Austin Weekly News 032024

North Lawndale celebrates develops community

Lawndale Christian Development Corporation Lawndale United promotes local resources for a ordable housing and co- op businesses that empower the neighborhood

By JESSICA MORDACQ Staff Reporter

Since its inception in 1987, the Lawndale Christian Development Corporation has worked to fulfill the church’s call for love and justice by addressing social issues and disparities throughout North Lawndale.

A big part of that includes initiatives of creating af fordable housing, co-op businesses and community organizing.

“Our understanding of that calling is to com-

The council’s 10th meeting focused on public safety problems a ecting West Side youth

By JESSICA MORDACQ Staff Reporter

The 15th District Council’s 10th meeting Thursday focused on Austin’s youth, centering the discussion on the fentanyl crisis and gun violence.

One attendee started the meeting’s period of public comment asking about whether it was right for the Chicago Board of Education to vote to remove Chicago police officers from schools last month, adding that he knows of some

kids who have good relationships with their school’s police officers.

“The optics of an armed officer can be a deterrent, a distraction, or can be perceived as a threat,” said Carmelita Earls, chair of the 15th District Council.

Arewa Karen Winters, who spoke personally and not as the 15th District

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Deondre’ Rutues, the 15th District Council’s community engagement specialist, speaks at the

NORTH LAWNDALE

Celebrating ‘re-neighboring’

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mit ourselves to tackling the housing and wealth disparity in North Lawndale,” said Whittney Smith, LCDC’s deputy director and counsel. “Our work is about people, we just happen to develop buildings in service of our work with people.”

Over the past several decades, LCDC has

developed more than 200 units ofaf fordable housing and overseen around $120 million of residential and commercial redevelopment in North Lawndale, like building the Carole Robertson Center and local Lou Malnati’s. And their development ef for ts aren’t stopping any time soon.

On Friday, LCDC hosted Lawndale United: Development for a Stronger Community, a celebration of its accomplishments, plus an opportunity to meet North Lawndale neighbors and learn about LCDC’s resources. The event took place at Sinai Community Institute, 2653 West Ogden Avenue.

Though LCDC has hosted summer barbeques over the past few years, Lawndale United was one ofthe organization’s larger events since the pandemic, and a reintroduction of sorts into the community

“It’s really about re-neighboring ourselves,” Smith said ofthe event, an opportunity to meet some ofLCDC ’s new neighbors, and have them meet each other. “We know that one ofthe most vital aspects ofBlack l ife and our thriving in this c ountry has always b een about our relationship to one another, our ability to suppo rt one another.”

In addition to introductory remarks by Smith and LCDC Executive Director Richard Townsell, Lawndale United made time for residents to chat, then participate in a community visioning workshop. The workshop allowed them to discuss aspects oftheir neighborhood that they want to improve and how to go about doing that, though this isn’t the first time that LCDC is gathering community feedback.

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We want to build a stronger, more connected Nor th Lawndale.”

WHITTNE Y SMITH

LCDC’s deputy director and counsel

With other community leaders, LCDC has helped organize the nearly 250 members ofthe North Lawndale Homeowners Association, one that Smith said isn’t focused as much on tending grass or the color of homes as it is with equity.

PHOTO COURTESY OF LCDC One of 23 of the homes that have been built for LC DC’s initiative to const ruct 1,000 single-family homes on vacant lots in North Lawndale

“We organize with our folks for the power to argue for our fair share of city and state and county resources,” Smith said. For example, the homeowners association won $2.2 million from the City of Chicago to renovate the Chicago Public Library’s Douglass Branch in 2018, creating a better library for both patrons and employees.

Members of the homeowners association, Smith said, are vocal about their goals for the community. LCDC also canvasses with their interns and fellows, knocking on every door in North Lawndale to talk about their hopes and aspirations for their neighborhood .

“The heart of all of the f eedback we ge t is about how we c an b etter care for one another,” Smith said. This includes creating b etter o pportunities for youth, and everyone else in the c ommunity, by creating pl ay and gathering spaces, li ke pa rk s and restaurants.

At Lawndale United, there was a handful of resource tables, including one on homeownership, co-op initiatives, and financial support, informing attendees about LCDC’s services and resources.

One of these services is LCDC’s eighthour, home-buying curriculum that walks participants through the process. This comes with financial support education, including topics such as how to improve credit or navigate finances when it comes to buying a home, owning a business or just in everyday life.

“It’s all about building that generational knowledge of wealth,” Smith said.

ments on 16th Street and Hamlin Avenue, the block where Dr. King lived during his time in Chicago. In addition to affordable apartment units, the building houses the Soul Food Lounge (its chef, Quentin Love, catered Lawndale United), Open Books bookstore and a UIC recruiting community center

which will open later this year.

These co-ops are “born and raised and poured into by community members who are looking to not just enrich themselves, but enrich their families and communities through collective entrepreneurism and collective people power,” Smith said.

One of LCDC’s upcoming ef for ts is to build 1,000 single-family homes on vacant lots in North Lawndale, of which there are around 3,000. So far, they have built 23 of these homes in the last two-and-a-half years, all but three of which have sold. The homes are 1,700 square feet with three bedrooms and two bathrooms. Many, Smith said, are sold to first-time homebuyers, and there’s a waitlist to be one of them.

This year, LCDC plans to build up to another 50 of these homes and is hoping to soon scale to constructing around 200 a year. These homes are af fordable, though Smith hesitates to use that word because of the stigma around it.

“The af fordability element comes in the work we do after the home is built, and not what the home looks like or what it’s made of,” Smith said. “These are world class homes by any measure.” And they’re all a part of LCDC’s mission to develop and empower its community.

Smith said, “We want to build a stronger, more connected Nor th Lawndale.”

PHOTO COURTESY OF LCDC

A group of people enjoy Law ndale United: Development for a Stronger Community on Friday.

PHOTO COURTESY OF LCDC Whittney Smith speaks at the Law ndale United event Friday.

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Community solutions

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Council’s nominating committee, added that she gets the pros and cons of having police officers in schools.

“I understand both sides: why we want to keep police officers in school, but I also understand some people’s sentiment that it’s not necessarily saying that the children are going to be safe because it’s just addressing a problem and not necessarily getting to the root of the problem.”

As Chicago police are restricted from entering Chicago Public Schools, Winters suggests they should be replaced with counselors or restorative justice programs

Though 39 high schools will no longer have one or two police officers on campus, Chicago Public Schools still have over 1,4000 security officers not employed by the Chicago Police Department.

