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City kicks off $750M investment campaign Capital will be targeted to South and West side neighborhoods By IGOR STUDENKOV Contributing Reporter
The city of Chicago recently invited residents of the Austin, North Lawndale and Humboldt Park communities to share what they want to see the city invest in. On Oct. 21, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced the launch of the Invest South/West initiative, where the city would work with its sister agencies, local community organizations and business people to put their money and resources toward “foster[ing] community cohesion, vitality and private investment” in South and West side neighborhoods that haven’t seen much investment. The first round on investments will focus on 10 community areas, including the three aforementioned West Side neighborhoods. Over the past two months, the city held several kickoff events in those neighborhoods to not only let residents know what’s in store, but to get their reactions and suggestions. The West Side kickoff was held on Jan. 18 at Kehrein Center for the Arts, 5628 W. Washington Blvd. City officials laid out how the initiative would work, and residents got a chance to offer suggestions and vote for their priorities in the workshop afterwards. While many activists said they were excited to see investment come to the West Side, there were also reservations about how much that would See INVESTMENT on page 8
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The forgotten King
The more radical King — who spoke out against the Vietnam War, critiqued the profligacy of capitalism and warned black leaders about imitating the white establishment — rarely appears during our annual King Day celebrations. Neither does the black social gospel tradition that fed and sustained his radical politics. Read why on page 2.
Fund to grant $1M to summer programs Grant applications due Feb. 14, awards to range from $1K to $10K
By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor
An alliance of grassroots organizations based on the city’s West and South Sides may have more funding for their activities and programming this summer thanks to $1 million in rapid-response grants from the Partnership for Safe and Peaceful Communities’ Chicago Fund.
The Partnership is a coalition of more than 40 foundations and funders dedicated to supporting programs that reduce gun violence. The coalition’s Chicago Fund will give out $1 million in rapid-response grants that will range from $1,000 to $10,000 “to support programs and events by small, grassroots organizations that are proactively working to keep Chicago communities hardest hit by gun violence
safe,” according to a statement the coalition released on Jan. 15. The grant applications are due Feb. 14. The funding will be distributed on April 22. The application for grants is available online at: https://cct.smartsimple.com/s_Login.jsp. To read more information about the grant, visit: http://www.safeandpeacefulchi.com/.
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MIS-REMEMBERING THE DREAM: Martin Luther King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech on Aug. 28, 1963. The speech is laden with classical liberal concepts that some people have exploited in their fight to undo the very values King died for.
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The forgotten King
his week, Americans across the country at least made a show of commemorating the memory of Martin Luther King Jr., the nation’s preeminent civic hero. For the most part, though, this year’s MLK Day, as with years past, was really an act of collective forgetting. Amid our annual King Day celebrations, the more radical King — who spoke out against the Vietnam War, critiqued the profligacy of capitalism and warned black leaders about imitating the white establishment — rarely appears. In a way, this tragedy was always baked into King’s legacy because if he was ever going to be remembered as he is now (i.e., with a national holiday in his honor, in commercials for trucks and computer goods, in innocuous TV soundbites and at public ceremonies), it was going to be on the terms of the very power structure whose authority, during his lifetime, he both leveraged and lambasted. In his many campaigns for racial equality, King often appealed to the collective conscience of white America through the language of classical liberalism, a philosophical tradition developed in the 17th and 18th centuries that places the individual — unfettered by the strictures of race, gender, class and other potentially polarizing identities — at the center of society. According to the late political theorist Sheldin Wolin, classical philosophers believed the universal individual liberated from the constraints of particular identity could be a useful tool for suppressing the inherited resentment related to ethnic, cultural, religious and political differences. Those differences fueled incessant up-
