The 1937 Group, owner of Helios Labs, secured the funding from Florida-based SGG Enterprises LLC
Young women enjoy the Fred Hampton Streetz Party in Maywood, which was hosted by Hampton’s son, Black Panther Party Cubs Chairman Fred Hampton Jr., on Aug. 30. Read more on page 4.
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The parent company behind a cannabis cultivation center that’s slated to open in Broadview later this year recently secured significant new funding, company officials announced Aug. 30. The company, The 1937 Group, Ltd., got $17 million from SGG Enterprises LLC, a private investment group based in Florida. Accord ing to the terms of the ag reement, the deal includes $13 million in equity shares and $4 million as a debt note. Ambrose Jackson, the CEO of The 1937 Group, said the funds will be used for the build-out of the company’s current assets and for purchasing and building out more cannabis establishments in Illinois. He declined to disclose how much of an ownership stake
By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor Data by the Sports and Fitness Industry Association shows participation in pickleball nearly doubled from 2014 to 2021, growing from around 2.5 million players to just under 5 million. There are many reasons to explain the sport’s appeal, said Ed Susmilch, a volunteer with the USA Pickleball Association.
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“You get some good exercise but it’s easy on the legs,” said Susmilch, explaining the attractions that have made pickleball the fastest-growing sport in America. “And pickleball is very social.
Residents can now play wildly popular pickleball in Berkeley Park District cuts ribbon on two new pickleball cour ts on Aug. 31, to star t open league play this month
Paul Smith, a Berkeley Park District commissioner who oversees Playg round and Planning, said the courts cost around $20,000. They’re on property that has gone through its own evolution, he said.
For the most part, everybody just comes in and plays.”
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Susmilch was one of the instructors who attended a brief ribbon-cutting ceremony on Aug. 31 for the two brand new pickleball courts the Berkeley Park District installed at 5909 Maple Ave. in Berkeley. The park district also retrofitted two existing tennis courts so that they can be used for pickleball play.
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her survival story“Ihad everything going for me,” she said, adding that she was on her way to play Division I colle giate spor ts when she blew out her knee. “Our thoughts create our words, our words create actions, our actions create our habits, our habits create our char destin,y,” she said. “I’m a clear example of that. I let the thoughts, the stigma, the shame, and the failure change everything in my life. I changed my actions. I stopped working out. I stopped hanging around people who lifted me up and suppor ted me That changed my character and it changed the trajectory of my life.”
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Nonprofit leaders and elected of ficials across the west suburbs gathered at Scoville Park in Oak Park on Aug. 31 to commemorate Inter national Overdose Awareness Day. Re presentatives with a variety of drug treatment and har m reduction org anizations such as the Way Back Inn, the West Side Heroin Task Force, Live 4 Lali, NAMI Metro Suburban joined elected of ficials from Oak Park, River Forest, Forest Park, Maywood and Austin to remember people who lost their lives to opioid overdoses and to raise awareness about drug and overdose prevention.
State Re p. La Shawn K. Ford (8th), the West Side Heroin Task Force founder, said he lost two close relatives to overdoses “The thing about this disease is that it’s inter national,” he said. “So no matter what color you are or what community you’ re from, we are united today because it’s attacking all of our communities and families I lost my favorite uncle, who used to take me to the racetrack and taught me how to bet on the horses I also lost my fa vorite cousin, who allowed me to cut his hair even though I had no clue what I was doing. Those are two dear people I’ve lost to the heroin opioid crisis.”
During Aug. 31 commemoration in Oak Park, elec ted officials, and addiction sur vivors shared personal stories of how overdoses affected them
Ford and his Task Force are exploring the possibility of bringing Overdose Prevention Sites to the Chicago area. So far, the only two in the country are located in New York people to use by professional if they see any Proponents of help amountpreventofdrug use in public areas Re yhas22alcoholicaequipment.snordeliAnycordingwithsocialovtiesstigmafentanyltrainingatmunitypresentatirecovethecommemorationforanyteststripsThecenterandprderamongindifamilies,and,andminimizeerallhealth,legalandharmsassociatedsubstanceuse,”ac-toitswebsite.onecanrequestfreeveryofsyringes,tingkitsandotherSarahGoggin-Young,recoveringaddictandwhooverdosedyearsago,saidshebeensoberfor18ears.OnAug.31,sheshared
Photographer Sarah Goggin-Young, Oak Park Mayor Vicki Scaman, Forest Park Mayor Ror y Hoskins, Senate Majority Leader Kimberly Lightford, Maywood Mayor Nathaniel George Booker, state Rep. La Sha n K. Ford and River Forest T hip S isor Carla Sloan.
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“We used Code Red and it was amazing,” he said. “It’s funny. I would get a weather notification and my neigh bor across the street hadn’t gotten it yet because my ad dress was within the war ning box and his wasn’t yet. As soon as it was, that’s when his went of f.”
“Required information includes first and last name, street address (physical address, no P.O. boxes), city, state, zip code, and primary phone number,” of ficials stated on the village’s website. “Additional phone numbers, email address and text messaging are optional.”
The program provides sidewalk squares at half the cost for residents who request replacements in front of their homes.