“I personally feel that it should have been up to the individual schools,” Winters said.

The Chicago City Council passed an ordinance in 2021 that created 22 district councils for most of the city’s 25 police districts Along with the newly constructed Chicago Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability — which gets input from the community and has the power to advance reform — the ordinance’s district councils exist to improve public safety and policing in Chicago.

Every district council’s three members are chosen through municipal elections every four years, though the first elections occurred February 2023. That was no dif ferent for the council of the 15th District, bound to the North and South by Division Street and Roosevelt Road, Austin Boulevard to the West and Cicero Avenue to the East.

The 15th District Council is composed of Earls, Winters and Deondre’ Rutues, community eng agement specialist. Since last year, the 15th District Council has held monthly meetings to discuss ef forts of public safety and police accountability on the West Side.

Other public comments Thursday addressed the dozen-or-so tents set up in Columbus Park and excess trash in the area. One of two police officers at the meeting from the Chicago Police Department’s 15th District said that police will only get involved if the unhoused community begins interfering with locals’ use of the park. He added that officers will investigate whether nearby shelters have room to take them,

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the two 15th District tendance knew where young people are pu c street drug do about fentanyl exposure and use

The police officers at the meeting said that many officers carry Narcan and are zeroing in on areas where there suspect fentanyl sales, although fentanyl arrests are rare Rather, many fentanyl-related arrests are associated with gun crimes. But that doesn’t account for the number of people, especially young ones, affected by the drug.

“Austin has seen such a rise in non-fatal, fentanyl-related overdoses coming through West Suburban,” said Aisha Oliver, founder of Root2Fruit Youth Foundation, which provides support to youth on Chicago’s West Side. One of the doctors at West Suburban Medical Center reached out to Oliver because the hospital doesn’t have resources to help the daily flux of young people experiencing non-fatal, fentanylrelated overdoses.

“We can’t stop it by going to drug spots because there’s so many,” Oliver said. Rather, she suggests focusing on educating adults and parents, and figuring out why children are taking drugs.

speak in local schools. Oliver said the organization has also partnered to bring Pushing Peace to West Suburban, Rush Medical Center, Lurie’s Children Hospital, the Chicago Department of Public Health’s Prevention Partnership and the PCC Community Wellness Center

Al Stinson, also spoke at the meeting. With Kenya S. Hawkins, Stinson founded Yrudition as a new nonprofit that helps to restore emotional well-being and provide trauma education.

Trauma stays in the body, Stinson said, and often overflows when triggered. He compares the reaction to shaking a can of pop.

“The system is set up for us to be pop,” Stinson said, but Yrudition’s goal is to help regulate the body, so this reaction becomes like shaking water. “We focus so much on the pain of our triggers. Let’s focus on the elevation of our triggers.”

Much of Stinson’s trauma education overlaps with learning about gun violence.

“When we get triggered, we automatically

“Not only did he make it, he pointed it at one of the students,” Hawkins told the Austin Weekly News. “Did he know what he was doing?” After, Stinson talked to the boy, and he and Hawkins decided to start Yrudition.

Hawkins and Stinson work full-time at a nonprofit that offers mental health services, and both have trauma and resilience life coach certifications.

“Our communities are just riddled with trauma,” Hawkins said. So in June, Yrudition will have its launch party, and in July, offer its first cohort, targeting the youth in Austin and West Garfield Park.

The cohort will meet weekly for six months to a year and cover trauma-infor med care curriculum, teaching about the science of trauma, how it impacts the body and brain, and how to turn it into strength.

“We really want to meet you where you are,” Hawkins said, “and continuously work with you so that you can transform your mind, which will eventually transform your life and transform the way you think.”

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Al Stinson, co-founder of Yrudition, speaks about trauma and gun violence

Wecycle to host fourth annual stre et cleaning in Austin

The March 30 event will bring ‘beauty and unity back to the community by changing the view ’

By JESSICA MORDACQ Staff Reporter

In early 2019, West Side resident David Malik Fleming was driving for Uber. He was taking his passenger to Winnetka on Chicago’s North Shore and, after dropping him of f, popped in a piece of gum with the windows rolled down.

“Instinctively, I was going to throw the paper out, but I didn’t,” F leming said. “I looked around and the place was just immaculate. It’s beautiful, it’s really clean. I said, ‘Oh, I better not.’”

But a week later, while he was dropping of f a passenger near Douglass Park, he did the same thing, opened a piece of gum and tossed the wrapper out the window.

people collect trash on three stretches of road, starting just East of Austin Boulevard at 5922 W. Division Street.

“I do always commit to this particular area, where I was born and raised, where I lived at, where I lost a lot of people from the area to crime, to gun violence, to drugs,” Fleming said.

Participants clean up both sides of the street, working their way East to Central Avenue, then South to Chicago Avenue, ending at 5840 W. Chicago Avenue. At the end ofthe route, Wecycle hosts a barbeque with hot dogs, burgers, a bouncy house, DJ and Easter egg hunt.

Aldermen Chris Taliafer ro and Emma Mitts have supported the ef fort in past years and donated shovels and bags, Fleming said. Cleaning supplies are also paid for by Wecycle.

“It gives it that curbside appeal and brings a lot of energy and positive attention”

DAVID MALIK FLEMING Wecycle founder

“It dawned on me, ‘Why did you do that?’” Fleming said. “I was more apt to do it in my own neighborhood because it was already dirty.” He added, “no one is conscious, or just doesn’t respect the area enough to keep it clean.”

Fleming said he wanted to be a part of the solution, rather than the problem. So he started Wecycle in June 2019. The organization does community cleanup, snow removal and environmental restoration services, in addition to an annual street cleaning.

On March 30, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wecycle will host its fourth annual street cleaning event, where around 100

Fleming said he advertises the event to residents by posting flyers at surrounding churches and through contacts at the Institute for Nonviolence Chicago, Austin African American Business Networking Association, Chicago Austin Chamber of Commerce, Westside Health Authority, and the National Alliance for the Empowerment of the Formerly Incarcerated.

Fleming’s partner, Doris Freeman, works at Lawndale Christian Health Center and also advertises the event to her patients and staff.

“She’s a very big part ofmaking this a whole success,” F leming said of g etting people involved, and to be respectful and conscious about their neighborhood.

“It gives it that curbside appeal and brings a lot ofenergy and positive attention,” Fleming said of Wecycle’s street cleaning ef forts. “Our tagline is bringing beauty and unity back to the community by changing the view.”