heavals, such as civil war, during the 17th and 18th centuries that made life for most people during those times “poor, nasty, brutish, and short,” in the words of 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes. Hobbes thought that, in order to achieve peace and harmony, we needed a way to allow the world’s various warring factions to forgive and forget, to let bygones be bygones, so that society “could start afresh without inherited resentments,” Wolin writes. “A necessary condition of social amnesia was, therefore, that men de-historicize themselves.” Classical liberalism is laden in King’s often misremembered “I Have a Dream” speech, in which he lays out his vision for a nation that “will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,’” and where citizens “will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” King, and the many, mostly unheralded, men and women who fought with him were wildly successful in helping African Americans win the rights historically denied them, particularly the right to vote. But the ideological terrain on which King and company were fighting was always rigged against blacks when it came to levelling the political and economic playing field for more than a privileged few. King urged white America to live up to its creed of equality, but that creed, while useful for persuading the country to be less racist, was not without its problems, par-
MICHAEL ROMAIN
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There is no litter in the Promised Land
s I write this column on the 66th anniversary of my natal day and the annual holiday celebration of the birthday of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., it is easy to reflect on how Dr. King would see the black community today. To have come as a people from just asking to be allowed to have a seat at a lunch counter, to having the seat of the highest office in the land occupied by a black man, the strides that we as a people have made in this country surely are accomplishments he would consider monumental. Dr. King said, “I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land.” He did not live to see many of the achievements that his Civil Rights movement accomplished. Nor did he live to see the failures purposely committed and orchestrated by some members of the black community who have no consciousness of their obligation to seek and achieve the Promised Land. The Promised Land is as much physical as it is mental. In terms of public accommodations, access to education, access to employment, access to everything proclaimed by the U.S. Constitution, we as a people have achieved it. However, achieving and appreciating are two different things. And when one doesn’t appreciate the access that has been opened up for us, there can be no accomplishments or strides or gains. One of the most basic steps the black
community can take toward a Promised Land is to clean up and not litter the land we occupy in our neighborhoods. It is an absolute disgrace the way black communities are defined by the garbage that is purposely tossed on the ground by trifling individuals who seem intent on feeding rats and other pests because they are too lazy to put garbage in a container. Even worse is when that litter is in the front yard of homes owned by black people. To see some of the most expensive alcohol bottle brands being tossed on the ground shows the pure classlessness of the individuals who drank it. Education has always been the road to the Promised Land. Yet for far too many young black children urban schools are more about fashion and hair and less about reading, writing, and arithmetic. We keep hearing stories about how black women are the most educated and are predominant on college campuses, and that is a good thing. But we cannot afford to lose our boys and young men, because we need them to become as equally yoked as the women. We are 20 years into the 21st century. The lame excuses of the past become more and more unacceptable as we languish while others prosper. I cannot deny the effects of slavery, but at the same time we cannot become so co-dependent on it as an excuse that nothing gets done.
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Leaders Network elects new president
The faith-based organization voted unanimously for David Cherry By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor
A prominent West Side religious organization has a new president. The Leaders Network, the faith-based social justice organization, swore in David Cherry, the head of the Chicago-based All Stars Project, during the Leaders’ Network’s monthly meeting and annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration, held Jan. 14, at Columbus Park Refectory, 5701 W. Jackson Blvd. “I am honored to accept my new role as president of the Leaders Network,” Cherry said in a statement on his Facebook page. “I am joining our extraordinary Founders and Co-Chairs Ira J. Acree, Marshall Pastor Hatch and Cy Fields as leaders to end the tale of two cities in Chicago and create One Chicago where which works for everyone regardless of race or zip code.” Cherry replaces Fields as the organization’s president. Fields, the pastor of the New Landmark Baptist Church in East Garfield Park, co-founded the Leaders Network
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TRANSITIONING: David Cherry, center, with Leaders Network co-founders Rev. Ira Acree, left, and Rev. Marshall Hatch, during the organization’s MLK celebration on Jan. 14. Cherry was elected as the organization’s second president during the celebratory meeting. in 2005 with Hatch, the pastor of the New Mt. Pilgrim Baptist Church in West Garfield Park, and Acree, the pastor of the St. John
Bible Church in Austin. The organization “was birthed out of a mobilization effort of dozens of Chicago