State EV rebate program open through Se pt. 30 A state rebate program for the purchase of an electric vehicle remains open through Se pt. 30, and the state announced this week a new rebate application window will open on Nov. 1. The current round of funding opened on July 1, offering a $4,000 rebate for individu als purchasing an all-electric vehicle and a $1,500 rebate for an all-electric motorcycle. Applications for the first round of fund ing must be postmarked by Se pt. 30 and submitted within 90 days of the vehicle’s purchaseThenext round will open on Nov. 1 and run through January 2023. The rebates don’t apply to hybrids or ve hicles not licensed for Illinois roads. It also doesn’t apply to rented or leased vehicles. The purchaser must reside in Illinois on the date of the vehicle purchase and it must be purchased at a state-licenses dealer Documentation requirements include See STATE PROGRAMS on pa ge 9
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Chief Mavrogeorge said he has experience with Code Red as a satisfied customer living in New Baden, Ill. The chief said the village utilized the service in a range of emergencies, including a hostage situation and during extreme weather events
The village board is likely to discuss those options at its next meeting on Sept. 13.
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“This is kind of like the missing element right now in this village when it comes to emergency management [and] the ability for us to notify residents [in a timely fashion],” he said.
State o ers energy assistance, EV rebates, antiviolence funds
The village of Westchester is encouraging residents to enroll in a new emergency notification system the village recently purchased.
Westchester village officials said the suburb’s 50/50 Sidewalk Program is in jeopardy due to skyrocketing concrete prices and recent labor unrest.
Village officials said the cost to replace a single square of concrete is more than $300 compared to roughly $200 a square that the village was paying this time last year. In addition, a 7-week strike by International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150 heavy equipment operators that ended in July has resulted in skyrocketing demand for concrete
50/50 Sidewalk Program takes hit due to rising concrete prices, labor unrest
Eligible residents can star t applying for Low-Income
Officials said in a memo that they can decide only to replace ADA trip hazards (a much cheaper, albeit temporary, alternative), replace fewer residential sidewalks along with ADA trip hazards, increase funding for the program or wait until early 2023 to begin the program.
The CodeRed Emergency Notification System is a high speed phone communication service that the village will star t using to notify residents and businesses of emer gencies and other urgent situations, village of ficials explained.Theservice costs about $8,200 a year but Westchester would split the cost equally with neighboring Hillside, which already utilizes the service, said Westchester Fire Chief Mike Mavrogeorge at a Committee of the Whole meeting on Aug. 9. The fire chief said the two villages already share an emergency dispatch system.
“The information you provide is used by the Village of Westchester for notification purposes only. Your in formation will be ke pt confidential and will never be sold or disclosed to others.”
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Theworkers.village budgets about $50,000 a year for the sidewalk program, which officials said would be inadequate to cover this year’s rising expenses, prompting them to consider some limited options for going forward.
Westchester urging residents to enroll in new alert program
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The village also makes sidewalk repairs in front of properties to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which requires trip hazards be replaced or repaired.
LIHEAP provides one-time payments directly to energy service providers on be half of Familiesrecipientswhoear n up to two times the federal poverty level are eligible for LIHEAP. That works out to a 30-day gross in come below $2,265 for a one-person household, $3,052 for a 2-person home, $3,838 for a three-person home, $4,625 for four people, $5,412 for five people and $6,198 for six people.The level of assistance received is needsbased, and last year’s LIHEAP recipients received an average of $1,330 per household, according to the gover nor’s of fice.
The CodeRed Emergenc y Notification System provides high-speed phone communication ser vice in the case of emergencies
During a Committee of the Whole meeting on Aug. 23,
Illinois As of Se pt. 1 low-income families in Illi nois can be gin applying for state assistance on their natural gas, propane and electric ityThebills.Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP, has $300 million available. Families can apply by visit ing helpillinoisfamilies.com or by calling 1-833-711-0374. Infor mation on other state assistance programs can be found on that website as well.
The Aug. 31 commemoration started in Chicago and ended at the Hampton House in Maywood
Comrade Cool, a member of the Black Panther Party Cubs, said the ener gy at annual gathering is always positive and welcoming.“Itfeelsgood to be out here with the people,” she said. “We’ve got people from all over the world coming out here. We have the Indigenous community out here. The energ y is good. One thing Chair man Fred said is, ‘Everybody don’t have to be a revo lutionary but in your lifetime you should at least commit one revolutionary act.”
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Cassandra Greer-Lee, who helped orga nize the annual Streetz Party, said she was touched by Hampton’s le gacy through his son, Chair man Hampton Jr. Greer-Lee said when her husband contracted COVID-19 while in Cook County Jail, Hampton Jr. of fered his support. “Fred Jr has been one of my biggest sup por ters fighting for me,” Greer-Lee said. “He has become my brother and comrade. My husband died Easter Sunday, April 12, 2020.”Greer-Lee said celebrating what would have been Hampton Sr.’s 74th bir thday is bittersweet.“It’salways a blessing because he’s a le gend but it’s also bittersweet because he should be here,” she said. “He was fighting for our people but he’s not here to enjoy his wife and his son who are still fighting for us in the community that really needs him. But I don’t question God. His le gacy lives on and that’s why we’re out here.”
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“I think this is a wonderful idea to this,” said Wendy Lawson, who was at park early ahead of the events scheduled for 4 p.m. Tuesday. “This is my first time attending this.”