How Fred Mitchell worked Chicago’s political machine to give Black West Siders a voice

As a city worker, grocer y store owner and political activist, Mitchell was part of a generation that shaped Chicago’s history from the Great Migration into the 21st centur y

By MICK DUMKE Block Club Chicago/A GCM partner

When Fred Mitchell was looking for a better job, he went to see his alder man.

It was 1960, “just prior to the Kennedy election,” Mitchell later recalled. Then a 30-year-old Korean War veteran, Mitchell had been working in a factory while taking classes in stenography. He hoped to end up as a court reporter.

But Ald. Otto Janousek was skeptical.

An imposing figure at 6-foot-6 and 300 pounds, Janousek was a foot taller than the compact Mitchell.

He was also powerful. He had been the 22nd Ward alderman for almost two decades, controlling politics and development in South Lawndale with little opposition.

As the Democratic committeeman, or ward boss, he distributed dozens of gover nment patronage jobs awarded to his organization for helping elect the party’s candidates Janousek was known for his fierce loyalties to the Democratic machine, the Chicago Bears and the Czech community, which had dominated his West Side ward for years.

Still, Janousek wanted to hear what Mitch-

Court, located at City Hall.

Mitchell, a longtime West Sider and a veteran of some of the area’s most powerful political organizations, died in September He was 93.

Fred Mitchell, then in his 20s, when he was serving in the U.S. Ar my. Credit: Facebook

Born on a plantation in Mississippi, Mitchell witnessed and fought what was called “plantation politics” in Chicago — a system created when the demographics of neighborhoods shifted rapidly, yet white political bosses remained in control.

After getting his start as one of the few Black precinct captains in the 22nd Ward, Mitchell watched the neighboring 24th Ward organization scramble after Ald. Ben Lewis was murdered in 1963. A year later, he helped get out the vote when, as he put it, those West Side wards elected a dead man — Thomas J. O’Brien — for the Democratic nomination for Congress

ell could offer. The 22nd Ward was changing

— Polish and then Puerto Rican and Mexican residents had been moving into the area along with some Black families like Mitchell’s. To win elections — to hold onto power

— Janousek’s ward organization needed to get the newcomers to the polls

“When I did my interview with Otto, he said, ‘So what can you do?’” Mitchell said. “I said, ‘I’m a stenographer.’ He said, ‘We don’t have no jobs like that.’”

Mitchell didn’t give up. He asked about

working as a court bailiff. Again, Janousek didn’t commit. The alderman had the clout to get someone a job in the court system, but he didn’t know Mitchell well enough for such an important position. After all, bailif fs were extremely helpful to the ward organization because they could get people out of legal jams — favors that could then be leveraged for votes.

Plus, Janousek noted that bailiffs carried guns.

“He wasn’t sure,” Mitchell said.

The conversation ended without a job offer, but Mitchell came away understanding his prospects might improve if he volunteered for the 22nd Ward Democrats

For the next year, he worked a precinct, listening to residents and trying to deliver services to a Black community that had often been ignored, if not vilified. In return, they were urged to vote for the Democratic ticket. Mitchell did well enough that he was soon named the precinct captain, overseeing four other workers and keeping paperwork on his visits with neighbors

After a year, “I got the job,” Mitchell said in a 2019 interview. He was hired as a deputy bailiff in what was then called the Municipal

After his neighborhood lost one of its grocery stores, Mitchell opened one himself. He continued organizing for Black political empower ment in the wake of Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1968 assassination, which sparked riots and then decades of disinvestment from which the West Side would never fully recover. Yet well into his retirement, Mitchell worked to bring resources and city services to the Lawndale area.

Mitchell was never famous, but he was part of a generation that shaped Chicago’s history from the Great Migration into the 21st century. Though faced with limited options, he worked both within and outside the city’s political machine to break racial barriers and build communities

“Politics in Chicago was corrupt, but we were able to help people low on the totem pole,” Mitchell said. “We got them jobs. We got them out of jail.”

From the cotton elds to Cabrini to Korea

Freddie Lee Mitchell was born in 1929 to parents who worked as sharecroppers on a farm called Pillar’s Plantation outside of Greenwood, Mississippi.

His mother, Cora Mitchell, ran their small home while his father, Mathew Mitchell, plowed, picked cotton and raised livestock for the proper ty owner. They also

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KJ Sa old holds a photo of his late grandfather, Fred Mitchell, at Union Missionary Baptist Church in Near North on Feb. 14, 2024.

A parental wake-up call

Both juries got it right! Michigan school shooter Ethan Crumbley’s mother, Jennifer, was convicted several weeks ago of involuntary manslaughter for her role in doing nothing to prevent her son’s actions when he massacred four of his fellow students at Oxford High.

Last week, his father, James Crumbley, was also found guilty of the same offense.

I’ve always spoken out about parental responsibility. I grew up among the poorest of the poor, but those parents did not tolerate their children’s obnoxious or willful behavior.

Over the past 40-50 years, people have been trying to convince the world that parenting has nothing to do with a child’s wayward behavior. Some folks would have you believe that “it just happens!” Naw!

There will always be a very rare exce ption but, for the most part, children’s behavior is the direct result of the way they were (or weren’ t) raised. And when they haven’t been parented, you get the problem kid. When children are not parented properly, you’ll get a 13-year-old out running the street late at night shooting guns and when he ends up dead, people are outraged! When children are parented, the parent having to come to school to address the child’s misbehavior is the kid’s worst nightmare.

their child’s backpack, knowing that they had purchased him a gun.

If there’s one universal truth, it ’s that a parent never gets a “right to privacy.” At every oppor tunity, children will do their best to r ummage through a parent’s stuf f to see what they can find. So on the flip side, children have no right to privacy while li ving under their parent’s roof. One of the first responsibilities of parenting is to know what your children are into, what they’re doing, and to be there to guide them in the right direction.

The Crumbley jury verdict is also setting a precedent for parental responsibility that will be expanded as each attorney uses it to make their case.

“If someone ends up dead, when your kid is out there slinging drugs on the block and sells drugs that kill somebody, maybe the parents will be charged with involuntary manslaughter too.”

So, irresponsible parents, your days of “excusefilled explanations” have come to an end. Looking the other way when your children who love to steal cars are out doing it will hopefully come to haunt you. If someone ends up dead, when your kid is out there slinging drugs on the block and sells drugs that kill somebody, maybe the parents will be charged with involuntary manslaughter too.