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west side churches to donate disaster relief funds to aid families victimized by Hurricane Katrina,” according to a statement the Leaders Network released last week. Cherry is the Leaders Network’s second president and the first elected president since the organization established presidential term limits last October. According to the statement, Cherry’s election was unanimous. “Cherry has extensive and first-hand knowledge of the social issues in poor African-American and Latino communities, particularly those confronting inner-city youth,” the statement reads. “For more than 25 years, Cherry, a highly skilled and dedicated community organizer and activist, and a native New Yorker, helped diverse communities develop around issues of democracy, social justice and inclusion,” the statement explains. At last Tuesday’s meeting, the Leaders Network also swore in Deborah Williams as secretary and Eric L. Pernell as treasurer. Rabbi Max Weiss, of Oak Park Temple, was presented with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Beloved Community Award. The Leaders Network’s meetings take place at 9:30 a.m., every second Tuesday of each month, at the Columbus Park Refectory, 5701 W. Jackson Blvd. CONTACT: michael@austinweeklynews.com
Harmon edges out Lightford for Senate president Sen. Kimberly Lightford, of Maywood, was vying to become first woman in position By JERRY NOWICKI & PETER HANCOCK Capitol News Illinois
SPRINGFIELD – Senator Don Harmon, DOak Park, was elected as the 39th president of the Illinois Senate on Jan. 19 after hours of behind-the-scenes negotiations. The race had been weeks in the making, and by the time the closed-door negotiations began Sunday shortly after 11 a.m., the field of candidates was down to two – Harmon, who has served in the chamber since 2003, and Sen. Kimberly Lightford, a Maywood Democrat and the majority leader, who has served in the Senate since 1998. The negotiations took place in the Senate president’s office, which was then occupied by John Cullerton, who relinquished the gavel Sunday prior to the vote on Harmon. The doors to that office were locked to the public and media. Harmon succeeds Cullerton, a Chicago Democrat who surprised his colleagues in November by announcing his plans to step down. He resigned his Senate seat shortly after Harmon was sworn in. Harmon reportedly held a 22-17 lead after the first blind ballot, with two senators calling in their votes via phone. Midway through the second round of negotiations, Sen. Emil Jones III, a Chicago Democrat whose father was the previous Senate president before Cullerton, spoke briefly with reporters about the intensity of the negotiations. “I don’t want to say hard feelings, but strong emotions,” he said of tension among Democrats. “The stakes are high, so emotions are running.” The race appeared to divide the Senate Black Caucus. Jones, who is African-American, said he backed Harmon in the race. But Lightford, also an African-American, was vying to become the first woman elected Senate president. “I did vote for him (Harmon) on the first round,” Jones said. “Going back and forth, sitting down with both candidates, I had to make a decision for my district. I want to best represent my district and I picked which person I want to help me represent my district.” Democrats emerged from their closeddoor caucus shortly before 5 p.m. with a deal that Lightford would concede the race and support Harmon, but that she would also stay on as majority leader. After the caucus meeting, the full Senate convened for the formal vote. “Don and I have neighboring districts, and we have since 2002,” Lightford said in a
speech nominating Harmon. “So we’ve been neighbors in the western suburbs and on the west side of Chicago. We’ve been neighbors in our district offices, Senate offices, we’ve been neighbors here on the Senate floor. I can’t think of anyone else who would do a wonderful job of leading our caucus, and I look forward to working with him in unity.” The vote went 37-12 in Harmon’s favor. Two of the Senate’s 40 Democrats were absent from the chamber and Cullerton abstained. Harmon and Minority Leader Bill Brady, R-Bloomington, voted for each other as Republicans ceremoniously nominated Brady for the post. In a two-minute media availability after the vote, Harmon said he expects unity from Democrats after the long race between him and Lightford. “You know, we’re Democrats, we fight with each other, but we always seem to come together and rally around the important issues for working families of Illinois,” he said. “I have no doubt that there will be work involved, but we will be able to do that successfully and move forward as a very united caucus.” Harmon, 53, was born and raised in Oak Park. During the 2019 session, he was the principal sponsor in the Senate of the proposed constitutional amendment to overhaul the state’s income tax system, which will appear on the November general election ballot. Earlier, he pushed for legislation to require gun dealers to be licensed by the state and to expand early childhood education programs. He has also been an advocate for voting rights and clean energy initiatives. “A staunch advocate for working families, Don was instrumental in shepherding the most sweeping and consequential legislative agenda through