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Real estate firm sued by tenants alleging neglect Residents living in buildings managed by Pangea Real Estate allege rodent infestations, mold and insufficient heating

By PASCAL SABINO Block Club Chicago

Renters living in buildings managed by Pangea Real Estate are suing the company, alleging rodent infestations, security issues and insufficient winter heating has gone unaddressed despite repeated complaints.

The group of 14 tenants filed a lawsuit Monday seeking class action status against Pangea. It asks for compensation for “deceptive and illegal business practices,” according to the suit. Pangea is one the city’s largest real estate companies, with more than 13,000 apartments between Chicago, Baltimore and Indianapolis.

The complaint alleges Pangea knowingly chooses not to fix serious maintenance issues to boost profits, leaving tenants to deal with rodents, roaches, water damage, mold and unheated apartments in the winter. The company has had over 5,000 building code violations since 2009, according to data from the city’s Department of Buildings that is detailed in the lawsuit.

“The issues are systemic across all Pangea apartments. They choose not to put money into the maintenance that’s needed,” said Christopher Wilmes, See PANGEA on page 10

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Harry Williams (second from right) and Myron Byrd (third from right) confront Ald. Jason Ervin (left)

Bring Chicago Home campaign pushes alderman to support homelessness proposal Coalition members protested in front of Ald. Jason Ervin’s East Garfield Park offices July 18

By IGOR STUDENKOV Staff Reporter

Around 50 to 60 members of the Bring Chicago Home coalition marched to the office of Ald. Jason Ervin (28th), located

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inside of the JLM Abundant Life Center, 2622 W. Jackson Blvd. in East Garfield Park, on July 18, urging him to lend his support to an ordinance that would create a dedicated funding stream for homeless prevention.

For the past few years, the coalition, which is made up of affordable housing providers, social service organizations and labor unions, have been urging the city to raise the Real Estate TransSee PROTEST on page 9

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A Safe Haven to open behavioral health center The North Lawndale nonprofit awarded $2M grant for the initiative to help people experiencing homelessness

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor

A Safe Haven, a group that helps people experiencing homelessness, has been awarded a $2 million grant to open a behavioral healthcare center in North Lawndale.

The non-profit is one of 25 groups in the 7th Congressional District that will be sharing in over $26 million in federal funding, Congressman Danny K. Davis recently announced.

Davis made recommendations to the U.S. House Appropriations Committee from a pool of about 100 proposals submitted by non-profit and government agencies in the 7th District. The grants are more commonly

known as “earmarks.”

The congressman explained the sometimes controversial process in a recent interview: “What it’s really saying is that the members of Congress should know and have a better understanding of the programmatic needs of their districts than anybody else.”

Davis, who made the announcement just days after winning the June 28th primary, hopes the grants will be provided again next year and “perhaps will go up a little bit.”

A Safe Haven helps people become selfsufficient through housing, job training, behavioral health and more. The organization is turning its now-closed COVID medical center into an outpatient behavioral healthcare space. They plan to open by this fall or winter.

The center will accept walk-ins and provide doctors, psychologists and case managers to people experiencing addiction and mental health issues.

“The closer we can get to the root cause, the earlier we can get to people that are facing any kind of trauma or mental health issues, the faster we’re going to be able to get them back on track,” said Neli Vazquez

Rowland, president and co-f0under of A Safe Haven.

The grant will help the center pay for technology, staffing and patient costs since their services are free.

“Prior to the pandemic, we were helping about 5,000 people a year, and we were turning away about 1,000 people a month,” Rowland said. “This behavioral healthcare space is probably going to allow us to, let’s just say conservatively, help about 2,000 people more than we could before.”

A Safe Haven recently opened two more housing locations for veterans, one in Lawndale with 90 units and the other with 75 units in Hobart, Indiana. Rowland said housing is still a major concern as inflation remains high.

“For every $100 increase in rent, there’s a 9% increase in the number of people that can potentially become homeless because they can no longer afford to pay the rent,” Rowland said. “We are bracing ourselves with the aftermath of the pandemic and the number of people that were impacted.”

A Safe Haven has helped over 135,000

people in the 27 years it has operated. One of those people is Marshall Galbreath, A Safe Haven’s executive chef and culinary instructor. He found A Safe Haven through his veteran rep after being in prison.

“My whole thoughts about a shelter was a place where you go in you get a bowl of soup and they put you on a cot for the night, and the next morning they put you out, and I wasn’t doing that,” Galbreath said.

After seeing the many ways the nonprofit helps people become independent, Galbreath stayed, and was soon hired in the food service department.

Twelve years later, Galbreath is teaching a culinary class to current residents of A Safe Haven. He finds joy in providing guidance to people trying to change their lives.

“What Safe Haven does is provide those cares and resources for [individuals] to be able to become self-sufficient. Family reunification was huge for me,” Galbreath said.

“I think it needs to start there because we’re living in some challenging times right now.”

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Gunfire erupts during Shakespeare in the Park

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A family-friendly theater event at Columbus Park ended in chaos July 21, after someone fired shots while performers were on stage.

The gunfire happened about 6:45 p.m.

Thursday, just 15 minutes into the Shakespeare in the Parks performance at Columbus Park, 500 S. Central Ave., police said.

Witnesses saw families duck for cover and lay down on the grass to avoid getting shot as other people in the crowd sprinted from the playground where the shooting started.

No one was wounded, but a parked car was hit by gunfire, police said.

The free event saw musicians, actors and dancers performing songs riffing on popular scenes from plays by William Shakespeare, part of a series of pop-up events in parks from Chicago Shakespeare Theater.

The shooting started just three songs into the event, said Nicole Miano, who had brought her two children to enjoy the park on a warm summer night.

“They sounded like firecrackers to me.

Frankly, I was in a little bit of shock,” she said. “People were running, and there was a lot of commotion. My friend said, ‘Get down, get down.’”