Our society is at a point where it can no longer overlook the obvious. I think that is exactly what the majority of parents, and in some cases grandparents, need to hear and understand

Thankfully, 24 citizens in Michig an had the common sense to see that the parents, who ignored all the war ning signs that their son displayed, were just as culpable as he was. Once Ethan’s parents were called to the school, they should’ve taken the initiative to check

And that’s why the jury came back with those guilty verdicts. Parents have abdicated their duties for too long and now the society is swinging the pendulum back saying, “No you can’t just ignore your child’s actions. You are just as responsible. It’s your fault, too, and we’re going to find a way to prosecute you!”

Come and See: the Catholic Community of Oak Park invites you to celebrate Holy Week with us!

The Parish of Ascension and St. Edmund

www.ascensionoakpark.com · 708 -848-2703 or 708-848-4417

Ascension Church

808 S. East Avenue, Oak Park

St. Edmund Church 188 S. Oak Park Avenue, Oak Park

The Parish of St. Catherine of Siena -St. Lucy and St. Giles www.stgilesparish.org · 708-383-3430

St. Catherine of Siena-St. Lucy Church

38 N. Austin Boulevard, Oak Park

Passion (Palm) Sunday, March 23/24

Saturday, 5:00 pm at St. Edmund Church with the St. Edmund Choir

Sunday, *8:00 am (with the Ascension Schola) and 10:30 am (with the Ascension Choir) at Ascension Church

9:15 am at St. Edmund Church

12:30 pm Bi�Lingual Spanish/English Mass at St. Edmund Church

5:00 pm Oak Park Catholic Community Mass at St. Edmund Church

St. Giles Church 1045 Columbian Avenue, Oak Park

Saturday, 4:30 pm at St. Giles Church

Sunday, 8:00 am and *10:30 am (with the Adult Choir) at St. Giles Church

9:00 am at St. Catherine of Siena�St. Lucy Church with the Praise Choir

10:00 am Family Mass Community in the St. Giles School Gym

TRIDUUM

Holy Thursday, March 28

Mass of the Lord's Supper -*7:30 pm at Ascension Church with the Ascension and St. Edmund Choirs

Adoration until Midnight Night Prayer � 11:45 pm

Morning Prayer �9:00 am at St. Edmund Church

Morning Prayer �8:30 am at St. Giles Church

Mass of the Lord's Supper -*7:00 pm at St. Giles Church with the Adult Choir and the Handbell Choir

Good Friday, March 29

Taizé Prayer Around the Cross *3:00 pm at Ascension Church

Good Friday Solemn Celebration –*7:30 pm at Ascension Church with the St. Edmund Choir and the Ascension Schola

Holy

Morning Prayer �9:00 am at St. Edmund Church

Blessing of Easter Food �11:00 am at St. Edmund Church

Adoration until Midnight Night Prayer � 11:45 pm

Morning Prayer �8:30 am at St. Giles Church

Celebration of the Lord’s Passion *3:00 pm at St. Giles Church with the Adult Choir

Celebration of the Lord’s Passion – 7:00 pm at St. Catherine of Siena�St. Lucy Church with the Praise Choir

Living Stations of the Cross – 7:00 pm at St. Giles Church with the Teen Choir

Family Mass Community Good Friday Prayer Service with Silent Passion – 7:30 pm in the St. Giles School Gym

Saturday, March 30

Easter Vigil and First Mass of Easter - 8:00 pm at St. Edmund Church with the Ascension and St. Edmund Choirs

Initiation of New Members

(No5:00 pm Mass at St. Edmund Church )

Morning Prayer �8:30 am at St. Giles Church

Blessing of Easter Food �11:00 am at St. Giles Church and at 1:00 pm at St. Catherine of Siena�St. Lucy Church

Easter Vigil and First Mass of Easter - 7:00 pm at St. Giles Church

Initiation of New Members

(No 4:30 pm Mass at St. Giles Church)

*Marked service times will be livestreamed. Please see our websites, ascensionoakpark.com or stgilesparish.org, for further information, and to find links to livestream events.

Two Dads Defending Democracy marks return of GCM Conversations

Joe Walsh, Fred Guttenberg speak at Dominican University

Growing Community Media is bringing back its Conversations series with two men who hold quite different political views but have come to gether with the shared message that American democracy is in peril this year and we need to face that reality

“Two Dads Defending Democracy: Bridging the Gap During Divisive Times” features for mer Illinois Congressman Joe Walsh and gun safety activist Fred Guttenberg.

The GCM event will be April 9 at 7 p.m. at Dominican University in River Forest. Tickets will be on sale by mid-week. Visit AustinWeeklyNews.com for details.

Through their visits to colle ges and universities during this election season, they are modeling how to eng age in respectful dialogue with people with whom they vehemently disag ree. The greatest threat to

democracy right now is the tendency to demonize and want to destroy the “other.” The immediate politi cal environment is a part of the presentation, but the moderated conver sation is framed more broadly. They ag ree, “Our democracy is preserved if we can eng age, listen to, and understand those with whom we disag ree. If we can no longer do this our democracy fails.”

News, RiversideBrookfield Landmark and the Forest Park Review, as part of its “Conversations” series. Previous guests have included Peter Sagal of “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me,” Democratic strategist David Axelrod, filmmaker Steve James, and broadcast executive Candi Carter.

ag ree and talk and to get out and vote for democracy.”

Here’s how they describe the Two Dads tour:

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According to Guttenberg’s LinkedIn post: “… Joe and I disag ree on a lot, but once we started listening to each other, we developed a friendship. Now, we hope we can show America that it is okay to dis-

“As we look forward to the 2024 election, the story of how gun safety activist Fred Guttenberg and for mer congressman Joe Walsh learned to engage in civil discourse rather than rancor shows a way forward. They went from fighting on TV and social media to talking with each other and listening to one another. Through meaningful dialogue, Guttenberg and Walsh have for med a true friendship and have demonstrated how people from opposite ends of the political spectrum can find common ground on contentious issues such as gun safety and, with many issues, agree to disagree.”

Dominican University closing in on the digital divide

The university has through Januar y 2025 to spend the grant

By AMARIS E. RODRIGUEZ Staff Reporter

Dominican University in River Forest qualified for a grant through the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program, which –while a mouthful – awarded it $2.5 million in federal funding to improve their broadband capacity.

“We want to level the playing field as much as possible and this grant was so importance for us because unlike large schools like Northwestern or UIC who can easily write a check and make these changes, we don’t want to pass that cost onto our students so we are trying to find other sources to be able to defray that,”said Todd Kleine, chief information officer at Dominican University.