the state Senate this past year,” Gov. JB Pritzker, who presided over the floor vote, said in a statement following Harmon’s election. Harmon takes over leadership of the Senate at a time when some Democratic lawmakers are being targeted by a sprawling federal investigation. Former Sen. Martin Sandoval, D-Chicago, was forced to step down last year after federal authorities executed a search warrant on his Statehouse office. In addition, Sen. Tom Cullerton, D-Villa Park, was indicted last year on federal charges alleging that he was on a ghost payroll of a Chicago labor union, being paid while doing little or no work. He continues to hold office and has said he intends to serve when lawmakers convene the 2020 session later this month. Harmon acknowledged the ethical cloud hanging over the General Assembly. In his first speech after being sworn in, he quoted the late President John F Kennedy, saying: “No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.” CONTACT: michael@austinweeklynews.com
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Opportunity ahead from page 1 benefit the community. As previously reported, the city decided to initially focus on communities that had Quality of Life plans and “at least one active commercial area at a specific node or intersection.” During the Jan. 18 event, Maurice Cox, Chicago’s Planning and Development commissioner, noted the fact that North Side neighborhoods such as Lakeview and Edgewater have seen redevelopment wasn’t an accident — city policies and city investment helped it along. Compared to that, the investment the city made in the South and West sides is paltry. Ramping up investments — while learning from the mistakes of the past — would go a long way, he said. “Oftentimes, we’re talking about our communities as if they’re disadvantaged and have some deficiencies,” he noted. “And we decided to flip the script and talk about the trends they can build on.” Cox explained that the city plans to use a total of $750 million in funding from various departments “as leverage, so we can get the private sector to multiply this investment.” It will focus on four “building blocks”: redeveloping underutilized and/or unused assets such as Austin’s Laramie State Bank building, 5200 W. Chicago Ave.; improving transportation infrastructure, including sidewalks and underpasses; incorporating arts and culture, including public art; and supporting local entrepreneurs who want to start businesses. “Our goal is to see dozens of businesses that will be locally serving, from dozens of entrepreneurs who are in the community and want to serve our communities,” Cox said. The Quality of Life plans would guide exactly where the investments would go — and he emphasized that residents in attendance should weigh in. After the presentation, they had an opportunity to share ideas and vote for priorities in the workshop area in the building’s basement. Cox explained that the city would take that feedback into account and come back in Feb-
ruary to review what they learned. Afterward, the city will see which of those ideas can be implemented quickly and which would require more time. Ald. Chris Taliaferro (29th), whose ward includes the portion of Austin the Kehrein Art Center is located in, touted the jobs and housing opportunities the initiative would bring, especially for young people. “This is a new day for the city; this is a new investment for the city,” he said. “So let’s get excited about bringing opportunities back to the West Side of Chicago.” Vanessa Stokes, co-leader of the Austin Town Hall Art and Culture Committee and recently elected co-president of Austin Town Hall Park Advisory Council, applauded the fact that the initiative would invest in art. “Art and culture is an important part of a thriving community, and the city of Chicago has seen the importance of this by having art and culture as part of their [plans],” she said. “Art can be used as a way to develop communities, and it shows how much we care for ourselves and our neighbors. The West Side is rich in arts and culture, and it’s about time we showcase it.” Adrienne Whitney-Boykin, executive director of the West Humboldt Park Development Council, argued that the community’s foundation — the infrastructure, parks, civic organizations, existing businesses — exists. The city investment would simply help them build on it. “The goals to do this will be to have a community where we can shop, eat and play,” she said. “We shouldn’t have to go outside of our community to achieve that.” Whitley-Boykin also emphasized the importance of collaboration between the communities, noting the Chicago Avenue corridor, for example, runs through Austin and West Humboldt Park, and they could both do their parts to improve it. Malcolm Crawford, executive director of the Austin African-American Business Networking Association, took the opportunity to tout his organization’s efforts to create a “Soul City Corridor” — a mecca of AfricanAmerican business and culture — along Chicago Avenue. He appreciated that businesses were at the table for Invest South/West, and said he was looking forward to working with the city to build on what his organization
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PLANNING AHEAD: Participants at Saturday’s investment event in Austin look around at possible initiatives that could attract investment in the future.