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Community members from all over the world were in Chicago and Maywood on Aug. 30 to celebrate the life and le gacy of slain Illinois Black Panther Party Chairman Fred HamptonHampton.wasassassinated by law enforcement of ficials on Dec 4, 1969 inside of his apar tment at 2337 W. Monroe St. in Chicago. Bor n Aug. 30, 1948, Hampton would have been 74 years old. Each year on Aug. 30, Hampton’s son, Black Panther Party Cubs Chair man Fred Hampton Jr., org anizes the Chair man Fred Streetz Party in memory of his iconic fa therThe commemoration star ts at the apar tment on Monroe Street, which Hampton Jr. and others call Ground Zero, before moving to the Fred Hampton mural at 2746 W. Madison St. on Chicago’s West Side. The original mural was painted in 2010 by ar tist Dasic Fer nandez A new mural was painted over the old one in 2020 by Bronx artist Andre Trenier From the mural, community members traveled to Maywood, where Hampton was raised and attended Irving Elementary and Proviso East High School. Hampton Jr. has tur ned his father’s boyhood home at 804 S. 17th Ave. in Maywood into a living museum.Notfar from the home, the village’s swimming pool is named after Hampton. A bust of Hampton by renowned sculptor Preston Jackson is located in front of the aquaticCommunitycenter. members planned gathered in the Maywood park where the Fred Hampton Aquatic Center is located to listen to live music, eat food and remember the slain civil rights icon who gave his life fighting injustice
Annual Chairman Fred Streetz Party honors icon’s legacy
Lawson said she went to Irving with Fr and still recalls his presence as a strong leader with a passion for the underdog.
“I thought he was a pioneer,” she said.
“He had convictions and he stood by convictions and he wanted to help under privile ged people. We followed him w ever he went. We’d meet up at the park 10th Avenue in Maywood and have protests at the schools. He was a born leader.”
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■ Get a library card at your home library. ■ Take the map to each library and get a stamp. ■ Turn map into your home library to be entered in drawing for $100 Amazon gift card.The American Library Association announced that “Tony Award-winning perfor mer, actress, singer-songwriter, and philanthropist Idina Menzel and her sister, author and educator Cara Mentzel will join the ALA and libraries nationwide this Se ptember to sing the praises of a library card as honorary chairs of Library Card SignUpTheMonth.”ALA of fered the following ways to celebrate Library Card Signup Month: 1. Visit your library. Visit your library to see what’s new and take part in the celebration. Libraries across the country are participating. Do you have friends who don’t have a library card? Invite them to sign up during Se ptember 2. Share on social media Post to Instagram or Twitter using the hashtag #GetLibraryCarded. Entries can also be submitted by posting as a comment or wall post on the I Love Libraries Face book page Be sure not to reveal any personal infor mation on your library card and don’t forget to tag your library! The creator of one randomly-selected post will receive a $100 Visa gift and a poster of choice from ALA Graphics. Three second-place winners will receive their poster of choice from ALA GraphicsThe toareandCTtemberThursdmotionbraryCarded#GetLi-pro-beginsay,Sep-1,atnoonandendsFri-day,September23,atnoonCTAlllibraryloverslibrariansencouragedparticipateThepromotionisopentoresidentsoftheUnitedStates,Washing ton, D.C., and U.S. Ter ritories. Employees of the American Library Association are not eligible to participate. For more on Library Card Signup Month, visit: ebrationwwww.ala.org/conferencesevents/cel-eeks/card. T: michael@oakpark.com
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Health de par tment of ficials said last year there were 20 human West Nile virus cases, one of them fatal. Health of ficials are encouraging resi dents to practice what they’re calling the 3 R’s to prevent mosquito bites and the dis eases they car ry. They include: Remove – Eliminate oppor tunities for mosquitoes to breed outside your home Once a week, dump water that is collecting outside in buckets, flower pots, toys, kiddie pools, pet bowls, spare tires, etc. Keep gutters clean and free of debris Re pel – Use Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-re gistered insect re pellents when outdoors. Always follow the direc tions on the label. Wear long-sleeved shir ts and long pants Use air conditioning when possible Re pair – Keep mosquitoes outside. Make sure your doors and windows have tightfitting screens. Re pair any tears or other openings. Proviso libraries get brand upgrades
By COMMUNIT Y EDITOR Village Free Press Se ptember is Library Card Signup Month and Proviso Township libraries are commemorating the occasion with a treasure hunt. Residents can participate in the campaign from Se pt. 6 through Se pt. 30. Follow the treasure map to each participating Proviso library and enter a drawing for a $100 Amazon gift card.
How it works:
BroadviewLibrary 2226 16thAve HillsideLibrary 405 HillsideAvenue Northlake Library 231N Wolf Rd BerkeleyL brary 1637Taft Av nue PROVISOLIBRARY CARD SIGN-UP 2022 Maywood Library 12 S 5thAve MelrosePark Library 80 N 19thAve LaGrangePark Library 555 N La Grange Rd Fores ParkLibrary 7555 acksonBlvd Geta brary card atyou home Takibrary e the map to eachl brary and get a Tustamp. rn map into you home library to be entered n draw ng for $100Amazon gi t ca d. How itworks: 1. 2. 3 LIBRARIES ARE THE TREASURE! Bellwood Library 600 Bohland Av
Suburban Cook County has its first confir med death from West Nile virus this year, Cook County De par tment of Public Health (CCDPH) of ficials said in a statement last week.