According to Stanford University, the idea of a digital divide “refers to the growing gap between the underprivileged members of society, especially the poor, rural, elderly, and handicapped portion of the population who do not have access to computers or the internet.”

Part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s “Internet for All,” which emphasized the importance of high-speed internet access for Americans not as a luxury, but as a necessity, the grant was made possible through the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, which allocated $285 million to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to create a Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program to provide grants to eligible Historically Black Colleges or Universities, Tribal Colleges or Universities, and minority-serving institutions to expand their broadband internet access.

According to the Federal Register, the grant can be used for broadband internet access service, equipment, hiring information technology personnel, and to lend or provide

equipment to eligible students or patrons

Kleine said Dominican and Chicago State University are the only educational institutions in Illinois to receive the grant.

“It was really meant for minority serving institutions to be able to help try to break down the digital divide,” Kleine said. “We have lots of students who are first-generation and minority and just through systemic inequities in society, don’t have the access to laptop devices and stable internet. It applied to part of our population.”

The university received the grant in January 2023 and must spend the funds by January 2025.

Kleine said the university has begun working on some of their initiatives that would primarily help improve the school’s infrastructure.

In an ef fort to ke ep tuition as low as p ossibl e, K leine said the unive rsit y had n’ t up gr aded i ts wire and wireless i nternet network on c ampus, wh ich was becoming “ancient. ”

“A large focus of this grant was on getting a lot of the behind-the-scenes components

of the network upgraded,” Kleine said. Included in those behind-the-scene components was an upgrade to a load balancer, which according to TechTarget, is a device that is used to “distribute network traffic across a pool of servers known as a server farm.” The distribution helps optimize network performance, create reliability and cut down wait time.

Additionally, seven classrooms have been updated to a “HyFlex” classroom, a hybridflexible classroom where teachers can address both the in-person and remote learners at the same time.

“In theory, you shouldn’t know any difference between the two because the equipment would enable you to feel like you are in the classroom,” Kleine said.

Kleine said they will continue to upgrade classrooms as long as the funds allow, saying he would like to g et to 10 classrooms upgraded

Kleine added that the university is also concluding a major project where they replaced all of the technical elements of the network: access points, switches, cabling.

JOE WALSH Former Congressman FRED GUT TENBERG Ac tivist

FRED MITCHELL

Change maker

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grew crops in their own garden, according to a collection of memories Mitchell wrote down several years ago in response to questions from family members, who then had the writings printed as a book.

Mitchell’s parents had little margin for er ror, and their six children were expected to pitch in. Once when he was 7, Mitchell decided he would do more than his part by picking 100 pounds of cotton that day. He didn’t quite g et there, as he later told his kids.

“When he finally thought he had done it, he had missed the mark because he had blood on the cotton and they couldn’t use it,” said his daughter Frieda Saffold, a electrician foreman for Cook County. Mitchell had to settle for 99 pounds.

By the mid-1930s, most of his mother’s family had moved to Chicago to seek new opportunities. Mitchell’s parents followed them north in 1938.

“My father moved from Mississippi and took his six kids, all six of us, at the height of the Depression,” Mitchell recalled in a 2019 interview.

They ended up at 372 W. Oak St., a sixstory apar tment building where most of Mitchell’s mother’s family was living. His parents divided the kids up to stay with different relatives.

At that time, the Near North Side had a mix of residents, including poor Italians and a growing Black population, many of them crammed into low-rent properties.

Mitchell’s father did odd work to make ends meet for several years. In 1941, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World War II, the Depression gave way to wartime hiring, and Mathew Mitchell got a job with Horween Leather Company on North Elston Avenue, Mitchell wrote.

T he f amily attended a storefront church, Union Missionary Baptist, and when the cong re gation grew, Fred’s father served as treasurer of the committee that raised money for a new church building. T he church is still open at 940 N. Orleans St., with Mathew Mitchell’s name on the cor nerstone

In 1942, the Mitchells were one of the first families to move into a new housing development built as an alternative to the area’s rundown apar tments. The Frances

“On a plantation, there’s one boss,” he said in 2019. “There’s a white boss you work for and share your crops with. That’s what you worked for was a share of the crops. The plantation owner controlled everything on the plantation.”

Among the West Side ward bosses, Janousek was relatively liberal, or at least savvy about appealing to his diverse constituents. He voted for open housing laws that ended restrictions on Black people buying property in white areas. Every summer he hosted a picnic for thousands of local families and politicians; everyone in the ward was welcome.

Janousek even brought on some Black precinct captains. Mitchell was almost certainly one of the first.

Mitchell loved the job. He saw it as a way to empower his community.

Cabrini Homes were made up of 55 twoand three-story rowhouses a block from the Mitchells’ former building on Oak.

“It was completely inte grated,” Mitchell recalled in 2019.

So was his high school, Wells, where Mitchell played multiple sports, including wrestling and football. Decades later, “he wanted me to know he was on an inte grated team,” said KJ Saffold, one of Mitchell’s 14 grandchildren. Chicago grew more segre gated in the decades that followed, and Mitchell stressed that history doesn’t always unfold in a straight line.

One of Mitchell’s most consequential decisions was to take typing in high school, he often said. His parents encouraged all of their kids to acquire practical skills, and Mitchell enrolled in typing even though he was mocked for being the only male in the class — a memory he enjoyed sharing the rest of his life, KJ Saffold said.

It paid of f when Mitchell was drafted in 1951 to serve in the Korean War.

“A f ter my first week on d uty, the c ompany c ommander c ame i nto the ba rr acks and asked if anyone knew how to t ype,” Mitchell wrote. “I raised my hand and my l ife was changed foreve r. As a direct result of my t yping skills, I became the c ompany clerk, personnel administrative specialist. ”

Most importantly, he stressed, it kept him out of front-line combat. He returned home unharmed in 1953 with a rank of corporal and four Bronze Service Stars.

Working the precincts

By then, Mitchell’s parents had bought their first home on the Near West Side and later moved farther west to Lawndale. That’s also where Mitchell bought a home and lived with his wife, Evelyn, and her son and two daughters; they had three more daughters together.

They were part of a major population shift on the West Side.

While African Americans continued to migrate from the Deep South, people already in Chicago looked for opportunities to move out of crowded apar tments or to buy their own homes. They often found more options — and less violent resistance — on the West Side, where Jewish, Italian, Czech, Polish and other white people were moving farther north or out of the city altogether. With few banks willing to lend to Black home buyers, many families were forced to enter into land sale contracts that eventually cheated them out of their houses and money.