Miano and her kids were watching the Shakespeare performance from the back of the audience near the playground when the shooting started. When she realized what was happening, she had her kids lay down to shield them from gunfire, she said.

A boy with a gun ran nearby, Miano said.

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Young people lay down to avoid gunshots at Columbus Park. The shooting happened during a Shakespeare in the Parks performance.

The incident made Miano fear for her kids’ safety and for how they will be impacted growing up around the threat of gun violence. No child should be “traumatized unnecessarily” or have to “experience this because of where they live,” Miano said.

“There’s other events coming up in parks that I have on the calendar. … I’m frankly thinking about whether I will take my kids to them,” she said. “I probably won’t take my kids to the summer dances at Grant Park or Millennium Park because things happen there, too.”

The rest of the show was canceled. Officers arrived at the park shortly after, and they are investigating, a police spokesperson said. No one has been arrested.

Keith Yearman was photographing the performance when he started hearing loud noises he initially mistook for fireworks. It wasn’t until he saw crowds of people scrambling for cover and running from the playground that he recognized the 15 loud bangs he heard were gunshots.

“Fear didn’t strike me in the moment. … It didn’t really register until later. I’ve never been through anything like that before, and I hope never to go through it again,” Yearman said.

Yearman saw staff members for the Shakespeare performance hide behind

equipment. He also saw the director waving her hands to stop the show and get the performers to safety.

Yearman snapped a photograph of one of the gunmen running through the park, he said.

“I saw a bunch of people from the audience start to run while others were ducking and laying flat on the ground,” Yearman said. “A few people actually left their things, blankets and folding chairs and things like that.”

The Chicago Shakespeare Theater cancelled two performances scheduled for Friday and Saturday at Ogden Park and Ping Tom Park because of the incident, executive director Criss Henderson said.

The organization is working with the Park District to plan future events, and providing support to its company members, Criss said.

“Everyone is safe and no one is injured, but we recognize and are concerned about how unsettling and distressing this was for all involved,” Criss said in a statement. “We remain committed to the neighbors and communities that have made the Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks program so dear to our hearts for 11 years. We will be back, and we will continue to create together.”

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‘Those days are behind us’

ast week, Kroger announced that it’s opening an 80,000-square-foot fulfillment center in Maywood, as part of its effort to establish a presence in the Chicago area, where it owns Mariano’s and Food 4 Less stores. Its Kroger brand stores are largely concentrated in central Illinois.

The company announced it plans to hire up to 180 workers at the Maywood facility, which seemingly rivals Amazon in its advanced technology. The warehouse features “more than 1,000 bots” whizzing around “giant 3D grids, orchestrated by proprietary air-traffic control systems,” Kroger officials explained in a statement.

Kroger is the largest grocery retailer in America, with (outside of its various subsidiaries) no brick-and-mortar presence in the country’s third-largest metropolis.

Its Maywood warehouse will deliver to customers in this metropolis who order products from Kroger online. And such a critical plant (Kroger is calling it a “hub”) will only employ 180 people?

I thought about this question in the context of the old American Can Company plant in Maywood, which once stretched 18 acres along St. Charles Road and employed, at any given point in its nearly century-long tenure in the village, between 1,000 and 4,500 people, according to the Chicago Tribune. The beer can producer left Maywood in 1975.

When the last vestiges of the massive American Can plant were torn down in the 1990s, the two companies that occupied the land in its place — Cintas Corp., a multibillion-dollar uniform rental and supply company based in Cincinnati, and Aetna Plywood Inc., a lumber products distributor — employed a total of about 160 people by 2005, the Tribune reported at the time.

It took lots of tax breaks to lure those two employers, but the jobs just aren’t the same. They don’t pay as well as the old, more plentiful ones, which means they don’t create downstream economies of small businesses where well-paid industrial workers can spend their hard-earned money.

My longtime neighbor, Robert Scales, worked for American Can for nearly 30

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years. He also served as a Maywood trustee in the 1970s.

Scales told the Tribune what he’s told me in casual conversation. Back then, Maywood had two movie theaters and two grocery stores — a Jewel and an A&P. Now, there are neither theaters nor grocers.

Business professor Scott Galloway points out in his penetrating 2017 book, The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, And Google, that in our current economy, it takes a lot fewer workers to get

filthy rich.

“While billions of people derive significant value from these firms [Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google] and their products, disturbingly few reap the economic benefits,” Galloway writes.

“General Motors created economic value of approximately $231,000 per employee (market cap/workforce),” he adds. “This sounds impressive until you realize that Facebook has created an enterprise worth $250 million per employee … or almost a hundred times the value per employee of the organizational icon of the last century.

Imagine the economic output of a G-10 economy, generated by the population of Manhattan’s Lower East Side.”

In 1964, when AT&T was the country’s most valuable company, it was worth $267 billion in 2015 dollars and employed nearly 760,000 people, the media scholar Robert McChesney and the journalist John Nichols explain in their 2016 book, People Get Ready: The Fight Against A Jobless Economy And A Citizenless Democracy.

In 2015, Google was the country’s second-most valuable company “doing much of what AT&T did fifty years earlier, and a lot, lot more.” Google, though, had a “market value of $430 billion and employed around 55,000 people, which is 7 percent of AT&T’s paid workforce in 1964.

For every Google employee today, AT&T had fourteen workers five decades ago.”

From 1970 to 2017, manufacturing as a share of total employment has fallen from about a quarter of all workers in the United States to just under 10 percent — a diminishment that has happened across the industrialized world.

What happened? The economic researcher Aaron Benanav provides what I think is a credible explanation.

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A Maywood Can Company help wanted ad published in the Chicago Tribune Jan. 19, 1953.

Benanav counters the widely held belief that artificial intelligence like the robots whizzing around Kroger’s 3D grid and the practice of offshoring jobs to other countries have been mainly responsible for this disappearance of industrialized work.