Suburban Cook County records first West Nile Virus death in Illinois this year
Libraries across the Proviso Township area are debuting new looks and initiatives this summer — from new websites and logos to new concepts for library cards.
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Those over 50 and who are immunocompromised individuals are at higher risk for severe illness from West Nile virus County health de par tment of ficials said positive results in humans, birds, mosquitoes and horses have been re por ted in 30 counties in Illinois so far this year “The kids may be going back to school, but the mosquitoes are still out,” said CCDPH Chief Operating Of ficer Dr LaMar Hasbrouck. “West Nile virus is a risk until the first hard frost, so we still need to take precautions, especially at dawn and dusk when mosquitoes are most active.”
The Berkeley Public Library, 1637 N. Taft Ave. in Berkeley, recently debuted their new website and lo go. The launch comes as the library building is undergoing historic renovations.“We’vebeen busy remodeling our brand and online presence in addition to our physical library remodel,” Berkeley li brary of ficials explained in a statement. We launched a new website and unveiled a new logo as well. “Based on community feedback, there are several updates to the website includ ing a more responsive programming calendar with an online event re gistration tool. We’ ll be adding an online archive of local history.” Patrons can see the library’s new page at berkeleypl.org The Maywood Public Library, 121 S. 5th Ave. in Maywood, also revealed their new monthly newsletter, a fresh upgrade of their existing newsletter Patrons can see the new look newsletter at maywoodli brary.org.Meanwhile, the Hillside Public Library, 405 Hillside Ave. in Hillside, recently created a brand new library card for local busi ness“Businessowners owners are welcome to come here and talk to a librarian to get star ted,” said Amy Franco, the library’s executive directorFranco said the card is open to busi ness owners across Proviso — not just in Hillside — and has the same borrowing privile ges as a re gular card. She said, most impor tantly, the business owner’s card will allow local business owners the oppor tunity to lear n about the library’s many re sources for entrepreneurs.
Health de par tment of ficials said the Cook County resident who died was a man in his late 70s who became sick in early Au gust. They said West Nile virus was a contributing factor in his death.
The virus is transmitted through mosquito bites and causes a variety of symp toms, including fever, nausea, headache and muscle aches, of ficials said.
Par ticipating libraries are encouraging residents to get a librar y card and take a treasure hunt to win a $100 Amazon gift card
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Maywood woman notches prestigious fellowship
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Jaclyn Jackson selec be in Leadership of Gr Chicago’s 2023 Signatur Fellows Program, which boasts Michelle Obama as alum
PROVIDED Jaclyn Jackson was selected to be in Leadership of Greater Chicago’s 2023 Signature Fellows Program.
A prestigious ci ment program that most prominent leaders in the country has selected a Maywood 2023 cohor t. Jaclyn Jackson, who is senior vice human resources Equity Fund Inc., selected to be par t Chicago’s 2023 Signature include for mer First Obama, for mer U.S. SecreAr ne Duncan and Cook ney Kim Foxx, among the Chicago Commuthird-largest community country, LGC has devel1,200 leaders through its icipateogram.in “an intensive that provides the founcommitment to civic according to the org anizaLGC CEO Maria Wynne ratulated the newest Fellows class. sponsors of the LGC embracing this approach and for investing in leaders to change the LGC Board of Direcour newest Class and their contributions to ensure an inclusive future for all who call Chicago home.” In a statement, Jackson said she’s “thrilled” to have been selected as a 2023 Fellow.“Throughout my career in social ser vices, I have been committed to using my talents to help improve the lives of families and individuals in the communities I have had the honor to serve,” Jackson said. “I hope to gain new insights into the Greater Chicago area’s challenges and look forward to working with a network of like minded colleagues so that to gether, we can become a bigger part of the solution,” she added.Inaddition to the Signature Fellows Program, LGC recently launched the Daniel Bur nham Fellowship, an accelerated civic onboarding experience for senior executives.For more information on LGC, visit lgcchicago.org. To lear n more about the LGC Signature Fellows Program, visit lgcchi cago.org/signaturefellowspro gram.
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“It is impor tant that we capitalize as the leading social equity entrant in the Illinois re gulated cannabis markets,” Jackson said.“During these times, when venture mar kets have seemingly dried up, our ability to secure capital and consummate this deal is a great indicator that we have the right team and the right strate gy in place; and that we can execute on our vision of be coming not only one of the first new operators to the market but also one of the most impactful.”Ambrose said The 1937 Group is the first minority-owned vertically-inte grated cannabis company in Illinois. The 1937 Group is the parent company of Helios Labs, which is the new cannabis cultivation center that’s expected to open inside of a $52,000-square-foot 2150 Parkes Dr. in Broadview later this year The facility build-out is projected to cost around $14 million, Helios of ficials said last year. Broadview village of ficials confir med that Helios Labs re presentatives pulled per mits for construction earlier this yearAccording to a Chicago Tribune ar ticle published last year, Helios “struck gold” during the coveted lottery for cannabis business licenses in Illinois. They secured licenses to both grow and sell their own cannabis products.