But even as West Side neighborhoods changed, the men who controlled them weren’ t ready to give up their power. What resulted was widely called “plantation politics:” White political bosses ruled over wards long after those areas had become predominantly Black or Hispanic. Many of the bosses no longer even lived in the wards they ran.

Mitchell, who had worked on an actual plantation in the South, said the comparison was apt.

“Precinct work, it’s like having a block club,” he said. “You canvas your precinct. The precinct captain’s job was to take care of his voters. Back in the day we’d help people get garbage cans, trees pruned, fix tickets, drivers licenses, get people out of jail, [provide] summer jobs and welfare.”

Mitchell’s work as a court bailif f was especially valuable when people in his precinct got tickets or had other run-ins with police. Black residents often reported police abuse and felt they had little recourse.

Through connections, Mitchell could help make tickets disappear or lower the amount of bond someone had to pay to stay out of jail.

“We had judges we elected from the ward,” Mitchell explained. “All you had to do was tell this bailif f, ‘Ask the judge to take care of him.’”

In return for the favors, Mitchell asked his neighbors to vote for candidates slated by the Democratic machine, led by Mayor Richard J. Daley.

‘We elected a dead man’

Eventually Mitchell also worked in the neighboring 24th Ward, which had one of the most potent vote-producing Democratic organizations in the country.

By the late 1950s, the 24th Ward’s population was mostly Black; in response, the Jewish Ward leaders, with approval from Daley, picked longtime political worker Ben Lewis to be the first Black alderman on the West Side.

After Mitchell started wo rk ing in the ward, he saw Lewis was in charge in name only.

“The Jewish precinct captains still had the jobs, and Black precinct captains didn’t have the jobs that paid the money,” Mitch-

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KJ Sa old points out his great grandfather’s name on the cor nerstone of Union Missionar y Baptist Church on Feb. 14, 2024.

ell said. In addition, crime syndicate figures controlled the gambling revenues in the ward with the approval of the white political powers, who got a cut.

Under pressure from his c onstituents, Lewis be g an to speak up, d emandin g b etter city services and more patronage jobs. He also signaled his i ntention to ru n for Cong ress

In Fe bruary 1963, two days after winning reelection, Lewis was found dead in his office. He had been shot in the back of the head execution style.

Mitchell neve r forgot how he hear d the news.

“I was on the eighth floor of City Hall. I had just come back from a coffee run. A guy came in and told me, ‘Ben Lewis got killed last night. And I said, “What? What happened?’ And he said, ‘The syndicate killed him.’”

Speculation quickly turned to Lewis’ replacement. Over the next several months, the mayor and his allies engineered the selection of Lewis’ secretary, George Collins, to take over as the ward’s committeeman and alderman — over the objections of Black precinct captains who said Collins was a pawn of white leaders of the ward org anization.

“They brought him in because he would go along with the program,” Mitchell said.

In April 1964, the West Side wards pulled of f another feat.

Thomas J. O’Brien, the longtime congressman for much of the West Side, had been ailing for months. He had an energetic challenger in Lawndale activist Brenetta Howell-Barrett, but the ward organizations stuck with O’Brien.

On primary election day, precinct captains across the West Side g ot out the vote for the Democratic ticket, including O’Brien — who had died early that after noon.

As Mitchell put it, “We elected a dead man.” O’Brien’s victory gave party insiders the power to pick his successor. They chose Ald. Daniel Ronan (30th), a machine loyalist who served in Congress until he died in 1969. His replacement was George Collins.

Mitchell’s Grocerland

Mitchell left his job with the municipal court and became a paralegal for the city’s law department. Still, between his day job and his work as a precinct captain, “he was never home a lot,” said his daughter Frieda Saffold. She said she used to put of f doing the dishes so she could see him when he finally came in.

“He always wanted to be home for John-

ny Carson,” Saffold said. “I would wait up.”

In 1966, Mitchell was working his precinct when a neighbor noted that their community grocery store had closed after its owner decided to open a liquor store instead. The neighbor gave Mitchell the idea of opening a grocery store himself, Mitchell later wrote.

Mitchell and his father each came up with $100 to launch the business, and a Jewish property owner ag reed to lease them a storefront at 1915 S. Albany Ave. “because we had good credit,” Mitchell wrote.

Frieda Saffold had fond memories of the ma-and-pa-store.

“I would go there, sneak the candy, and then the dentist said, ‘You have cavities,’” she recalled. Her dad then told her, “‘You can only have oranges and apples.’ Oranges and apples?! He said, ‘I’ll put it in the refrigerator so it’s nice and cold for you.’”

With family members staffing the store in between their full-time jobs, Mitchell’s Food Mart was successful enough that the father-and-son team opened a second store nearby. Then they sold those businesses to expand into a full supermarket.

Unable to get a bank loan, they had to get creative. Mitchell went to their wholesale supplier and convinced them to offer a line of credit, Frieda Saffold said. “He couldn’t do it conventionally, so he had to do a deal with them,” she said.

Mitchell also bor rowed money from his mother’s savings, and the store received a $47,000 loan from the federal Small Business Administration in 1968, records show.

Mitchell’s Grocerland operated out of a spot at Jackson and Campbell in the Rockwell Gardens public housing development.

It was a good location, with an obvious customer base, and the store thrived for years. But after King was assassinated, unrest and rioting damaged swaths of the West Side that were never rebuilt.

Eventually the business environment got tougher, Mitchell wrote: “I remember having to deal with the gangbangers and being confronted by them, with my attack dog (Baby Jane) and .38 revolver pistol keeping them from attacking me after driving them from the front of my store.”

Mitchell’s Grocerland closed in 1974, but as Mitchell wrote, “My father and I did get a return on our two-hundred dollar investment.”

Tragedy and demands for justice

In 1970, Mitchell’s family was hit with a devastating loss that forced them to demand justice from the Daley machine.

Mitchell’s 29-year-old brother-in-law Raymond Jones managed the supermar-

ket, and on his way home one evening in March 1970 he was pulled over by police, according to coverage at the time from the Sun-Times.

The police said he sped away, four more squad cars joined the pursuit, and when they pulled Jones over again, he fought them. They took Jones to Cook County Hospital, where he was declared dead.

Mitchell’s mother-in-law, Essie Jones, rejected the police account as absurd and completely out of character for her son, who had never been in trouble before. She alle ged the police had beaten him to death. An inde pendent autopsy she commissioned found that her son’s neck had been broken.