If anything, Benanav argues, they are symptoms of a deeper cause: Global competition (more firms in more countries saturating an increasingly integrated market with the same lower and lowerpriced goods).

Starting in the late 1960s, the rate of profit in the United States began to fall due to rising competition from firms in other countries that were catching up with the U.S. after World War II. The global competition led to a surplus of goods, or overcapacity, which meant lower margins. Lower margins meant less investment in capital, cuts to the cost of labor (which meant companies waging war with unions and chasing cheaper labor overseas), and increasing automation designed to discipline workers and eke out productivity rates in a world of increasingly diminishing returns.

Rising overcapacity, the author writes in his 2020 book Automation and the Future of Work, “explains why deindustrialization has been accompanied not only by ongoing efforts to develop new labor-saving technologies, but also by the build-out of gigantic labor-intensive supply chains — usually with a more damaging environmental impact.”

The process of deindustrialization might as well be synonymous with economic stagnation, Benanav writes.

“When the growth engine of industrialization has sputtered due to the replication of technical capacities, international redundancy, and fierce competition for markets, there has been no replacement for it as a source of rapid growth,” he argues.

“Instead of a reallocation of workers from low-productivity jobs to highproductivity ones, the reverse takes place.

Workers pool in low-productivity jobs, mostly in the service sector. As countries have deindustrialized, they have also seen a massive buildup of financialized capital, chasing returns to the ownership of relatively liquid assets rather than investing long-term in new fixed capital.”

To wit, about a decade after American Can closed its Maywood plant, it transformed into Primerica, a financial conglomerate that would set the groundwork for the creation of the investment bank Citigroup. You may remember Citigroup was one of the big banks responsible for reckless mortgage lending that devastated Black and Brown communities like Maywood in the 2008 housing crash.

There was nothing glamorous about factory work and most workers knew it. Lots of people hated the work — despite the pay and the perks. Capitalists were cruel as capitalists always have been. But looking back on those days of American Can a half-century later, it’s hard to deny that at least society (meaning the majority of people) got something out of the deal.

Last year, my great-uncle died. He was around 80 years old. While we were cleaning out his Maywood home, I stumbled across his old American Can Co. employee manual. The booklet was among rumpled stacks of paper that included old Pan American Airways tickets to far-off destinations back when people could travel the world on a single blue-collar job that formed the basis of a life stitched into the fabric of a community — where the factory workers were also the village trustees, the deacons at your church, the coaches in local youth sports leagues. Back when you actually knew people who worked in the hulking warehouses in town. Nowadays, the buildings are just blank, impersonal behemoths.

“Those days are behind us,” former Maywood mayor Henderson Yarbrough, referencing American Can, told the Chicago Tribune for that 2015 article.

The big question now is what lies ahead.

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A House in Austin teaches nutrition education

The nonprofit’s My FRESH Table program gives families handson opportunity to learn to make healthier choices

By FRANCIA GARCIA HERNANDEZ AustinTalks

On Wednesday nights this summer, 10 West Side parents gather to read food labels, try new recipes and cook a new meal for their families. Through the program My FRESH Table, the nonprofit A House In Austin gives families a hands-on opportunity to learn to make healthier and affordable choices when shopping for food for their families.

“What we find is that some of our young families and those who don’t have full literacy or understanding, go to the store and it’s very overwhelming,” co-executive director Lynette Kelly-Bell said. “And what ends up happening is they stick to what they know, and that can be the same three meals or five meals that they’re just consistently preparing without variation.”

During the four-week cooking course, parents prepare a nutritious meal on-site using recipes adapted and created by the organization’s staff, many of whom are parents themselves. The learning doesn’t stop then, as they receive free ingredients to take home so they can make the meal for a second time.

The recipes for spaghetti squash and rutabaga are some of their favorites.

Many of the participating families have a household income below the poverty line and can’t afford to buy food or produce they do not know. With this program, they can learn how

to use healthier ingredients and try them without having to take the risk of purchasing something that could go to waste.

“Once we expose them to the different vegetables they can use as opposed to processed foods that they’re used to buying, it opens up a whole new world for them,” Kelly-Bell said.

Teaching parents to make healthier choices also calls for teaching them how to read food labels, help them understand what they mean and whether each ingredient is beneficial to their bodies.

“Education and exposure helps them make better decisions when it comes to purchasing food,” Kelly-Bell said.

She said there have been families who switched to more nutritious ingredients to make their household recipes, like swapping white sugar for brown sugar or using wild rice instead of white rice.

My FRESH Table is one of several free programs to support and empower parents and children, as part of A House in Austin’s mission. The organization also offers early childhood education where young kids develop important skills through play, such as fine and gross motor skills and self-expression. While their children attend this programs, parents can remain on-site to attend parent support programming.

This includes parent chats, a space where parents can share their experiences, “their highs and lows,” and find support. Led by a licensed social worker, this offers a space for parents to recharge and discuss parenting topics with other parents.

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After cash bond, housing insecurity’s the next fight As cash bond ends, Lawndale Christian Legal Center and the Bail Project are helping people awaiting trial

By PASCAL SABINO Block Club Chicago

With the cash bail system set to end next year, a group of bond reformers are teaming up to build a system of support that will prevent people released from jail from being re-arrested.

The initiative spearheaded by Lawndale Christian Legal Center and the Bail Project expands upon Community Release With Support, the Bail Project’s national model which the groups announced in December 2021.

That program set up an infrastructure of social services for people on pre-trial release, providing them with addiction treatment, mental health support, medical care and workforce training.

Organizers are adding housing to that mix.

They will partner with the Chicago Low-Income Housing Trust Fund to offer safe and stable rental units to low-income people released from Cook County Jail who are awaiting trial. Participants will pay no more than 30 percent of their income on rent, and the Chicago Low-Income Housing Trust Fund partners with landlords to pay the rest.