“So we do that through dif ferent events we attend and host.” Jackson said any qualified individu als and entities interested in investing with The 1937 Group or any of its ventures can contact him at Ambrose. Jackson@1937g roup.com.
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Major investment from page 1 and then when roller hockey was popular, they put the center fence in,” Smith said, adding that the park district plans to have per manent pickleball nets in the two new cour ts along with por table pickleball nets on the tennis cour t that can be used for tour naments Peter Graham, the park district’s executive director, said the district’s open doubles pickleball league will debut on Se pt. 6. Susmilch will also be at the cour ts ev ery Wednesday night at 5 p.m. this month star ting Se pt. 7 for anyone who wants his instruction during free play Residents can check out a pair of pickleball racquets and two balls at the Berkeley Public Library free of charge
The g ame of pickleball is simple. The spor t can be played one-on-one or two-ontwo. Each match sets out with a serve that always be gins on the right side of the cour t and behind the baseline Servers have to swing underhanded and below their wastesAfter each serve, the ball has to bounce on both sides of the netting before players can star t volleying back and for th. When they’ re volleying, players have to stand outside of a zone called the “kitchen” that extends seven feet from both sides of the waist-high netting and spans sideline sideline.Thespor
“That’s kind of where it star ted to take of about 10 years ago.”
Anita LaRocca, 70, said she star ted playing pickleball about three years ago while in F “There’lorida.s a group in F lorida, we meet about twice a week,” she said. “We like to have six people so we can rotate in and out.
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Berkeley Park District o cials cut the ribbon on two new pickleball cour ts in Berkeley. e tennis cour t behind them was also striped to allow two games of pickleball, which is the fastest-growing spor t in America.
“One of the reasons it has star ted grow ing is because places like Margaritaville F lorida star ted promoting it as part of healthy lifestyle for seniors,” he added.
Helios was one among 40 applicants to win “craft-g row” licenses. The company waited more than a year for the license, which cost a fee of $40,000. That’s not in cluding the “few hundreds of thousands of dollars” to star t the permitting process, Crain’s Chicago Business re por ted last year“This is just the be ginning,” said Eric “Ice” Thompson, an engineer by training and the chief inte gration of ficer for Helios, during an open house event last year
“We star ted of f as a group of people from a team that spent many hours fighting for good reasons and overcoming challenges of dealing with a state whose success we want to be part of, but has not made it easy at Heliosall.”
In fact, Margaritaville is practically synonymous with the spor t. So synonymous that arguably the marquee tour nament the g ame is called the Margaritaville USA Pickleball National Championships Susmilch said USA Pickleball is pushing for pickleball to be designated an Olympic spor t. He said more and more tennis play ers are migrating to the spor t because it’s less strenuous on the body.
t is a lot like tennis or ping pong, Susmilch said. He said despite its recent uptick in popularity, pickleball has been around for about 50 years.
“There are a lot of seniors who play but the average age is coming down,” Susmilch said. “If you go back 15 years ago, the aver age age of the top 10 pickleball pros used to be about 55. Now, it’s about 23.”
The more the mer rier.”
LaRocca, a Berkeley native, said she of ten plays in the many pickleball cour ts in nearby Elmhurst, where she lives. But now that Berkeley has its own cour ts, she can come to the place she grew up and has deep rootsPart of the ground the new pickleball cour ts are on used to be her grandfather’s farm, she said. “My family has been in Berkeley for over 120 years,” she said after Wednesday’s ribbon-cutting. “It was almost called LaRoccaville.”Berkeley Village President Robert Lee said he’s growing into a fan of the popular spor t, too. Lee said he’s considering joining a do-it-yourself pickleball league “I’ve played tennis and ping pong and racquetball,” he said. “It’s like a blend of them all.” For more information about the Berke ley Park District’s pickleball league and in struction, visit: berkeleyparkdistrict.com.
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The 1937 Group Ltd. also operates Park way Dispensary, a cannabis retailer, and Highwaymen Security, a cannabis transpor tation company. Jackson said the company is also securing more craft grow licenses and four more Illinois retail dis pensaryJacksonlicensessaid his company re gularly looks for people interested in either work ing for 1937 Group or investing in the mi nority-owned fir m. “We make it a point as an org anization to eng age the community re gularly,” he said.
Labs will produce a range of cannabis items at the Parkes Drive plant, in cluding cannabis flour and infused gummy bears“We broke ground and the building is cur rently under construction,” Jackson said. “We are communicating with currently operating dispensaries with the goal of having our products on their shelves by early December.”