In July 1970, the Sun-Times ran a letter from Essie Jones to Mayor Daley. She demanded he authorize a thorough investigation into the killing.

In 1970 the Sun-Times ran a letter from Mitchell’s mother-in-law Essie Jones demanding that Mayor Richard J. Daley order an investigation into her son’s killing by police.

“We may not get justice, but I feel there were a few facts you should know, since you and your Police Department are going to such great lengths to cover up the truth,” Essie Jones wrote. “I loved my son just as much as you love your sons … Does it really matter to you, or are you a mayor only for the af fluent and the white?”

Two days later, in a letter to Essie Jones released to the Sun-Times, the mayor wrote that he had not been aware of the “circumstances” of the incident until seeing her letter

“I heartily ag ree with you that the most thorough investigation is called for,” Daley wrote.

But the police department’s internal affairs division subsequently determined the officers had not used excessive force. No one was punished. The city settled a federal lawsuit by ag reeing to pay $90,0000 to Raymond Jones’ widow, Patricia KJ Saffold said the story should not be forgotten as police accountability remains all too relevant decades later.

“My grandmother’s brother was murdered by the police,” he said. “We have underlying challenges across the board.”

‘He lived the life he wanted to live’

After leaving the grocery business, Mitchell worked as an administrat ive assistant with the federal Veterans Administration until retiring in 1989 at age 60.

He continued his community work, serving as a board member for the North Lawndale Community News, a facilitator

for the city’s community policing program, president of the 3600 W. F lournoy Block Club, and vice president of the North Lawndale Greening Committee, which works to beautify and improve safety in the neighborhood

Fred Mitchell’s family put together a book made up of memories he wrote down several years ago.

Friends and family members said Mitchell offered them his insights and wisdom — often when they didn’t ask for it. He talked about the necessity of studying Black history, paying attention to elected officials and fighting for causes such as police reform.

“I’m not super into politics, but he would always give me the details, he always had CNN on when I came over, so we would watch it and discuss it,” said granddaughter Felicia Saffold, a massage therapist and manager of a wellness center in Chicago. “He would always seek to educate me.”

Mitchell was disturbed by the country’s growing inequality and the rise of Trumpism, though in his analysis the real problem was Trump’s supporters. “It’s the people who fell for it,” he told Gregory Battle, a family friend who called Mitchell “Uncle Fred.”

Son-in-law James Belk said Mitchell offered him a model of integrity and caring. Mitchell wasn’t imposing or loud, but he was a force in his own way. Belk recalled driving over to see Mitchell and finding him sitting on a bench along the street. Mitchell, then in his 90s, told him he’d been out for his daily walk.

“Pops, isn’t it dangerous?” Belk said he asked him.

“It’s not dangerous to me,” Mitchell said.

Mitchell was healthy and active until the last few months of his life, when doctors found masses in his lung and bladder, said his youngest daughter, Yvonne Mitchell. He declined to undergo treatment beyond taking medication to help him breathe regularly

He died less than a week before his 94th birthday.

“He lived the life he wanted to live,” Yvonne Mitchell said. “He lived on his own ter ms.”

KJ Saffold followed his grandfather into the military, graduating from West Point and serving in Afghanistan and Iraq. He said he sees Mitchell’s story — his fight for fair ness both inside and against the political system — as an ongoing call to action.

“He said, ‘Hey, this is a machine but there are ways around it,’” Saffold said. As his grandfather showed, “We need catalysts and we need people who are action takers and change makers.”

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The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given you, Unknown Owners, Unknown Heirs of Roscoe Fuller, defendants in the above entitled suit, that the said suit has been commenced in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Chancery Division, Room 2308, Richard J. Daley Center, 50 W. Washington St., Chicago, IL, by the said plaintiff and thereafter a Complaint was filed against you and other defendants, praying to remove Cloud and Quiet Title in and to the premises described as follows, to-wit:

Lot 3 in Block 3 in Henry DirkÕs

Subdivision of the South 1/2 of the North West 1/4 of the North West 1/4 of Section 4, Township 39 North, Range 13 East of the Third Principal Meridian, in Cook County, Illinois.

Commonly known as: 1450 North Linder Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60651. P.I.N.: 16-04-109-021-0000.

Notice is also hereby given you that the said Complaint prays for other relief, that summons was duly issued out of said Court against you as provided by law, and that the said suit is now pending.

Now, therefore, unless you, the said above named defendants, file your answer to the Complaint in the said suit or otherwise make your appearance therein, on or before April 10, 2024, default may be entered against you at any time after that day and a Judgment entered in accordance with the prayer of said Complaint. E-filing is now mandatory for documents in civil cases with limited exemptions. To e-file, you must first create an account with an e-filing service provider. Visit http://efile.illinoiscourts.gov/ serviceproviders.htm to learn more and to select a service provider. If you need additional help or have trouble e-filing, visit http://www.illinoiscourts.gov/FAQ/g ethelp.asp. The form: “Declaration Under Penalty of Perjury for State of Illinois ExecutiveOrder 2020-72” is available at www.IHDA.org or at https://df7qosnywqs6g.cloudfront.n et/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ TenantsDeclaration-Form.pdf for any resident of the property to notify the bank and plaintiff’s attorney if the resident qualifies as a Covered Person under the Governor’s Executive Order 2020-72 (Nov. 13, 2020).Iris Y. Martinez, Clerk. LTS3232979

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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENTCHANCERY DIVISION BANK OF AMERICA N.A.

Plaintiff, -v.JOSE VALDEZ, GUADALUPE DELGADO, MARIBEL GUTIERRES A/K/A MARIBEL D. GUTIERRES, CITIBANK, N.A., AS SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO CITIBANK (SOUTH DAKOTA), N.A. , PORTFOLIO RECOVERY ASSOCIATES, LLC, ARROW FINANCIAL SERVICES, LLC, STATE OF ILLINOIS

Defendants 2014 CH 08593 1427 N. LAWNDALE AVENUE

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 Alexander Potestivo, POTESTIVO & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 223 WEST JACKSON BLVD, STE 610, Chicago, IL, 60606 (312) 263-0003. Please refer to file number 112204.

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POTESTIVO & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 223 WEST JACKSON BLVD, STE 610 Chicago IL, 60606 312-263-0003

IL 60651

Property Index No. 16-02-114-005

The real estate is improved with a multi-family residence. The judgment amount was $631,427.02.