has been doing to bring businesses to Chicago Avenue. “So be looking for us this summer because there’s going to be a lot going on, a lot of grand openings,” Crawford said. Darnell Shields, executive director of Austin Coming Together, the coalition that spearheaded the development of the Austin Quality of Life Plan, said he appreciated the city being intentional about their investments. “[I’m excited] because the power that this effort has to help us continue to realize the vision of a thriving Austin community, as well as other communities identified in this
initiative,” he said. “And I hope you’re excited as well.” Community activist and former 37th Ward aldermanic candidate Deondre Rutues said he supported the initiative — though not without reservations. “Just bringing capital into the community, that’s the only way we can start to grow,” he said. “As long as money goes to the right places and creates prosperity in the community, we get jobs and don’t get to be displaced.” Kenneth Cook, of Austin, a member of the Westside NAACP, was more ambivalent. “I think it’s a good start,” he said, “and I think it’s better for the people in the community to be involved because people in the community are the real subject matter experts.” CONTACT: igorst3@hotmail.com
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Applications due Feb. 14 from page 1 “We are excited as we enter the fifth year of supporting and amplifying the efforts of people in neighborhoods most impacted by gun violence to bring residents together, provide secure spaces and create the sense of connectedness needed to make our communities safe,” said Deborah Bennett, the senior program officer for Polk Bros. Foundation and a coalition member. Last year, more than 300 organizations applied for $1.1 million in total funds, with 181 receiving grants. All but two of the grant recipients “directly served young people, for activities from Memorial Day weekend to midautumn,” according to the coalition statement. Since launching in 2016, the Chicago Fund has provided $3.3 million to help support 505 projects, according to the coalition members. Among the West Side-based organizations that received Chicago Fund grants last year was the Westside Writing Project’s summer workshop at Garfield Park and Austin, where young men learned life skills and conflict resolution. The South Austin Neighborhood Association also received funds in 2018 and 2019 for its Farm-to-Table Summer events. “As a result of our program, members of
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the community who previously had little to no interaction, specifically community youth and community seniors, came together to engage in common learning and to promote a common purpose,” explained a SANA leader. “Our program created a source of community pride that will cause the community to bond more closely together to protect and enhance it.” “We know it takes a combination of intervention strategies working together to reduce gun violence in our city,” Anna Lee, director of community impact at The Chicago Community Trust and a coalition member, explained in the coalition’s statement. “We hope to inspire even more community partners to join File photo efforts to promote safety FUNDING ROUND: Children play basketball on Sept. 13, 2019, during a Light in the Night event at Columand peace in our communibus Park in Austin. The event was hosted by Communities Partnering for Peace, which is offering grants ties now that grants will be to West and South Side organizations for summer programming in 2020. distributed a full month earlier, allowing more planning teers, with median operating budgets for fund- Fund is one of its four key strategies, which time before Memorial Day ed organizations around $83,000. This year, also include street outreach and transition weekend.” The coalition explained that organizations the fund will prioritize 21 communities on the jobs; police reform and community engagement; and gun policy reform. who receive the grant are mostly run by volun- South and West Sides, the coalition said. CONTACT: michael@austinweeklynews.com The coalition explained that the Chicago
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FORGOTTEN KING We must remember from page 2 ticularly considering its philosophical underpinnings and the particular identities of the white, property-owning (if not slaveowning) men who envisioned it. As Wolin explains, the social contract — an “exchange in which individuals agree to obey political authority if authority will protect them” — forms the basis of the classical liberal ideal of equality. Hobbes conceives of the social contract as a “device to incorporate social amnesia into the foundation of society,” Wolin writes. “The Hobbesian individual steps forward as the first of a long series of blank individuals who fake their nature by denying historically acquired and multiple identities,” Wolin explains. “Every contract theorist points to a person who is initially defined without reference to gender, family, local community, social class, religious commitment, or vocation. “Twentieth-century writers are not much better. They may stipulate ‘veils of ignorance’ as a condition of contract, but in the presence of distinctions of color and gender, that stipulation strikes one as incoherent. What can it mean to say that for the moment I must forget that I am a person of color or a woman so that I may think about the basic conditions of a just society, when for me what matters is how that difference will be treated?” (Italics mine). In exchange for entering into full citizenship, black Americans received “equality for remembrance, or rather a certain kind of equality — not equality as an ideal that is necessarily at war with power (because power presupposes inequality) but equality as a fiction that serves to legitimate power.” There is a direct line of descent from this fictional inequality to the myth of colorblindness that liberals and conservatives alike use to dismantle the very values and policies that King fought and died for (read Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s opinions or Shelby Steele’s The Content of our Character to see how King’s classical liberal appeals are routinely weaponized in service to the gross materialism and selfishness he despised). And even this fictional equality, this myth of colorblindness, is only ever available for blacks to leverage under certain conditions, as Hobbes stipulates. Again, in order to become a Hobbesian individual, political subjects have to agree to forget about the power imbalances and the injustices that inform their particularized identities and they have to agree to get over historic pains that may lead to inherited resentment and thus social instability. The freedman had to forget that he was ever enslaved as whites, carefree and without irony, made monuments in memory of the country’s independence (in his 1852 address, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” Frederick Douglass made clear he was not prepared to do so). In order to become president, Barack Obama had to publicly disavow those as-