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Titled “Stay Golden,” the mural features White’s familiar visage, haloed by citrushued beams. With the sponsorship Oak Park Area Ar ts Council (OPAAC), piece was designed and painted by Sara Jean “[White]Stevens.wasa ray of sunshine think this mural really embodies glow, that aura, that spark she had,” Stevens, who makes art under the moni Moth and Moon Co The mural is a part of OPAAC’S mural public ar t initiative, a progr that allows ar tists to submit designs chance to paint them along the Union cific/CTA train embankment. It is one of this program year’s 26 new murals [see sidebar] but the only one to commemorate White, who died on New Year’s Eve just days before her centennial birThethday.mini-mural program gives ar tists free creative rein over their designs, so long as the ar t does not advertise anything and is appropriate for the public. The competi tion is open to ar tists all over the country. “They bring their own wonderful ar t to this village that only goes to enhance our community,” said OPAAC Executive Director Camille Wilson White A panel comprising council staf f and members of the local ar ts community judge the submitted designs. Those ear ning the panel’s approval are then painted by the respective ar tists, who are awarded a $500 stipend for materials and another $500 upon project completion. This year, the council issued a prompt to any ar tist who wished to take it: Design a mural that reflects White. “My design instantly popped into my head,” said Stevens, whose work can also be found at FitzGerald’s in Berwyn. Like many others, Wilson White is a fan of the late great comedic actress “I have enjoyed watching her shows over the years, even when she was Sue Ann Nivens on The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” Wilson White said.
BE Y OND Proviso a copy of purchase invoice, proof of purchase, vehicle re gistration, and IRS W-9 or W-8 forms. The purchaser must also own the vehicle for 12 months.
The funding announced this week will suppor t nonprofit community-based orga nizations and local gover nments in 16 municipal areas outside of Chicago, accord ing to the gover nor’s of fice.
The state also made $113 million available in May, for which the application window is still open.
Doc Ryan’s Bar in Forest Park to get new owners
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Sara Jean Stevens paints a mural of Betty White
As of July 1, the fund paying out the re bates had a balance of $17.9 million, and re bates were subject to funding availability.
Matt Sullivan didn’t respond to the Re view’s request for comment by deadline. Veselik said he’s friends with Sullivan, which is how they got a shot at purchasing the bar. He and Barz did not elaborate on the ter ms of the deal.
The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, which administers the rebates, gives priority to low-income applicants whose income doesn’t exceed 80 percent of the state median income and expedites grants to those individuals Thus far, as of Aug. 25, according to IEPA, the state has re ceived 72 low-income applications and ap proved 22 of them. It had received 898 that didn’t meet the low-income threshold.
FOREST PARK – Doc Ryan’s bar, 7432 Madison St. in Forest Park, is in the process of being sold to two friends of current owner Matt Sullivan, but the process is contingent on the successful transfer of the liquor license and some other proceduralBrothersissues.Matt and Brian Sullivan bought the bar from longtime owner Jim Shaw, who retired in the fall of 2007. Rumors that the bar changed hands star ted circulating this spring. Matt Sullivan’s name appeared on Doc Ryan’s April 29 enter tainment li cense application.
In a recent interview, Craig Veselik and Mike Barz said they are “in the process of taking [Doc Ryan’s] over” – a process that, Veselik said, be g an in March. He said that they are waiting for the transfer of the li quor license to go through, as w ell as some wners in waiting said that they looking to move the menu beyond food, as well as to introduce a cocktail menu but until the remainprocesses are complete, they don’t customers to see any changes until Originally opened in the 1950s, Doc Ry of Forest Park’s larger bars yor Anthony Calderone hosted election night victory parties at throughout the 2000s While police have occasionally gotten calls about customer misbehavior over the years, during the July 26 hearing on the status of the Tap Room bar’s liquor license, Police Chief Ken Gross testified that Doc Ryan’s doesn’t have significant issues.
More information can be found here https://www2.illinois .go v/ ep a/topics/ ceja/Pages/Electric-Vehicle-Rebates.aspx.
Oak Park’s Golden Girl gets a Mural OAK PARK – Downtown Oak Park has become just a little more golden with the completion of a new Betty White mural.
Anti-violence grant opportunities available Gov. JB Pritzker’s of fice announced grant oppor tunities are available for $100 million in funding made available through the state’s Reimagine Public Safety Act.
The RPSA, an ef fort to drive violenceprevention funds to the state’s most dangerous areas, was approved in 2021 and received $250 million in the state’s currentyear budget from federal American Rescue Plan Act funding.
City area, Chicago Heights area, Danville, Decatur, Joliet, Kankakee, Maywood-Bellwood areas, Peoria, Rock Island, Rockford, Springfield, Urbana-Champaign area and Waukeg an-Nor th Chicago area.
The OFVP will award grants through the program to eligible nonprofits that focus on violence intervention programs, mental and behavioral health programs designed to help victims of trauma, and for youth mentoring programs Infor mation about the grant program can be found at http://www.dhs.illinois. gov/rpsa, and resources for interested or g anizations can be found at http://www.DHS illinois.gov/Grants.
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The state’s Of fice of Firear m Violence Prevention, or OFVP, convened local ad visory councils in the 16 non-Chicago communities eligible for funding, which include Aurora, Belleville and East St. Louis area, Berwyn-Cicero area, Calumet
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Located on Nor th Boulevard right by Fire cakes Donuts, the railroad embankment panel of public ar t is a glowing tribute both to White and to Oak Park, where the star was, quite literally, born.
