO A. GOMEZ A/K/A SERGIO GOMEZ, LAURA GOMEZ A/K/A LAURA HINOJOSA DE GOMEZ, BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. S/I/I TO LASALLE BANK, N.A., UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 14 CH 18430 5712 S. CALIFORNIA AVENUE A/K/A 5714 S. CALIFORNIA AVENUE Chicago, IL 60629 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on April 27, 2015, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on September 8, 2015, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT 5 IN BLOCK 1 IN MARQUETTE LAWN, BEING A RESUBDIVISION OF BLOCK 1 AND 2 IN ELECTRIC SUBDIVISION BEING A SUBDIVISION OF BLOCK 1 AND THE EAST 1/2 OF BLOCK 2 IN MAHAN’S SUBDIVISION OF THE SOUTH 1/2 OF THE NORTHWEST 1/4 OF SECTION 13, TOWNSHIP 38 NORTH, RANGE 13, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 5712 S. CALIFORNIA AVENUE A/K/A 5714 S. CALIFORNIA AVENUE, Chicago, IL 60629 Property Index No. 19-13-123-025-0000.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $120,381.79.

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 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 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, contact DAVID T. COHEN, DAVID T. COHEN & ASSOCIATES, 10729 WEST 159TH STREET, ORLAND PARK, IL 60467, (708) 460-7711 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.

DAVID T. COHEN & ASSOCIATES 10729 WEST 159TH STREET ORLAND PARK, IL 60467 (708) 460-7711 Attorney Code. 25602 Case Number: 14 CH 18430 TJSC#: 35-6912 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.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK, NA Plaintiff, -v.GLADYS JOHNSON, FELICIA JOHNSON AKA FELICIA L. JOHNSON Defendants 13 CH 4994 6142 SOUTH FRANCISCO AVENUE Chicago, IL 60629 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on November 18, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on August 27, 2015, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 6142 SOUTH FRANCISCO AVENUE, Chicago, IL 60629 Property Index No. 19-13-321-035-0000.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $95,275.91.

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 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, or a 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 and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). In accordance with 735 ILCS 5/151507(c)(1)(h-1) and (h-2), 765 ILCS 605/9(g) (5), and 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1), you are hereby notified that the purchaser of the property, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and legal fees required by subsections (g)(1) and (g)(4) of section 9 and the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of section 18.5 of the Illinois Condominium Property Act. 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, contact the sales department, ANSELMO LINDBERG OLIVER LLC, 1771 W. Diehl Road, Suite 150, NAPERVILLE, IL 60563, (630) 453-6960 For bidding instructions, visit www.fal-illinois.com. Please refer to file number F13010401.

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.

ANSELMO LINDBERG OLIVER LLC 1771 W. Diehl Road, Suite 150 NAPERVILLE, IL 60563 (630) 453-6960 E-Mail: foreclosurenotice@fal-illinois.com Attorney File No. F13010401 Attorney ARDC No. 3126232 Attorney Code. 26122 Case Number: 13 CH 4994 TJSC#: 35-10885 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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Minimum Qualifications for the program are as follows: a. At least 18 years of age b. Must have graduated high school or obtained a GED. The applicant will provide a high school transcript for evaluation purposes. c. Be a resident of the jurisdictional area of Local 150. d. A valid driver’s license and the maintenance of such are required at the time of selection. e. A statement from a licensed physician stating physical ability to perform the work of the trades will be required 30 days after being indentured into the program. f. Must be able to read, write, and speak the English language. g. Required to undergo drug testing.

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BROWN Hattye Brown…..Wake was held: Friday, July 24, 2015; 10:00am-11:00am @ Chapel Country Club Hills, 18400 S. Pulaski Road Funeral: 11:00am-12:00pm Interment: Abraham Lincoln Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

WILSON Darrell Wilson…..Memorial was held: Friday, July 24, 2015; 1:00pm2:30pm @ Chapel Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

GLASPER Stacey Glasper…..Visitation was held: Saturday, July 25, 2015; 1:00pm4:00pm @ Chapel Country Club Hills, 18400 S. Pulaski Road Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

CLEMONS, JR. William Clemons, Jr…..Wake was held: Saturday, July 25, 2015; 9:00am-10:00am @ Chapel Funeral: 10:00am-11:00am Interment: Mt. Hope Cemetery Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

FAULKNER Annie Faulkner…..Wake was held: Saturday, July 25, 2015; 10:00am10:30am @ Morgan Park Apostolic Funeral: 10:30am-11:30am Interment: Mt. Hope Cemetery Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

JOHNSON David Johnson…..Wake was held: Saturday, July 25, 2015; 10:00am-11:00am @ South Park Baptist Church, 3722 S. King Dr. Funeral: 11:00am-12:00pm Interment: Mt. Hope Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

STEVENSON Velma Stevenson…..Wake was held: Saturday, July 25, 2015; 10:00am-11:00am @ Chapel Country Club Hills, 18400 S. Pulaski Road Funeral: 11:00am-12:00pm Interment: Washington Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