Housing is the most pressing issue among people charged with a crime, and housing insecurity is tied with high rates of recidivism, said Matthew McFarland, director of Community Release With Support. Meeting people’s needs and addressing the root causes of why they got involved in crime in the first place is critical to keeping people out of jail, organizers said.

“People need things like employment, job training. … But if you don’t have a place to lay down at night and get up in the morning to go to a job interview … all those other services are much tougher,” McFarland said.

The cash bond system will be abolished statewide when the Pretrial Fairness Act takes effect in 2023, which will lead to the release of many people who would previously were unable to afford bail even though they’d been deemed by a judge not to be a risk to the community.

Lawndale Christian Legal Center staff visits the Cook County Jail daily to build relationships with people who are incarcerated as they await trial. Staffers survey detainees on the things they need to get their families into a more stable situation, said Amy Campanelli, the organization’s head of restorative justice and the former Cook County

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Fredrick Dennis poses for a portrait in his North Lawndale home on July 19, 2022. public defender.

“This is a public safety, violence prevention initiative. Stable safe housing is so crucial for clients navigating a case in the criminal system,” Campanelli said. “If you can’t take care of yourself, you’ll most likely miss or forget about your court date, or possibly you’ll reoffend.”

People released from jail who don’t have a stable living situation find it much harder to manage their legal case and deal with other priorities for their families since “it becomes extremely difficult for them to connect with their lawyer, to connect with their case managers and outreach teams,” Campanelli said.

The Community Release With Support program has already offered housing to six people awaiting trial. Landlords of more than 50 properties have applied to opt into the program, organizers said.

Community Release With Support participants can also potentially rent from the 800 landlords already partnered with the Chicago Low-Income Housing Trust Fund, Executive Director Annissa Lambirth-Garrett said.

“We allow people to live anywhere they want so they can get away from places they don’t feel safe so they don’t have to be in the same place they experienced that trauma,” she said. “It is difficult when you’ve gone

through the system and you’ve returned back to the same environment you need to escape.”

Housing services offered by Lawndale Christian Legal Center’s other programs for young people have a track record of breaking cycles of violence and incarceration, organizers said.

Fredrick Dennis, who now works with Community Release With Support to ensure people make their court dates, said he was in a cycle of arrest and incarceration until he found a stable home and access to the services he needed to get his life onto a better path.

Dennis, 27, grew up in an unstable household with a mother who struggled with opioid addiction and an abusive stepfather.

He was a prodigious boxer and a straight-A student, he said. But his troubled home life resulted in him and his brothers getting involved in “a lot of stealing, a lot of activity we weren’t supposed to do … to try to help my mother with extra income,” he said.

“I always wanted a different type of life.

We’d see commercials for things like ‘High School Musical;’ that was the type of life we wanted, but we just couldn’t get it. Just didn’t grow up that way,” Dennis said.

Dennis “tried to stay away” from getting involved in neighborhood gangs. But he felt he had no other options to “get [his] mother into

a better situation,” he said, and was arrested for drug-related charges and battery.

After Dennis’ first arrest at 15, Lawndale Christian Legal Center helped him find a job and get other resources. But even with those supportive services, he was coming home to the same troubled living situation in the same area where he was surrounded by the same issues that led him towards trouble, he said.

It wasn’t until Lawndale Christian Legal Center provided Dennis with housing that his life stabilized, he said.

With the expanded Community Release With Support program, far more people will be able to “not only help themselves but also help others to see there’s a different way,” Dennis said.

“With the housing, it helped out a lot. It was my first time having a full-size bed. Before that, I was on the couch at my mother’s house. It put me in a way better situation. If I didn’t go through that program, I probably wouldn’t be where I’m at now,” Dennis said.

Having a home allowed Dennis the stability to go to vocational school to learn skills like bricklaying, blueprint reading, forklifting and construction, he said. He used these skills to start his own subcontracting business, which does moving, cleaning, gutter work and landscaping.

“I feel like this is the position I’ve needed to be in my whole life,” Dennis said.

McFarland similarly experienced legal issues for years brought on by struggles with addiction. Getting the treatment and services he needed allowed him to overcome his trouble with the law and become an asset to his community, he said.

“I cycled in and out of the criminal justice system for years, in and out of jail, because I was battling substance use dependency and lacked the resources that I needed to get on my feet, get a job and move forward,” McFarland said.

Any time a person is released from jail to await trial, they need support, McFarland said. All legal systems should be investing in an “infrastructure of support so people like me can change their lives around,” he said.

“This is the model that jurisdictions across the country should be looking at when they’re talking about getting rid of cash bail,” McFarland said.

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Black-owned company to bring 6 grocers to South, West sides Yellow Banana received $13.5 million from the city to to buy and revitalize six grocery stores on the South and West sides

By PASCAL SABINO Block Club Chicago

Two years after a grocery chain abruptly closed its doors to South Side neighbors, a Black-owned company will use city funding to bring the store back to the community — and it’s not stopping there.

Yellow Banana, which owns and operates grocery stores under the Save A Lot name, was one of nearly 80 companies and organizations to receive key city funding Monday through the second round of the city’s Community Development Grant program, designed to funnel money toward small businesses and community initiatives.

Yellow Banana received about $13.5 million to buy and revitalize six closed Save A Lot across the South and West sides, including an Auburn Gresham location, 7908 S. Halsted St., that closed in 2020 and a West Garfield Park location, 420 S. Pulaski Road, that closed in February because of a rat infestation, Yellow Banana co-owner Michael Nance said.

Yellow Banana also will rehab Save A Lot stores in Morgan Park, 10700 S. Halsted St.; South Chicago, 2858 E. 83rd St.; South Shore, 7240 S. Stony Island Ave.; and West Lawn, 4439 W. 63rd St. The company will combine the city grant with another $13 million in “new market and private funds,” to transform the stores, Nance said.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the effort will help fill food deserts.