10 Village Free Press, September 7, 2022 Amid the Labor Day holi day celebrations, I noticed that it’s not really an occasion to celebrate actual work. The holi day is all about the day of f from work and the store sales. When you read the history of the labor movement in the U.S., though, this doesn’t seem so paradoxical. After all, most of the great 20th-century labor struggles were about reducing the hours worked each week and paying people enough to shopBut there should be more to our national celebration of labor than relishing the fact that we don’t like doing it (or that we’d prefer being the customer at Walmart, cashing in on those Labor Day sales, than the cashier).Beyond bringing us the weekend and higher wages, the labor movement was also about improving the quality of work and caring about the humanity of workers in theThoseworkplace.areaspects often overlooked when we think about labor in America. And this oversight af fects both workers and consumers.Consider Whole Foods. Amazon acquired the natural foods grocery store chain five years ago for nearly $14 billion. As a frequent Whole Foods shopper before the merger, I noticed the dif ference, and apparently, other shoppers have, too On Monday, I watched a YouTube video uploaded Aug. 25 by CNBC titled, “How Amazon Changed Whole Foods, Five Years later.” The comments under the video seemed more informative than the video itself (I’ve edited them lightly for clarity).
“I worked at Whole Foods,” wrote one commenter. “The tur nover rate has gotten much higher the past few years and seems to only get worse. Most new hires at my store quit within a few weeks or even after just their first shift. Recently, a new hire during their first shift asked to go to the bathroom and never came back.”
“I worked there right after the merger happened, and my coworkers who stayed af ter the transition said they were extremely disappointed,” wrote another commenter “They started having people work three different stations instead of just one (so liter ally one person running pizza, deli counter, and sandwich) and the quality dropped as well because how can you handle all of that and maintain the same quality as three to four workers?”“They’ve drastically reduced variety,” someone else wrote. “As a shopper with allergies, this really matters. Plus, it was a specialty store and I came there for those unique items that no one else stocked (such as organic macadamia nuts). They got rid of bulk organic spices, and they got rid of them in the packets“Before Amazon bought them, I knew employees for a long time and they be gan to feel like friends and a small local grocery store,” the commenter added. “Since Whole Foods was bought, my store — which at the purchase time was the high est producing in my re gion — employee tur nover has been so fast that it often feels like new faces every week.”
According to a Yahoo Finance report published in 2018, the year of the acquisition, Amazon granted restricted stock that year “to only Whole Foods leadership above the Associate Store Team Leader level, leaving many employees in stores empty-handed.” That’s even as Amazon’s stock price had doubled since it bought Whole Foods.
For starters, as University of Chicago legal scholar Eric A. Posner argues, we can push politicians to apply old-fashioned antitrust laws to corporations that benefit from an unfair monopsony on labor by do ing things like forming ille gal poaching agreements“Forexample, Jimmy John’s, a sandwich franchise, routinely required low-wage employees to sign covenants not to compete, which apparently deter red those employees from moving to competitors,” Posner reported in his 2021 book, How Antitrust Failed Workers
According to a New York Times analysis cited by IBD Weekly, the tur nover rates at Amazon’s warehouses can be as high as 150 percent. Reliable data on the tur nover rate at Whole Foods since the Amazon takeover has been harder to come by My experience as a decade-long, singlebag Whole Foods River Forest patron (one bag, whole paycheck) echoes those comments. Things haven’t been the same since Amazon took over. Sure things are more ef ficient, but the food quality has dropped and the workers don’t seem as happy. Even the smell has been more corporatized. I don’t want to romanticize things. Whole Foods was a corporate behemoth even be fore Amazon came along. But tha t corporation’s values were clearly supposed to be difDuringferent.
“Every team member was a literal owner,” Robb said. “I had team members come up to me and say, ‘Thanks so much for the stock options Thank [co-founder John Mackey] for the stock options. I just bought my mother a house with your stock.’ They weren’t just team members, they were owners.”When Whole Foods was sold to Amazon five years ago, Amazon stopped the practice of allowing workers to receive stock that could vest over four years.
IBD Weekly reported last week that “union representation petitions jumped 58%, to 1,892 from Oct. 1 to June 30, or vs. the first nine months of the gover nment’s prior fiscal year, the National Labor Relations Board said in July.” But it’s not fair to put the burden of hold ing corporate behemoths like Amazon accountable on the backs of service sec tor workers, who are disproportionately Black and Brown (in a fascinating profile of for mer Amazon worker and labor leader Chris Smalls, published last month, New York Mag azine reported that “75 percent of Amazon’s warehouse workers are Black or Latino” while “only 8 percent of its executivesTheare”).people who fit the Whole Foods and Amazon customer profile — the de greed, credentialed, well-connected, relatively highly paid “knowledge workers” — need to be advocating on behalf of and along side these workers who bag our groceries and cook our takeout orders and care for us when we’re ill.
One 2014 study found that 12 percent of workers “ear ning less than $40,000 with ed ucation below the colle ge level were bound byAndnoncompetes.”that’sthetip of the iceberg. Dignified labor and democratic, humanoriented workplaces need to be the center of our focus this Labor Day holiday, not just backyard barbecues and shopping.
Amazon eventually reintroduced the stock purchasing policy for lower-level workers — a week after those workers called to unionize There is power in a union, af ter all, which is why so many service sector workers are trying to form them.
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a Rotary Club event at Thatcher Woods Pavilion in River Forest in 2019, Whole Foods co-founder Walter Robb said the chain had 475 stores by the time it sold to Amazon. Robb attributed the company’s growth to its “culture of inclusion and empower ment,” adding that a “company grows fast because you trust your team to serve your customers.