WATSON Katherine Watson…..Wake was held: Saturday, July 25, 2015; 10:00am11:00am Chapel King Funeral: 11:00am12:00pm Interment: Mt. Hope Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

HARRIS Julian Harris…..Wake was held: Saturday, July 25, 2015; 10:00am11:00am @ Holy Temple Evangelistic COGIC, 15912 Lincoln Ave. Funeral: 11:00am-12:00pm Interment: Washington Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

ARCHIE Mary Archie…..Wake was held: Saturday, July 25, 2015; 10:00am-11:00am @ Greater Harvest BC, 5141 S. State Street Funeral: 11:00am-12:00pm Interment: Oakland Memory Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

PERKINS, SR. Johnny Perkins, Sr…..Wake was held: Saturday, July 25, 2015; 10:00am-11:00am @ Centennial Baptist Church, 4359 S. Michigan Funeral: 11:00am-12:00pm Interment: Washington Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

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MILLER, SR. Isaiah Miller, Sr…..Wake was held: Saturday, July 25, 2015; 10:00am11:00am @ Shiloh BC, 10540 S. Halsted Funeral: 11:00am-12:00pm Interment: Mt. Hope Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

HANDY-WILLIAMS Cynthia Handy-Williams…..Wake was held: Saturday, July 25, 2015; 10:00am-11:00am @ Chapel Jackson Funeral: 11:00am-12:00pm Interment: Mt. Hope Cemetery Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

FIELDS Ta’Aqua Fields…..Wake was held: Saturday, July 25, 2015; 1:00pm-1:30pm @ Chapel Jackson Funeral: 1:30pm2:30pm Interment: Mt. Hope Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

JACKSON Geneva Jackson…..Wake was held: Saturday, July 25, 2015; 5:00pm-6:00pm @ Chapel Funeral: 6:00pm-7:00pm Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

SMITH Jennifer Smith…..Wake was held: Saturday, July 25, 2015; 1:00pm2:00pm @ Chapel Funeral: 2:00pm3:00pm Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

MC CALLISTER Lisa McCallister…..Wake was held: Saturday, July 25, 2015; 5:00pm6:00pm @ Chapel Funeral: 6:00pm7:00pm Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

HARRIS Madeline Harris…..Wake was held: Saturday, July 25, 2015; 10:00am-11:00am @ New Faith, Vollmer Road & Central Funeral: 11:00am-12:00pm Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

BRYANT Roosevelt Bryant…..Visitation was held: Saturday, July 25, 2015; 3:00pm4:00pm @ Chapel (Slumber Room) 9:00pm-10:00pm Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

THURMAN Lewis Thurman…..Visitation was held: Sunday, July 26, 2015; 6:00pm9:00pm @ Chapel King Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

WOODALL Lewis Woodall…..Wake was held: Sunday, July 26, 2015; 1:00pm-2:00pm @ Chapel Country Club Hills, 18400 S. Pulaski Road Funeral: 2:00pm-3:00pm Interment: Homewood Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

LOUDEN Joyce Louden…..Wake was held: Sunday, July 26, 2015; 2:00pm-3:00pm @ Chapel Funeral: 3:00pm-4:00pm Interment: Monday, July 27, 2015; 9:00am @ Restvale Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

GREEN Virginia Green…..Wake was held: Monday, July 27, 2015; 11:00am12:00pm @ Chapel Graveside: 1:00pm Oak Woods Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

WILLIAMS, SR. Johnnie Williams, Sr…..Wake was held: Monday, July 27, 2015; 10:00am-11:00am @ Chapel Country Club Hills, 18400 S. Pulaski Road Funeral: 11:00am- 12:00pm Interment: Abe Lincoln Cemetery Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

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REED Maedean Reed…..Wake was held: Monday, July 27, 2015; 10:00am11:00am @ Apostolic Church of God, 6340 S. Dorchester Funeral: 11:00am-12:00pm Interment: Mt. Hope Cemetery Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

PATTON Isadore Patton…..Wake was held: Monday, July 27, 2015; 10:00am11:00am @ South Park BC, 3722 S. King Dr. Funeral: 11:00am-12:00pm Interment: Mt. Hope Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

JEFFERSON Antoinette Jefferson…..Wake was held: Monday, July 27, 2015; 10:00am-11:00am @ Chapel Jackson Funeral: 11:00am-12:00pm Interment: Cedar Park Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

WILLIAMS, SR. Shanklin Williams, Sr…..Visitation was held: Monday, July 27, 2015; 6:00pm9:00pm Interment: Tuesday, July 28, 2015; 9:00am @ Evergreen Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

LOFTON Marsean Lofton…..Memorial was held: Monday, July 27, 2015; 11:00am1:00pm @ Corinthian Temple, 4520 W. Washington Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

WALLACE Jesse Wallace…..Memorial was held: Monday, July 27, 2015; 1:00pm2:30pm @ Chapel Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

BUBACZ Thomas Bubacz…..Wake was held: Tuesday, July 28, 2015; 10:00am11:00am @ Chapel Funeral: 11:00am12:00pm Interment: St. Adalbert, 6800 N. Milwaukee Ave., Niles, IL Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