“Auburn Gresham has been calling for exactly this kind of solution, and we are very, very happy to be answering the community by providing this opportunity to Yellow Banana,” Lightfoot said. “We’re here to support Yellow Banana in our effort to provide quality healthy and affordable food stores that are comfortable and enjoyable to shop in.

“We want to make sure that the shopping experience of people on the South and the West Side is every bit as enjoyable as Downtown and on the North Side. Our residents deserve no less.”

Yellow Banana operates 38 other Save A Lot stores across the country, according to the company’s website. Nance previously said its goal is to “bring them under more localized leadership” and to “invest in these stores in ways they had not been invested in for many years.”

If it succeeds in reviving the Auburn Gresham store as planned, it will offer higher-quality products and redesign the interior so it’s not “beat to all hell,” Nance previously told neighbors.

Most of the grocery chain’s locations slated for overhauls are “dreary and dated,” Nance said.

“They need more than a paint job,” he said.

Yellow Banana will update the interiors and exteriors of the stores, adding bright lights, clean floors, shelving and signs, Nance said.

The “newer, sleeker look” will make the stores a place the “community can take pride in,” Nance said.

If all goes as planned, Yellow Banana will

“deliver” a new store to the Auburn Gresham community “before the year is out,” Nance said.

“My hope is that we deliver as promised in these locations, and that we do so quickly, particularly in Auburn Gresham, where the Save A Lot we’re reopening shut down in 2020,” Nance said. “We want to continue to scale our impact. We want to be the go-to grocer of choice that can come in and be creative and think of ways to make private-public partnerships benefit local communities.”

Seventy-nine organizations were awarded around $50 million worth in funding from the city in this round of grants. The recipients got between $23,000 and $13.5 million, according to a press release.

Some include grants to bring Batter and Berries to 5924 W. Chicago Ave. in Austin, and to build the Chicago Market inside the historic Wilson CTA station at 4620 N. Broadway Ave. in Uptown.

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Pressure’s on from page 1 fer Tax for properties worth more than $1 million in order to fund initiatives to tackle homelessness.

The coalition has been trying to get support from all West Side aldermen, but they are particularly interested in getting Ervin’s support because he chairs the Chicago City Council’s Black Caucus, and they hope that his support would convince skeptical Black aldermen to join in.

But Ervin previously declined to support the ordinance unless it also funds what he believes were more pressing priorities in his ward, namely violence prevention, workforce development and youth services.

During the rally, activists argued that homelessness is one of the contributing factors to violence, and addressing it would reduce violence and some of the other issues affecting his ward. But Ervin remained unmoved, saying that, unless the ordinance includes funding for his priorities as well, he wouldn’t support it.

The activists said that they are still going to try to persuade Ervin, saying that they harbor no ill will and are still willing to work with him.

Some of the things the tax revenue could fund would include the construction of more affordable housing, subsidizing rents, and providing mental health services and job placement assistance.

According to state law, the tax rate can’t be increased unless the voters approve it by referendum. The coalition is supporting a Chicago City Council resolution to place the question on the Nov. 8 general election ballot.

The Bring Chicago Home ordinance currently has 18 co-sponsors, including Ald. Emma Mitts (37th) and Ald. Walter Burnett (27th). It has support from several other members of the Black Caucus, as well.

The protesters approached the JLM Center at around 5 p.m. chanting, “Hey, Ervin, can you hear us, can you hear the human spirit,” and “Housing is a human right – Ervin, please do what’s right,” and asked the alderman to meet them. Ervin didn’t initially respond, so the activists made speeches at the center entrance.

Activist Harry Williams said that, as someone who used to be homeless, he knows first-hand that “violence, violence prevention and homelessness go hand-inhand.”

“You can’t separate the two,” he said Amiin Musaddiq, an imam at Austin’s Masjid al-Mu’un mosque, 5607 W. Chicago Ave., appealed to Ervin directly.

“We are asking you to bring Chicago home, not with words, but with actions,” he said. “We are here today asking you, sincerely, with grace in our heart, that you bring forth the things that we need.

Mia Sostrin talked about how a difficult home situation led her to stay with friends on the West Side, where she saw first-hand the disparities the community faced, mentioning the lack of grocery stores. But she also described the cascading effects of not having a home to call her own had on her mental health.

“My grades suffered, my mental health suffered greatly,” Sostrin said.

About half an hour into the protest, the word got around that Ervin would meet the group at 6 p.m. The majority of the protesters went to the nearby Park 574, 2540 W. Jackson Blvd., to get some shade, only for Ervin to emerge a few minutes later.

As the protesters rushed back to the center, Ervin said that, while tackling homelessness was important, it wasn’t one of the top concerns he hears from his constituents.

“I’m not saying stopping homelessness is not important, but on the scale of things, that’s not high up on the ladder,” Ervin said.

He said that he would be in favor of the REIT increase that would fund his priority. Ervin suggested lowering the increase threshold to $500,000 transactions, so that broadening the scope wouldn’t affect how much funding would go to addressing homelessness.

“We need to expand the uses of the money and we need to lower the threshold, so we don’t take away any of your money,” he said. “When the legislation changes, I’ll be there. I’m open to working with people, but they have to be working with me.”

After some back and forth, it became clear that Ervin wouldn’t be moved on this, and protesters left.

In the interview after the meeting, activist Myron Byrd, who grew up in Austin and has been homeless in the past, said that the coalition planned to keep at it, since, given Ervin’s position in the Black Caucus, “he’s going to help drive it.

“With him, we’re going to continue to keep pushing for him to co-sponsor us,” he said. “We want to work with him, bring Chicago home and bring [the funding] to the community, because community is lacking. Now is the time.”

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Lawsuit filed from page 1 one of the attorneys suing on behalf of the tenants.

Pangea has long faced allegations of abusive tenant practices, and in the decade before 2019, the company filed over 9,000 eviction cases, according to an investigation by the Chicago Reader.