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THE RADICAL KING: Above, King meets with President Lyndon B. Johnson. at the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. As he aged, King became frustrated with liberalism as he grew closer to the radical racial vision more closely aligned to Black Power proponents like Malcolm X, bottom right, and Stokely Carmichael. pects of his non-white identity that were most radical, threatening and different to the dominant white culture, which nonetheless praised itself for electing a black president. Toward the end of his life, King clashed with black leaders like Stokely Carmichael, the head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, who was not so willing to play by the rules that liberalism had created and who was even challenging its legitimacy with concepts like Black Power. Black Power advocated for black economic and political self-determination and equality not by appealing to the conscience of whites in the self-effacing language of non-violent civil disobedience and not by asking the nation to live up to its founding creed, but by making demands in the aggressive language of class struggle and self-defense. King feared that Carmichael and other young radicals like him were running headlong into a trap they would not be able to escape. They were flirting with Hobbes’ state of nature, where the struggle is largely waged not in the courts and at the polls, but in the un-redemptive, nihilistic fog of race war. But later in his life King himself grew exhausted with the limits of liberalism, criticizing black leaders who “suffer from an aloofness and absence of faith in their peo-
ple” (leaders who might, in Wolin’s words, suffer from Hobbesian individualism). The “white establishment,” he wrote, “is skilled in flattering and cultivating emerging leaders. It presses its own image on them and finally, from imitation of manners, dress and style of living, a deeper strain of corruption develops. This kind of Negro leader acquires the white man’s contempt for the ordinary Negro.” There is a way of out this apparent doublebind scenario — this choice of accommodation or annihilation, but you would have to imagine a rich past of black protest and emancipatory politics that society would rather we forget amid our remembrance of the aspects of King’s life and legacy that don’t threaten the established order. As the scholar Gary Dorrien reminds us, King is part of a rich protest tradition called “the black social gospel” that dates back to 1884. Rooted in historical realities, the black social gospel includes Christian and social-
ist strains of thought that go beyond the abstractions of white enlightened philosophers who lived two and three centuries ago. “The black social gospel arose during the trauma and abandonment of Reconstruction, resuming the struggle for black freedom in America,” Dorrien writes. “Like the white social gospel and Progressive movements, it espoused principles of social justice, conceived the federal government as an indispensable guarantor of constitutional rights, struggled with industrialization and economic injustice, and grappled with the Great Migration. … The black social gospel affirmed the dignity, sacred personhood, creativity and moral agency of African Americans and responded to racial oppression.” Unfortunately, you may never read about this gospel in any history textbook. But just because we’re not supposed to remember it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. CONTACT: michael@austinweeklynews.com
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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC DBA MR. COOPER; Plaintiff, vs. ROBIN CONNER; Defendants, 18 CH 13822 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Monday, February 10, 2020 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 16-04-128-005-0000. Commonly known as 1245 North Lockwood Avenue, Chicago, IL
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE 60651. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. For information call Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (614) 220-5611. 18-030016 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3141562 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION CITIMORTGAGE, INC. Plaintiff, -v.CAROLYN BOYD, PATRICIA A. AKERS, HSBC- ELMHURST, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 2017 CH 13496 3003 WEST FULTON STREET 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 November 6, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on February 10, 2020, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 3003 WEST FULTON STREET, CHICAGO, IL 60612 Property Index No. 16-12-309-0130000 The real estate is improved with a multi-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 twentyfour (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
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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. 14-17-14678 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2017 CH 13496 TJSC#: 39-7269 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 13496 I3142021
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A. AS TRUSTEE FOR MORTGAGE ASSETS MANAGEMENT SERIES I TRUST Plaintiff, -v.HUBERT HURD, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT Defendants 2019 CH 08979 3949 W MONROE ST 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 November 7, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on February 10, 2020, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 3949 W MONROE ST, CHICAGO, IL 60624 Property Index No. 16-14-102-0020000 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 twentyfour (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 assess-
ments 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(g1). 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. 14-19-05820 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2019 CH 08979 TJSC#: 39-7350 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 08979 I3142015