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

E-Mail: ilpleadings@potestivolaw. com

Attorney File No. 112204

Attorney Code. 43932

Case Number: 2014 CH 08593

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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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I3239052

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENTCHANCERY DIVISION ATHENE ANNUITY & LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY Plaintiff, -v.-

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.

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

ARIEL PASTOR, U.S. BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS

Defendants

2021 CH 02701 1227 N. ARTESIAN AVENUE CHICAGO, IL 60622

NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on June 27, 2023, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on April 3, 2024, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker, 1st Floor Suite 35R, Chicago, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1227 N. ARTESIAN AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60622

Property Index No. 16-01-229-0120000

The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $370,778.97.

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

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

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

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

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 JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC

Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 30 N. LASALLE STREET, SUITE 3650, Chicago, IL, 60602 (312) 541-9710. Please refer to file number 21 8491.

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NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Case # 2021 CH 02701 I3239362

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENTCHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE OF GREENE STREET FUNDING TRUST II Plaintiff, -v.MAEBANE LLC, STEPHANIE SHOOK, CITY OF CHICAGO, LOAN FUNDER LLC, SERIES 37134

Defendants 2023 CH 05833 3943 WEST 14TH STREET CHICAGO, IL 60623

NOTICE OF SALE

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 27, 2023, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on April 1, 2024, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker, 1st Floor Suite 35R, Chicago, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 3943 WEST 14TH STREET, CHICAGO, IL 60623

Property Index No. 16-23-114-0030000

The real estate is improved with a commercial property.

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

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

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

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

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW.

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

For information, examine the court file, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL, 60527 (630) 794-9876

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION

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

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

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE IL, 60527 630-794-5300

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Attorney File No. 14-23-00472

Attorney ARDC No. 00468002

Attorney Code. 21762

Case Number: 2023 CH 05833

TJSC#: 44-73

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Case # 2023 CH 05833 I3239328

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS

COUNTY DEPARTMENT -

CHANCERY DIVISION MATRIX FINANCIAL SERVICES

CORPORATION

Plaintiff, -v.DERRICK D. MCINTYRE, BARBARA A. MCINTYRE, UNKNOWN

Property Index No. 16-04-303-005-

The real estate is improved with a residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, 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, examine the court file, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL, 60527 (630) 794-9876

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION

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

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

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C.

15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100

BURR RIDGE IL, 60527 630-794-5300

E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com

Attorney File No. 14-22-09305

Attorney ARDC No. 00468002

Attorney Code. 21762

Case Number: 2022 CH 09630

TJSC#: 44-494

NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act,

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Case

arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d)of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption.

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

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a

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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 CondominiumPropertyAct,765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHTTO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW.

You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL, 60527 (630) 794-9876 THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION

One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE

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

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C.

15W030NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE IL, 60527

630-794-5300

E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com

Attorney File No. 14-22-07114

Attorney ARDC No. 00468002

Attorney Code. 21762

Case Number: 2022 CH 10652

TJSC#: 44-129

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

Case # 2022 CH 10652 I3239765

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

U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS OWNER TRUSTEE FOR LEGACY MORTGAGE ASSETTRUST2019RPL1

Plaintiff, vs. SVYATOSLAV DENYS, CIT LOAN CORPORATION SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO THE CITGROUP/ CONSUMER FINANCE, INC., PNC BANK, N.A. SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO MIDAMERICA BANK, FSB TRINITY FINANCIAL SERVICES, LLC Defendants, 21 CH 236

NOTICE OF SALE

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, April 23, 2024 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash,

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as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 16-01-400-041-0000.

Commonly known as 2708 W. HADDON AVE., CHICAGO, IL 60622.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a multi-family residence. The successful purchaser is entitled to possession of the property only. The purchaser may only obtain possession of units within the multi-unit property occupied by individuals named in the order of possession.

Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call Mr. Ira T. Nevel at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Law Offices of Ira T. Nevel, 175 North Franklin Street, Chicago, Illinois 60606. (312) 357-1125. 21-00058

INTERCOUNTYJUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION

intercountyjudicialsales.com I3240143

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENTCHANCERY DIVISION GRAND RIDGE NATIONAL BANK Plaintiff,

-v.-

110 WEST GRAND L.L.C, KURT A.MULLER, THE MULLER FIRM, LTD., UNKNOWN OWNERS, UNKNOWN TENANTS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS

Defendants 2022 CH 09879

110 W. GRAND AVENUE

CHICAGO, IL 60654

NOTICE OF SALE

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY

GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 11, 2024,an agentfor The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on April 11, 2024, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker, 1st Floor Suite 35R, Chicago, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 110 W. GRAND AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60654

Property Index No. 17-09-239-0210000

The real estate is improved with a multi-family residence. The judgment amount was $709,512.86.

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

The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deedto 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

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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 CondominiumPropertyAct,765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHTTO 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 Amy Daleo, COHON RAIZES & REGAL LLP

Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 208 SOUTH LASALLE STREET SUITE 1440, Chicago, IL, 60604 (312) 726-2252.

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.

Amy Daleo

COHON RAIZES & REGAL LLP

208 SOUTH LASALLE STREET SUITE 1440 Chicago IL, 60604 312-726-2252

E-Mail: adaleo@cohonraizes.com

Attorney Code. 90192

Case Number: 2022 CH 09879

TJSC#: 44-134

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

Case # 2022 CH 09879

I3240098

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

NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC

Plaintiff, -v.HUMBERTO M. RAMIREZ, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS

Defendants 2022 CH 11580 1005 N. KEDVALE AVE. CHICAGO, IL 60651 NOTICE OF SALE

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY

15, 2024, at

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60651

Property Index No. 16-03-413-0190000

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, 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 unitwhich is partofa common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium PropertyAct, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE

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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 Corporationconducts foreclosure sales.

For information, examine the court file, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL, 60527 (630) 794-9876

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION

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

SALE

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

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C.

15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE IL, 60527 630-794-5300

E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com

Attorney File No. 14-22-08735

Attorney ARDC No. 00468002

Attorney Code. 21762

Case Number: 2022 CH 11580

TJSC#: 44-590

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 willbe used for that purpose.

Case # 2022 CH 11580 I3240411

EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY

All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation or discrimination based on age, race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or intention to make any such preferences, limitations or discrimination.

The Illinois Human Rights Act prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental or advertising of real estate based on factors in addition to those protected under federal law.

This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis.

Restrictions or prohibitions of pets do not apply to service animals.

To complain of discrimination, call HUD toll free at: 1-800-6699777.