Willie Bradley’s family struggled with insufficient heating and health issues caused by mold over the eight years he lived in a Pangea property, he said. Even in the coldest weeks of the winter, the apartment’s radiator only turned on for about 15 minutes at a time, according the lawsuit.

“My apartment was never heated sufficiently. When I was inside my apartment, it felt like being outside,” Bradley said.

The building Bradley was living in also had broken tuckpoints that allowed water to leak inside, the suit states. The issue went unaddressed for over six months, and in that time the leaks worsened, causing the walls in his apartment to “puff up and buckle” under

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A group of tenants are filing a class action lawsuit against Pangea. the water damage, according to the lawsuit.

Bradley’s apartment also suffered from mold, which Pangea staffers painted over instead of treating, according to the lawsuit.

“We demand better for ourselves and for thousands of other Chicagoans,” Bradley said.

When Kayla Jones first moved to Chicago from out of state, Pangea moved her into a

different apartment unit from the one she initially toured and signed a lease for, she said. The switch left Jones with a decrepit apartment infested with rodents, the lawsuit states.

“I was moving from Dallas, so I didn’t have any resources to fall back on,” Jones said.

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When Jones submitted work orders to get the issues fixed, Pangea closed the complaints without addressing them, according to the lawsuit.

In a statement Tuesday, Pangea said it has “long been committed to providing quality, attainably priced housing that benefits both residents and the communities in which we do business.”

“We routinely work with the City of Chicago to address building issues in order to provide safe, habitable, and code-compliant homes for our residents,” the statement reads. “While we take all resident concerns seriously, we strongly deny the allegations made in the complaint, which run counter to the high service standards that have allowed us to become one of the largest providers of workforce housing in Chicago.”

Tenants living at Pangea buildings who have faced similar issues can possibly join the lawsuit by contacting the law firms representing the renters: Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym, Ltd., and the Legal Aid Society of Metropolitan Family Services.

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Specifications are not intended to reflect all duties performed within the job.

DEFINITION To perform various network/system administration, computer support, and operational activities for the Village including computer system setup, configuration, and testing.

SUPERVISION RECEIVED AND EXERCISED Reports directly to the Information Technology Services Director.

EXAMPLE OF DUTIES: Essential and other important duties and responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following: Essential duties and responsibilities 1. Ensure that best in class customer service is provided to both internal and external customers and also embrace, support, and promote the Village’s core values, beliefs and culture.

2. Configure, test, and deploy network systems, such as, firewalls, routers, switches, wireless equipment, network servers and storage arrays.

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13. Participate in research and recommendation of technology solutions.

Other important responsibilities and duties 1. Train users in the area of existing, new or modified computer systems and procedures.

2. Participate in the preparation of various activity reports.

3. Travel and support remote facilities and partner agencies.

4. Operate, administer and manage the Village and Public Safety computer systems, including E-911 center, in-vehicle computer systems.

5. Prepare clear and logical reports and program documentation of procedures, processes, and configurations.

6. Complete projects on a timely and efficient manner.

7. Communicate effectively both orally and in writing.

8. Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.

9. Perform related duties and responsibilities as required.

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Hardware and software configuration of. computers, servers and mobile devices, including computing environment of Windows Server and Desktop OS and applications, Unix/Linux OS, VMware, iOS/Android.

Network protocols, security, configuration and administration, including firewalls, routers, switches and wireless technology.

Cabling and wiring, including CAT5/6, fiber network, telephone, serial communication, termination, and punch-down.

Telecommunications theory and technology, including VoiP, serial communication, wireless protocols, PBX, analog, fax, voicemail and auto-attendant.

Principles and methods of computer programming, coding and testing, including power shell, command scripting, macros, and

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Modern office procedures, methods and computer equipment.

Technical writing, office productivity tools and database packages.

Ability to: Maintain physical condition appropriate to the performance of assigned duties and responsibilities, which may include the following: - Walking, standing or sitting for extended periods of time - Operating assigned equipment - Lift 50 pounds of equipment, supplies, and materials without assistance - Working in and around computer equipped vehicles Maintain effective audio-visual discrimination and perception needed for: - Making observations - Communicating with others - Reading and writing - Operating assigned equipment and vehicles Maintain mental capacity allowing for effective interaction and communication with others.

Maintain reasonable and predictable attendance.

Work overtime as operations require.

Experience and Training Guidelines Experience: Three years of network/system administration in the public or private sector, maintaining a minimum of 75 Client Workstation computers. AND Training: Possession of a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in computer science or a related field. Certifications in Microsoft Server Administration, Networking, Applications and Cisco Networking.

Possession of a valid Illinois Driver License is required at the time of appointment.

Vaccination against COVID-19 strongly preferred.

WORKING CONDITIONS Work in a computer environment; sustained posture in a seated position for prolonged periods of time; continuous exposure to computer screens; work in and around computerized vehicles outdoor and garage facility; lifting heavy equipment, communication cabling and wiring into walls and ceilings.

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Starting Salary Range: $17.50 $20.38/HR plus full benefits The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position Working Hours: The Park Specialist of Emergency Preparedness and is a full time non-exempt position Response Coordinator in the Health working 40 hours per week, plus Department/Village Manager’s overtime. The scheduled work Office. This position will coordinate hours for this position are Monday – disaster response, crisis manageFriday, 7:00 AM to 3:30 PM, includ- ment and medical countermeasure ing ½ hour unpaid lunch. Hours may dispensing/ distribution activities be shifted occasionally to accommo- for the Village of Oak Park, prodate specific tasks. vide disaster preparedness training, Summary: The Park Specialist is and prepare emergency plans and responsible for assisting the Director procedures for natural (e.g., floods, of Parks with the maintenance oper- earthquakes), wartime, or technologations of the Park District grounds, ical (e.g., nuclear power plant emerfacilities, and equipment. The work gencies, hazardous materials spills, biological releases) or disasters. This includes, but not limited to: 1. Landscape maintenance oper- single class position is also responations for the Park District. This sible for the complex administrative duties required for state, federal and includes but not limited to: local response processes and grant a. Turf maintenance: Mowing, irriga- management. Applicants are encourtion, fertilizing, seeding, weed con- aged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s trol, and trash removal. website http://www.oak-park.us/jobs. b. Athletic field maintenance: Interested and qualified applicants Baseball diamond infields, soccer must complete a Village of Oak Park fields, football fields, basketball application. First review of applicacourts, tennis courts, and installa- tions will be August 5, 2022. tion and maintenance of necessary apparatus of each field use.