tion to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 16-04-416-001-0000. Commonly known as 5117-25 W. AUGUSTA BLVD., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60651. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a multi-family residence. The successful purchaser is entitled to possession of the property only. The purchaser may only obtain possession of units within the multiunit property occupied by individuals named in the order of possession. The property may be made available for inspection by contacting Jim Paul at (815) 469-3800. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. For information call Mr. Michael B. Bregman at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Clark Hill PLC, 130 E. Randolph Street, Chicago, Illinois 60601. 312-3602125. INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3141640
Friday, February 14, 2020 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: Commonly known as 3840 West Fillmore Street, Chicago, IL 60624. P.I.N. 16-14-320-009-0000. 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 Ms. Mary E. Spitz at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Sottile & Barile, LLC, 11351 Pearl Road, Strongsville, Ohio 44136. (440) 5721512. ILF1905001 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3141801
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(g1). 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. 14-19-04416 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2019 CH 05857 TJSC#: 39-7408 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 05857 I3142146
VIVIAN R. NESBITT, PAM MITCHELL Defendants 2018 CH 09815 1552 S SAWYER 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 June 28, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on February 10, 2020, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1552 S SAWYER AVE, CHICAGO, IL 60623 Property Index No. 16-23-228-042 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 twentyfour (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(g1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION PROXY INVESTMENTS LLC 5117-25 AUGUSTA SERIES AN ILLINOIS LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AS ASSIGNEE OF URBAN PARTNERSHIP BANK, AS ASSIGNEE OF THE FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION AS RECEIVER FOR SHOREBANK; Plaintiff, vs. WILLIE C. GRIMES AS TRUSTEE UNDER TRUST AGREEMENT DATED NOVEMBER 9, 2005 AND KNOWN AS THE WILLIE C. GRIMES DECLARATION OF TRUST; WILLIE C. GRIMES INDIVIDUALLY; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 18 CH 5711 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Monday, February 10, 2020 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auc-
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC D/B/A MR. COOPER, Plaintiff, vs. BETTY MASON A/K/A BETTY C. MASON, Defendants, 19 CH 1700 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Monday, February 24, 2020 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 16-22-200-035-0000. Commonly known as 1236 S KOLIN AVE, CHICAGO, IL 60623. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a multi-family residence. The successful purchaser is entitled to possession of the property only. The purchaser may only obtain possession of units within the multiunit property occupied by individuals named in the order of possession. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. For information call Mr. Ira T. Nevel at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Law Offices of Ira T. Nevel, 175 North Franklin Street, Chicago, Illinois 60606. (312) 357-1125. 19-00561 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3142675 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION LENDINGHOME FUNDING CORPORATION; Plaintiff, vs. T.J. MORE, INC.; TREVOR DENSMORE; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 19 CH 7310 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.RICARDO VILLALOVOS, CITY OF CHICAGO Defendants 2019 CH 05857 2313 S. HOMAN AVENUE CHICAGO, IL 60623 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on November 12, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on February 14, 2020, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 2313 S. HOMAN AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60623 Property Index No. 16-26-212-0050000 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 twentyfour (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
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A. AS TRUSTEE FOR MORTGAGE ASSETS MANAGEMENT SERIES 1 TRUST Plaintiff, -v.MARY BURKS NESBITT, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, CITY OF CHICAGO, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, TERI STANLEY A/K/A TERI A. PETTY, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF JULIUS NESBITT, WILLIAM P. BUTCHER, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR JULIUS NESBITT (DECEASED),
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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. 14-18-07088 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2018 CH 09815 TJSC#: 40-31 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 # 2018 CH 09815 I3142123
Street, Chicago, Illinois 60606. (312) 357-1125. 18-04740 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3142076
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(g1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125, Chicago, IL, 60606 (312) 541-9710. Please refer to file number 16-4402. 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. JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125 Chicago IL, 60606 312-541-9710 E-Mail: ilpleadings@johnsonblumberg.com Attorney File No. 16-4402 Attorney Code. 40342 Case Number: 17 CH 1354 TJSC#: 39-8263 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 # 17 CH 1354 I3141888
rage. 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 twentyfour (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(g1). 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. 264856 Attorney ARDC No. 61256 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 18 CH 09239
TJSC#: 39-2183 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 # 18 CH 09239 I3139613
at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g1). 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, LAW OFFICES OF MATTHEW E. GURVEY, P.C. Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 111 West Washington St., Suite 1020, Chicago, IL, 60602 (312) 924-5790. 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. LAW OFFICES OF MATTHEW E. GURVEY, P.C. 111 West Washington St., Suite 1020 Chicago IL, 60602 312-924-5790 E-Mail: mgurvey@gurveylawpc.com Attorney Code. 34013 Case Number: 18 CH 7778 TJSC#: 40-211 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 # 18 CH 7778 I3143328
$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 twentyfour (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(g1). 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. 14-19-00674 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2019 CH 01440 TJSC#: 39-7103 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 01440 I3143112