Amazon’s founder and for mer CEO Jeff Be zos has been rather open about his dis dain for dignified labor. In an Aug. 22 re port, Investor’s Business Daily Weekly noted that Be zos once told a colleague that “having an established, deeply rooted work force was a ‘march to mediocrity.’” Knowing this, it seems Whole Foods was bound to go the way of Amazon’s warehouse model, which “operates of f burn out,” Adam Ober nauer, the director of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union told IBD Weekly.
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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).
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NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on June 15, 2022, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on October 17, 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 follow ing described real estate: Commonly known as 1513 SAINT CHARLES RD, MAYWOOD, IL Property60153 Index No. 15-10-224-025The0000real 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 mortgag ee, 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 FORECLO SURE LAW. You will need a photo identificaIN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION US BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE OF LSF9 MASTER PARTICIPATION LORENZOvs.Plaintiff,TRUST; ZANIOLO; JOSEFINA A. ZANIOLO; CHICAGO TITLE AND TRUST COMPANY; TCF NATIONAL BANK; ILLINOIS HOUSING DEVELOP MENT ADRIENEAUTHORITY;WOSTMANN; RICHARD BIRNDORF; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF THEODORE UNKNOWNBIRNDORF;OWNERS AND NONRECORD PUBLICNOTICE18Defendants,CLAIMANTS;CH833OFSALENOTICEISHEREBY
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tion 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) THE794-9876JUDICIAL SALES CORPORAOneTIONSouth Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236YouSALEcan also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.
COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIAFIRST-v.-Plaintiff,TIONMIDWEST BANK, AS SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO STAN DAND BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE U/T/A DATED 1/25/2013 A/K/A TRUST NO. 21421, WESTBOOK CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS 19192022DefendantsCH01974SWOLFRD, UNIT 306 HILLSIDE, IL 60162 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on July 11, 2022, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on October 14, 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 follow ing described real estate: Commonly known as 1919 S WOLF RD, UNIT 306, HILLSIDE, IL 60162 Property Index No. 15-20-300-047 1053; 15-20-300-047-1295 The real estate is improved with a Saleresidence.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 Prop erty 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.
GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, September 27, 2022 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. Commonly12-29-108-015-0000.knownas10920 West Grand Avenue, Melrose Park, Illinois 60164. The mortgaged real estate is im proved with a single family resi dence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inForspectioninformation call The Sales De partment at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Diaz Anselmo & Associates, P.A., 1771 West Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois 60563. (630) 453-6925. F21030070 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES
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cial Sales Corporation will on Monday, October 3, 2022 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real CommonlyPestate:.I.N.15-17-106-001-0000knownas251 Iroquois Road, Hillside, IL 60162 The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection For information call Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Manley Deas Ko chalski, LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (614) 2205611. 19-038152 ADC F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES INIintercountyjudicialsales.comCORPORATION3201509THECIRCUITCOURTOF
The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Cer tificate of Sale that will entitle the pur chaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no 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 Cer tificate 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 Con dominium 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 FORECLO SURE 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) THE794-9876JUDICIAL SALES CORPORAOneTIONSouth Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236YouSALEcan 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
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IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER EN TRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLO SURE 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 Corpora tion 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) THE794-9876JUDICIAL SALES CORPORA OneTIONSouth Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236 YouSALEcan 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 aboveForeclosureENPUBLICCOUNTYCOUNTY,AttorneyE-Mail:630-794-5300pleadings@il.cslegal.comFileNo.14-20-02640AttorneyARDCNo.00468002AttorneyCode.21762CaseNumber:2022CH01974TJSC#:42-2632NOTE:PursuanttotheFairDebtCollectionPracticesAct,youareadvisedthatPlaintiff’sattorneyisdeemedtobeadebtcollectorattemptingtocollectadebtandanyinformationobtainedwillbeusedforthatpurpose.Case#2022CH01974I3202207INTHECIRCUITCOURTOFCOOKILLINOISDEPARTMENT-CHAN-CERYDIVISIONMIDFIRSTBANK;Plaintiff,vs.THEUNKNOWNHEIRSANDLEGATEESOFRAULE.SANCHEZ,DECEASED;ILLINOISHOUSINGDEVELOPMENTAUTHORITY;THEUNITEDSTATESOFAMERICA,THEDEPARTMENTOFHOUSINGANDURBANDEVELOPMENT;UNKNOWNOWN-ERSANDNONRECORDCLAIMANTS;MILDREDSANCHEZ;HECTORSANCHEZ;ADRIANSANCHEZ;WILLIAMBUTCHER,ASSPECIALREPRESENTATIVEOFRAULE.SANCHEZ,DECEASED;Defendants,19CH13349NOTICEOFSALENOTICEISHEREBYGIVthatpursuanttoaJudgmentofandSaleenteredintheentitledcauseIntercountyJudi
IS HEREBY GIV EN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judi cial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, October 4, 2022 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real CommonlyPestate:.I.N.15-34-116-024-0000knownas9501 Jackson Avenue, Brookfield, Illinois 60513
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The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection For information call The Sales Depart ment at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Diaz An selmo & Associates, P.A., 1771 West Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois 60563. (630) 453-6925.
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