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2. Assist with the custodial maintenance of all Park District facilities.

PARKING 3. Assist with any equipment repairs ENFORCEMENT for the Park District. This includes OFFICER but not limited to vehicles, tractors, The Village of Oak Park is seekany facility, or program equipment. ing qualified candidates for the 4 Assist the recreation department position of Parking Enforcement in set up, construction, and repair of Officer in the Police Department all special event props.

Field Services Division. This posiQualifications: 21 years of age. A tion will perform a variety of duties valid Illinois State Driver License and responsibilities involved in the (Class A). In good physical condition enforcement of Village parking reguwith sufficient strength to lift and lations; and to provide general inforhold 50 pounds. mation and assistance to the public.

Interested candidates shall submit Applicants are encouraged to visit an application in person or by email: the Village of Oak Park’s website http://www.oak-park.us/. Interested John Beto, Director of Parks and qualified applicants must com401 Thatcher Avenue plete a Village of Oak Park appliRiver Forest, Illinois 60305 cation.

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PUBLIC NOTICES PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE INVITATION TO BID TO METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO Sealed proposals, endorsed as above, will be submitted back to the District via an electronic upload to the Bonfire Portal only, from the date of the Invitation to Bid, up to 11:00 A.M. (Chicago time), on the bid opening date, and will be opened publicly as described in the Invitation to Bid by the Director of Procurement and Materials Management or designee at 11:00 AM on the stated bid opening date below for: CONTRACT 21-RFP-13 PROCURE A PUBLIC SECTOR BUDGET SYSTEM Bid Opening: August 26, 2022 ***************************************** The above is an abbreviated version of the Notice- Invitation to Bid. A full version which includes a brief description of the project and/or service can be found on the District’s website, www.mwrd. org; the path is as follows: Doing Business > Procurement and Materials Management > Contract Announcements.

Specifications, proposal forms and/ or plans may be obtained from the Department of Procurement and Materials Management by downloading online from the District’s website at www.mwrd.org (Doing Business > Procurement & Materials Management > Contract Announcements). No fee is required for the Contract Documents. Any questions regarding the downloading of the Contract Document should be directed to the following email: contractdesk@mwrd.org or call 312-751-6643.

All Contracts for the Construction of Public Works are subject to the Illinois Prevailing Wage Act (820 ILCS 130/1-et.seq.), where it is stated in the Invitation to Bid Page.

The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago reserves the right to reject any or all Proposals if deemed in the public’s best interest.

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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2021 CH 03939 TJSC#: 42-1772 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 03939 I3198704

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 Giovanni Raimondi, RAI Law, LLC Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 20 N CLARK ST, 30TH FL, CHICAGO, IL, 60602 (312) 8578320.

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.

Giovanni Raimondi

RAI Law, LLC 20 N CLARK ST, 30TH FL CHICAGO IL, 60602 312-857-8320 E-Mail: pleadings@railawllc.com Attorney ARDC No. 6300622 Case Number: 2021 CH 5751 TJSC#: 42-2083 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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Public Notice: Your right to know In print • Online • Available 24/7/365 AustinWeeklyNews.com • PublicNoticeIllinois.com IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION BMO HARRIS BANK N.A. Plaintiff, -v.CHICAGO TITLE LAND TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE U/T/A DATED NOVEMBER 17, 2015 A/K/A TRUST NUMBER 8002369820, SHOREBANK Defendants 2020 CH 02235 815 N PINE AVE 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 19, 2022, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on August 22, 2022, 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 815 N PINE AVE, CHICAGO, IL 60651 Property Index No. 16-04-327-0030000 The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

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

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

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

file to verify all information.

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

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

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. 14-20-01267 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2020 CH 02235 TJSC#: 42-1999 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Case # 2020 CH 02235 I3198820 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS OWNER TRUSTEE

FOR CASCADE FUNDING MORTGAGE TRUST HB5 Plaintiff, -v.MITCHEE HENDRIX, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF LUTHER HENDRIX, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, GERALD NORDGREN, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR LUTHER HENDRIX (DECEASED) Defendants 2021 CH 03939 214 N FRANCISCO AVENUE CHICAGO, IL 60612 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on April 28, 2022, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on August 26, 2022, 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 214 N FRANCISCO AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60612 Property Index No. 16-12-314-0430000 The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

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

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

Where a sale of real estate is made

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

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

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

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

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

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

For information, 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) 236SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE IL, 60527 630-794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-20-04069

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION XO HOLDING LLC Plaintiff, -v.CHICAGO TITLE LAND TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF A CERTAIN TRUST AGREEMENT DATED JULY 11, 2016 AND KNOWN AS TRUST NUMBER 8002371852, ELISEAH D. WILLIAMS AS SUPERVISED ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF BENITA RENEE WILLIAMSTHOMPSON, ELISEAH WILLIAMS, EBONI WILLIAMS, VERLANDER MURPHY, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF BENITA RENEE WILLIAMS-THOMPSON, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 2021 CH 5751 4321 WEST MAYPOLE AVENUE CHICAGO, IL 60624 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on May 23, 2022, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on August 22, 2022, 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 4321 WEST MAYPOLE AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60624 Property Index No. 16-10-413-0030000 The real estate is improved with a 2-unit multifamily residential property.