MITCHELL Wilbur Mitchell…..Visitation was held: Tuesday, July 28, 2015; 11:30am12:00pm @ Trinity United, 400 W. 95th Street Funeral: 12:00pm-1:00pm Interment: Mt. Hope Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

MC LAURIN Mary McLaurin…..Wake: Wednesday, July 29, 2015; 9:00am-10:00am @ Chapel Funeral: 10:00am-11:00am Interment: Homewood Cemetery Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

COTTON Loretta Cotton…..Wake: Wednesday, July 29, 2015; 10:00am-11:00am @ Chapel Funeral: 11:00am-12:00pm Interment: Oak Woods Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

CUNNINGHAM, JR. Robert Cunningham, Jr…..Wake: Wednesday, July 29, 2015; 10:00am11:00am @ Chapel Country Club Hills, 18400 S. Pulaski Road Funeral: 11:00am-12:00pm Interment: Abraham Lincoln Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

FULLER Janice Fuller…..Wake: Wednesday, July 29, 2015; 10:00am-11:00am @ Apostolic Church of God, 6320 S. Dorchester Ave. Funeral: 11:00am-12:00pm Interment: Mt. Hope Cemetery Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

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MURFF Wilfa Murff…..Wake: Wednesday, July 29, 2015; 10:00am-11:00am @ Trinity United, 400 W. 95th Street Funeral: 11:00am-12:00pm Interment: Abraham Lincoln Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

ALDERSON Mary Alderson…..Wake: Thursday, July 30, 2015; 10:00am-11:00am @Chapel Country Club Hills, 18400 S. Pulaski Road Funeral: 11:00am-12:00pm Interment: Restvale Cemetery Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

MORRIS Delisa Morris…..Wake: Thursday, July 30, 2015; 10:00am-11:00am@ Progressive Baptist Church, 26 East 127th St. Funeral: 11:00am-12:00pm Interment: Restvale Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

GATHEM Thomas Gathem…..Wake: Thursday, July 30, 2015; 6:00pm-7:00pm @ Chapel King Funeral: 7:00pm8:00pm Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

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FREEMAN Grady Freeman…..Wake was held: Monday, July 27, 2015; 11:00am @ Chapel Funeral: 12:00pm Interment: Private Arrangement by: Calahan Funeral Home Inc., 7030 S. Halsted St., Chicago, IL 60621: (773) 723-4400.

HUTCHINGS Richard Hutchings…..Wake: Wednesday, July 29, 2015; 11:30am @ Chapel Interment: Private Arrangements by: Calahan Funeral Home Inc., 7030 S. Halsted St., Chicago, IL 60621: (773) 723-4400.

HAWKINS Herbert C. Hawkins….. Funeral: Friday, July 30, 2015; 10:30am-11:00am Visitation: 11:00am-12:00pm @ Chapel Interment: Private Arrangements by: Calahan Funeral Home Inc., 7030 S. Halsted St., Chicago, IL 60621.

MILLER Mattie Miller…..Wake: Saturday, August 1, 2015; 10:00am @ Evening Star, 2050 West 59th Street Funeral: 11:00am Interment: Mt. Hope Cemetery Arrangements by: Calahan Funeral Home Inc., 7030 S. Halsted St. Chicago, IL 60621: (773) 723-4400.

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TAYLOR Jerry Taylor…..Wake: Wednesday, July 29, 2015; 10:00am @ Chapel Funeral: 11:00am Interment: Abraham Lincoln Arrangements by: Taylor Funeral Home Ltd., 63 E 79th Street, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 488-7300.

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FLEMMING Michael Flemming…..Wake: Friday, August 1, 2015; 1:00pm@ Chapel Funeral: 2:00pm Arrangements by: Taylor Funeral Home Ltd., 63 E 79th Street, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 488-7300.

WALLACE Lenell Wallace…..Wake: Saturday, August 2, 2015; 10:00am@ Chapel Funeral: 11:00am Interment: Mt. Hope Arrangements by: Taylor Funeral Home Ltd., 63 E 79th Street, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 488-7300.

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BUNTYN Tyrone Buntyn…..Wake: Friday, July 31, 2015; 10:00am-11:00am Funeral: 11:00am-12:00pm Interment: Oakridge Cemetery Arrangements Entrusted To: Leak and Sons Funeral Home, 7838 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 846-6567.

PARKS Cornell Parks…..Wake: Saturday, August 2, 2015; 10:00am@ Liberation Christian Center, 7400 S. Michigan Funeral: 11:00am Interment: Mt. Hope Arrangements by: Taylor Funeral Home Ltd., 63 E 79th Street, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 488-7300.

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DUNGY, JR. Henry Dungy, Jr…..Wake was held: Tuesday, July 28, 2015; 10:00am @ Chapel Funeral: 11:00am Interment: Oak Woods Arrangements by: Taylor Funeral Home Ltd., 63 E. 79th Street, Chicago, IL 60619: (773) 488-7300.

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