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE FOR THE ENCORE CREDIT RECEIVABLES TRUST 2005-2, ASSET-BACKED NOTES, SERIES 2005-2 Plaintiff, vs. CAROLYN THURMOND, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants, 19 CH 179 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Wednesday, February 19, 2020 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 16-23-129-029-0000. Commonly known as 1526 S. CENTRAL PARK AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL 60623. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a multi-family residence. The successful purchaser is entitled to possession of the property only. The purchaser may only obtain possession of units within the multiunit property occupied by individuals named in the order of possession. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. For information call Mr. Ira T. Nevel at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Law Offices of Ira T. Nevel, 175 North Franklin
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION WILMINGTON TRUST, NA, SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO CITIBANK, N.A., TRUSTEE, IN TRUST FOR REGISTERED HOLDERS OF BEAR STEARNS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES 2007-2, ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-2 Plaintiff, -v.ROMAN MORROW, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR FIELDSTONE MORTGAGE COMPANY, NATIONAL CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC, CAPITAL ONE BANK (USA), N.A., PORTFOLIO RECOVERY ASSOCIATES, LLC, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 17 CH 1354 5808 W. IOWA ST. 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 January 28, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on February 5, 2020, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 5808 W. IOWA ST., CHICAGO, IL 60651 Property Index No. 16-05-419-0330000; 16-05-419-027-0000 The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $445,562.90. 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 twentyfour (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
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION CILICI, LLC Plaintiff, -v.TORAMY CAMPBELL, CAPITAL ONE BANK (USA), N.A., URBAN PARTNERSHIP BANK Defendants 18 CH 09239 1342 NORTH MASSASOIT 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 March 27, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on February 25, 2020, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1342 NORTH MASSASOIT, CHICAGO, IL 60651 Property Index No. 16-05-220-0180000 The real estate is improved with a brown brick, two story multi unit home with a detached two car ga-
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION 30 S. WHIPPLE ST RE SERIES LLC Plaintiff, -v.HERMAN LOFTON, CITY OF CHICAGO - DEPARTMENT OF WATER, CITY OF CHICAGO BUILDING DEPARTMENT Defendants 18 CH 7778 30 SOUTH WHIPPLE STREET 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 September 18, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on February 19, 2020, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 30 SOUTH WHIPPLE STREET, CHICAGO, IL 60612 Property Index No. 16-13-101-0290000 The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $72,486.00. 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 twentyfour (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
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.JOSE A. CARBAJAL, ILLINOIS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Defendants 2019 CH 01440 1149 N. KEELER 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 October 28, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on February 28, 2020, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1149 N. KEELER AVE., CHICAGO, IL 60651 Property Index No. 16-03-404-0040000 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
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Austin Weekly News, January 22, 2020
presents A Wednesday Journal & A Tribe Called Aging Production
wabi sabi F I L M F E S T I V A L
Appreciating the beauty of impermanence, a quarterly Film Series encouraging everyone to embrace and respect our aging population and the transformation of our society.
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Our First Film Event of 2020:
AUDIENCE AWARD SECOND PLACE
MAINE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Lived
OFFICIAL SELECTION
SANTA BARBARA
A film by Sky Bergman
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
AUDIENCE AWARD
DOCUTAH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
BEST OF THE FEST
NEVADA CITY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
LIVES WELL LIVED Celebrating the Secrets, Wit and Wisdom of
Age
40 people. 3000 years of collective life experience.
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Admission: $2 • Tickets available PRESS KIT day of event at The Lake Theatre, 1022 Lake St, Oak Park Sky Bergman, Filmmaker (805) 215-8684 lives.well.lived@gmail.com
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Friday, January 24th 10am
What the heck is the Wabi Sabi Film Festival?
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his is a film festival about aging, a film festival for older people, though everyone is welcome to attend. Following the film, stay in your seats; we’ll have an interactive discussion about topics from each film. Every three months we’ll show a different film connected to the theme of aging, followed by interactive discussion. By the way, wabi sabi isn’t the green spicy stuff at the sushi restaurant. It is the Japanese world view that appreciates the beauty of impermanence. As I write in my current blog on the IONS website (noetic.org/blog/aging-is-inherently- noetic/): The Japanese aesthetic of wabi sabi is an appreciation of the beauty of impermanence — like the wooden banister in an aging house, stroked by thousands of hands over the years, wobbly, chipped, out of alignment, yet oh so beautiful. Teenagers strive for instant Wabi Sabi by buying already torn and ripped blue jeans, but they fall short. Wabi Sabi takes time, as does reaching our noetic phase of life. And like that aged wooden bannister, older people can be wrinkled and wobbly and still be beautiful people.
Host and moderator, Elizabeth White, author of 55, Underemployed and Faking Normal. Ms. White will introduce the film and facilitate the in-theater interactive discussion following the movie.
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Oak Park Township/River Forest Township
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