The judgment amount was $43,032.58.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC D/B/A MR. COOPER Plaintiff, -v.AUGUSTINE MORGAN, CITY OF CHICAGO, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF WILL W SMITH III, THOMAS HARDING, FREDDIE HARDING, WILL HARDING, LATEE SMITH, DANIEL SMITH, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, JULIE FOX, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR WILL W. SMITH III (DECEASED) Defendants 2019 CH 00118 2128 S HARDING AVE 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 February 11, 2020, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on August 8, 2022, 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 2128 S HARDING AVE, CHICAGO, IL 60623 Property Index No. 16-23-317-0290000 The real estate is improved with a residence.

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

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CLASSIFIED REAL ESTATE FOR SALE be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For information, 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

BY PHONE: (708) 613-3333 BY FAX: (708) 467-9066 BY E-MAIL: EMAIL@GROWINGCOMMUNITYMEDIA.ORG

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE 630-794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-18-13484 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2019 CH 00118 TJSC#: 42-2475 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Case # 2019 CH 00118 I3198170 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR MASTR ASSET-BACKED SECURITIES TRUST 2007-HE1 MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2007- HE1 Plaintiff, -v.TYRA V. KENNEDY, STATE OF ILLINOIS - DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, MARY CATHERINE HICKS Defendants 2017 CH 15961 5731 W. RACE AVENUE CHICAGO, IL 60644 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on May 11, 2022, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on August 12, 2022, 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 5731 W. RACE AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60644 Property Index No. 16-08-221-0050000 The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

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

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

Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the

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

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

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

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

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

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

For information, 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. 14-17-16813 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2017 CH 15961 TJSC#: 42-1862 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Case # 2017 CH 15961 I3198359

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWALT, INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2005-35CB, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-35CB, Plaintiff, -v.JOHN LYDON, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR ETHEL LEE SHOTWELL, DWAYNE SHOTWELL, DENIECE SHOTWELL A/K/A DENIECE WILLIAMS, LAKEISHA SHOTWELL A/K/A LAKESHA SHOTWELL, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF ETHEL LEE SHOTWELL A/K/A ETHEL SHOTWELL, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 2019 CH 04090 1450 NORTH MAYFIELD AVENUE CHICAGO, IL 60651 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on June 1, 2022, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on September 1, 2022, 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 1450 NORTH MAYFIELD AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60651 Property Index No. 16-05-209-0210000 The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

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

Upon payment in full of the amount

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MCCALLA RAYMER LEIBERT PIERCE, LLC One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200 Chicago IL, 60602 312-346-9088 E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com Attorney File No. 20-02435IL Attorney ARDC No. 61256 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 2019 CH 04090 TJSC#: 42-2120 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Case # 2019 CH 04090 I3199082

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION PNC BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.LARRY SMITH, STATE OF ILLINOIS - DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 2022 CH 00703 1533 N AUSTIN BLVD CHICAGO, IL 60651 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on June 1, 2022, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on September 7, 2022, 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 1533 N AUSTIN BLVD, CHICAGO, IL 60651 Property Index No. 16-05-200-0070000 The real estate is improved with a residence.

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

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

Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the pro-

visions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption.

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

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

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

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

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

For information, 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) 236SALE 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. 14-22-00665 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2022 CH 00703 TJSC#: 42-2214 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 00703 I3199165

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We need black media more than ever

he advent of the internet aided the demise of a lot of media. Black media, which was always on a perilous tightrope, suffered even more. Black folks were quick to say how they can get it free from the internet, so they didn’t need to support traditional sources of information.

But as we’re seeing in real time, without investigative journalists who have their feet to the ground, our stories are getting lost. And to have what we need, we’re going to have to reach into our pockets to pay to support it.

Let’s look at the current case of Aaliyah Ivory, the young woman who was driving northbound on I-57 and had a road-rage encounter with another driver. Something happened between the time she got on the expressway and being shot near Vollmer road. At the Lincoln Highway entrance, I-57 northbound is two lanes. But just north of Vollmer Road, traffic on the right is slowing down as it heads toward I-80 east, or is attempting to merge to the left to continue north, while traffic on the left is merging into the same single file lane. It’s a nightmare!

Aaliyah, who is black, and another driver, who is a white male got into it.

Something caused a road-rage moment.

Published reports say words were exchanged, to the point where the situation got extremely heightened. Both people had weapons. And in the end, Aaliyah ended up getting shot six times. Five bullets went through her rear window and one bullet

went through the side. We haven’t heard the shooter’s version, and I’m curious to hear what it is.

This is where we need investigative journalists. I’m not going to take sides although I have some strong suspicions. But I want to know the facts. And let the chips fall where they may.

I haven’t seen any reports of witnesses to this road-rage situation coming forward. I find that very interesting. The Illinois State Police did not arrest the shooter, and that has caused Aaliyah’s family to become very upset. But the man also didn’t run. And he knew she had a gun. So the details that we are being given are being managed to put each of the individuals in a better light.

We need journalists to stay on this kind of story, as well as the hundreds of other stories that have happened in the past that get forgotten about as we move on to the latest.

And one of the latest is the very sad story of the two little girls being ignored by the character at Sesame Place. People are jumping on the location, but I want to know who was in that costume? I want them to be publicly identified. Because right now, nobody knows who was in the costume. We don’t know their race, their sex, or anything about them. We just know that the person purposely ignored those two little girls.

I hope we have a budding Ida B. Wells, Robert S. Abbott, or John H. Johnson who can come out and put forth a media platform to address the need that has never gone away.

ARLENE JONES

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Friday, August 5: 2-6pm Saturday, August 6: 9am-5pm Teachers and nonprofits (free books): Sunday, August 7, 2-4pm 30,000+ books on all subjects Special section for children and teens 3,000+ DVDs • 2,500+ CDs Everything $2 or less Cash and credit card No entrance fee

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Austin Weekly News, July 27, 2022